Bedrock type can strongly influence vegetation, as in this picture from Crete, Greece. Here, thin soil, low nutrient- and water availability in the limestone only allow small shrubs to grow. This effect can even be observed on a global scale! doi.org/10.1029/2020GL…

📢Breaking: UN Launches First-Ever Live Map of Large Mammal Migrations International team of +80 scientists developed interactive migration atlas of iconic land migrations from Serengeti wildebeest to the saiga of the Central Asian steppe. Learn more: cms.int/en/news/un-lau…

The Random Encounter Model #REM is a method to estimate #wildlife population density from #cameratrap data withuout the need for individual🤓 But, How many sequences should I track when applying the random encounter model to camera trap data?🤔 ...answer below, be patient! 😉

Previously, #mountainlions in #Texas could be trapped and then released into an enclosed area to be hunted. But as of Sept 1st, canned mountain lion #hunting is banned in Texas. texastribune.org/2024/08/30/tex… #conservation #wildcat #puma #wildlifemanagement

🇳🇱🐺 “Le problème, ce n’est pas le loup, mais le nombre d’habitants (18 millions) et de chiens (1,5 million). Dans ce pays surpeuplé, la nature nous est devenue étrangère” estime un éditorialiste. courrierinternational.com/article/debat-…

Great initiative and well-done on getting researchers from all over the world contributing migration movement data for this! Looking forward to seeing the living Atlas grow as more populations and migrations are getting included and mapped!

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Story about the new Atlas of Ungulate Migration in News from Science today! science.org/content/articl…

Shifting baselines

California's state senate has passed the Room to Roam Act.​ ​This bill brings statewide habitat connectivity to the forefront, mitigates negative human interactions with wildlife & ensures genetic diversity for iconic species like mountain lions. aldf.org/project/room-t…

Wyoming: hey stop calling us redneck hillbillies. Also Wyoming: yeah we are going to legalize driving over wildlife. wyofile.com/the-right-to-s…

I am running out of words to describe how absurd August 2024 was in Svalbard. Reaching an average temperature of 11°C in August would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. This is totally bonkers.

Until this heatwave... Sweden 🇸🇪 and Norway 🇳🇴 had never hit > 30 °C in September. New national records have been set and by huge margin. Extraordinary weather pattern in Europe right now. THREAD

I have long been suspicious of the claim that Indigenous Peoples' lands support 80% of biodiversity. A new paper debunks this. IP lands are important for biodiversity - but this stat isn't substantiated. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Interesting read of the week #2: 🚨Scale matters🚨 Even in conflict modeling! Authors found a handful of papers reporting spatiotemporal scale when modeling carnivore livestock depredation! #S_Slovikosky Lisanne Petracca Luke Hunter #J_Frair link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We've made progress banning harmful meds like 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐜, 𝐊𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐧 & 𝐀𝐜𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐜, but a new threat looms: 𝐅𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐱𝐢𝐧. This widely-used drug is causing kidney failure and death in vultures.⁣ ⁣ 𝐖𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐍𝐎𝐖!

Good. "Colombian court orders Escobar's hippos to be hunted" yahoo.com/news/colombian…

Compilation of satellite tags for SE Indian Ocean blue whales shows clearly the links around southern and western Australia to Indonesia in the Banda Sea. Ocean depth is the best predictor of blue whale occurrence. doi.org/10.1186/s40462…