A behavioural ecology approach to understand volunteer surveying for citizen science datasets

Tulloch, A.I.T. and Szabo, J.K. (2012), A behavioural ecology approach to understand volunteer surveying for citizen science datasets. Emu. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MU12009 Abstract Among other outcomes, volunteer surveys are useful for evaluating conservation success and determining priorities for management actions. However, biases that can originate from untargeted and weakly structured surveys can undermine the utility of the data gathered.…

Conserving Country: Reflections on the SCB-Oceania Conference

by Nancy Auerbach Tal Polak and I (Nancy Auerbach) recently represented the Environmental Decisions Group (EDG) and the Wilson lab at the recent Society for Conservation Biology’s Oceania section regional conference, held in Darwin, NT between Friday 21 and Sunday 23 September 2012.  The conference theme was on ‘People and Conservation in Land and Sea…

Getting Started in R

By Liz Law So you want to learn R, but just don’t know where to start… Help! The R website is your friend: http://cran.r-project.org/ The index on the left has several points of interest: Manuals & Contributed – these pages have many “introduction to R” and quick reference things in English and Belorussian (among other…