Introducing TropiCam‐AI: A taxonomically flexible automated classifier of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera‐trap data - Zampetti - Methods in Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The EOCA European Outdoor Conservation Association has opened its 2026 Conservation Project Funding Round, supporting practical projects that protect biodiversity and restore ecosystems. www.eocaconservation.org/our-projects...
31st March deadline
🚀 We’re excited to launch our new European Camera Trap Project, on @zooniverse.bsky.social
No experience needed, just curiosity.
Try it here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/wil...
Every classification counts 🔬 @gbif.es @pmittelman.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social
@nestorfdez.bsky.social
🎥 Short film created from 3,000+ cam trap images in 3 days.
🌬 Clouds. Wind. Mountains 🏔.
A least one animal passed by 🥳.
🎉WildINTEL & BigPicture Symposium on Camera Trapping Accepted for ECCB 2026.
We are pleased to announce that WildINTEL, together with the BigPicture project , has been accepted to host a symposium at the European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB 2026), to be held in Leiden, Netherlands.
Tiny mammal the weight of a sugar cube discovered in Ethiopian highlands – and it's totally new to science www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...
Comparing two methods for surveying nocturnal arboreal mammals in a tropical forest – thermal observations from an elevated platform and arboreal camera traps
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
Don't miss our upcoming mini-conference! 🌍🌱
Join us for "Linking biodiversity, functions, and climate: Insights from global ecosystems" on 1st December from 11am – 4pm at F01, Busenweg 1, North Campus.
Registration: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/581694.html
#EnriCo #miniconference
Tomorrow (30th) at 11am CEST, Clara Thoma from agroforst.de will talk about creating resilient landscapes through agroforestry🌳🪱🌱
Register here:
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Seminar series Forest Ecology: Science&Practice
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/701005.html
#agroforestry
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Smallest Herbivores Create the Biggest Impact for Grassland Forage
nationalzoo.si.edu/news/smalles...
How does pyrodiversity influence small mammal abundance and genetic diversity?besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-26...
📢 We're Hiring! Postdoctoral Position in Ecological Modelling🐾🌍 Apply till 01.09.25
📄 More details:
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#Postdoc #EcologyJobs #WildlifeResearch #AIinEcology #CameraTraps #EcologicalModelling #WildINTEL
When you reach for the rat poisons, stop for one second and think about where it goes. Often not rats and mice. Here we demonstrate it ends up in possums, many are then eaten by predators like powerful owls.
Please avoid second generation anticoagulants
🙏♥️🦉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨 New Research: Defaunation erodes the diversity of rodent personality traits in fragmented forests ➡️ buff.ly/Rqgmgcn
"Our study bridges the fields of animal personality research and defaunation driven by habitat fragmentation." 🐀
Small audio recording devices were used to record bird songs in the forest around the clock. The photograph shows a lush, green forest and the view is up into very tall trees, looking up to the sky behind the canopies. There are no birds to be seen but there is a small, rectangular, dark-green device strapped round a tree trunk. Image thanks to David Singer who led this research.
A tiny, grey-brown bird with wide open beak perching at the top of a stump of wood with blurred yellow/green (likely) tree foliage in the background. The bird looks like it is singing at the top of its voice. Image of wren thanks to Kev (TheOtherKev) who made this image freely available via Pixabay
We know when the wild birds sing
Researchers used automatic audio recorders and AI to collect and identify detailed data about birdsong in European Forests. It turned out it was more than just larks and owls: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...
#JournalOfOrnithology: doi.org/10.1007/s103...
A Norwegian lemming in Sarek National Park, Sweden. CREDIT: Love Dalén
Genetic sequencing dates the split between Siberian and Norwegian lemmings at around 35,000 years ago, shortly before the Last Glacial Maximum—making Norwegian lemmings among the planet’s youngest mammal species. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Our review led by S. Savazza "Measuring Personality in Wild Small Mammals: A Review of Methods and Proposal for a Standardised Approach" is out, free open access, in mammal review
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Eine Haselmaus auf dem Kronendach einer Rotbuche in der Nacht. Die Kamera wurde durch Bewegung und Wärme aktiviert, als die Haselmaus in ihr Sichtfeld kam. (Copyright: Pedro Mittelman, @pmittelman.bsky.social)
Mit 80 Kameras in 20 Wäldern fand ein Forschungsteam heraus: Mischwälder fördern das Zusammenleben von Eichhörnchen und Schlafmäusen. So lässt sich #biologischeVielfalt auch im Wirtschaftswald fördern. Mehr dazu: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...
@forstunigoe.bsky.social #Wald #Forstwirtschaft
New paper out! 🏙️ We found that urbanisation simplifies and homogenises seed dispersal networks. 🪴🐦⬛ Non-native plants dominate in cities, accounting for 61% 😔 of interactions in the urban network vs just 15% in forests! 🪻🌿🌴
Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
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and here's a photo of an edible dormouse (Glis glis) from the same study area: 🐿️🐀😄
Thank you for sharing!
A red squirrel with orange/brown fur, very fluffy tail and black, beady eyes poised in its habitat high in the treetop of a Douglas fir - with green-brown pine foliage behind and a bright and sunny sky behind the little animal. Image taken by researcher Pedro Mittelman
Do red squirrels and dormice get along?
Researchers discovered that they can: forests combining both deciduous and conifer trees make it easier for them to coexist: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #Biodiversity #Ecology
#EuropeanJournalofWildlifeResearch: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Forest cover enhances pest control by birds and bats independently of vineyard management intensity 🌲🧪
Highlights the ecological and economic value of birds and bats as natural pest control agents in vineyards 🦇🌏
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
New press release from Uni Göttingen!
Nice summary about how we used cameras up on the trees to check where red squirrels and dormice live, and if they like each other 🐿️🐀🌳
🔗 Press release: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...
Original paper: doi.org/10.1007/s103...
🐿️🐭 Researchers have shown that mixed woodland boosts the coexistence of red squirrels and dormice. They found that red squirrels prefer coniferous forests and dormice prefer beech forests.
👉 doi.org/10.1007/s10344-025-01947-y
📷 @pmittelman.bsky.social
@enricounigoe.bsky.social
Red fox and the snow 🦊
A bank vole faces a gourmet dilemma: beech vs. Norway spruce seeds🌳🌲
Which would you pick?🌰
This forest experiment helps us understand small mammals' seed preferences
To know more about how forest composition affects seed dynamics and small mammals, check: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#Rodent #seed 🐀🦊
Red squirrels, dormice and martens were some arboreal #mammals observed with camera traps in our canopy survey.
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The first paper from this survey is already out:(doi.org/10.1007/s103...). Showing that mixed forests promote the coexistence of arboreal small mammals!
