Urban wildlife interactions aren’t straightforward🐿️🏘️
In #Berlin gardens, red squirrels occur more with higher tree cover and in autumn. Plus they tend to avoid cats🐱 but show no clear patterns with foxes, raccoons, or martens🦊🦝***New paper out @wildlifebiology.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/wlb3...
Led by Viktoriia Radchuk, an international collaboration shows phenological shifts in response to changing temperatures allow populations to remain stable or even increase in numbers.
Support from #sDiv @idiv-research.bsky.social
A selection of studied species is shown, with each inset giving information for that species on its generation time (T, in years; also depicted by the black bar next to it), its diet (carnivore: C, herbivore: H, and omnivore: O) and whether the species is a migrant (M) or a resident (R). The inset shows the number of studies per taxon and trait category. Illustration credits for the species pictures taken from Wikipedia: Svalbard reindeer—Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, four-striped grass mouse—C.R. Selvakumar, silver gull—JJ Harrison, snow petrel—Samuel Blanc, northern giant petrel—Liam Quinn, green turtle—Brocken Inaglory, green-rumped parrotlet—Jam.mohd, Columbian ground squirrel—Martin Pot, red-winged fairy-wren—John Anderson, grey-headed albatross—John Harrison. Two species pictures were provided by the co-authors of this study: painted turtle (credit: FJ) and Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross (credit: SOp). The remaining pictures were taken from Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/photos/).
In Nature Communications, our paper led by Viktoriia Radchuk shows that phenological change mediates global vertebrate responses to temperature. The study compiles 213 time series of phenotypes and population sizes, including data from Bylot. Read: urls.fr/w7ZKp9 @natcomms.nature.com 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦉🦑🦊🐻❄️
For urban birds, vegetation acts as a natural buffer against urban stress. Even vegetated noisy areas can support high functional diversity, when human access is restricted.
#UrbanEcology #Birds #Modelling #FunctionalDiversity
New paper out @springernature.com / Urban Ecosystems 🪶🏘️
Hei Valentin. Great poster! Is this already published or pre-printed?
Happy to see this first PhD chapter out in the big wild world.
Exciting 5 year postdoc position in Berlin!
Photo with a blue tit and information text of how to apply for the announced postdoc position.
📢 #Postdoc (75%) 3+2 years on identifying #West-Nile-Virus wildlife hosts and #modelling spatial risk factors.
Be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" w #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth and health authorities
▶️ tinyurl.com/yuhfwpdr
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📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling.
🐗🐗🐗🐦🐦🐦
Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m
Conference participant and a PhD student smiling infront of her poster at the poster session.
🐾 Our PhD student Yutong Liang presented her first project on lynx excursion behaviour at the Movement Ecology of Animals conference (25 July to 1 August) in Ventura, CA with a poster and flash talk! 🎤📊🐱
#GordonResearchConference
#MovementEcology #WildlifeResearch #Lynx #PhDLife
Graphical abstract for a manuscript titled "Too few, too many, or just right? Optimizing sample sizes for population-level inferences in animal tracking projects". The workflow presented in this manuscript evaluates sampling design by assessing sampling duration, sampling interval, and the number of sampled individuals needed to obtain reliable population-level estimates.
✨ New preprint! "Too few, too many, or just right?" 🌍🌎🌏 We explore how to evaluate study design in animal tracking studies by assessing sampling duration, interval, and, now, the number of individuals needed for reliable population-level estimates. #movementecology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
To keep Earth habitable, humanity must recognize the value of Antarctica and seek to save it from irreversible damage.
go.nature.com/41PkgKn
Good point! I missed to post the link, here it is: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Published 📖 🥳 In a new meta-analysis @mariusgrabow.bsky.social studied whether subtle infection, traditionally often considered as relatively benign, affect phenotypic and demographic traits. Using avian blood parasites, causing #avianmalaria as an example, we performed a systematic review 🧵
Finally back in the field with @ecodynizw.bsky.social
Currently erecting some ATLAS antennas at our new field site 🚀
#movementecology
🐦 Eine gemeinsame Studie von #TUBerlin, @unipotsdam.bsky.social & Leibniz-IZW
zeigt: Mit Blutparasiten infizierte Stare bewegen sich weniger, suchen in schlechteren Gebieten nach Futter & ihre Küken sind im Schnitt 12% leichter. Das kann gravierende Auswirkungen auf nachfolgende Generationen haben.⬇️
Male Eurasian Starling. Birds is perched on a bramble spray, facing right with its beak open
Starlings really are the most extraordinary-looking birds...
I have created a Movement Ecology feed here on Bluesky! 🌍🐾 bsky.app/profile/did:...
Currently, it tracks posts with the #movementecology, #animalmovement, #animalmigration, and #wildlifetracking tags from contributors.
🔹 Want to be added? Message me or reply here!
#Ecology #WildlifeResearch
Yes please :)
Postdoc Alert 🚨
Shiny Happy Pheasants🎵
Looking for someone with decent Shiny App skills to put together app for conservation managers to explore pheasant movement data. All backend analytical code is completed. Now needs GUI frontend developed
~1-2 months work (paid!), can be remote
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Wow, that's great to hear :) Hope meeting some of you at the GRC in Ventura in July?!
PhD opportunity! We are recruiting for a study on population resilience of reintroduced European bison in partnership w/ Rewilding Spain & University of the Basque Country. Applications must be processed by the 14th of Feb. UK home students only. Please get in touch Susanne.shultz@manchester.ac.uk
The weekend was all about capturing Rough-legged buzzards, kestrels, and other birds of prey in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
*all birds handled by trained professionals under a banding permit
#birdringing #birdmigration #science
Free Workshop on #wildlife demographic resilience 7th-8th August 2025 in Berlin, Germany - great course, great lectureres, great location!
#population #demography temporal variation #RStats #models
▶️ www.leibniz-izw-akademie.com/seminare/wor...
