Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data Community science databases can support biodiversity surveys, especially for easily identifiable species, but they are less effective for rare or cryptic species. In a study of small mammals in Ontar....

Community Science: Big Insights From Small Mammal Data - Sherbourne - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Home of the Kawartha Flying Squirrel Project, which is starting its 25th year. Sound on.

Many thanks to Lauren Crawshaw for leading the work, and to a great group of collaborators, including @smubareka.bsky.social @finlaym.bsky.social @simonjeeves.bsky.social @albrechts-h.bsky.social @jkotwa.bsky.social and many others. #wildepi

A map showing the distribution of sample effort during an effort to detect SARs-CoV-2 in Ontario wildlife.

Despite extensive sampling, we did not find any viruses closely related to B.1.641 after the original discovery.

Testing for a wildlife reservoir of divergent SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer The 2021 discovery of a divergent lineage (B.1.641) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Ontario raised concern...

Now published - Wildlife surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 following the discovery of divergent lineage B.1.641 in white-tailed deer from Ontario #wildepi www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/...

A screenshot of the new Pathoplexus homepage showing all viruses now supported, including Dengue and Yellow Fever, which are circled in red

1/ 🦟 Big news: #Pathoplexus now supports Dengue virus & Yellow Fever virus - two arboviruses responsible for over 400 million infections and up to 94,000 deaths per year.
Here's what’s new in our latest update 👇🏻

Read the full update: pathoplexus.org/news/2026-03... 📰

A photo of a gorgeous orange and black monarch butterfly resting on someone's hand. The text imposed reads: Monarchs and the internet of things: tracking eastern migratory monarch fall migration using bluetooth low energy beacons. April 14 7:30 pm upstairs at the Publican, 294 charlotte st. Greg Mitchell. Research Scientist. Human Dominated Ecosystems, wildlife research division, environment and climate change Cnada

April's Conservation Cafe pub talk will be high tech and high colour!

Join us at 7:30 pm at the Publican on April 14th for an electrifying discussion on bluetooth butterflies 🦋🛜

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@eveliendegreef.bsky.social's latest is out in the @asn-amnat.bsky.social feature exploring the challenges of genetic forecasting😀

"Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species"
doi.org/10.1086/738889 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio

"Emerging aquatic invertebrate trap (EAIT) deployed in the Treated site at Point Pelee National Park. EAITs measure 50 cm × 50 cm and sit on the surface of the water to catch all emerging aquatic invertebrate." From facets-2025-0244.

New 📰| Invertebrate communities rebound after Phragmites australis treatment in a Great Lakes wetland🌿 https://ow.ly/qfcQ50YegXs

📷 facets-2025-0244, Fig. 2
👥 Meghan Ward, Samantha Fitzgerald, Jeff Bowman

#Wetlands #Ecology #Restoration #GreatLakes

A poster with catails in bloom in the background. The text reads: From failed crosses to runaway hybrids: How plant hybridization can shape ecosystems. Mar 10, 7:30 pm, the publican, Dr Joanna Freeland, Trent University

When species meet, do they always get along? Do they perhaps sometimes get along all too well? Trent's own Dr Joanna Freeland brings us into the weird world of plant hybrids + ecosystem action on March 10th.

Same plant time (7:30 pm), same plant channel (Upstairs at the Publican) 🌿

Thanks to @paulpobrien.bsky.social and Simon Tapper who led the work and collaboration from @richpither.bsky.social, @smubareka.bsky.social, Angela Brennan, and Mike Brown.

A map showing the probability of movement for terrestrial animals across Canada and the USA.

Now published: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 Open access in Facets, including open data www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks, I've corrected the link: www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...

Thanks to the many great collaborators on this project!

An agricultural landscape including a tractor, a barn, a wetland, and several wild animals

New One Health case study about avian influenza surveillance in Ontario, Canada www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...

Exploration and docility in coexisting rodents Abstract. There is increasing interest in understanding how behaviour influences trade-offs that facilitate species coexistence. In the absence of spatiote

#Smammal! Exploration and docility in coexisting rodents! academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a... @albrechts-h.bsky.social

Thanks to @graham-raby.bsky.social, Amber Fedus, and Michael Fox, along with members of the Stoney Lake community for supporting the project. I will conclude with a clip of some otters checking out my camera setup, captured during the project. @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social

Very proud of this project and the resulting paper. Underwater video is a promising alternative to capture-based fish sampling methods.

How useful is underwater video as a fisheries assessment tool in temperate freshwater ecosystems? ABSTRACTObjective. Remote underwater video (RUV) is a noninvasive survey technique that has long been used in marine ecosystems and is now gaining interest

How useful is underwater video as a fisheries assessment tool in freshwater?

@jacobbowman.bsky.social asked this question for his honours thesis, by comparing video against other ways of counting fish.

Editor's Choice in TAFS:
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Wild turkey roost selection is more consistently associated with tree traits than microclimate Animals must cope with a range of climatic conditions across seasons, and they can accomplish this by selecting habitats that are favourable for thermoregulation. Sheltering from environmental condit...

Ever wonder why wild turkey choose certain roost trees? Using GPS- tagged birds over multiple years, recent MSc graduate student Kayla Martin showed that tree size is much more important than microclimate @jeffcbowman.bsky.social 🧪
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"Canadian Word of the Year" on a red banner. Beneath the banner reads "maplewashing" and "the deceptive practice of making things look more Canadian than they actually are"

And the results are in! After carefully reviewing the results of a national poll the Board of Directors of the Society for Canadian English (SCE) has determined that this year’s Canadian Word of the Year (CWOTY), the first of its kind, will be “maplewashing.”

And we're back in action Dec 9th! Join us at the Publican at 7:30 pm for drinks, good company, and an account of the conservation fight for arctic shorebirds with Paul A. Smith

🌍 Nipah virus (NiV), a zoonotic paramyxovirus from the Henipavirus genus, primarily infects Pteropus bat species across Southeast and South Asia.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An arctic fox with white fur camouflages against the snowy landscape, showcasing nature's elegance.

New 📰| Elimination of Arctic fox variant #rabies from southern Ontario, Canada 🦊 https://ow.ly/A9VA50XqwHw

Discover the history of Arctic fox virus variant in Ontario and methods used to eliminate the disease in southern parts of the province.

Thanks to numerous co-authors for the helpful collaboration!

A map of Canada showing animal icons where 46 GPS datasets were used from 17 different species

New research using 46 GPS datasets from 17 wildlife species to validate our pan-Canadian connectivity model rdcu.be/eMWN5

Understanding the breadth and depth of long-term ecological data collection in Canada and the United States While several formal long-term ecological monitoring or research networks have been established, efforts are undertaken by many different organizations, leaving little understanding on the breadth of ...

New from my fellow LTR-CSEE member Mel Boudreau:

Understanding the breadth and depth of long-term ecological data collection in Canada and the United States doi.org/10.1139/face... @facetsjournal.bsky.social @csee-scee.bsky.social #LongTermResearch

Not yet.

New article covering our study on epigenetic aging in polar bears! You can also read the preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

A map showing telemetry and roost locations of sympatric northern and southern flying squirrels at a location in Ontario, Canada

New from Rebekah Persad and the Kawartha Flying Squirrel Project: Home range size, habitat selection, and mycophagy of sympatric North American flying squirrels esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...