Bill's excellent conservation series is broadening - so it was inevitable that it would address the topic of novel ecosystems. The concept is straightfoward in definition, but has been used by some to advocate for management that ignores the evolutionary history of species. [1/n]

Misinformation regarding species invasions persists, so I feel the need to repost this reminder on occasion.

New preprint! A couple of years ago we researched the impacts of Storm Arwen on the dynamics of Kielder Forest (north England): Windthrow disturbance impacts soil biogeochemistry and bacterial communities in a temperate forest researchsquare.com/article/rs-480…

Congrats Ava Waine! Let's hope some of your points can be used to improve policy around this! BES Invasion Science IUCN

Hooray! Just got the cover design for Stuart Lane's and my new book: The Field Guide to Mixing Social and Biophysical Methods in Environmental Research. It will be out later this year OPEN ACCESS!

Myself & CEBRA colleagues recently wrote a book that steps readers through the challenges (& solutions) #biosecurity policy/operation managers tackle every day. Pitched at a graduates, it's assessable to all. On sale now (35% discount; ends 3rd Sept) cebra.unimelb.edu.au/home2/biosecur…

How many Australian reptiles are traded internationally 🇦🇺 🦎 Sebastian Chekunov Adam Toomes Thomas Prowse Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology DCCEEW conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Great to see the wildlife trade special issue in Conservation Biology is out now: bit.ly/4ekUQbD Looking forward to reading about some of the lesser studied taxa in wildlife trade, and glad that our work led by Sebastian Chekunov is included! bit.ly/4cYxGGW

I am getting some questions on how to use the #EBV datasets on portal.geobon.org. For initial exploration Panoply is amazing: giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/. You can also use the visualizer in the portal. For analysis the #ebvcube R package is the tool. cran.r-project.org/web/packages/e….

Invasion ecology

Out now in NatureSustainability! - 'Adapting wild biodiversity conservation approaches to conserve agrobiodiversity' 🌿👩‍🌾🚜 Read the pooled solutions of 49 co-authors in solving this challenge for food security, climate resilience & a sustainable future 👇 nature.com/articles/s4189…

what a cool paper!

I am a forest ecologist now

That's me! I am glad that the work I did during my PhD internship with PIRSA funded by Centre for Invasive Species Solutions has been useful. A bit surprising that my paper with Reid Tingley and Phill Cassey 😷🇳🇿🍻🍲💉x5 on ABST in Australia is not mentioned: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Offset or not: guidance on accounting for sampling effort in generalized linear models. doi.org/10.32942/X2CP8Z

🚨 Paper alert! Do you work with global forest canopy height maps?🌲🌳 Check out our latest work led by Vítězslav Moudrý, comparing 3 global maps derived from GEDI data🛰️ We found accuracy gaps that could impact biodiversity estimation esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Improving Reporting Standards For Simulation Studies methodsblog.com/2024/10/25/imp…

It is remarkable how often process based models are published in ecology without validating them against empirical data In this paper we worked hard to validate our models of landscape use by birds, bats, reptiles and amphibians against real world data link.springer.com/article/10.100…