New paper: the risk disturbance literature is full of examples of humans changing animal behavior, but how often do these changes affect populations or communities? It’s much muddier than you might expect onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 1/

Check out our new review on ecosystem sentinels!!!

Check out our new article in JWM The Wildlife Society showcasing a method developed by the Penobscot Nation and ECo at UMass Amherst to sample winter #ticks to better understand their impacts on #moose. wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

We recently preprinted our meta-analysis of spatial and social behaviour in wild animal systems! Have a read if you're interested in density dependence, disease transmission, network scaling and structuring, or comparative behavioural work: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… (1/4)

1/ Interested in comparative analyses of global-change responses beyond mammals/birds? Our new article reviews how an important group of insects, lacewings (involved in pest control), respond to temperature increases across the life cycle: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7…. Estación Biológica de Doñana - CSIC

Important new paper from Brenna J Cassidy et al. shows that hunting outside the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park in Montana adds to, rather than replaces, other sources of mortality for wolves primarily living in Yellowstone NP & Wyoming. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Want to learn more about one of Yellowstone’s more iconic species? Check out our new book on ELK in the World’s first national park! Free download of our book chronicling a fantastic story of a most magnificent animal! nps.gov/yell/learn/nat…

why you should stay after your science talk to chat with people -- here's the story behind a new paper that Farshad Shirani and I wrote biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Out in Journal of Animal Ecology, we investigate the influence of masting on timing of reproduction in small mammals using a 12-year dataset. Seed availability alters probability of reproduction for both sexes and can change timing of reproduction by over 2 months! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Density dependence only affects increase rates in baleen whale populations at high abundance levels 🐳 Encourages further discussion about the role of maximum sustainable yield as a fundamental concept in fisheries and wildlife management 💬 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

1) Unprecedented heat mortality of #MagellanicPenguins: a 🧵 On Jan 19 2019 we observed a mass mortality of 264 adult Magellanic penguins and 90 chicks on the hottest day since our research at Punta Tombo began in 1982. The max temperature in the shade reached 44° C [111° F].

Suburban Utah is ground zero for deer conservation, Ben Goldfarb reports for High Country News. One community is building a giant fence to protect the animals' migration routes. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Excited about our new paper in Science Advances on global expansion of human-wildlife overlap in the 21st century. Managing for coexistence will only grow more important. science.org/doi/epdf/10.11… U-M SEAS

🐆 🐆 Ph.D. announcement is here! Come join our fun & talented team. Deadline for full consideration is Sep 29. Full position posting: shorturl.at/MJVUY Please share widely! 🐆 🐆

Save the date for Mitchell Parsons's PhD defense! Friday, September 6, 11:00 AM MDT usu-edu.zoom.us/j/81936760915?…

An initial attempt to map fences automatically, with Microsoft AI and Dept. of Agriculture. Looking for more training data (fences and imagery) for our second phase! science.org/content/articl…

Meet me at the intersection of science and punk music in this altpress write-up ❤️‍🔥🧬🐤🔬🐞🏛️🎶 altpress.com/reckling-inter…

Fantastic and really insightful commentary by Laure Olazcuaga and Ruth Hufbauer on our recent PNAS paper about evolutionary rescue in Magellanic penguins!!! 🐧🐧🐧pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Please RT‼️ I'm recruiting an #ecology PhD student for a fully funded 4 year NSF assistantship to study species-environment relationships in North American birds using eBird #CitizenScience data. #BirdTwitter. DL 30 Sept. see: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=9…

New in @sciencemagazine, we show that spatial cognitive ability is associated with longevity in food-caching Mountain Chickadees. And Vladimir Pravosudov’s photo was selected for the cover! #ScienceResearch. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/n