Oscar Venter and colleagues have published a letter in the February issue of Conservation Biology, outlining some possible perverse outcomes from REDD and how to avoid them. Read a summary and review over at Conservation Bytes.
Only if we want them to; it won’t happen by itself! The spectre of climate change casts a worrying pall over our planet’s biodiversity. Amidst the gloom, however, hangs many opportunities and one of the brightest of these is that the cost of carbon might save many of our tropical forests. That’s because in a…
2010 is off to a good start for two Wilson Lab members. Kerrie has been awarded an Australian Academy of Science, International Science Linkages – Science Academies Program Award, while Angela has recieved a CSIRO Postgraduate Top Up Scholarship within the Climate Adaptation Flagship. Congratulations to Kerrie and Angela!
Article from the December edition of UQ News – see the original article here. Delegates to the climate change conference in Copenhagen have been told that ecosystem-based strategies offer cost-effective and sustainable solutions to climate change that can deliver multiple benefits. This is according to a report from Dr Kerrie Wilson from UQ’s The Ecology…
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