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Science in fiction | Peter Vesk
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The University of Melbourne. What good is science for the national interest? September 27, 2013. Barbara Kingsolver, Flight. T Coraghessan Boyle, When the killing’s done. California’s Channel Islands. Less contemporary is the bizarre novel by Daniel Kehlmann. Which provides fanciful double biographies of two of the greatest scientists of the 1800s, one an aristocratic committed empiricist, Alexander von Humboldt. A nice review can be found here. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Pv’s paper ke...
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The University of Melbourne. September 27, 2013. I love reading fiction, and I love science. Occasionally these two meet when I read a science fiction novel. And just occasionally I read a book set in contemporary society where a scientist is one of the protagonists and issues … Continue reading →. What good is science for the national interest? August 27, 2013. Land use change effects on trait distributions in forests. August 14, 2013. American Journal of Botany. June 22, 2013. June 22, 2013. This week ...
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Publications | Peter Vesk
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The University of Melbourne. If you can’t access through Google Scholar. Duncan, D.H. and Vesk, P.A. In Press) Examining change over time in habitat attributes using Bayesian reinterpretation of categorical assessments. Ecological Applications,. DOI: 10.1890/12-1670.1. Pollock, L.J., Bayly, M.J., Nevill, P.G. and Vesk, P.A. 2013) Chloroplast DNA diversity associated with protected slopes and valleys for hybridizing Eucalyptus. Wintle, B.C., Fidler, F., Vesk, P.A. Morris, W.K., Vesk, P.A. McCarthy, M....
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What good is science for the national interest? | Peter Vesk
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The University of Melbourne. Land use change effects on trait distributions in forests. Science in fiction →. What good is science for the national interest? August 27, 2013. But many people don’t realize the pervasive importance of science in our everyday lives, it seems. Which brings me to what should be our (Australia’s) plan for STEM. Thats Science, Technology , Engineering and Mathematics). I recently attended a talk from Australia’s Chief Scientist. And read a position paper. The strategy Chubb out...
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Postgraduate Students | The Quantitative & Applied Ecology Group
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The Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group. QAECO – The University Of Melbourne. Chris’s research is about the most effective way to bait feral animals for the protection of threatened species. Khorloo is studying the impact of invasive deer populations on alpine and sub-alpine peatland communities of the Bogong High Plains in the Victorian Alps. Her aim is to contribute to the conservation and management of peatland systems with the outcomes of her research. Chris’s research focus on the tradeoffs...
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Land use change effects on trait distributions in forests | Peter Vesk
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The University of Melbourne. Revisiting less-than-optimal historical data. What good is science for the national interest? Land use change effects on trait distributions in forests. August 14, 2013. We have a new paper appearing in a special issue of. American Journal of Botany. Led by Margie Mayfield. From U. Queensland. You can find a preprint here. And the publication version here. There is a wealth of individual results in the paper, but at the broad scale we found that:. Species richness and trait d...
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