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Biodiversity important? The simple case of bees
If you can’t convince people that biodiversity is important, then you have to use the lowest common denominator. Even a 3-year old understands the importance of bees for pollination (see previous post...
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Global pollinator declines
Mention anything about ecosystem services – those ecological functions arising from the interactions between species that provide some benefit (source of food/clean water, health, etc.) to humanity1 –...
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A wee ditty about the bee
I liked this. Another quick and entertaining look at why bees are important, why they’re crashing, and what people can do about it (at least, on a very fine scale). And it’s all done in Scottish. Filed...
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Government pulls plug on Asian honeybee eradication
Here’s another one from the bee man, Tobias Smith (PhD candidate at the University of Queensland). Tobias recently blogged about bee basics here on ConservationBytes.com (something I highly recommend...
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Buzzing to the plate
Here’s another contribution from my PhD student, Salvador Herrando-Pérez (see his previous ConservationBytes.com post on micro-evolution here). – Once upon a time at the produce section of a...
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Hades, fossilised fat-parrot shit and threatened bats
WTF? © P. Bendle Sounds like a Monty Python sketch, doesn’t it? But no, it’s about the wonderful complexity of ecology. An interesting, and very weird paper just came out in Conservation Biology...
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Influential conservation papers of 2013
This is a little bit of a bandwagon – the ‘retrospective’ post at the end of the year – but this one is not merely a rehash I’ve stuff I’ve already covered. I decided that it would be worthwhile to...
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Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XXVII
Here are the last 6 biodiversity cartoons for 2014 because, well, why not? (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). — Filed under: biodiversity, cartoon,...
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Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XXVIII
First batch of six biodiversity cartoons for 2015 (see full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here). — Filed under: biodiversity, cartoon, climate change, conservation...
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Influential conservation papers of 2015
As I did last year and the year before, here’s another arbitrary, retrospective list of the top 20 influential conservation papers of 2015 as assessed via F1000 Prime. — Changing habitat areas and...
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Influential conservation ecology papers of 2016
As I have done for the last three years (2015, 2014, 2013), here’s another retrospective list of the top 20 influential conservation papers of 2016 as assessed by experts in F1000 Prime. Scaling laws...
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Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss XLII
Number 41 of my semi-regular instalment of biodiversity cartoons, and the first for 2017. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here. —
View ArticleYou know you’re screwed when the insects disappear
Last Friday, ABC 891 here in Adelaide asked me to comment on a conservation paper doing the news rounds last week. While it has been covered extensively in the media (e.g., The Guardian, CNN, and...
View ArticleA wee ditty about the bee
I liked this. Another quick and entertaining look at why bees are important, why they’re crashing, and what people can do about it (at least, on a very fine scale). And it’s all done in Scottish.
View ArticleBiodiversity important? The simple case of bees
If you can’t convince people that biodiversity is important, then you have to use the lowest common denominator. Even a 3-year old understands the importance of bees for pollination (see previous post...
View ArticleGlobal pollinator declines
Mention anything about ecosystem services – those ecological functions arising from the interactions between species that provide some benefit (source of food/clean water, health, etc.) to humanity1 –...
View ArticleWorried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists...
Daniel Mariuz/AAP Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Flinders University; Daniel T. Blumstein, University of California, Los Angeles, and Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University Anyone with even a passing interest in the...
View ArticleBane of the bees
Bees are essential for pollination, but their critical function can be perturbed by pesticides. The detrimental effects of those chemicals accumulate through a bee’s life, and become stronger if...
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