Shifting baselines increase the risk of misinterpreting biodiversity trends Ecological studies quantifying the impact of land-use change on biodiversity may be sensitive to the choice of reference points – or baselines – particularly when sampling across human land-use gradi...

Space-for-time studies of land-use change rely on a baseline.
But what if that baseline has already changed?
In our new Ecography paper we show this can underestimate biodiversity loss. 🐦📉🧵(1/9)
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gracias!! 😍☺️

Cecilia Montauban receiving an award for the best talk presentation at IBRC

Cecilia Montauban is taking the bat world by storm — a rising superstar with a brilliant future! @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social @ibrc2025.bsky.social

Sub-Saharan African protected areas (n = 7875) and bat occurrence records (n = 16907) of the 263 sub-Saharan bat species. Protected areas arefrom the December 2024 version of the World Database on Protected Areas layer (UNEP-WCMC & IUCN, 2024), and occurrence records were extracted from theAfrican bat database. (Figure 1 in our Conser Biol paper)

Out today in @conbiology.bsky.social, @ceciliamontauban.bsky.social led a paper in which we assessed bat representation in African protected areas. Threatened & data deficient species were absent from or rarely documented / predicted (species distribution models) in PAs (3/4) doi.org/10.1111/cobi...