Assistant Professor of Global Change in the Integrative Biology Department at the University of South Florida - St. Petersburg. Views are my own (and are supported by evidence and reason).
Loading...
Important new paper out today led by @jonastrepel.bsky.social that explains how common approaches to quantifying the impacts of #introduced #herbivores are fundamentally flawed, including those used by the #IUCN. #Rewilding
doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
Brian Maitner
I am happy to share this again!
🎓 PhD done!
I’m sincerely grateful to my amazing supervisors, @peteecology.bsky.social, @mschleuning.bsky.social and @margot Neyret for their guidance, support, and encouragement throughout this journey.
Cheers to the next step✈️.
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
Herbivory is a fundamental ecological process; treating it as harm (like recent work has suggested) misinforms conservation decisions about introduced herbivores.
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Check out our new letter in Conservation Biology where we argue that (re-)introduced large herbivores are often wrongly framed as harmful because herbivory is automatically equated with ecological damage - overlooking their potential to restore biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.
Infrastructure for African mines destroying forests at 34 times the rate of the mines themselves
phys.org/news/2026-06...
In 2024, we found 3,500 vertebrate species predicted to have faced unprecedented temperatures. >1,250 already endangered. The window to act is real and monitoring what's going on in the field is crucial. Can we predict 9-months in advance? and in 10-years? more soon
