Check out new paper by Lily Hall, @remingtonmoll.bsky.social, and others at @unhresearch.bsky.social using drones and FLIR to estimate moose density! wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Lots of hard field and labwork went into this research!

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We conducted local drone surveys using thermal imaging to estimate the density of moose across a 12,000-km2 landscape. Resultant density estimates appeared reasonably accurate, had variable precision...

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Interested in learning more about the sounds of reindeer? Check out this awesome Ted Talk by Michael Palace from UNH! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zyo...

Listening to reindeer in the dark | Michael Palace | TEDxPortsmouth

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New research from NEWMN network: doi.org/10.1002/wlb3.... We evaluated factors influencing the ability of observers to identify demographic characteristics of moose. Large number of #undergraduate researchers from @umassamherst.bsky.social on this project.

Life‐history stages and behavior influence demographic classification of moose captured on remote cameras

Obtaining accurate information on demographic states, such as the age and sex classes of animals, is an important step for monitoring wildlife populations. Traditionally, demographic data are collect....

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Check out new paper by colleague Michael Palace at @unhresearch.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Asynchronous Synchronization: A Spatially Explicit Agent‐Based Model Simulating Ficus Trees and Their Obligate Wasp Pollinator

Normal or baseline scenario with parameterization from the literature. The green line indicates the CPS based on the decision tree. The blue hatched area indicates the transition period of the model ...

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A sequence of images caught by a camera trap tells an amazing story!

Woodland Park Zoo@woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Remote cameras can document wildlife behaviors seldom witnessed by biologists in the field. Such was the case last summer in the North Cascades of Washington, when a camera captured images of an unusual cougar-moose series. Check it out: woodlandparkzoo.exposure.co/life-on-camera

Neat fisher story out of UNH www.unh.edu/news/2026/03... @remingtonmoll.bsky.social #PekaniaPennanti

Young Fisher Completes Longest Recorded Journey to Find New Forest Home

UNH researchers have documented the longest-ever trek of a fisher, who roamed more than 73 miles from her home in Durham to the outskirts of Lincoln in the White Mountains.

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We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature! We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱 ⏰Submit by 30th April More here👇 buff.ly/EXXBFsJ

Wildlife Research is seeking a Volunteer Social Media Editor to help share new research and engage the scientific community online. Interested? Learn more and apply: connectsci.au/wr/pages/edi...

The Wildlife Research Student Prize for Best Paper is now open for eligible submissions. If you're a student lead author publishing in Wildlife Research, you could be eligible to win! connectsci.au/wr/pages/awa... #WildlifeResearch #BlueskyScience #ECRChat #PhDLife #ResearchCommunity

I honestly thought December was way colder in the Northeast than what the numbers indicate. Seven mild Decembers in a row really messes up your perception...

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

Fresh out in @britishecologicalsociety.org (Ecology and Evolution), we developed SiMPL magnets (a remote camera design) to detect all creatures great and small. 🙂 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Excellent work Jahiya Clark and others! Data were critical for AI dev in DeepFaune New England

SiMPL Wildlife Magnets: A Camera Trap Tool for Detecting All Creatures Great and Small

The SiMPL wildlife magnet offers an affordable, non-invasive solution for passive wildlife monitoring of a diverse array of large and small mammals. Our case study in the White Mountains of New Hamps...

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Check out our new paper published from @britishecologicalsociety.org journal Ecology and Evolution led by Dr. Larry Clarfeld. We developed a highly accurate animal classification model using remote #camera data from multiple networks and designs: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

DeepFaune New England: A Species Classification Model for Trail Camera Images in Northeastern North America

The DeepFaune New England model classifies wildlife species in trail camera images, identifying 24 taxa from northeastern North America with high (97%) accuracy. The model was adapted from the DeepFa....

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Can we predict microhabitat selection of animals using drones? We did in our new article from @wildlifebiology.bsky.social and found that traditional and 3D metrics (derived from drones) do an good job at explaining and predicting microhabitats. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Quantifying microhabitat selection of snowshoe hares using forest metrics from UAS‐based LiDAR

Identifying the spatial and temporal scale at which animals select resources is critical for predicting how populations respond to changes in the environment. The spatial distribution of fine-scale r....

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New research using 46 GPS datasets from 17 wildlife species to validate our pan-Canadian connectivity model rdcu.be/eMWN5

Great new article in @animalecology.bsky.social highlighting how to properly account for detection while estimating insect abundance. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1.... We showed using a review how this is also a problem for ticks: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Estimating the ecological drivers of insect abundance when detection is imperfect

Using a field-based mark–recapture approach, the authors demonstrate that habitat quality can simultaneously influence insect abundance and detection. Simulation also showed that prioritizing increas...

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1 week left to apply to our Postdoc job with our lab using AI to analyze camera trap images at the NC Museum of Natural sciences and NCSU and in collaboration with Wildlife Insights https:/​/​jobs.ncsu.edu/​postings/​223025

new pub out — Yosemite is a perfect (and picturesque) place to show how heterogeneity can shape species distributions and foraging patterns. Grateful to Yosemite NP, Levi & Sacks labs & @roguedogs.bsky.social for their collaboration 💗

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🌄🥩Landscape heterogeneity shapes the spatial and diet partitioning of a montane carnivore guild 📷 © Jennifer Hart vist.ly/47zke #Competition #DetectionDogTeam #HierarchicalModeling #HighThroughputSequencing #IntegratedOccupancyModel #NichePartitioning #NonInvasiveSampling

Using spatial capture–recapture methods to estimate long-term spatiotemporal variation of a wide-ranging marine species vist.ly/32t84 #BlueWhale #CaptureRecapture #Distribution

Our review led by S. Savazza "Measuring Personality in Wild Small Mammals: A Review of Methods and Proposal for a Standardised Approach" is out, free open access, in mammal review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Measuring Personality in Wild Small Mammals: A Review of Methods and Proposal for a Standardised Approach

We provide a systematic review of methodologies used to study personality in small mammals. We propose adopting ‘Standardised Experimental Design’ and ‘Behavioural Measurements’ to effectively compar...

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How do #forests influence #snowpack dynamics in the northeastern US? Check out our new paper led by @lispastore.bsky.social and Dr. Nelson (@appmtnclub.bsky.social) published in @esajournals.bsky.social: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Hint: mixedwood forests = snow refugia.

Snow refugia: Managing temperate forest canopies to maintain winter conditions

Climate change is reducing snowpack across temperate regions with negative consequences for human and natural systems. Because forest canopies create microclimates that preserve snowpack, managing fo...

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The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈 Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada! wildlife.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2025/0...

My latest "Nexus Notes" – Land sparing vs. land sharing, the pulse of rivers, ocean summits, and peer review is broken

Nexus Notes – Land sparing vs. land sharing, the pulse of rivers, ocean summits, and peer review is broken

Nexus Notes #8

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Check out our new paper in Current Biology on how well Chinese protected areas have preserved mammal and bird communities #cameratrap includes work-of-art figures by lead author Junjie Liu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out our new article in @wildliferesearchj.bsky.social evaluating the influence of snow, winter severity indices (WSI), and human influence on🦌survival. Deep ❄️ = low survival, human influence = higher survival, WSI = overpredicted survival. www.publish.csiro.au/WR/WR25008

Deep snow and human influence affect survival of an ungulate at the northern part of its range

Context Winter is generally considered the limiting season for wildlife populations living in high-latitude/altitude regions. Logically, managers have used temperature and snow variables or indices to...

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📢New paper 📢 MS student Clara Dawson's 1st chapter is out! Does increased habitat connectivity always increase wildlife-vehicle collision rates? No! We found nonlinear effects of connectivity on wildlife-vehicle collisions Free access: rdcu.be/emUU3

What if you could look up exactly where a species has been found and where it’s likely to be found in the future? What if land stewards could use that information when creating conservation plans? VCE's Brian Kron and Mike Hallworth are helping them do just that in Vermont. tinyurl.com/bdh99th3

New paper! If trees are closely related, does it matter where they are from to plant-eating insects? We raised >950 Promethea moth caterpillars on 14 Prunus species to answer that question. Turns out, it matters a lot! Non-native trees = Lower performance OA paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...

📖Published📖 Moeller et al. developed Survival and Habitat Quality model (SHQ), a novel modelling approach to connect survival to the cumulative effects of resources, risks, and environmental conditions experienced over an individual's lifetime 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/sry3vap

We are hiring a chair/professor in our Ecology and Environmental Modelling group at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. Scotland is a lovely place to work, and my colleagues are fantastic! Reach out if you are interested in joining the CREEM family ☺️ vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

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