Frederico Mestre
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Biologist, Silves, Portugal,
#Biogeography
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#Macroecology
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#RoadEcology
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#FoodWebEcology
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Miguel Bastos Araújo, PhD
12 days ago
Conservation requires looking beyond Red Lists alone. Across European food webs, non-threatened species play a strong role in maintaining network connectivity. With
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Contrasting Roles of Threatened and Non‐Threatened Species in European Food Webs
Aim Assess the structural importance of threatened and non-threatened species within European food webs by quantifying their roles in maintaining network connectivity. Location Europe. Methods W...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ddi.70133
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#Ecology
#Biogeography
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Why Common Species Matter: Rethinking Conservation Through Food Webs
Conservation efforts have traditionally been focused on saving the rarest, most threatened species, and for good reason. But what if our singular focus on endangered species is causing us to overlo…
https://geekcologist.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/why-common-species-matter-rethinking-conservation-through-food-webs/
12 days ago
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#RoadEcology
#Ecology
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Road Ecology
This book is the first to comprehensively present both the current state of knowledge and future directions in the emerging discipline of Road Ecology.
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032166401?fbclid=IwY2xjawPsVXlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETEwYUlqbjJOWExadE1zMDZmc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHgW_OKYXzYzTJlCKMjHf_so6GGbyu95xwA4QyeYaEqP6vFoloa_zzXCoFYyu_aem_uq8hfwtmp7fyvNrgSY0KRw
about 2 months ago
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About our recent paper.
#marineecology
#vertebrates
#cetaceans
#seabirds
#seaturtles
#pinnipeds
#shipping
#ecology
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Un estudio global destaca que solo el 16% de las áreas de gran biodiversidad marina goza de protección frente al tráfico marítimo | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
El crecimiento del tráfico marítimo global representa una serie de amenazas crecientes para la biodiversidad marina, tales como la contaminación, las colisiones con embarcaciones y las perturbaciones ...
https://www.csic.es/es/actualidad-del-csic/un-estudio-global-destaca-que-solo-el-16-de-las-areas-de-gran-biodiversidad-marina-goza-de-proteccion-frente-al-trafico-maritimo
4 months ago
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transportecology.info/research/shi...
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Navigating the Balance: Mapping Shipless, Preservation, and Mitigation Areas for Marine Biodiversity — Transport Ecology
Shipping sustains global trade but poses escalating threats to marine biodiversity, with wildlife-vessel collisions, noise, and pollution endangering species such as cetaceans (whales and dolphins), s...
https://transportecology.info/research/shipping-and-biodiversity
5 months ago
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This post in Geekcologist is about public "dialogues" between scientists, written in the pages of scientific journals.
#Ecology
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Scientific Dialogues
This list focuses on (what I’m calling) scientific dialogues—in which researchers respond to each other’s work using published papers as messengers. Often, a paper sparks a reply, which may, …
https://geekcologist.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/scientific-dialogues/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNcsF1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHuZehleI-CEA_8tk8zcmETbBuY8bMb81SKNHBfBqRxQdXjUvMQZIbowNLyE__aem_X5Bs9M_X8sqwStUrfSUQqg
6 months ago
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Ecological Modelling celebrates 50 years of pioneering research, innovation, and impact in Ecology with a retrospective special collection highlighting its legacy and future directions.
#Ecology
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Ecological Modelling | Ecological Modelling: 50th Anniversary Retrospective Special Collection. | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Danish Scientist, Prof. Sven Erik Jørgensen, founded the international journal Ecological Modelling and Systems Ecology (ECOMOD) in 1975 with the support of Elsevier Publishers. The journal, which was...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10KXQV15K0P
6 months ago
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geekcologist.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/g...
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Global conflict between shipping and marine biodiversity
Humans dominate the Earth—we inhabit it, we disrupt it, and we traverse it. Ecologists have dedicated themselves to studying the impact of roads on terrestrial systems since the end of the 20th cen…
https://geekcologist.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/global-conflict-between-shipping-and-marine-biodiversity/
8 months ago
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Mapping global shipless areas and conflict zones between shipping and large marine vertebrates
#CCMAR
#CE3C
#MARE
#Donana
#biogeography
#Ecology
#marineecology
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Mapping global shipless areas and conflict zones between shipping and large marine vertebrates
The growth of global maritime traffic poses increasing threats to marine biodiversity, including vessel collisions, behavioural disturbances, and poll…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320725004689?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMGr-ljbGNrAwav42V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEewSDC1qbnf3HjUqhXQVVvAm9RzviW--wtpauGE18WtNVM3Xfo3MbOP6jIcn8_aem_jY5tdEH1MqaMTSObKW6Q2g&sfnsn=mo
8 months ago
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#roadecology
#foodwebs
#ecologicalnetworks
#ecology
www.currentconservation.org/the-silent-i...
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The Silent Impact: How Roads Are Eroding Europe’s Food Webs | Current Conservation
Current Conservation The Silent Impact: How Roads Are Eroding Europe’s Food Webs
https://www.currentconservation.org/the-silent-impact-how-roads-are-eroding-europes-food-webs/
9 months ago
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About our paper on the potential effect of roads to natural food webs.
#biogeography
#globalecology
#roadecology
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The domino effect of roads on biodiversity: How the impacts of wildlife-vehicle collisions propagate through food webs — Transport Ecology
Our study reveals that roads and traffic not only cause direct wildlife mortality but also destabilise entire ecological networks by altering predator-prey interactions. By mapping high-risk areas for...
https://transportecology.info/research/roadkill-cascading-effects-food-webs
9 months ago
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Researchers working on Globa Ecology can join this community!
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If you're interested you should DM
@global-ecology.bsky.social
to join the Vol_3 (Vols 1 and 2 are full).
#Ecology
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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#MarineEcology
#PhDOpportunity
#ecologicalnetworks
www.biodiversitydatascience.com
Biodiversity Data Science. We use machine learning and artificial intelligence tools to aid biodiversity conservation and management, in support of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
about 1 year ago
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conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#Ecology
#Macroecology
#ConservationBiology
#RoadEcology
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Effects of road density on regional food webs
Roads stand as major threats to biodiversity because they affect the functioning of ecosystems and the provision of ecosystem services. Understanding how the effects of roads affect the dynamics of e...
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cobi.70007
about 1 year ago
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Mapping Global Shipless Areas and Conflict Zones between Shipping and Marine Biodiversity
YouTube video by Frederico Mestre
https://youtu.be/B6MMCZ5kQJw
about 1 year ago
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Our preprint, "Mapping Global Shipless Areas and Conflict Zones Between Shipping and Marine Biodiversity," is now live and available to the public! 🌐
#GlobalEcology
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
about 1 year ago
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Our preprint, "Mapping Global Shipless Areas and Conflict Zones Between Shipping and Marine Biodiversity," is now live and available to the public!
#Ecology
#Biogeography
#MarineEcology🌎
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Mapping Global Shipless Areas and Conflict Zones between Shipping and Marine Biodiversity
The growth of global maritime traffic poses increasing threats to marine biodiversity including vessel collisions, disturbance, and pollution. Protecting areas
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5151810
about 1 year ago
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Publication about my R package gDefrag on FaunaNews, a Brazilian website (in Portuguese).
#Ecology
#RoadEcology
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Quais rodovias priorizar para redução da fragmentação de hábitat?
A bióloga e pesquisadora Talita Menger aborda uma nova metodologia para escolher qual rodovia deve receber ações para reduzir fragmentação de hábitat.
https://faunanews.com.br/quais-rodovias-priorizar-para-reducao-da-fragmentacao-de-habitat/
about 1 year ago
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A new version of the package gDefrag to plan landscape defragmentation in regions fragmented by roads has been developed.
#RoadEcology
#graph
#network
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New version of package gDefrag
We have developed a new version of the gDefrag package. The previous version has been retired from CRAN due to dependencies on outdated packages. This updated version is still under development and…
https://geekcologist.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/new-version-of-package-gdefrag/
about 1 year ago
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You can follow the blog I contribute to (Geekcologist) on Bluesky!
bsky.app/profile/Geek...
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https://bsky.app/profile/Geekcologist2.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
about 1 year ago
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Road density simplified regional food webs
#Macroecology
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over 1 year ago
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Are threatened species important for glueing interaction networks together? 🌐🌍
#Ecology
doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...
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Redirecting
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pecon.2024.11.003
over 1 year ago
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