Gates Dupont
@gates.bsky.social
PhD Candidate 📚 Princeton University 🐅 Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 🦋 Patterns & processes of macro scale biodiversity loss 🪺🪹
Crustacis menuts en els dofins llistats revelen l’impacte d’epidèmies sobre la població d’aquesta espècie mediterrània 🐬 @ten-seas.bsky.social @gates.bsky.social @andy2dobson.bsky.social 🔗ℹ️
Crustacis menuts en els dofins llistats revelen l’impacte d’epidèmies sobre la població d’aquesta espècie mediterrània
Un estudi liderat per la Universitat de València, en col·laboració amb científics de la Universitat de Princeton, mostra que els epibionts —xicotets organismes que viuen sobre la pell dels dofins— poden ajudar a detectar canvis en les poblacions...
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"We need to meet the scale at which humanity is disrupting or disturbing the environment." Princeton's @gates.bsky.social led a new study showing that common birds are on the decline, adding that a wide range of action is necessary to address the problem.
To Reverse Common Bird Declines, Conservationists Will Need to Think Bigger
The most abundant birds are disappearing the fastest. Saving them requires bold, landscape-scale action.
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Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology
Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...
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"Across observed tropical bird populations, impacts of climate change have typically been larger than direct human pressure"
Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...
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📊 Very much looking forward to #ESA2025!! I'll be presenting my work on North American bird declines 📉 Session: COS 153 - Biodiversity 4 Time: Thursday, August 14, 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT Room: BCC 322 See you there!! 🦉🦉
🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species
Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.
science.org
🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species
Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.
science.org
Happy #SuperbOwlSunday! This Superb Owl is a northern saw-whet I met while shadowing owl banders in NH, part of my research for my new #mg novel THE OWL PROWL MYSTERY. Comment w your fave owl for a chance to win the book, sticker, & field journal! (owl decoy not included!) #owls #ecofiction
Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in #biodiversity Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity - Nature
Global-scale analyses of marine, terrestrial and freshwater assemblages found that temporal rates of species replacement were faster in locations with faster temperature change, including warming and ...
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Harsher dry seasons due to climate change is linked to declining bird survival in the Amazon "...challenging the notion that pristine rainforests can fully protect their #biodiversity under increasingly severe climate conditions." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests
Climate change threatens Amazon rainforest birds, with harsher dry seasons significantly affecting their survival over 27 years.
science.org
We, the authors, are organizing to continue this effort in other ways. More coming hopefully soon.
The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed. A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...
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Maybe it's better not to mess around with certain federal functions. It's not a game.
Excellent perspective by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social @bloomberg.com on the deep freeze at NIH
Trump's NIH Freeze Puts Scientific Research at Risk
America’s best scientific minds are scrambling to determine the impact of the disruption.
bloomberg.com
A peaceful owl amid a chaotic week. Have a good weekend, everyone.
"Currently, there is nowhere in Britain that to my knowledge has successfully reversed, or even stopped, Willow Tit decline." #ukbirding #ornithology
Matt Livesey@mlivesey.bsky.social · 2y agoWith news of yet another county extinction for Willow Tit (this time in Warwickshire) I'm prompted to offer some personal reflections on the effort to save Britain's "Turtle Dove of the North", and what is says about woodland bird #conservation as a whole... www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do...
"Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems" doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems
Imagine a world where the variety of food sources we rely on is reduced to a mere handful of species. This is not a dystopian future. It’s the path we are on right now, and it’s happening silently in ...
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Reported this banded Ring-billed Gull in Massachusetts. Just heard back from USGS—he hatched in 2019 and was banded in the summer of 2021 on a small island outside Montreal! Bands can be reported to: www.reportband.gov
Three letters up on my last essay for @ScienceMagazine ...two are really interesting, one is not. Check them out yourself: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
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New paper out @science.org shows that bats surf warm storm fronts to power continental migrations 🌀⛈️🦇🤙 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann
Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration
Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...
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The incoming Trump administration plans to target the National Climate Assessment so that it can't be used to defend regulations in court. Russ Vought, Trump's OMB pick, wants to personally approve a team of climate denialists to rewrite it. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump team takes aim at crown jewel of US climate research
A top aide to the president-elect wants tighter control over the National Climate Assessment.
eenews.net
Snowy Owl today at Buffalo NY’s outer harbor! 15x digi zoom on a 60x scope for an owl 550 feet away (safe viewing recs: 150-300 ft min.). Luckily this one is on a private doc that’s fenced off — making for one happy owl! Can’t get closer than 500 ft. Best part of the winter season to me.
#ConservationClassics: declining and small population paradigms conservationbytes.com/2008/08/23/d...
Classics: Declining and small population paradigms
‘Classics’ is a category of posts highlighting research that has made a real difference to biodiversity conservation. All posts in this category will be permanently displayed on the Cla…
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[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...
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“One Health” needs ecology | PNAS 2024 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
“One Health” needs ecology | PNAS
“One Health” needs ecology
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The responses of freshwater fish to global warming. Our analyses in @pnas.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Made possible by #RivFishTIME
