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Marine Ecology, Conservation Science
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Society for Conservation Biology
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The deadline for the call for symposia, roundtables, panel discussions, workshops, and training courses has been extended until November 15th! Call for abstracts will open Dec 1st. Visit:
eccb26Leiden.eu
to learn more.
@eccb26leiden.bsky.social
@scbeurope.bsky.social
#conservation
#networking
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Jolyon Troscianko
5 days ago
BehaveAI is live! Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease. Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source. Pre-print
tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
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Dr Martyna Syposz
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Do you have hours of videos📹with animals? Speed up your watching by using BEHAVE - a user-friendly, open-source, free, zero-install tool for coding animal behaviour in video recordings! Try BEHAVE here:
behave.claude-apps.com
Read more:
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Biodiversa+ INSPIRE Project
6 days ago
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) aims to protect and restore biodiversity whilst ensuring coastal communities remain economically viable. Read our latest post from the
@biodiversa.eu
INSPIRE Greece-Aegean Sea case study to find out more about our approach. 🐟🌊
www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/marine-...
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Marine Spatial Planning in the Aegean Sea
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) needs to answer a fundamental question: where should protection and restoration happen so that biodiversity goals are met while coastal communities remain economically vi...
https://www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/marine-spatial-planning-in-the-aegean-sea
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Steffen Oppel
7 days ago
NEW JOB in
#ornithology
and
#conservation
to track
#seabirds
from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov):
buff.ly/K0zcdH8
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Luke Dunning
6 days ago
Two PhD positions available to come and work with us - please share! [1] Detecting rapid evolutionary responses to climate change in UK plants
tinyurl.com/ye262pk2
[2] Natural GM: The role of horizontal gene transfer in crop adaptation and evolution
tinyurl.com/32tkce2w
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Biodiversa+ INSPIRE Project
27 days ago
Why is modelling land-cover changes over time so important and challenging? Read our latest blog post from our
#Tagus
case study to learn more:
www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/why-is-...
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Why is modelling land-cover changes over time so important and challenging?
It is now widely known that climate is expected to change over the coming decades causing dramatic impacts on biodiversity and modifying...
https://www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/why-is-modelling-land-cover-changes-over-time-so-important-and-challenging
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Our study investigated the functional diversity of coastal fish communities across habitats in the Mediterranean Sea. It demonstrates that sandy habitats contribute disproportionately to functional beta diversity in Mediterranean infralittoral ecosystems
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Tammy Robinson
about 1 month ago
ICMB XIII goes to Cape Town, South Africa! The next International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions is now confirmed for 2027! Follow for more updates. Hope to see you there!
@marinebioinvasions.bsky.social
#bioinvasions
#NIS
#marinebioinvasions
#ICMB2027
#capetown
#southafrica
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Brian J. Enquist
27 days ago
Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐
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Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology
Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology/
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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒
about 1 month ago
As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare. However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)
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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒
about 1 month ago
Several years ago, I watched the National Geographic "Jane" documentary, and wrote a Twitter thread about it, then rewrote it in blog form for the
@peopleprimate.bsky.social
. And I'm dismayed to see so much of her memorials repeating this narrative (2/10)
human-primate-interactions.org/blog/
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Neocolonial Narratives of Primate Conservation 25th May 2020 Michelle A. Rodrigues, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Twitter: @MARspidermonkey Website: Recently, I watched the Jane Goodall…
https://human-primate-interactions.org/blog/
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William (Bill) Sutherland
about 1 month ago
Excellent advice from Hugh Possingham on monitoring conservation projects and why most Monitoring and Evaluation is flawed.
youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?...
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Why most conservation projects fail to learn
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
https://youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?si=-cwV8AX9Q5sAY0Ja
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Sylvaine Giakoumi
about 1 month ago
Does anyone know what is wrong with this scorpionfish?
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To boldly go where no woman has gone before...
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Sylvaine Giakoumi
Biodiversa+ INSPIRE Project
about 1 month ago
Take a look at our latest blog article on 'The ecological value of the Tajo River basin'. Born in the Sierra de Albarracín (Teruel, Spain), the Tajo flows westwards meeting the Atlantic in the Portuguese capital of Lisboa.
#Spain
#Portugal
#Tajo
www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/the-eco...
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The ecological value of the Tajo River basin
“The Tajo River received its name from a king of all the Spain’s; it is born in that place and dies in the Ocean Sea, kissing the walls of the famous city of Lisbon, and it is thought that its sands a...
https://www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/the-ecological-value-of-the-tajo-river-basin
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Sylvaine Giakoumi
about 1 month ago
Applying CAMBioMed's sampling protocols in Croatia
#StazioneZoologicaAntonDohrn
#RodjerBoskovicInstitute
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Tatsuya Amano
about 2 months ago
Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#languagebarriers
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Miguel A. Gómez-Serrano
about 2 months ago
Analiza el reto de abordar legalmente la interacción entre mascotas y fauna silvestre desde 3 perspectivas sobre la falta de armonía entre las leyes de conservación y bienestar animal: 🦜 Mascotas asilvestradas 🐈 Mascotas con libertad de mov 🐕 Paseo de mascotas
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sylvaine Giakoumi
about 2 months ago
Researchers from
#StazioneAntonDohrn
and the
#UniversityofPisa
implemented
#CAMBioMed
's monitoring protocols for temperate rocky reefs in Tuscany last week. In contrast to the Cyclades Islands (Greece), macroalgal forests were present whereas no alien herbiovores were recorded.
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Sylvaine Giakoumi
Biodiversa+ INSPIRE Project
about 2 months ago
Quantifying the economic value of
#ecosystemservices
is essential for making evidence-based decisions in
#conservation
and marine spatial planning. Read our latest blog post from our
#Aegean
Sea case study to learn more:
www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/economi...
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Economic Valuation and Spatial Mapping of Coastal Ecosystem Services in the Aegean
Quantifying the economic value of ecosystem services is essential for making evidence-based decisions in conservation and marine spatial planning. In the case study of the Aegean Sea, a comprehensive ...
https://www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/economic-valuation-and-spatial-mapping-of-coastal-ecosystem-services-in-the-aegean
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Today workers from all fields in Italy required that the Italian government puts sanctions on the criminal government of Israel for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
about 2 months ago
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Sylvaine Giakoumi
3 months ago
🚨🗓️🚨 5 WEEKS left until the MarinePlan FINAL EVENT! Join us online to learn about MarinePlan's improved transdisciplinary approach to EB-MSP and conservation in European seas. 🌊🪸🐠🌊 REGISTER HERE:
thuenen.webex.com/webappng/sit...
Agenda is available on our website:
www.marineplan.eu
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Grant Hamilton 🐨
4 months ago
🧪Australian ongoing position in academia
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Grant Hamilton 🐨
4 months ago
🧪Australian academic position Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Wildlife and Spatial Ecology.
careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50114...
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Current Vacancies
https://careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/501140/postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-wildlife-and-spatial-ecology
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New paper led by
@martinjung.eu
presenting a protocol/tool that increases transparency in reporting Systematic Conservation Planning projects
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4 months ago
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Besides attending super interesting presentations, it is such a great pleasure to meet old friends/colleagues at
#ICCB2025
@hugepossum.bsky.social
@robsalgo.bsky.social
@mariabeger.bsky.social
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Sylvaine Giakoumi
Hugh Possingham
5 months ago
Jorge Alvarez-Romero provides a succinct description of how
#Marxan
delivers prioritised spatial decisions for nature in the spatial planning course
@iccb2025.bsky.social
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Excited to be back in Brisbane after 10 years for the
@iccb2025.bsky.social
but it seems like the Cyclades are still following me :-) Γεια σου ρε ελληνική διασπορά!
5 months ago
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Sylvaine Giakoumi
5 months ago
Repeating the fieldwork conducted by
@sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social
and colleagues 17 years ago in the Cyclades. Lots of changes have been observed! Main results of the historical data can be find in these publications
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
and
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sylvaine Giakoumi
6 months ago
During our first week of sampling, we have already noticed a remarkable change in the percentage cover of macroalgae in several sites of the Cyclades Islands. Once macroalgal forests, now turf...
@skatsanevakis.bsky.social
@rilovlab.bsky.social
@ceabcsic.bsky.social
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New paper presenting an innovative NGO-driven approach to conservation planning that can guide the establishment of deep-sea protected areas in data-limited and governance-challenged marine regions
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
6 months ago
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Sampling in the Cyclades Islands after 18 years! Back then Maria Sini and I were sampling for my PhD with my little car, today we are returning with a catamaran and a crew of 10 people. Getting older has some advantages...
6 months ago
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Researchers from SZN and UAegean a 5-week sampling campaign in the Cyclades Islands (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) for the CAMBioMed project
www.biodiversa.eu/2024/04/15/c...
@skatsanevakis.bsky.social
@rilovlab.bsky.social
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6 months ago
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Great postdoc opportunities in spatial prioritization!
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Sylvaine Giakoumi
Stelios Katsanevakis
7 months ago
Our
#CAMBioMed
2nd annual meeting was completed today in Chania. Very useful discussions on our
#monitoring
framework and organizing our
#field
work for this year,
#CitizenScience
activities,
#AI
assisted analysis of photo-quadrats, and many more.
#MarineEcology
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Nicolas Mouquet
9 months ago
📣 Postdoc Opportunity! The Biota Synthesis Programme 🇧🇷 is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to work on processes of co-production of knowledge and policy in biodiversity synthesis groups. 24 months. 🗓️ Apply by March 25! 👉
www.iea.usp.br/en/research/...
🌐🧪🌍
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Postdoctoral fellowship: Understanding the process of socioenvironmental policy co- production – measuring societal impact — enPage Title
http://www.iea.usp.br/en/research/research-opportunities/biotapostdoc
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Hugh Possingham
9 months ago
Why Do (Or Don’t) People Protect Nature? Insights From Conservation Practice and Environmental Psychology to Respond to the Biodiversity Crisis | Global Environmental Psychology
doi.org/10.5964/gep....
- I have no idea, but we wrote a paper anyway.
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Why Do (Or Don’t) People Protect Nature? Insights From Conservation Practice and Environmental Psychology to Respond to the Biodiversity Crisis| Global Environmental Psychology
https://doi.org/10.5964/gep.10927
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Stelios Katsanevakis
9 months ago
We are seeking a highly motivated
#Postdoc
Researcher -background in
#Ecology
,
#Biology
or
#Biodiversity
-experience in
#BiologicalInvasions
- to contribute to the
#HorizonEurope
#GuardIAS
project. Info and applications (by 12/3):
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/317579
#bioinvasions
#InvasiveSpecies
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Researcher (R3-PhD) in the subject of Ecology with experience in the biological invasions (9585/2025)
We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher with background in Ecology, Biology or Biodiversity and experience in Biological Invasions to contribute to the Horizon Europe GuardIAS projec...
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/317579
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Interesting post-doc opportunity in species distribution modelling with projections in antiquity!
emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Ingénieur de Recherche (H/F) Modélisation de la distribution spatiale ancienne (paléogéographie) des principales espèces halieutiques en Méditerranée
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7035-VIRRAY-002/Default.aspx
9 months ago
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NEW article presenting a novel assessment tool addressing implementation challenges of ecosystem-based management principles in marine spatial planning processes
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#MarinePlan
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Assessment tool addresses implementation challenges of ecosystem-based management principles in marine spatial planning processes - Communications Earth & Environment
Marine planners and authorities can translate ecosystem management principles into specific actions during the marine spatial planning process by using the assessment tool that integrates knowledge fr...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01975-7
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Stelios Katsanevakis
10 months ago
Just published in TREE! Advances in systematic
#ConservationPlanning
to meet global
#biodiversity
goals. 💡New tools improve resource allocation & decision-making, but trust-building is key for adoption. Future SCP must address trade-offs & uncertainties.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
🌍🌐🧪
#MarinePlan
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Advances in systematic conservation planning to meet global biodiversity goals
Systematic conservation planning (SCP) involves the cost-effective placement and application of management actions to achieve biodiversity conservation objectives. Given the political momentum for gre...
https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347%2824%2900310-0
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New publication in TREE
@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social
Given the political momentum for greater nature protection and restoration articulated in the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework, we assessed the state-of-the-art of Systematic Conservation Planning.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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