The role of world heritage sites in a changing climate
Welling, L., Rockman, M., Watson, J.E.M., Mackey, B. and A. Potts (2015). The role of World Heritage sites in a changing climate. World Heritage, 77: 4 - 13. The issue focuses on climate change and the lead article is about the role of natural and cultural World Heritage sites in a changing climate. Leigh Welling and Marcy Rockman were the lead co-authors on this, joined by scientists who worked with us on the World Parks Congress last year and Andrew Potts of US/ICOMOS. Read
Saving our national icon: An ecological analysis of the 2011 Australian Senate inquiry into status o
Shumway, N., D. Lunney, L. Seabrook, and C. McAlpine. 2015. Saving our national icon: An ecological analysis of the 2011 Australian Senate inquiry into status of the koala. Environmental Science & Policy 54:297-303. Highlights • Public submissions to the Australian Senate inquiry into the status of the koala were reviewed. • Three concerns stood out: habitat clearing, ineffective policies, and infrastructure development. • Results were compared to Senate Inquiry report and it
Understanding the importance of small patches of habitat for conservation
Tulloch, A.I.T., Barnes, M., Ringma, J., Fuller, R.A. and J. E.M. Watson (2015). Understanding the importance of small patches of habitat for conservation. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53: 418-429. We demonstrate a simple multi-pronged metric for assessing ecosystem vulnerability, which can potentially improve current methods of ecosystem assessment (e.g. the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems) by considering the size and configuration of remaining patches as well as overall loss. Ou