"The number of birds captured in mist nets plummeted by 40% between 2001 and 2014. Likewise, bird numbers fell by 50% during systematic surveys of birds by sight and sound. The most severe declines occurred among species that feed on insects."
The majority of seed plants rely on animals for dispersal, but this is poorly understood for most plants
To aid further work, we have reviewed up-to-date empirical & modelling approaches & emerging technologies to quantify animal-mediated seed dispersal
doi.org/10.1002/aps3...
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
go.nature.com/49fOOrP
Swiss Breeding Bird Monitoring dataset is now openly accessible! The team from @vogelwarte.bsky.social made the long-term dataset of the Swiss CBM program (“Monitoring Häufige Brutvögel”, MHB) freely available under CC-BY 4.0 licence. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
🍂 Fall is here, and so is the WSL Biodiversity Seminar Series! From genetics to social-ecological systems, this semester we’ll have 7 fascinating talks on biodiversity research.
Everyone is welcome, in person or online!
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/
@wslresearch.bsky.social
The IWC2025 officially started 🥳 and it’s even better seeing so many familiar and new faces ☺️
Who’s ready for the IWC2025 edition? 🤩 Your volunteer team is busy out here preparing the check-in! 😁
In Zurich they already left on August 4th/5th, always marks the beginning of fall 🍂 for me when the only swifts left are the alpine ones
What do the WILDLABS Awards 2025 submissions tell us about what #conservation challenges our community is tackling and what #technology they're using to do so?
Explore the full data here to explore changing trends in #conservationtech awards applications: wildlabs.net/discussion/w...
🐺🐺🐺 NEW PAPER! 🐺🐺🐺
Recovering wolves in WA tolerate threats except high harvest, high lethal removals, and lack of immigration
With @labgardner.bsky.social, Sarah Converse, & Ben Maletzke
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
2025. #DEI - "Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?" [Thailand, Indonesia, Hungary?]. PLEASE - before deciding on a conference location, check if the LGBTQ+ community can be legally themselves! "I" stands for INCLUSIVE! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
June issue: A Review led by Gianalberto Losapio on the impacts and consequences of glacier retreat for biodiversity in these ecosystems.
Weblink: go.nature.com/446nolE
Readcube: rdcu.be/erx1y
Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe
pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...
Very cool PhD opportunity with a fab team of caring and inspiring supervisors at a great institution, and building on a fantastic study system! Recommended! #ornithology
🦇 June is here!
Female bats usually give birth to a single baby, called a pup, which they feed on their milk. Young bats are very small (less than an inch) and pink with little to no fur. They will soon grow a thin, slightly grey fur.
Check our new review on niche truncation and how to avoid it with N-SDMs
Babies on board! See the twin bumps in this roundleaf bat's tummy. Although her babies will be almost 1/3 of her body weight at birth, she is increadibly agile and only slows her flight a little. (Photo captured in Kasanka National Park, Zambia last week). 📷🌍🦇😍 #nature #bats #wildlife #photography
🦇 Greater sac-winged bat pups acquire their vocal repertoire through a conspicuous vocal practice behavior reminiscent of babbling in human infants. Pups spend about 30% of their daily activity time babbling – and it turns out that mothers influence this behavior.
elifesciences.org/articles/99474
Thanks to everybody who chimed in!
I arrived at the conclusion that (1) there's a lot of interesting stuff about interactions and (2) the figure I was looking for does not exist.
So, I made it myself! Here's a simple illustration of how to control for confounding in interactions:>
The @bbs-birds.bsky.social 2024 report is out now and shows drastic declines in many breeding bird populations. Huge thanks to volunteers who provided vital data for this report as it’s with your help we can monitor bird populations and help protect them. 🌍 🌐 See the report ➡️ www.bto.org/bbs-results
What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. It affects us all.
The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) has released their Summary Arctic Climate Change Update. Read it: www.amap.no/documents/do...
Nobody can later say they weren't warned, again and again.
Birds shrink under climate change - an observation assumed to carry thermoregulatory benefit. Creating temperature-dependent 🐥🐣 morphotypes in the lab and measuring their heat- and cold-tolerance through development, we show shape-shifting carries at most minuscule benefit 👇 @biologylu.bsky.social
Disentangling the effect of the spatial scale and species spatial pattern on the abundance–suitability relationship vist.ly/3n4asev #Birds #SpeciesAbundance #Modelling
Hunter-engaged monitoring of the Eurasian lynx during the reinforcement process vist.ly/3n4avn4 #CameraTrapping #CitizenScience
Which animal left its tracks?
Looking forward 🤩 I'm presenting the results of the project on ungulate browsing intensity I'm working on in a speedy talk
