Dr Chris Clements

🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨

How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍

Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨

How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍

Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

@dzchilds.bsky.social @beckerhopper.bsky.social

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

Multivariate signals of population collapse in a high‐throughput ecological experiment Anticipating population declines is a crucial goal of conservation ecology. Recent conceptual work suggests that populations facing growing stressors should exhibit sequential shifts in behavior, mor....

📢 new publiction led by @francescocerini.bsky.social in Ecology

We look at how press vs. pulse disturbances effect population collapse and how predictable that collapse is 🧪🔬

@duncanobrien.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Listening to @empirepoduk.bsky.social whilst on a bikepacking trip through Kenya is my new stress relief

there's a grant in there somewhere....micro-rewilding?

Might be of interest to ‪@owpet.bsky.social‬ @florianaltermatt.bsky.social ‬ @pennekampster.bsky.social

Contribution of microcosm experiments to conservation science Microcosms, or miniature experimental systems, have been used to develop models and theories in ecology. However, their contribution to conservation science is unclear. We explored the application, d....

Did you know that #microcosm experiments are cited ~ twice as often as non-microcosm experiments?! 🧪

AND

Microcosm articles and non-microcosm articles were cited in #policy documents at SIMILAR RATE 🔬

New paper from @sternetal.bsky.social

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Super happy that @kerrys189.bsky.social passed her viva with no corrections!! 🥳🥳🥳

Congratulations, Dr. Stewart!!

The EcCo lab will miss you, but we know you are off to do amazing things

Thanks to the excellent examiners @alexpigot.bsky.social & @vlboult.bsky.social

Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities Monitoring living organisms with high-resolution and multidimensional is a complex and labour-intensive task, yet it is fundamental to understand and predict the dynamics of ecological communities in...

Very cool - @bessonmarc.bsky.social 's Ecology Letters paper just passed 200 citations! 🎉

Interested in biological monitoring and robotics? Check it out below

Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities share.google/IxYWxgy0WS23...

Great to see the new paper picking up so much traction in the press

www.theguardian.com/environment/....

Brilliant and important work from @kerrys189.bsky.social out today in @natecoevo.nature.com

What is our best path to conserving global bird diversity?

Find out here

@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Diversity is key

Artists impression of a group of sauropods grazing peacefully in the morning sun 🦕

Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss - Communications Earth & Environment The Antarctic Ice Sheet exhibits hysteresis and irreversible ice loss, with West Antarctic collapse contributing over 4 m of sea-level rise even under minimal additional warming, according to 800,000-...

New research: West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse contributes over 4 m sea-level rise with little (0.25 °C) or even no ocean warming above present

#climatecrisis
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Before the rain came...

#fieldcourse

@tommaso-jucker.bsky.social

Field course season is upon us! Rewilding ar Knepp for the 5th time. Always a pleasure to be here, plus now they have a sauna...

🦬🐗🌳🕊️

@tommaso-jucker.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age - Nature Ecology & Evolution An expert-elicitation process identifies current methodological barriers for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity, and how technological and procedural development of robotic and autonomous systems may...

New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com

How can our future robot overlords help monitor biodiversity? What are the biggest hurdles to overcome?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age - Nature Ecology & Evolution An expert-elicitation process identifies current methodological barriers for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity, and how technological and procedural development of robotic and autonomous systems may...

New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com

How can our future robot overlords help monitor biodiversity? What are the biggest hurdles to overcome?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

Excellent afternoon encounter in the Tatra mountains

Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect

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@creaf.cat @expecocons.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @unibarcelonathe.bsky.social @uab.cat

Stability metrics behave predictably across data qualities but are sensitive to community size Modern biodiversity monitoring is generating increasingly multidimensional representations of wildlife populations and ecosystems. It is therefore app…

New paper out from @duncanobrien.bsky.social, will be particular interesting to those of you trying to understand #stability loss in real-world ecosystems

"Stability metrics behave predictably across data qualities but are sensitive to community size"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect We built a model that simulates the green-veined white butterfly population dynamics based on the survival and fecundity rates of the species across its life cycle and the effects of extreme heat and...

🚨 new #climatechange paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social!

Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@polcapdevila.bsky.social

The position would be based largely and the UoB in my group but also working with local governmental authorities

Data Analyst - Ecological Modelling | 02 April, 2025 | Jobs and careers with West of England Combined Authority Jobs and careers with West of England Combined Authority - The West of England Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA) is seeking to appoint on a fixed term basis (until September 2026) a data analyst/scient...

🚨 We're hiring!🚨

Looking for someone interested in modelling biodiversity trends to work on the interface between academia and policy.

careersearch.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/jobs/job/Dat...

Train is 100% the best way to travel

Recognising ecologists whose work has benefitted society and advanced our understanding of the natural world. Do you know an inspiring ecologist worthy of our awards?

Each year we celebrate remarkable ecologists in our BES awards🏆

Categories cover the breadth of experiences and career stages, so let us know which ecologists inspire you!

Make your nominations by 7 April 

https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/bes-prizes/

Overly dramatic seminar title incoming