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Kier Mitchel Pitogo
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🇵🇭 wildlife biologist. PhD student at KU EEB & Biodiversity Institute. MSc, UPLB. Interested in the ecology, evolution, biogeography, and conservation of mountain biodiversity. (he/him)
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Published today in PNAS:
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Mark Urban, Chris Elphick, and I argue that conservation programs should pay more attention to heritable within population variation, enabling rapid evolutionary response to environmental changes.
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January 20, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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New publication from my lab, led by @njorisfleck.bsky.social! 🧪 We explore the diversity and origins of a genus of tiny frogs 🐸 on an isolated mountain in north Madagascar. A cool case study of both in-situ diversification and repeated colonisation!
vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1664...
January 21, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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Habitat Mosaic Limits Gene Flow and Promotes Morphological Adaptation in a Generalist Mammal share.google/xtp3ft9MnNPW...
Habitat Mosaic Limits Gene Flow and Promotes Morphological Adaptation in a Generalist Mammal
We investigated how fine-scale habitat heterogeneity influences genetic structure in the European wood mouse by sampling individuals across hedgerow, forest edge, and inner forest habitats in three N....
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December 19, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾
December 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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We have just published a landmark article on genetic diversity and global biodiversity policy, focusing on the CBD. We aim to help researchers, practitioners, & other interested parties understand the KMGBF and achieve its commitments. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Conserving Genetic and Genomic Diversity in Accordance with the Global Biodiversity Framework
Adopted in December 2022, the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) under the Convention on Biological Diversity outlines a visionary road map guiding humanity's relationship wit...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Anthropocene genetic diversity loss in the marine tropics
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Anthropocene genetic diversity loss in the marine tropics | PNAS
Genetic diversity is a crucial component of biodiversity, and as such, its maintenance and preservation is of high conservation concern. Tropical e...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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New paper from the MIREN network!

We tested how homogenisation (ecosystems becoming more alike through invasions) changes with scale.

Global = clear pattern
Local = not so simple

Read more: the3dlab.org/2025/10/22/a...

Paper, led by @mbuhaly.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A tale of homogenisation
I’ve always been intrigued by ecological scaling – it’s literally in my title: Assistant Professor in Ecological Scaling. One of the main reasons we care so much about scaling is that ecologi…
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October 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Transformative change for a just and sustainable world often seems overwhelming. @annelarigauderie.bsky.social and the @ipbes.net Transformative Change Assessment co-chairs highlight the roles we can each have in achieving #transformativechange.

🧪 #biodiversity #sustainability

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Transformative change to address biodiversity loss is urgent and possible
Transformative change for a just and sustainable world often appears overwhelming. This Perspective highlights the key messages from the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment and how everyone can be ...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍

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Microclimate vulnerability under coupled effects of changing climate and forest structure
Understanding how forest structure affects microclimate is crucial amidst global warming, especially in biodiversity hotspots such as the North Americ…
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October 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Biodiversity knowledge gaps persist across low-income tropical regions... how does closing these and addressing biases create a more equitable and representative #genetic knowledge base, supporting national #conservation and global #biodiversity commitments?
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#conservationscience🌏
Gaps and biases in vertebrate wildlife genetics from a global biodiversity hotspot | Environmental Conservation | Cambridge Core
Gaps and biases in vertebrate wildlife genetics from a global biodiversity hotspot
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August 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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💬 Missed the #ERGAPlenary this month? No problem - catch up now on the #ERGAchannel with the recorded talk "Global genetic diversity loss and the power of conservation to restore species resilience"
youtu.be/8y0V2pjwd0A?... #conservation #speciesresilience
Global genetic diversity loss & the power of conservation to restore species resilience - Robyn Shaw
YouTube video by ERGA - European Reference Genome Atlas
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October 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Can closing gaps in wildlife genomics - such as the participation of Global South Researchers - create a more equitable and representative genetic knowledge base?

Discussed in this recent Paper by Kier Mitchel E. Pitogo in #EnvironmentalConservation

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#genomics
Gaps and biases in vertebrate wildlife genetics from a global biodiversity hotspot | Environmental Conservation | Cambridge Core
Gaps and biases in vertebrate wildlife genetics from a global biodiversity hotspot
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September 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Elevational ranges are a focus of intense study, particularly as climate change drives species upslope. But what are they and how do we measure them? In his Synthesis, Linck addresses these questions and more with community science data.
Now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
What Is an Elevational Range? | The American Naturalist
Abstract Elevational distributions have long fascinated scientists, an interest that has burgeoned with studies of predicted upslope range shifts under climate change. However, this body of work has y...
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September 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
In our latest preprint, we show that sampling of herpetofauna in the Philippines is uneven, with natural history collections largely shaping observed species diversity. Also, sampling is biased towards large conservation areas, but not when topographic relief is high. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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An extension of joint SDM to jointly model species abundances and intraspecific trait variation. #ecopubs @esajournals.bsky.social

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September 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Conservation needs to focus better on maintaining & enhancing the processes that allow ecosystems to function & adapt in a rapidly changing world

In our new paper we explore key processes - such as evolution, movement & biotic interactions - metrics, & how to conserve them
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Biodiversity conservation requires integration of species-centric and process-based strategies | PNAS
Conservation science and policy are geared primarily toward the preservation of species and habitats, with priority often given to the rarest, most...
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August 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Cool new paper about terrestrial vertebrates endemic to the 🇵🇭 Philippines ⬇️
New paper out in @envconsjournal.bsky.social! I reviewed availability of genetic data for all 769 endemic vertebrate species in the Philippines.
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July 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Gaps and biases in vertebrate wildlife genetics from a global biodiversity hotspot
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Gaps and biases in vertebrate wildlife genetics from a global biodiversity hotspot | Environmental Conservation | Cambridge Core
Gaps and biases in vertebrate wildlife genetics from a global biodiversity hotspot
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July 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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I've been working in conservation for 22 years. It's disheartening to see there are still foreigners conducting one-off trainings in the Philippines 🇵🇭 with little to no Filipino participants and *zero* Filipino experts as resource persons or facilitators. Seems very 🚩 #ColonialScience 1/2
July 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
New paper out in @envconsjournal.bsky.social! I reviewed availability of genetic data for all 769 endemic vertebrate species in the Philippines.
Read: doi.org/10.1017/S037...
July 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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PhD graduates in 2025 enters a job market marked by instability. The world is still adjusting to post-COVID-19 disruptions, with reduced funding for #science &international collaborations due Trump's policies. Many question the viability of #research #careers. #policy www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Class of 2025: five PhD students reveal realigned priorities in wake of COVID and cuts
Scientists who began their doctoral studies in 2020 found their feet during a global pandemic and are graduating into an uncertain and chaotic future.
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July 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM