Oded Berger-Tal (@odedberger-tal.bsky.social)

The 'Avrona Nature Reserve has been polluted by crude oil twice - in 1975 and in 2014. @MalayP found that gerbils may trade-off foraging efficiency and toxicity, and prefer 1975-polluted soil, but that this may have physiological costs. New paper - bit.ly/3OpDM9t

Avoiding visitors to a protected area increases #predation risk for the #endangered #mountaingazelle By Yuval Zukerman, Amir Arnon, @Roll_Uri, @oded_tal @bidrBGU @UofHaifa #gazelle #ecology #conservation #wildlife besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Thank you @ReutVardi for leading this!

Food availability and predictability changes post-fledgling movements of Egyptian #vultures - and it is especially important when the food is part of #conservation work. Officially published yesterday: academic.oup.com/condor/article… @oded_tal @AnimalFlight

On the use of #socialmedia & other online data to study #animal #behavior - our new study led by @ReutVardi with @ValeSbra et al. now out in @PLOSBiology doi.org/10.1371/journa… #iEcology #digitaldata #socialmedia #BigData #culturomics #behaviour #animalbehavior #animalbehaviour

New paper led by @mrmic1 investigating the impacts of pharmaceutical pollution on freshwater community structure and recovery from environmental disturbances. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… #BobWongLab @MonashBiol @SLUwildresearch

In our latest paper in @EvolLetters, with @ChangHan @DRobledoRuiz @PacoGarciaGonzalez and @DingemanseLab, we used indirect genetic effects to study mate choice evolution in field crickets. If you happen to be @Evol_mtg on Saturday I'll talk more about it! doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

@CedScherer @AlisonGreggor @SwaddleJohn @alli_sabo @TeamMarmot Thank you! You mean that in different panels the same colors mean different things? You are right of course. It was challenging because we had five panels with different categories, and tried to make it color-blind friendly. But as you noted, our solution creates a new challenge

@oded_tal @AlisonGreggor @SwaddleJohn @alli_sabo @TeamMarmot Interesting piece. I have to note though that the color choice for your charts is pretty dangerous as it uses the same colors to encode different categories!

What do conservation practitioners and researchers need in order to help them find relevant information and tools? Without addressing the barriers to accessing knowledge, effective conservation solutions will be ignored. frontiersin.org/journals/conse… #integrative_conservation_clinic

And thank you @ZeAquaTech for doing such a wonderful job with translating the article!

Did you know that @ConBiology will publish translations of your articles to increase their impact? The #Chinese version of our #windturbine noise paper is now available (as a supplementary): conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 风力发电机噪声对非繁殖期鸣禽行为的影响

Proud to have been part of a multi-agency experts committee on the effects of #noise pollution on the natural environment, along with @LehnardtYael. Organized by @ISEESnews and @SvivaMinistry. Here's the report (in Hebrew): gov.il/he/pages/quiet… Now we need to implement it!

New paper led by the incredible Yuval Zukerman @PaN_BES. We found that endangered mountain #gazelles shifted their activity to the night when close to #hiking and #bicycle trails, increasing their overlap with their predator, the golden #jackal. rb.gy/zaofhc

PhD opportunity alert 🚨 I am looking for a movement ecologist that has experience with analyzing large sets of movement data to join my lab for a PhD project aimed at taking a multi-species approach and using large sets of animal movement data to improve conservation planning

Do you have a PhD in #acoustics or bioacoustics and you want to use that knowledge for conservation? I have an open #postdoc position for an exciting new project on the impacts of anthropogenically-generated infrasound on wildlife. Come join our lab!

A new article in @Trends_Ecol_Evo, co-authored by SEI's @biljana_macura, explores how #AI and large language models can boost #EvidenceSynthesis in biodiversity conservation. AI could address funding challenges & improve decision-making. Explore 👉 buff.ly/3xe8Y6q

6/6 Our paper offers recommendations for conducting reviews using AI, encouraging appropriate scrutiny, transparency, and human-machine collaboration.

The number of AI tools that can be used to synthesize evidence in conservation is growing daily. How can we use these tools to improve systematic reviews and maps, and what are the dangers? This is the product of a wonderful workshop made possible by @MonashUni and @bengurionu

🧵Check out our preprint where we discuss the opportunities - as well as challenges - of AI to improve evidence synthesis in conservation science, with relevance also for the disciplines of ecology and evolution more broadly. 1/2

Expansion of settlements and agriculture in #desert habitats may initially seem to provide an oasis of resources in an otherwise stark environment @krista_natasha shows that for the #ArabianBabbler, the reality is just the opposite @Roll_Uri @BehavEcol bit.ly/43WZwjF