PhD Opportunity!! .in my new lab @FIWIvienna .🦌 Movement Ecology of European Ungulates 🫎.Quantifying individual variation across populations in relation to resource dynamics and anthropogenic landscape changes. More info here 👉 Deadline Nov 27

RT @frog_tracker:

RT @fusanilab: Deadline extended to May 1st!.

I'm super excited about my new position as Assistant Professor in Movement Ecology @FIWIvienna @Vetmeduni. I will join a great interdisciplinary team with experts e.g. in wildlife ecology, physiology, pathology, genetics and conservation medicine.🤩

Looking back on 2.5 years of research in a stunning landscape in #BerchtesgadenNationalPark with @edfm_tum. I had a great time working in this group! Now off to new adventures. -> @FIWIvienna

A main challenge in our COVID19BiologgingInitiative is combining great animal tracking data with only vague info about humans. Here our vision for incorporating human mobility in the study of human–wildlife interactions, led by @Diego_EllisSoto +RuthOliver.

RT @LarissaBeumer: 💥 TWO #postdoc positions in Movement Ecology of Central Asian Ungulates @Senckenberg! 🐴🫏 Location is Frankfurt! Great pr….

Raven pop. increase in many areas->can pose threat to already endangered species. Instead of reducing human subsidies, managers increasingly rely on lethal removal. Earlier we discussed why this is inherently failing+an ethically untenable solution (6/6).👉

Ravens with a territory in the National Park commute almost daily to these subsidies that can be up to 120km distant to their territory. Non-breeders exploit these resources within and far beyond the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. (5/6)

In fall/winter, ravens spent more time outside the protected area mostly feeding on anthropogenic subsidies e.g. remains of harvested game animals left by hunters (offal, ribs🍗🦴), roadkill, urban and agricultural waste or skimming fat from wastewater treatment ponds😋😋. (4/6)

We trapped and GPS-tagged Common ravens within/close to Yellowstone National Park and analysed the resource use of 57 individuals Oct 2019 - March 2020. We identified >2,500 foraging events and spent many hours observing ravens during foraging. (3/6)

Increasing recreation and ecotourism in protected areas often create large food subsidies, especially in the surrounding lands through fast-growing gateway communities. (2/6)

Very happy that our paper is out on ravens' use of anthropogenic subsidies around Yellowstone National Park - based on Cameron Ho's undergrad. thesis, who did an amazing job! with @drstahler @safilabmpi @martinwikelski et al. 🧵.(1/6).

RT @safilabmpi: Wait, stop! Whatever you are up to, you should know that this just happened. Good bye sp, hello sf: .

a nice blog post about this paper:

Already 30k y ago ravens regularly consumed large herbivores incl mammoths + were commensal to wolves & hunter-gatherers. Great study by @t_shumon @PaleoFoxGuy et al. that nicely matches my analyses from GPS-tracking ravens/wolves/cougars in YellowstoneNP.

Day 3 of teaching Movement Ecology of animals - a course for MSc students @TU_Muenchen. I introduce trapping/tagging methods + data analysis in R in a stunning landscape in the German Alps

our latest research paper on Neotropical poison frogs lead by @frog_tracker has been featured by CNN 🐸🐸🐸 We fitted frogs with little electronic panties to track them through the rainforest for studying their space use and navigation skills (.

I'm very happy that I could join this effort collating bio-logging data from a wide range of studies for a large scale analysis. @MarleeTucker did an amazing job in evaluating how terrestrial mammals responded to the COVID-19 lockdowns.

perfect timing: we just came back from our 3 day workshop of the Covid19 Bio-logging Initiative and the first paper led by @MarleeTucker came out 🥳.