Holly Niven

New blog post where @praiseadeyemo.bsky.social and I explore the relationship between ecological modelling and field ecology 🌱 Thanks to everyone at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk who took part in our survey!

Breaking news: it appears Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica are declining faster than predicted.

Latest satellite data shows a massive 22% drop in penguin numbers over the last 15 years in key regions.

This is more than double the rate of loss that experts had expected...

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Check out our new blog post by @hollyniven.bsky.social, where they talk about their research predictive home range models for colonial animals 🦢

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📖Published📖

Check out our recent research article 👉 Towards biologically realistic estimates of home range and spatial exposure for colonial animals 🦢 🌎 🧪

Thanks to all our co-authors, data contributors, institutions and our funder, the DESNZ Offshore Energy Strategic Environmental Assessment OESEA programme.

Seabird modelling tool could transform offshore wind planning, study shows Researchers said the technique could also be used for other wildlife, including seals, bats and bees.

Applied to an exemplar colonial species, the Northern gannet, we show that existing industry standard home range estimation methods are less accurate and also under- and overestimate exposure of gannets to offshore wind farms. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Out now:
A new predictive method: Towards biologically realistic estimates of home range and spatial exposure for colonial animals. With @jasonmatth.bsky.social, @jwejeglinski.bsky.social and others.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Past and future effects of climate on the metapopulation dynamics of a Northeast Atlantic seabird across two centuries The authors aimed to forecast complex metapopulation responses to climate change of an exemplar seabird species, the Northern gannet (Morus bassanus). By using a Bayesian metapopulation model fit to ....

Deep-future predictions of the impact of climate on seabirds, based on century-long metapopulation data. Out today. #PopulationDynamics #seabirds #climate #metapopulation #ecology

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

Past and future effects of climate on the metapopulation dynamics of a Northeast Atlantic seabird across two centuries The authors aimed to forecast complex metapopulation responses to climate change of an exemplar seabird species, the Northern gannet (Morus bassanus). By using a Bayesian metapopulation model fit to ....

Delighted to share our newest work: past and future effects of climate on Northern gannet metapopulation dynamics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... with @jasonmatth.bsky.social @hollyniven.bsky.social and others. Read the highlights below