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For a while now, Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social and I have been working on a guide to introduce Ecologists to causal inference tools for observational data that has problematic unobserved confounding variables lurking in the background. And now it's up as a preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Mule deer are in long term decline and we don't know why. Joel Ruprecht mined the literature to find 722 estimates across 8 vital rates. Using these vital rates and their correlation structure, he ran a life stage simulation analysis to see which most explain population growth /1

The Tortured [Ecologists] Department: A thread in honor of Taylor Swift TTPD & the many ecologists working in systems in peril 🧵

Really nice paper by a bunch of star ecologists - striking that the best cougar habitat is in the east where they have been extirpated. Come on back kitty kitty! Kathy Zeller, PhD 🐾

Wolf population regulation: Why is it so controversial? How many decades have researchers argued over it? How can we move the conversation forward? All that and more here! Great to work on this with the Twitter-less Doug Smith 🐺📙📈📉

⛰️ Carnivore Monitoring Field Tech positions in Oregon & Idaho ⛰️ We are hiring 3 field techs to conduct non-invasive carnivore surveys on National Forest this fall, focusing on improving monitoring methods for rare mesocarnivores. jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=9… Please share!

Going to #asmboudler? Swing by the Glen Miller East Ballroom tomorrow, June 8th at 2:45 pm to learn about apex/meso-carnivore interactions in Yellowstone🤩Undergrad researcher from my lab @macalester will be presenting this super cool collaborative study🐺🦊🐾#asmboulder2024

Super proud of Macalester College alum in my lab, (TL) Zoe Lowe, presenting our work on carnivore interactions in Yellowstone at #ASMBoulder @MammalMeetings 🐺🦊🐾 keep an eye out for this rising rockstar!! 🤩 Huge shoutout to all collaborators/coauthors 🙏🏽 📸 shared with permission

Happy and proud to share that the last paper from my dissertation, “White-tailed deer population dynamics in a multi-predator landscape shaped by humans,” is published in Ecological Applications 🦌🐺🌲👩‍🌾 Reach out if you’d like a copy, and follow along for a 🧵 doi.org/10.1002/eap.30…

Finishing your masters to start a PhD

Our twitter-less Camilla Wikenros did it again! See our latest publication on moose harvest and how it is related to predation, forestry and land productivity. Interesting differences between the bordering countries Sweden and Norway🫎🐺🐻🇸🇪🇳🇴nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wl…

Super cool work on animal activity pattern modelling by Fabiola Iannarilli The International Statistical Ecology Conference Looking forward to the "how-to" for the hierarchical activity modelling John Fieberg @science_action Martin Wikelski #statisticalecology #models #AcademicTwitter

Important new paper from Brenna J Cassidy et al. shows that hunting outside the northern boundary of Yellowstone National Park in Montana adds to, rather than replaces, other sources of mortality for wolves primarily living in Yellowstone NP & Wyoming. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Interested in carnivore interactions at #ESA2024? Or just wanna see cute pics of furry critters? Come see my talk! In the right place at the right time: Spatiotemporal coexistence between competing predators in Yellowstone COS 80: Competition 2 Tue August 6th 1600-1615, 103C

Colleagues from 🇨🇦 have just published a response in Applied Ecol. Resources|Ecol. Solutions & Evidence to our 2014 Journal of Applied Ecology paper showing that our method is flawed & systematically underestimates abundance. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/26…

📢new preprint📢 Co-led by the awesome Wes Binder & Jack Rabe 🐺🐾 and featuring amazing researchers from my lab+Yellowstone group, we delve into the unique ‘benefits & burdens’ for mesos from apex carnivores in Yellowstone 🦊🐺 Cameras, collars, observations! We have it all 📷🛰️📊⬇️

Beyond the scope

A global assessment of large terrestrial carnivore kill rates. doi.org/10.1111/brv.13… Super excited to share the first published chapter of my PhD - A systematic literature review & synthesis of large carnivore kill rates, i.e. rate at which carnivores kill prey. 1/n

CALLING ALL BIRD NERDS we are hiring Asst Prof Avian Ecology at UW Seattle! Please apply, or spread the word: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-d…

In Yellowstone’s predator hierarchy, cougars must navigate competition with wolves & bears. A new study from the team finds prey size influences predation patterns, food theft & shapes coexistence in unexpected ways. Check it out! nature.com/articles/s4200…