Check out one of the cougars wearing the smoke logger at a kill site!

Zack Steel 🪶🦇🌲🔥@zacksteel.bsky.social · 4d ago

Wildlife collars are great for tracking movements 🦌. We’re now adding smoke sensors to those collars! New paper led by Adam Parlin w/ @mditmer.bsky.social & others describes the tech & huge potential to learn about 🔥 smoke impacts on wildlife 🧪 🌎🌐 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In this #FurriendlyFriday, we have a black bear responding to recreation noises. In one of our studies, we found that black bears were second to elk in their sensitivity to hearing recreation noises. They tended to flee or turn around to avoid going closer to the sound, like the bear in this video.

New paper from our lab, led by Leah McTigue We reviewed 40+ years of research on drought affects on wildlife: 66% of single-species responses were negative, only 2% positive. As droughts intensify under climate change, wildlife are in trouble. 🌍🌐🧪 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Global Trends in Drought Impacts on Wildlife—A Review

We reviewed peer reviewed literature pertaining to instances of anomalous drought (any drought event that deviates from standard conditions (e.g., dry season) when compared to a long term average) an...

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With the increase of recreation on public lands, there is an increasing need for data on how recreation affects wildlife. We ask whether wildlife responses to recreation depended on previous exposure to recreation Paper, led by @markdittmer.bsky.social here www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The landscape of no worries? Increased recreation exposure decreases the landscape of human fear in wildlife

Recreation's expanding footprint increasingly overlaps habitats once considered refuges from human disturbance. Yet our ability to predict wildlife re…

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Fun to be a small part of a big 🔥🐆🦌🐻 paper published in @ecography.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Long‐term benefits of burns for large mammal habitat undermined by large, severe fires in the American West

Escalating wildfire frequency and severity are altering wildland habitats worldwide. Yet investigations into fire impacts on wildlife habitat rarely extend to the macroecological scales relevant to s...

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We all need a little more levity. So, let's start a Furriendly Friday. I'll be using photos and videos from wildlife studies I have done throughout the years. Here's a #grizzly from one of our #RecreationEcology surveys. #FurriendlyFriday

‘NOT FOR SALE’ It turns out that not many Americans wanted to see our country’s public land sold — with polls showing 75-80% opposed — even 65% of Republicans Late Monday, that proposal got the axe 🪓 news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-...

Public Land Sales Blocked From Inclusion in Trump’s Tax Bill

A Senate proposal to sell millions of acres of public land to help pay for President Donald Trump’s massive package of tax cuts and spending has been blocked by the Senate’s rule keeper.

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Vertebrate hotspots are expected to see increased climate extremes in the coming decades; often in places where animals may be most naive to such events. New research out of my lab led by Dr. van den Bosch in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🧪🌐🌏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Projected Increases in Climate Extremes Across Global Vertebrate Diversity Hotspots

We identified overlap between areas of high vertebrate diversity and regions predicted to be exposed to increases in extreme drought, heat, and precipitation. Tropical regions, which host the highest...

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Very excited to be a part of this work led by @mditmer.bsky.social and Heather Abernathy

Journal of Applied Ecology@jappliedecology.bsky.social · last yr.

New research demonstrates how anonymised mobile phone location data can transform our understanding of human recreation behavior, human wildlife interactions, & wildlife habitat 📲🧪 It also offers pathways to improve habitat connectivity mapping 📍🌍 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

New research demonstrates how anonymised mobile phone location data can transform our understanding of human recreation behavior, human wildlife interactions, & wildlife habitat 📲🧪 It also offers pathways to improve habitat connectivity mapping 📍🌍 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Let's dive into this a bit. A short and very incomplete thread on US Forest Service research. 1/

Steph likes native plants@dendromecon27.bsky.social · last yr.

It’s finally in writing. The detailed President’s budget clearly wants to completely eliminate USFS Research

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... I never thought I'd see my name in Science and I'm over the moon! Many thanks to Jedediah Brodie @fletcherecology.bsky.social and team. It is an honor to be a part of this!

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement

Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...

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Super excited to share this new pub led by @wilsonsherm.bsky.social! We used Nextdoor posts to explore human-carnivore interactions in Los Angeles. Nextdoor offers a useful data source for understanding urban human-wildlife interactions, if human biases are accounted for. Check it out! 🧪🌎

Wilson Sherman@wilsonsherm.bsky.social · last yr.

"The wildlife Nextdoor: Socioeconomics and race predict social media carnivore reports" is out in Science of the Total Environment. @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social, Christopher Schell, and I looked at how people post about coyotes and black bears on Nextdoor. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

We made the cover of TREE!

Phil Manlick@pmanlick.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨New paper in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social on the linkages between terrestrial food webs. Super fun to work on and we hope it spurs more research on how aboveground animals affect soil ecosystems 🐻🐭 🪱🍄‍🟫 www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

We are recruiting a postdoctoral ORISE fellow to join an interdisciplinary team focused on issues of ecosystem type conversion, directional biodiversity change, and what to do about it. Please spread the word! 🌎🌐🧪 Details here: www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/...

Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats 📦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...

Time series in R and Stan using the mvgam package: hierarchical GAMs

YouTube video by Nicholas Clark

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Grizzly bears & wolves avoid busy hiking trails more than previously thought 🏞️ Explains how, combining camera traps & modelling, researchers found that the strongest disturbance effects take place within 300m for Grizzly Bears & 600m for Grey Wolves 🐺🌎🧪 🔗 appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/01/23/g...

Integrating human trail use in montane landscapes reveals larger zones of human influence for wary carnivores 🐻 👉Shows how human activity can alter wildlife detection rates 🌏 👉Results identify target buffer distances for protected areas near trails 🧪 🔗

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Fuel breaks –strips of land managed for reduced flammability– are designed to aid wildfire suppression and management. 🔥However, fuel break construction may reduce wildlife habitat & introduce invasive species. New study investigating these potential trade-offs: www.usgs.gov/centers/fort... 🌎

A nice summary of this recent research about that other ecological disturbance in the west and its rising impact on wildlife phys.org/news/2024-12...

Rising drought frequency poses new threats to US wildlife, study finds

People around the world are dealing with drought, so it's not shocking that it affects wildlife, too: lack of moisture contributes to habitat loss, affects how animals compete for resources, and leads...

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Predicting fine-scale distributions and emergent spatiotemporal patterns from temporally dynamic step selection simulations https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07421 #Buffalo #Movement #Management

Absolutely incredible headline/image pairing from the NYT. No notes.

📣Another paper out📣 This one is a fun collaboration with @emanzo.bsky.social and the Fondazione Ethoikos team. Using #cameratraps, we explored whether European pine marten’s occurrence and activity were associated with the presence of humans and domestic cats on Elba Island. 🏃🚵🐈‍⬛

Our new paper was just published on the survival of feral pigs 🐖in the presence of cougars 🦁. Juvenile mortality was mostly due to predation & road kill, not so for adults. This is part of Mitch's PhD work with CDFW, NWRC, & DoD. We should have more soon! 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Please share widely! Apply to come join us at South Dakota State University!

Ready to learn how to use LiDAR for research in #forestry and natural resources using #R? This week I am releasing a 7-part series to help you get started! Share with anyone you know who wants to get started. Part 1 covers acquiring, & viewing LiDAR data! bit.ly/lidR-module1

Module 1: Getting started with LiDAR processing for forestry and natural resources - The Jones Center at Ichauway Research Labs

If you are interested in learning to use LiDAR for forestry and natural resources, this tutorial can help you get started. You will learn to view large datasets, create raster products, map trees, and...

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Interested in quantifying animal diel activity with hierarchical models? Check out this amazing how-to guide from @fa-bio-la.bsky.social , @science-action.bsky.social , and John Fieberg! 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A ‘how‐to’ guide for estimating animal diel activity using hierarchical models

We illustrate how hierarchical models can be used to estimate animal diel activity whilst accounting for variability in activity levels and sampling effort. These models also allow researchers to mor....

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New paper out on climate change, drought and consequences for wildlife! 🌎 🧪 Led by the tenacious Dr. van den Bosch (new to blue sky; give him a follow)