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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · 21d

Following on from our avitourism paper in @peopleandnature.bsky.social, you can hear @birdmapper.bsky.social and @rswamper.bsky.social discuss the paper on the @amornith.bsky.social podcast. Have a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/2J1J...

09-33: Why Birders Go Where They Go with Natalia Ocamp-Peñuela & Scott Winton

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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · Sep 4

🐦‍⬛New Research: Human development, societal stability and bird capital predict global tourist eBirding activity➡️ buff.ly/n7EUFbY

"Birdwatchers choose to visit countries that are safe, well-developed, and full of unique birds"
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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · Aug 28

It was fun analysing birding data instead of bird data! Read on to find out the predictors of where eBirders go birding around the world!

Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela @birdmapper.bsky.social · Aug 28

New paper 🚨
We studied drivers of birdwatching tourism globally using @teamebird.bsky.social data, bird distributions, and socioeconomic data. Published in @peopleandnature.bsky.social with @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social, @rswamper.bsky.social. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Human development, societal stability and bird capital predict global tourist eBirding activity

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · Aug 26

New paper 🚨 with @birdmapper.bsky.social! We mapped various diversity metrics for the colossal avifauna of Colombia! Species and functional richness are tightly linked but range-restricted endemics do not capture functional diversity well conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Range‐restricted species are poor proxies for functional diversity in the world's largest avifauna

We assessed the relationship between avian taxonomic richness (four metrics) and functional diversity (three metrics) across Colombia, the country with the most bird species. We found total species r....

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Looking forward to presenting at #AOS25 on EcoScape, a novel habitat connectivity algorithm for mapping birds across fragmented landscapes! Check it out at 4:15, bring any prospective PhD students you know…👀

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚨Great to be part of this paper led by Natalia Pérez-Amaya quantifying a century of morphological change in lowland rainforest birds! @birdmapper.bsky.social @cdanielcadena.bsky.social @julisoto.bsky.social @amcuervo.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Century-long shifts in body size and proportions of lowland rainforest birds - Evolutionary Ecology

Evolutionary Ecology - Climate change is having profound impacts on biodiversity, with notable effects on the distribution, and morphology of species. Many studies have documented changes in body...

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · May 29

Check out the press release for our recent paper on Species on the Move!

Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · May 24

Press release from UC Santa Cruz ⬇️ Species not only shift in space (lat., long. & elev. shifts) & time (phenological adjustments) but also in place (e.g., vertically) along microclimatic clines 🦎

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Rethinking climate adaptation: Researchers call for a holistic approach to species on the move

Animals adapt in more ways than one – ignoring that complexity could undermine efforts to help them survive climate change.

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · May 23

Check out the @uofubiology.bsky.social press release on our recent paper documenting advances in molt phenology! attheu.utah.edu/research/as-...

As climate warms, migratory songbirds’ fall feather molt advances by a day every year - @theU

Study by U biologists taps data from 22,000 songbirds captured at Bonderman Field Station to reveal changes in how they replace their feathers

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · May 16

New paper from mentee Kyle Kittelberger publushed in @asn-amnat.bsky.social! We know climate change drives phenological shifts in birds, but Kyle shows that the phenology of post-breeding MOLT is also advancing over time for birds migrating through southeastern Utah! @uofubiology.bsky.social

Fall Advances in the Timing of Molt in Birds in the Southwestern United States | The American Naturalist

Abstract Molt is a critical event in the annual cycle of birds. Although we know an increasing amount about the impacts of climate change on the timing of other avian events, there has been relatively...

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · May 9

Change is driving species on the move across time and space and we need to understand the entireity of that picture! Truly a pleasure to work with @afredston.bsky.social, @mwtingley.bsky.social, and many others over the past two years to bring this conceptual vision to fruition! tinyurl.com/5n96tz3a

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · Feb 14

Our recent paper made the cover of Ornithological Applications! We used Bayesian hierarchical mark-recapture modelling to understand demographic rates across an elevational gradient in Honduras. @amornith.bsky.social @seijones.bsky.social. Check out the paper: doi.org/10.1093/orni...

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Kendall Calhoun @kendallcalhoun.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hey all! 🦋 A really lovely group of co-authors and I wrote this recent piece for the special issue @society4conbio.bsky.social. We talk about both the challenges and strengths that come with being Black and queer in conservation ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🌱 Always a re-energizing read for me! ❤️ doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Queer Black voices in conservation

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Jonathan Drury @jonathanpdrury.bsky.social · Nov 18

📣 I'm recruiting PhD students for several projects: jonathanpdrury.com/opportunitie... #PleaseRepost

Durham cathedral in crepuscular winter light

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Flavia Montano-Centellas @flamontano.bsky.social · Nov 19

🚨Looking for two PhD students to join our lab in Fall' 25🚨

If you know someone that loves/works with Neotropical birds and/or species interactions, and is looking for a PhD please share this with them! (application deadline is January 3rd).

More info here --> montanolab.com/join-us/

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · Nov 14

También ofrecemos una traducción completa al español! doi.org/10.1093/orni... (7/7)

Unraveling demographic patterns in tropical birds across an elevational gradient

Abstract. An increasing body of evidence has displayed upslope shifts in the high-diversity avian communities of tropical mountains. Such shifts have large

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · Nov 14

We also provide baseline demographic estimates that account for transient birds, which could be incorporated into meta-analyses of life history (6/7)

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · Nov 14

And early evidence that the elevational gradient in population growth rates is associated with previously published elevational shift rates. Taken together, our results suggest that demographic parameters could be used to infer elevational shifts! (5/7)

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · Nov 14

We find that lower elevation species tend to be increasing relative to higher elevation species (4/7)

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · Nov 14

We report preliminary evidence of elevational gradients in demographic rates (3/7)

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · Nov 14

We promote a Bayesian hierarchical framework for analysing demographic parameters, which includes transient individuals and random effects, and encourage others to apply this to their hard-earned long-term banding datasets! (2/7)

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Monte Neate-Clegg @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social · Nov 14

🚨Kicking off my Bluesky life, I present our study in @amornith.bsky.social! We use Bayesian multi-species mark-recapture (CMR) models to assess avian demographic rates across an elevational gradient in Honduras! @samuel-ei-jones.bsky.social, @jsaracco.bsky.social 🧵(1/7) doi.org/10.1093/orni...

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