Gates Dupont
@gates.bsky.social
PhD Candidate 📚 Princeton University 🐅 Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 🦋 Patterns & processes of macro scale biodiversity loss 🪺🪹
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Gates Dupont
@gates.bsky.social
· Jul 31
North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species
Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.
www.science.org
🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today!
Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!
🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!
🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology
Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today!
Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!
🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!
🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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"Across observed tropical bird populations, impacts of climate change have typically been larger than direct human pressure"
Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...
www.nature.com
August 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"Across observed tropical bird populations, impacts of climate change have typically been larger than direct human pressure"
📊 Very much looking forward to #ESA2025!!
I'll be presenting my work on North American bird declines 📉
Session: COS 153 - Biodiversity 4
Time: Thursday, August 14, 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT
Room: BCC 322
See you there!! 🦉🦉
I'll be presenting my work on North American bird declines 📉
Session: COS 153 - Biodiversity 4
Time: Thursday, August 14, 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT
Room: BCC 322
See you there!! 🦉🦉
August 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
📊 Very much looking forward to #ESA2025!!
I'll be presenting my work on North American bird declines 📉
Session: COS 153 - Biodiversity 4
Time: Thursday, August 14, 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT
Room: BCC 322
See you there!! 🦉🦉
I'll be presenting my work on North American bird declines 📉
Session: COS 153 - Biodiversity 4
Time: Thursday, August 14, 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT
Room: BCC 322
See you there!! 🦉🦉
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🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species
Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.
www.science.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species
Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.
www.science.org
July 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Happy #SuperbOwlSunday! This Superb Owl is a northern saw-whet I met while shadowing owl banders in NH, part of my research for my new #mg novel THE OWL PROWL MYSTERY. Comment w your fave owl for a chance to win the book, sticker, & field journal! (owl decoy not included!) #owls #ecofiction
February 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Happy #SuperbOwlSunday! This Superb Owl is a northern saw-whet I met while shadowing owl banders in NH, part of my research for my new #mg novel THE OWL PROWL MYSTERY. Comment w your fave owl for a chance to win the book, sticker, & field journal! (owl decoy not included!) #owls #ecofiction
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Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in #biodiversity
Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity - Nature
Global-scale analyses of marine, terrestrial and freshwater assemblages found that temporal rates of species replacement were faster in locations with faster temperature change, including warming and ...
www.nature.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in #biodiversity
Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Harsher dry seasons due to climate change is linked to declining bird survival in the Amazon
"...challenging the notion that pristine rainforests can fully protect their #biodiversity under increasingly severe climate conditions."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"...challenging the notion that pristine rainforests can fully protect their #biodiversity under increasingly severe climate conditions."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests
Climate change threatens Amazon rainforest birds, with harsher dry seasons significantly affecting their survival over 27 years.
www.science.org
January 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Harsher dry seasons due to climate change is linked to declining bird survival in the Amazon
"...challenging the notion that pristine rainforests can fully protect their #biodiversity under increasingly severe climate conditions."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
"...challenging the notion that pristine rainforests can fully protect their #biodiversity under increasingly severe climate conditions."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We, the authors, are organizing to continue this effort in other ways. More coming hopefully soon.
January 31, 2025 at 4:51 AM
We, the authors, are organizing to continue this effort in other ways. More coming hopefully soon.
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The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed.
A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...
A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...
www.globalchange.gov
January 31, 2025 at 4:36 AM
The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed.
A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...
A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...
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Maybe it's better not to mess around with certain federal functions. It's not a game.
January 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Maybe it's better not to mess around with certain federal functions. It's not a game.
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Excellent perspective by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social @bloomberg.com on the deep freeze at NIH
Trump's NIH Freeze Puts Scientific Research at Risk
America’s best scientific minds are scrambling to determine the impact of the disruption.
www.bloomberg.com
January 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Excellent perspective by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social @bloomberg.com on the deep freeze at NIH
A peaceful owl amid a chaotic week. Have a good weekend, everyone.
January 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A peaceful owl amid a chaotic week. Have a good weekend, everyone.
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"Currently, there is nowhere in Britain that to my knowledge has successfully reversed, or even stopped, Willow Tit decline." #ukbirding #ornithology
With news of yet another county extinction for Willow Tit (this time in Warwickshire) I'm prompted to offer some personal reflections on the effort to save Britain's "Turtle Dove of the North", and what is says about woodland bird #conservation as a whole...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-do...
How do you solve a problem like Willow Tit?
With news of yet another county extinction in Warwickshire, things are looking bleak for Britain's second fastest declining bird (Turtle Dove takes the unwanted crown of No 1). Even more worryingly, f...
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January 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
"Currently, there is nowhere in Britain that to my knowledge has successfully reversed, or even stopped, Willow Tit decline." #ukbirding #ornithology
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"Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems"
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems
Imagine a world where the variety of food sources we rely on is reduced to a mere handful of species. This is not a dystopian future. It’s the path we are on right now, and it’s happening silently in ...
doi.org
January 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems"
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Reported this banded Ring-billed Gull in Massachusetts. Just heard back from USGS—he hatched in 2019 and was banded in the summer of 2021 on a small island outside Montreal!
Bands can be reported to: www.reportband.gov
Bands can be reported to: www.reportband.gov
January 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Reported this banded Ring-billed Gull in Massachusetts. Just heard back from USGS—he hatched in 2019 and was banded in the summer of 2021 on a small island outside Montreal!
Bands can be reported to: www.reportband.gov
Bands can be reported to: www.reportband.gov
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Three letters up on my last essay for @ScienceMagazine ...two are really interesting, one is not. Check them out yourself: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Scientists as political advocates
Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...
www.science.org
January 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Three letters up on my last essay for @ScienceMagazine ...two are really interesting, one is not. Check them out yourself: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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New paper out @science.org shows that bats surf warm storm fronts to power continental migrations 🌀⛈️🦇🤙
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann
Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration
Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...
www.science.org
January 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
New paper out @science.org shows that bats surf warm storm fronts to power continental migrations 🌀⛈️🦇🤙
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann
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The incoming Trump administration plans to target the National Climate Assessment so that it can't be used to defend regulations in court. Russ Vought, Trump's OMB pick, wants to personally approve a team of climate denialists to rewrite it. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Trump team takes aim at crown jewel of US climate research
A top aide to the president-elect wants tighter control over the National Climate Assessment.
www.eenews.net
January 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The incoming Trump administration plans to target the National Climate Assessment so that it can't be used to defend regulations in court. Russ Vought, Trump's OMB pick, wants to personally approve a team of climate denialists to rewrite it. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
Snowy Owl today at Buffalo NY’s outer harbor!
15x digi zoom on a 60x scope for an owl 550 feet away (safe viewing recs: 150-300 ft min.).
Luckily this one is on a private doc that’s fenced off — making for one happy owl! Can’t get closer than 500 ft.
Best part of the winter season to me.
15x digi zoom on a 60x scope for an owl 550 feet away (safe viewing recs: 150-300 ft min.).
Luckily this one is on a private doc that’s fenced off — making for one happy owl! Can’t get closer than 500 ft.
Best part of the winter season to me.
December 23, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Snowy Owl today at Buffalo NY’s outer harbor!
15x digi zoom on a 60x scope for an owl 550 feet away (safe viewing recs: 150-300 ft min.).
Luckily this one is on a private doc that’s fenced off — making for one happy owl! Can’t get closer than 500 ft.
Best part of the winter season to me.
15x digi zoom on a 60x scope for an owl 550 feet away (safe viewing recs: 150-300 ft min.).
Luckily this one is on a private doc that’s fenced off — making for one happy owl! Can’t get closer than 500 ft.
Best part of the winter season to me.
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#ConservationClassics: declining and small population paradigms conservationbytes.com/2008/08/23/d...
Classics: Declining and small population paradigms
‘Classics’ is a category of posts highlighting research that has made a real difference to biodiversity conservation. All posts in this category will be permanently displayed on the Cla…
conservationbytes.com
December 16, 2024 at 3:51 AM
#ConservationClassics: declining and small population paradigms conservationbytes.com/2008/08/23/d...
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[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:49 PM
[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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“One Health” needs ecology | PNAS 2024 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
“One Health” needs ecology | PNAS
“One Health” needs ecology
www.pnas.org
December 11, 2024 at 1:17 AM
“One Health” needs ecology | PNAS 2024 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...