#UBCForestry is hiring a researcher in Natural Resources Governance who is eligible for nomination for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC).

Learn more about the position and apply here: forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...

The WildCo Lab @wildco.bsky.social is recruiting 2 postdocs in quantitative ecology to work on mammal population estimation and monitoring from camera trap data. 🐺🐻🦌📷📈
Please share the word or apply to join us at UBC in lovely Vancouver, Canada!
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Thanks to Katie and the many supporters and collaborators, including the WildCo Lab (especially Tazarve Gharajehdaghipour and Zoe Konanz), @forestry.ubc.ca‬, BC Caribou Recovery Program, BC Parks, Robin Steenweg and Mathieu Bourbonnais. Check out the infographic☝️and open access paper (7/7)

The generality of DMAC as a driver of caribou decline requires more study across varied ecosystems to guide management actions. #Cameratraps provide a valuable tool for monitoring the responses of caribou and interacting species to habitat disturbance and recovery. (6/7)

Wolves and other predators tracked their prey but were not consistently associated with disturbed habitats, which caribou did not avoid. While disturbances from fire and logging are influencing the dynamics of this wildlife community, their direct and indirect effects on caribou are less clear (5/7)

Satellite data and #cameratrap surveys provided mixed evidence. Burnt and logged areas had low vegetation productivity but some pulse following disturbance and were used more by moose and deer (especially burnt areas). (4/7)

The importance of DMAC has been questioned in low productivity boreal ecosystems (eg. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...), but not widely tested in varied contexts. We evaluated it in British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau, within the range of the declining Itcha-Ilgachuz caribou herd. (3/7)

#Caribou are declining across much of Canada. A key hypothesis of decline is disturbance-mediated apparent competition (DMAC), whereby forest disturbances (such as from resource extraction) provide more food for prey like moose and deer, allowing wolves to increase and eat more caribou. (2/7)

#newpaper led by @wildco.bsky.social MSc Katie Tjaden-McClement: “Mixed evidence for disturbance-mediated apparent competition for declining caribou in western British Columbia, Canada” wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (thread: 1/7)

Check out our paper on time-lapse imagery from camera traps to assess bird communities - a test from Haida Gwaii, BC.

Led by Sarah Sanderson.

INFERRING BIRD COMMUNITIES ON REMOTE FRESHWATER LAKES THROUGH TIME-LAPSE IMAGERY

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Link to open access paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

More🌲 for carbon & caribou!
New paper from @james-maltman.bsky.social @irssubc.bsky.social showing large potential for co-benefits from tree planting for carbon sequestration and woodland caribou habitat restoration @forestry.ubc.ca

Exciting Job Opportunity! UBC is hiring an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Transdisciplinary Wildfire Sciences. Accepting applications until April 30.

ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay from #UBCForestry and The Wildlife Coexistence Lab!🐐🫎🦉

The lab, led by Dr. @coleburton.bsky.social, focuses on human-wildlife coexistence across multiple species and scales, with a particular emphasis on large-bodied terrestrial mammals.

Learn more: wildlife.forestry.ubc.ca

Nice article on a neat new camera trap synthesis of daily activity patterns of mammals around the world: www.popsci.com/environment/...

The Doney Lab is recruiting a PhD Research/Teaching Assistant to study Human Dimensions of Wolves and Wolf Management in Oregon at Oregon State University.

📍View posting here: tinyurl.com/ye5zmzre
🗓️ Apply by end of day February 3, 2025.

#ConSocSci #HumanDimensions

It's harder to create parks in places with more human pressures. Large-scale prioritizations are important but not enough. Supporting local initiatives and promoting human-wildlife coexistence outside parks are key complementary strategies.

1st post, 1st paper of 2025! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti.... Led by MSc Katie Tjaden-McClement with Angela Brennan & Robin Naidoo, we asked whether conservation prioritizations affected placement of new parks. Yes for Last of the Wild but no for Biodiversity Hotspots.