Want to learn more about bate 🦇 and birds 🐦 as pest as pest surpressents? Check out new paper out lead by the brilliant Patrícia Chaves: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ecological networks reveal strong pest suppression complementarity between birds and bats within rice-dominated agroecosystems in West Africa

The growing demand for rice across West African countries requires urgent pest control strategies that are cost-effective and ecologically sustainable…

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Also check this one from February🙌

Tally Yoh@tallyyoh.bsky.social · 2y ago

📢 Interested in island bats in West Africa? 🦇🦇 Check out our new paper led by Ana Sofia Castro-Fernandes investigating how bats respond to land use change, including island endemics doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... PI's - @ricardonature.bsky.social & Ana Filipa Palmeirim

Out last friday 📣 want to learn more about habitat use and diel activity of insectivorous bats 🦇 in different land-covers🏝️? Check our study in the endemic-rich Princípe Island, Central West Africa👇: @ricardonature.bsky.social @tallyyoh.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Habitat use and diel activity of insectivorous bats across land‐cover types on an Afrotropical oceanic island

Using acoustic surveys, we investigated habitat use and diel activity patterns of insectivorous bats across the main land-use types of the endemic-rich Príncipe Island, in Central West Africa. We sam...

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From our first trip: @ritapatricio.bsky.social

Rita Patrício CE3C, Uni Lisbon@ritapatricio.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sea turtle research and conservation in Guinea-Bissau ❤️🇬🇼 we had a beautiful fieldwork week at Poilão Island 🌊🐢 with @IBAP Project STM2

Coming back from my thrid trip to Poilão island, Guinea-Bissau, to collect data for my thesis 🙌🇬🇼 This trip we were also lucky to see not one, but three beautiful hawksbill turtles - which are very rare in West Africa, but a small population nests in Poilão. Can't wait to be back in October!