Brenton von Takach

@certhionyx.bsky.social

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ecology. population genomics. threatened species. research fellow at Curtin University in Perth, Australia

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Biology 20%

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@HeredityJournal @heredityjournal.bsky.social · Mar 27

Best student paper of 2024 winner Kate Rick, along with Brenton Von Takach and Kym Ottewell, discuss the use of genomics in Australian conservation efforts, and their study on the golden bandicoot

Find the episode wherever you usually get your podcasts.

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Dylan Westaway @dylanwestaway.bsky.social · Mar 15

🚨 New research out today from my PhD exploring population genetics of 3 lizard species across fragmented and continuous habitat.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · Jan 29

🌳🌳🌳 We have a new paper in @pnas.org showing climate warming leads to growth decline in beech because it drives trees to reproduce more frequently. Climate change can cause growth decline even when drought isn’t increasing by shifting where trees allocate resources doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423181122

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Dr. Sean Buckley @theg-cat.bsky.social · Jun 28

The last paper from my PhD, on how historically stable climates have allowed divergent lineages of pygmy perches 🐟🧬(including cryptic species) to persist, was published this week in Heredity: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Also includes some pretty bleak projections under climate change!

Long-term climatic stability drives accumulation and maintenance of divergent freshwater fish lineages in a temperate biodiversity hotspot - Heredity

Heredity - Long-term climatic stability drives accumulation and maintenance of divergent freshwater fish lineages in a temperate biodiversity hotspot

www.nature.com

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Debbie Leigh @debbiemleigh.bsky.social · May 24

Check out our new article in Nature Ecology and Evolution rdcu.be/dISZk

After repurposing genetic and genomic data, we found several shortcomings with current archiving practices. In this paper we discuss file format standards, key metadata, and more, that could improve genetic data reuse-ability

A scientist walking through clouds of genetic data

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Dr. Sean Buckley @theg-cat.bsky.social · May 13

Thrilled to share our research on a community-driven reintroduction of southern pygmy perch in @theconversation.bsky.social: a great example of how collaborations between government, community, managers and researchers can drive positive conservation outcomes!
theconversation.com/how-a-long-l...

How a long-lost fish species was brought back to Bendigo

Reintroducing locally extinct species is a challenging affair, but with the right partnerships everyone can help make it happen.

theconversation.com

Reposted by Brenton von Takach, Haylee D’Agui

Damian Lettoof @lettsgetsnakes.bsky.social · Apr 30

First detection of rat poisons in wild amphibians...

authors.elsevier.com/a/1i-sK_17Gg...

authors.elsevier.com

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Adj. A/Prof. Philip Zylstra @philzyl.bsky.social · Apr 22

Many Australian forests had open understoreys when British invaders first saw them, but our study shows that some like the tall Mountain Ash were dense and felt impenetrable to many.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · Apr 19

If you know someone interested in reptiles - please let them know about this opportunity!

Dr. Sean Buckley @theg-cat.bsky.social · Apr 19

Are you a herper 🦎🧪student looking for a postgrad research project? Well boy do I have a project for you! Join @pezoporus.bsky.social, @certhionyx.bsky.social and I in Perth for a Masters project on connectivity and genetic diversity of two urban reptile species! May include fieldwork if desired.

Flyer describing research project titled "Navigating the urban environment: landscape genomics of two skink species in Perth." Text reads "Understanding connectivity across the urban environment is an important part of conservation management. This exciting Masters research project will combine genomic and environmental data to assess connectivity and genetic diversity in two fossorial skinks endemic to Western Australia — Buchanan’s snake-eyed skink, commonly found in urban gardens, and West-coast laterite ctenotus, restricted to remnant bushland. Comparing how these two different species move across the landscape will help inform conservation management of urban biodiversity. The student will conduct lab-based (DNA extractions) and computer-based (bioinformatics and population genomics analysis) work in this project. Field work is not required but may be optionally included. The student will be supervised by Dr Sean Buckley, Dr Rob Davis, Dr Brenton Von Takach (Curtin University) and

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Linette Umbrello @planigale.bsky.social · Apr 19

We found a stripe-faced dunnart well outside of its known range in WA. Short paper here -->
www.publish.csiro.au/ZO/ZO23045. Photo by Josh Keen

An adorable small marsupial with a stripe of black fur running from the top of the head down to the nose, it stands on a substrate of dry bark and leaves, facing the camera and poised as if to leap away from the photographer

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Dr. Sean Buckley @theg-cat.bsky.social · Apr 19

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Haylee D'Agui @hayleedagui.bsky.social · Mar 22

🎇Population Biology & Genomics at Curtin hosted the 'Cost and Feasibility of Eradication' workshop this week. Thanks presenters Dr Dave Ramsey, Dr Michael, Scroggie, Dr Dean Anderson, and thanks our attendees for participating!🎇@benflips.bsky.social @certhionyx.bsky.social @thescrogster.bsky.social

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Holly Kirk @hollykirk.bsky.social · Mar 10

📢 New paper out!
Ever wondered what's going on with the random patch of grass behind your house?
Wanted to know how much vegetation is hiding beside railways?
Our method identifies & maps these informal green spaces!
🌿🗺️ 🌏🧪
#urban #urbanNature #urbanPlanning

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Figure from the paper showing a map of the City of Darebin, Victoria, Aus with different types of informal green space identified. Examples of the different types of informal green space are shown in thumbnail images around the map: brownfield sites, utility easements, street verges, railway sidings and vacant lots.

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Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · Feb 25

Pitcher plant traps have evolved at least six times, with two types found in Australia: the southwestern Cephalotus, which contains just a single species, and the tropical genus Nepenthes, which is represented by a few species (3000 km away!) in far north Queensland

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Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · Feb 7

📝 New quoll paper is out! 🧬
Declining populations of northern quolls will lose genetic diversity through time. If we strategically conserve at least eight populations across Australia, we can prevent the loss of > 90 % of that diversity!
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · Jan 18

I have a funded PhD project for someone!
It's a good mix of landscape ecology and biology with cool fieldwork, and will build skills in genomics and data analysis. Focal species are native and invasive invertebrates.
Please tell anyone who might be interested!
popbiolgenomics.org/opportunitie...

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Dr. Sean Buckley @theg-cat.bsky.social · Jan 8

First day of new role seems as good as any for a proper introduction, so here goes: I'm Sean, and I'm a lecturer in Molecular Ecology at Edith Cowan University! My research focuses on the application of genetics to conservation management, with a big focus on genetic rescue/mixing.

Collage of three photos. First is a night-time photo of me holding a quenda as part of a monitoring program. Second is a photo of me standing in front of a research poster entitled "Prioritising populations as sources for genetic mixing: guidelines from a simulation framework." Third is a selfie in front of a purple peacock mural for Wear It Purple Day.

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.bsky.social · Jan 2

Pōhutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa, Myrtaceae) flowers around Christmas in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Pollinated by birds and bats, and enthusiastically visited by bees.

A cluster of bright red flowers at the tip of a shoot. The showy parts of the flowers are the stamens, so all together the cluster looks like a red shaving brush.

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Malcolm White @mfwhite2.bsky.social · Dec 30

For 2024, I'm going to use this flow-chart to prioritise requests to review papers. At the end of the year I'll let you know the numbers in each category. I thought of adding an "am I being paid?" question, but what's the point?

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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · Dec 20

ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-...

A blog post based on feedback from many new faculty o things we wished we had known when we started.

The things we wished we had known

Becoming a new professor is exciting. You are at last the captain of your own research. You pick who you want to work with, what you want t...

ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com

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Dr Ecology 🌲 @ecologyphd.bsky.social · Dec 18

Recent CA mega-fires killed ~15% of all monarch Giant Sequoias (>4ft diam). Monitoring GS ecosystems helps us to better understand how fire severity, intensity, scale, and our changing climate will affect the continued existence of these pre-historic beings. 🧵(1-4) briefly discusses GS & wildfire 🌎

Monarch giant sequoia in Kings Canyon NP with burn scars and walk-thru catface scar

Historic Nelder Giant Sequoia Grove with 100% tree mortality from 2017 Railroad Fire. GS regen is minimal and in competition w/ ceanothus spp.

Red Mountain Giant Sequoia Grove in Kings Canyon NP experienced 100% tree mortality from 2021 KNP Complex

Giant Sequoia seedling recruitment post 2021 Windy Fire (Giant Sequoia National Monument).

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Dec 18

New paper building on the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report is now out on Springer Nature.

Discover more about biological invasions & the Report's findings:

link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪🌏

Infographic with statistics about the IPBES Invasive Alien Species Assessment: map showing the nationalities of the 285 contributing experts; 60 indigenous and local community participants from 20 countries; 86 authors; more than 100 reviewers and many more figures.

Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · Dec 11

Full text access is available here: rdcu.be/dtcx4

Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · Dec 11

🐍 📝 Check out our latest article on the snakes of Darwin, Northern Australia! Here we investigate the extent to which the colubrid and python species are observed in different environments at different times of the year!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Analysing spatiotemporal patterns of snake occurrence in an Australian city to help manage human-wil...

Analysis of the spatial and temporal patterns of animal occurrence data can provide insight into the distribution, abundance, and dynamics of populations. Snakes may exhibit seasonal changes in their ...

link.springer.com

Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · Dec 8

Night-heron on the left?

Brenton von Takach @certhionyx.bsky.social · Nov 27

"eight square kilometres, or about three football fields a year, was being cleared". Not surprising that Alcoa is refuting those numbers...

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Elizabeth Claire Alberts @elizabethalberts.bsky.social · Nov 27

A new report by International Pollutants Elimination Network and Beyond Plastics scrutinizes the chemical recycling industry that's on the rise in the U.S. and other parts of the world, including several European countries.

My latest for @mongabay.bsky.social

news.mongabay.com/2023/11/chem...

Chemical recycling of plastic not so fantastic, report finds

In today’s industrialized world, avoiding plastic is virtually impossible. Every trip to the grocery store likely means coming home with food and household items packaged in plastic bottles, tubs an...

news.mongabay.com

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Ben Phillips @benflips.bsky.social · Nov 27

We are hiring! Postdoc in population biology. In Western Australia. Starting next year. Applications close late December 2023: staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie...

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Dr Manu Saunders @manusaunders.bsky.social · Nov 25

Not good. Fire ants detected in NSW for the first time #invasivespecies #biosecurity 🧪🌏 www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11...

'Worst of the worst': Fire ant nests detected in NSW for the first time

The NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) have confirmed the detection of three red imported fire ant nests in South Murwillumbah in north-eastern NSW.

www.abc.net.au

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Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬 @gsegelbacher.bsky.social · Nov 24

save the date #ConservationGenetics 2024 conference in Lausanne/CH 28-30.8. - "How can research
support pragmatic conservation policies?" 🧬 🦤

Mark your calendars for this event! more details about the program and for registration will be circulated in early 2024.

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