Danny Hooftman

Big news! Our Global Ensembles Paper is out. We developed ensembles of multiple models at an unprecedented global scale for five ES of high policy relevance. doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… @JMBecologist @UK_CEH @BritishEcolSoc @Simon_Willcock

Exciting new research from European collaboration @FUNgreen2017 explores livestock's role in restoring pollination services. Learn how green infrastructure and grassland type impact plant-pollinator interactions. Read more at @JAppliedEcolog : doi.org/10.1111/1365-2… #Restoration

Restoration programs should aim to increase landscape connectivity, which influences plant communities, pollinator assemblages & their interactions Our new study of restoration & green infrastructure effects on pollinator-plant networks besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

@JMBecologist Congratulations!

Happy to be on the Clarivate Highly Cited list again ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media…

@ElisavetZa Yes you are. Your recent PhD qualifies enough, knowing the contemporary literature.

@JMBecologist An "ecologist" in the Netherlands is nowadays somebody who (indirectly) works for construction industry, making sure all nature environment regulations are followed or can be framed to appear to be followed. I am not calling myself ecologist anymore in Dutch.

There seems be an increasing number of scientists who call themselves ecologists but who don’t actually study the interactions between organisms and their environment

@JMBecologist Could fit quite a lot of wolves in the UK. It ain't large timberwolves though, this is the petite wolf-kind. Happy to export some.

Netherlands human population density = 522 per square km UK human population density = 280 per square km

All models are wrong, some are useful, but using multiple models can increase accuracy and assess uncertainty Worried to see policy makers using a single model, often because that’s the one promoted to them by a particular academic team sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@JMBecologist You, I assume ;-)

What sort of idiot agrees to give 3 different talks over 5 days? 🤦

We used the universal law of human mobility to map #nature-based #recreation in the #UK: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. It also makes a great proxy for access to many other #ecosystemservices. @UK_CEH @BritishEcolSoc @Simon_Willcock @RedheadGIS @IPBES @LRidding

We used the universal law of human mobility to map #nature-based #recreation in the #UK: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. But it also makes a great proxy for access to many other #ecosystemservices. The outputs are freely available here: catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/bd3b…

@olivierhonnay @DaelemansRobin @BiologyKULeuven Thanks! Those are going to be useful

@DannyHooftman @DaelemansRobin @BiologyKULeuven Yes, there are Danny.

Today we had the PhD defense by @DaelemansRobin @BiologyKULeuven. Excellent work on ecosystem service provisioning in apple farming landscapes.

@JMBecologist Only today here, the wolf is blamed for reducing deer numbers at the Veluwe. Given that half of deer and wild-boar population is culled every year due to overpopulation, I am not so sure that is true problem or just an anti-predator lobby.

Once again seeing other species (eg predators) blamed for biodiversity declines We need to accept declines are due to our destruction of the natural world & that healthy ecosystems include all trophic levels

@JMBecologist @ElsevierConnect Happy to go along with that if we discuss journals

I have, with sadness, been asking co-authors that we do not submit papers to @ElsevierConnect journal, while the publisher continues to aid the #FossilFuel industry blog.ucsusa.org/kristy-dahl/5-…

@JMBecologist 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Currently testing my hair out (what’s left of it) trying to get amendments approved for both an EU and a UK grant For both, massive delays and sending back with pernickety alterations demanded

@olivierhonnay @bimbombram Gewoon alles afknallen en plastic vogels op het hek en bij de vijver zetten. Tenminste overzichtelijk (= cynische opmerking). Er zijn hier inmiddels genoeg idioten die het bos niet meer indurven, misschien geen rood mutsje opdoen....

@bimbombram Het is wachten op een wolf die naar het asiel afgevoerd wordt. ‘De chip is helaas niet leesbaar maar de eigenaar mag zich melden’.

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Ensembles of ecosystem service models are more accurate than using a single model chosen at random - new research from @Simon_Willcock @DannyHooftman @rachelneugarten and colleagues @ScienceAdvances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@JMBecologist Fully agree. I have a very big corner I throw things in for shorter or longer time; sometimes something dies there.

When a paper is rejected, I hate it (the paper) so much that I can’t look at it, let alone consider re-submitting it, for several weeks

All the outputs and code to make them can be downloaded here: catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/bd94… github.com/GlobalEnsembles zenodo.org/record/7687580…