Toward a global baseline of human-wildlife conflict: Revealing geographical and taxonomic disparities in data collection efforts through a scoping literature review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Laura Bertola
@lauradbertola.bsky.social
Scientist👩🔬/Biologist🦁/Conservationist🌍 Formerly @UniLeiden, @CUNY #hickerlab, @uni_copenhagen, currently @NCBS_Bangalore; Chair #LeoFoundation; she/her
Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Insects are increasingly pressured by climate change. Here the authors compile global evidence of range shifts in butterflies and call for more co-ordinated efforts in documenting such trends across c...
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Imputation in the Wild: Genome-Wide Robustness and Fine-Scale Limitations of Low-Coverage Genomes in Endangered Species onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Imputation in the Wild: Genome‐Wide Robustness and Fine‐Scale Limitations of Low‐Coverage Genomes in Endangered Species
Low-coverage whole-genome sequencing (lcWGS) combined with genotype imputation is increasingly being used to generate large genomic datasets at reduced cost, offering a promising alternative for cons...
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Genomics-informed management of ex situ populations conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Genomics‐informed management of ex situ populations
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So much happening in our backyard at night... 🌛Even though we're in a pretty built up area with a lot of houses and busy roads! Yet these small patches of green can still provide valuable habitat, even for larger mammals. 📷Composite picture of some of our recurrent visitors
Ancient DNA as a temporal lens: reconstructing evolution, migration, and disease dynamics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Ancient DNA as a temporal lens: reconstructing evolution, migration, and disease dynamics
Ancient DNA (aDNA) has transformed evolutionary biology and anthropology by providing direct, chronologically validated genetic evidence over millenni…
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Contrasting wildlife detection trends without occupancy change: interpreting long-term camera-trap indicators in a protected woodland www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Genomic structural variation rescues a classic biological invader from a population bottleneck www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Genomic structural variation rescues a classic biological invader from a population bottleneck
Genomic structural variants rescue a textbook biological invader from a population bottleneck and inbreeding.
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The global biogeography of passerine songs share.google/xWvouBi47Faf...
The global biogeography of passerine songs
Although bird songs are classic models for understanding the evolution of vocal communication, their global diversity has long made the development of a unifying framework challenging. By analyzing th...
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Genomic metrics should inform formal conservation threat assessments www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Engaging European local communities in biodiversity genomics research: A five-step framework for scientists www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Engaging European local communities in biodiversity genomics research: A five-step framework for scientists
Biodiversity genomics research can inform conservation, management, and policy, including implementation and monitoring linked to the Kunming–Montreal…
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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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One more week to apply for the 2026 SCB Conservation Genetics Travel Awards! 💸💸💸
Laura Bertola@lauradbertola.bsky.social · last mo.The Conservation Genetics Working Group is presenting the 2026 SCB Conservation Genetics Travel Awards ‼️ The primary aim is supporting Global Participation in Conservation Genetics. Check out the details & criteria & apply below. Application deadline: Aug 1, 2026 11:59 PM GMT+0
Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Carrion ecology: concepts, interdisciplinary synthesis, and perspectives
Carrion is a ubiquitous resource in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, yet it has long been overlooked in ecological research. Over the past two decades, studies on carrion and the many organis...
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Predictors of extinction risk in large tropical forest mammals: From global to local www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Predictors of extinction risk in large tropical forest mammals: From global to local
Studies predicting extinction risk come to different conclusions if their analyses use different temporal extents.
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Historical bottlenecks and restricted gene flow in one of the last remaining stronghold populations of the southern black-throated finch (Poephila cincta cincta) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Historical bottlenecks and restricted gene flow in one of the last remaining stronghold populations of the southern black-throated finch (Poephila cincta cincta) - Conservation Genetics
Habitat fragmentation is a key driver of reduced genetic connectivity and loss of genetic variation among populations, elevating the risk of inbreeding depression and reduced adaptive potential. The b...
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Europe’s bottlenecks to the operationalisation of Essential Biodiversity Variables for Environmental Policy Support www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Europe’s bottlenecks to the operationalisation of Essential Biodiversity Variables for Environmental Policy Support - npj Biodiversity
npj Biodiversity - Europe’s bottlenecks to the operationalisation of Essential Biodiversity Variables for Environmental Policy Support
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Allele Frequency Spectra as a General Tool for Modeling Genetic Diversity link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Allele Frequency Spectra as a General Tool for Modeling Genetic Diversity - Acta Biotheoretica
In this paper we study genetic variation at a highly polymorphic locus of a monoecious or dioecious population whose census and effective sizes differ and possibly vary independently over time. More s...
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A Novel Landscape Macrogenetics Approach Reveals Conservation Implications of Australia's 2019–2020 Black Summer Wildfires onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Novel Landscape Macrogenetics Approach Reveals Conservation Implications of Australia's 2019–2020 Black Summer Wildfires
Aim The use of genetic analyses has become ubiquitous in conservation planning and management. Typically, such analyses are employed at the species-level, though as genetic data accrue, it is now po...
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Globally important diversity discovered in Cambodia’s largest remaining elephant population www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Globally important diversity discovered in Cambodia’s largest remaining elephant population
Understanding the genetic composition of vulnerable wildlife populations can assist evidence-based management supporting survival and recovery. Small,…
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The tiger who came to T2T: Telomere-to-Telomere genome assembly of the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) using nanopore simplex reads link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The tiger who came to T2T: Telomere-to-Telomere genome assembly of the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) using nanopore simplex reads - BMC Genomics
Background Chromosome-level de novo genome assemblies are vital for many aspects of biological research. Despite technological progress, achieving telomere-to-telomere assemblies remains challenging. ...
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The Conservation Genetics Working Group is presenting the 2026 SCB Conservation Genetics Travel Awards ‼️ The primary aim is supporting Global Participation in Conservation Genetics. Check out the details & criteria & apply below. Application deadline: Aug 1, 2026 11:59 PM GMT+0
Temperate local extinctions from climate change are outpacing tropical extinctions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Temperate local extinctions from climate change are outpacing tropical extinctions - Nature Climate Change
The authors analyse global-scale resurvey data for 5,151 species to reveal the sensitivity of tropical versus temperate species to climate change. They show significantly higher frequencies of local e...
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Great talk by Debbie Leigh at #SMBE2026, explaining how we're trying to sneak genetic considerations into the IUCN Red List 🥷. We cannot change the existing criteria, but we can add to the spatial scales of assessment... 🥸
Laura Bertola@lauradbertola.bsky.social · last mo.📣New paper out!📣 Four years ago, we sat down in Edinburgh and started discussing the many definitions of Conservaton Units, Evolutionary Significant Units, Management Units etc... Now, the framework which resulted from these discussions is published!
Come check out session S01 #SMBE2026 (on vulnerable populations in a rapidly changing world - Vandsalen), where I'll be talking about a framework for genomic rescue and it's use for a preemptive rescue of the famous pseudomelanistic tigers in Simlipal. Today - 14:55 🐯⬅️🛻🧬
Assessing Climate Adaptation Among Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis) Populations at the Trailing Edge onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Assessing Climate Adaptation Among Canada Lynx (Lynx canadensis) Populations at the Trailing Edge
Species must acclimate, shift their distribution, or adapt in place in response to anthropogenic climate change. Populations at the low-latitude trailing edge of the species distribution typically ex...
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Effective population size and Ne/N ratio for two populations of Northern chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) on the edge of the species’ distribution range link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Effective population size and Ne/N ratio for two populations of Northern chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) on the edge of the species’ distribution range - BMC Ecology and Evolution
Background Effective population size (Ne) is a fundamental parameter in conservation genetics, providing relevant information on the adaptability and long-term viability of populations. In contrast, w...
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#SMBE2026 has kicked off! Looking forward to catching up with everybody and hearing about all the cool science!
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution@official-smbe.bsky.social · last mo.#SMBE2026 has started! After our morning workshops on VGP and GHiST, we had a great opening ceremony with LOC Chair Tom Gilbert, Eva Hoffmann @ucph.bsky.social and SMBE President @meauxjuliette.bsky.social And this is just our first day! Join us tomorrow for more... #society
Engaging European local communities in biodiversity genomics research: A five-step framework for scientists www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Engaging European local communities in biodiversity genomics research: A five-step framework for scientists
Biodiversity genomics research can inform conservation, management, and policy, including implementation and monitoring linked to the Kunming–Montreal…
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Translocation of livestock-raiding lions under specific conditions can mitigate conflict conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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