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Happy #WorldWetlandsDay! Thomas Prowse & I spent last week counting #waterbirds in southeast SA. From salt lakes to freshwater swamps & a restored old quarry. The diversity of habitats #wetlands provide is endless! Thank you to all landholders & locals for their help #ProjectCoorong

Remote sensing to characterize inundation and vegetation dynamics of upland lagoons esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Wonderful tracking data being shared by Rowan Mott after many long days and nights in the field!

🔥Heat wave in Antarctica, +38 °C (+68 °F) above normal. That's not an error, or a typo. The remote research station at Dome C recorded a temperature nearly 40 °C above normal for this time of year, beating the previous March record by a startling 20 °C.

New 🦇 research! We used a novel approach to describe the full seasonal cycle of activity & movement/#migration events in the critically endangered Southern Bent-wing Bat (SBWB) for the first time. Open access: doi.org/10.1071/WR21088 La Trobe University Australasian Bat Society h/t Thomas Prowse 1/4

Another new 🦇 paper! Our study on the critically endangered Southern Bent-wing Bat shows that the species is in continued decline, requiring urgent action to reduce extinction risk⚠️ Open-access: doi.org/10.1038/s41598… h/t Thomas Prowse Photo: Emmi van Harten 1/4

Our manuscript demonstrating a feasible gene drive to eradicate invasive mice is now on bioRxiv, please read on. Thrilled to be part of this study! #genedrive #tCRISPR @InvasionEcology Thomas Prowse @JVRoss_UoA biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

One of Australia’s tiniest mammals is heading for extinction – but you can help theconversation.com/one-of-austral… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Our article was just published in the Conversation!🦇 One of Australia’s tiniest mammals is heading for extinction – but you can help theconversation.com/one-of-austral… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Fossils show that Southern Bent-wing #bats have lived at #NaracoorteCaves for over 500,000 years. It is truly shameful that we've driven them to near-extinction in less than 200 years. Australia is in an extinction crisis🦇theconversation.com/one-of-austral… Bat photo by Steve Bourne.

Southern bent-winged bat: good things come in small (bat) packages cosmosmagazine.com/nature/souther… #science via Cosmos

The Southern bent-wing bat needs your support for Australian mammal the year! Vote once per day cosmosmagazine.com/nature/top-10-…

🦇🦇 Southern Bent-wing Bat is through to the Top 5 of the #AusMammalOfTheYear 🎉🎉 Please keep voting for this amazing bat. #TeamBentwingBat cosmosmagazine.com/nature/top-5-a…

The Southern Bent-wing Bat is #AusMammalOfTheYear!!! I'm so excited & proud. Collectively people have shown that they really do care about this species & our wonderful & important #bats!! Thank you #TeamBat!! 🦇 cosmosmagazine.com/nature/winner-…

#BREAKING: Tiwi Traditional Owner Dennis Tipakalippa has won his landmark case over Santos’ approvals to drill precious Tiwi Sea Country! The Federal Court of Australia has found that Santos failed to consult Traditional Owners as required.

Bar-tailed godwit flies 13,500km from Alaska to Tasmania, breaking world record for non-stop bird flight abc.net.au/news/2022-10-2… via ABC Australia

Out now in Journal of Applied Ecology - Mesopredator release among invasive predators: Controlling red foxes can increase feral cat density and alter their behaviour doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Nice work @NicolaBail ! cosmosmagazine.com/nature/pregnan… #science via Cosmos

Our new study assesses the Murray-Darling #BasinPlan from the perspective of its sentinel wetland: The Coorong tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @InvasionEcology Dan Chilton Tyler Dornan Bronwyn Gillanders Luke Mosley Rowan Mott Thomas Prowse Michelle Waycott 😷💉💉💉💉 Matt Gibbs +non-tweeters

New paper out in Biogeography.News doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14…! We compare some 15 years of GPS tracking and citizen science resighting data of Bewick's swans, to see which contains more information on population space use. GPS data substantially outperform resightings. Nonetheless...