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Postdoc - University of Cumbria, UK 🇬🇧🇺🇬🐾📸 • carnivore ecology 🦁🐆 • camera trapping 📸 • UK/African wildlife 🦊🦡🦔 • Chelsea FC ⚽🔵 robdavisresearch.weebly.com

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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We have TWO postdoc positions available in our research group at University of Cumbria! Human-predator-prey dynamics: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSY109/p... This post will contribute to our ongoing research in Murchison Falls NP, Uganda, and involve satellite collar & camera trap data 🇺🇬🦁🦌
A Ugandan kob with a satellite collar
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh man this is so sad In May I finally got to see #GlenHansard in Manchester after years of missing him on tour being based overseas Truly a top musician & anyone unfamiliar with his music should go check it out A huge loss to music. Rest in peace, Glen www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard killed in crash
Hansard, who was 56, won the best song Oscar for the 2007 low-budget musical film Once.
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
My wife 🇺🇸 & I 🇬🇧 applied for a spousal visa to the UK Our application was rejected (I'll get on to that) but first, read this statement from the rejection letter Now imagine they are telling this to families who might have been apart for months, in extremely difficult circumstances, it's shameful
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FatBear wildlife science solutions @fatbear-bio.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Course is filling up quickly, but there are still some spots available until the minimum of 10 participants is reached. Grab your spot!
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Philip Stephens @ps-wildlife-res.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
📢 Competition funded PhD with @iapetusdtp.bsky.social: Occupancy, density & the ecology of terrestrial British mammals - what can years of systematic camera trapping tell us? Apply by 5th January 2026. 👇 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... @mammalweb.bsky.social @ptes-org.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk #phd
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
A great opportunity for anyone looking to develop their skills with movement data and spatial analysis! 🗺️📊 Julien (@fatbear-bio.bsky.social 🐻) has delivered this course twice at NMU and it's been hugely beneficial for our students and external participants! Plus... NAMIBIA! 🤩🇳🇦
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Cole Burton @coleburton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
There are 3 exciting postdoctoral openings to work on biodiversity research, monitoring and conservation with us at UBC - check them out! 2 positions: biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and... 1 position: science-bcbiodiversitynetwork-2025.sites.olt.ubc.ca/opportunities/
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2-year (2026-2028) - 2 positions OPENAt UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in resea...
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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Mason Fidino, PhD @masonfidino.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ecologists have limited options when modelling species distributions through time, especially when data are limited. The autoOcc R package provides a solution to this, making it simple to fit autologistic occupancy models, compare them, and make model predictions.
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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🦔📉Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal 📷 © 1 Emily Clark 2 Hongli Yu vist.ly/4c62s #ErinaceusEuropaeus #LandscapesOfFear #MelesMeles #PopulationEcology #SpatialCaptureRecapture #SpatiotemporalCovariateHeterogeneity
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Elise Say-Sallaz @elisesaysallaz.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🦁🐆🐾 Lions, leopards, and spotted hyaenas share the African savanna—but how do they coexist at such fine scales? Our new study in Oikos reveals the hidden dance of predators. doi.org/10.1002/oik....
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African large carnivores in space and time: insights from camera‐traps on the fine‐scale spatio‐temporal dynamics of lions, spotted hyaenas and leopards
Coexistence of sympatric large carnivores is common in many ecosystems. On the one hand, the potential for competitive interactions, from kleptoparasitism to intraguild predation, is high, so species...
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Laura Bertola @lauradbertola.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
📣📣📣 CONSERVATION GENETICS WORKSHOP - Few more spaces left! ConGen Population Genomic Data Analysis Course 🧬💻💡 University of Pretoria, South Africa 🌍 7-14 December + field trip to Kruger NP! 🦁🐃🐘🐆🦏 More info & registration here: www.umt.edu/congen/africa/
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Congratulations to Hongli Yu for leading this huge effort investigating hedgehog density over an 11-year period from Brackenhurst Campus, Nottinghamshire nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We estimated 🦔 density between 2009-2022, accounting for habitat features & 🦡 presence
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Habitat and predator heterogeneity influence density of a declining mammal
Accurate density estimates are crucial for effective conservation management. However, in highly dynamic landscapes where variation in habitat composition and predator–prey interactions in both space...
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
TFW your student wins the award for the best MSc talk at the conference! Go Yasmin! Cc @robdavis1104.bsky.social
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
A blog post on our recent Mostela paper looking at the methods' applicability for small carnivore monitoring!
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Happy to share our new paper estimating lion density in Pilanesberg National Park 🇿🇦 and assessing optimal sampling guidelines for improved monitoring efficiency 🦁 wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #mammals
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TWS Journals
We conducted a follow-up population survey of lions (Panthera leo) in a small, fenced reserve in South Africa, 2 years after the population numbers were significantly reduced by management. Our study....
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Really happy to share our new paper exploring the Mostela as a monitoring tool for African small carnivores! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A Mostela box deployed in the fieldA Cape grey mongoose inside a Mostela box
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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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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Happy to share our new paper, led by Cornelia Warrer, investigating large carnivore snaring rates & drivers of snare occurrence across Kruger NP! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We found that carnivores were highly susceptible to being caught in snares & predicted snaring hotspots in Kruger
A spotted hyaena with a snare around its neck. Photo credit: big5photos.comPredicted snare hotspots in Kruger, with the right side image showing predicted presence/absence of snares with sites of known snare detection
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Awful photos but a great sighting (before the photos 😆) of caracal on the way to the office this morning! 🤩 Not a bad "commute"! 😊 #caracal #mammals #SouthAfrica
A caracal moving under the bushes
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Happy #InternationalLeopardDay! 🐆 I didn't get to see a leopard today, but I'm lucky enough to get to work on projects involving them and got to spend today hiking in Cape leopard country in the Outeniqua Mountains 🤩🐆⛰️🏞️
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Lisanne Petracca @lisannepetracca.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🐆🐆 TWO M.S. POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN MY LAB!! Focus will be bobcat and coyote dynamics in an ocelot pre-reintroduction landscape. Come join the fun. Deadline is June 1 for an August start 🐆🐆 Position posting is here: tinyurl.com/5y3uhbf3
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London HogWatch @londonhogwatch.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Missed the NHMP talk hosted by @zslscience.bsky.social ? 🦔 Catch up & find out how we're tracking hedgehogs across the country: shorturl.at/jP54j @ptes-org.bsky.social @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social @zslofficial.bsky.social @mammalweb.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social & Nottingham Trent Uni
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Developing a National Camera Trap Survey for Hedgehog Conservation
YouTube video by ZSL Science and Conservation
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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jaxqx...
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Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭 @fattebertj.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
There are still spots available on both courses. Pre-register before end of April to secure your spot!
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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Super excited to share this new pub led by @wilsonsherm.bsky.social! We used Nextdoor posts to explore human-carnivore interactions in Los Angeles. Nextdoor offers a useful data source for understanding urban human-wildlife interactions, if human biases are accounted for. Check it out! 🧪🌎
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Amy Dickman @amydickman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Great to have our paper out on community-camera-trapping: an innovative conservation incentive approach where local communities monitor their wildlife & generate points, which are translated into locally-chosen community benefits onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Community Camera Trapping: A Novel Method for Encouraging Human–Big Cat Coexistence on Human‐Dominated Land
Human–wildlife conflict poses a major threat to conservation and livelihoods. Here, we outline two innovative approaches: one where local people monitor wildlife on their land using camera-traps and ....
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Applications are open for the African Research Fellowship - a grant of up to $1,750 offered by the American Society of Mammalogists to support African graduate students! A nice opportunity to get funds for equipment & field costs! Apply by the 15th April! 👇 www.mammalsociety.org/index.php/co...
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African Research Fellowship | American Society of Mammalogists
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A proud supervisor moment yesterday as my MSc student, Marna Visagie, presented her study on carnivore densities from Tswalu Kalahari Reserve at #ecm9 in 🇬🇷 Presenting for the 1st time at an international conference & representing the #WildlifeEcologyLab Thanks @timhofmeester.bsky.social for the 📸
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Ollie Wearn @olliewearn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Excellent free book by the world’s expert on spatially explicit capture-recapture (with lots of examples in R)
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Marcello D'Amico @marcellodamico.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Our datapaper "Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles" is now online on #ScientificData: nature.com/articles/s41... #RoadEcology @ebdonana.bsky.social
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Julien came and taught a shorter version of this workshop last September for our MSc/PhD students - the course was a massive help for them & all our students are now progressing well with their spatial data analysis! 🤩🗺️ Sign up for the full course & also see our beautiful George Campus! 🐾🌿🌲🇿🇦 👇
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Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Looking for your first quantitative ecology post-doc? Then get in touch. I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.
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WildCRU, Oxford @wildcru.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
When dominant predators decline, mid-sized predators often increase, but it’s not that simple. A new review led by Emily Madsen shows suppression happens across sizes, with canids often studied in subordinate roles. Read more👉 bit.ly/4iDv18M @biology.ox.ac.uk
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We'll cover: 📸 Practical deployment - incl. field work in a nearby game reserve 🦁🐘🦓 🗺 Survey design 💻 How to collect, manage & process camera trap data 📈 Data analysis (incl. occupancy, activity, density & abundance) 👨‍🏫 The chance to discuss & analyse your own data
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We're running our #cameratrap course again! 🇿🇦📸🐆 This time from the #GreaterKruger, the course will give participants a fantastic mix of practical & analytical modules to become a camera trapping pro! 📸💻🐘🦏🐾 More info can be found here: wildecolabdotcom.wordpress.com/courses Please share widely! 🤩
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FatBear wildlife science solutions @fatbear-bio.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
🎉 Celebrating 1 Year of Wild Achievements! 🐾 One year ago, FatBear Wildlife Science Solutions set out on a mission to bridge the gap between cutting-edge science and wildlife conservation. Follow the link for a glimpse of the incredible work we’ve been part of! www.linkedin.com/posts/fatbea...
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We're running our #cameratrap course again! 🇿🇦📸🐆 This time from the #GreaterKruger, the course will give participants a fantastic mix of practical & analytical modules to become a camera trapping pro! 📸💻🐘🦏🐾 More info can be found here: wildecolabdotcom.wordpress.com/courses Please share widely! 🤩
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
It's always an amazing & lucky sighting if you see an #aardvark! 🤩 But this night drive in #MountainZebra NP really delivered! Aardvark, 3x aardwolf, brown hyaena, bat-eared fox! Such an undervisited & amazing park! 🇿🇦🦓 Especially if you like the often overlooked species! 😊 #mammals
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Dr Antonio Uzal @antoniouzal.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hot off the press🚨🚨!! Our study looks at densities and distribution of #hedgehogs & #badgers in England & Wales, exploring how food, habitat, & badger density shape hedgehog distributions. @britishecolsoc.bsky.social @richardyarnell.bsky.social @robdavis1104.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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Does Differential Habitat Selection Facilitate Coexistence Between Badgers and Hedgehogs?
Eurasian badgers (Meles meles) are intraguild predators of European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) and are implicated in their population decline via both direct predation and competition for shared....
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Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
I am recruiting two funded graduate students (1 MS, 1 PhD) to join the lab and the Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences program at Oregon State University! If you are into population ecology and a combination of fieldwork and modeling - then check this out! Please share/repost widely!
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Starting a petition to call these two lynx Voodoo and Java! 🤣 @apartridgeqotd.bsky.social #Lynx #Rewilding #Conservation #Wildlife www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Two more lynx spotted in Scottish Highland woods after pair captured
Police urge public not to approach illegally released animals understood to have been spotted by cameras in Cairngorms
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Note to self: do more camera trapping work on wine estates... 📸🍷 • They're beautiful 🤩🌿🌾 • There's cool wildlife 🐾 • You can buy good wine when you've finished 🍷🥂 #cameratraps #SouthAfrica
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Seems there are some Botswanan #elephants in South Africa that don't care about fences! 🤣🐘🇿🇦 Elephants and potholes, a true African road in SA! 😆 On the R572 to Mapungubwe NP! 🐘 #Mammals
An elephant on the side of the road behind road signs An elephant on the side of the road
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
A beautiful place to watch a lion (if you can spot it!) with the Waterberg Mountains in the background! 🤩🦁🐾🇿🇦 #Mammals #Wildlife #Lion #SouthAfrica #Nature
A lion walking across a plain with mountains in the background
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Seems like elephants object to small carnivore monitoring! 🤣😤 Elephants 🐘 - 1 Mostela 📸 - 0 A nice trunk selfie at least for the trouble! 🤣🐘 #mammals #conservationscience 🌍 #elephants
An elephant flipping a Mostela box (modified camera trap device) with its trunkA close up camera trap photo of an elephant trunk
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Wow! Amazing opportunity here for South Africa based 🇿🇦 researchers to develop their quantitative skills! 🤩💻 Two workshops: • An intro to stats in R • Applied hierarchical modelling The course is FREE! These opportunities rarely come about in 🇿🇦, so share widely & sign up! #conservationscience 🌍
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Rob Davis @robdavis1104.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
An interesting/depressing situation in Madikwe GR 🇿🇦 where overpopulation (~2 🐘 per km²) & bush encroachment has led to limited resources & widespread starvation But what to do about it when most SA reserves are also at 🐘 capacity & culling is so controversial? #mammals nspca.co.za/madikwe-game...
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“CONSERVATION” AND STARVATION: MADIKWE GAME RESERVE A WILDLIFE TRAGEDY
The NSPCA’s Wildlife Protection Unit is horrified at the situation playing out at the Madikwe Game Reserve situated in the North-West, bordering Botswana.  Flaunting themselves as the “fifth largest g...
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Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
There are a bunch of interaction models out there, when should you think about using this one? Check out our flow diagram to help you decide! (13/13) Please share widely and contact me if you can't access the paper!
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Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Are you interested in species interactions and how we model them? Then this thread is for you! Our new paper in Ecology on the role of abundance in species interactions provides new statistical tools for modelling species interactions. shorturl.at/Sqz9m 🧵(1/13)🧵
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Abundance‐mediated species interactions
Species interactions shape biodiversity patterns, community assemblage, and the dynamics of wildlife populations. Ecological theory posits that the strength of interspecific interactions is fundament...
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