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Frederico Mestre

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Biologist, Silves, Portugal, #Biogeography, #Macroecology, #RoadEcology, #FoodWebEcology

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Road Ecology This book is the first to comprehensively present both the current state of knowledge and future directions in the emerging discipline of Road Ecology.

#RoadEcology #Ecology

01.02.2026 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can you please add me?

20.01.2026 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hello! Can you please add me?

20.01.2026 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can you add me, please? Thanks.

15.01.2026 22:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Un estudio global destaca que solo el 16% de las รกreas de gran biodiversidad marina goza de protecciรณn frente al trรกfico marรญtimo | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientรญficas El crecimiento del trรกfico marรญtimo global representa una serie de amenazas crecientes para la biodiversidad marina, tales como la contaminaciรณn, las colisiones con embarcaciones y las perturbaciones ...

About our recent paper.

#marineecology #vertebrates #cetaceans #seabirds #seaturtles #pinnipeds #shipping #ecology

27.11.2025 11:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Navigating the Balance: Mapping Shipless, Preservation, and Mitigation Areas for Marine Biodiversity โ€” Transport Ecology Shipping sustains global trade but poses escalating threats to marine biodiversity, with wildlife-vessel collisions, noise, and pollution endangering species such as cetaceans (whales and dolphins), s...

transportecology.info/research/shi...

23.10.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Scientific Dialogues This list focuses on (what Iโ€™m calling) scientific dialoguesโ€”in which researchers respond to each otherโ€™s work using published papers as messengers. Often, a paper sparks a reply, which may, โ€ฆ

This post in Geekcologist is about public "dialogues" between scientists, written in the pages of scientific journals.
#Ecology

15.10.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Ecological Modelling | Ecological Modelling: 50th Anniversary Retrospective Special Collection. | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier Danish Scientist, Prof. Sven Erik Jรธrgensen, founded the international journal Ecological Modelling and Systems Ecology (ECOMOD) in 1975 with the support of Elsevier Publishers. The journal, which was...

Ecological Modelling celebrates 50 years of pioneering research, innovation, and impact in Ecology with a retrospective special collection highlighting its legacy and future directions.

#Ecology

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

02.10.2025 09:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Global conflict between shipping and marine biodiversity Humans dominate the Earthโ€”we inhabit it, we disrupt it, and we traverse it. Ecologists have dedicated themselves to studying the impact of roads on terrestrial systems since the end of the 20th cenโ€ฆ

geekcologist.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/g...

12.08.2025 10:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mapping global shipless areas and conflict zones between shipping and large marine vertebrates The growth of global maritime traffic poses increasing threats to marine biodiversity, including vessel collisions, behavioural disturbances, and pollโ€ฆ

Mapping global shipless areas and conflict zones between shipping and large marine vertebrates

#CCMAR #CE3C #MARE #Donana

#biogeography #Ecology #marineecology ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒ

11.08.2025 11:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Silent Impact: How Roads Are Eroding Europeโ€™s Food Webs | Current Conservation Current Conservation The Silent Impact: How Roads Are Eroding Europeโ€™s Food Webs

#roadecology #foodwebs #ecologicalnetworks #ecology

www.currentconservation.org/the-silent-i...

15.07.2025 09:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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The domino effect of roads on biodiversity: How the impacts of wildlife-vehicle collisions propagate through food webs โ€” Transport Ecology Our study reveals that roads and traffic not only cause direct wildlife mortality but also destabilise entire ecological networks by altering predator-prey interactions. By mapping high-risk areas for...

About our paper on the potential effect of roads to natural food webs.

#biogeography #globalecology #roadecology ๐ŸŒ ๐ŸŒ

10.07.2025 08:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Researchers working on Globa Ecology can join this community! go.bsky.app/F86HYqj
If you're interested you should DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the Vol_3 (Vols 1 and 2 are full).
#Ecology

28.05.2025 11:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Applications open for Call for Studentships 2025 - FCT Studentships will now be contracted and managed by the host institutions

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19.03.2025 10:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#MarineEcology #PhDOpportunity #ecologicalnetworks
www.biodiversitydatascience.com

Biodiversity Data Science.
We use machine learning and artificial intelligence tools to aid biodiversity conservation and management, in support of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

19.03.2025 10:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Effects of road density on regional food webs Roads stand as major threats to biodiversity because they affect the functioning of ecosystems and the provision of ecosystem services. Understanding how the effects of roads affect the dynamics of e...

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

#Ecology
#Macroecology
#ConservationBiology
#RoadEcology
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04.03.2025 16:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mapping Global Shipless Areas and Conflict Zones between Shipping and Marine Biodiversity
YouTube video by Frederico Mestre Mapping Global Shipless Areas and Conflict Zones between Shipping and Marine Biodiversity
25.02.2025 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Our preprint, "Mapping Global Shipless Areas and Conflict Zones Between Shipping and Marine Biodiversity," is now live and available to the public!

๐ŸŒ #GlobalEcology

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

24.02.2025 21:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mapping Global Shipless Areas and Conflict Zones between Shipping and Marine Biodiversity The growth of global maritime traffic poses increasing threats to marine biodiversity including vessel collisions, disturbance, and pollution. Protecting areas

Our preprint, "Mapping Global Shipless Areas and Conflict Zones Between Shipping and Marine Biodiversity," is now live and available to the public!

#Ecology #Biogeography #MarineEcology๐ŸŒŽ

24.02.2025 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Quais rodovias priorizar para reduรงรฃo da fragmentaรงรฃo de hรกbitat? A biรณloga e pesquisadora Talita Menger aborda uma nova metodologia para escolher qual rodovia deve receber aรงรตes para reduzir fragmentaรงรฃo de hรกbitat.

Publication about my R package gDefrag on FaunaNews, a Brazilian website (in Portuguese).
#Ecology #RoadEcology

13.02.2025 13:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New version of package gDefrag We have developed a new version of the gDefrag package. The previous version has been retired from CRAN due to dependencies on outdated packages. This updated version is still under development andโ€ฆ

A new version of the package gDefrag to plan landscape defragmentation in regions fragmented by roads has been developed. #RoadEcology #graph #network

05.02.2025 13:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Geekcologist Ecology & Modelling

geekcologist.wordpress.com

31.01.2025 09:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can follow the blog I contribute to (Geekcologist) on Bluesky! bsky.app/profile/Geek...

31.01.2025 09:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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(PDF) Road density simplifies regional food webs PDF | Roads are major threats to biodiversity, affecting the functioning of ecosystems and their provision of ecosystem services. Understanding how... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

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10.12.2024 22:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Road density simplified regional food webs
#Macroecology ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒ

10.12.2024 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can you add me to the list, please?

30.11.2024 21:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Redirecting

Are threatened species important for glueing interaction networks together?

๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒ #Ecology

doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...

25.11.2024 20:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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