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).
Brian Maitner
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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...
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
Brian Maitner
Our new #BIEN biodiversity data workflow paper is out! BIEN is an ecosystem of modular, open-source BIEN tools for collecting, harmonizing, and validating biodiversity data -- and an integrated global database (BIEN db) of plant occurrences, traits & geographic ranges. doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪🌐🌾🌵
Infrastructure for African mines destroying forests at 34 times the rate of the mines themselves
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Natalie Cooper
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
What if conservation could respond before the crisis hits? In 2024, howler monkeys were falling dead from trees in Mexico. Our model had flagged that region before the crisis. We present the first global early warning system forecasting extreme heat exposure for biodiversity here rdcu.be/fm8ml
Industrial-scale mining in Africa to support global supply chains is leading to unprecedented deforestation across the continent, with 34 hectares of forest removed for every single hectare of active ...
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✈️.
Brian J. Enquist
This was a great collaboration between many different institutions. I feel I am learning a lot from climate modelers. Thanks Cory, @mark-urban.bsky.social , Lauren, @maitner.bsky.social, Ben, gonzalo, @alexpigot.bsky.social , Chris, Adam,
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.
Ricardo Rocha
Pep Serra-Diaz
Pep Serra-Diaz
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/...
The rapid expansion of biodiversity data presents new opportunities to understand and forecast biosphere dynamics. However, disparate and dispersed data, taxonomic and geographic inconsistencies, ...
