Our Global Wildfire Collective Spatial Data Gateway is here! Intended for sharing wildfire-related data, maps, models, tools, and publications. Explore now! globalwildfirecollective.databasin.org #GlobalWildfireCollective #ConsBio #DataBasin #FireData #WildfireData #Wildfire #Fire #FireResearch

I've been laying low, getting started at @westernu.ca but time to emerge from under the rock... Here is a nice article about virtual fencing for cattle that includes our efforts to find conservation solutions for grassland birds on private lands. www.kcur.org/environment-...

Do we have a word yet for “fear of closing tabs”?

🌳🦟Indigenous territory extent in the Amazon biome can reduce the incidence of fire-related and zoonotic/vector-borne diseases in humans. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A very cool story!

📖Published📖 Forrest et al. present deepSSF, an approach to fit and predict animal movement data using deep learning 🐃 🌍 🧪 Read the full article here 👇 buff.ly/BWQ3Oni

Need a brand name? Pick a word and remove a vowel (or two). So should I call my pretend business Ecolgy, Eclogy, Eclgy, Wld, Brds, Natr, Envro, BDvy?

Are you looking for a PhD position and want to spend your summers in the Rocky Mountains? My lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social is looking for 1 PhD student to work on a NSF-funded project to study elevational range shifts in Colorado! 🧪🌍🐙 Apply by Nov 1! Details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time 📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Short paper showing how phenology responds nonlinearly to warming (and why summed degree-days are better than days/°C) www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New article out today in Nature - intensified El Niño events under climate change appear to be chipping away at tropical forest arthropod diversity. This is already leading to substantial losses in arthropod function in primary forests across the tropics. rdcu.be/ezAxP

Invertebrates are declining even in pristine tropical forests and climate change is the culprit. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Analysis of data on 971 bird species in Colombia finds that near-national-scale losses of bird diversity greatly exceed losses recorded at the local scale, suggesting that extrapolations from local studies will severely underestimate biodiversity losses www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Could we use community/citizen/participatory science data to estimate population extinction risk? Our results comparing the estimates from eBird and from a standardized survey suggest we can!! #ornithology #ecology #conservation See our detailed tutorial oaccolombia.github.io/vpm_eBird/vp...

A much needed updated work. How does time fly by so fast? Looking forward to digging in.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

ad to come, but I'm looking for an M.S. student to study the conservation genomics of swift foxes on the American Prairie Reserve in Montana beginning 9/1. this is a collaboration w/ Smithsonian & Justine Becker; strong candidates will have prior genomics experience and be up for remote fieldwork

Proud to share new research led by former MS student, Alfredo Gonzalez. He determined the mechanisms behind nest failure for an endangered bird and its relevance to wetland management. academic.oup.com/condor/advan...

One huge problem with the big focus on tree planting is that a forest is not just trees - its a community of interacting plants and animals Most trees depend on animals to disperse their seeds, but seed dispersers are dying out everywhere www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Landsat is a force for good. Makes sense they’d want to take it way as we’ll. 😔😔😔

Landsat is so freakin important. One of our most valuable tools.

Wonderful new 5-year postdoctoral fellowship opportunity at the University of Cambridge on #Biodiversity: www.christs.cam.ac.uk/darwin-hamie...

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

I put my cat on fledge watch for the Big Bear Valley eagle nest. Jackie and Shadows babies, sunny and gizmo, should be fledging soon!!!!

Bit of a rare cam trap image- a Pileated Gibbon. Looks like a brave youngster exploring the forest floor. We heard gibbons at all our sites, which were near the Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary, even the isolated community forests that were surrounded by agriculture (e.g., cashew, rubber, cassava).

We will continue studying owls until morale improves

NPS not only generates direct profits, but has an extraordinarily positive impact on local economies. Guess who benefits from turning them over for extractive purposes? A few billionaires. Plenty of examples around the 🌎 of how oil/lumber barons destroy nature and communities.

Pollinator decline has captured global attention, but another plant-animal mutualism is quietly unraveling. Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity article synthesizes global evidence on seed disperser decline and what it means for plant biodiversity, ecosystem recovery, and climate adaptation. 🧵

New paper out in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment - Functionalizing ecological integrity: using functional ecology to monitor animal communities doi.org/10.1002/fee....

I FOUND IT. I once read a great line about how weather station data are only useful for things living on the weather station. I wanted to cite it but could never remember the damn paper! By sheer luck, it found me. From @mikekaspari.bsky.social in @globalchangebio.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72

NEW BOOK JUST DROPPED. All chapters are free! science.peregrinefund.org/state-of-wor...

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

🗣️🗣️ My first postdoc paper is now freely available online! Integrating albedo offsets in reforestation decisions for climate change mitigation outcomes in 2050: A case study in the USA 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... Details provided in the following 🧵:

*** Academic BFD alert *** We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Really excited to share this new article from the lab. We synthesize the profound importance of movement and connectivity for conservation and provide a vision for future policy and management. Let's work toward a well-connected planet for biodiversity and people: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A nice summary of our article out today in Science: How organismal movement is critical to meeting global and local conservation goals @camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/news/well-co...

Has anyone run gradient surface metrics in GEE? Like the geodiv R package, but directly in GEE.

Wonder if eBird records of waterthrush are jumping? I’ve seen a couple posts where a female Red-winged Blackbird was identified as a Northern Waterthrush by Merlin 😅

I don’t care what anyone else thinks, Asian Koels are obviously the stars of White Lotus season 3.

New paper in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social led by Michael Boyle. We review the evidence for tropical insect biodiversity change, the major drivers and ecological consequences. We also highlight research trends and future directions in tropical insect research. rdcu.be/egjby

🐦 Do some birds have #PrettyPrivilege? 💫 New paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2846 We show that ~half the variation in research effort on 293 bird species in US+Canada is explained by just 3 factors: 1)visual appeal, 2)range size, & 3)# of universities w/in ranges. What we did & why it matters:🧵

He had no shortage of material to pull from and just from the last 2.5 months.

Immediately had to check Tasmania, because that’s the most roadkill I’ve ever seen and I’m from the south!

This job at UBC (Vancouver Campus) also looks amazing. forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...

From salamanders and salmon to bears and mountain lions, David Herasimtschuk's images illustrate not only the beauty of the forests and their creatures but the symbiotic relationships that are vital to the forests’ health and the planet’s welfare.

Hello Bluesky! Good to see you all again! Job alert: I'm looking to recruit a postdoc interested in working at the interface of AI and wildlife ecology, supported by the AI for Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center. Apply by April 15, 2025. gaynorlab.weebly.com/join-us.html

Excited to share my first publication with Western Landowners Alliance, “Building Trust: A guide for agencies working with producers to reduce wildlife conflicts” westernlandowners.org/publication/... 1/2.

Looking for your first quantitative ecology post-doc? Then get in touch. I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.

USAID cuts will reduce conservation initiatives worldwide and we are already seeing the effects. I visited BeTreed (Cambodia),where I saw the incredible biodiversity the org and local community work hard to protect,with efforts largely funded by USAID. Donate to help offset cuts! betreed.com/donate/