This report just posted addresses one of the biggest questions that countries always ask about the genetic diversity indicators: how often and how much monitoring is needed for the Ne500 indicator, in realistic situations? ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... @katherinehebert.bsky.social
Blitz the Gap was recently featured in Le Devoir with an action shot of @laura-pollock.bsky.social blitzing the gap! 🌱 Seems crazy that there are only 9 days left to the project's first summer to fill gaps in Canadian #biodiversity data with #iNaturalist. We've reached >2,500,000 observations!
So many indicators, so little time! ⏰ We wrote a guide to streamline the choice of indicators for tracking biodiversity targets, thanks to key criteria, evaluation sheets, and most importantly - collaborations! 🌱 @biodiversite-quebec.ca
Peter Soroye @wcscanada.org explains how @inaturalist.bsky.social data factors into Key Biodiversity Areas (@keybiodiversity.bsky.social).
Join them in Blitz The Gap 2025! blitzthegap.org
#CSEE2025
Last week, I had the very cool opportunity to talk about Blitz the Gap (our Canada-wide initiative to fill biodiversity data gaps this summer blitzthegap.org) on Moteur de Recherche at Radio-Canada. I had a blast! Listen here (in French) 🔊 shorturl.at/lJisw
In case you missed my talk at #CSEE2025, you can explore your own collaborative networks and see a little summary on my website!
www.lucaseckert.ca/side-project...
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-ga...
This summer, we are trying to Blitz the Gap 🕵️ in our knowledge about species 🦇🐛🦉🐟🐸🌿 that haven't been seen for 15, 30 or 50+ years in Canada!
Check it out!👇
This map ⬇️ is from a challenge I designed that encourages people to go out and observe the major group of taxa 🐟🍄🐍🪲🦫🪻 that is unusually under-represented in their county 🇨🇦
and @qcbs.ca members, there are Champion Grants 💰 available to plan local bioblitzes or a field trip for you and your friends to Blitz the Gap! 🥾🌱 qcbs.ca/call-for-applications-champion-grants-to-blitz-the-gap/
iNaturalist is a key source of information for us to better understand, monitor, and protect biodiversity! 🌎 We rely on it so much, especially in this era where funding for science and biodiversity monitoring is increasingly uncertain...
A series of 🏆 Challenges 🏆 were designed by graduate students, researchers, avid iNat users, conservation practioners, and more throughout Canada to highlight species and places that deserve a little more attention:
pollocklab.github.io/blitz-the-gap/
One week until Blitz the Gap (www.blitzthegap.org) starts - a Canada-wide event to fill biodiversity data gaps with iNaturalist! @laura-pollock.bsky.social
Screenshot of a short article
In our May issue: Journal Club from Katherine Hébert "Biodiversity change is more than the sum of its parts"
go.nature.com/4jY31h2
I wrote a journal club for Nature Reviews Biodiversity to reflect on the ways one of my favourite papers shaped (and keeps shaping) my research!
Spoiler alert: We need to summarise biodiversity change as a multi-species process, rather than a collection of separate trends
doi.org/10.1038/s443...
A new study by @alexpigot.bsky.social and colleagues reveals the critical role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems.
@uclcber.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This all started at the “Tracking a Moving Target” workshop at the @geobon.org conference in Montreal in October 2023. Thank you to all who participated and shout out to my great co-authors (Maximiliane Jousse, Janaína Serrano, @dirknkarger.bsky.social, Guillaume Blanchet, and Laura Pollock)!
Global progress towards our 2030 biodiversity targets starts with local, short-term change - but are we equipped to capture these changes? 🤔 Well, the link between on-the-ground conservation and global indicators is not always clear. We have some ideas about how to clarify & strengthen this link 📝 :
New work by @adbinley.bsky.social and others: 61% of endangered species in Canada lack research on what conservation actions work. We need more action-based research. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
SMART+C criteria used to select a shortlist of indicators for subnational biodiversity strategies. S = Specific, M = Measurable, A = Achievable, R = Relevant, T = Timely, C = Communicable. A short description of each term is shown in the figure.
Which indicators do we need to track and report biodiversity change? Our new preprint 📝 presents the indicator selection process we built to recommend 15 indicators for Québec's 2030 Nature Plan. We share guidelines, outcomes, and recommendations to choose your own shortlist! doi.org/10.32942/X2J...
Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social
led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
Biodiversity panel announcement about COP-16 and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework on November 21, 12H-13H online with a description and photos of the panelists: Leila Cantave, Anne-Céline Guyon, Laura Fequine, Joëlle Voglimacci, and Katherine Hébert.
I am super excited to join my fellow panelists to talk about why biodiversity 🌱 and climate 🌡️ must be considered together if we want to stop biodiversity loss. Register to watch on Thursday, November 21st at 12PM EST (in French) 📺! shorturl.at/UzWm3
Time for the @bsky.app community to see one of my favorite visualizations of climate change...
"Shifting Distribution of Land Temperature Anomalies" by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5211/ ⚒️🧪
Hi!! Could I be added to this too?
Thanks for setting this up!! Could you please add me to the list too?
