New paper on boosting training data in acoustic machine learning classification for identification of species with little training data, such as dormice. Great work from @jen_macisaac to get the first chapter of her PhD published in @ECOLINFORM.
https://t.co/zYJQoTRLKS
Big congratulations @climateincolour for publishing this work from her PhD and getting an honourable mention from @TheOfficialACM https://t.co/u5k3ufX7zw
Connectivity is often given as an aim in conservation, but how do we interpret it, how do we try to improve it, and how do we measure it
Please complete our survey - nice & quick to do, but will be very useful to scope out the state of play!
@JMBecologist@Scorhill Not that I know of, here is a recent broad review on acoustic monitoring and one use-case of acoustic monitoring for birds, specifically. https://t.co/fOQGsCP0bl https://t.co/ZjwpQYSAbR
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Greater Spotted Eagle populations are declining across their breeding range in Europe due to habitat loss & hybridisation with Lesser Spotted Eagles - they also migrate across a broad front where they are exposed to a host of other threats
Very excited to announce my new R package spAbundance for fitting single-species and multi-species spatially-explicit N-mixture models, distance sampling models, and GLMMs. Includes options for random intercepts/slopes and species correlations. #rstats https://t.co/8GQyTbznqh.
A great account of @NewsonStuart's fieldwork for our @EndangeredLands bioacoustics project (https://t.co/fUhHRxABI7). This will hopefully enable many more to do acoustic monitoring of bats, birds and more through automated classification.
Landscape fires in #WildPolesia threaten human lives & health, economy & ecosystems, and increase greenhouse gas emissions. #Wetland#restoration is a nature-based solution to the problem, the authors of our new peer-reviewed study emphasize. Learn more: https://t.co/fS514m3I6G
Great to see our paper out in @STOTEN_journal on the prevalence and risk of wildfires in areas of high conservation value in eastern Europe @wildpolesia
@TonyDartmoor @WoodlandDave@bto This looks really cool! As Dave said, I'd definitely point you towards the @_BTO acoustic pipeline. Currently it's just for high frequency animals, but we are bringing out functionality for birds in the future. Feel free to get in touch if you want to know more.
The UK government's biodiversity expenditure data released - & it's grim. For all the rhetoric of financing nature recovery - here's how spending has actually changed over time - still ~40% lower than in 2008 in real terms
https://t.co/MbcdccZmx6 /1
1/ Introducing my 1st published chapter of my PhD @UniOfHull, and my 1st first author journal article;
Lets talk bird flu, aka avian influenza aka AI.
Since starting my PhD, AI has raised it's head and from both a conservation and rural economy perspective, that's a problem.