Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭
@fattebertj.bsky.social
Carnivores-Ungulates-Large landscapes
Movement-Habitat-Connectivity
Research Professor-Vilnius University
Research Associate-Nelson Mandela University (George)
Founder @fatbear-bio.bsky.social
https://fattebert.weebly.com/
Movement-Habitat-Connectivity
Research Professor-Vilnius University
Research Associate-Nelson Mandela University (George)
Founder @fatbear-bio.bsky.social
https://fattebert.weebly.com/
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Happy to see this @econovoau.bsky.social paper out in the new issue of Journal of Animal Ecology - higher herbivore activity is linked to greater herb diversity & plant functional redundancy besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#ECONOVO #Biodiversity #savanna #SouthAfrica #Rewilding
#ECONOVO #Biodiversity #savanna #SouthAfrica #Rewilding
January 8, 2026 at 6:17 AM
Happy to see this @econovoau.bsky.social paper out in the new issue of Journal of Animal Ecology - higher herbivore activity is linked to greater herb diversity & plant functional redundancy besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
#ECONOVO #Biodiversity #savanna #SouthAfrica #Rewilding
#ECONOVO #Biodiversity #savanna #SouthAfrica #Rewilding
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🎁 A New Year’s gift to the geospatial community: a brand-new QGIS plugin that unlocks access to 80+ petabytes of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with zero coding required.
January 3, 2026 at 3:42 PM
🎁 A New Year’s gift to the geospatial community: a brand-new QGIS plugin that unlocks access to 80+ petabytes of satellite imagery and geospatial datasets with zero coding required.
Reposted by Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭
Serval population status in the Greater Kafue Ecosystem, Zambia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Serval population status in the Greater Kafue Ecosystem, Zambia
Mesopredators such as servals (Leptailurus serval) often receive less funding for research compared to charismatic large carnivores. However, understa…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Serval population status in the Greater Kafue Ecosystem, Zambia: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Some reading for the holidays☺️
December 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Some reading for the holidays☺️
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Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)
December 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)
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Ocelots, jaguars, margays and pumas don’t want to fight over dinner. New research shows they divide hunting in the rainforest based on the areas that their prey lives.
Jungle cats take to trees to avoid food fights - The Wildlife Society
Wild felines specialize on different prey in different layers of the rainforest
wildlife.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ocelots, jaguars, margays and pumas don’t want to fight over dinner. New research shows they divide hunting in the rainforest based on the areas that their prey lives.
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📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢
Katima, Namibia, February 2026
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
Katima, Namibia, February 2026
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
WORKSHOPS
Through our applied animal movement data analysis courses, both wildlife practitioners and research students receive immersive hands-on training in the utilization of state-of-the-art tools and...
fatbearbio.weebly.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢
Katima, Namibia, February 2026
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
Katima, Namibia, February 2026
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
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A great opportunity for anyone looking to develop their skills with movement data and spatial analysis! 🗺️📊
Julien (@fatbear-bio.bsky.social 🐻) has delivered this course twice at NMU and it's been hugely beneficial for our students and external participants!
Plus... NAMIBIA! 🤩🇳🇦
Julien (@fatbear-bio.bsky.social 🐻) has delivered this course twice at NMU and it's been hugely beneficial for our students and external participants!
Plus... NAMIBIA! 🤩🇳🇦
📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢
Katima, Namibia, February 2026
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
Katima, Namibia, February 2026
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
WORKSHOPS
Through our applied animal movement data analysis courses, both wildlife practitioners and research students receive immersive hands-on training in the utilization of state-of-the-art tools and...
fatbearbio.weebly.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
A great opportunity for anyone looking to develop their skills with movement data and spatial analysis! 🗺️📊
Julien (@fatbear-bio.bsky.social 🐻) has delivered this course twice at NMU and it's been hugely beneficial for our students and external participants!
Plus... NAMIBIA! 🤩🇳🇦
Julien (@fatbear-bio.bsky.social 🐻) has delivered this course twice at NMU and it's been hugely beneficial for our students and external participants!
Plus... NAMIBIA! 🤩🇳🇦
Heart-warming ☺️
December 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Heart-warming ☺️
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How does hunting disturbance influences social contact rates in a group-living wild mammal?🐗
New paper from #euromammals on wild boar behaviour shows that hunting modality plays a significant role in shaping intra-group, but not inter-group, contacts.
📄Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
New paper from #euromammals on wild boar behaviour shows that hunting modality plays a significant role in shaping intra-group, but not inter-group, contacts.
📄Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Impact of hunting modality on social contacts in wild boar populations across Europe
Our study showcases how hunting disturbance influences social contact rates in a group-living wild mammal. Along with other biotic and abiotic drivers, hunting modality plays a significant role in sh...
doi.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
How does hunting disturbance influences social contact rates in a group-living wild mammal?🐗
New paper from #euromammals on wild boar behaviour shows that hunting modality plays a significant role in shaping intra-group, but not inter-group, contacts.
📄Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
New paper from #euromammals on wild boar behaviour shows that hunting modality plays a significant role in shaping intra-group, but not inter-group, contacts.
📄Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
On lynx in Slovenia
November cover: vist.ly/4f5aq. Full open access paper here: vist.ly/4f5an
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
On lynx in Slovenia
Wolf packs in Switzerland and border areas
🐺 Chiffres actuels du monitoring du loup en Suisse 📊
Dans le cadre de la mise à jour officielle de la situation des meutes en Suisse et au Liechtenstein, les graphiques officiels actuels sont disponibles. www.kora.ch/fr/especes/l...
Dans le cadre de la mise à jour officielle de la situation des meutes en Suisse et au Liechtenstein, les graphiques officiels actuels sont disponibles. www.kora.ch/fr/especes/l...
November 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Wolf packs in Switzerland and border areas
🤣
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
🤣
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🐺 Advantageous snow conditions – in terms of snow depth and density – are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy.
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK
November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🐺 Advantageous snow conditions – in terms of snow depth and density – are among the most important features of the winter landscape for two apex predators, regardless of hunting strategy.
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK
Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/pXSMNRK
I feel ya!
I was 13 years old when governments agreed to start bending this curve
I'm 46
I'm 46
November 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I feel ya!
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This is The Academic Way 😎
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This is The Academic Way 😎
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Researchers in Uganda say the country’s only nesting site of critically endangered Rüppell’s vultures is under threat from hunting, charcoal burning and farming.
Colony of world’s highest-flying bird under threat in Uganda
LUKU CENTRAL FOREST RESERVE, Uganda — Ornithologist Ivan Oruka stops suddenly near the foot of a cliff that’s streaked with the telltale whitewash of bird droppings. He quickly presses his binoculars…
news.mongabay.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Researchers in Uganda say the country’s only nesting site of critically endangered Rüppell’s vultures is under threat from hunting, charcoal burning and farming.
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Reposted by Julien Fattebert, PhD 🇺🇳🇪🇺🇨🇭
Nature Futures Framework scenarios reveal contrasting landscape connectivity for European mammal translocations
Ascensão+
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
analyzing connectivity using circuitscape on Dou+ (doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...)
land-use scenarios
Ascensão+
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
analyzing connectivity using circuitscape on Dou+ (doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...)
land-use scenarios
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Nature Futures Framework scenarios reveal contrasting landscape connectivity for European mammal translocations
Ascensão+
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
analyzing connectivity using circuitscape on Dou+ (doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...)
land-use scenarios
Ascensão+
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
analyzing connectivity using circuitscape on Dou+ (doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...)
land-use scenarios
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Do you also have a "To Read" folder that’s basically a black hole? 🕳️
My new blog post explores why that’s okay. And how to orbit the black hole instead of getting sucked in.
You’ll Never Keep Up with the Scientific Literature (and That’s Okay)
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/y...
My new blog post explores why that’s okay. And how to orbit the black hole instead of getting sucked in.
You’ll Never Keep Up with the Scientific Literature (and That’s Okay)
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/y...
October 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Do you also have a "To Read" folder that’s basically a black hole? 🕳️
My new blog post explores why that’s okay. And how to orbit the black hole instead of getting sucked in.
You’ll Never Keep Up with the Scientific Literature (and That’s Okay)
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/y...
My new blog post explores why that’s okay. And how to orbit the black hole instead of getting sucked in.
You’ll Never Keep Up with the Scientific Literature (and That’s Okay)
jenteottenburghs.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/y...
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A lot of pressure on the different grant schemes, and pretty much independent of career stage.
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A lot of pressure on the different grant schemes, and pretty much independent of career stage.
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Haven't we known this for a while?
Asking lion ppl
Asking lion ppl
Some people say that "farming" lions in captivity helps wild populations. New research finds the practice is actually harmful to wild lions. Read more: https://therevelator.org/lion-farming-harming/
Study: Commercial Lion Farming in South Africa Could Be Harming, Not Helping, Wild Lions • The Revelator
As we've seen with tigers and other threatened species, captive lion breeding may stimulate consumer demand and put additional pressure on wild populations across African home ranges.
therevelator.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Haven't we known this for a while?
Asking lion ppl
Asking lion ppl