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New paper out! Here we review the literature addressing the links between animals, plants, and carbon, and explore the complex interactions between defaunation and ecosystem carbon in Earth's most biodiverse and carbon-rich biome, tropical rainforests. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 We describe new material of Bunaia woodwardi, reassigning it to Offacolidae, and discuss a newly identified homology uniting Euchelicerata, Vicissicaudata, and Habeliida! Jonny Pierre Gueriau Allison Daley ANOM Lab Université de Lausanne Read it here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

💥Great news! The call for abstracts for the 2nd Conference for Early Career Researchers of the Society for Conservation Biology (Italy Chapter) is now open! 🌿 Don't miss this chance to share your research and make new connections! 🌍 More details here: scbitaly.org/ecr-2025/

Large mammals in Europe - are conditions better now than in the past? Despite higher human populations, sociocultural changes have reversed the downward trend in habitat availability. Research - Jennifer Crees NHM, Marco Davoli Tobias Kuemmerle &al. doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13…

📢🧵 New paper out on Methods in Ecology and Evolution ! Can #MachineLearning be used to get accurate, unbiased density estimates in #cameratrap studies? Our findings suggest it can! 📷🦊 Check out how automated classification could improve wildlife monitoring! doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

Published in Conservation Biology! Effectiveness of protected areas in the #Caucasus Mountains in preventing #rangeland #degradation Using greenness indicators in 52 PAs from 1988-2019, we showed that they’re ineffective in preventing degradation Open access: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

📢Postdoc offer in Aragon, Spain to work on the Horizon project "Coco: Co-creating coexistence". (Offer is in Spanish)

we recently saw an insane discovery in biology, which if true, in my opinion, makes extraterrestrial life far far more likely. 🧵

We’re holding an #interdisciplinary PhD course on ‘science of #conservation’ in South Africa this March. It involves a range of lectures, group-work activities and a mini-project applying social and ecological tools in N Drakensberg. Apply here: pe-rc.nl/TheScienceofCo…

Fantastic PhD project up for grabs! Interested in large mammal impacts on ecosystem flammability? Come explore this topic with wild horses 🐎🐎in US novel ecosystems. Apply now! 👀Deadline end of Jan 2025 phd.nat.au.dk/for-applicants… Erick Lundgren Jens Svenning Robert Buitenwerf and myself

Excited to share that the latest paper is published in Biological Conservation by Minyi Kau with co-authors Michela Pacifici and Carlo Rondinini from our GMA Lab Elsevier #conservationplanning #biodiversityconservation #snowleopard sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Off to Kunming, China! Excited to start my postdoc in the City of Eternal Spring, working at the Yunnan University on the awesome Chengjiang fossil material!

A beautiful and insightful intervention by Mario Cipollone (Rewilding Apennines) and Luca Chiaverini (Spatial analyst) on strengthening the relationship between academia and hands-on conservation actors to better support biodiversity conservation. #ECR2025

🎓Congratulations for Phd theses to Milena Beekmann “Climate and biodiversity interlinkages in the CongoBasin: a local ecological knowledge lens”& Alessandra D'Alessio “Scenarios of Green Infrastructure expansion to achieve the 2030 European Strategic Objective of Biodiversity”👏

🦏🦣🦌 LARGE paper alert!!! We tracked 60 million years of large herbivore evolution—over 3,000 fossil species—to uncover how ecosystems have changed and reorganized through time. What we found might help us understand the next big tipping point 🧵👇 nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨We are thrilled to share that our paper is finally out in Conservation Biology! 📄 "Role of protected areas in mitigating range loss and local extinctions of terrestrial mammals" By Andrea Cristiano, co-author Michela Pacifici 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/cobi.7… #ProtectedAreas

Great talk this morning by our PhD student Martina Fernando at #ICCB2025! 🌍 She presented “Mapping the threat: A predictive risk model for illegal hunting of terrestrial mammals”🐘Co-authors:Marco Davoli, M. Pacifici, A.Benítez-López, M.Rodriguez-López #illegalhunting #mammals

📢 We’re hiring! Join our new and exciting NCN SONATA project “Human–wildlife conflicts under global change” 🌍🐾 🔍 1 PhD & 1 Postdoc position 📍 Kraków, Poland 📅 Apply by 31 Aug 2025 👉 carpathianbear.pl/en/2025/phd-po… #Ecology #Conservation #PhDposition #PostdocJobs #GlobalChange