Davide Dominoni
@dmdominoni.bsky.social
Reader in Urban Ecology. All things cities, animals, biological rhythms, biodiversity. How can we build better, greener, healthier cities?
The first-ever Gordon Research Conference on Urban Evolution and Ecology focusing on "The Intersection and Emergent Properties of Ecology, Evolution and Human Social Environments in Cities" is now open for applications! www.grc.org/urban-evolut... #UrbanEcology #UrbanEvolution #UrbanEcoEvo 🧬🔬🥼🔭
Great night of @pintofscience.uk in Glasgow! Fantastic talk delivered by our GTOP member Dr. Arianna Passarotto on how urban noise and light influence owl facial disc structure and hunting behaviour - interesting to see how urbanisation may shape this functional trait of owls. #owls #ecology
Our new review highlights growing challenges for owls, from road mortality to sensory pollution. Understanding these impacts is essential for their conservation in rapidly changing landscapes link.springer.com/article/10.1... @dornitholges.bsky.social @dmdominoni.bsky.social @pesumas.bsky.social
The impact of urban-related sensory and risk factors on owls: a systematic review - Journal of Ornithology
Urbanisation is a globally increasing phenomenon with diverse impacts on biodiversity. Interest in how urbanisation affects raptors is growing because, as top predators, they can be used as bioindicat...
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The system is rigged. An illegal war hikes bills for stuggling families - meanwhile energy giants rake in profits. We don't have to live like this any more. Vote Green on May 7th.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 4mo agoOil giant BP announces huge rise in profits in first results since Iran war
1. Every year, large areas of gorse in Dartmoor and Exmoor national parks are deliberately burnt. It’s an appalling act of vandalism, killing wildlife, preventing regeneration of crucial habitats, releasing toxic smoke and carbon. This thread is about why it’s happening. Pic from this weekend. 1/7
Tawny Owl breeding season is underway 🦉A pair was recorded today at one of our nestboxes, with chicks present and plenty of prey delivered to the nest. Monitoring during this period allows us to assess breeding success, chick growth and parental investment. @ecarlonminoia.bsky.social #Ecology #Owls
This looks like an amazing position in a great group.
Robin Heinen@robinheinennl.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are advertising a nice postdoctoral position at the Terrestrial Ecology Research Group at TUM. Ideally, we seek someone that focuses on land use change effects (particularly urbanization). Solid knowledge on the natural history of specific taxonomic groups (e.g. birds or insects) is desirable.
Two marsupial species thought long extinct, until now known only from fossils, were found alive in New Guinea through a collaboration of scientists, indigenous communities and citizen scientists.
2 'Lazarus' animals thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years found alive in New Guinea
The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, until now known only through fossils, have been rediscovered.
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Nature research paper: Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature go.nature.com/4ua5R82
Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature - Nature
A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal tolerance is limited by fundamental properties of protein architecture.
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Our research on Tawny Owls at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk was featured on this episode of BBC Radio Scotland - listen at: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... We discuss how we track Tawnies' movements and the way they are adapting to noisy and light-polluted areas @dmdominoni.bsky.social @iapetusdtp.bsky.social
Scotland Outdoors - Tawny Owls, Pearl Mussels and Jelly Ears - BBC Sounds
Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors
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📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢 We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline. Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city Details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy
The new owl season has already started in Glasgow! We’ve found owls in our boxes – and even chicks! Tawnies breed in deciduous woodlands, but they can also be found in urban parks, and they can start breeding early in the year! @ecarlonminoia.bsky.social @dmdominoni.bsky.social #owls #ecology
This study was a huge team effort, and the first publication (of hopefully many more), using the full 20 site gradient. Thanks to all the co-authors, landowners, staff, students and volunteers that made the study possible. @dmdominoni.bsky.social @pcapi.bsky.social @rachelrosereid.bsky.social
Very pleased to share #OpenAccess paper, which we think is important to understand woodland bird declines and impact of forestry on native ancient woodland in Britain. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology @ukceh.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @mizpas.bsky.social 🧵1/n
In our new paper, we show that native trees, particularly oaks, are crucial to support blue tits reproduction, likely via increasing preferred insect prey. Very relevant for urban planning. Leveraging 9 years of data from our Glasgow Urban Gradient study system. Led by @clairebranston.bsky.social!
Fantastic PhD opportunity available! “Leveraging citizen science data to reveal latent mechanisms regulating bird population dynamics in urbanised landscapes”. Part of the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Program in Ecological Data Science: ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html. More below.
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Apply for @glasgow.ac.uk's James McCune Smith #PhD Scholarship on this and other topics: Indicators of #hibernation quality in #hedgehogs with me @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk & @julianowack.bsky.social @ljmuofficial.bsky.social Link to apply: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships... 📅 Deadline: 31st Jan 2026
Very interesting new research presented at BES by Giuseppe Orlando and the GTOP @glasgowtawnyowlprj.bsky.social ! 🦉🌃💡❓ -- @britishecologicalsociety.org @dmdominoni.bsky.social
British Ecological Society@britishecologicalsociety.org · 8mo agoTawny owls normally rely on sound to hunt, but new research being presented today at #BES2025 finds that owls in Glasgow are adapting to noisy roads by using street lights to hunt. www.britishecologicalsociety.org/tawny-owls-a...
Super excited to share the first paper from my PhD! 🎉 We found that rivers don’t just matter for wetland birds - they also help support terrestrial insectivores, thanks to the flow of energy and nutrients from aquatic insects. 🌊🦟 Read more here: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cross-system transfer of fatty acids from aquatic insects supports terrestrial insectivore condition and reproductive success - Oecologia
Cross-system fluxes of aquatic insects rich in omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω-3 LC-PUFAs), specifically eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), may subsidise ins...
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JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
First paper from our tawny owl project finally out! Great European-wide collaboration, thanks to all participants who have kindly contributed their data. We found that noise negatively affects occupancy and breeding success, while the effects of light pollution depended on the distance to roads.
Our new paper in @ecol-evol.bsky.social shows that noise reduces owl prey detectability and it generates adverse effects already at an early life stage, with potential carry-over effects on adulthood. Paper: doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @dmdominoni.bsky.social #owls #RaptorResearch #ecology #noise
Experimental Exposure to Noise Affects Hunting Behavior Already From a Young Age in a Nocturnal Acoustic Predator
This study experimentally investigates the effect of traffic noise on the hunting behavior of young and subadult Tawny Owls (Strix aluco). We show that noise lowers the rate of prey detection and inc....
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Experimental Exposure to Noise Affects Hunting Behavior Already From a Young Age in a Nocturnal Acoustic Predator | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
The GTOP is at the EOU Conference at Bangor University showing the current research on how tawny owls cope with anthropogenic environments 🦉💡🔊🛣️ #EOU2025 @eounion.bsky.social #owls #ornithology
