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Dr Chris Clements
@expecocons.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Bristol University 🧪 Resilience loss ⚖️ Early warning signals ⚠️ multiple stressors 🏭 biodiversity change 🌍 rewilding 🦫 🔗 experimentalconservation.com Editor at Biology Letters.
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 7d
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 7d
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 7d
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 22d
📢 new publiction led by @francescocerini.bsky.social in Ecology

We look at how press vs. pulse disturbances effect population collapse and how predictable that collapse is 🧪🔬

@duncanobrien.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social

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Multivariate signals of population collapse in a high‐throughput ecological experiment
Anticipating population declines is a crucial goal of conservation ecology. Recent conceptual work suggests that populations facing growing stressors should exhibit sequential shifts in behavior, mor....
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Sep 7
Listening to @empirepoduk.bsky.social whilst on a bikepacking trip through Kenya is my new stress relief
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Aug 27
there's a grant in there somewhere....micro-rewilding?
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Aug 27
Might be of interest to ‪@owpet.bsky.social‬ @florianaltermatt.bsky.social ‬ @pennekampster.bsky.social
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Aug 27
Did you know that #microcosm experiments are cited ~ twice as often as non-microcosm experiments?! 🧪

AND

Microcosm articles and non-microcosm articles were cited in #policy documents at SIMILAR RATE 🔬

New paper from @sternetal.bsky.social

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Contribution of microcosm experiments to conservation science
Microcosms, or miniature experimental systems, have been used to develop models and theories in ecology. However, their contribution to conservation science is unclear. We explored the application, d....
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Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · Aug 9
Super happy that @kerrys189.bsky.social passed her viva with no corrections!! 🥳🥳🥳

Congratulations, Dr. Stewart!!

The EcCo lab will miss you, but we know you are off to do amazing things

Thanks to the excellent examiners @alexpigot.bsky.social & @vlboult.bsky.social
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Jun 29
Very cool - @bessonmarc.bsky.social 's Ecology Letters paper just passed 200 citations! 🎉

Interested in biological monitoring and robotics? Check it out below

Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities share.google/IxYWxgy0WS23...
Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities
Monitoring living organisms with high-resolution and multidimensional is a complex and labour-intensive task, yet it is fundamental to understand and predict the dynamics of ecological communities in...
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Jun 25
Great to see the new paper picking up so much traction in the press

www.theguardian.com/environment/....
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Jun 24
Brilliant and important work from @kerrys189.bsky.social out today in @natecoevo.nature.com

What is our best path to conserving global bird diversity?

Find out here

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Kerry Stewart @kerrys189.bsky.social · Jun 24
New paper!
"Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.
Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Projections of extinctions of bird species and losses of functional diversity over the next 100 years suggest that even immediate and widespread threat abatement would be insufficient to prevent losse...
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Jun 17
Diversity is key
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Jun 17
Artists impression of a group of sauropods grazing peacefully in the morning sun 🦕
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · Jun 3
New research: West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse contributes over 4 m sea-level rise with little (0.25 °C) or even no ocean warming above present

#climatecrisis
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Antarctic Ice Sheet tipping in the last 800,000 years warns of future ice loss - Communications Earth & Environment
The Antarctic Ice Sheet exhibits hysteresis and irreversible ice loss, with West Antarctic collapse contributing over 4 m of sea-level rise even under minimal additional warming, according to 800,000-...
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Jun 3
Before the rain came...

#fieldcourse

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Jun 2
Field course season is upon us! Rewilding ar Knepp for the 5th time. Always a pleasure to be here, plus now they have a sauna...

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · May 22
New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com

How can our future robot overlords help monitor biodiversity? What are the biggest hurdles to overcome?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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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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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · May 22
New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com

How can our future robot overlords help monitor biodiversity? What are the biggest hurdles to overcome?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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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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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · May 5
Excellent afternoon encounter in the Tatra mountains
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · May 1
Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · May 1
New paper out from @duncanobrien.bsky.social, will be particular interesting to those of you trying to understand #stability loss in real-world ecosystems

"Stability metrics behave predictably across data qualities but are sensitive to community size"

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Stability metrics behave predictably across data qualities but are sensitive to community size
Modern biodiversity monitoring is generating increasingly multidimensional representations of wildlife populations and ecosystems. It is therefore app…
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Apr 8
🚨 new #climatechange paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social!

Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect
We built a model that simulates the green-veined white butterfly population dynamics based on the survival and fecundity rates of the species across its life cycle and the effects of extreme heat and...
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Mar 26
The position would be based largely and the UoB in my group but also working with local governmental authorities
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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Mar 26
🚨 We're hiring!🚨

Looking for someone interested in modelling biodiversity trends to work on the interface between academia and policy.

careersearch.westofengland-ca.gov.uk/jobs/job/Dat...
Data Analyst - Ecological Modelling | 02 April, 2025 | Jobs and careers with West of England Combined Authority
Jobs and careers with West of England Combined Authority - The West of England Mayoral Combined Authority (MCA) is seeking to appoint on a fixed term basis (until September 2026) a data analyst/scient...
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