“protect” or “avoid”? Accounting for biological invasions in #marine #conservation & planning. New OA paper: Biological Invasions in Conservation Planning: A Global Systematic Review frontiersin.org/article/10.338…

new paper: #conservation gaps: Only 11% of the Marine #ProtectedAreas in the Med report biological invassions: authors.elsevier.com/a/1XP3P1R~e73y~

Published in Biological Conservation: The threat of biological invasions is under-represented in the #marine #protectedareas of the European #Natura2000 #conservation network read more: authors.elsevier.com/a/1XP3P1R~e73y~ #biologicalconservation

Biologists ignore ocean weather at their peril nature.com/articles/d4158… D Smale,Gil Rilov, @aquanaut1967, Joaquim Garrabou (mostly trying to be at the sea), @MarineBio_Muzza, @tamarguyhaim, Antonios Mazaris, Robert Marsh, Fernando Lima, Michael Burrows

Capturing fine scale varaibility in the oceans is essential to enhance our ability to understand current and future impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity. 👉 nature.com/articles/d4158… Amanda E Bates D Smale Gil Rilov @aquanaut1967 @tamarguyhaim @NatureNews

New 4 #WorldOceansDay #SaveOurOcean #worldenvironmentday Challenges and Priorities in Shark and Ray Conservation cell.com/current-biolog…

New study: #Nightlight pollution can reduce #seaturtle recruitment by more than 7%. #conservation measures are needed in a Med MPA. authors.elsevier.com/c/1WFtz3RKK-cI… … pic.x.com/o43qe6bD9I

Introduced #megafauna are rewilding the #Anthropocene onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… #rewilding

Effectiveness of marine reserve networks under future global warming requires adjusting their design to account for reduced connectivity. Checkout our new paper just out in Global Change Biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

Fantastic resource. Wikimedia Commons has just added 132,000 images, all freely licensed, in the 4th annual Wiki Loves Earth. The photo contest focuses on protected areas & unique places of natural heritage, to document them for future generations ow.ly/VrOs30hihKD

What people in 1900 thought life would be like in the technological paradise of 2000? it is not far to that finally we got! mashable.com/2017/11/04/lif… vía Mashable

Disentangling biotic interactions, environmental filters, and dispersal limitation as drivers of species co-occurrence EcoSpat group with @ManuDAmen H. Mod, N.J. Gotelli, A. Guisan onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec… #SDM #ecology #modelling

Gaps and challenges of the European network of protected sites in the marine realm: Only 20% of the #Natura2000 marine #ProtectedAreas are at depths >200 m. ICES Journal of Marine Science | #MPAs #conservation academic.oup.com/icesjms/articl…

Sea turtle researcher networks have been expanding globally as the scope, scale and inclusivity of research has increased! Cool new paper from Antonios Mazaris here: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #collaboration

Less than 40% of the marine sites #MPAs of the European #Natura2000 #conservation network have management plans, indicating the absence of active, or limited management in most sites. ICES Journal of Marine Science academic.oup.com/icesjms/articl…

New method from Wilson et al. predicts space use outside areas where an #Animal was observed, avoids barriers to movement, and removes the release effect of #Telemetry studies. Read the full #OpenAccess Methods in #Ecology and #Evolution article here: bit.ly/2FfO7jV

Could an #R-based web app for #Species distribution modelling (& others like it) become a bridge between the cutting edge of #Ecological methods and everyone who wants to use them? Find out more from @ndimhypervol et al: bit.ly/2IubqaN #RStats #Wallace #Biodiversity

ICYMI: The Arctic experienced an astonishing heat wave late last month, temperatures reached 45°F above normal for that time of year. climate.gov/news-features/…

#climate change, #ICT and #Smartphones anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/04/the-en…