New Press Release from @scbnorthamerica.bsky.social SCB North America Develops New Definition of “Conservation” conbio.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT... Read about the definition: scbnorthamerica.org/index.php/sc... Stay tuned for more at #NACCR2026! 🌍🦑🦥
Jon morant
@morantjon.bsky.social
PhD, Conservation biology, Quantitative ecology, Ecological modeling, Ecosystem processes, Movement Ecology, Scavengers #rstats University College Dublin / University of the Basque Country 📍Dublin - 📍 Bilbao
🧵 Have you ever wondered how far an animal can actually travel? We did, and the answer will blow your mind. 1/4 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A 2100‐km jaguar journey redefines mobility and large‐scale conservation priorities during large carnivore dispersal
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We are launching the 3rd edition of our Introduction to Movement Ecology course in R🚨 💻📶🦇🦅🦡. It's gonna take place at the University of Elche (Alicante, Spain)🇪🇸 next September. Primary language: Spanish Spreading is appreciated😊
Pasear perros sueltos en las playas tiene un importante impacto sobre la reproducción de las aves litorales: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... En la 📷 hay un pollo de Chorlitejo chico (Thinornis dubius) que ha escapado del peligro gracias a su capacidad de camuflarse. 🧐 Lo ves? Nivel difícil.
Help us tackle financial barriers to participation in open science practices by spreading the word! 💚 Join us sortee.org/join/ #openscienceisforeveryone #SORTEE
Last chance to apply to be our Biological Data Manager! Visit www.bto.org/jobs to submit your application! 📆 Full time, Permanent 📝 £32,952 per annum 📍 HQ in Thetford, Norfolk (hybrid role) Deadline for applications: Sunday 17 May #Ornithology
Few voices have shaped our connection to the natural world like Sir David Attenborough's. His remarkable storytelling has inspired generations of zoologists, conservationists, ecologists, and nature lovers, reminding us why nature is worth protecting. #DavidAttenborough #Conservation #Wildlife
🎂Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough🌍 Great to see the Oxford Mail reflecting on Zoology in Oxford and the many people who’ve helped shape the field over the years bit.ly/4uBb2NM Sir David has inspired many conservationists here in Oxford and we are proud to have had him visit us.
Archive pictures to celebrate zoology on David Attenborough's 100th birthday
To celebrate the 100th birthday of David Attenborough we've found archive pictures of zoology.
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New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New, and sad, OA paper We describe how the European polecat has recently vanished from its last stronghold in Catalonia First chapter of Salvador Salvador's PhD, with Roger Puig-Gironés et al Short thread below @ebdonana.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Extinction Debt Paid Off: The Demise of the European Polecat (Mustela putorius) in NE Iberia
We studied a vanishing polecat population for a decade, until its ultimate demise, using camera trap and roadkill data, landscape descriptors and dietary and toxicological analyses.Polecat favoured f....
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1/ Domestic cats are among the most common pets but when allowed to roam freely, they can pose serious risks to biodiversity, especially in protected natural areas: predation, disease transmission, and even hybridization with closely related species like the European wildcat.
Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture
Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...
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Human‑induced climate change may have intensified the mechanisms behind the 2024 flash floods in Valencia, Spain, according to a modelling study published in Nature Communications. 🧪
Human-induced climate change amplification on storm dynamics in Valencia’s 2024 catastrophic flash flood - Nature Communications
This study reveals how climate change altered storm dynamics during the 2024 Valencia floods. Warmer seas fueled stronger updrafts, increasing rainfall intensity by 20% and significantly amplifying flood severity.
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I am ecstatic to share our recently published paper and brilliantly led by Marina Rincón where we analysed the impacts of Grazing🐄 and climate🌀🌡️ on Mediterranean grasslands productivity 🌱🏞️⛰️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Grazing and climate interact to regulate greening trends in Mediterranean grasslands
Our results show that traditional grazing systems can maintain grassland stability without causing degradation, but they can also increase the ecosystem's vulnerability to climate change. We provide ...
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New paper out!! 🚨🥳 We here evaluated for the first time, the impact of wind energy on birds and bats in Chile, which represents, to our knowledge the first assessment of wind energy infrastructures on these two vulnerable groups in South America🌎 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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🚨New paper out!🚨 We here analysed how different organisms (from #microbes to #mammals🦠🐝🪱🦅🦎🐸🦒🐟) react to #aridity in #drylands #ecoregions🌡️🌄, and how #biodiversity, #humandisturbance, #climatechange and #landusechange modulate richness loss in drylands onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Sequential Thresholds Shape Drylands' Multitrophic Response to Aridification
We analyzed biodiversity responses across 290 global dryland ecoregions and found that all taxonomic and trophic groups, from microbes to mammals, showed abrupt threshold declines with increasing ari...
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The Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude heat keeps blowing my mind. The North Atlantic was not as extreme as the past two years, but the other oceans were even more extreme than the North Atlantic summers of both 2023 and 2024!
Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · 11mo agoThe massive extreme marine heatwave continues to stretch across the entire northern Pacific Ocean. In fact, the magnitude of the sea surface temperature anomalies even grew in August 2025 compared to earlier in the summer. Yikes... 🫠 Data from OISSTv2.1 (psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...). 🌊
Amazing mega collaborative GPS tracking paper. #ungulates #GPS #telemetry
ESA Journals@esajournals.bsky.social · last yr.🆕 & #OpenAccess in "Ecology": A meta study of 1,000+ ungulate tracking studies shows how the number of predator species shapes patterns of predation 📄Interspecific carnivore competition and ungulate predation correlate with predator species richness doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
NEW PAPER collates #telemetry data of >100 marine vertebrate species including #seabirds and finds that protecting only 30% of the global ocean is not enough - because marine animals live everywhere: buff.ly/mYrtoAN
🚨New paper altert! 🚨 We here evaluate #humandisturbance impact on #GPS tagged #Jaguars across #SouthAmerica. Spoiler: Even low human disturbance levels alter jaguar #movement, increase #nocturnality and decrease time invested in #foraging sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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Pequeño resumen de nuestro último artículo sobre el impacto de las eólicas en #aves y #murcielagos en @lavanguardia.com 🦅🦇 Un mapa identifica las zonas donde las aves son más vulnerables a las instalaciones eólicas www.lavanguardia.com/local/valenc...
Un mapa identifica las zonas donde las aves son más vulnerables a las instalaciones eólicas
Un estudio liderado por investigadores de la Universidad de Alicante, la Miguel Hernández de Elche y la Estación Biológica de Doñana ha identificado las zonas más
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Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5
Our datapaper "Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles" is now online on #ScientificData: nature.com/articles/s41... #RoadEcology @ebdonana.bsky.social
This might be a bit of a hot take, but can organizations that write press releases for new studies please include a link for the actual paper. Scientists love to read the original articles and sometimes it can be frustrating in tracking them down. 🌎🧪🦇🐦🦋🐟
🚨New paper alert🚨 I am ecstatic to share our new paper where we gathered data on mortality in wind turbines for birds and bats in Spain and we generated functional trait-driven vulnerability maps in the Iberian peninsula. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mapping bird and bat assemblage vulnerability for predicting wind energy impact
The drive towards decarbonization has led countries to seek renewable energy sources to mitigate global warming. Wind energy is an attractive option d…
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Is it time for a beauty break? I think it's time for a beauty break. Check out the gorgeous glowing plumage of birds-of-paradise, which scientists recently found to be biofluorescent. Most species (37 of 45) have feathers and body parts that glow yellow or yellow-green under UV & bright blue light 🧪
Birds-of-paradise are sending secret color signals invisible to human eyes, scientists say | CNN
Birds-of-paradise are even colorful in the dark, with feathers and body parts that glow a brilliant yellow-green under ultraviolet (UV) light, a new study found.
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