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Very proud to announce that the Bayesian version of our Phylogenetic Path Analysis method has been (finally) published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution. Another extremely enjoyable collaboration with the brilliant @achazhardenberg.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Are you interested in a habitat mapping project for bird species in a mountain environment? 🐦⛰️
and in working with us at Eurac Research within the Institute for Earth Observation and in collaboration with our
@euracalpenv.bsky.social ? Then have a look here:
eurac.onboard.org/jobs/jG9O1Qm...

well, here it is lads

after combing through some 1,400 records, it looks like the slender-billed curlew is indeed extinct and the last known photo taken in 1995 was probably at the point it slipped beneath the waves 🦉🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

With the LCIE we produced new maps on the distribution of large carnivores across Europe, also including updated population size estimates for each population, and in each country.

lciepub.nina.no/pdf/63867050...

The EU proposal to downlist wolves is premature and flawed, and should not be adopted, says the
@IUCN Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... (Pic: Ernesto Zvar)

The Central European #wolf database has>20k geo and time ref records of >4500 unique genotypes since 2005. We use it to ID individuals from prey, feces, hairs and to infer dispersal, kinship, and origins of newly genotyped wolves. We've tracked 100s of wolves across Europe this way. A few examples:

Hi conservation community, I am looking for case studies on hybrids in conservation for teaching , please share your examples or teaching ressources 🦤🌍