David Chapple

Skinks on a Plane: Does Human‐Mediated Transportation Impact the Behaviour of an Invasive Lizard? In order for invasive species to successfully establish in the non-native region, they must survive the journey and arrive in good condition; however, few studies have investigated the impact of huma....

Skinks on a Plane! For invasive species to be successful, they must be able to cope with transportation. Third-year student Jaclyn (@jaclynharris.bsky.social) exposed invasive delicate skinks to air and car transport to see if it impacted their behaviour. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Skink on the brink - Australian Geographic These researchers gave everything to their search – and found not one, but 23 critically-endangered long sunskinks.

A great article highlighting the incredibly important work @chapplelab.bsky.social, @julesfarquhar.bsky.social and team are doing to improve our understanding of Australia’s data deficient skinks! 🦎

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Important reminder by @chapplelab.bsky.social - data deficient / not evaluated species should be treated the same as threatened, and they are more likely to be threatened than not
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A noodle in a haystack: determining the conservation status of the rare and Data Deficient Ravensthorpe Range slider, Lerista viduata Context One-seventh of the ~157,000 species assessed by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species are Data Deficient (DD), with insufficient information to assess their extinction risk. Such a statistic...

Our new paper, led by PhD student Luke Bonifacio, demonstrating that the Data Deficient Ravensthorpe Range slider qualifies for listing as Critically Endangered. @monashbiol.bsky.social. www.publish.csiro.au/PC/PC24048