AL GLEN
@asglen.bsky.social
Wildlife ecologist interested in carnivores, invasive species and...stuff
DNA metabarcoding improves detection of rare prey in feral cat diets connectsci.au/wr/article/d...
DNA metabarcoding improves detection of rare and volant prey in feral cat (Felis catus) diets.
Context: Cats (Felis catus) have contributed to the extinctions of more than 60 vertebrates and continue to be a major conservation threat globally. Conser
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Dingo re-establishment and the suppression of feral goats: Evidence from the Western Australian rangelands connectsci.au/wr/article/d...
📢: New publication! #AWMS member Al Glen @asglen.bsky.social and colleagues recently published a paper on Overcoming Fine-Grained Visual Challenges in Animal Re-Identification via Semantic Feature Alignment. Access the paper here: www.computer.org/csdl/proceed...
Great short read about star MSc student Georgia www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...
#universityofauckland #graduation | University of Auckland
A chicken named Swordfish kept Georgia Pringle on track to graduate this week with a Master of Science in Biosecurity and Conservation. Georgia, 31, researched lures to attract feral cats for predat...
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Image recognition software to identify individual animals in camera trap footage! openaccess.thecvf.com/content/WACV...
Protecting New Zealand's most endangered bird: Artificial nesting habitats for tara iti www.birdsnz.org.nz/publications...
Predator–prey behavioural interactions between feral cats and two arid Australian geckos www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Yes, feral cats and foxes really have driven many Australian mammals to extinction search.informit.org/doi/full/10....
Yes, feral cats and foxes really have driven many Australian mammals to extinction
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Investigating the Causes of an Extinction Catastrophe: Controlling Introduced Predators Remains Essential for Conserving Australia’s Mammals academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Trophic Level Changes After Reintroduction of a Predator to a Fenced Conservation Reserve onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests www.sciencealert.com/owning-a-cat...
Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests
Having a cat as a pet could potentially double a person's risk of schizophrenia-related conditions, according to an analysis of 17 studies.
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Estimating canid territories and pack compositions: Camera traps provide comparable metrics to an intense radio-collaring programme on dingoes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Optimizing small mustelid monitoring: Enclosed camera traps increase detection of the smallest carnivores besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
AWMS Conference, Queenstown, Dec 2025 - be there! awms.org.au/conference/a...
AWMS2025 | AUSTRALASIAN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY
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Quantifying timing and impact of invasive predators on seabird breeding success conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Temporally‐indexed multi‐species density impact functions: Quantifying timing and impact of invasive predators on seabird breeding success
Conserving threatened species often requires effective predator suppression strategies, particularly on islands where introduced predators pose significant threats. Density-impact functions provide a....
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Competitive release of invasive frugivorous mammals leads to perverse outcomes for native seed abundance besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Competitive release of invasive frugivorous mammals leads to perverse outcomes for native seed abundance
Our study provides replicated, experimental evidence that competitor release can result in an unintended and negative conservation outcome: seedfall from indigenous trees decreased when ship rats alo...
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Some neat research on urban cats by my colleagues, described in NZ Geographic www.nzgeo.com/stories/not-...
Not all cats
In New Zealand’s national parks and remote areas, conservation managers cull feral cats to save many bird, reptile and invertebrate lives. That’s not possible in urban nature reserves, where there’s a...
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Exclusion of invasive predators triggers succession, competition and habitat diversification in a small mammal community royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
New article out: The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird’s vocal performance royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #science #birds #sleep #birdsong #urbanecology
Discriminating footprints to improve identification of congeneric invasive Rattus species scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"balancing the needs of cats, cat owners, and semi-owners/stray cat care providers with the potential negative impacts of cats on communities, other species, and ecosystems" www.nzncmg.com/research
Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age - Nature Ecology & Evolution
An expert-elicitation process identifies current methodological barriers for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity, and how technological and procedural development of robotic and autonomous systems may...
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Generative AI as a tool to accelerate the field of ecology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Generative AI as a tool to accelerate the field of ecology - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Progress discusses potential applications of artificial intelligence models that generate new data and how they can be used to advance ecology research.
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The economic cost of invasive species is far higher than previously thought! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using species ranges and macroeconomic data to fill the gap in costs of biological invasions - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Estimates of the monetary costs of invasive species have been hampered by data gaps. These authors use documented costs for 162 species to interpolate costs of those species for countries previously l...
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Meet the thin-spined porcupine! This nocturnal rodent, also known as the bristle-spined rat, is found only in parts of northern and central Brazil. Unlike many other porcupines, this one's quills are more like bristles than spines! Photo: ultimosrefugios, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNautralist
Pussyfooting around? Companion cat by-laws in Aotearoa New Zealand ojs.victoria.ac.nz/pq/issue/vie...
Problematic cats in urban reserves: Implications for native biodiversity and urban cat management www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Problematic cats in urban reserves: Implications for native biodiversity and urban cat management
Predation by domestic cats (Felis catus) contributes to the extinction and decline of native species worldwide. Managing these cats is challenging in …
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