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Conor Waldock

@conorwaldock.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Biogeography at Trinity College Dublin. Researching biodiversity change under human influences.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If nature underpins the economy, why do biodiversity-rich countries in the Global South have such high poverty levels? Because their natural wealth has historically attracted colonisers, and “colonisation drove colonised countries towards natural resource exportation with weakened governance” !!!
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Systemic bio‐inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Conor Waldock @conorwaldock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
🐟 🎉 Research opportunity alert! 🚨 🐟 A fully funded 2-year Master’s by Research (MSc) is available on the “Stability of European freshwater fish communities under multiple environmental changes” with myself and Prof. Ian Donohue. Please apply or share!
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Ole Seehausen @oleseehausen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If biodiversity matters for prosperity, why are all the rich countries poor in biodiversity while those with great biodiversity are economically poor? In People and Nature we resolve this paradox and call for a reframing of the conservation agenda besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/IBRPPA...
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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🌿Systemic bio-inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox "By gaining the attention of colonists, biodiversity is also related to the neocolonial structures maintaining modern poverty..." 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/EYZymuq
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Neftalí Sillero @neftalisillero.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Our last contribution is a review on correlative ecological niche models' overfitting. We examined diagnostic approaches and evaluated modelling practices related to sampling bias, predictor choice, study area definition, model complexity and regularisation. doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
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When Good Fit Goes Bad: Identifying and Minimising Overfitting in Ecological Niche Models
Aim To synthesise current understanding of overfitting as a pervasive and often underdiagnosed problem in correlative ecological niche models (ENMs), and to assess its consequences for model interpr...
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Systemic bio-inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Systemic bio-inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Conor Waldock @conorwaldock.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Our new pre-print exposes how the global link between poverty and biodiversity is rooted in colonial exploitation of biological resources. 🌎🌐 #decolonisingconservation #conservation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Systemic bio-inequity links poverty to biodiversity and induces a conservation paradox
Biodiversity is declining globally, and poverty rates are not improving, so sustainable development initiatives aim to jointly reduce biodiversity loss and alleviate poverty. These initiatives expect ...
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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Developing a predictive science of the biosphere requires the integration of scientific cultures | PNAS
Increasing the speed of scientific progress is urgently needed to address the many challenges associated with the biosphere in the Anthropocene. Co...
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I really do wish researchers & journalists would stop stating that ‘humans are responsible’ for catastrophic biodiversity decline. The Q of ‘which humans’ matters here. It’s time to call out the global capitalist system as the driver of losses instead. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Biodiversity loss in all species and every ecosystem linked to humans – report
Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts
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Bernhard Wegscheider @bwegscheider.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Restoring habitats is critical to support fish populations in Switzerland. 🐟Check out this interview by Uniaktuell with @conorwaldock.bsky.social and myself on how species distribution models can help us in identifying priority regions for conservation and restoration of fish habitats.
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Universität Bern @unibe.ch · 12/03/2025
Die Schweizer #Fischbestände sind, insbesondere durch die Verbauung der #Gewässer gefährdet. Ein Projekt der @wyssacademy.bsky.social, #unibern & @eawag.bsky.social setzt sich für die Renaturierung ein, um die Lebensräume der heimischen Fischarten zu bewahren. www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2025/hier_lo...
Zitat von Conor Waldock, Institut für Ökologie und Evolution: "90% der potenziellen Fischlebensräume sind durch menschliche Einflüsse beeinträchtigt."
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/03/2025
Let's talk about this Nature piece in more detail. I've rarely read something so anti-scientific anywhere short of the National Review. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Deconstructing the geography of human impacts on species’ natural distribution 🌎🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Deconstructing the geography of human impacts on species’ natural distribution - Nature Communications
Explainable Artificial Intelligence can improve conservation decisions by revealing hidden insights to where human impacts on biodiversity are greatest. In this investigation of freshwater fish in Swi...
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Universität Bern @unibe.ch · 06/03/2025
The Barbatula #fish species newly discovered by researchers @unibern.bsky.social @wyssacademy.bsky.social #NaturhistorischesMuseumBern @eawag.bsky.social now have #names! They are called «fluvicola» und «ommata». mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas...
Two fish talk to each other. One fish says to the other: Hey, we now have been given our names! The other replies happily: Oh, great, I'm glad you are ...?
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Can Higher Education be Decolonised? A forthcoming book describes attempts to apply decolonial practices at the University of Bristol. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/can-highe...
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Can Higher Education be Decolonised
This open access book critically reflects on what it has meant to embark on a process of decolonising higher education at a Global North institution – namely th…
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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André Menegotto @andremenegotto.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Occurrence records currently available may be insufficient to capture the latitudinal gradient of marine diversity. Computer simulations show that sampling bias persists even with the use of different richness estimators. 🌎🧪🦑 #Macroecology #MarineEcology 👇 Out now in GEB!
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Sampling Simulation in a Virtual Ocean Reveals Strong Sampling Effect in Marine Diversity Patterns
Aim Undersampling and other sources of sampling bias pose significant issues in marine macroecology, particularly when shaping conservation and management decisions. Yet, determining the extent to w...
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STAT @statnews.com · 03/02/2025
The professional society for microbiologists began stripping content about Black, female, and LGBTQ+ scientists from its website in the last few days, angering its members and highlighting the reach of President Trump’s directives.
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Removal of DEI content from a microbiology group’s website shows reach of Trump executive orders
The professional society for microbiologists stripped content about Black, female, and LGBTQ scientists from its website
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.
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Eawag Aquatic Research @eawag.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Take part in choosing the names of two new fish species that researchers have recently discovered: www.aqua.iee.unibe.ch/research/res...
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Conor Waldock @conorwaldock.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Help us choose a name for a new fish species hiding in Swiss rivers and lakes! Led by Bárbara Calegari, we discovered two species of small but beautiful stone loaches (Barbatula). Overlooked for hundreds of years, but now properly documented. The first step to protecting biodiversity.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Excited to announce this new article, a comprehensive review of recent research on post-growth — the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries. Published in the Lancet Planetary Health with a brilliant team of authors. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries
There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we expl...
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SeaAroundUs @seaaroundus.org · 20/01/2025
ICYMI: The Africa-UBC Oceans and Fisheries Visiting Fellows Program offers Fellows $23K in funding for research, travel, & accommodations. Apply for 2025! 🌊 bit.ly/blog197sau
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Visiting Fellows selected for inaugural cohort of the Africa-UBC Oceans and Fisheries Visiting Fellows Program | Sea Around Us
The Africa-UBC Visiting Fellows Program came about as the brainchild of Drs Rashid Sumaila and Daniel Pauly.
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Matthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
An interesting read in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social Extinction of experience among ecologists www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.
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Conor Waldock @conorwaldock.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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Firma la petizione
APPELLO PER IL TAGLIAMENTO - PETITION FOR THE TAGLIAMENTO - PETITION FÛR DEN TAGLIAMENTO
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Paul Ganderton @ecogeog.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Interesting to see the argument that #patriarchy is a key cause in environmental degradation and effectiveness in #conservation of #biodiversity and that this extends to knowledge production as well. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Mapping the patriarchy in conservation - npj Biodiversity
npj Biodiversity - Mapping the patriarchy in conservation
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Dr. Thilina Surasinghe @thilinas.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
AI offers powerful tools for #conservation but also poses risks—bias, resource demands, and unintended impacts on #biodiversity. 🦤🌍🌐
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University of Exeter CEC @uniexecec.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
PhD Studentship Scholarship Opportunity! 🧑🏾‍🔬 This programme offers 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships to support Black British researchers. 💻 For more information and to apply, visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... #ExeterCEC 🧪
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William (Bill) Sutherland @billsutherland.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Tatsuya Amano has shown that just reading the English literature misses 35% of the science, yet this is rarely included in syntheses or global assessments. The problem is much greater in many biodiverse areas. He is determined to change this. youtu.be/ky0TAnMOlfA?...
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Basing conservation on the global literature
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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Martin Genner @mgenner.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
The responses of freshwater fish to global warming. Our analyses in @pnas.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Made possible by #RivFishTIME
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Steve Thackeray @thackers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Insightful and important talk from Tatsuya Amano - by failing to search for non English language research, we limit and bias our ecological understanding and the evidence that could be used for conservation #BES2024 @britishecolsoc.bsky.social @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social
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Dr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
**Black UK PhD students** Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend -Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences -Faculty of Health and Life Sciences **Tell everyone** www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Black heritage PhD scholarships | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol
We welcome applications for full scholarships to postgraduate research programmes starting in 2025.
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Paul Ganderton @ecogeog.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Another attempt to use a system that created the problem to solve it - theconversation.com/a-new-global...
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A new global carbon trading market could be held hostage by speculators
There are lessons from the EU’s highly financialised cap-and-trade market.
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Bryan P. Galligan SJ @galligansj.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A lot of work on fisheries and nutrition (including my own) has looked at the nutrient content of fish catches. This paper finds important differences between the nutrients available in coral reef ecosystems and what is captured by fishers. 🦑🧪🐠 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Micronutrient levels of global tropical reef fish communities differ from fisheries capture
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Dr. Camille Pagniello (she/her/elle) @fishysounds.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Latest work on Atlantic bluefin #tuna tagged off the coast of Norway showing their extensive annual migrations, high site-fidelity and dynamic vertical diving behaviour in the Atlantic #Ocean & Mediterranean Sea: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #fisheries #oceanography #movementecology
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Conor Waldock @conorwaldock.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
What is a species "shadow distribution"? This infographic helps communicate "shadow distributions" with stakeholders and environmental managers. We used species distribution models to quantify this conservation concept for Swiss fishes. 🌐🌎 #macroecology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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BWEEMS @official-bweems.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hi Bluesky! We are BWEEMS, Black Women in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Science. A non-profit dedicated to amplifying and supporting Black women in EEMS spaces! It's nice to be here! 🐟 🪴 🐊 www.bweems.org
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Black Women in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Science
BWEEMS is a global network of Black Women driving innovation in ecology, evolution, and marine science despite being historically overlooked and isolated in the field.
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Conor Waldock @conorwaldock.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Anyone else wondering how starter packs might reinforce existing White, European, and American scientific networks…? A tiny number of the 100,000 starter packs consciously addressing this bias in biology and conservation: go.bsky.app/DsJrwR go.bsky.app/DRb8i9v
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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The Society for Freshwater Science Resh/Rosenberg Africa/Asia Travel Award is now open. It will support 2 recipients, providing each with US$2.5K plus coverage for registration fees to attend the next SFS meeting in Puerto Rico in May 2025. www.sfsannualmeeting.org/resh-rosenberg
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Resh/Rosenberg Africa/Asia Travel Award — SFS 2025
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Lewis A. Jones (he/him) @lewisajones.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
📢Fully-funded PhD scholarship available for underrepresented ethnic groups within UCL Earth Sciences. Please get in touch if you are interested in: - Corals🪸 - Marine biodiversity📈 - Macroecology 🌏 - Conservation Palaeobiology🐚 More info (inc. eligibility): www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc...
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UCL Earth Sciences Ph.D. scholarship
Applications are open to the UCL Earth Sciences Ph.D. scholarship. The scholarship is meant to support underrepresented groups at the Ph.D. level. The deadline for applications is on January 23rd 2025
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Conor Waldock @conorwaldock.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“Scientists need to recognize that bold presentation, dissemination, and support of scientific knowledge has become both a basic commitment and a political act.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
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Garry Peterson @resiliencesci.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes Bowler+ doi.org/10.1002/pan3... "Anthropogenic Threat Complexes (ATCs), distinguished by different sets of drivers with varying intensities"
Geography of the Anthropocene. Different geographical regions of the world are exposed to different Anthropogenic Threat Complexes (labelled I–XI). In the world map, each colour in each realm denotes a region exposed to the same ATC. The bar charts below are a legend for the colours of the map that describe the magnitudes of climate change and non-climatic drivers in each ATC. Similar ATCs across realms are shaded with the same colour. The bars represent the lower and upper quartiles of the intensities of variables within each driver group (climate change or non-climatic drivers that included human use, pollution and alien species potential)
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Excellent Book of the Year choices for @historyextra.bsky.social from Kavita Puri! Honoured to be in the company of William Dalrymple and Shalina Patel.
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Conor Waldock @conorwaldock.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A challenge in predicting #biodiversity change is a lack of high spatio-temporal resolution data from genetic diversity to community interactions. Statistical assessment of mechanistic eco-evo modes to the rescue? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Statistical methods to identify mechanisms in studies of eco-evolutionary dynamics
While the reciprocal effects of ecological and evolutionary dynamics are increasingly recognized as an important driver for biodiversity, detection of…
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Bernhard Wegscheider @bwegscheider.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We are sampling with our team deep-water sculpins in Lago Maggiore this week. Amazing diversity at a beautiful location. 🐟🚤 #freshwaterbiodiversity
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Dan Warren @danlwarren.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
So good to have this one finally out! A massive effort by a very large group of authors to give a sort of view from space of the current ecosystem of niche modeling and distribution modeling software. I think this will be a really useful resource! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software
The increasing online availability of biodiversity data and advances in ecological modeling have led to a proliferation of open-source modeling tools. In particular, R packages for species distributi....
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Bernhard Wegscheider @bwegscheider.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
New paper alert! We show that the joint consideration of barriers and species past, current and future distributions are critical for river connectivity restoration plans to ensure the recovery and persistence of riverine fish diversity in Switzerland. 🐟🐟 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Neglecting biodiversity baselines in longitudinal river connectivity restoration impacts priority setting
River habitats are fragmented by barriers which impede the movement and dispersal of aquatic organisms. Restoring habitat connectivity is a primary ob…
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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
There are many ways in which the potential marriage of the goals tackling climate change and restoring biodiversity is a good thing. But also real dangers of an abusive relationship if biodiversity is subordinated to an overpowering drive for carbon sequestration and biofuels.
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The climate and biodiversity crises are entwined, but we risk pitting one against the other
In our race to cool the planet, we must not compromise the ecosystems on which we depend.
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