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Perth, Western Australia
Joined June 2016
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Did a radio interview for ABC's afternoon Drive program in regional Queensland, covering extinction, de-extinction, the thylacine, citizen science, etc. Starts at 1:30:27.
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My latest paper has just been published in @CambridgePrisms analysing 40 years of data on "Extinction and survival of French Polynesian tree snails (Partulidae)". After several tragic decades the prospects now look good. doi.org/10.1017/ext.2026.100….
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2/8 There are 27 species of sturgeons and every one is imperiled. Taxonomy of genera Acipenser and Huso is paraphyletic in every phylogenetic study for the past 28 years, across molecular & morphological datasets. In 2025, we proposed to fix this, elevating the genus Sinotsturio
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Are plant–pollinator interactions more specialised in the tropics? After ~25 years of thinking about this question, our new global analysis suggests there’s no simple latitudinal rule: it all depends! Read about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/10/0…
#pollinators #ecology #biodiversity
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Fake figs, fooled fig wasps & rewarded flies: this plant has one of the strangest #pollination systems yet found in #Apocynaceae. I’ve written about the new study and how it fits into our wider work on this extraordinary plant family: jeffollerton.co.uk/2026/09/1…
#Biodiversity
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Cardiopteridales "are accepted as a separate order because they are sister to the larger lamiid clade (Zhang et al., 2020; Zuntini et al., 2024). They include Stemonuraceae and Cardiopteridaceae."
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While additional money for conservation is welcome, I find aspects of this announcement of a $4M partnership between @colossal & the IUCN somewhat worrying prnewswire.com/news-releases… 1/6 🧵
Looking to produce a publicly available aggregate list of taxa that have not been recorded in 100 years or more but are not regarded as (possibly) extinct, as "Project 100". Will be doing plenty of searching of the literature myself, but any leads would be greatly appreciated.TIA
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Ruan, Q., Li, H., Xing, S. et al. Denisovans from southwestern China and their subsistence strategies. Nature (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-1…
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Flora of Singapore volume 4 download link
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Flora of Singapore Volume 4 just published alert 🚨🌲🌳
Gymnosperms, Nymphaeales, Austrobaileyales, Piperales, Magnoliales, Laurales and Chloranthales.
Available online here (free!) nparks.gov.sg/sbg/research/p…
Would love to read threads where researchers take an older paper and discuss it in light of subsequent research/discoveries. How does it hold up today? The increase of knowledge will inevitably eclipse some aspects of a paper, but the deeper insights often hold up well.
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An international expert was confused after travelling to the Daintree to see the tallest known example of a critically endangered rainforest tree.
Unfortunately, the 90cm-wide Ristantia pachysperma had been felled by rangers about a week before he arrived
au.news.yahoo.com/sad-twist-…
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A new palaeo-tectonic model of New Guinea and its consequences for understanding Indo-Pacific avian diversity in space and through time doi.org/10.21425/fob.19.2009… via @newbiogeo
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Check out the preprint of our new ancient DNA paper on the evolutionary history of the large, extinct Spectacled Cormorant and whether it was part of the North Pacific kelp-associated fauna biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Exciting news to kick off Biodiversity Month! 🎉 After more than 50 years, the endangered Nabarlek has been confirmed at two new locations on mainland Dambeemangaddee Country in the northwest Kimberley.
📷 I Bool
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Tropical Plant Families Identification Handbook has a new 2026 printing - some tweaks to families and updates of species numbers (and a few errors corrected). E.g., Icacinaceae are no longer ‘Unplaced’ and Boraginaceae changed to reflect family debates. #botany
New thylacine photo discovered by Kiwi Logan Coote. Taken by an NZ dignitary while visiting Beaumaris Zoo in 1932 or 1934. Shows the last captive. Notice the penile mound under the base of tail. Doesn't look fully grown to me so I'm guessing 1932, but no expert on thyla ontogeny.
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Setting trends with google: limits and perspectives when utilising search engine data | Quality & Quantity. 👉 special SharedIt link to a view-only version::
rdcu.be/eKRLz link.springer.com/article/10…
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If you are in or around Cambridge next week, I’m giving a talk on Friday 12th September at the Cambridgeshire Bird Club about my recent book 'Birds & Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship'. More details here:
jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/0…
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New #research out today! We describe a late Miocene #fossil #kangaroo from central #Australia...
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Here's another good critique arguing against @colossal push for moa de-extinction from one of New Zealand's leading experts on moa thepress.co.nz/nz-news/36075…
