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Tag: extinction

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Extinct megafauna prone to ancient hunger games

14 Dec 202114 Dec 2021
I'm very chuffed today to signal the publication of what I think is one of the most important contributions to the persistent conundrum surrounding the downfall of Australia's megafauna many…
policy…

An eye on the past: a view to the future

29 Nov 2021
originally published in Brave Minds, Flinders University's research-news publication (text by David Sly) Clues to understanding human interactions with global ecosystems already exist. The challenge is to read them more…
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Pest plants and animals cost Australia around $25 billion a year — and it will get worse

2 Aug 20212 Aug 2021
AAP Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University and Andrew Hoskins, CSIRO This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. Read the original article. Shamefully, Australia has…
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The biggest and slowest don’t always bite it first

16 Apr 2021
For many years I've been interested in modelling the extinction dynamics of megafauna. Apart from co-authoring a few demographically simplified (or largely demographically free) models about how megafauna species could…
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Climate change and humans together pushed Australia’s biggest beasts to extinction

25 Nov 201926 Nov 2019
Over the last 60,000 years, many of the world’s largest species disappeared forever. Some of the largest that we generally call ‘megafauna’ were first lost in Sahul — the super-continent…
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…
policy

Respecting Aboriginal culture through language

16 Oct 201916 Oct 2019
What's in a name? Well, rather a lot, I think. Names have meanings, and not just in the way that they tag people, places or objects. I am of the…
cartoons

Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss LII

2 Jan 2019
[Reblogged from ConservationBytes.com] The first set of six biodiversity cartoons for 2019 to usher in the New Year. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. —…

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    Politicians may be better served addressing the message, rather than attacking the messengers.
  • Hear me out – we could use the varroa mite to wipe out feral honey bees, and help Australia's environment 29 Jun 2022
    The varroa mite’s arrival in Australia was only a matter of time. We could benefit from one pest fighting another.

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