🧑🏽🔬 PostDoc @fletcher.ecology CambridgeU | 🎓 MonashU'24 | 📚 Conservation Informatics | Fellow IPBES GA2 | JrAE J Appl Ecol | Explorer NatGeo | 🎲 Brimming w/ chaos & positivity | Grung Valor Bard 🐸
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Congratulations to all on this achievement for people and #nature!
Thank you to all who contributed to this successful outcome.
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🌍🧪 More about the IPBES fellowship programme: https://ow.ly/fV9850Y60ga
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The #NatureFuturesFramework is paving the way! A review by Okayasu, S., Kuiper, J.J., et al. showcases the variety of applications in different contexts & areas for future research.
💡https://ow.ly/iIzO50XAvQF
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#BobWongLab
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Read more: bit.ly/4a9AD9J
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We provide a foundation for applied spatial ecology with a focus on learning-by-doing.
@camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk
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Huge thanks to our fellows, authors & experts for their dedication this week, setting the vision and foundations for the next 3 years. 🌍
Grateful to UNESCO for hosting us!
🧪 https://www.ipbes.net/second-global-assessment
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This week in Paris, Fellowship alumni and Coordinating Lead Authors met with the new generation of fellows and shared anecdotes, words of wisdom, and advice.
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The young researchers from across the world got to know each other and started planning for the work ahead.
Learn more about the IPBES Fellowship Program: https://www.ipbes.net/ipbes-fellowship-programme
Coordinating Lead Authors and Fellows got to know each other and started ideating the working elements for the assessment.
Thank you to participants for your dedication and passion #ForNature! 🌱
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Coordinating Lead Authors and Fellows got to know each other and started ideating the working elements for the assessment.
Thank you to participants for your dedication and passion #ForNature! 🌱
Work hard, play hard: they really followed my motto!
Powerful publications on the way!
I am looking for a passionate and hard-working PhD student to work in southern Africa on experimental defaunation and rewilding of megafauna. See the link below for more information:
@camzoology.bsky.social @conservation.cam.ac.uk
A new #publication with 65 authors from all continents (except Antarctica), 42 article pages and >500 references.
doi.org/10.1111/brv....
🌐 #ecology #globalchange
We’re applying this method to 600+ alien amphibians and reptiles 🦎🐸 to map their global invasion potential & understand global biotic homogenization 🌍
(8/8)
We sub-sample both presences & backgrounds across the full environmental gradient available to a species.
This helps SDMs better:
📌 Explain niches
📍 Predict current distributions
🕰️ Project future/range-shifting scenarios
(7/8)
Environmental sampling bias!
The model didn’t capture the true species-environment relationship—it just overfit to the oversampled Australian conditions.
➡️ The data were unbalanced in environmental space, and it showed.
(6/8)
Goal: Predict the global invaded range of the cane toad 🐸
Data:
🇧🇷 1000 records from native Brazil
🇦🇺 2000 from invaded Australia
🇵🇭 100 from invaded Philippines
👉 All thinned using standard methods (SOA)
Result: SDMs accurately predicted AU and BR(overfit), but mehhh in PH
(5/8)
📄 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
(4/8)
Apply 'Habitat Stratified Sampling Design' when thinning both data.
Our new methods:
1️⃣ Environmental clustering
2️⃣ Environmental distance thinning
Both outperform conventional approaches for:
🌍 Explaining
📍 Predicting
⏳ Projecting species distributions
(3/8)
Environmental sampling bias = when some environmental conditions are oversampled just because they’re common or widespread across the landscape.
➡️ This skews the models and messes with predictive accuracy.
(2/8)
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This survey is hosted by the GBIF and @tdwg.org task groups on IAS ⭐
🔗www.surveymonkey.com...
https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.11134
#Megafauna #Coexistence #Megaherbivore #ShiftingBaselineSyndrome #CommunityEcology #LargeHerbivore
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...