Australian National University. Macroevolution, macroecology, biogeography, biodiversity, conservation.
www.macroevoeco.com
Marcel Cardillo
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Researcher degrees of freedom should be more widely appreciated in the biological sciences too. Social sciences & psychology are way ahead of us in that regard.
BD/ED
Really nice memoriam to Robert Ricklefs by Brian McGill: dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...
Ricklefs got ecologists to think big: about the role of history, biogeography & macroevolution on ecological patterns. More than anyone, his work shaped the course of my career.
This is such an important and engaging book (including an excellent chapter on our work on evidence-based conservation). Makes a completely compelling case for learning what is effective and then doing what we know works and not doing what we know doesn’t work.
Phylogenetic Patterns in Hunting and Extinction Risk in Primates
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Vale Peter Raven, champion of plants and biodiversity.
'In one of his lectures, he described biodiversity as “the whole business”—the sum of organisms, their variations and the communities they form. It was a plain phrase for a concept of considerable scope.'
news.mongabay.com/2026/04/pete...
Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…
Hakea season has started. My favourite genus of Australian plants! Western Australia has 3/4 of all the Hakea species and most of the well known horticultural cultivars.
Globally, hunting is a significant threat to non-human primates, potentially increasing their risk of extinction. Larger-bodied and more evolutionarily distinct species are at higher risk, although s...
Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, distributions, relationships drawn in careful lines. Over the course of the 2...
If we want to conserve evolutionary history, we need to think about this: change the phylogenetic methods, and you change the conservation outcomes. New paper led by honours student Mina Kearns, with @alexskeels.bsky.social & @keaghanjames.bsky.social
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William (Bill) Sutherland
Laura Bertola
Not much mention of it in Australia, though its officials were there. Colombia and the Netherlands this week hosted nearly 60 countries for the first dedicated international talks focused on how to transition away from fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Patrick Goymer
Marcel Cardillo
Marcel Cardillo
Colombia hosted nearly 60 countries at pivotal time on world stage for fight to transition to a clean energy future
📄Published Today in Nature:
500 researchers reproduced 100 studies across the social & behavioral sciences to assess their analytical robustness (led by @balazsaczel.bsky.social & @szaszibarnabas.bsky.social).
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/me...
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