Tag Archives: research

When does research help environmental management?

Posted on February 2, 2017 by

Think of the case where a manager needs to decide which action to take to stop a species  declining, or to eradicate a pest, or to increase sustainable harvest levels. It is rare in environmental management to know, with certainty, … Continue reading →

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Simple Adaptive Management

Posted on July 5, 2016 by

This post gives some details of my speed talk at the SCB Oceania conference, which is in room P9 on Thursday 7 July at 11:50 as part of a session on conservation planning and adaptive management. We have submitted this … Continue reading →

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While I was sleeping: optimising ecological surveys over space and time

Posted on April 11, 2016 by

With the recent online publication of a new paper, here’s a blog post about how the research arose – a fun confluence of mathematical and cognitive collaboration across two sides of the world. And some of it was achieved while … Continue reading →

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Ecology and Environmental Sciences star in ERA15

Posted on December 4, 2015 by

The results of the latest assessment of research excellence in Australia have been released. Now, every university will spin the results to suit their own purpose*. While we can leave universities to report their results so they appear to shine … Continue reading →

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Joint Species Distribution Models

Posted on March 17, 2014 by

Update: The paper is now available (free) from Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Update 2: In the tutorial on how to use this method, we refer to the file “fit.JSDM.r”. This is the R script on the journal website named, … Continue reading →

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Anniversary Lecture at the Mathematical Association of Victoria Annual Conference

Posted on December 4, 2013 by

I’m honoured to be presenting the Anniversary Lecture at the opening of the Mathematical Association of Victoria Annual Conference tomorrow at La Trobe University. I will aim to show how relatively simple mathematics can be used to help understand and … Continue reading →

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INTECOL talk, #INT13

Posted on August 20, 2013 by

I’m talking in the S11 Maths, Models & Methods session at INTECOL on Tuesday at 11:15 in room 4. The topic is “Developing biodiversity indices using models”. A copy of the slides is available here. I’ll also auto-tweet a little … Continue reading →

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