Looking forward to presenting at #AOS25 on EcoScape, a novel habitat connectivity algorithm for mapping birds across fragmented landscapes! Check it out at 4:15, bring any prospective PhD students you know…👀

Our recent paper made the cover of Ornithological Applications! We used Bayesian hierarchical mark-recapture modelling to understand demographic rates across an elevational gradient in Honduras. @amornith.bsky.social @seijones.bsky.social. Check out the paper: doi.org/10.1093/orni...

We also provide baseline demographic estimates that account for transient birds, which could be incorporated into meta-analyses of life history (6/7)

And early evidence that the elevational gradient in population growth rates is associated with previously published elevational shift rates. Taken together, our results suggest that demographic parameters could be used to infer elevational shifts! (5/7)

We find that lower elevation species tend to be increasing relative to higher elevation species (4/7)

We report preliminary evidence of elevational gradients in demographic rates (3/7)

We promote a Bayesian hierarchical framework for analysing demographic parameters, which includes transient individuals and random effects, and encourage others to apply this to their hard-earned long-term banding datasets! (2/7)

🚨Kicking off my Bluesky life, I present our study in @amornith.bsky.social! We use Bayesian multi-species mark-recapture (CMR) models to assess avian demographic rates across an elevational gradient in Honduras! @samuel-ei-jones.bsky.social, @jsaracco.bsky.social 🧵(1/7) doi.org/10.1093/orni...