Dr Peggy Bevan
@peggybevan.bsky.social
PostDoctoral researcher at UCL East People and Nature Lab I enjoy anything that involves thinking about animals. Biodiversity monitoring, conservation tech, AI for Ecology 🐅
🚨I have a new paper out! doi.org/10.1002/rse2... How important is it to use top performing ML models when creating a classifier? We test this on two 📸 datasets from Kenya & Nepal and found that large, clean training sets are more important than ML architecture. Check it out!
🚁 New paper worked on by #OurImperial @sarabssethi.bsky.social shows that robotics-assisted acoustic surveys using UAVs can deliver reliable, landscape-level biodiversity insights! zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Robotics‐assisted acoustic surveys could deliver reliable, landscape‐level biodiversity insights
Deploying and maintaining sensors is often a major bottleneck in collecting rapid biodiversity data. We tested whether autonomous hopping drones equipped with acoustic recorders could collect reliabl....
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What if sensor equipped drones could autonomously hop around landscapes to survey biodiversity? Would data be reliable? Could we adapt survey design in real-time? This and more in our latest @zslofficial.bsky.social RSEC publication led by @peggybevan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/rse2...
Robotics‐assisted acoustic surveys could deliver reliable, landscape‐level biodiversity insights
Deploying and maintaining sensors is often a major bottleneck in collecting rapid biodiversity data. We tested whether autonomous hopping drones equipped with acoustic recorders could collect reliabl....
doi.org
#Ecologists look set to be the next scapegoat to cover the government's failings @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social say that bats and newts featured in only 3% of planning appeals last year
Natalie Bennett@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 12mo agoLet's say it again, "the economy" is entirely dependent on the environment. No economy on a dead planet, no #PublicHealth on #biodiversity-depleted islands www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Some fun from the summer: collecting #eDNA using drones above grasslands and woodlands. A super interdisciplinary project led by UCL MRes student Kat Cutler with supervision from @peggybevan.bsky.social vimeo.com/1100687066
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📢 I have a new pre-print out with @sarabssethi.bsky.social, where we show that robotic-assisted #acoustic monitoring can deliver automated #biodiversity surveys. 🐒🦜 Drone assisted #PAM works well for coarse patterns of biodiversity, but less well for species-specific details. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Robotics-assisted acoustic surveys could deliver reliable, landscape-level biodiversity insights
Terrestrial remote sensing approaches, such as acoustic monitoring, deliver finely resolved and reliable biodiversity data. However, the scalability of surveys is often limited by the effort, time and...
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Really enjoyed visiting Camden School for Girls sixth formers yesterday to talk about careers in #biology! It feels very promising to get so many great questions about biodiversity and conservation from the students 😊
#Glastonbury25 but less cool. spent last week in a very boggy farm near the famous festival site with @naturemetrics-edna.bsky.social, setting up sensors designed to collect airborne DNA! 🧬 By setting these up at known distances from a bat roost 🦇, we will reveal more on the #ecology of airborne DNA
Honey wake up, your RSPB Wrapped just landed. 🐦 Which one sums up your 2024?
🌟new paper🌟 the first chapter of my thesis is out in #ecography ! We present #regionalbiomes as a novel spatial unit for global biodiversity monitoring frameworks 🌏 This unit could increase resolution on biodiversity trends 📈 whilst keeping data collection feasible 📋🏞 doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
Regional Biomes outperform broader spatial units in capturing biodiversity responses to land‐use change
Biogeographic context, such as biome type, has a critical influence on ecological resilience, as climatic and environmental conditions impact how communities respond to anthropogenic threats. For exa....
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Hallo 👋 I'm Peggy, an #ecologist interested in #biodiversity monitoring. My research asks questions like What is biodiversity? How do we 'measure' it? When have we lost 'too much'? 🐯 To do this, I use sensors: #cameratraps📷, audio🔊or soon, eDNA 👀🧬 and AI analysis techniques! All things #naturetech
SHOWING NOW AT UCL East: some brilliant compositions by BBC Young composer award winners, using nature sound clips from the Biome Health Project. Played on a very special Icosahedral (21 sides!) Speaker! Go check it out! 🎶🦜🦐🐘 @ucl-pnl.bsky.social
Made it over to bluesky 😃 Looking forward to having a newsfeed filled with SCIENCE 🤓👩🔬
