concepts… Human impact, extinctions, and the biodiversity crisis 22 Aug 2024 Human overpopulation is often depicted in the media in one of two ways: as either a catastrophic disaster or an overly-exaggerated concern. Yet the data understood by scientists and researchers…
concepts… New ecosystems, unprecedented climates: more Australian species than ever are struggling to survive 21 Feb 2024 Australia is home to about one in 12 of the world’s species of animals, birds, plants and insects – between 600,000 and 700,000 species. More than 80% of Australian plants and…
concepts What was the Medieval warm period? 23 Apr 2021 As this reconstructed village shows, Vikings made it as far as Newfoundland during the Medieval warm period. Wikimedia/Dylan Kereluk, CC BY-SA Frédérik Saltré, Flinders University and Corey J. A. Bradshaw,…
concepts Climate explained: humans have dealt with plenty of climate variability 24 Sep 2020 © Professor John Long, Flinders University, Author provided (originally published on The Conversation) How much climate variability have humans dealt with since we evolved and since we started settling (Neolithic…
concepts… History of species distribution models 21 Jul 2020 This little historical overview by recently completed undergraduate student, Sofie Costin (soon to join our lab!), nicely summarises the history, strengths, and limitations of species distribution modelling in ecology, conservation and restoration.…
concepts What is a ‘mass extinction’ and are we in one now? 13 Nov 2019 (reproduced from The Conversation) -- For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth. The flip side to this explosion of…
