STICS - Stirling Conservation Science
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Resolving conflicts between food security and biodiversity conservation under uncertainty (ConFooBio) Funded by an ERC Starting Grant to Nils Bunnefeld for 5 years from 1st September 2016 Find out more...
Applications now being received for the 2016 Interdisciplinary Conservation Network (ICN) workshop! Date of workshop: 26-28 June 2016 Application deadline: 31 March 2016 The Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science (ICCS), Stirling...
Luc Bussiere, University of Stirling This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. In a post-apocalyptic future, what might happen to life if humans left the scene? After all,...
Katie Murray and Zarah Pattison We recently held our departmental lunchtime “Conservation Conversation”, discussing whether or not invasive non-native species (INNS) are really that bad after all. This is an interesting...
Who migrates further, the eel or the person trying to conserve them? Not that it’s a competition, of course, but I do think that I win. The European eel (Anguilla anguilla)...
By Kathleen Stosch @KathleenStosch Our brains naturally compartmentalise things. Germans call this ‘Schubladendenken’ which translates as ‘drawer thinking’. We have drawers for different species, different people and different scientific disciplines. This...
By Tom Bradfer-Lawrence @_EcologyTom The heat haze is intense. Not only is the sun burning in the sky, but an incessant desert wind is blowing straight out of the Gobi. And,...
By Tom Mason. I have recently returned from a conference in the foothills of the Austrian Alps where one presentation in particular resonated with me. It concerned the fate of the...
These last two weeks I have been lucky enough to be at two workshops that could not have been more different. One was surrounded by the high mountains of the French...
You might think that having the ability to fly makes bats highly mobile animals, but this is not necessarily the case. The shape of their wings is often a telling feature...
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