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Articles by Sam Perrin
Addressing Data Fragmentation in Biodiversity: A Workflow for Integrated Species Distribution Models
Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data Availability Statement The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GBIF at https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.zmb774. Supporting Information Filename Description jbi70357-sup-0001-Supinfo.docxWord 2007 document , 218.9 KB Table S1: List of environmental covariates considered for use in our integrated species distribution model workflow.
Open‐Source Marine Biodiversity Data Quality in the Norwegian Sea Spanning 149 Years: Knowledge Gaps in the Deep‐Sea Mining Opening Area
1 Introduction The Norwegian extended continental shelf has been subject to recent attention for deep-sea mining activities approved by the Norwegian parliament (das Neves 2024), covering areas of the Norwegian and Greenland Seas. Under the premise that a zero net loss of biodiversity is an impossible goal for deep-sea mining (Niner et al. 2018), a hierarchy of mitigation measures has been proposed (Durden et al. 2017).
Good News In Case Watching the Ocean Burn Got You Depressed
Good News In Case Watching the Ocean Burn Got You Depressed Posted on July 5, 2021 by Sam Perrin Image Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters, CC BY 2.0, Image Cropped It’s been an awful week for the environment. If you’ve missed some of the news from the past four or five days, congratulations.
The Freshwater Fiend’s Guide to Horror Movies
I have seen things. Instead of my normal procrastination for the past week (too much Twitter), I’ve spent every moment not buried in my thesis finalisation preparing one of the most unpleasant blogging pieces since I started this website. It’s the sort of thing that makes me ashamed whenever I publish something by one of the fantastic team of EcoMass authors. Because their amazing work now has to share ranks with this. Let’s get into it.
10 Great SciComm Twitter Games To Brighten Your Quarantine
This month, in line with Global Citizen Science Month, we’ll have a special focus on all things citizen science. For those of you who are unaware of the concept, it’s an initiative by SciStarter and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, with support from the Citizen Science Association and National Geographic.
Mermaid Sex, Evil Spirit Birds and More Weird Ecology Search Terms
Image Credit: Ray Bilcliff, Pexels licence, Image Cropped We get a lot of fun and strange search terms which lead people to Ecology for the Masses. So inspired by Captain Awkward’s segment ‘It Came From the Search Terms‘, let’s have a look at some of the weirder questions that led people to this site and see if we can provide some answers. Spelling mistakes have been corrected. 1. Are koalas mean? Koalas have actually been known to attack dogs and people when threatened.
5 Stages of Grief and the Australian Wildfires
Image Credit: Bert Knottenbeld, CC BY-SA 2.0, Image Cropped In case you’ve been living under a rock (in which case, stay there, there’s probably less smoke), you’ll know by now that Australia has experienced wildfires over the last couple of months that dwarf what California and the Amazon went through last year. The Australian bush fires have been widely covered in the media, but let’s do a quick summary of the stats^.
A Review of Netflix’s Our Planet as a Conservation Tool
A Review of Netflix’s Our Planet as a Conservation Tool Posted on October 16, 2019 by Sam Perrin The new Attenborough-narrated Netflix series Our Planet aimed to put threats to the environment at its forefront. So how well did it do?
Killing 2 Million Cats: When Broad Targets Aren’t Enough
Killing 2 Million Cats: When Broad Targets Aren’t Enough Posted on August 7, 2019 by Sam Perrin Image Credit: Joey Doll, CC BY 2.0, Image Cropped Conservation or politics? Australia’s target to kill 2 million cats (2019) Doherty et al., Conservation Letters, https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12633 The Crux We’ve talked a lot lately about competition between causes on Ecology for the Masses.
Mark Davis: Rethinking Invasive Biology
In the series Norway’s Newcomers, we’ve looked extensively at not only Norway’s non-native species, but the genetics, definition and even the defense of alien species. So it made sense that we’d eventually find our way to interviewing an invasion biologist. I was in St. Paul, Minnesota earlier this year and was lucky enough to sit down with Professor Mark Davis. Mark has been a strong opponent of the demonisation of invasive species for decades.
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