Esteban Botero-Delgadillo
@eboterod.bsky.social
Behavioral & spatial ecologist. Founding member & Director of Conservation Science at @selvaorgco.bsky.social. Research Associate at Smithsonian Bird Friendly Program. Guest Scientist at Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence.
Tropical forests can recover rapidly after disturbance, but certain old-growth specialist trees will be missing. A study in Costa Rica shows that low abundance and low seed production hold back these trees, suggesting targeted plantings could help. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Shla50ZtWMN
Status, threats and conservation of Earth’s migratory birds www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Status, threats and conservation of Earth’s migratory birds - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Migratory bird species are globally ubiquitous but rely on diverse habitats and locations across their annual cycles, requiring unique conservation solutions relative to non-migratory birds. This Revi...
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Si mañana colapsa la civilización, podré identificar las aves que cantan, reconocer las constelaciones que brillan y discutir a Kierkegaard mientras me muero de hambre. Quiero pensar que todo eso era una búsqueda de la verdad. Que oportuno resulta que la verdad tampoco se coma 😌
🌳 Local canopy cover, shade tree identity and landscape tree cover shape leaf-cutter ant nest density and herbivory in cacao agroforestry systems🌍 👇️ Read more besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our paper on Andean birds in coffee landscapes is the July cover of @jappliedecology.bsky.social. Data suggest that regional forest cover drives bird occupancy and regulates the success of local scale conservation.. doi.org/10.1111/1365... (1/2) @eboterod.bsky.social
Our latest paper on how surrounding forest cover influences bird occupancy in Andean coffee-growing landscapes is featured on the cover of @jappliedecology.bsky.social! The paper: doi.org/10.1111/1365... The Issue: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652664... @selvaorgco.bsky.social
Identification of camera trap images by artificial intelligence and human experts produces similar multi-species occupancy models @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/4GAHKTCP…
“… las necesidades de la vida fuerzan y tuercen a la ciencia a que se ponga al servicio de ellas, y los hombres, mientras creen que buscan la verdad por ella misma, buscan de hecho la vida en la verdad.” Miguel de Unamuno Del sentimiento trágico de la vida
Missing the forest for the trees: Conservationists emphasize the need for intact forest in coffee landscapes | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
More forest cover in the landscape benefits everyone. Whether in a forest patch or a coffee farm, the probability of finding forest specialists, generalists, and open-area birds increases with forest cover. So do different bird dietary guilds. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
📖 New paper Beyond first clutches: Second broods reshape selection on breeding timing in forest and urban great tits 🌍 🐦⬛ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/GMphd7x
The Greenland shark, believed to be the longest-lived vertebrate animal, has had its genome sequenced. The unusually large genome offers insights into the molecular basis of the exceptional longevity of the fish. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/2kxI50Z6hnb
#shadecoffee & #forestconservation are twin strategies to protect #native #birds incl #migratorybirds. Neither are necessary / sufficient on their own #birdfriendly #birdfriendlycoffee #coffee
Esteban Botero-Delgadillo@eboterod.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat makes a coffee landscape full of birds? Is it how farms are managed, or how much forest is left around them? Read our latest paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social and find out! And stay tuned for more news. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @selvaorgco.bsky.social
What makes a coffee landscape full of birds? Is it how farms are managed, or how much forest is left around them? Read our latest paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social and find out! And stay tuned for more news. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @selvaorgco.bsky.social
In Andean coffee landscapes, surrounding forest cover drives bird occupancy across ecological guilds. Conserving forest and enhancing practices like shade coffee are complementary strategies to sustain diverse communities. @eboterod.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Forest cover drives bird occupancy across guilds and habitats in a Colombian coffee‐farming landscape
Increasing landscape forest cover would improve occupancy for nearly all bird guilds using coffee and forest habitats in the Eastern Colombian Andes. Conserving forest and enhancing shade coffee are ...
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En cafetales andinos, el bosque circundante impulsa la ocupación de aves de todos los gremios. Conservar el bosque y fortalecer prácticas como café bajo sombra son estrategias esenciales complementarias para sostener comunidades diversas 🧵Eng below besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧬Genomic life history traits deterministically predict how grassland communities reshuffle due to habitat loss and nutrient pollution. Irrespective of the considered global change driver: diploids decline, polyploids thrive! 👉️ buff.ly/0cjIOze
Si produces 1.000 kg de café pergamino por hectárea, no contar con la polinización mediada por las #AbejasCaficultoras puede significar una pérdida de entre 54 y 77 kg/ha. Esto y más encontró @sofia-lc.bsky.social en un reciente estudio, del cual SELVA fue parte. www.selva.org.co/wp-content/u...
North American bird populations are not only declining, but they’re also shrinking faster with each passing year—particularly in regions shaped by intensive agriculture, according to a new study in Science. https://scim.ag/4bkrafP
Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture
Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...
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La semana pasada escribí en inglés una reflexión sobre hipermodernidad y publicación científica. Vuelvo ahora a ella en español, no buscando repetirla, sino con la intención de pensarla nuevamente.
Nonnative forestry plantations: invasion epicenters? @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Cryptic species are widespread across vertebrates 🦈🐸🐢🐍🦎🐦⬛🦭🦧 royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Scientific innovation is essential to knowledge. In the hypermodern condition, novelty risks becoming a prerequisite for legitimacy rather than the outcome of inquiry. In Hypermodern Times, Gilles Lipovetsky describes a culture of acceleration. What if science adopts that tempo?
It has aged well 🦜 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
SELVA: Investigación para a Conservación en el Neotropico@selvaorgco.bsky.social · 6mo agoAs time goes by, our proposal of independent conservation units for cis- and trans-Andean Pyrrhura parakeets from 2012 receives more support: first Arndt & Wink (2017), then Smith et al. (2024), and now this study by Morin-Lagos et al. (2026) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @eboterod.bsky.social
As time goes by, our proposal of independent conservation units for cis- and trans-Andean Pyrrhura parakeets from 2012 receives more support: first Arndt & Wink (2017), then Smith et al. (2024), and now this study by Morin-Lagos et al. (2026) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @eboterod.bsky.social
Egg Characteristics of Female Common Terns Are Repeatable, and Vary With Maternal Age and Laying Order | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
Duration of nest-building in passerine birds: the roles of latitude, nest size, and nest type 🐦⬛ doi.org/10.1093/behe...
Duration of nest-building in passerine birds: the roles of latitude, nest size, and nest type
Why do birds build nests at different speeds? Nest building is crucial for reproductive success, but the drivers of its varying duration across species wer
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Programmed seasonal brain shrinkage in the common shrew via water loss without cell death: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
