Ecological Dynamics Dept. | IZW Berlin

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📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling.
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Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m

Happy to see this first PhD chapter out in the big wild world.

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

@behavecol.bsky.social

Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch

How human activity impacts urban squirrels' problem-solving abilities How human activities negatively affect urban red squirrels' problem-solving skills and potentially their chances of thriving is revealed in newly published research from the universities of Chester an...

2025. How human activity impacts urban squirrels' problem-solving abilities phys.org/news/2025-09...

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📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling.
🐗🐗🐗🐦🐦🐦
Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m

Walnüsse und Haselnüsse mit Schale ✅
Mandeln und Erdnüsse ❌
Sinah Drenske von der #TUBerlin gibt im Interview mit @rbb24.de Tipps für den richtigen Umgang mit Eichhörnchen. 🐿️ Aber Achtung: Die kleinen Nager sind und bleiben Wildtiere!

Congrats to Nikki Pearson presenting her master thesis research on the #animalbehaviour of the #NorthernBaldIbis and who won the prize for best poster, section Ecology 🥳🎉 @dzg2025berlin.bsky.social Annual Meeting in Berlin!!! #Waldrappteam

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Today is Khulan Day! A day to celebrate this majestic and essential species and the other subspecies of the #AsiaticWildAss. Join us by sharing your photo, quote or story or by just reposting our post along with #KhulanDay2025 and/or #KhulanDay. More on our Facebook (link in comment)

🚨 Don't forget to sign up to our MEE live! next week 🚨

In this free online workshop, Ata Kalirad joins us to talk about their recent paper on Ecological Graph Theory, a method to simulate competition in structured populations 🌍 🧪

Find out more about the workshop and register 👇
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Anthropization impacts the selection of resting sites and their centrality in movement networks: wild boar across Europe as an example For many animal species, resting and activity happen at distinct sites. As animals are limited in how far they can travel between resting and foraging sites, the spatial layout of those sites may con...

New research on wild boar resting sites in Europe! 🐗

In anthropized landscapes, where resting sites are sometimes a limiting resource for many animals, their spatial layout may play an often unnoticed yet important role in allowing animal movements across the landscape.🌳

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Simple rules for concise scientific writing Click on the article title to read more.

2020. Simple rules for concise scientific writing. Hotaling - aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Urbanisation Facilitates Intrapopulation Dietary Niche Diversity in a Generalist Carnivore We compared stable isotope profiles of urban and nonurban coyote populations to test whether urbanisation fosters niche diversification among individuals. Urban coyotes had narrower dietary niches an...

📢I’m excited to share that my second dissertation chapter has now been published in Ecology Letters! We used stable isotope analysis to examine if urbanization influences individual dietary specialization 🧪 🧵

Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #OpenAccess #UrbanEcology #UrbanWildlife

🚀 Book in progress: Spatial Data Visualization with tmap

A guide to creating thematic maps in R with the tmap package.
Covers everything from loading data to interactive and animated maps, with reproducible code.

Read online: tmap.geocompx.org

#rstats #rspatial #geocompx #gischat #maps

🚨 PhD position in behavioural evolution 🚨

Come do your PhD with me in Linköping, Sweden, using the domestic dog (and some wolves) to answer fun questions on how complex behaviours develop and evolve.

Application deadline September 24 2025 🧪 🌍 🦊 #AcademicSky #ScienceJobs

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What an energetic congregation of people showing their research in amazing and innovative posters during the poster session! 🤩✨

We hope you all made good use of your free drink voucher 🥂🍻

#IWC2025

How do wildlife populations respond to human pressures, and how can we better predict these responses to guide conservation? Here, we review current modelling approaches and highlight new opportunities, with case studies.

🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.1111/ele....

🙌🙏 @cassiespeakman.bsky.social

Map of death: spatially explicit mortality of the grey #wolf #ProcB #Ecology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

We are soon heading to International Wildlife Congress #IWC2025 in Norway. We will exhibit our small, implantable physio-loggers which can measure variables such as heart rate, activity, temp and depth. We hope to see you there! #wildlife #heartrate #tinylogger @int-wildcongress.bsky.social

Translocations and high-resolution tracking show that field margins improve connectivity and corridor functionality in agricultural landscapes... even for habitat generalist birds like bulbuls! 🐦🌎🧪

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Are you a hunter in Germany, or do you know any? We are looking for participants to help us in our research on wild boar and African Swine Fever! 🐗
We would be happy for any who participate in this anonymous questionnaire: questionpro.eu/a/TakeSurvey...

Conference participant and a PhD student smiling infront of her poster at the poster session.

🐾 Our PhD student Yutong Liang presented her first project on lynx excursion behaviour at the Movement Ecology of Animals conference (25 July to 1 August) in Ventura, CA with a poster and flash talk! 🎤📊🐱

#GordonResearchConference
#MovementEcology #WildlifeResearch #Lynx #PhDLife

Is natural selection really stronger in cities? Anne Charmantier, Tracy Burkhard, Laura Gervais, Charles Perrier, Albrecht I. Schulte-Hostedde, Megan J. Thompson This is a plain language summary for the 2024 Calow-Grace review which can be found…

📖This issue features our Calow-Grace review, by @annecharmantier.bsky.social and team! The review evaluated the peer-reviewed literature for studies that measured and compared natural selection in urban versus non-urban habitats🏙️

Read it here👇
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Visual representation of common garden procedure.

Our common garden experiment with urban and forest great tits is out early view in Evolution! doi.org/10.1093/evol... @denisreale.bsky.social @annecharmantier.bsky.social

An R package for working with generalized additive models Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out!

Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...

Experimental parallel processing ⚡

New assemble() for building plots 🎨

Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪

Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨

👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/

#Rstats

International Wildlife Congress 2025 | Wildlife Biology International Wildlife Congress 2025 | Wildlife Biology

Wildlife Biology will attend the International Wildlife congress in Lillehammer in September. We are proud to be the official outlet of this conference. Hope to see you there! vist.ly/3yqdr

🐻‍🗺️Patterns and drivers of range filling of alien mammals in Europe

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#BiologicalInvasions #IntroductionPathways #Mammals #PotentialRange #PropagulePressure #RangeFilling #SocioeconomicVariables

Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Defaunation: Loss of top predators disrupts food webs A national-scale camera-trap study from China reveals that losing top predators disproportionately reduces mammalian food-web complexity in protected areas. Their disappearance drives ecological simpl...

Defaunation: Loss of top predators disrupts food webs: Current Biology share.google/azILwFosh7hq...