Nilanjan Chatterjee

Delayed recovery of seed-dispersal interactions after deforestation Landim et al. show that seed-dispersal interactions require about two decades to functionally recover in tropical forests in Ecuador, but the recovery time of seed-dispersal functions is delayed in pa...

Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️

We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation.

You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Science’s ‘Gollum effect’: PhDs bear brunt of territorial behaviour Survey respondents at all career stages report colleagues engaging in territorial and possessive behaviours — but early-career researchers are most often affected.

New study in #Nature reveals the 'Gollum effect': nearly half of surveyed scientists report territorial behaviors—data hoarding, gatekeeping—mostly during #PhD. Early-career researchers bear the brunt; 1 in 5 left academia as a result.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Ecology needs a causal overhaul Ecology has yet to embrace causal inference, yet most questions in ecology are causal. Despite the common use of terms that imply causation, such as “shapes”, “drives”, or “impacts”, many studies shy...

I'm guessing this is probably very well worth the read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Our most recent paper - led by #AnkitaSinha and assessing spatio-temporal patterns among specialist river birds in the Indian Himalaya - has made the cover of @biotropica.bsky.social Free to air here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... and here www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Can goats predict earthquakes? Can dogs forecast volcanic eruptions? These scientists think so Tracking the behaviour of tagged animals from space could transform the research into a host of natural phenomena

How @animaltracking.bsky.social plans to track animals with Icarus to create the Internet of Animals and be able to study not just how/if they react to geological phenomena, but also monitor disease spread and find out many other cool things from their movement: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

It's a wonderful idea...I'd like to help

The slender-billed curlew is declared extinct This is the first mainland European bird declared extinct in 500 years.

well, here it is lads

after combing through some 1,400 records, it looks like the slender-billed curlew is indeed extinct and the last known photo taken in 1995 was probably at the point it slipped beneath the waves 🦉🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

This is a terrifying development from India regarding the legendary writer Arundhati Roy -- one of the Modi regime's fiercest critics

#HiSciSky and #HiBioSky!

Finally made it over from #X! About me - I'm a postdoc at UMN...research interests are mostly animal movement but everything and anything that involves ecological data