By Anthony Caravaggi @thonoir One of the fundamental questions asked by population ecologists, often preceded by an exasperated “Yes, but…”, is “how many are there?” A great number of subsequent questions and management decisions rely on estimates of population abundance and densities. Some survey methods allow researchers to calculate coarse estimates for […]
By Anthony Caravaggi @thonoir I begin my second piece for QUBio much as I began my first, with a reference to a story. In Lewis Carroll’s timeless Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, we are introduced to the March Hare; a peculiar character whose eccentricities come to the fore at the beginning of Spring: “The March Hare will be much […]
By Katie Leach @lagomorpha_ As many of you may already know my research is centred on the (extremely cute!) mammalian Order Lagomorpha. Before I blog about my PhD findings to date I wanted to provide an overview of this amazing group of species and why they are so important for us to study. Lagomorphs belong […]
By Anthony Caravaggi @thonoir In the classic tale from Aesop’s Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare, the hare brags about how fast he is and how he has “never yet been beaten.” The tortoise *SPOILER ALERT* goes on to win the race by overtaking the over-confident hare who has stopped to take a nap. It’s […]