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chrisfjmeyer.bsky.social
Assoc Prof Global Ecology & Conservation, University of Salford, UK. Tropical vertebrate ecology and conservation | Bats | Environmental change.
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A great starter pack to connect with people working on #ecology at a large scale 🌍🧪 Global Ecology Vol. 2 👉 go.bsky.app/L37W5uH DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the pack, there’s still room for more ! 😊

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

There are over 80 local bat groups across the UK, all doing wonderful work to help bats. If you want to get involved in bat conservation in your area and join a group of like minded people, get in touch with you bat group. www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Exciting to be able to share our ongoing work using novel eDNA techniques to detect the western chimpanzee in Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼 @derbyuni.bsky.social @arcusfoundation.bsky.social @joanachimpa.bsky.social www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know that you can get trained in IUCN Red List assessment for free online? I have my undergrads do this as a semester-long assignment to understand policy-relevant science. You can do it too! 🧪🦑🌎 www.conservationtraining.org/course/index...

submitted 173 days ago • 9 comments

✅ Do you use R or Python? ✅ Are you an ecologist/biologist? Then you might find our website ALA Labs useful! ALA Labs is full of how-to articles to visualise or analyse biodiversity data. Some are for beginners, others are advanced/experimental 😀 labs.ala.org.au 🧪🌏 #rstats #python #quartopub

submitted 175 days ago • 7 comments

🦇 I love old pictures of bats and I think I just found my favourite piece of #BatsInArt [Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)]:

submitted 180 days ago • 12 comments

Important piece by Gittleman - “It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge..[the] One Health approach is unlimited, exciting, & necessary for the health of life on our planet” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌐🌾

submitted 179 days ago • 4 comments

NEW Decline of European bird populations continues especially birds of farmland. Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) presents updated wild bird indices 1980–2023. Data = 168 bird species 30 countries⬇️ @rspb.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @uclcber.bsky.social 📉🐦

submitted 179 days ago • 1 comment