Delighted to have had the opportunity to present my latest results from the APOCOPE project at the 8th Conference on Wind energy and Wildlife impacts - CWW2025.

🔜 Hoping to share the final results with you very soon, stay tuned!

An active ensemble classifier for detecting animal sequences from global camera trap data Camera traps can generate huge amounts of images, and thus reliable methods for their automated processing are in high demand: in particular to find those images or image sequences that actually i...

New paper 📢

An active ensemble classifier for detecting animal sequences from global camera trap data - Mononen - Methods in Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Pressured researchers in ecology and conservation demand support to guarantee fair interactions with stakeholders Facing the current decline of biodiversity, researchers in ecology and conservation interact with socioeconomic stakeholders to involve their research…

⚠️ Our study published today alerts about the 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐨-𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬⚙️
⛔ Negative interactions include greenwashing, manufacture of doubt and abandonment of research topics❗
✅ Solutions are discussed

DOI : 10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111324

Advancing Seabird Diet Studies Through Buccal Swabbing for DNA Metabarcoding Determining the diet of wide-ranging, pelagic seabirds is challenging. In this study, we investigated buccal swabbing and DNA metabarcoding to describe the diet of Manx shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus...

Evans et al. Advancing Seabird Diet Studies Through Buccal Swabbing for DNA Metabarcoding onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

Human contributions to global soundscapes are less predictable than the acoustic rhythms of wildlife Nature Ecology & Evolution - Analysis of soundscape data from 139 globally distributed sites reveals that sounds of biological origin exhibit predictable rhythms depending on location and...

🔊 Glad to have contributed to this huge project exploring how global soundscapes vary across time and space using various acoustic indices 🌍

You can find out more here:
rdcu.be/ewOgY

‼️Call for sessions extended‼️

We are looking forward to receiving your scientific session proposal for the 9th European Conference of Tropical Ecology – ECTE 2026 – under the theme of “Species – Ecosystems – People”. The call for sessions will stay open until 18 June 2025.

🔗 www.conftool.net/gtoe2026/

[𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑂𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 - 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠]

@elisesvlt.bsky.social identified a positive relationship between the acoustic activity of bats at wind turbine nacelle height and the number of fatalities 🦇

Further studies will aim to identify risk behaviors allowing to predict mortality.

Changes in community composition and functional diversity of European bats under climate change Climate change is predicted to drive geographical range shifts that will result in changes in species diversity and functional composition and have potential repercussions for ecosystem functioning. ...

New OA 🦇 Research 📄

Well done Penelope, @orlyrazgour.bsky.social and many others!

Changes in community composition and functional diversity of European bats under climate change
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Elise Sivault provides the story behind her paper, “Insectivorous birds and bats outperform ants in the top-down regulation of arthropods across strata of a Japanese temperate forest“, which was shortlisted for this year’s Elton Prize.🌳
animalecologyinfocus.com/elise-sivaul...
@elisesvlt.bsky.social

Elton Prize 2024: Shortlist announced for early career researcher award The Elton Prize, awarded by Journal of Animal Ecology, is an annual award given to the best paper by an author at the start of their research career. The following 9 papers were shortlisted by our …

Happy to have been shortlisted for the Elton Prize 2024 with one of my PhD papers 🦇🐦
animalecologyinfocus.com/elton-prize-...

@animalecology.bsky.social

Landscape context influences local management effects on birds and bats in Amazonian cacao agroforestry systems Agricultural expansion and intensification are major drivers of biodiversity loss, particularly in tropical regions. Cacao agroforestry systems can bo…

Congrats @pabloaycart.bsky.social ✨
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Just two weeks left to submit your research grant proposal!
🗓️ Deadline: March 31, 2025
👩‍🎓 Open to M.Sc. & Ph.D. student members of the Society for Tropical Ecology only!

📌 How to submit:
www.soctropecol.eu/content/stud...

Image shows the conference logo, a digital artwork of a mother and pup spectacled flying-fox and a fan palm.

Join us in Cairns, Australia, for the 20th International Bat Research Conference #IBRC2025! Check out www.ibrc.org to register, submit abstracts and get more info.

🌏 #bats

This was #ECTE2025 !!!
Thanks to all participants for making this an amazing experience 😌
Thanks to Jelle Kraak for taking the photos (@kraakkiekjes)

Last day at #ECTE2025

Peruvian memories ✨
@bioivanezb.bsky.social & Pablito

#ECTE2025

@soctropecol.bsky.social annual meeting in Amsterdam started

#ECTE2025 board meeting

A modeling framework for biodiversity assessment in renewable energy development: A case study on European bats and wind turbines Combining renewable energy planning and biodiversity conservation is urgently needed to address the interconnected climate change and biodiversity los…

🦇Last paper by #TeamChiro is out!

90% of wind turbines approved in France are placed in areas critical for #bats, highlighting a failure to assess biodiversity significance.

In this paper, we propose a modeling framework to promote a more biodiversity-friendly approach to renewable energy planning

The 8th European Conference of Tropical Ecology in Amsterdam approaches!

🎓 Reminder for students: The deadline for the Society's Student Research Grant Program is March 31, 2025.

📄 Learn more here:
👉 soctropecol.eu/content/stud...