AL GLEN
@asglen.bsky.social
Wildlife ecologist interested in carnivores, invasive species and...stuff
Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests www.sciencealert.com/owning-a-cat...
Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests
Having a cat as a pet could potentially double a person's risk of schizophrenia-related conditions, according to an analysis of 17 studies.
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November 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Owning a Cat Could Double Your Risk of Schizophrenia, Research Suggests www.sciencealert.com/owning-a-cat...
October 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Estimating canid territories and pack compositions: Camera traps provide comparable metrics to an intense radio-collaring programme on dingoes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
October 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Estimating canid territories and pack compositions: Camera traps provide comparable metrics to an intense radio-collaring programme on dingoes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Optimizing small mustelid monitoring: Enclosed camera traps increase detection of the smallest carnivores besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Optimizing small mustelid monitoring: Enclosed camera traps increase detection of the smallest carnivores besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
AWMS Conference, Queenstown, Dec 2025 - be there! awms.org.au/conference/a...
AWMS2025 | AUSTRALASIAN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY
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September 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
AWMS Conference, Queenstown, Dec 2025 - be there! awms.org.au/conference/a...
Quantifying timing and impact of invasive predators on seabird breeding success conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Temporally‐indexed multi‐species density impact functions: Quantifying timing and impact of invasive predators on seabird breeding success
Conserving threatened species often requires effective predator suppression strategies, particularly on islands where introduced predators pose significant threats. Density-impact functions provide a....
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September 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Quantifying timing and impact of invasive predators on seabird breeding success conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Competitive release of invasive frugivorous mammals leads to perverse outcomes for native seed abundance besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Competitive release of invasive frugivorous mammals leads to perverse outcomes for native seed abundance
Our study provides replicated, experimental evidence that competitor release can result in an unintended and negative conservation outcome: seedfall from indigenous trees decreased when ship rats alo...
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September 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Competitive release of invasive frugivorous mammals leads to perverse outcomes for native seed abundance besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Some neat research on urban cats by my colleagues, described in NZ Geographic www.nzgeo.com/stories/not-...
Not all cats
In New Zealand’s national parks and remote areas, conservation managers cull feral cats to save many bird, reptile and invertebrate lives. That’s not possible in urban nature reserves, where there’s a...
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August 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Some neat research on urban cats by my colleagues, described in NZ Geographic www.nzgeo.com/stories/not-...
Exclusion of invasive predators triggers succession, competition and habitat diversification in a small mammal community royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
August 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Exclusion of invasive predators triggers succession, competition and habitat diversification in a small mammal community royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Reposted by AL GLEN
New article out:
The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird’s vocal performance
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#science #birds #sleep #birdsong #urbanecology
The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird’s vocal performance
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#science #birds #sleep #birdsong #urbanecology
August 6, 2025 at 12:13 AM
New article out:
The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird’s vocal performance
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#science #birds #sleep #birdsong #urbanecology
The effects of sleep disturbance on a songbird’s vocal performance
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#science #birds #sleep #birdsong #urbanecology
Discriminating footprints to improve identification of congeneric invasive Rattus species scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
July 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Discriminating footprints to improve identification of congeneric invasive Rattus species scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"balancing the needs of cats, cat owners, and semi-owners/stray cat care providers with the potential negative impacts of cats on communities, other species, and ecosystems" www.nzncmg.com/research
July 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"balancing the needs of cats, cat owners, and semi-owners/stray cat care providers with the potential negative impacts of cats on communities, other species, and ecosystems" www.nzncmg.com/research
Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age - Nature Ecology & Evolution
An expert-elicitation process identifies current methodological barriers for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity, and how technological and procedural development of robotic and autonomous systems may...
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June 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Generative AI as a tool to accelerate the field of ecology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Generative AI as a tool to accelerate the field of ecology - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Progress discusses potential applications of artificial intelligence models that generate new data and how they can be used to advance ecology research.
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June 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Generative AI as a tool to accelerate the field of ecology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The economic cost of invasive species is far higher than previously thought! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using species ranges and macroeconomic data to fill the gap in costs of biological invasions - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Estimates of the monetary costs of invasive species have been hampered by data gaps. These authors use documented costs for 162 species to interpolate costs of those species for countries previously l...
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June 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The economic cost of invasive species is far higher than previously thought! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by AL GLEN
Meet the thin-spined porcupine! This nocturnal rodent, also known as the bristle-spined rat, is found only in parts of northern and central Brazil. Unlike many other porcupines, this one's quills are more like bristles than spines!
Photo: ultimosrefugios, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNautralist
Photo: ultimosrefugios, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNautralist
May 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Meet the thin-spined porcupine! This nocturnal rodent, also known as the bristle-spined rat, is found only in parts of northern and central Brazil. Unlike many other porcupines, this one's quills are more like bristles than spines!
Photo: ultimosrefugios, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNautralist
Photo: ultimosrefugios, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNautralist
Pussyfooting around? Companion cat by-laws in Aotearoa New Zealand ojs.victoria.ac.nz/pq/issue/vie...
May 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Pussyfooting around? Companion cat by-laws in Aotearoa New Zealand ojs.victoria.ac.nz/pq/issue/vie...
Problematic cats in urban reserves: Implications for native biodiversity and urban cat management www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Problematic cats in urban reserves: Implications for native biodiversity and urban cat management
Predation by domestic cats (Felis catus) contributes to the extinction and decline of native species worldwide. Managing these cats is challenging in …
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April 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Problematic cats in urban reserves: Implications for native biodiversity and urban cat management www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The quick and the dead: Behavioral plasticity of anti-predator responses in an Endangered mammal conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The quick and the dead: Behavioral plasticity of anti‐predator responses in an Endangered mammal
We monitored behaviour and survival in a predator-naive havened population exposed to predators once again. We find evidence for behavioural plasticity in an anti-predator trait, though havened indiv...
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April 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The quick and the dead: Behavioral plasticity of anti-predator responses in an Endangered mammal conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Smart camera traps and computer vision improve detections of small fauna
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Smart camera traps and computer vision improve detections of small fauna
Limited data on species' distributions are common for small animals, impeding conservation and management. Small animals, especially ectothermic taxa, are often difficult to detect, and therefore req...
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March 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Smart camera traps and computer vision improve detections of small fauna
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Dancing with the devil: Could native predators inside ‘predator-free’ havens be good for the conservation of threatened native prey species? besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
March 14, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Dancing with the devil: Could native predators inside ‘predator-free’ havens be good for the conservation of threatened native prey species? besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Trophic rewilding: The diet of an opportunistic mesopredator www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Trophic rewilding: The diet of an opportunistic mesopredator www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...