Matthew Rees

[AWMS @AWMSociety]

📢New publication! AWMS members Sebastien Comte, Andrew Bengsen, Dave Forsyth and colleagues recently published a paper examining the effectiveness of professional culling for control of introduced rusa deer in eastern Aust. Read their paper: https://t.co/IC97ML4gMY

[Matthew Rees @matt_w_rees]

@Kelly4rester @CSEE_SCEEmtgs That's awesome - congratulations Kelly!

[QLD Conservation Council @QLDConservation]

We're very proud to share that Trevor Meldrum, Chair of our Board, has been named as one of six Biosecurity Mates ambassadors for Queensland. The new ambassadors will raise community awareness of biosecurity threats to Queensland's unique and precious environment.

[Nicholas J Clark @nj_clark]

Very pleased to announce that the {mvgam} #rstats 📦, which fits State-Space dynamic GAMs to time series, has been released to CRAN. Here is a short blog post to describe current features and future plans: https://t.co/5mzctCSh5T

[Matthew Rees @matt_w_rees]

I've found it almost impossible to get an ecology paper through peer-review without comparing 50 different models using AIC. This paper is another nice example of why that's problematic.

https://t.co/Rvh7L6vU7M

[Scott Forrest @scottwilliamf]

The first paper from my PhD is now on bioRxiv! https://t.co/nF2j3dhQ0c. We incorporated temporal dynamics into the movement, selection and memory processes of an SSF, resulting in dynamic simulations that replicated behaviours of water buffalo #animalmovement

[Charlotte Patterson @Charlotterubyp]

🚨Out now in @ESAApplications🚨

"Eradicating an invasive mammal requires local elimination and reduced reinvasion from an urban source population"

🔗https://t.co/0XOdmMyLDq 🧵

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

Controlling foxes? Keep an eye on those 'brazen' feral cats. 👀

After analysing photos from 3,667 camera traps in southwest Victoria, @matt_w_rees (@CSIRO) + Bronwyn Hradsky (@UniMelb) found feral cats were more abundant in areas where foxes were baited. https://t.co/rpmhssNzIo

[Gregory Andrews @LyrebirdDream]

Australia ranks fifth after Brazil, India, Indonesia and Tanzania for deforestation! On average, we destroy over 400,000 hectares of native forests each year. Surely we can protect what’s left.

I walked in this remnant Red Gum coastal forest on Darkinjung Country NSW today.

[Matthew Rees @matt_w_rees]

Now my PhD chapters are all published and the burnout has subdued, I wrote a summary of my findings in the @ConversationEDU with @bron_hradsky. Managing interacting invasive predators to protect wildlife is hard work.

[Biodiversity Council @Biodivcouncil]

Baiting foxes can make feral cats even more ‘brazen’, study of 1.5 million forest photos led by @matt_w_rees shows

https://t.co/Ve7bSyXCbd via @ConversationEDU

[Matthew Rees @matt_w_rees]

Ecological factors influencing invasive predator survival and movement: insights from a continental-scale study of feral cats in Australia - @vishnumenon94
https://t.co/MXR2WurFZu

[James Vandersteen @Field_Ecologist]

Two of Australia's apex predators meet!
#dingo #wedgetaileagle #australianalps #wildoz

[Prof. Euan Ritchie (@euanritchie.bsky.social) @EuanRitchie1]

Allowing duck hunting to continue in Victoria is shameful and part of a disturbing trend https://t.co/zpYsoKD6C7 - @JackHPascoe

[Matthew Rees @matt_w_rees]

New paper: Dynamic shifts in predator diel activity patterns across landscapes and threat levels.
https://t.co/73BDyv9PnJ

[Mason Fidino, PhD @masonfidino]

Can we stop looking at histograms of animal diel activity and trusting our gut to classify species diel behavior (e.g., nocturnal)? Yes! Out today in @AnimalEcology we present a research methods guide for the Diel.Niche R package! #openaccess #rstats 1/7

https://t.co/dJh61JUoRw

[Andrew Picone @andrew_picone]

Today’s Channel Country win protects this from oil and gas. Nice work @StevenJMiles @LeanneLinard 👍
📷Kerry Trapnell

[Matthew Rees @matt_w_rees]

New paper from my PhD out in @BioInvasions.

Lots of existing research on drivers of invasive predator and native prey occupancy in this neck of the woods, so here I brought some big datasets together to try a slightly different modelling approach.

https://t.co/JxYMbICBmI

[The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand @ConversationEDU]

Platypuses are hard to spot in the wild, but their DNA helps researchers track their presence and disappearance

Here, @EcoEmcg + @andrewrweeks (@UniMelb) sampled 118 rivers + creeks before and after the Black Summer bushfires, searching for platypus DNA. https://t.co/vV7ILJekMf

[Matthew Rees @matt_w_rees]

Feral pigs 'deliberately' released in South Australia, Limestone Coast authorities say https://t.co/HWN8tqf0Qz