Camera traps are used in the Bavarian Forest National Park for a variety of questions. This popular report provides an overview of the exciting research results. …tionalpark-bayerischer-wald.bayern.de/service/downlo…

Tree growth‐forms reveal dominant browsers shaping the vegetation - Churski - Functional Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

A newspaper in Montana did a crazy cool comic and article about our coyote video collars! Summer Fink Check out wildlifeatlanta.org too see the videos

With other colleagues, we're compiling a list of tips to help beginners get started with Bayesian statistics. This list draws on advice we've gathered over the years from courses and workshops we've conducted for non-statisticians. What do you think? Are we missing anything?

Enjoy a few tranquil moments from a large beaver dam in Spring 2023. One of the highlights is a wolf standing on the dam watching an eagle swoop down trying to catch a duck...pretty neat! The footage, except the opening sequence, is chronological and shows how melting snow and

Last paper out by our PhD student Sebastian in the ISPRS Journal. He demonstrated that Mask R-CNN using multispectral imagery trained with the tree-labels generated through lidar-based methods yielded 18 % better results than those of baseline methods. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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

We don't always pick up wildcats on our camera traps, sometimes we pick up other species having fun too 😻 Check out this video of some stoats enjoying the summer ⬇

Our new paper just out: nature.com/articles/s4155… urging caution in overstating potential benefits of animals for carbon sequestration. While benefits exist, we must recognise the uncertainties, limitations of scale and ethical implications Lead by Ethan Duvall and Andrew Abraham

Data from the USGS/NASA #Landsat program (Thanks!) has allowed us to recreate the history of Canada's forests, annually documenting attributes including #landcover & disturbances by type (wildfire, harvest) since mid-1980s at 30m spatial resolution. Data: opendata.nfis.org/mapserver/nfis…

New paper on Asiatic Brown Bear: outcome of our research-oriented teaching, with major analysis contributions by 3 MSc students, supervised by Mahmood Soofi . Jonas Trepel skillfully summarizes below⬇️

First publication from PhD student Devara Adiningrat demonstrates successful mapping of old growth forest stands using Airborne Lidar and Sentinel 2. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨Exciting Opportunity!🚨 We're hiring a postdoc researcher SIU Carbondale to study white-tailed deer behavior near roads and improve safety! Cool datasets and lots of opportunities to develop additional questions. bastillerousseau.wixsite.com/research/join 🦌🚗 #Postdoc #WildlifeResearch #AnimalMovement

Just discovered the most massive tree I've ever seen in the Amazon rainforest via satellite image—over 50 meters in crown diameter and more than 50 meters in height! 🛰🌳CTrees Ricardo Dalagnol

We've had another successful breeding season at our off-show conservation breeding for release centre at Highland Wildlife Park 🐾 16 kittens were born this year! Find out more ➡ savingwildcats.org.uk/kittensborninC…

In July we went on a department trip to Viechtach where we went #canoeing on the Regen that crosses a landscape often referred to as #BavarianCanada. 🌲🌲🌳 We had great fun and enjoyed this unique #teambuilding experience in the best summer weather. ☀️

The Random Encounter Model #REM is a method to estimate #wildlife population density from #cameratrap data withuout the need for individual🤓 But, How many sequences should I track when applying the random encounter model to camera trap data?🤔 ...answer below, be patient! 😉

Multiple fantastic presentations from our research group at EURODEER/EUROBOAR, from landscape scale modelling, disease management, camera traps, road ecology, and predator-prey interactions. We are being very productive in Sardinia! 🇮🇹🐗🦌