In Castiello et al. (2026) we test how Biodiversity Enhancement Interventions impact forest-dwelling bats 🦇. Targeted microhabitat creation, deadwood retention 🪵, and structural complexity 🌲 significantly boost activity across different bat foraging guilds. @JAppliedEcology doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Evaluating the role of biodiversity enhancement interventions in supporting bat conservation in a temperate forest

Our findings highlight that combining small-scale canopy interventions with the retention of habitat trees and deadwood can improve habitat conditions for bats. Canopy gap creation represents an effe....

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Can a major historical metropolis maintain safe movement corridors for wildlife 🏙️🦊? In Russo et al. (2026) we evaluate ecological connectivity between protected areas across the metropolitan area of Rome doi.org/10.1007/s109...

How can we measure human noise without confusing it with nature's background soundscape? 🔊🤖 Meet SANE (Selective Anthropogenic Noise Exposure), an AI-driven acoustic index by Giuliani et al. (2026) in @MethodsEcolEvol! 👇 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

🚨 🧵👇 New paper out, and the 2nd chapter of my PhD thesis! We just published a comprehensive spatially-explicit and species-specific dataset of hunting impacts on both tropical mammal and bird species 🌍🦍🦜. Link: tinyurl.com/438xzrcr

Tomorrow morning (Wednesday 8th) I'll talk at #ECCB2026 about my recent work with @lsantinieco.bsky.social on the ifs, hows and wheres of predicting mammal population density🦊🦌🌍. If you're curious, come take a peek in Room C2 at 12:00! @eccb26leiden.bsky.social

What is the relationship between population density and home range? and what are the implications in terms of home range overlap? Our latest paper tackling these questions is finally out! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @giannijacca.bsky.social @marleetucker.bsky.social

Finalmente in libreria "Biologia della conservazione" @lsantinieco.bsky.social Cazzolla Gatti Chiarucci @m-dimarco.bsky.social @rondinini.bsky.social Un viaggio concreto nella crisi della biodiversità e nelle soluzioni per proteggerla, un punto di riferimento per chi studia l'ambiente🌍 #Biodiversità

🚀 TetraDENSITY now has a dedicated web app! Explore the dataset interactively, filter by taxa 🐾, country 🌍 & more. Generate descriptive stats 📊 (overall or subsets), download data 💾 in seconds, and flag missing data or errors ⚠️ Dive in and have fun 🎉 andrewzamp.github.io/TetraDENSITY

TetraDENSITY - A Global Database of Tetrapod Population Density Estimates

Official interactive explorer and publication page for TetraDENSITY, with global tetrapod population density data.

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Our latest paper from the Urbis project investigating the spatial structuring of bird assemblage in the city of Rome 🐦🏙️

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I never got used to Rome, apparently neither did some birds! In our last work, we investigated how anthropogenic and environmental gradients shape avian assemblages with different tolerance to urbanization in Rome. Link: doi.org/10.1007/s109... #Ornithology #UrbanEcology #Ecology #Biodiversity 🌐

I finally got accepted a paper that has been under revision for ages. I've published >100 papers published, but this one had the toughest road to publication I've ever faced.

New paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! 📷We present TropiCam-AI: a machine learning model that identifies 84 taxa of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-trap images and videos. 🐒🦜 📃Paper → doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70213 🌐Project → github.com/andrewzamp/TropiCam-AI

Un articolo divulgativo in Scienza in Rete sul nostro recente articolo su Nature. www.scienzainrete.it/articolo/mis...

Misurare l’energia della biodiversità per la salute degli ecosistemi

Biodiversità significa non solo ricchezza e abbondanza delle forme di vita in un luogo, ma anche delle relazioni che esse intessono tra loro. La vita chiama vita, una specie crea i presupposti per l’e...

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Does survey area extent bias population density estimates? Spoiler: yes, and method matters. Want the details? Come check my poster next week at @britishecologicalsociety.org #BES2025 (Tuesday 16th, 18:00 - Lennox Suite, n°A5.25), and let's have a chat!💬 Co-authored with @lsantinieco.bsky.social.

🐬 New paper out! We use the TetraDENSITY database to test how fishing affects cetacean species in the Mediterranean. We found that different fishing activities alter natural population density patterns, with destructive demersal fishing having the strongest negative impact 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Our new paper in Nature uses ecological energetics to track ten ecosystem functions of all birds and mammals in sub-Saharan Africa. It shows that the ecological power of African wildlife has declined by a third since pre-colonial times @natureportfolio.nature.com

Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery@naturerecovery.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🌍 New Oxford-led study in Nature finds Africa’s wildlife has lost a third of its natural “power” — the energy driving ecosystems and livelihoods. Large animals once sustained this flow; their loss now reshapes life across the continent. @ymalhi.bsky.social

Our new @nature.com shows that energy flows mediated by mammals and birds across sub-Saharan Africa have declined by >30% unevenly across functional groups, with major consequences ecosystem functions shorturl.at/AD0Yb

Here we review causal inference in ecology to attribute change in biodiversity research. We identify common challenges and provide an overview of different approaches. By Franziska Shrodt and many others besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Advancing causal inference in ecology: Pathways for biodiversity change detection and attribution

Understanding the causes of biodiversity change is essential for addressing environmental challenges. While causal attribution has advanced in other fields, ecologists remain cautious about causal...

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Why relying on the "equlilibrium assumption", i.e., biodiversity being in an equilibrium state w/ its environmental conditions, to model biodiversity trends in response to environmental changes? ➡️ We propose a paradigm shift: embracing the quasi-permanent non-equilibrium state 🤯 shorturl.at/qU99d

Important paper! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Correcting environmental sampling bias improves transferability of species distribution models

Sampling bias is an inherent problem in widely available biodiversity data, undermining the robustness of correlative species distribution models (SDMs). To some extent, subsampling occurrence data c...

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Animal energetics, movement, and coexistence are inextricably linked. What insights emerge when we consider these processes together? In our new paper, we present a conceptual framework that integrates these domains, outlines their connections, and highlights the value of their joint study.

SDMs are powerful tools, but only if feed them with the right variables (be biologists, not blind programmers!). We show how data dredging approaches relying on the 19 bioclimatic variables can lead to misleading predictions & interpretation. Led by @giordanomancini.bsky.social shorturl.at/Y2BpC

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York! I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene. Deadline: 10th August 2025. All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst @anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

Read our latest paper on the application of macroecological theory to better understand human impact on biodiversity, great collaborative work led by @pierregauz.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This study was led by Laura Paltinieri, @anabenlop.bsky.social & @lsantinieco.bsky.social as part of the EU COST Action network ClimBats. You can read Laura's blog on this paper here: besclimatechange.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/h... 🌍🌐🧪

Please share. We have a fully-funded PhD position on animal migration. If interested, please apply by 27 July. More about us: shawanchowdhury.com. @idiv-research.bsky.social @monashbiol.bsky.social @uq-cbcs.bsky.social #PhDposition #Ecology #Conservation #Migration #Rstats #AcademicTwitter

Presenting my poster on mammalian population density responses to anthropogenic gradients today at 16:30, find me at panel N. 84 #iccb2025.bsky.social

The first paper of the "Urbis project" focusing on the urban ecosystem of Rome is out in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening! Here we characterize the urban landscape and propose a multiscale framework to better support urban biodiversity research and planning doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

About to start my course for the Early Career Conference of the Italian Chapter of the SCB

PhyBaSE: A Bayesian structural equation model approach to causal inference in phylogenetic comparative analyses besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhyBaSE: A Bayesian structural equation model approach to causal inference in phylogenetic comparative analyses

One of the main limitations of phylogenetic comparative analyses is that associations between traits can only be interpreted as correlations. Here, we present a novel Bayesian structural equation ...

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Geography and availability of natural habitat determine whether cropland intensification or expansion is more detrimental to biodiversity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Geography and availability of natural habitat determine whether cropland intensification or expansion is more detrimental to biodiversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Both agricultural expansion and intensification drive biodiversity losses. Here the authors quantify and compare globally the biodiversity impact of land conversion and yield increases.

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