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Conservation Scholars: Bruce Campbell
This series on ConservationBytes.com takes a page out of our book Tropical Conservation Biology (Sodhi, Brook & Bradshaw) – therein we produced a series of ‘Spotlights’ describing the contributions...
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One more (excellent) reason to conserve tropical forests
© K. Sloan Brown Another nail in the deforesters’ justification coffin – tropical forests are worth more intact than cut down. This one from Mongabay.com and one for the Potential section: Undisturbed...
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Tropical Turmoil II
In August last year I covered a paper my colleagues (Navjot Sodhi and Barry Brook) and I had in press in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment entitled Tropical turmoil – a biodiversity tragedy in...
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Celebrities actually doing something positive for conservation?
When I first saw this on the BBC I thought to myself, “Well, just another toothless celebrity ego-stroke to make rich people feel better about the environmental mess we’re in” (well, I am a cynic by...
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Conservation Biology for All
A new book that I’m proud to have had a hand in writing is just about to come out with Oxford University Press called Conservation Biology for All. Edited by the venerable Conservation Scholars,...
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Global rates of forest loss – everyone’s a bastard
© A. Hesse I’ve written rather a lot about rates of forest loss around the world, including accumulated estimates of tropical forest loss and increasing fragmentation/loss in the boreal forest (see...
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Tropical biology and conservation overview
Last week I attended the 2010 International Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in Sanur, Bali (Indonesia). I only managed one post on the real-world relevance of...
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No substitute for primary forest
© Romulo Fotos http://goo.gl/CrAsE A little over five years ago, a controversial and spectacularly erroneous paper appeared in the tropical ecology journal Biotropica, the flagship journal of the...
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Tentacles of destruction
This last post before Easter is something I’ve thought more and more about over the last few years. I wouldn’t have given it much time in the past, but I’m now convinced roads are one of the humanity’s...
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Threats to biodiversity insurance from protected areas
A red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas) from Barro Colorado Island in Panama. This small island, just 1500 ha (3700 acres) in area, is one of the tropical protected areas evaluated in this study...
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Incentivise to keep primary forests intact
The Amazon rainforest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler I know – ‘incentivise’ is one of those terrible wank words of business speak. But to be heard by the economically driven, one must learn their guttural...
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Eye on the taiga
Dun! Dun, dun, dun! Dun, dun, dun! Dun, dun, daaaaah! I’ve waited nearly two years to do that, with possibly our best title yet for a peer-reviewed paper: Eye on the taiga: removing global policy...
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Tropical forest resilience depends on past disturbance frequency
I’ve recently come across an interesting study that perfectly marries palaeo-ecological data with modern conservation philosophy. It’s not often that such a prehistorical perspective dating at least to...
View ArticleTropical Turmoil II
In August last year I covered a paper my colleagues (Navjot Sodhi and Barry Brook) and I had in press in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment entitled Tropical turmoil – a biodiversity tragedy in...
View ArticleFour decades of fragmentation
I’ve recently read perhaps the most comprehensive treatise of forest fragmentation research ever compiled, and I personally view this rather readable and succinct review by Bill Laurance and colleagues...
View ArticleInfluential conservation ecology papers of 2017
As I have done for the last four years (2016, 2015, 2014, 2013), here’s another retrospective list of the top 20 influential conservation papers of 2017 as assessed by experts in F1000 Prime. More than...
View ArticleThrowing the nuclear baby out with the fossil-fuel bathwater
A really important paper was just published in Science Advances by Elizabeth Anderson & colleagues. The team’s paper, Fragmentation of Andes-to-Amazon connectivity by hydropower dams, pretty much...
View ArticleA life of fragmentation
What do you say to a man whose list of conservation awards reads like a Star Wars film intro, who has introduced terms like the ‘hyperdynamism hypothesis’ to the field of ecology, and whose...
View ArticleLegacy of human migration on the diversity of languages in the Americas
This might seem a little left-of-centre for CB.com subject matter, but hang in there, this does have some pretty important conservation implications. In our quest to be as transdisciplinary as...
View ArticleSave a jaguar by eating less meat
A safe way to help jaguars is by reducing our meat — especially beef — consumption. After thinking of the relation between my diet, deforestation, ranchers and jaguars, I have become mostly vegetarian.
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