‘Digital twins’ of real-world objects are moving from manufacturing to wildlife management. go.nature.com/4nZa6Qk

Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New paper out in Biological Conservation: Predicting community interactions under grizzly bear rewilding and anthropogenic change nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Ecologists’ endless quest for automatic inference statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/28/e...

🌿🌳 Rethinking Europe’s #Nature🍃🐘 Our new study challenges the closed-forest paradigm—pre-Homo sapiens landscapes were a fine-grained mosaic of open areas, closed #forest & light #woodland, likely linked to the rich #megafauna🐂🏵️https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950475925000061

New paper out led by Ilaria Greco in @plosbiology.org : Landscape-level human disturbance results in loss and contraction of mammalian populations in tropical forest. A huge effort with a global team! journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

My last dissertation chapter is now available open access in Ecology: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... We find that tropical forest mammal occupancy and functional diversity is positively related to fine-scale habitat surface area, as measured using the Microsoft HoloLens.