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A grumpy Yungas screech owl/alicucu yungueño in a Yungas forest in NW Argentina #birds #bird

Global biodiversity assessments need to consider mixed multifunctional land-use systems Global scenario-based modelling efforts to support biodiversity policies typically consider agriculture only as a pressure factor. Current scenarios t…

Global biodiversity assessments need to consider mixed multifunctional land-use systems 🌎🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Neocolonial Tightening of CITES: How Northern Narratives Marginalize Southern Conservation CITES has demonstrated a persistent trend of regulatory tightening over five decades, raising critical questions about both equity and effectiveness in global conservation governance. This study exam...

The Neocolonial Tightening of CITES: How Northern Narratives Marginalize Southern Conservation 🌎🌐🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Robot pen pals: a multidisciplinary analysis of recent trends in scientific correspondence www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

On Peru’s arid coast, some ancient elites signaled their power and standing by wearing headdresses festooned with brilliantly colored feathers from birds found in distant rainforests.

A new study reveals how they acquired these showy ornaments more than 800 years ago. https://scim.ag/4sJOOZf

Our review of #trait - based approaches to ecological restoration is finally out in @esajournals.bsky.social *Ecological Applications*, highlighting the value of functional traits for creating system-general restoration strategies. 🌐 🧮➕📏 urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

GitHub - benjamin-rosenbaum/BayesFR: Fitting functional responses in 1 and 2-prey systems Fitting functional responses in 1 and 2-prey systems - benjamin-rosenbaum/BayesFR

I have written my first R-package for feeding experiments! BayesFR allows fitting functional responses by providing dynamical prediction models for use in #brms. Includes models for classical type 2 and type 3 responses, and also prey mortality or predator interference (more to come) #Rstats (1/3)

Reminds me of a passage from Jost (2009:18, 2088-2091): the null hypothesis of zero differentiation is virtually always false, and if sample size is large enough, this can be demonstrated with any desired statistical significance.
Good to find @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social here!

The 'Invasive Species' Collection at #EnvironmentalConservation

Follow the link to leading research and perspectives on the management and ecological and socio-economic impacts of invasive species.

#conservation #environment #biodiversity #species #ecosystems 🌎 🌐

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📘 New book out soon !

I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press

Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners

#StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE

Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas Protected areas influence their surroundings in a variety of ways. These “spillover effects” can change an area’s conservation value and affect its social license. Advanced statistical tools for quan...

Conceptualizing and measuring ecological spillover effects from protected areas 🌎🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Robust inference and errors in studies of wildlife control - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Robust inference and errors in studies of wildlife control

Robust inference and errors in studies of wildlife control 🌎🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hey @mothyblackburn.bsky.social, did you know that some moths feed on mangoes?

My new neighbour - a tiny opposum (Didelphis albiventris)

My new neighbour - a tiny opposum (Didelphis albiventris)

Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas Increased conservation action to protect more habitat and species is fueling a vigorous debate about the relative effectiveness of different sorts of protected areas. Here we review the literature tha...

Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas 🌎🌐🧪 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Mapping Your Data with ggplot2 in R with Basemaps and Insets | Oliver C. Stringham Personal website of Oliver C. Stringham

Mapping Your Data with ggplot2 in R with Basemaps and Insets
oliverstringham.com/blog/data-vi...

Planting trees is not rewilding

Reintroducing species is not rewilding

Individual actions are not in themselves rewilding

To contribute to rewilding, they should be part of a bigger plan to let natural processes come to dominate in an area

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting pre-print "A Framework for Questionable Research Practices in Ecological Modelling". I tend to agree with the statement in the screenshot re data-driven modelling decisions. 🌎🌐🧪 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

This great thread is about re/introductions, but habitat/species management approaches also applies to the issue that @jmbecologist.bsky.social raises, of populist 'gurus' subverting proper science and evidence in the conservation space. Debates need to be honest with the public and evidence-based 👇

Measuring the Quality of Species List Contents Abstract. Taxonomic lists, usually of species, have many functions. However, there is currently no reliable and convenient way to determine whether a list

📊 Thomas Pape et al. introduce a set of indicators to assess species list quality, a tool to improve biodiversity data and its use in research and conservation 🌍🧬 

👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios...

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Quite happy to be part of this @gbif.org-funded project to mobilise thousands of biodiversity records from Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Stay tuned for updates! (photo by Beto Caceres, ProYungas) www.gbif.org/project/BID-...

Global forest dataset incongruence creates high uncertainties for conservation, climate, and development policy A comparison of 10 global forest datasets showed that technical differences created substantial uncertainty in estimates in forest carbon, forest-poverty relationships, and forest biodiversity habitat...

How much forest is there?
🌳🌲🌎🌍🌏🌐
Scientists agree on only 26% of global mapped forest area @cp-oneearth.bsky.social www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism We introduce the concept of “remote-control science” as a modern form of scientific neocolonialism in ecology, where researchers, preferably from the Global North, control projects in the Global Sout...

Essential reading for conservation scientists & ecologists (in fact anyone doing science across borders!) 🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70227?af=R

Remote-control science is an internet-enabled form of "parachute" science

FWIW, I see a lot of this in AI and macroecology research

Decision analysis rooted in Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge identifies cost‐effective strategies for managing hyperabundant deer to restore keystone places Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

What a fantastic paper! Decision analysis rooted in Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge identifies cost-effective strategies for managing hyperabundant deer to restore keystone places 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fascinantes estos trabajos y poder saber un poco mas de lo que había en la Península Ibérica hace tiempo. Me ha hecho recordar a la garra de oso de hace 400 años que esta en la iglesia de Navacepeda de Tormes

Key criteria for developing ecosystem service indicators to inform decision making Decision makers are increasingly interested in information from ecosystem services (ES) assessments. Scientists have for long recognised the importanc…

Key criteria for developing ecosystem service indicators to inform decision making 🌎🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data - Nature Ecology & Evolution Citizen science data are increasingly used in biodiversity monitoring. This study applies a digital twin approach to biodiversity monitoring using a large citizen science dataset on birds from Finland...

A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data 🌎🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stakeholder mapping to support invasive non-native species management in South America Effective long-term management of invasive non-native species (INNS) in South America is a pressing yet complex task. Critically, the environmental, h…

Stakeholder mapping to support invasive non-native species management in South America @neobiota.pensoft.net www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/...htt