Do we sample enough habitat during stream fish surveys? Just-in at Environmental Reviews @envreviews.bsky.social with Nick Jones (OMNR). Monitoring fish biodiversity in rivers and streams: A review of sampling effort requirements cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Monitoring fish biodiversity in rivers and streams: A review of sampling effort requirements

Biological conservation requires effective monitoring and an accurate understanding of biodiversity patterns. It is important to examine how stream ecologists have quantified fish richness because it ...

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Now published: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 Open access in Facets, including open data www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

From Ojibway Park to South Windsor, chipmunks are expanding their territory Experts say eco-crossing and food supply are driving chipmunk expansion in Windsor www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Windsor’s cutest rodents are on the move, and South Windsor backyards seem to be the new hot spots | CBC News

Chipmunks have been around Ojibway Park for years, but seeing them east of the Herb Gray Parkway used to be unheard of. Wildlife experts explain why chipmunks are suddenly showing up in South Windsor ...

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New paper published in Molecular Ecology on Canadian Lynx genomics and climate change, led by @tanyalama.bsky.social and @blairbentley.bsky.social @sbs-umass.bsky.social @umasscns.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Striped, common, and rosyface shiners, along with several other Kawartha species spawning on a rock pile nest made by a fallfish.

Long term trends in a 75 year time series of small mammal populations in Algonquin Park presented @bryanhughes2.bsky.social at #CSEE2026

Today begins the 75th year of the Algonquin Small Mammal Project! @albrechts-h.bsky.social @bryanhughes2.bsky.social algonquinsmallmammals.wordpress.com

The input data and code used to build our predictive model for evaluating candidate protected areas can be found at doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Jeff Bowman@jeffcbowman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New research led by @paulpobrien.bsky.social 🧪🌎 In this work, we developed a tool to estimate the effect of any future park or protected area on the connectivity of an existing parks and protected areas network. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

New research led by @paulpobrien.bsky.social 🧪🌎 In this work, we developed a tool to estimate the effect of any future park or protected area on the connectivity of an existing parks and protected areas network. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data - Sherbourne - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data

Community science databases can support biodiversity surveys, especially for easily identifiable species, but they are less effective for rare or cryptic species. In a study of small mammals in Ontar...

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Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data - Sherbourne - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data

Community science databases can support biodiversity surveys, especially for easily identifiable species, but they are less effective for rare or cryptic species. In a study of small mammals in Ontar....

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Home of the Kawartha Flying Squirrel Project, which is starting its 25th year. Sound on.

Now published - Wildlife surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 following the discovery of divergent lineage B.1.641 in white-tailed deer from Ontario #wildepi www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...

Testing for a wildlife reservoir of divergent SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer

The 2021 discovery of a divergent lineage (B.1.641) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Ontario raised concern...

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1/ 🦟 Big news: #Pathoplexus now supports Dengue virus & Yellow Fever virus - two arboviruses responsible for over 400 million infections and up to 94,000 deaths per year. Here's what’s new in our latest update 👇🏻 Read the full update: pathoplexus.org/news/2026-03... 📰

April's Conservation Cafe pub talk will be high tech and high colour! Join us at 7:30 pm at the Publican on April 14th for an electrifying discussion on bluetooth butterflies 🦋🛜

‪ @eveliendegreef.bsky.social's latest is out in the @asn-amnat.bsky.social feature exploring the challenges of genetic forecasting😀 "Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species" doi.org/10.1086/738889 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio

New 📰| Invertebrate communities rebound after Phragmites australis treatment in a Great Lakes wetland🌿 https://ow.ly/qfcQ50YegXs 📷 facets-2025-0244, Fig. 2 👥 Meghan Ward, Samantha Fitzgerald, Jeff Bowman #Wetlands #Ecology #Restoration #GreatLakes

When species meet, do they always get along? Do they perhaps sometimes get along all too well? Trent's own Dr Joanna Freeland brings us into the weird world of plant hybrids + ecosystem action on March 10th. Same plant time (7:30 pm), same plant channel (Upstairs at the Publican) 🌿

Now published: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 Open access in Facets, including open data www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

New One Health case study about avian influenza surveillance in Ontario, Canada www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...

#Smammal! Exploration and docility in coexisting rodents! academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a... @albrechts-h.bsky.social

Exploration and docility in coexisting rodents

Abstract. There is increasing interest in understanding how behaviour influences trade-offs that facilitate species coexistence. In the absence of spatiote

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Thanks to @graham-raby.bsky.social, Amber Fedus, and Michael Fox, along with members of the Stoney Lake community for supporting the project. I will conclude with a clip of some otters checking out my camera setup, captured during the project. @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social

Very proud of this project and the resulting paper. Underwater video is a promising alternative to capture-based fish sampling methods.

Graham Raby@graham-raby.bsky.social · 7mo ago

How useful is underwater video as a fisheries assessment tool in freshwater? @jacobbowman.bsky.social asked this question for his honours thesis, by comparing video against other ways of counting fish. Editor's Choice in TAFS: academic.oup.com/tafs/advance...

How useful is underwater video as a fisheries assessment tool in freshwater? @jacobbowman.bsky.social asked this question for his honours thesis, by comparing video against other ways of counting fish. Editor's Choice in TAFS: academic.oup.com/tafs/advance...

How useful is underwater video as a fisheries assessment tool in temperate freshwater ecosystems?

ABSTRACTObjective. Remote underwater video (RUV) is a noninvasive survey technique that has long been used in marine ecosystems and is now gaining interest

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Ever wonder why wild turkey choose certain roost trees? Using GPS- tagged birds over multiple years, recent MSc graduate student Kayla Martin showed that tree size is much more important than microclimate @jeffcbowman.bsky.social 🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Wild turkey roost selection is more consistently associated with tree traits than microclimate

Animals must cope with a range of climatic conditions across seasons, and they can accomplish this by selecting habitats that are favourable for thermoregulation. Sheltering from environmental condit...

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And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”

And we're back in action Dec 9th! Join us at the Publican at 7:30 pm for drinks, good company, and an account of the conservation fight for arctic shorebirds with Paul A. Smith

🌍 Nipah virus (NiV), a zoonotic paramyxovirus from the Henipavirus genus, primarily infects Pteropus bat species across Southeast and South Asia. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New 📰| Elimination of Arctic fox variant #rabies from southern Ontario, Canada 🦊 https://ow.ly/A9VA50XqwHw Discover the history of Arctic fox virus variant in Ontario and methods used to eliminate the disease in southern parts of the province.

New research using 46 GPS datasets from 17 wildlife species to validate our pan-Canadian connectivity model rdcu.be/eMWN5