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…
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