Ahhh! I loved reading this, Simon! Would've been great to see you present it, too, so thank you for sharing it for those of us who weren't at the conference. I'm going to read your latest journal articles now - really excited as I think they will be perfect additions to some of my thesis chapters.
This piece came at an interesting time for me, as I've spent most of today preparing for a Stick-Nest Rat trapping survey. The population we'll be monitoring is really struggling, despite being in a fox and cat free area, apparently due to extreme heat events and drought. Foxes and cats undoubtedly played a role in their decline, but there's so much more to their story. With a changing climate, no ecosystem is going to look exactly as it did in the past, and I think a lot of ecologists, myself included, have yet to properly reckon with that.
Thanks heaps for reading, Robin! I'm very envious that you actually get to interact with these cute little critters. As always, I really appreciate how open you are to these ideas - not every ecologist is so willing to hear them out!
Ahhh! I loved reading this, Simon! Would've been great to see you present it, too, so thank you for sharing it for those of us who weren't at the conference. I'm going to read your latest journal articles now - really excited as I think they will be perfect additions to some of my thesis chapters.
Thanks so much for reading! Glad my ramblings have some use!
Interesting and insightful as always.
This piece came at an interesting time for me, as I've spent most of today preparing for a Stick-Nest Rat trapping survey. The population we'll be monitoring is really struggling, despite being in a fox and cat free area, apparently due to extreme heat events and drought. Foxes and cats undoubtedly played a role in their decline, but there's so much more to their story. With a changing climate, no ecosystem is going to look exactly as it did in the past, and I think a lot of ecologists, myself included, have yet to properly reckon with that.
Thanks heaps for reading, Robin! I'm very envious that you actually get to interact with these cute little critters. As always, I really appreciate how open you are to these ideas - not every ecologist is so willing to hear them out!
Thank you for the reference to (a) the Mt Beauty golf course and (b) Jeff Goldblum
And the whole thing was very illuminating , ofc
Thanks so much for reading!