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Pedro Mittelman
@pmittelman.bsky.social
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Enthusiastic about -- Cute and not-so-cute animals / Ecological interactions / Small Mammals/ Food hoarding/ Seed dispersal 🌰🐿️🌳🌲
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Pedro Mittelman @pmittelman.bsky.social · Jul 1
New press release from Uni Göttingen!
Nice summary about how we used cameras up on the trees to check where red squirrels and dormice live, and if they like each other 🐿️🐀🌳

🔗 Press release: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

Original paper: doi.org/10.1007/s103...
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
enricounigoe.bsky.social
Tomorrow (30th) at 11am CEST, Clara Thoma from agroforst.de will talk about creating resilient landscapes through agroforestry🌳🪱🌱
Register here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Seminar series Forest Ecology: Science&Practice
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/701005.html
#agroforestry
October 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
wishartae.bsky.social
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science.org Science Magazine @science.org · 14d
Talk about an in-flight meal.

For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn
October 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
iucn-small-mammals.bsky.social
Smallest Herbivores Create the Biggest Impact for Grassland Forage
nationalzoo.si.edu/news/smalles...
Smallest Herbivores Create the Biggest Impact for Grassland Forage
New Smithsonian research indicates prairie dogs and grasshoppers have some of the largest impacts on grassland nutrient cycles.
nationalzoo.si.edu
September 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
iucn-small-mammals.bsky.social
How does pyrodiversity influence small mammal abundance and genetic diversity?https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2664.70143
How does pyrodiversity influence small mammal abundance and genetic diversity?
Exploring both abundance and genetic data for small mammals revealed new ecological insights: N. yvonneae is more abundant decades after fire when hummock grass cover is high, but fire-driven habitat...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
wildintel.bsky.social
📢 We're Hiring! Postdoctoral Position in Ecological Modelling🐾🌍 Apply till 01.09.25

📄 More details:
👉https://panel.iop.krakow.pl/uploads/232/WildINTEL_postdoc%20position_Krakow_ECOLOGY.pdf
#Postdoc #EcologyJobs #WildlifeResearch #AIinEcology #CameraTraps #EcologicalModelling #WildINTEL
July 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
johnwhitewildlife.bsky.social
When you reach for the rat poisons, stop for one second and think about where it goes. Often not rats and mice. Here we demonstrate it ends up in possums, many are then eaten by predators like powerful owls.
Please avoid second generation anticoagulants
🙏♥️🦉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
animalecology.bsky.social
🚨 New Research: Defaunation erodes the diversity of rodent personality traits in fragmented forests ➡️ buff.ly/Rqgmgcn

"Our study bridges the fields of animal personality research and defaunation driven by habitat fragmentation." 🐀
July 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
uni-goettingen.de
We know when the wild birds sing

Researchers used automatic audio recorders and AI to collect and identify detailed data about birdsong in European Forests. It turned out it was more than just larks and owls: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

#JournalOfOrnithology: doi.org/10.1007/s103...
Small audio recording devices were used to record bird songs in the forest around the clock. The photograph shows a lush, green forest and the view is up into very tall trees, looking up to the sky behind the canopies. There are no birds to be seen but there is a small, rectangular, dark-green device strapped round a tree trunk. Image thanks to David Singer who led this research. A tiny, grey-brown bird with wide open beak perching at the top of a stump of wood with blurred yellow/green (likely) tree foliage in the background. The bird looks like it is singing at the top of its voice. Image of wren thanks to Kev (TheOtherKev) who made this image freely available via Pixabay
July 23, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
pnas.org
Genetic sequencing dates the split between Siberian and Norwegian lemmings at around 35,000 years ago, shortly before the Last Glacial Maximum—making Norwegian lemmings among the planet’s youngest mammal species. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
A Norwegian lemming in Sarek National Park, Sweden. CREDIT: Love Dalén
July 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
alessiomortelliti.bsky.social
Our review led by S. Savazza "Measuring Personality in Wild Small Mammals: A Review of Methods and Proposal for a Standardised Approach" is out, free open access, in mammal review
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Measuring Personality in Wild Small Mammals: A Review of Methods and Proposal for a Standardised Approach
We provide a systematic review of methodologies used to study personality in small mammals. We propose adopting ‘Standardised Experimental Design’ and ‘Behavioural Measurements’ to effectively compar...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
uni-goettingen.de
Mit 80 Kameras in 20 Wäldern fand ein Forschungsteam heraus: Mischwälder fördern das Zusammenleben von Eichhörnchen und Schlafmäusen. So lässt sich #biologischeVielfalt auch im Wirtschaftswald fördern. Mehr dazu: www.uni-goettingen.de/de/3240.html...

@forstunigoe.bsky.social #Wald #Forstwirtschaft
Eine Haselmaus auf dem Kronendach einer Rotbuche in der Nacht. Die Kamera wurde durch Bewegung und Wärme aktiviert, als die Haselmaus in ihr Sichtfeld kam. (Copyright: Pedro Mittelman, @pmittelman.bsky.social‬)
July 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
sarammendes.bsky.social
New paper out! 🏙️ We found that urbanisation simplifies and homogenises seed dispersal networks. 🪴🐦‍⬛ Non-native plants dominate in cities, accounting for 61% 😔 of interactions in the urban network vs just 15% in forests! 🪻🌿🌴
Check it out: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
🌐🧪🌍🍁
July 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
uni-goettingen.de
Do red squirrels and dormice get along?

Researchers discovered that they can: forests combining both deciduous and conifer trees make it easier for them to coexist: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html... #Biodiversity #Ecology

#EuropeanJournalofWildlifeResearch: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A red squirrel with orange/brown fur, very fluffy tail and black, beady eyes poised in its habitat high in the treetop of a Douglas fir - with green-brown pine foliage behind and a bright and sunny sky behind the little animal. Image taken by researcher Pedro Mittelman
July 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
jappliedecology.bsky.social
Forest cover enhances pest control by birds and bats independently of vineyard management intensity 🌲🧪

Highlights the ecological and economic value of birds and bats as natural pest control agents in vineyards 🦇🌏

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
July 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
pmittelman.bsky.social
New press release from Uni Göttingen!
Nice summary about how we used cameras up on the trees to check where red squirrels and dormice live, and if they like each other 🐿️🐀🌳

🔗 Press release: www.uni-goettingen.de/en/3240.html...

Original paper: doi.org/10.1007/s103...
July 1, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
forstunigoe.bsky.social
🐿️🐭 Researchers have shown that mixed woodland boosts the coexistence of red squirrels and dormice. They found that red squirrels prefer coniferous forests and dormice prefer beech forests.

👉 doi.org/10.1007/s10344-025-01947-y

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@enricounigoe.bsky.social
June 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
wildintel.bsky.social
Red fox and the snow 🦊
June 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
pmittelman.bsky.social
A bank vole faces a gourmet dilemma: beech vs. Norway spruce seeds🌳🌲
Which would you pick?🌰

This forest experiment helps us understand small mammals' seed preferences
To know more about how forest composition affects seed dynamics and small mammals, check: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
#Rodent #seed 🐀🦊
June 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
pmittelman.bsky.social
Red squirrels, dormice and martens were some arboreal #mammals observed with camera traps in our canopy survey.
🐿️🐀📸🌲🌳
The first paper from this survey is already out:(doi.org/10.1007/s103...). Showing that mixed forests promote the coexistence of arboreal small mammals!
June 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
pmittelman.bsky.social
Edible dormice (Glis glis) monitored by our arboreal camera traps 🐀.
To know if they like other fellow arboreal mammals, like red squirrels and other dormouse species 🐿️🐭, check our most recent paper: doi.org/10.1007/s103...
#arboreal #cameratrap #mammals
June 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
enricounigoe.bsky.social
Ever wonder if squirrels & dormice get along?🐿️🐀 A new paper of @pmittelman.bsky.social, using arboreal camera data, found that arboreal small mammal species were more likely to co-occur in mixed forests.
Dive into the findings here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Wildlife #Species_coexistence
Mixed broadleaf–conifer forests promote coexistence of red squirrels and dormice - European Journal of Wildlife Research
Tree species admixtures are a promising management practice to reconcile biodiversity and economic benefits. Mixtures have been shown to promote the diversity of many taxa. However, how canopy-dwellin...
link.springer.com
June 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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wildintel.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Reposted by Pedro Mittelman
basicapplecol.bsky.social
🌍🌲 New Review in #BAAE: Ecological assessment for resilient forests under #GlobalChange

Huth et al. synthesized 35 scientific statements on 7 core topics, highlighting key findings and gaps to guide #ForestManagement & #ClimateAdaptation in Europe

📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
pmittelman.bsky.social
Hello from a young great spotted woodpecker
May 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM