We just got published our new paper, exploring 16,000 islands exposure to global changes, more than 65% threatened by climate change, 22% by land use and 13% by biological invasions ! @claramarino.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @cnrs.fr @pnas.org @univparissaclay.bsky.social

Global threat exposure of islands in a changing world | PNAS

Islands are at the forefront of global environmental change. Biological invasions, land-use change, and climate change are driving population decli...

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🌐🌴 Current global hunting threat maps treat species as equally at risk everywhere in their range. We attempted to address this by combining where hunters actually go with which species are most likely to be targeted and least able to cope, for 6k+ trop. birds and 4k+ mammals: doi.org/10.32942/X24...

#PhDPosition in Ecological #DataScience in our group. For details, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet... #MachineLearning #AI #DeepLearning #Statistics #Ecology #AcademicJobs

We are hiring: PhD position in Ecological Data Science

We are looking for a PhD student to join the AG Hartig (Theoretical Ecology) in the field of ecological data science / deep learning. 

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🏝️ Saviez-vous que 3/4 des extinctions récentes ont eu lieu sur des îles ? #FRB-Cesab #Rivage propose un cadre inédit pour évaluer cette vulnérabilité. Leur objectif : replacer les îles au cœur des priorités de conservation. 📌 bit.ly/4mrUBil @celinebellard.bsky.social @claramarino.bsky.social

Les îles : joyaux de biodiversité en péril - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité

La théorie de l’évolution a fait ses premiers pas sur une île – et ce n’est pas un hasard. En 1835, lors de son voyage aux Galápagos, Charles Darwin observe des pinsons avec attention. Ce sont les dif...

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ICYMI: New online! Drivers and solutions to Southeast Asia’s biodiversity crisis

Drivers and solutions to Southeast Asia’s biodiversity crisis

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 23 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00064-7The terrestrial ecosystems of Southeast Asia are both globally important reservoirs of biodiversity, and a provider of resources and livelihoods for millions of people across the region. This Review summarizes the threats to biodiversity in Southeast Asia, and the conservation solutions required to ensure successful outcomes for biodiversity and people.

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🖨️ New preprint out ! We present the first global, high-resolution, spatiotemporal maps of hunting pressure across tropical forests 🦜🐒🌴. This long-standing blind spot in biodiversity threat mapping is now filled 😎: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

New paper out! We present a framework for quantifying the vulnerability of terrestrial insular biota to multiple threats. This is the first output of the #RIVAGE project, funded by @frbiodiv.bsky.social & brilliantly led by @celinebellard.bsky.social. peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

Our paper on 🐈 vs. 🐦 , an overview 🔐: Ever wonder how domestic cats choose their prey? We combined citizen science and machine learning to find out what makes birds attractive to cats. Small size, generalist habits, and large range put birds at higher risk! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pinpointing bird species vulnerability to free-ranging domestic cats using trait-based predictive models

We developed a method to assess bird species’ vulnerability to predation by free-ranging domestic cats (Felis catus) using prey preference data from c…

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I'm really happy to see that more and more articles on ecology are highlighting the fact that we really need to adopt more causal approaches or at least try !

Laura Dee@lauradee.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky

🪱 Putting Earthworm conservation on the map! Check out the last publication of our #CESAB LANDWORM and IMPACT groups by @sylvaingrd.bsky.social et al. 👉 bit.ly/4ij7sTg 🔑 They are soil keystones & face global threats, demanding broad-scale, multifaceted diversity indicators for conservation. 🧪🌐🌍🦤

Our new article, published in @ecography.bsky.social, examines free-ranging domestic cat predation patterns on mainlands, focusing on how coevolutionary differences between continents might influence these patterns : nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Differential predation patterns of free‐ranging cats among continents

Co-evolutionary relationships associated with biogeographical context mediate the response of native prey to introduced predators, but this effect has not yet been demonstrated for domestic cats. We ...

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