Jon morant

Animal niches in the airspace For flying animals, including many birds, bats, and insects, the air is a crucial arena for a range of behaviors. Technological advances, such as year-round tracking of flight altitudes and expanded use of radar, increasingly show how flying animals use the aerial habitat. This enables us to answer questions about the environmental patterns and ecological processes that shape aerial niches, including energetics, biotic interactions, and risk due to growing anthropogenic conflicts. In this review, we identify environmental conditions and biological interactions influencing where animals occur in the airspace throughout their life cycles. We outline an ecological framework to advance understanding of how different properties of the airspace shape fundamental aerial habitat niches and how biotic interactions influence the realized niches.

Online now: Animal niches in the airspace

The Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude heat keeps blowing my mind.

The North Atlantic was not as extreme as the past two years, but the other oceans were even more extreme than the North Atlantic summers of both 2023 and 2024!

También la plantaron en Bilbao en el paseo donde se ubican una zona de nuevas construcciones. Lo mismo que la Hierba de la pampa, la cual he visto plantada en algunas localidades de CyL como Palencia.

Amazing mega collaborative GPS tracking paper. #ungulates #GPS #telemetry

Low human disturbance levels alter movement patterns and induce behavioural changes in an apex predator Understanding how animals adapt to human-altered landscapes is critical for conserving large carnivores. Establishing thresholds for behavioural plast…

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NEW PAPER collates #telemetry data of >100 marine vertebrate species including #seabirds and finds that protecting only 30% of the global ocean is not enough - because marine animals live everywhere: buff.ly/mYrtoAN

🚨New paper altert! 🚨
We here evaluate #humandisturbance impact on #GPS tagged #Jaguars across #SouthAmerica. Spoiler: Even low human disturbance levels alter jaguar #movement, increase #nocturnality
and decrease time invested in #foraging
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Un mapa identifica las zonas donde las aves son más vulnerables a las instalaciones eólicas Un estudio liderado por investigadores de la Universidad de Alicante, la Miguel Hernández de Elche y la Estación Biológica de Doñana ha identificado las zonas más

Pequeño resumen de nuestro último artículo sobre el impacto de las eólicas en #aves y #murcielagos en @lavanguardia.com 🦅🦇

Un mapa identifica las zonas donde las aves son más vulnerables a las instalaciones eólicas www.lavanguardia.com/local/valenc...

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet.
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Our datapaper "Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles" is now online on #ScientificData: nature.com/articles/s41... #RoadEcology @ebdonana.bsky.social

This might be a bit of a hot take, but can organizations that write press releases for new studies please include a link for the actual paper.

Scientists love to read the original articles and sometimes it can be frustrating in tracking them down.

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Big thanks to my colleagues Esther Sebastian, @juanma-pg.bsky.social , Elena Tena, Sonia Sánchez, Jesús Nogueras and Carlos Ibáñez for this amazing collaboration.
@umh.es @ua.es @ebdonana.bsky.social

Mapping bird and bat assemblage vulnerability for predicting wind energy impact The drive towards decarbonization has led countries to seek renewable energy sources to mitigate global warming. Wind energy is an attractive option d…

🚨New paper alert🚨 I am ecstatic to share our new paper where we gathered data on mortality in wind turbines for birds and bats in Spain and we generated functional trait-driven vulnerability maps in the Iberian peninsula.
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Birds-of-paradise are sending secret color signals invisible to human eyes, scientists say | CNN Birds-of-paradise are even colorful in the dark, with feathers and body parts that glow a brilliant yellow-green under ultraviolet (UV) light, a new study found.

Is it time for a beauty break? I think it's time for a beauty break. Check out the gorgeous glowing plumage of birds-of-paradise, which scientists recently found to be biofluorescent. Most species (37 of 45) have feathers and body parts that glow yellow or yellow-green under UV & bright blue light 🧪

A truth that can’t be valued high enough: "There are numerous examples of how diversity improves the practice of science itself." 🧪 #AcademicSky

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Huge shout-out to my colleagues @laranavesalegre.bsky.social and @juanma-pg.bsky.social for pushing this forward and making this happen.

Differential Flight Responses of Sympatric Raptor Species to Weather Conditions and Extreme Temperature Events Flying organisms, such as birds, alter their flight behavior in response to atmospheric conditions, and climate change has exacerbated extreme weather events like heatwaves, impacting their flight. T...

I'm thrilled to let you know that we've got a new paper out! 🎉🤩🥳

This time, we took a look at how weather and extreme weather events impact the flight patterns of three sympatric raptor species in southwestern Spain.

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To all Animovers out there: Our next workshop will take place from the 30th of November until the 13th of December 2025. More information about location, price and how to apply will follow soon....🤗🐒🦥🌎🐸🐊🕷️🪱

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways applying a novel approach onto #seabird #tracking data: doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪

See the short animation via: www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies... explaining how the marine flyways can be a framework to support #conservation

Analysis of the confined crowds at the San Fermín festival in Spain shows that dense crowds can self-organize into macroscopic chiral oscillators, coordinating the orbital motion of hundreds of individuals without external guidance, according to a paper in Nature. https://go.nature.com/3WKkb8r 🧪

The threat of avian influenza H5N1 looms over global biodiversity - Nature Reviews Biodiversity The highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is an emerging and unexpected threat to many wild animal species, which has implications for ecological processes, ecosystem services and conservation of thr...

In this commentary in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social with S. Lambertucci & P. Plaza we expose the huge toll of the current Avian Influenza virus panzootics on biodiversity, ecosystems, and cascading effects on human society via the loss of Ecosystem Services. @imedea.bsky.social #AvianFlu #Panzootics

More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals Publishing highly cited papers helps postdoctoral researchers to land a faculty job.

More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals 🧪🎓

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#IchBinHanna

We're kicking off our Introduction to Movement Ecology in R at the @UMH ☺️. 21 students are super excited to learn about animal movement and they're looking forward to spending (and hopefully enjoying) several hours of R coding. @aeetmov.bsky.social @eco-aeet.bsky.social

I'd like to say a big thank you to my friends Héctor and Ana, who I worked with on this project, and everyone who took part in the #WPOTY contest – your photos were a huge help in doing this research.
@britishecolsoc.bsky.social @peopleandnature.bsky.social
@nhm-london.bsky.social

Behind the lenses: Biases in the contribution of wildlife photography to biodiversity representation Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

I am extremely happy to share this work🙂. We evaluated spatial, temporal, taxonomic, conservation status and selection criteria scales, and modelled the factors influencing the probability of portrayed organisms winning the WPOTY contest
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#seabirds #mammals #marinemammals #windenergy #offshore #ecology #conservation

Potential feeding sites for seabirds and marine mammals reveal large overlap with offshore wind energy development worldwide Offshore wind energy is experiencing accelerated growth worldwide to support global net zero ambitions. To ensure responsible development and to prote…

The new year has brought a new paper out!☺️🥳
We here looked at the risk to seabirds and marine mammals from future offshore wind energy development worldwide. We did this by using potential feeding sites for both groups.
Spoiler: Lower risk areas were located in the Global south and within MPAs.

Yo he notado lo mismo, eso, y que yo, en mi caso, dispongo de/invierto menos tiempo RRSS comparado con antes.

Me parece un poco más lioso encontrar perfiles decentes aquí.

Supongo que aún estamos en un período de transición.

Vuelven los hilos de @bioeaf.bsky.social pero está vez en Bluesky. No os perdáis esta fascinante historia de pumas y submarinos nazis. 👇👇👇

📢 There is one week left to submit abstracts for #AEETSIBECOL2025, we invite you to participate in the movement ecology session "Connecting scales through movement ecology" 🙌

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