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Most migratory birds of the world's flyways are in decline, or in conservation troubles by now. The Old World flyway connecting Western Europe with Africa is no exception and hardly a surprise, while Africa features a tragic colonial legacy ser
Urban gulls are a fascinating issue in recent times. Most people in the world now live in cities, where they are confronted with urban governance and its wildlife, such as cockroaches, squirrels, rats, pigeons and gulls, let's say. In the subar
When snow gets warmed up it melts; virtually every child will know that. However, on a policy and public level, those details are hardly acknowledged, certainly not the vast impacts that relate to lacking 'snow pack', e.g. seasonality, regiona
New Zealand (NZ) is blessed with a unique, quite wild nature and its endemic biodiversity. Also, NZ as a relatively small nation with c. 5.1 mio inhabitants features the world's 4th largest exclusive economic zone (EEZ). But modern NZ also enta
Some environmental patterns appear to be local - but upon closer inspection - then have a wider and larger spill-over and are actually driven by global actors. Based on a recent study by Veit et al. (2021) here a seabird example is presented -
“My dream is to live off-grid”. A sentence that seems to come up more and more frequently throughout the last few years. Who does not want to live sustainably and be self-subsistent ? Yet, how is it really to live off-grid in remote areas, away
Species distributions are an essential feature for a successful species conservation management. Data of presence/absence are quite simple to obtain and they are easily part of most inventory schemes, such as Bird Atlases and survey plots. Afte
This episode deals with the somewhat overlooked impact on 'deep nature' by the world economy and global trade, it uses a global bottleneck and strategic hotspot: the Panama Canal region.While focusing on a re-interpretation and shifted emphasi
'Plankton" consists of phytoplankton (~plants) and zooplankton (-animals). It represents the basis of the ocean food chain and it includes many species; it's a very complex 'multi-species soup' representing a true science frontier hardly tackle
This episode presents on Tropical Mountain and Cloud Forest issues, namely conservation, species diversity and ecology.It uses an interview with Hazel Berrios and her wider tropical plant field experience.This session discusses a multi-year f
This podcasts elaborates on some supplementary materials in the forestry publication by Zhang et al. (2022).Based on this research it briefly presents details of ten Forestation Programs in China and their contexts and objectives. Those are la
This podcast provides some deeper insights into our new publication by Solovyeva et al. (2021) dealing with Arctic Geese in the Eastern Russian Arctic. It provides a showcase for the 'New Digital Arctic' as the myriad changes in the Arctic land
The Gray-headed Chickadee is part of the app. 50 Parus species with a dominance in the Old World, ranging from Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden Finland) all across Russia and even into the New World, namely Alaska and Yukon/Canada (Hailman and Haftr
The segregation in animals is a fundamental topic in wildlife research and conservation policy. It was studied early on within 'deer' (ungulates) and how males and females use space and habitat in different ways. Often, they are not even overla
This episode elaoborates on the Seascape Ecology scheme and on the concept of defining a global sustainability science agenda without bias.It is based on the new publication of over 30 co-authors by Pittmann et al. (2021) which essentially tri
The Arts and the Sciences are truly connected; they feed into each other, relate directly, provide inspiration and creativity for the global audience. Following a quote by Berthodl Brecht "Art is not a mirror for reality, but a hammer with whi
Caribou and reindeer are an inherent and co-evolved part of the Circumpolar North. However, the Arctic Report Card 2018 stated that app. 2.6 million reindeers got lost just during the last 20 years. The status of caribou herds further south is
Many songbirds are migratory, and they are in a serious conservation trouble! Here we show from a recent publication by Walther and Huettmann (2021) how those trends in the Old World and its African fllyways and wintering grounds can be modeled
Autocorrelation -the serial correlation - as a correlated signal with a delayed copy of itself is inherent in Nature. It's not just a problem to get rid of, to be modeled away or a Red Herring in time and space, but it should be used to your ad
Central America and its Biodiversity is world famous. However, its status and conservation is very worrying, just like many features in the Anthropocene these days. Using over 12 years for field school-based field research in the region -land,
The International Polar Years (IPYs) are meant to provide unbiased research and progress - a great leap forward - for polar regions and wider global issues. Starting in 1882 they are organized app. every 50 years by the international community,
Snow leopards have been studied for over a century, specifically by the western world; they got heavily promoted by western media and TV as a rare sensation of the mountains (e.g. Matthiesen 2008). Realities do differ though, and here I show th
Home ranges have occupied the Wildlife Management research and literature for decades; they are the bread-and-butter of most species accounts and textbooks. Various software exists computing Minimum Convex Polygons (MCPs), Kernel estimators etc
This is a re-post and a wider conservation science policy context of an earlier podcast interview with STEMM Storytellers with Rachel Villiani's#90 Antarctica Series 12: https://anchor.fm/storytellersofSTEMM/episodes/90---Antarctica-Series-12-
It remains undisputed for over a century that 'Seabirds are Indicators', the same can be said is true for the Global Ocean Crisis in the Anthropocene.However, considering the reality of oceans and many seabirds, the applied policy concept that
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