Come work with us! The Schell Lab is looking for a new postdoc to work on urban biodiversity initiatives in the Bay Area and throughout California. The future postdoc will also be an integral partner of the California Urban Nature Alliance. https://t.co/vUSIiwggwQ
Fun Fact: Thorny devil lizards drink water with their feet. They step in water on the ground and the grooves on their skin channel water to their mouths through capillary action. This allows them to drink passively without lowering their guard.🦎🥤🐾
Fun fact: Baby birds often ‘gape,’ opening their mouths wide to signal hunger. Parents feed them by regurgitating food until they’re weaned and learn to eat on their own. 🐥🦜
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@masonfidino I literally have your post about integrated presence/absence + presence-only models open right now. Your blogs provide a great intro & help me understand posts on other sites. If I’ve never thanked you before, thank you for the work you put into your blog; it’s so helpful!
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Summary metrics, like species richness, are useful but only part of the story. It's important to understand how individual species respond to urbanization, especially species of management concern like deer mice (they carry Lyme disease)
More of my dissertation work is published in the Journal of Mammalogy! - "Variation in species-specific responses to habitat fragmentation and land cover structure urban small mammal communities"
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However, there were some pretty interested species-specific responses to both vegetation cover and habitat fragmentation - for example, deer mice do not like urban environments, but short-tailed shrews seem to benefit
My favorite part of #TWS2024 (besides meeting other passionate wildlife biologists, obviously) was walking away with more squirrel & coyote swag from @BlueAsterStudio - I love seeing artists with booths at conferences!
If you’re looking for more small mammal research after today’s talks, check out my talk tomorrow afternoon (3:30pm in Peale) on the relationships between predator occurrence and urban deer mouse abundance
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I feel like I should sit down and play w/ @R_nimble after attending Perry de Valine’s talk at #TWS2024 Seems like a really useful tool for complex ecological models!
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