Want to know how we in the AQEG group @uninmbu.bsky.social estimate populations of large #carnivores in Scandinavia using SCR models? 🐻🐺📊💻
Check out our RovQuant video! 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ofy...
Photo credits: Asunción Semper Pascual
Edge effects from deforestation in the Chaco!
-> New paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social with Seba Torrella
& @matthiasbaumann.bsky.social Marie Pratzer @aguiarse86.bsky.social @mariapiquerr.bsky.social Ruben Ginzburg Gregorio Gavier Pizarro @tkuemmerle.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/2nh7kjkj
Restoring nature and reversing biodiversity loss are urgent societal challenges. Utrecht University invites applications for an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Nature Restoration. In this role, you contribute to help solve these challenges through research and education by linking fundamental wildlife ecology to biodiversity recovery and nature restoration. As an Assistant Professor, you will join a young, enthusiastic team that is eager to make an impact. You will help strengthen the team’s mission to connect fundamental wildlife ecology with the challenges of nature restoration in human-dominated multifunctional forest landscapes, especially in north-western Europe. Your research will focus on restoration-relevant themes, such as wildlife responses to anthropogenic change, the effectiveness of conservation interventions, and the contribution of wildlife to biodiversity recovery and nature restoration. Close collaboration with colleagues within and beyond Utrecht University is an important part of this role, as well as building sustainable partnerships with conservation practitioners and policymakers. You will combine fieldwork, experiments and biomonitoring (e.g. using sensor technologies) with laboratory, statistical and theoretical approaches. There is ample opportunity to initiate research projects and to acquire funding. In education, you will teach in the Biology programs, develop and coordinate a new course, and supervise research projects of BSc, MSc and PhD students.
Are you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration?
Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor!
Deadline for applications is February 19.
Please spread the word.
www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
What if we could map where individuals died —even if most of the mortality events remain unknown? Here, is our attempt to map mortality in the Scandinavian wolf population.
Great talk by @pierredupont31.bsky.social at #IWC2025 about population sex structure of bears in Norway 🐻🇳🇴
New paper on the relationship between forest quality in South-east Asia + mammal occupancy from camera-traps
Good forest matters #conservation #mammal #Asia
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
4/ Our study highlights the urgent need to protect and restore dense, tall-canopy forests for long-term mammal conservation.
3/ Species characteristics helped to understand species responses --> Habitat specialists and large-bodied species showed the strongest positive responses.
2/ 77% of species were more likely to occupy forests with higher canopy cover, height, and less disturbance. Only 5% responded negatively.
1/ 📷 We used data from 61 species, 627 camera-trap sites, and 11 landscapes in SE Asia to study how mammals respond to forest quality
🌳🐘 Forest quality matters 🐘🌳
Mammals in #tropical #forests from Southeast Asia thrive in higher-quality forests—those with dense canopies, tall and old trees. Read our new open-access paper👇
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With a fantastic team of co-authors! andrevallejovar.bsky.social
New on European conservation science:
Free-ranging domestic cats occur deep in the forests, with >10% occupancy even 1 km from homes. Their presence near edges suggests persistent risks to biodiversity well beyond suburbs.
Nyheim et al. in Conservation Science and Practice doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
New PhD position @mncn-csic.bsky.social to work on biodiversity risk assessments, together with @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social and myself. More details here:
www.anabenitezlopez.com/job-offer-ph...
NEW PAPER! Do you want to know how ocelots and agoutis interact in space AND time in #TropicalRainforests?🌳
Check our last paper led by Andrea Vallejo-Vargas and published @animalecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Exciting PhD position available at our group @uninmbu.bsky.social ! 🐺🐻
