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Category Archives: research
Linear infrastructure impacts on landscape hydrology
The extent of roads and other forms of linear infrastructure is burgeoning worldwide, however there has been little quantification of how linear infrastructure affects the movement of water across landscapes. In our paper published in the Journal of Environmental Management, … Continue reading
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Tagged eco-hydrology, environment, environmental impacts, hydrology, linear infrastructure, research, road ecology, science
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Lines in the sand
Dr. Suzanne Prober, Prof Richard Hobbs, Prof Hugh Possingham and I have recently had a paper entitled ‘Lines in the sand: quantifying the cumulative development footprint in the world’s largest remaining temperate woodland‘ published in the journal Landscape Ecology. You … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, cumulative impacts, ecology, edge effects, environment, Great Western Woodlands, R, research, science
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My research in simple English
I’ve taken the challenge of describing my research in the 1000 most-used words in the English language. Here goes… I am asking: what does mining do to the land and living things in the Great Woods, far away from the city? First, … Continue reading
Enigmatic ecological impacts: what to do with what’s under our noses
an illustrated overview of our paper just published, entitled ‘Under the radar: mitigating enigmatic ecological impacts’. Continue reading
Paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution
The paper Under the radar: mitigating enigmatic ecological impacts, by myself, Hugh Possingham, Suzanne Prober and Richard Hobbs has just been published online by the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution (DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2014.09.003): http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1PvCkcZ3WPxey (this link will provide you with free access to … Continue reading
Kwongan Workshop: On the ecology of WA’s arid zone 22 July 2014
I’ll be presenting a 30 minute talk at the 2014 Kwongan workshop, entitled ‘On the ecology of WA’s arid zone’. My talk is entitled ‘The cryptic and the cumulative: mitigating regional ecological impacts of mining and exploration in south-western Australia’s … Continue reading
The Great Western Woodlands: is there anything out there?
One of the most frequent responses that I receive when I tell people that I conduct ecological research in that part of Western Australia that lies beyond the Wheatbelt, beyond the old rabbit-proof fence, where there’s gold and dust but … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, biodiversity conservation, ecology, Great Western Woodlands, Mediterranean-climate, nature, Western Australia, woodland
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Under the radar: offsetting cumulative, offsite, cryptic and secondary ecological impacts in intact landscapes
I spoke on the topic of offsets and how they are, and could be applied cumulative, offsite, cryptic and secondary ecological impacts in intact landscapes at the Ecological Society of Australia’s conference in Melbourne in December 2012. My presentation formed part … Continue reading
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Sustaining Ecology 