Andrew Houldcroft

Some more highlights from my first month in Cantanhez NP, Guinea-Bissau! 🇬🇼

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01.03.2025 14:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to share that an article related to our recent review covering the evolutionary ecology of ethanol is now available online at @uk.theconversation.com!

Big thanks to @kjhockings.bsky.social, Matthew Carrigan, Amanda Melin, @evol-lab-ex.bsky.social, @exeter.ac.uk, @uniexecec.bsky.social.

26.02.2025 10:12 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Kenya’s goal to plant 15 billion trees should include farmers – study shows they are keen Kenya plans to plant 15 billion trees to combat climate change.

For tree planting initiatives to truly benefit people and nature, they must be designed with farmers at the centre – not just as recipients, but as guardians and active decision-makers

New article by Ennia Bosshard of @uniexecec.bsky.social in @uk.theconversation.com

25.02.2025 15:59 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

PhD fieldwork is now well underway! I’m in Cantanhez NP for 4 months to explore the use of bioacoustics to monitor critically-endangered western chimpanzees! Lots of updates to come 🌍

25.02.2025 17:14 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Very grateful to have my research highlighted by BES!

@wildcru.bsky.social
@uniexecec.bsky.social

This paper is now out and can be accessed here 🥳

zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

02.01.2025 15:02 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 3

Joint spatial modeling of cluster size and density for a heavily hunted primate persisting in a heterogeneous landscape https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07399 #Primates #Mangroves #Sampling

01.01.2025 09:26 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

spAbundance package (Doser et al. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14332) was published this year at
@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! It fits a variety of single/multispecies abundance models using Bayesian Inference allowing also for hierarchical frameworks. Let me show you a funny example 🧵👇(1/6) #rstats

30.12.2024 17:31 — 👍 77    🔁 26    💬 6    📌 4

PhyloPic PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...

Ok people. I’m drawing silhouettes this afternoon. If you have a paper coming up and you are in need of a #silhouette please let me know and I will have it ready today. As always I upload all my silhouettes to phylopic.org

I also have tutorials on how to put a silhouette in a plot in R.

26.12.2024 18:47 — 👍 445    🔁 157    💬 18    📌 4

Photo of Campbell's monkeys sat in trees. New Research. Joint spatial modeling of cluster size and density for a heavily hunted primate persisting in a heterogeneous landscape. Andrew Houldcroft et al. (2024) Ecography.

New Paper! 🐒🌍🦤🧪

@andyhouldcroft.bsky.social built upon his MSc Conservation & Biodiversity project to develop a mapping model using monkeys in Guinea Bissau which aims to boost conservation & promote human-wildlife coexistence
@uniexecec.bsky.social #ExeterGSES

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

20.12.2024 11:36 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Monkey mapping model could boost conservation A monkey mapping study could boost conservation of animal species that share their habitats with humans.  With an estimated 75% of Earth’s land surface already altered by humans, many animals must liv...

A monkey mapping study led by doctoral researcher @andyhouldcroft.bsky.social could boost conservation of animal species that share their habitats with humans. @uniexecec.bsky.social

Full paper: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Press release: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

17.12.2024 11:59 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0