Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late #Devonian to present

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018225005796

#traits #fish #evolution #ecology 🌏🧪

@JohnLlewelyn @GlobEcoFlinders

Dr @JohnLlewelyn of @GlobEcoFlinders, Flinders University talks about his latest paper on the turnover of large animal species in Australia over the last 100,000 years (ABC SE South Australia Breakfast)

interview: https://soundcloud.com/corey-bradshaw/johnllewelyn-abc-se-sa-interview-25072025

press release: https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2025/07/24/big-changes-to-australias-largest-animals-reveal-mammals-are-most-vulnerable/

paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/393481266_Trophic_and_taxonomic_restructuring_of_Sahul's_large-bodied_animal_community_since_the_Late_Pleistocene

Our new paper out in QSR:

A 150,000-year lacustrine record of the Indo-Australian #monsoon from northern Australia

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379125003245

Melting ice in the North Atlantic is intensifying Indo-Australian monsoon & weakening East Asian monsoon

https://news.flinders.edu.au/blog/2025/07/09/tree-pollen-reveals-150000-years-of-monsoon-history-in-northern-australia/

#climatechange

More than 7000 attempts to hack into my blog on Wednesday

Tenacious bastards

Well, it's official

2024 was the 5th-driest year in my village (total precipitation) since formal records began in 1891 (i.e., 134 years ago)

data source: Bureau of Meteorology (bom.gov.au)

#southaustralia #climate

New preprint:

Underestimating the risks of overpopulation endangers the health and lives of future children

http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.173557431.12387801/v1

Our new paper just published:

Testing the Dispersal-Origin-Status-Impact (#DOSI) scheme to prioritise non-native and translocated species management

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82284-z