Many animals need places to hide to escape predators, drought, disease or fire. We need to work out where these places are and protect them. A tough gig because the refuges can be in a different place each time! Our new paper doi.org/10.1007/s10531…

In recent lab news: - Mike is at the 13th International Congress of Orthopterology in Morocco - we checked out matchstick grasshoppers in Cranbourne BG - we are in the process of building a new website. Watch this space!

Here’s Anwar Hossain learning how to pin a grasshopper - hopefully not his last!

New blog post for our Methods in Ecology and Evolution simulation modelling paper shortlisted for the 2018 Robert May prize British Ecological Society showing food and microclimates interact to constrain animal movement and home range patterns w/ @ecophys methodsblog.com/2019/05/22/mov…

Final MSc (BioSciences) talks today. Rafael Schouten will be presenting his work on developing mechanistic species distribution models for plants. 3:15pm biosciences.unimelb.edu.au/engage/events/… Science at Melbourne

New paper in Phil Trans R Soc B with @ecophys & PEARG Linking thermal adaptation and life-history theory explains latitudinal patterns of voltinism royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Royal Society Publishing

#New #OpenScience Data Paper from Ecology microclimUS: hourly estimates of #historical #microclimates for the United States of America with example applications #soil #applied esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Officially Dr. Himali Ratnayake :) #Finally #PhinisheD #uomalumni University of Melbourne

It's #TSBakeoff time again! So far my favourite entry is Dr Helen McCracken's (Zoos Victoria) Key's Matchstick Grasshopper, which has only just been listed as a threatened species - the result of efforts by Ary Hoffman & @ecophys (University of Melbourne). 🦗 via @TSCommissioner

The resurrection of Key’s Matchstick Grasshopper has the potential to become one of Australia’s greatest conservation success stories. Science at Melbourne #UnimelbPursuit bit.ly/2Qh4Axm

Species of grasshopper not seen since 1960s rediscovered in Gippsland abc.net.au/news/2019-09-2… via ABC News

Michael Kearney (@ecophys) says a theoretical perspective on functional traits will help better define & prioritise traits for biodiversity databases. See the NicheMapR website for more: mrke.github.io #BiodiversityNext #Traits cc Atlas of Living Aust @gbif @unimelb

Want historic climate data at ecologically relevant scales? Then check out our new paper on computing microclimate anywhere on earth. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Matchstick grasshoppers have their own colour palettes now

So we made an R package that no one asked for but everyone needs. Plz welcome colRoz: a colour palette based on Oz's wildlife & landscape. Here are some examples but send us some pretty Oz pics so we can make more palettes for you! github.com/jacintak/colRoz #Wildoz #rstats

Some good ecological news for a change. The resurrection of Key’s Matchstick Grasshopper has the potential to become one of Australia’s greatest conservation success stories👏 #UnimelbPursuit bit.ly/2Qh4Axm

Join me on a trait-based unraveling of the evolution and ecology of insect phenology using NicheMapR #BES2019 Thurs 4:30pm S35 meeting room 1B

In this month's issue of Methods in #Ecology and #Evolution, Kearney et al. introduce an #OpenSource method to compute hourly, historical, terrain-corrected #Microclimates anywhere on earth from 1957 until present. Read the full article here: bit.ly/2uRIarY

In a non-covid alternate reality I graduated with my doctorate today. I couldn’t so I did the next best thing

Important news for the microclimate community: Michael Kearney @ecophys kindly provided us all a web-app to calculate microclimate anywhere on the planet! soiltemp.weebly.com/blog/microclim…