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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre

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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This Friday, I'll be presenting my research at the IBS_PAN Open Seminar! 🐆 🗓️ Friday 29/05 | 10:00 CEST 🔗 Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/87445136807 Meeting ID: 874 4513 6807 #Ecology #Jaguar #Conservation #Wildlife
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita) is one of the rarest wild felids (~1,400–2,500 individuals). Beyond rarity, it highlights a key challenge in ecology: studying and conserving low-density species in fragmented landscapes under climate change. #AndeanCat #CarnivoreEcology #Conservation
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Did you know #parasites can also show #TemporalNichePartitioning? In our recent study, seasonal rainfall reorganized the helminth community of Kinosternon on Marajó Island, with different parasite species peaking in different seasons. Read more: www.vanwildlife.com/parasite01/ #Ecology #helminth
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Understanding how animals move through these landscapes helps conservationists identify corridors, the pathways wildlife uses to survive in changing environments. What does a landscape look like from the perspective of a wild predator? #Carnivores #Conservation #MovementEcology
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Movement patterns help us understand what predators truly need to survive, and which parts of the landscape are most important to protect. Sometimes the biggest conservation insights come from a simple question: What is the animal trying to tell us through its movement? #MovementEcology #carnivores
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
When predators disappear, ecosystems can slowly unravel. The balance of nature shifts. Protecting predators often means protecting the health of entire landscapes. If predators are so important for nature… Why are they still some of the most threatened animals on Earth? #Carnivores #Conservation
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If we understand how predators move, we can identify the places that are most important for their survival. Protecting those places can help keep entire ecosystems healthy. The question is simple: Are we protecting the landscapes predators actually use? #Carnivores #Conservation #Ecology
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
’m excited to share that I’ll be presenting at the International Small Cats Symposium 🐆 smallcatsymposium.org Small cats are often overlooked in conservation, yet they are key components of ecosystems. Looking forward to a meaningful symposium. 🌎✨
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Small Cats Symposium 2026 ONLINE CONFERENCE Global inclusion
Join a global symposium to explore small wild cat research, share conservation strategies, and connect with wildlife experts and enthusiasts.
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📢 New paper out! 🐢🌧️ Seasonal rainfall in the Amazon reshapes parasite communities in the scorpion mud turtle, with a ~71% drop in parasite load during the dry season and clear temporal niche partitioning. 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Ecology #Parasitology #Amazon #OneHealth
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Seasonal rainfall drives temporal niche partitioning in the helminth community of scorpion mud turtle (Kinosternon scorpioides) from Marajó Island | Journal of Helminthology | Cambridge Core
Seasonal rainfall drives temporal niche partitioning in the helminth community of scorpion mud turtle (Kinosternon scorpioides) from Marajó Island - Volume 100
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
More about my work… in a short article in the Pesquisa FAPESP Journal. Thanks to the various Brazilian media outlets for their interest in my work and for sharing it! 🥹🤩 #jaguar #oncapintada #wildcats #brazil #Leopardus #jaguarundi #puma revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/quando-falta...
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Quando faltam matas para os felinos
Nem todos os felinos silvestres do Brasil respondem da mesma forma às mudanças ambientais causadas pelas atividades humanas, como desmatamento e abertura de estradas. A partir de mais de 14 mil regist...
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas 2025 🎅🦌🎄
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
🌿 Our research is now featured in @oeco.org.br We reveal how Brazil’s wild cats react to human-driven changes 🐆 📊 Key facts: L. geoffroyi: 35.8% of records <10 m from roads L. guttulus: only 0.001% — a 3,500× difference! 🔗 Read: oeco.org.br/noticias/est... #Conservation #WildCats #Ecology #Brazil
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Estudo revela como felinos brasileiros reagem às mudanças humanas no meio ambiente - ((o))eco
Pesquisa da UNESP mostra que espécies de felinos selvagens respondem de formas distintas à presença de estradas e áreas agrícolas no Brasil
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
📝 Fresh blog post is live! Since we just published our research on Brazil's wild felids, I wrote a detailed blog breaking down what we found and why it matters for conservation. Much more digestible than reading through GLM outputs 😅 Check it out: www.vanwildlife.com/brazil-wild-...
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Brazil's Wild Felids Face Change
New study reveals how Brazil's 9 wild felid species respond to human-modified landscapes. Open-data approach supports conservation plans.
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Brazil’s wild cats 🐆🐾 Our new study shows how 9 species respond to habitat change & roads using an open-data framework. Free access until Oct 23! 👉 authors.elsevier.com/a/1liqO1R%7E... 📢 Please share with your network! #Conservation #Ecology #BrazilianCats
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
🚨 New blog post! Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana): key for Neotropical migration & conservation. Read more about this fantastic species 👇 www.vanwildlife.com/flycatcher-m... #BirdMigration #Flycatcher #NeotropicalBirds #Conservation
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Fork-tailed Flycatcher: Migration, Breeding, and Conservation of a Neotropical Icon - Van Wildlife
The Fork-tailed Flycatcher (Tyrannus savana) is one of the most fascinating birds of South America’s grasslands.
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Small changes in ecosystems can trigger major shifts if thresholds are crossed. In my new blog, I explain: 1) What ecological thresholds are 2) Why do they matter in conservation 3) How to identify them Read: www.vanwildlife.com/thresholds/ #Ecology #Conservation
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Understanding Ecological Thresholds: Limits or Leverage Points? - Van Wildlife
Ecological thresholds are critical points where a small change in an environmental variable can trigger an abrupt transformation in the system.
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
How do jaguars move across human-modified landscapes? I wrote about it on my blog, and the topic was also featured on Brazilian TV! 👉 www.vanwildlife.com/jaguarmoveme... #JaguarConservation #MovementEcology
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Still relevant! 🐾 I wrote a piece on cross-validation for ecological models some time ago, and many of you still ask about it. Take a look: 👉 www.vanwildlife.com/cross-valida... Feedback is always welcome! #ecology #rstats #spatialecology #conservation
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Spatial Cross-Validation: Concepts, Importance, and Key Steps - Van Wildlife
Learn what spatial cross-validation is, why it matters for predictive models using geospatial data, and how to implement it in R.
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
📢 New blog post! Ever struggled with authorship in science? Here are key reflections & questions to ask before saying “yes” to co-authorship. For early-career researchers, mentors & collaborators. 🔗 www.vanwildlife.com/co-authorship/ #SciComm #AuthorshipMatters #ResearchEthics
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Co-Authoring with Clarity: Respectful and Effective Collaboration
Learn about co-authoring with clarity and respect. Explore: roles, author order, inclusion, and collaborating effectively in academia.
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
New on VanWildlife: What happens when jaguars live in landscapes shaped by humans? Forests, water, croplands and even roads play key roles. Sex and circadian rhythms make a difference. Is this a story of coexistence? 📖 www.vanwildlife.com/jaguarhabita... #Conservation #Jaguars #MovementEcology
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Jaguar Habitat Selection in the Anthropocene - Van Wildlife
Explore jaguar habitat selection in human-modified landscapes, revealing adaptive behaviors and implications for conservation strategies.
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🚨New preprint out! “Ecological traits explain wild felid responses to human-modified landscapes in Brazil” is now available on EcoEvoRxiv Check it out & share if you work on carnivores, roads, or conservation planning 🐆🌎 📄 doi.org/10.32942/X25...
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El Pulgar del Panda (Jorge Garrido-Bautista) @pulgar-panda.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Hace unas semanas, una colega del departamento @laranavesalegre.bsky.social y otros investigadores sacaron un monográfico sobre fototrampeo en la revista @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social. Los artículos están en español. Podéis echarle un vistazo aquí: www.revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
New review out in J Anim Ecol! We explore how to predict animal movements in human-modified environments, highlighting the need for mechanistic models to guide conservation. 📄 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #MovementEcology #Anthropocene
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Ecosistemas AEET @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Nuestro próximo monográfico sobre fototrampeo se publicará dentro de muy poco. ¡En nuestra página web ya podéis leer 4 de los artículos que se incluirán en el monográfico! 🦡🦆🐈 revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...
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Artículos aceptados | Ecosistemas
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Cecilia Baldoni @cecibaldoni.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🚨 Shrew paper alert! 🚨 Our latest study found that brain size changes stayed on track, but behavior? 🤔 Not so much❗ Captivity makes shrews hyperactive and less motivated to learn, hinting at chronic stress. 🐾 Curious? Full paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... #Shrews @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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Robyn Grant @robyngrant.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Are you interested in learning more about the publishing process? I am running two workshops with @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social in April and May on reviewing articles and how to publish a literature review. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reviewing-... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-an...
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Reviewing masterclass: how to review a manuscript for a journal
If you are interested in publishing scientific articles or getting involved in publishing, this insightful workshop about reviewing articles
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Zooniverse @zooniverse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
✨ Nature SPAM Filter, launched this week, is an easy and fun reading-based project to help wildlife globally. Look at real newspaper article titles from archives and complete a simple yes-or-no task to identify animals and wildlife in the news. Try it here: www.zooniverse.org/projects/dve...
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WildCRU, Oxford @wildcru.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Do interactions between hyaenas and lions impact how they select habitat? GPS-collar data reveals hyaenas don't avoid areas used by lions and may even be attracted to lions because of scavenging opportunities. Study by Andrew Loveridge and David Macdonald 👉 bit.ly/41hn02a @biology.ox.ac.uk
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Benjamin Rosenbaum @benrosenbaum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I completely re-worked my course "Introduction to Bayesian statistics with brms" and taught it for the 1st time this week. It is meant as a tutorial for ecologists, but should be general enough for other sciences as well github.com/benjamin-ros... #stats #Rstats #brms #Stan #Bayesian
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GitHub - benjamin-rosenbaum/bayesian-intro: Introduction to Bayesian statistics
Introduction to Bayesian statistics. Contribute to benjamin-rosenbaum/bayesian-intro development by creating an account on GitHub.
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GBIF @gbif.org · 27/02/2025
Look for the bear necessities 🐻 Polar bears are found across the arctic, however limited movement data has been collected on males as their necks are wider than their heads, and cannot be radio collared. 🤖 Explore >9.3k polar bear records: 🔗www.gbif.org/species... #InternationalPolarBearDay
three polar bears in the snow
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Christine Wilkinson, PhD 🌈 @scrappynaturalist.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Thanks so much to Lila for this LA Times article about our new publication about social-ecological influences on coyote movement in Los Angeles! 🧪🌎🏙️ Check out the publication here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Environmental Health and Societal Wealth Predict Movement Patterns of an Urban Carnivore
Using GPS collar data from coyotes (Canis latrans) in Los Angeles, California, we show that movement models with societal covariates outperform those considering only linear infrastructure and ecolog....
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AniMove @animove-course.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
To all Animovers out there: Our next workshop will take place from the 30th of November until the 13th of December 2025. More information about location, price and how to apply will follow soon....🤗🐒🦥🌎🐸🐊🕷️🪱
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marikimient.bsky.social @marikimient.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Excited to share a new publication, just off the press!! This time back to the terrestrial ecosystem, 📣 led by PhD student Charlie, @thecharlieroger.bsky.social , on using machine learning 🤖〽️ to identify wolf behaviours from accelerometer data #biologging, #movementecology. Congrats!! 👏
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A supervised model to identify wolf behavior from tri-axial acceleration - Animal Biotelemetry
Background In wildlife studies, animal behavior serves as a key indicator of the impact of environmental changes and anthropogenic disturbances. However, wild animals are elusive and traditional GPS s...
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"New research reveals how predators and prey adjust their behaviours in space and time! 📷 Using camera-trap data from Brazil and Suriname, we found that red-rumped agoutis adjust their activity patterns in response to ocelots' presence." buff.ly/40QU0hz
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ADIBECO @adibeco.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
👋 ¿Te interesa la ecología del movimiento 🛰️ y la selección de hábitat 🗺️? Hemos publicado un artículo de divulgación sobre ello en la revista AmbioCiencias de la Universidad de León. ¡No te lo pierdas! 👉 shorturl.at/AkSHj @zaiortega.bsky.social
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Richard Hall @richardlovesbirds.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Post-migratory movements in the nonbreeding season are in fact displayed by a surprising number of birds around the world, with diverse resource- or weather-based cues. Two former students in the lab wrote a paper documenting examples of this: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Post‐migratory nonbreeding movements of birds: A review and case study
While many migratory birds are conceptualized as using a single wintering site, technological advances that enable detailed tracking of individual birds are uncovering more examples of post-migratory....
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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
How good are our #conservation efforts? New publication thread. Are bird counting schemes really providing important information regarding population trends and phenology? We try to answer this for two amazing places - Eilat, Israel and Batumi, Georgia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/n
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Using GPS tracking data to validate the conservation value of bird migration counts
Effective conservation of migratory birds requires gathering of information about their population trends, often acquired using migratory bird counts.…
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Roland Kays @rolandkays.com · 13/01/2025
Se você utiliza armadilhas fotográficas no Brasil, inscreva-se aqui para participar de uma nova pesquisa nacional do Snapshot. If you run camera traps in Brazil sign up here to join a new national Snapshot survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A camera trap picture of a deer with a speech bubble
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Connie Kot @connieykot.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
So happy to be able to contribute to this paper and for the US Animal Telemetry Network to be part of such a collaborative group! I'm excited to see our community continue to grow! #biologging #telemetry #opendata 🌐🌊📈
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
🌟📢 New Article Published! 🌟 🌿 #Jaguars & #peccaries in the #Pantanal 🐾: This study explores predator-prey dynamics, showing how landscape and prey density shape interactions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... @biotropica.bsky.social @agenciafapesp.bsky.social #Conservation #Ecology
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"Today, November 29th, we celebrate #JaguarDay, a powerful symbol of our ecosystems. 🐆 Stay tuned for our upcoming article on jaguar conservation, soon to be published in #BIOTROPICA. Let's unite to protect the king of the Americas! 🌿💚"
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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own! Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚 Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep WaterA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof BeatsA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our MoonA collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
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Vanesa Bejarano Alegre @vanwildlife.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🐆🌍 New research! Our study shows how jaguars adapt their movement in human-altered landscapes—navigating forests, farms, and roads. 🌿🐾 🔗https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2530064424000506 #Jaguars #Conservation #BigCats #MovementEcology
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