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Dingos could increase profit margin for farmers
Late last year, Environment Institute researchers Dr Thomas Prowse and Prof. Corey Bradshaw published research that indicated that Dingos had been wrongly blamed for mainland marsupial extinctions. Now the same group, along with A/Prof Phill Cassey, show that despite the conventional perception of Dingos as a pest that needs to be controlled, Dingos could actually bring […]
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Vodcast: Interactions between climate change and biological invasions – Franck Courchamp
The Environment Institute recently hosted Franck Courchamp, who visited Adelaide from Paris to present a seminar entitled: “Interactions between climate change and biological invasions”. To quote Franck: “I have been working for years on biological invasions. You know, the species that are put into regions in which they don’t belong and that just expend madly and outcompete […]
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Corey Bradshaw appointed to Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair in Climate Change
The Environment Institute congratulates Professor Corey Bradshaw on his appointment to the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair in Climate Change. Corey will take on this title from the 1st January 2015. Corey has an international reputation as a scientist with interests in climate change and its impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity, and will no doubt build a […]
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High-altitude ecology | ConservationBytes.com
Corey Bradshaw has emerged from behind the Great Firewall of China after spending the past 10 days at 3500-4000 m elevation on the Tibetan Plateau. What was he doing there? Find out: High-altitude ecology | ConservationBytes.com.
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Ecological Armageddon in forest fragments
An international team of scientists including the University of Adelaide’s Professor Corey Bradshaw has found that species living in rainforest fragments could be far more likely to disappear than was previously assumed. Published today in the leading journal Science, the researchers outlined a study spanning two decades in which they witnessed the near-complete extinction of […]
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Predicting publishing success in scientists.
A provocative new study suggests it is straightforward to predict which academics will succeed as publishing scientists. Those who publish earlier and more often while young are typically the long-term winners. “We were really surprised,” said Professor William Laurance of James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, who led the study. “It doesn’t matter if you […]
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Making national parks truly national.
Environment Insitute member Corey Bradshaw co-authored this piece on The Conversation on June 14, 2013. Australia boasts over 500 national parks covering 28 million hectares of land, or about 3.6% of Australia. You could be forgiven for thinking we’re doing well in the biodiversity-conservation game. But did you know that of those more than 500 […]
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