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Vojtech Brlik

@ecobrlik.bsky.social
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CZ MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow | Ecology of Seasonal Bird Migration | #birdmigration #ecology #conservation | @uofguelph.bsky.social & @sciencecharles.bsky.social & @czechacademy.bsky.social 📩 www.ivb.cz/en/person/vojtech-brlik/ | vojtech.brlik[at]gmail.com

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Rising plant extinction rates on European mountain summits 🧪🌐🌾 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Rising plant extinction rates on European mountain summits
Climate change increases plant species richness in alpine ecosystems. However, to what extent this diversity enrichment masks extinction dynamics of resident species remains elusive. In this study, we...
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European Ornithologists' Union @eounion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🪶 CALL FOR PROPOSALS 🪶 16th European Ornithologists' Union Congress Brno, Czech Republic 23-27 August 2027 Do you have a research theme you’d like to bring to EOU? The call for symposia, round table discussions and pre-congress meetings is now open! Apply: www.eou27.cz/call-for-sym... #EOU2027
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Biotic interactions biogeography: A framework for understanding how species interactions shape biodiversity patterns across scales 🧪🌐https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003813
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Biotic interactions biogeography: A framework for understanding how species interactions shape biodiversity patterns across scales
Biogeography and ecology have long developed in parallel. This Essay explores how new data on species interactions across large scales now allow their integration, opening fresh insights into how biod...
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🌿 We are hiring a new 2-yr postdoc in @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuniint.bsky.social, on large-#herbivore ecology, trophic #rewilding & novel ecosystems- asking when alien & feral #ungulates enhance biodiversity & when they contribute to degradation🐪🐎🦓 Deadline: 28 June 2026. Details below 👇
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...
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Replication studies: a win-win for early-career training and behavioral ecology
Replicating previous research builds confidence that results are real and meaningful. But close replications are rare due to limitations in resources and d
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Great to see this new stable sulfur isotope map (δ34S) and its application for tracing outbreak dispersal events in insects! 🌐 Time to move on with the pan-African sulfur isoscape we work on. #insects #movement #migration #isotopes Paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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David López-Idiáquez @davididiaquez.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
In our new paper, published yesterday, we use the long-term data set of Wytham Woods to show that great tits have maintained stable temperature at breeding despite the almost 2ºC increase in Spring temperature. w. E. Cole, C. Regan & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social Link -> www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
We're accepting proposals for our Special Feature! We invite scientists and practitioners to share experiences from management projects that didn't go to plan, but still provided important insights into how best to manage ecosystems and species🌱 ⏰Submit by 30th April More here👇 buff.ly/EXXBFsJ
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 23/04/2026
🔊 PUBLISH WITH IBIS There are a multitude of reasons to submit your #ornithology manuscript to IBIS 🐦 1️⃣ IBIS is society-owned: your submissions support the BOU’s charitable activities and develop the ornithological community Read more: bou.org.uk/ibis/auth... 🧵⬇️
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Pablo Macias Torres @pablomaciastorres.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Small migratory birds cross deserts and seas as part of their annual migration. But how? Our new study shows how thrush nightingales do it: by flying night after night and stopping during the day, when they remain innactive🐦➡️(1/3) doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @royalsocietypublishing.org #BirdMigration
Figure in the main study showing the migration route and diurnal locomotion along their migratory journey
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Petr Procházka @rytikerttunen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🐦 New PhD position! @prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social Nest defence in passerine birds Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology? 📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded Apply by May 10 → veselp03@jcu.cz / krausl07@jcu.cz #PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I wonder how many migratory birds will not make it back to Europe this year. A 1000-km long dust wall combined with strong S winds is very likely lethal for many of them. #ornithology 🌐 #birdmigration #birds
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Dan Mennill @dmennill.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Looks like a fundamental study and approach ... Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature. Insects at high elevations utilize plasticity to cope with rising temperatures, whereas lowland species have limited plastic abilities. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌐
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Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature - Nature
A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal tolerance is limite...
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AviSample Network @avisample.net · 16/03/2026
NEW #avian #sample #metadata @avisample.net > 3,600 #feather samples from 11 duck species collected between 2007 and 2024 in the US and Canada! Explore AS05357–AS0588 here: avisample.net/samples #reuse #ornithology #birds
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Science Magazine @science.org · 07/03/2026
North American bird populations are not only declining, but they’re also shrinking faster with each passing year—particularly in regions shaped by intensive agriculture, according to a new study in Science. scim.ag/4bkrafP
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Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture
Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...
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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
The latest European Grassland Butterfly Indicator is out. It shows that grassland butterflies have declined by 47% since 1991, indicating a huge loss of grassland biodiversity. The data come from 16,150 transects & 15,000 volunteers. We are calling for urgent action. www.bc-europe.eu/documents/69...
Phengaris teleius (Scarce Large Blue) in a French meadow. One of the 17 species in the European Grassland Butterfly Index. Photo: Martin Warren)
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
If I were looking for a PhD topic right now, I wouldn’t hesitate for a second... Apply!!!! 🌐🦜🌍
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump has been in office for one year. We at @nature.com did a deep dive looking at the administration's disruption of science in numbers. Take a look—the numbers are staggering. By me, @dangaristo.bsky.social, Jeff Tollefson, @kimay.bsky.social, & help from @noamross.net @scott-delaney.bsky.social
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US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains
A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.
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Joseph Tobias @josephtobias.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A data collection mission that began in 2012 is finally released as AVONICHE. Designed as a companion to AVONET bird trait database and updated to Avilist taxonomy, it’s an Open Access dataset providing updated diets and a detailed breakdown of foraging behaviours used by all bird species. 🪶🌐
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.
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European Ornithologists' Union @eounion.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
We are happy to announce that the next EOU Conference will be in Brno, Czech Republic in 2027! Check our website eounion.org and follow us on social media for regular updates! #ornithology #EOU2027
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Thank you very much for your talk and contribution! The systematic mapping was kicked off successfully with >2,000 papers screened so far!
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Jakub Hrouda @kuba-hrouda.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Happy to be at #EOU2025! 🐦🏙️ If you want to know, how does urbanization impact migratory bird seasonal distribution (and you didn't manage to come to my poster yesterday), don't hesitate to find me and ask! @eounion.bsky.social
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SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Introducing "The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology" The first standardised set of data editor guidelines. Led by SORTEE with input from numerous data editors across ecology and evolution. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X24...
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The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
This is a Preprint and has not been peer reviewed. This is version 1 of this Preprint.
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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
If you think the seasons are feeling… different, you may be right. Our new review in Science (@science.org) shows that Earth’s changing rhythms could have major and underestimated consequences for life on Earth. 🌍🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ecological and evolutionary consequences of changing seasonality
Climate change and other anthropogenic drivers alter seasonal regimes across freshwater, terrestrial, and marine biomes. Seasonal patterns affect ecological and evolutionary processes at different eco...
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Important piece by Gittleman - “It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge..[the] One Health approach is unlimited, exciting, & necessary for the health of life on our planet” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌐🌾
Photo of the front page of the paper - showing animals and plants and people encircled across the globe - There needs to be more emphasis on the ecological component of One Health as we consider the problems of biodiversity loss, climate extremes, habitat fragmentation, and emerging disease. Image credit: Shutterstock/BeataGFX.
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Just a few days left to apply! PhD position on migration and demography of Blackpoll Warblers with @ryannorrissci.bsky.social - don’t miss your chance! #ornithology #birds #migration 🌐
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Martin Bulla @martinbulla.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We’re hiring a postdoc (2+ years) in macroecology and macroevolution in my new lab at CZU Prague: www.researchgate.net/job/1021667_...
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POSTDOCTORAL DATA SCIENTIST IN MACROECOLOGY AND MACROEVOLUTION (2+ YEARS IN PRAGUE) at Czech University of Life Sciences Prague in Prague, CZECHIA
May 12, 2025 | We invite applications for a full-time, two-year data scientist postdoctoralposition (with potential for an extension) spanning large-scale... | NEW JOB
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Another fantastic @bou.org.uk event! A full day at the museum combined with BSky conference. #BOUasm25 Don't miss the abstract deadline for oral presentations - it's coming up on 15 April! BSky-only abstracts have a bit more time - due late July. Find out more: bou.org.uk/event/a-day-...
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A day at the museum | #BOUasm25 - British Ornithologists' Union
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
2020. Seasonal dietary changes increase the abundances of savanna herbivore species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Seasonal dietary changes increase the abundances of savanna herbivore species
African savanna herbivores that migrate or change diets seasonally are more populous than their specialist counterparts.
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Ivan Jaric @ivanjaric.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
On #Bluesky, #Twitter, #Mastodon, common #altmetrics indices, and their biases and (un)reliability – our new paper now published in @plosbiology.org , with @pavelpipek.bsky.social & @ananovoaperez.bsky.social doi.org/10.1371/jour... #altmetric #plumx #socialmedia
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🚨 Don't miss your chance for early-bird registration for this fantastic conference! 🚨 🗓️ Early-bird registration deadline: 3 Feb 🔗 bou.org.uk/event/fronti...
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Frontiers in ornithology | #BOU2025
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Joachim Mergeay @jmergeay.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Our global meta-analysis of changes in genetic diversity across the entire tree of life indicates pervasive loss of intraspecific diversity, but there is a glimmer of hope: conservation actions and management interventions can indeed make a difference. 👇
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Javier Lazaro - scientific illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
And this is the paper figure of my Lonchura illustrations. Paper by Knief et al 2024 #Sciart
Paper figure with a philogenetic tree of different birds of the genus Lonchura and their geographical distribution. Paper by Knief et al 2024 published in Molecular Biology and Evolution.
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Michelle Wille @duckswabber.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Santiago Claramunt @sclaramunt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my lab at the University of New Orleans starting in Fall 2025. Research topics will focus on building and using phylogenies to study the diversification of birds, with an emphasis on Neotropical bird radiations. Contact me if interested.
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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
For my first post here, I’m happy to share our new paper just published in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Thanks to a great team effort, we made a small step forward in the study of Siberian vagrants in Europe and clarified the status of two (pseudo) vagrants: the YBW & the Sib Chiffchaff. Some results 🧵
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🚨 Internship Alert 🚨 Join us for research weaving of #birdmigration #ecology in Aug & Sep 2025. #ornithology 📍 Location: Brno, hosted by @czechacademy.bsky.social 💼 Funded: #EUFLYNET (www.euflynet.eu/stsms) 🔑 Required: R 🎯 Acquired: Systematic mapping If interested, 📩 CV & 300-word motivation📝
Research weaving integrates systematic and bibliometric mapping tools such as citation networks and the mapping of the geographic distributions of research activities. This figure was adopted from Nakagawa et al. 2018 TREE. Geographic distribution of affiliations reported in studies on topics associated with sexual selection. This is an example of the product the intern will work on using the data from screening of studies in avian migration ecology. Figure adopted from Pollo et al. 2014 Biological Reviews.
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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳ @ondrejmottl.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Exciting opportunity! 🌱Join our Lab of Quantitative Ecology at Charles University, Prague! 🇨🇿 Fully funded PhD in Functional Vegetation Paleoecology. 📅Start October 2025 - Apply by January 15 Details: bit.ly/PhD_Function...
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Great job by Raphaël Nussbaumer on the Kenya Bird Trends between 1970 and 2023! #ornithology #birds Check out the interactive website for more details: kenyabirdtrends.co.ke?mode=Species...
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Megan S. Reich @megansreich.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Super stoked to share our latest research on the migratory patterns of painted lady butterflies across the Sahara! 🦋🏜️ www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Trans-Saharan migratory patterns in Vanessa cardui and evidence for a southward leapfrog migration
Chemistry; Nature conservation; Ecology; Entomology
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Reposition of #sample #metadata has the potential to boost scientific impact in #biology. Right now @natureportfolio.bsky.social: nature.com/articles/d41... Our initiative was first introduced in @ibisjournal.bsky.social along with the @avisamplenet.bsky.social metadata repository. #ornithology
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Join @avisamplenet.bsky.social to share #metadata about your avian samples and grow your datasets collaboratively!🌍 It's free to use and connects you with fellow researchers, facilitating data exchange and collaboration in #ornithology. 🐦 #metadata #reuse
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Meta-analysis of geolocator effects on small birds. Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ornithology #metaanalysis #birdmigration
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Weak effects of geolocators on small birds: A meta‐analysis controlled for phylogeny and publication bias
Tagging slightly reduces only apparent survival of treated birds. The authors found stronger tagging effects when relatively heavier tags were used and no differences between published and unpublishe...
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
15 000 fieldworkers | 28 countries | decades of effort | 170 #bird species🐦 Data paper on European long-term population changes in #birds: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #ornithology
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Long-term and large-scale multispecies dataset tracking population changes of common European breeding birds - Scientific Data
Measurement(s) population Technology Type(s) Count Factor Type(s) time scale • geographic location Sample Characteristic - Organism Aves Sample Characteristic - Location Europe Machine-accessible meta...
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The effects of weather on a migratory🐦population High survival fluctuation📈+ Unknown migration pattern🌍+ Weather conditions year-round🌦️ Paper: nature.com/articles/s41... Joint effort with Veli-Matti Pakanen
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Survival fluctuation is linked to precipitation variation during staging in a migratory shorebird - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Survival fluctuation is linked to precipitation variation during staging in a migratory shorebird
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Vojtech Brlik @ecobrlik.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Large-scale δ34S #sulfur isotopic #map for #biodiversity #hotspot in #Africa and its application in #birdmigration.🌍 Free-to-use isotopic maps: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Paper: doi.org/10.1111/1365... #ornithology #forensics #wildlife
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