Jack Bamber
@jackantbam.bsky.social
Ecology, PhD Candidate Univeristy of Aberdeen.
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Bridging the implementation gap: From predator control to non-lethal impact-based intervention🌏
Through a co-designed experiment with practitioner & community engagement, this study evaluated the effects of diversionary feeding as a non-lethal strategy to reduce predation🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Through a co-designed experiment with practitioner & community engagement, this study evaluated the effects of diversionary feeding as a non-lethal strategy to reduce predation🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
August 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Bridging the implementation gap: From predator control to non-lethal impact-based intervention🌏
Through a co-designed experiment with practitioner & community engagement, this study evaluated the effects of diversionary feeding as a non-lethal strategy to reduce predation🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Through a co-designed experiment with practitioner & community engagement, this study evaluated the effects of diversionary feeding as a non-lethal strategy to reduce predation🧪
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Reposted by Jack Bamber
Check out my BlueSky talk at #BOUatEOU on rewilding
Excited to share my research at #BOUatEOU on breeding failure of tawny owls (Strix aluco) in commercial plantations 🦉🌲
How do owls deal with changing food availability and the return of a new nest predator?
#ornithology #predation #prey-switching
Excited to share my research at #BOUatEOU on breeding failure of tawny owls (Strix aluco) in commercial plantations 🦉🌲
How do owls deal with changing food availability and the return of a new nest predator?
#ornithology #predation #prey-switching
August 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Check out my BlueSky talk at #BOUatEOU on rewilding
Excited to share my research at #BOUatEOU on breeding failure of tawny owls (Strix aluco) in commercial plantations 🦉🌲
How do owls deal with changing food availability and the return of a new nest predator?
#ornithology #predation #prey-switching
Excited to share my research at #BOUatEOU on breeding failure of tawny owls (Strix aluco) in commercial plantations 🦉🌲
How do owls deal with changing food availability and the return of a new nest predator?
#ornithology #predation #prey-switching
Check out my bluesky talk for #BOUatEOU.
We found that diversionary feeding is a suitable impact based tool to reduce conflicts between recovering predators (pine marten) and endangered ground nesting birds (cappercaillie) in Scottish Forests.
🧪🌍🦤🍁
We found that diversionary feeding is a suitable impact based tool to reduce conflicts between recovering predators (pine marten) and endangered ground nesting birds (cappercaillie) in Scottish Forests.
🧪🌍🦤🍁
August 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Check out my bluesky talk for #BOUatEOU.
We found that diversionary feeding is a suitable impact based tool to reduce conflicts between recovering predators (pine marten) and endangered ground nesting birds (cappercaillie) in Scottish Forests.
🧪🌍🦤🍁
We found that diversionary feeding is a suitable impact based tool to reduce conflicts between recovering predators (pine marten) and endangered ground nesting birds (cappercaillie) in Scottish Forests.
🧪🌍🦤🍁
Check out these amazing wildlife images! One of the runners up was a picture from my cappercaillie monitoring! 📸
A striking photograph of two male saiga antelope sparring on the banks of a steppe lake is the winner of the 2025 BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology image competition.
Learn more about all winning images: spklr.io/63321BGOvf
@bmc.springernature.com #PhotoCompetition
Learn more about all winning images: spklr.io/63321BGOvf
@bmc.springernature.com #PhotoCompetition
August 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Check out these amazing wildlife images! One of the runners up was a picture from my cappercaillie monitoring! 📸
Reposted by Jack Bamber
📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Sample size considerations for species co‐occurrence models
Multispecies occupancy models are widely applied to infer interactions in the occurrence of different species, but convergence and estimation issues under realistic sample sizes are common. We conduc...
doi.org
August 8, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📝 Are you using multispecies occupancy models to investigate interactions in species occupancy (i.e. co-occurrence)? 🦁🦓
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Check out our new paper for advice on the number of sites you need to reliably detect interactions under different scenarios ⬇️
Reposted by Jack Bamber
Interestingly, I have noticed a reticence to consider options other than population control when managing invasive species. We wrote about it here academic.oup.com/bioscience/a.... 🌐 #bioinvasions
July 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Interestingly, I have noticed a reticence to consider options other than population control when managing invasive species. We wrote about it here academic.oup.com/bioscience/a.... 🌐 #bioinvasions
New perspective out today in @jappliedecology.bsky.social.
We reflect on co-producing evidence in an effort to bridge the implementation gap, for evidence based, impact focused predator control.
What worked, what didn't and where barriers to implimentation still remain.
You can't win them all... 🧪
We reflect on co-producing evidence in an effort to bridge the implementation gap, for evidence based, impact focused predator control.
What worked, what didn't and where barriers to implimentation still remain.
You can't win them all... 🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 31, 2025 at 9:20 AM
New perspective out today in @jappliedecology.bsky.social.
We reflect on co-producing evidence in an effort to bridge the implementation gap, for evidence based, impact focused predator control.
What worked, what didn't and where barriers to implimentation still remain.
You can't win them all... 🧪
We reflect on co-producing evidence in an effort to bridge the implementation gap, for evidence based, impact focused predator control.
What worked, what didn't and where barriers to implimentation still remain.
You can't win them all... 🧪
Reposted by Jack Bamber
My first @uk.theconversation.com article with @jackantbam.bsky.social and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social and @kennyafc.bsky.social
"Surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed"
theconversation.com/a-surprising...
"Surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed"
theconversation.com/a-surprising...
A surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed – new research
Evidence suggests this alternative to culling the bird’s predators is effective.
theconversation.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My first @uk.theconversation.com article with @jackantbam.bsky.social and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social and @kennyafc.bsky.social
"Surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed"
theconversation.com/a-surprising...
"Surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed"
theconversation.com/a-surprising...
Check our @theconversation.com article, alongside @chrissuthy.bsky.social and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social (special mention to @kennyafc.bsky.social). Where we breakdown the entire diversionary feeding project!
A surprisingly effective way to save the capercaillie: keep its predators well-fed – new research
Evidence suggests this alternative to culling the bird’s predators is effective.
theconversation.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Check our @theconversation.com article, alongside @chrissuthy.bsky.social and @lambin-ecology.bsky.social (special mention to @kennyafc.bsky.social). Where we breakdown the entire diversionary feeding project!
🚨 New publication 📝
Out today in the royal society proceedings B. We find that diversionary feeding boosts productivity of cappercaille from 0.82 to 1.90. Indicating that this impact based method can effectively reduce the influence of predation.
Read all about it here: shorturl.at/QRb76
Out today in the royal society proceedings B. We find that diversionary feeding boosts productivity of cappercaille from 0.82 to 1.90. Indicating that this impact based method can effectively reduce the influence of predation.
Read all about it here: shorturl.at/QRb76
June 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🚨 New publication 📝
Out today in the royal society proceedings B. We find that diversionary feeding boosts productivity of cappercaille from 0.82 to 1.90. Indicating that this impact based method can effectively reduce the influence of predation.
Read all about it here: shorturl.at/QRb76
Out today in the royal society proceedings B. We find that diversionary feeding boosts productivity of cappercaille from 0.82 to 1.90. Indicating that this impact based method can effectively reduce the influence of predation.
Read all about it here: shorturl.at/QRb76
Reposted by Jack Bamber
Check out Jack's new paper!
Diversionary feeding of predators (in this case a Pine Martin) increases the breeding success of Capercaillie, as fewer eggs get stolen
#SciArt
Diversionary feeding of predators (in this case a Pine Martin) increases the breeding success of Capercaillie, as fewer eggs get stolen
#SciArt
December 18, 2024 at 9:17 PM
Check out Jack's new paper!
Diversionary feeding of predators (in this case a Pine Martin) increases the breeding success of Capercaillie, as fewer eggs get stolen
#SciArt
Diversionary feeding of predators (in this case a Pine Martin) increases the breeding success of Capercaillie, as fewer eggs get stolen
#SciArt
⏰New Research ⏰
We quantified the direct impact of diversionary feeding on capercaillie productivity. We show an increase in the proportion of hen with a brood in DF sites (37% -> 85%) and, as a result, a 131% increase in chicks per hen. Read more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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We quantified the direct impact of diversionary feeding on capercaillie productivity. We show an increase in the proportion of hen with a brood in DF sites (37% -> 85%) and, as a result, a 131% increase in chicks per hen. Read more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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December 14, 2024 at 4:43 PM
⏰New Research ⏰
We quantified the direct impact of diversionary feeding on capercaillie productivity. We show an increase in the proportion of hen with a brood in DF sites (37% -> 85%) and, as a result, a 131% increase in chicks per hen. Read more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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We quantified the direct impact of diversionary feeding on capercaillie productivity. We show an increase in the proportion of hen with a brood in DF sites (37% -> 85%) and, as a result, a 131% increase in chicks per hen. Read more here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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