Another reason to love trees in cities. Urban 'forests' can store almost as much carbon as tropical rainforests theconversation.com/urban-forests-… via The Conversation

In 1990 28% of Spain was forested; now the proportion is 37% econ.st/2NqXqQy

Please check out our new paper reviewing how pop viability analyses have been carried out in New Zealand over the years. newzealandecology.org/nzje/3343.pdf. NZ EcologicalSociety

Population viability analysis biased towards birds and threatened taxa in NZ. New review from Craig Eric Simpkins @glwperry @Bpowers406 Quinn Asena James Brock 🏳️‍🌈 et al.

Check out our (@msciain & Cédric Scherer) new paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution explaining the awesome nlmr and landscapetools R packages. These packages make amazingly useful and beautiful neutral landscapes and give you the tools to easily work with them. doi.org/10.1111/2041-2… #RStats

Really nice blog post explaining how to find your niche in science. The research niche in academic community ecology ecologyisnotadirtyword.com/2018/09/02/the… via @ManuSaunders

With anyone with similar interests in conspiracy theories, geospatial data, and R this is a fun little blog post/exercise. #Rstats #mappporn #flatearth Flat Earth Mathematics in the R Language lucidmanager.org/flat-earth-mat…

What was your biggest worry when submitting your first paper? At #BES2018 we are running a workshop on getting published with Royal Society Publishing and @sid_or_simon from NatureEcoEvo and need your input! Other worries? Comment below!

Interesting way of viewing what you're really saying in a paper. This is a word cloud of the most used words from my latest paper (newzealandecology.org/nzje/3343.pdf) made with the tm package in R. Core conservation themes come out well. #rstats #Visualization

I find meditation before writing my responses helps. A little

Very interesting talk by Viotech Novotny discussing the fallacies involved with tropical conservation and working with ingineous cultures. #EFFoRTS

Give a .... go with the blue duck

🌏 Metadata of imagery captured by DigitalGlobe of #Palu, #Indonesia on 2 October 2018: buff.ly/2O41b3u To access the data, click on 'Request data.' Esri UN OCHA Asia Pacific #GIS 🗺️

Great talk explaining the intricacies of measuring biodiversity in large complex areas by Holger Kreft. Focussing on how to scale up from counts of species in a small area (alpha diversity) to a image of a while regions biodiversity (gamma diversity). #EFFoRTS

Really interesting talk looking at how diversity (taxonomic through functional) by Fabian Brambach. My two main take aways are 1) that increasing the modification of a habitat for production has knock on effects (e.g. more invasive weeds) and 2) an image is worth more than words.

Amazing map of the world scaled by population by kottke.org #spatialdata kottke.org/18/09/a-map-of…

Nice talk by Prof Jane Hill on my favorite topic fragmentation and connectivity. My overly simple take away fragmentation in tropical forests is generally bad, but having forest fragments in productive areas is generally good. And importantly all fragments are different.#EFFoRTS

When you get a paper rejection in the morning but your h-index increases in the afternoon. #sciencelife

Interesting take on the cat debate, not sure many in NZ and Aus would agree but still interesting. A moral panic over cats - Lynn - - Conservation Biology - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Meanwhile, in Australia. Today’s global temperature map.