Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas 🌎🌐🧪 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Mapping Your Data with ggplot2 in R with Basemaps and Insets oliverstringham.com/blog/data-vi...

Planting trees is not rewilding Reintroducing species is not rewilding Individual actions are not in themselves rewilding To contribute to rewilding, they should be part of a bigger plan to let natural processes come to dominate in an area

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting pre-print "A Framework for Questionable Research Practices in Ecological Modelling". I tend to agree with the statement in the screenshot re data-driven modelling decisions. 🌎🌐🧪 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

This great thread is about re/introductions, but habitat/species management approaches also applies to the issue that @jmbecologist.bsky.social raises, of populist 'gurus' subverting proper science and evidence in the conservation space. Debates need to be honest with the public and evidence-based 👇

📊 Thomas Pape et al. introduce a set of indicators to assess species list quality, a tool to improve biodiversity data and its use in research and conservation 🌍🧬  👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Quite happy to be part of this @gbif.org-funded project to mobilise thousands of biodiversity records from Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. Stay tuned for updates! (photo by Beto Caceres, ProYungas) www.gbif.org/project/BID-...

How much forest is there? 🌳🌲🌎🌍🌏🌐 Scientists agree on only 26% of global mapped forest area @cp-oneearth.bsky.social www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Essential reading for conservation scientists & ecologists (in fact anyone doing science across borders!) 🌍🧪https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70227?af=R Remote-control science is an internet-enabled form of "parachute" science FWIW, I see a lot of this in AI and macroecology research

What a fantastic paper! Decision analysis rooted in Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge identifies cost-effective strategies for managing hyperabundant deer to restore keystone places 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fascinantes estos trabajos y poder saber un poco mas de lo que había en la Península Ibérica hace tiempo. Me ha hecho recordar a la garra de oso de hace 400 años que esta en la iglesia de Navacepeda de Tormes

Key criteria for developing ecosystem service indicators to inform decision making 🌎🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data 🌎🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Realizing and assessing social successes in invasive species management 🌎🌐🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Scientific Warnings Don't Work: Climate Messaging Needs a Rethink @aibsbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

The making of novel ecosystems: A process-based framework for measurement, analysis and application 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

Picaflor enano / Slender-tailed woodstar (Microstilbon burmeisteri) in the mountains of NW Argentina #birds #birdingArgentina #Argentina #birdsArgentina

Alien range size, habitat breadth, origin location, and domestication of alien species matter to their impact risks 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cold-blooded commerce: Characterizing and predicting trade in Australian squamates. Sad to read that John Measey has passed away - John was a leading invasion biologist 🌐🌎🧪 #bioinvasions conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Good to see an evaluation of horizon scans. The authors are quite positive about horizon scans, but the success rate was around 22%? I understand it’s difficult to define the candidate pool for these exercises, so I guess it depends a lot on the purpose and how it is used #bioninvasions 🌎🧪

Tracking the hidden trade of non-native pet amphibians in the United States 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Introduced foxes and cats have had a devastating impact on Australia's mammals. This threat to biodiversity has been widely recognised, documented and acted upon by scientists, policy makers and land managers. Here we refute recent assertions to the contrary. Read more (OA): doi.org/10.1093/bios...

Reading this paper on causal inference and attribution (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌎🌐), I came across this discussion. I used to favour simple models, even if I thought they could be biased, until my PhD cosupervisor (a math person) asked me "why would you choose a biased model?"

Alongside “AI colonialism”, the other big worry with this is that modelling results are never confronted with reality, they exist in some kind of desk-based bubble. All models are wrong, only some are useful. It’s by going out & touching the grass that we can sort the useful from the nonsensical.

Meta-analysis reveals negative but highly variable impacts of invasive alien species across terrestrial insect orders 🌎🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Can hierarchical modelling of co-occurrence data provide accurate inference into species interactions? 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

wonderful collab lead by @zurelllab.bsky.social on the context dependency of climatic niche conservatism of non-native plants: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #UniversidadMayor #DataObservatory

I have submitted two editorial recommendations and three reviews since Saturday. I think I have done enough for 2026 - time for a beer 🌐🧪

Can we learn from the UK’s guerrilla rewilding movement? 🌎🌐🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An early view of our accessible introduction to the state of the art for Causal Machine Learning methods to understand & predict land use change link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Crime and punishment in the outback: A review of extractive and destructive green crime cases in Australia's criminal justice system 🌎🌐🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Site selection algorithms for optimal ecological monitoring design 🌎🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As someone trained as both a field ecologist and quantitative scientist, this tension runs deep for me. Some of my group are entrenched in the field whereas others work with models for a living. ‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/4

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. — @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair

Vale, Emma. This is truly gut-wrenching news. Sincere condolences for her family, friends, and countless colleagues in the scientific community. theconversation.com/emma-johnsto...

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

Predicting and managing the spatially asynchronous pulses of herbivorous rodent abundance cascading through ecosystems 🔗 tinyurl.com/mbsj4s7p 🏢 @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social 👥 Xavier Lambin (@lambin-ecology.bsky.social), Paul Caplat (@paulcaplat.bsky.social), Deon Roos (@deonroos.bsky.social), Me

Can a Mate-Finding Allee Effect Be Elicited to Help Eradicate Invasive Mammals? 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

How do you know whether or not your conservation monitoring program is helping you to deliver outcomes? We have made a checklist of 15 distinct reasons - some more directly connected to outcomes than others.

Limitations of chemical monitoring hinder aquatic risk evaluations on the macroscale | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New Opinion article by Vaibhav Chaturvedi and Joy Rajbanshi: "A strategic framework to assess causes and consequences of long-term land use change is critical for India" 🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

A pair of young screech-owls/alicucu (Megascopus sp.) in a Yungas forest in NW Argentina #birds

I wonder if the rise of LLMs explains the increasing number of weak reviews and essays that I'm seeing lately. Many read like undergrad papers for an introductory class - a very high-level description of the topic mixed with some examples but little to no general/generalisable insights and synthesis

New in @biolinvasions.bsky.social: I argue that accelerating invasion rates threaten ecosystem stability & sustainable management. Thus there is an urgent need for progress toward Target 6 of the Kunming-Montreal GBF, which calls for a substantive reduction in global invasion rates. -> rdcu.be/eVlNk

In our new Biological Conservation paper, we show the potential of social media in improving #invasive species #distribution. Incorporating social media data 🔍 identified new locality records, 🔍 expanded range size for 67% of species Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... (1/6) @monashbiol.bsky.social

Comment article: Matthew Fagan, Naomi Schwartz and Ruth DeFries offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets to ensure responsible use of remote-sensing datasets in ecology and environmental science. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GBIF abre las puertas a la #biodiversidad global: más de 12.000 estudios en 180 países demuestran cómo los #datosabiertos impulsan la ciencia, la conservación y la sostenibilidad. Un artículo en PNAS (👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) destaca el papel clave de @gbif.org en la investigación mundial 🐼🌵🐧🦠🧬

Desde que tú no me quieres yo todos los días me muero. Y alimento, con mi carne, en Monfragüe buitres negros, en Monfragüe buitres negros.   Robe Iniesta🪽

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...