Jeff Haight

Really excited about our new pub on how health (of people, animals, and ecosystems) can affect, and are affected by, human-wildlife interactions

tinyurl.com/OneHealthHWIs

In the BioScience One Health collection @aibsbiology.bsky.social 🧪

#humanwildlifeconflict #onehealth #urbanwildlife

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Urbanization and climate drive long‐term bird community trends across a desert city ecosystem Sustaining biodiversity requires measuring the interacting spatial and temporal processes by which environmental factors shape wildlife community assembly. Declines in bird communities due to urban d...

Super excited to share our new Eco Apps article based on recent @cap-lter.bsky.social work leveraging long-term bird/spatial data. Big thanks to @lizardphd.bsky.social and the rest of my postdoc mentors/co-authors for their insights!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Human Shield Hypothesis: Does Predator Avoidance of Humans Create Refuges for Prey? The human shield hypothesis posits that predators avoid areas of human disturbance due to perceived risk from humans, and prey therefore seeks refuge in these areas of perceived safety. Our systemati....

Have you ever cited or come across a mention of the 'human shield hypothesis' and wondered: what is the evidence for this hypothesis, and what is the quality of that evidence? Wonder no more!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We believe sport can help save species. 🦁⚽

In our new @FrontEcolEnviron paper, we explore how professional teams, fans & conservationists can team up to turn iconic mascots into real-world action for biodiversity. 🌍🏟️

📄 Read it: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#SportsForNature

GitHub - diel-project/Diel-Niche-Modeling Contribute to diel-project/Diel-Niche-Modeling development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tiny Diel.Niche R package update, bin.diel.times() outputs the proportion of time diel periods take up over a day (e.g., night, day, twilight) by setting prop.time = TRUE. VERY helpful if you want to quantify use of a given diel period relative to availability! #rstats 🧪

github.com/diel-project...

Finally kicking of my transition away from Twitter with my latest interaction with urban wildlife, this fearless Harris's Antelope Squirrel (Ammospermophilus harrisii) at the top of North Mountain, Phoenix, AZ