Shane White
@trackingcritters.bsky.social
Wildlife Biologist | Large Carnivores 🐺🐆 | Predator-Prey Dynamics | Animal Track & Sign Enthusiast 🐾 | Irish ☘️ in BC 🍁
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#newpaper led by @wildco.bsky.social MSc Katie Tjaden-McClement: “Mixed evidence for disturbance-mediated apparent competition for declining caribou in western British Columbia, Canada” wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (thread: 1/7)
TWS Journals
Investigating the decline of a caribou population in central British Columbia, we found that 1) recent wildfires were a stronger draw for primary ungulate prey than cutblocks, 2) most predators were ...
wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
#newpaper led by @wildco.bsky.social MSc Katie Tjaden-McClement: “Mixed evidence for disturbance-mediated apparent competition for declining caribou in western British Columbia, Canada” wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (thread: 1/7)
Fun day with a great crew ear-tagging these cute as heck cougar kittens. Slowly starting to better understand cougar population dynamics in our study system, located in the central interior of British Columbia. 🇨🇦 #pumaconcolor #wildliferesearch #cougarecology
March 16, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Fun day with a great crew ear-tagging these cute as heck cougar kittens. Slowly starting to better understand cougar population dynamics in our study system, located in the central interior of British Columbia. 🇨🇦 #pumaconcolor #wildliferesearch #cougarecology
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March 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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NEW PAPER: looking into the erosion of southern mountain caribou migrations. Over 35 years, migration distances shrank 15-25%, and elevational migrations are collapsing. Habitat loss, not weather, likely the main culprit. A major conservation challenge ahead.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
March 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
NEW PAPER: looking into the erosion of southern mountain caribou migrations. Over 35 years, migration distances shrank 15-25%, and elevational migrations are collapsing. Habitat loss, not weather, likely the main culprit. A major conservation challenge ahead.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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UBCO press release here: news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/03/05/r...
Researchers find caribou migration patterns are shrinking - UBC Okanagan News
Caribou migration patterns have shifted in duration, distance, and elevation over 35 years, new study shows.
news.ok.ubc.ca
March 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
UBCO press release here: news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/03/05/r...
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Enjoy it, I did.
A mammoth circus of macabre fantasy and moral bankruptcy.
I got my views on mammoths down. Enjoy.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I got my views on mammoths down. Enjoy.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible | Adam Rutherford
At a time when US scientists are under attack from their own government, the illiteracy around these elephantine fantasies is dangerous, says geneticist Adam Rutherford
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Enjoy it, I did.
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1st post, 1st paper of 2025! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... Led by MSc Katie Tjaden-McClement with Angela Brennan & Robin Naidoo, we asked whether conservation prioritizations affected placement of new parks. Yes for Last of the Wild but no for Biodiversity Hotspots.
Global prioritization schemes vary in their impact on the placement of protected areas
In response to global declines in biodiversity, many global conservation prioritization schemes were developed to guide effective protected area establishment. Protected area coverage has grown dramat...
journals.plos.org
January 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
1st post, 1st paper of 2025! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... Led by MSc Katie Tjaden-McClement with Angela Brennan & Robin Naidoo, we asked whether conservation prioritizations affected placement of new parks. Yes for Last of the Wild but no for Biodiversity Hotspots.
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Successfully recollared an important project cougar, female F3 aka “Cluster”. Hopefully two more years of great data to come! #puma #wildlife #wildlifebiologist
January 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Successfully recollared an important project cougar, female F3 aka “Cluster”. Hopefully two more years of great data to come! #puma #wildlife #wildlifebiologist