Large-scale monitoring of populations and communities using airborne remote sensing is increasingly central to a broad range of research, management, and decision-making efforts. Performing this work...

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Computer scientists share their advice for ensuring that your scientific software does what it’s supposed to do.

Join our Everglades Wading Bird project as a postdoc researcher! Explore wading bird breeding, nest success, and drone monitoring opportunities.

Well, 2025 was a wild ride. The lack of updates on the potential regime shift at Portal isn’t because it fizzled, but because [wave hands at the world]. And Portal was not immune to [waves hands at…

Every episode in a tv series starts with a recap. So… Previously, on Portal: the Regime Shift — In fall of 2023, one of the ruling families of Portal — the Desert Pocket Mouse (Ch…

Background Forecasting the responses of natural populations to environmental change is a key priority in the management of ecological systems. This is challenging because the dynamics of multi-species...

The VectorByte initiative is establishing a global open access data platform to study disease vectors. This project will not only serve as a hub for biological trait and abundance data for human and n...

Interested in using computer vision to help understand, manage, and conserve nature? We hiring for a new position to join our team working on models, software, and community outreach in our existing projects using airborne imagery to monitor and understand natural systems at large scales.

In this Perspective, the authors discuss the current status of ecological forecasting research, its role in helping to address the climate and biodiversity crises facing society and potential future d...

Interested in understanding how ecological systems change through time? Morgan Ernest’s Lab at the University of Florida has an opening for a PhD student to start Fall 2025. The new student will wo…

Ethan White’s lab at the University of Florida has an opening for a PhD student starting in Fall 2025 to study ecological forecasting of wading birds in the Everglades.

Ethan White’s lab at the University of Florida has an opening for a PhD student starting in Fall 2025 to study ecological forecasting of wading birds in the Everglades.

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In this article, we argue that a careful examination of human microbiome science’s relationship with race and racism is necessary to foster equitable social and ecological relations in the field. We p...

New dataset of canopy tree maps for 100 million trees in the National Ecological Observatory Network with information on location, species identify, and size. Paper: Interactive web visualization: …

Detailed maps of tree species can be used for forest analysis, biogeographic research and ecosystem monitoring. This study provides individual tree species maps for 24 sites in the United States Natio...

Welcome back to our next installment of: what the heck is happening with the Portal rodents? For those just tuning in, I might recommend reading our first two installments: Regime Shift Cometh? and…

Welcome back to our next installment of: what the heck is happening with the Portal rodents? For those just tuning in, I might recommend reading our first two installments: Regime Shift Cometh? and…

Back when I had optimistic views of my time, I vowed to do more blogging this year. Sadly, life had other plans. But I return with an update to an earlier post on the Portal rodent community. To re…

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If you’re interested in big ecological datasets, natural history, ecological forecasting, and predictive cross-scale ecology (like we are) then you should check out the upcoming Gordon Resear…

What impact did The Carpentries have on me? As a learner, it taught me most of my essential day-to-day computational tools. As an Instructor, it changed how I teach, allowing me to reach more stude…

A weekly newsletter about ecology, time management, sticky notes, and teaching, by Timothée Poisot. Vol. 0 on Jan 15, 2024. CC-BY 4.0

We’ve been studying how rodents communities change through time in the Arizona desert for 40 years. About once a decade we see a rapid change. Is the next one about to happen? It might be!

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We started Jabberwocky Ecology back in 2008 when blogs were becoming the dominant medium for informal (online) academic discussions. About the same time a handful of other ecology blogs got going a…

Data on individual tree crowns from remote sensing have the potential to advance forest ecology by providing information about forest composition and structure with a continuous spatial coverage over ...