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Dr Chris Clements
@expecocons.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Bristol University 🧪

Resilience loss ⚖️ Early warning signals ⚠️ multiple stressors 🏭 biodiversity change 🌍 rewilding 🦫

🔗 experimentalconservation.com

Editor at Biology Letters.
A reminder about this fantastic opportunity!
🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨

How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍

Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🚨Looking for a PhD project on 🐝? look no further! ✅

"Metapopulation dynamics of pollinating bees under pesticide pressure"

Hosted @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and University of Swansea, with myself, @harrysiviter.bsky.social, and Miguel Lurgi

Full details:
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
November 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Fantastic to welcome @trishg.bsky.social to the group today 🥳

Trisha is on an 1851 fellowship and will be working on resilience loss in savannahs with myself, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @mdekauwe.bsky.social

@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

scholar.google.com/citations?us...
November 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
🚨 The news-media is utterly failing to cover these momentous scientific findings.

The public is not being informed of the danger posed.

The UK chief scientist Dame Angela McLean just highlighted this as an issue of national security - why are no news outlets covering it ?!? 🤯

#EndClimateSilence
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
Here's a website that helps you switch to a greener bank.

Investments should build a better future, not destroy it.

makemymoneymatter.co.uk/banks/
October 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Last couple of days left to apply for this 3-year PDRA position!

Closing date is the 26th of October
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
October 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨

How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍

Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🐦Funded PhD @Bristol for UK-domiciled applicants of Black heritage ✨

How does human pressure impact the stability and longevity of bird populations in the Global South 🌍

Train in R & Bayesian modelling with partners in Tanzania, Kenya, SA, @zslscience.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
October 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
October 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
📢 new publiction led by @francescocerini.bsky.social in Ecology

We look at how press vs. pulse disturbances effect population collapse and how predictable that collapse is 🧪🔬

@duncanobrien.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Multivariate signals of population collapse in a high‐throughput ecological experiment
Anticipating population declines is a crucial goal of conservation ecology. Recent conceptual work suggests that populations facing growing stressors should exhibit sequential shifts in behavior, mor....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Listening to @empirepoduk.bsky.social whilst on a bikepacking trip through Kenya is my new stress relief
September 7, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Did you know that #microcosm experiments are cited ~ twice as often as non-microcosm experiments?! 🧪

AND

Microcosm articles and non-microcosm articles were cited in #policy documents at SIMILAR RATE 🔬

New paper from @sternetal.bsky.social

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Contribution of microcosm experiments to conservation science
Microcosms, or miniature experimental systems, have been used to develop models and theories in ecology. However, their contribution to conservation science is unclear. We explored the application, d....
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 27, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
Super happy that @kerrys189.bsky.social passed her viva with no corrections!! 🥳🥳🥳

Congratulations, Dr. Stewart!!

The EcCo lab will miss you, but we know you are off to do amazing things

Thanks to the excellent examiners @alexpigot.bsky.social & @vlboult.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Very cool - @bessonmarc.bsky.social 's Ecology Letters paper just passed 200 citations! 🎉

Interested in biological monitoring and robotics? Check it out below

Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities share.google/IxYWxgy0WS23...
Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities
Monitoring living organisms with high-resolution and multidimensional is a complex and labour-intensive task, yet it is fundamental to understand and predict the dynamics of ecological communities in...
share.google
June 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Great to see the new paper picking up so much traction in the press

www.theguardian.com/environment/....
June 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Brilliant and important work from @kerrys189.bsky.social out today in @natecoevo.nature.com

What is our best path to conserving global bird diversity?

Find out here

@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Artists impression of a group of sauropods grazing peacefully in the morning sun 🦕
June 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
New research: West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse contributes over 4 m sea-level rise with little (0.25 °C) or even no ocean warming above present

#climatecrisis
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss - Communications Earth & Environment
The Antarctic Ice Sheet exhibits hysteresis and irreversible ice loss, with West Antarctic collapse contributing over 4 m of sea-level rise even under minimal additional warming, according to 800,000-...
www.nature.com
June 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
June 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Field course season is upon us! Rewilding ar Knepp for the 5th time. Always a pleasure to be here, plus now they have a sauna...

🦬🐗🌳🕊️

@tommaso-jucker.bsky.social
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
Excellent afternoon encounter in the Tatra mountains
May 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Reposted by Dr Chris Clements
Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect

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@creaf.cat @expecocons.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @unibarcelonathe.bsky.social @uab.cat
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May 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM