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Quantitative spatial ecologist studying changes in bat abundances across the northeast with the Fuller lab at Cornell

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Combining N-mixture and occupancy analysis offers a more complete picture of carnivore habitat use in Northeastern Türkiye Occupancy and N-mixture analyses have been successfully used to understand habitat use in various species. However, since these methods fundamentally answer different questions about wildlife distribu...

Kars Sarıkamış ormanlarında 2010'dan beri fotokapanlarla yaban hayatını araştırıyoruz. 151 ayrı noktada 25,471 fotokapan gününde çekilen 500,000'den fazla fotoğrafın analizini sonunda bitirdik ve makalesini yayınladık. dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

15.05.2025 08:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I understand why it’s called nimble, but I think they should change it to humble, because I’m always humbled and never nimble. #jagsforlife

12.12.2024 19:44 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Abundance‐mediated species interactions Species interactions shape biodiversity patterns, community assemblage, and the dynamics of wildlife populations. Ecological theory posits that the strength of interspecific interactions is fundament...

Are you interested in species interactions and how we model them?

Then this thread is for you!

Our new paper in Ecology on the role of abundance in species interactions provides new statistical tools for modelling species interactions.

shorturl.at/Sqz9m

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05.12.2024 19:19 — 👍 115    🔁 37    💬 2    📌 4

First photo is from this summer, second photo is from this morning.

06.12.2024 18:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Utah: #1 in skiing #40 in air quality. #Souplakecity #Saltlakecity

06.12.2024 18:04 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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EU proposal to adapt protection status of the wolf adopted by Bern Convention, paving the way to more flexibility in managing wolf populations Today, the Standing Committee of the Bern Convention voted in favour of the EU proposal to adapt the protection status of the wolf from ‘strictly protected' to ‘protected'.

As expected, the downlisting of the #wolf Canis lupus at the Bern Convention Standing Committee was approved. A thread on some ins and outs. 1/

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

03.12.2024 14:27 — 👍 48    🔁 45    💬 3    📌 6

Hey! Can I be added?

30.11.2024 05:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

26.11.2024 02:47 — 👍 563    🔁 316    💬 49    📌 37

Id like to be added!

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Id like to be added!

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