Robert Fletcher
@fletcherecology
Professor @UF 🔜 @Cambridge_Uni | Conservation Biology | Landscape & Spatial Ecology | Husband | Dad | he/him. @ blue sky: @fletcherecology.bsky.social
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The new IUCN Red List of Ecosystems guidelines are now available! Use the guidelines to develop ecosystem status assessments and advance your understanding of the Red List of Ecosystems categories and criteria. Find them here: portals.iucn.org/library/node/5… Red List of Ecosystems IUCN
There are an estimated 25 million kilometers of new roads planned for construction around the world by 2050. We are making maps that can help transportation infrastructure accommodate migrating ungulates – from the Kazakh Steppe to the Serengeti 🦌🦓Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative
Our new paper in NatureClimate on why the advocacy of wildlife conservation and rewilding as climate mitigation solutions is not a good idea and risks a backlash when the climate benefits are overstated - “resisting the carbonization of animal wildlife. Video explainer below …
The number of assessed species on the IUCN Red List is now 163,040, with over 45,000 threatened with #extinction. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is a critical indicator of the health of the world’s #biodiversity.
And just like that my time at Kew has come to an end! Thanks to everyone Kew Science, it’s been a special place to work for the past year Very excited to be starting a PhD Cambridge University Hughes Hall in October, working on defaunation across Southern Africa with Robert Fletcher
Interested in #carnivores or #mammals? Check our new database of #carnivore functional traits including both extinct & recently #extinct species GEB Journal🦁🐯🐅🐻❄️🦝🦊🐺🐆onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge… #macroecology - big thx to Eamonn Wooster & Owen Middleton for leading🐺🐯
Friday was my last day FLORIDA. I worked there for 17 years! I will miss Florida’s incredible ecosystems, my colleagues & friends, UF IFAS Wildlife, UF SNRE, & especially the students! But it’s time to move on, & I look forward to this next chapter at Cambridge University Dept of Zoology
10 days left to apply! Don't miss plenary talks from our ED Melissa Leach , Prof Brendan Godley Sarobidy Rakotonarivo and Barnardo Strassburg.
Thrilled & honoured to win the amazing Founder's prize from British Ecological Society! A huge surprise; testament to the incredible network of people I have had with me on this journey. A full circle moment as the British Ecological Society was my first ever scientific meeting w/ Phil Wheeler! 🦎🦎🦎