“One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity”

Navjot Sodhi, one the of the authors of this paper, just sent me this link – it is an early view of the pdf which will eventually be free access: Sutherland et al., 2009. One hundred questions of importance to the conservation of global biological diversity. Conservation Biology.

Abstract – We identified 100 scientific questions [...]

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Rudolf Meier – Annual Teaching Excellence Awards 2007/8

Rudolf Meier has just been awarded Annual Teaching Excellence Awards 2007/2008 – see the CDTL page for the university list. Congrats Rudolf!

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Laura’s thesis work featured on “Not Exactly Rocket Science”

Ed Yong of “Not Exactly Rocket Science” features Laura’s (Spider Lab) recently published thesis work in an article entitled, “Singaporean spiders spit venomous glue, work together, eat each other” (24 Apr 2009).

“In the forests of Singapore lives a spider that must be an arachnophobe’s worst nightmare. Most species are solitary hunters subdue their prey [...]

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Draft Singapore Blue Plan released for feedback

The marine research and education community have released a Draft Blue Plan to invite feedback from the public before submission to the government in a month’s time.
See details in Habitatnews

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Finally, a second year biodiversity module!

This has been in the works for some time and we finally received the wonderful news – The Board of Undergraduate Studies has approved two modules that were recently submitted.
So we FINALLY have a second year biodiversity module in the form of “LSM2251 Ecology and Environment”.
The second module that was also approved is “LSM4264 Freshwater [...]

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Sodhi et al on “The state and conservation of Southeast Asian biodiversity”

Sodhi, N. S., M. R. C. Posa, T. M. Lee, D. Bickford, L. P. Koh & B. W. Brook, 2009. The state and conservation of Southeast Asian biodiversity. Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation, DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9607-5 [Published online: 4 March 2009]
“Abstract – Southeast Asia is a region of conservation concern due to heavy losses of its [...]

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Richard Corlett on “Invasive aliens on tropical East Asian islands”

Corlett, R. T., 2009. Invasive aliens on tropical East Asian islands. Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation. DOI 10.1007/s10531-009-9624-4 [Published online: 31 March 2009]
“Tropical East Asia (TEA) has numerous islands, both continental and oceanic. This study uses information on invasive aliens in terrestrial habitats on these islands to test the generality of the continental-oceanic contrast in invasibility, [...]

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