

How to find a night parrot
For more than a century scientists were unable to pinpoint a location where the elusive Night Parrot could be found and studied. After...

The Night Parrot - no other bird quickens the pulse quite like this one
One of the benefits of working on an iconic and well-known species like the Night Parrot is that my research generates plenty of...


The Future of the Urban Heat Island
We have just released a paper reviewing how the urban heat island will change with climate change and urban growth. The paper, 'The...


Trade‐offs in triple‐bottom‐line outcomes when recovering fisheries
Almost all environmental management comes at an economic cost that may not be borne equitably by all stakeholders. Here, we investigate...

Temporally inter-comparable maps of terrestrial wilderness and the Last of the Wild
Wilderness areas, defined as areas free of industrial scale activities and other human pressures which result in significant biophysical...

Patterns of forest loss in one of Africa’s last remaining wilderness areas: Niassa National Reserve
Niassa National Reserve (NNR) supports Mozambique’s largest populations of endangered fauna and sustains the livelihoods of> 40,000...

Ecology: a global plan for nature conservation
Climate change and biodiversity loss are the two greatest environmental challenges of our time. The 2015 Paris climate agreement states...


The impact of urbanization and climate change on urban temperatures: a systematic review
Cities have elevated temperatures compared to rural areas, a phenomenon known as the “urban heat island”. Higher temperatures increase...

Defending the scientific integrity of conservation‐policy processes
Government agencies faced with politically controversial decisions often discount or ignore scientific information, whether from agency...


Renewal ecology: conservation for the Anthropocene
The global scale and rapidity of environmental change is challenging ecologists to reimagine their theoretical principles and management...