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Andrea Santangeli

@andreasantangeli.bsky.social
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Researcher at GEDA_IMEDEA IMEDEA_UIB_CSIC Conservation science | applied ecology | evidence-based conservation | #humans & #vultures

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Emma-Liina Marjakangas @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📢 Postdoc opportunity in interaction networks under global change @ University of Helsinki! The position includes leading fieldwork & analyses on seed dispersal networks & mentoring junior researchers. Apply by 30 Sept: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #Postdoc #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation
Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation
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Nature @nature.com · 05/07/2026
A journal trialled paying their reviewers and found it led to faster first editorial decisions – and increased review quality go.nature.com/3RcRfpY
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Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief
Nature - A biology journal which paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.
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Stefano Mammola @stefanomammola.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Who is making jokes at scientific conferences? Which type of joke land? To find out, we collected quantitative data on jokes at 14 scientific conferences – now published OA in @royalsociety.org ProcB: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... w/ @rcorreia.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social and more
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 15/03/2026
The landmark IPBES Business and Biodiversity Report found that global economic growth occurs at the expense of biodiversity, the loss of which poses a critical, systemic risk to the economy & human wellbeing. 🎥 Watch this short video to learn more. 🔗 www.ipbes.net/bba-report/media-rele…
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Aleksi Lehikoinen @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Our research was picked up by the top Swedish newspaper! @dagensnyheter.bsky.social interviewed @josephinecouet.bsky.social on elevational shifts of birds in the Swedish (and other European) mountains.Utmärkt! www.dn.se/varlden/klim... @hkilabornithology.bsky.social @helsinki.fi @nathist.bsky.social
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Klimatförändringar driver fåglarna högre upp i de svenska fjällen
I genomsnitt har många fåglar flyttat knappt tio meter högre upp sedan millennieskiftet. Förändringen sker snabbast i den svenska fjällvärlden.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 06/01/2026
Evolution doesn’t always take thousands or millions of years. Sometimes it happens right before our eyes. Such is the case with the Anna’s hummingbird, a species that has undergone a dramatic transformation in a few generations, thanks to the advent of hummingbird feeders: scim.ag/3YMuQQu
Bird feeders have caused a dramatic evolution of California hummingbirds
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FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology @africanornithology.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Many indigobird species look alike, so their songs are the best way to tell them apart. In Nigeria, an undescribed firefinch species was discovered after an indigobird was recorded mimicking its song, later identified as the Rock firefinch. #AfricanOrnithology doi.org/10.1111/j.14...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/12/2025
Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?
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More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance
A survey of 1,600 academics found that more than 50% have used artificial-intelligence tools while peer reviewing manuscripts.
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Society for Conservation Biology @society4conbio.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The call for abstracts for #ECCB26 is now open! Researchers, policymakers + practitioners are invited to submit their abstracts for oral presentations, posters, or speed talks by 15 Feb, 2026. We hope to see you in Leiden! #conservation #networking #conference
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/11/2025
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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Aleksi Lehikoinen @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New paper out about elevational shifts in European birds lead by @josephinecouet.bsky.social: "Solar Radiation Affects Bird Distributions but Not Elevational Shifts in European Mountains" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social @ebcc.info
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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR
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Laura Bosco @laurabosco.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Grazing cattle at low intensities could sustain biodiversity on modern farms: new paper out in AGEE doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... www.helsinki.fi/en/news/envi... @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social @irinaherzon.bsky.social @johanekroos.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social et al.
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Grazing cattle at low intensities could sustain biodiversity on modern farms | University of Helsinki
A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Helsinki emphasises the important role of low-intensity cattle grazing in maintaining biodiversity on modern farms.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"
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Ben Wagner @gliderhabitat.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Happy to be able to share that our work investigating the efficacy of thermal #drones for nocturnal #wildlife surveys is finally published in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecological applications: doi.org/10.1002/eap..... Find a summary in @theconversation.com here: theconversation.com/drones-with-...
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Drones with thermal cameras are revealing the secrets of elusive Australian forest wildlife
The new technology will help scientists monitor and protect some of Australia’s most iconic and threatened forest species.
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Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow
The cure is likely to be worse than the disease.
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Andrea Santangeli @andreasantangeli.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
How not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster
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‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster
Some days it can feel as if climate catastrophe is inevitable. But history is full of cases – such as the banning of whaling and CFCs – that show humanity can come together to avert disaster
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Andrea Santangeli @andreasantangeli.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The economics of a livable planet
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Reboot Development: The Economics of a Livable Planet
New World Bank report: Find out about how policymakers can connect the dots across land, air, and water sectors to drive strong, sustainable economic growth at the national-level and unlock major glob...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 06/09/2025
A recent study shows that people are able to perceive biodiversity through sights & sounds, and those perceptions correlate with the actual biodiversity of a natural place. The study adds to a growing body of research on biodiversity perception & its connections to human mental health & well-being.
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How do we perceive biodiversity? We can see it & hear it
In the verdant and melodious depths of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where the songs of birds match the murmur of leaves, several Indigenous people affirm the results of research that…
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Nature @nature.com · 03/09/2025
How is this possible? This ant can lay eggs of two different species, birthed by the same mother
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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
It was fun analysing birding data instead of bird data! Read on to find out the predictors of where eBirders go birding around the world!
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Society for Conservation Biology - Europe @scbeurope.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
New on conservation science: Coexistence with large carnivores is a conservation challenge. Revisiting Volterra principle (more mortality on both prey and predators leads to more prey & fewer predators) can inform modern conservation strategies. Boyce et al. in Cons. Biol. doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
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Conservation Science and Practice @conservationsp.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
In this article, Eckert et al examine stakeholder conflict over endangered #killerwhale protection, determining identity-based roots of conflict and opportunities towards transformation. 🌊Learn more at doi.org/10.1111/csp2... #conservation #science
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Identifying opportunities toward conflict transformation in an Orca‐Salmon‐Human system
We examine stakeholder conflict over endangered killer whale protection, determining identity-based roots of conflict and opportunities towards transformation.
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Line Cordes @linecordes.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Very happy to share that our paper presenting a framework for optimal movement decisions in complex landscapes has just been published in TREE @stephharris.bsky.social @jacobnabe.bsky.social tinyurl.com/d45s36y5
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Andrea Santangeli @andreasantangeli.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Under-five mortality burden in low- and middle-income countries set to increase under future warming: www.cell.com/one-earth/ab...
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Under-five mortality burden in low- and middle-income countries set to increase under future warming
Zhu et al. provide the global perspective that high-temperature exposure increased the under-5 child mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs). The child mortality burden attributable to c...
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Andrea Santangeli @andreasantangeli.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
@geda-imedea.bsky.social @imedea.bsky.social @theperegrinefund.bsky.social @conservnamibia.bsky.social @africanornithology.bsky.social
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Andrea Santangeli @andreasantangeli.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Mass poisoning is decimating African vultures. We quantified cost-effectiveness of GPS-tagged sentinel vultures to mitigate this threat. Few sentinels can save lots of vultures—but fast ground response is key. Super relevant study led by Teja Curk: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats
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An R package for working with generalized additive models
Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.
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Phil Levin @phillevin.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
When democracy falters, science is among the first casualties—truth silenced, data erased, expertise sidelined. But history shows us: scientists can build independent institutions that preserve truth, counter misinformation, and defend both knowledge and democracy. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientists’ role in defending democracy
The United States’ democratic leadership, commitment to freedom of expression, and investment in the pursuit of knowledge have long enabled its preeminence in science and technology. Yet today we are ...
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Luca Santini @lsantinieco.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Important paper! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Correcting environmental sampling bias improves transferability of species distribution models
Sampling bias is an inherent problem in widely available biodiversity data, undermining the robustness of correlative species distribution models (SDMs). To some extent, subsampling occurrence data c...
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A systematic review evaluating the performance of eDNA methods relative to conventional methods for biodiversity monitoring vist.ly/4372j #eDNA #Metabarcoding
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Catherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I love this paper on primate diversification (tl;dr, early primates diversified out of colder climates) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The radiation and geographic expansion of primates through diverse climates | PNAS
One of the most influential hypotheses about primate evolution postulates that their origin, radiation, and major dispersals were associated with e...
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Gates Dupont @gates.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species
Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.
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Andrea Santangeli @andreasantangeli.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hi Diego, sure, please email me: andrea.santangeli@gmail.com
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Andrea Santangeli @andreasantangeli.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🦅 Call for #cameraTrap collaborators! 📸 Do you have camera trap data focused on med/large carcasses from S & C America? Get in touch & join our #SCAVENGIST project to uncover scavenger roles in carcass consumption & implic. for pathogen transmission under global change. DM me
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 26/05/2025
Researchers in Costa Rica found that pig carcasses decomposed twice as fast when vultures had access to them. The absence of vultures led to a doubling of fly populations at carcass sites, which could affect human health, since these flies can carry diseases like botulism and anthrax.
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Without vultures, carcasses are slow to rot and disease-carrying flies abound
“Absolutely disgusting, so grim, the worst fieldwork of my life, but also extremely rewarding in a very odd way,” said Julia Grootaers, describing her three months collecting data among rotting pig…
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Arjun Amar @arjundevamar.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Our new paper just out in Ecology & Evolution journal Applied Solutions to Balance Conservation Need With Practical Applications: A Case Study With Eagles Movement Models and Wind Energy Development Led by Megan Murgatroyd doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #RaptorResearch #ornithology
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Applied Solutions to Balance Conservation Need With Practical Applications: A Case Study With Eagles Movement Models and Wind Energy Development
Wind energy development is known to negatively impact birds through collisions with turbines. Predictive space use models can be useful for identifying areas which should be designated for the conser...
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 11/04/2025
ICYMI: New online! Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests
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Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 04 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00038-9Insect biodiversity in tropical forests is poorly understood but is probably facing declines, with serious consequences for ecosystem functions and services. This Review describes the major threats to insect biodiversity, which include the effects of a burgeoning human population and of climate change. The authors further highlight the urgent need for greater efforts to measure and monitor insect biodiversity in the tropics and discuss emerging approaches to facilitate such studies.
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Aleksi Lehikoinen @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Our new paper: How e.g. bird and mammal species influence bird-feeding practices of humans based on a questionnaire in Finland. Thanks for the collaboration @aivelo.bsky.social @informedbirds.bsky.social @katjaronka.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social @annaha.bsky.social @flewrabi.bsky.social
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Szymek Drobniak @szymekdr.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
@nature.com has just published online our new paper!🎉🐸🌡️Lead by @patricepottier.bsky.social and supervised by myself and @itchyshin.bsky.social: in this massive research effort we overcome several common convictions related to the topics we studied. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here are take-homes.
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Vulnerability of amphibians to global warming - Nature
A 4 °C global temperature increase would push 7.5% of amphibian species beyond their physiological limits.
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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I am incredibly excited to see our SpeciesNet model released!! This represents years of work by the @wildlifeinsights.bsky.social AI team (and completely impossible without the amazing Ștefan Istrate's AI development and implementation). Github: github.com/google/camer... Blog: bit.ly/4i5cKBs
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GitHub - google/cameratrapai: AI models trained by Google to classify species in images from motion-triggered widlife cameras.
AI models trained by Google to classify species in images from motion-triggered widlife cameras. - google/cameratrapai
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Head over to the Methods Blog to find out the story behind YOLO-Behaviour, a framework for automated behavioural coding from videos! 🐦 @alexhhchan.bsky.socical buff.ly/3Xft0ax
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Laura Antao @lauraantao.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Happy to share we have a new postdoc position in "Biogeography of genetic diversity changes or Macrogenetics" at @utu.fi to work on large-scale patterns of genetic diversity using Lepidoptera= moths and butterflies 🦋🦋 Applications are open until March 10! ats.talentadore.com/apply/tutkij...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New review: #Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms "we show negative responses of the growth, reproduction, behaviour and other biomarkers within terrestrial and aquatic systems" "results question the sustainability of current pesticide use" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pesticides have negative effects on non-target organisms - Nature Communications
Pesticides affect a diverse range of non-target species and the magnitude of this hazard remains only partially understood. Wan et al. found that insecticides, fungicides and herbicides have negative ...
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Rachel Neugarten @rachelneugarten.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
OPEN DATA ALERT World Bank created a Global Biodiversity Species Global Grid database, based on data from GBIF and machine-based pattern recognition to generate species occurrence maps 🧪🌍https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/a-new-world-bank-database-to-support-a-new-era-in-biodiversity-c
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A new World Bank database to support a new era in biodiversity conservation
The World Bank's new biodiversity database includes over 600,000 species, providing critical, high-resolution data to enhance conservation strategies and support global initiatives like the 30x30 fram...
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Society for Conservation Biology - Europe @scbeurope.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New on global conservation science: (Sea)birds die of avian influenza. When kleptoparasite birds steal food, they can contract & spread the virus. Thus, monitoring kleptoparasites for the virus would aid in early detection. Gorta et al. in Cons. Let. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Catherine Grueber @cegrueber.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Out now in @nature.com! Our comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation interventions that could mitigate this process www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🦤🧬 #consgen #PopGen
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Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss - Nature
A comprehensive meta-analysis of global terrestrial and marine genetic diversity covering more than three decades of research demonstrates rapid loss of genetic diversity and identifies conservation i...
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Andrea Santangeli @andreasantangeli.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
In this commentary in @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social with S. Lambertucci & P. Plaza we expose the huge toll of the current Avian Influenza virus panzootics on biodiversity, ecosystems, and cascading effects on human society via the loss of Ecosystem Services. @imedea.bsky.social #AvianFlu #Panzootics
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The threat of avian influenza H5N1 looms over global biodiversity - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
The highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is an emerging and unexpected threat to many wild animal species, which has implications for ecological processes, ecosystem services and conservation of thr...
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Sofia Bolumar @turriachedda.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑‍🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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