It’s official! After years of hard work by IPBES experts, the #BizBiodiversity Assessment Report is approved by the Plenary at #IPBES12! Congratulations to all on this achievement for people and #nature! Thank you to all who contributed to this successful outcome.

41 #IPBESfellows will be in Manchester from 2-4 February to attend a workshop where they will learn about science-policy interactions and have the opportunity to engage with IPBES experts & policymakers present at #IPBES12. 🌍🧪 More about the IPBES fellowship programme: https://ow.ly/fV9850Y60ga

How can change processes be guided toward desirable futures ForNature & people? The #NatureFuturesFramework is paving the way! A review by Okayasu, S., Kuiper, J.J., et al. showcases the variety of applications in different contexts & areas for future research. 💡https://ow.ly/iIzO50XAvQF

Really excited about what came in the mail today:

Please repost! I am looking for a passionate and hard-working PhD student to work in southern Africa on experimental defaunation and rewilding of megafauna. See the link below for more information: @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk

I have learnt a lot as an Assoc Editor in-training at the @jappliedecology.bsky.social, and I feel privelaged to have THE @martin-nunez.bsky.social as my mentor! It was so great to finally meet you in person, and learn from you more!!!

🎉 Congratulations to Dr Charles Emogor winner of the @zslscience.bsky.social Thomas Henry Huxley Award and Marsh Prize 2025 for the best PhD thesis submitted by a UK university. Read more: bit.ly/4a9AD9J

What are the causes & consequences of behavioural diversity loss in a changing world? And how do we harness this knowledge for conservation? New open access paper led by @odedberger-tal.bsky.social with David Saltz and @mrmic1.bsky.social #BobWongLab royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Anthropogenic change and the loss of behavioural diversity

Abstract. Behavioural diversity is an important but understudied facet of biodiversity that enables wildlife populations to cope with rapidly changing envi

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Really happy to share that the Second Edition of our book, "Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling", is now out and available online! We provide a foundation for applied spatial ecology with a focus on learning-by-doing. @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk

Spatial Ecology and Conservation Modeling

This textbook provides a foundation for modern applied ecology. It follows a rapidly changing field with updates of concepts, methods, and code.

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That’s a wrap on the First Authors' Meeting of 🏡 IPBES #2ndGlobalAssessment! Huge thanks to our fellows, authors & experts for their dedication this week, setting the vision and foundations for the next 3 years. 🌍 Grateful to UNESCO for hosting us! 🧪 https://www.ipbes.net/second-global-assessment

Earlier this week, IPBES #2ndGlobalAssessment fellows received introductions to the program. The young researchers from across the world got to know each other and started planning for the work ahead. Learn more about the IPBES Fellowship Program: https://www.ipbes.net/ipbes-fellowship-programme

Some of IPBES #2ndGlobalAssessment Coordinating Leading Authors started out their IPBES journey as Fellows during the #GlobalAssessment. This week in Paris, Fellowship alumni and Coordinating Lead Authors met with the new generation of fellows and shared anecdotes, words of wisdom, and advice.

Timely opportunity for my research pivot to conservation informatics for bridging science-practice-policy! 🌏🐸

IPBES@ipbes.net · 8mo ago

Great progress has been made at the First Author’s Meeting for the #2ndGlobalAssessment ! 🌍 Coordinating Lead Authors and Fellows got to know each other and started ideating the working elements for the assessment. Thank you to participants for your dedication and passion #ForNature! 🌱

InvaPact III workshop is now over: WHAT A WEEK! ~60 experts from 30 countries putting their brainpower together for an unique collaborative project. Work hard, play hard: they really followed my motto! Powerful publications on the way!

📣 A global assessment of the status, trends and gaps of #non-native (alien, partly #invasive) #species A new #publication with 65 authors from all continents (except Antarctica), 42 article pages and >500 references. doi.org/10.1111/brv.... 🌐 #ecology #globalchange

Biological invasions: a global assessment of geographic distributions, long‐term trends, and data gaps

Biological invasions are one of the major drivers of biodiversity decline and have been shown to have far-reaching consequences for society and the economy. Preventing the introduction and spread of ....

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Today was my first day as a Research Associate 🤓 at @fletcherecology.bsky.social group in the @camzoology.bsky.social University of Cambridge!!! Looking forward to mapping global connectivity 👣🏞🌍 and its applications for biodiversity conservation and restoration 🦏🌿!!!

🚨 New SDM-methods paper fresh out of the science oven! 🍞📊 We developed super simple data thinning methods to tackle an oversimplified and superficially addressed issue in SDMs --- environmental sampling bias! doi.org/10.1002/ecog... @zurelllab.bsky.social @bleroyecology.bsky.social 🧵(1/8)

Correcting environmental sampling bias improves transferability of species distribution models

Sampling bias is an inherent problem in widely available biodiversity data, undermining the robustness of correlative species distribution models (SDMs). To some extent, subsampling occurrence data c....

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We're looking for the input of IAS data collectors, users or curators to take part in a survey to help shape the future of IAS data standards and accessibility. This survey is hosted by the GBIF and @tdwg.org task groups on IAS ⭐ 🔗www.surveymonkey.com...

The loss of megafauna over the last 50,000 years has caused ecological theories to be based on already-degraded ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.11134 #Megafauna #Coexistence #Megaherbivore #ShiftingBaselineSyndrome #CommunityEcology #LargeHerbivore

My final PhD chapter published in FEE (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment): re-mapping Köppen-Geiger climate zones, but now using microclimate! Very excited to have this one out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🔎🌱 Are you a #biodiversity data holder located in Asia? The GBIF Asia Regional Support Team is hosting a virtual #DataMobilization workshop in February 2025 📍 to support capacity needs and to promote data publication across the #Asia region! Registrations are open! 🔗gbif.link/2025-asia-...

Skinks on a Plane! For invasive species to be successful, they must be able to cope with transportation. Third-year student Jaclyn (@jaclynharris.bsky.social) exposed invasive delicate skinks to air and car transport to see if it impacted their behaviour. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Skinks on a Plane: Does Human‐Mediated Transportation Impact the Behaviour of an Invasive Lizard?

In order for invasive species to successfully establish in the non-native region, they must survive the journey and arrive in good condition; however, few studies have investigated the impact of huma....

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It finally happened: my future #student #mentee asked me about my paper that I led and #published years ago (my first first-author paper), only to apologise that I forgot what I did in that #paper, nor do I have a copy of it in my computerS (it is under paywall). #academia #science

More evidence that evolutionary relationships & biogeographic context matter to conservation. #bioinvasions nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Differential predation patterns of free‐ranging cats among continents

Co-evolutionary relationships associated with biogeographical context mediate the response of native prey to introduced predators, but this effect has not yet been demonstrated for domestic cats. We ...

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Important reminder by @chapplelab.bsky.social - data deficient / not evaluated species should be treated the same as threatened, and they are more likely to be threatened than not #ESAus2024

Very useful rspatialdata.github.io/index.html #rspatialdata #rstats

Here’s the @science.org article so that @altmetric.com picks it up :) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

More flow upstream and less flow downstream: The changing form and function of global rivers

We mapped daily streamflow from 1984 to 2018 in approximately 2.9 million rivers to assess recent changes to global river systems. We found that river outlets were dominated by significant decreases i...

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CNN@cnn.com · 2y ago

The nearly 3 million rivers that weave across the world are experiencing rapid and surprising changes, with potentially drastic implications for everything from drinking water supplies to flood risks, according to a new study. Read more: cnn.it/3BAage3

“There needs to be more emphasis on the ecological component of One Health as we consider the problems of biodiversity loss, climate extremes, habitat fragmentation, and emerging disease”https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2413367121

🚨Paper out! I am very proud to announce the publication of my very last #PhD article, exploring the vulnerability of terrestrial #vertebrates to #invasivespecies. Check the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... With C. Bellard @celinebellard.bsky.social, B. Leroy, and G. Latombe

Exposure and Sensitivity of Terrestrial Vertebrates to Biological Invasions Worldwide

To reach the COP 15 objective of diminishing the impacts of biological invasions on native biota, one needs to identify the most vulnerable areas to this threat for prioritizing conservation actions.....

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Laís Carneiro, PhD@laiscarneiro03.bsky.social · 2y ago

🙀 How severe are #bioinvasions in protected areas? 🌱🌍 In our latest study, we used EICAT to uncover the severity and mechanisms of these impacts. Tools like EICAT are essential for understanding these challenges and driving effective conservation efforts. #InvasiveSpecies rdcu.be/d2uxe