by Mark_Costello | Apr 16, 2021 | News
Species in areas with exceptionally high biodiversity (richspots), especially of endemic species (unique to that place), are consistent losers under climate change because they cannot disperse to more suitable climates. In contrast, introduced invasive species tend...
by Mark_Costello | Apr 6, 2021 | Climate change, News, Publication
A new paper from Chhaya Chaudhary’s PhD shows that the latitudinal gradient of species richness has been changing in concert with climate change since at least the 1950s (Chaudhary et al. 2021). Thousands of species have left the equator for higher latitudes as...
by Mark_Costello | Mar 28, 2021 | News
I am greatly honoured to receive the Shorland Medal from the cross-disciplinary New Zealand Association of Scientists. “The Shorland Medal is awarded in recognition of major and continued contribution to basic or applied research that has added significantly to...
by Mark_Costello | Feb 1, 2021 | Useful Stuff
A code of conduct for scientists developed by the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network* We welcome its application and development in other communities of practice Excellent, effective science and good citizenship require that scientists hold themselves to a high...
by Mark_Costello | Dec 21, 2020 | News, Publication, Useful Stuff
The first world map of the laminarian kelp biome has been published (Jayathilake and Costello (2020). It estimates the kelp biome to occupy 1,469,900 km2 and be present on 22 % of the world’s coastline. It is thus the second most widely distributed marine biome,...
