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Tom Lloyd

@tomlloydnature.bsky.social

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🌐 Postdoc, Global Ecosystems @ JCU 📝 Conservation biogeography, protected/conserved areas, ecological compensation, biodiversity informatics & geospatial analytics 📷 Intermittent nature photographer

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · Jan 22

📣 Are you an ECR looking for work in conservation or ecology research? I've created a feed to track opportunities here 👇

The feed is tracking mentions of "postdoc" or "research fellow/associate", and "biodiversity", "conservation", "ecosystem", "ecology", or "landscape" ~with varying success
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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · May 10

Surprise Chef - All News is Good News & Glass Beams - Taurus.. 🖤💛❤️

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · May 9

Postdoc sought for bird biogeography and conservation project at Naturalis, Netherlands. Focus on land-bridge islands, especially Bioko. Includes bioinformatics, macroecology, and education work. Details: https://www.naturalis.nl/en/about-us/job-opportunities/postdoc-birds-on-islands #postdoc

Postdoc - Birds on Islands

www.naturalis.nl

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TERN Australia @tern-aus.bsky.social · May 9

🎓 We're seeking a Postdoc Research Fellow to work in our Ecosystem Surveillance team!
You'll need the ability to conduct field studies, analytical & problem-solving skills, research, design methodology & tackle experimental challenges.

📝: careers.adelaide.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
#postdocjobs

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · May 1

Thank you 😅 I feel silly now 😂

Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · May 1

No 🤣

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · Dec 12

Great ressources for anyone doing spatial data with with R 🚀 🌈

👉 rspatialdata.github.io

thx @paulamoraga.bsky.social ✨

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · Dec 12

Ripper of a talk by Brodie Crouch on maintaining brigalow cover in grazing landscapes at #ESAus2024 just now.. in Brodie’s words, “if we had 20% brigalow cover in every paddock we’d be laughing” 🦤 🌏 🐮 🌳

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · Dec 12

Holly Bradley detailing a new project designing guidelines for artificial habitat design in mine site rehab at #ESAus2024. Also advertising Masters’ projects on related topics @curtinuniversity.bsky.social! 🦤🌏

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · Dec 12

@martinemaron.bsky.social on the decades long struggle to stop senseless Queensland agricultural land clearing at #ESAus2024 🦤🌏

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · Dec 11

Gave the last talk of my PhD at #ESAus2024 on target-based compensation for achieving #biodiversity net gain on Tuesday. In short: only feasible in a few ecoregions with nickel mining in Indonesia, and expansion in the most mined area globally not compatible with 50% intact forest retention 🦤🌏🌐

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · Dec 10

Thanks for coming and the kind words Dan!!

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Dan Rogers @coorongdan.bsky.social · Dec 10

Great talk just now by @tomlloydnature.bsky.social on target-based compensation. Really interesting framing to inform where compensation is feasible (or not) for net gain outcomes. #ESAus2024

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Nicola Sockhill @nicolasockhill.bsky.social · Dec 2

Who wants to be added to an urban greenspaces starter pack? Like/comment or DM me and I’ll make it when enough (7) people do :) #urbangreenspace #urbanparks #urbanecology

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · Nov 29

Gatti et al. (2022) estimate of global tree species richness: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · Nov 29

IUCN press release: shorturl.at/JXsvd

More than one in three tree species worldwide faces extinction - IUCN Red List

Cali, Colombia, 28 October 2024 (IUCN) – Thirty-eight per cent of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction according to the first Global Tree Assessment, published in today’s update of the IUCN Red...

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · Nov 29

>47,000 tree species were recently added to the IUCN Red List, with 35% assessed as threatened. There's still another ~26,000 to assess, ~1/3 of which remain undescribed, but great to see plants getting more #conservation attention🌿🌳🦤🌍
📷 Antarctic Beech (VU), Tullawallal / Lamington NP, QLD, Aus

Antarctic Beech trees and mossy boulders on a misty mountaintop

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · Nov 24

📢 Global Ecology feed !

A new feed for large scale biodiversity, ecosystems and conservation sciences, covering both terrestrial & marine realms

- DM @nmouquet.bsky.social to be added as contributors

- Tag posts with globe meridian emoji 🌐 to show up in this feed

bsky.app/profile/nmou...

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · Nov 21

Four of my most memorable lifers (and most average photos) from post ICCB 2023 Uganda trip: African green broadbill, black bee-eater, black-billed turaco, and green-breasted pitta 💚🖤🦜🌿 #birdnerd

Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · Nov 21

1st PhD chapter from 2023: Mining threatens greater concentrations of angiosperm phylodiversity and arthropod endemism in the Brazilian Amazon; vertebrates not suitable as a proxy for other taxonomic groups in risk/impact analyses #conservationscience 🌿🪲🦤🌎 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Multiple facets of biodiversity are threatened by mining‐induced land‐use change in the Brazilian Amazon

Aim Mining is increasingly pressuring areas of critical importance for biodiversity conservation, such as the Brazilian Amazon. Biodiversity data are limited in the tropics, restricting the scope fo...

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Tom Lloyd @tomlloydnature.bsky.social · Nov 12

Australian #bluesky #landscapes from Tjoritja, NT; Wineglass Bay, TAS; and the local dog park/bat roost, Meanjin/Brisbane. Shot on digital and analog cameras, and phone 😉 #conservationscience 🔜