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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Bridging the implementation gap: From predator control to non-lethal impact-based intervention🌏 Through a co-designed experiment with practitioner & community engagement, this study evaluated the effects of diversionary feeding as a non-lethal strategy to reduce predation🧪 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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Anna Kellner🌲🌻 @annakellner.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Check out my BlueSky talk at #BOUatEOU on rewilding Excited to share my research at #BOUatEOU on breeding failure of tawny owls (Strix aluco) in commercial plantations 🦉🌲 How do owls deal with changing food availability and the return of a new nest predator? #ornithology #predation #prey-switching

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Jack Bamber @jackantbam.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Check out my bluesky talk for #BOUatEOU. We found that diversionary feeding is a suitable impact based tool to reduce conflicts between recovering predators (pine marten) and endangered ground nesting birds (cappercaillie) in Scottish Forests. 🧪🌍🦤🍁

A large black bird (male cappercaillie) sits to the left of the image. He has a large red crest above his eye and large fanned tail feathers.

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Jack Bamber @jackantbam.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Check out these amazing wildlife images! One of the runners up was a picture from my cappercaillie monitoring! 📸

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Amber Cowans (she/her) @ambercowans.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓 Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️

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Sample size considerations for species co‐occurrence models

Multispecies occupancy models are widely applied to infer interactions in the occurrence of different species, but convergence and estimation issues under realistic sample sizes are common. We conduc...

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Interestingly, I have noticed a reticence to consider options other than population control when managing invasive species. We wrote about it here academic.oup.com/bioscience/a.... 🌐 #bioinvasions

Screenshot of the first paragraph of the conclusions of the paper by Garcia-Diaz et al. The highlighted text read 'Relying on species-based control is not a guaranteed approach for the long-term management of IAS impacts, as many policies and strategies assume. IAS control should be seen as one of a wider range of potential interventions available for impact-based long-term management policies and strategies. We stress that IAS control remains vital, but this is not the only intervention available, nor should it be taken as a synonym for long-term management of IAS.'

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Jack Bamber @jackantbam.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

New perspective out today in @jappliedecology.bsky.social. We reflect on co-producing evidence in an effort to bridge the implementation gap, for evidence based, impact focused predator control. What worked, what didn't and where barriers to implimentation still remain. You can't win them all... 🧪

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Jack Bamber @jackantbam.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

🚨 New publication 📝 Out today in the royal society proceedings B. We find that diversionary feeding boosts productivity of cappercaille from 0.82 to 1.90. Indicating that this impact based method can effectively reduce the influence of predation. Read all about it here: shorturl.at/QRb76

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Tilly S Scott @tillysscott.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Check out Jack's new paper! Diversionary feeding of predators (in this case a Pine Martin) increases the breeding success of Capercaillie, as fewer eggs get stolen #SciArt

Cartoon pine Martin eats a chicken leg provided as diversionary feeding. This equals a cartoon capercaillie having more eggs in it's nest

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Jack Bamber @jackantbam.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

⏰New Research ⏰ We quantified the direct impact of diversionary feeding on capercaillie productivity. We show an increase in the proportion of hen with a brood in DF sites (37% -> 85%) and, as a result, a 131% increase in chicks per hen. Read more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 1/7

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