Ecologist with the Conservation Ecology Centre. Easily excitable and endlessly curious.
Apollo Bay, Victoria
Joined November 2017
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Here are some thoughts on teaching #statistics to non-statistical students, specifically those in #applied #ecology degrees. Thanks to @willpkay and @TiagoALOMarques for an enjoyable (and not last) collaboration.
request pdf here 👉tinyurl.com/33keh22s
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📢 New publication! AWMS member Bronwyn Hradsky and Jack Pascoe and their colleagues have recently published a paper examining survival and site fidelity in the long-nosed potoroo after a prescribed fire in south-eastern Australia. Read the paper: doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-0…
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Our new research based on over 2 years of painstaking work creating detailed fire history information from satellite imagery shows the positive impact of indigenous fire management in the Kimberley.
🔥NEW RESEARCH🔥
Balanggarra, Dambimangari, Wilinggin & Wunambal Gaambera TO's in WA examine changes to fire regimes before & after their savanna fire management projects.
Open Access > doi.org/10.1071/WF24092
#firemanagement #savannafire #indigenousfiremanagement #fireresearch
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Congratulations to our student award winners!
Adolph Bolliger Award: Mark Le Pla (accepted on his behalf by his partner!)
John Seebeck Travel Award: Tenaya Duncan @Talk2tt182
A. G. Lyne Award: Stephanie Stylli
#AusMammSoc24
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Let me tell you a story about 3 black bears and 2 cougars in a new natural history paper by MS student and amazing naturalist Marcus Bianco. Cougar C256 gave brith on June 14 at a nursery site. She killed an elk on June 29. A 129 kg male bear U2 arrives/1
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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Pest managers, no matter what stage of your career, please remember to focus on impacts first. Every program measured primarily on ‘No.
of baits delivered, no. of traps set, no. of dead animals or no. of shooting hours’ is fundamentally on the wrong track.
New tools in ecology are always welcome, but no tool is perfect and there’s always something to learn 🤔. Timely review!
I really love conservation dogs. But there is a lot of variation in their performance. It's often unclear where that variation comes from - pubs don't include enough details. @CarMFin, Beth McKeague, and Nicola Rooney tackle this in a FABULOUS new pub.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Required reading for those that work in the sphere of fire and ecology in Australia.
Lighting a pathway: Our obligation to culture and Country - Pascoe - 2023 - Ecological Management & Restoration - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Statistical #PowerAnalysis currently dominates #ExperimentalDesign. In this Essay, @itchyshin &co argue that we should move away from the current focus on power analysis and instead encourage smaller scale studies & collaborative projects #PLOSBiology plos.io/48Gk8Og
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One of our field teams just had to stop to euthanise a #wallaby someone else had hit and left to die slowly, in freezing temps, by the side of the road.
Some animal lovers do kill animals, they’re just not always happy about it.
Really happy for folks to be #vegan but this statement is simply not true. Many animal lovers kill animals.
Conservationists often need to kill animals to protect other animals, or to end the suffering of injured / diseased individuals. Life is nuanced.
What should happen to native forests when logging ends? Ask Victoria's First Peoples
“First Nations voices must be heard”
Couldn’t agree more 👊 theconversation.com/what-sho…
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🔥Hot off the press🔥
The first chapter of my Masters thesis is now published in @CSIROPublishing’s Wildlife Research!
We found that scavenging of carcasses in the Australian Alps was highly seasonal, and interestingly, was dominated by brushtail possums publish.csiro.au/WR/WR22100
Pleasantly surprised and stoked! Thanks #ESASCBO2022 for one hell of a motivating week, so many incredible presentations and people in the one place 🙌
Huge congratulations to @SCBOceania #ESASCBO2022 student award winners Callan Alexander @QUT (best poster) and Mark Le Pla @UniMelb (best presentation)! 🥳🥳
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Huge congratulations to @SCBOceania #ESASCBO2022 student award winners Callan Alexander @QUT (best poster) and Mark Le Pla @UniMelb (best presentation)! 🥳🥳
Holy 💩😳🤔
Scary: 73 teams tested the same hypotheses with the same data. Some found negative results, some positive, some nada. No effect of expertise or confirmation bias. "Idiosyncratic researcher variability is a threat to the reliability of scientific findings." osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/c…
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Do you use #CameraTraps for wildlife abundance? Do you feel intimidated by the complex models & codes that statisticians come up with to help design & analyze camera trap data?
If your answer is yes to any of the above, follow this thread with a new resource that is pure gold:
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Absolutely David. In 2021, Australians spent $30.7B on domestic cat and dog care. We can afford to spend the 2B/yr needed to prevent any further extinctions of our amazing animals and plants. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
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FORUM PAPER: Beyond spatial overlap: harnessing new technologies to resolve the complexities of predator–prey interactions
doi.org/10.1111/oik.09004
@WileyEcolEvol @NordicOikos @JPSuraci @JustineASmith @kaitlyngaynor @EuanRitchie1 @BarneyLuttbeg @SheriffLab #ecology #predation
