Fellow Martin Beal did an online presentation entitled Albatrosses & large petrels on 5th May 2021 during the World Seabird Twitter Conference. He presented the results of his first thesis chapter. His work provides evidence base for countries to pursue effective international collaborations safeguard the ocean.
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Fellow Sean Jellesmark did a presentation entitled Measuring the impact of wetland reserves on breeding waders on 8th April 2021 during the ‘Statistics at the Zoo’ virtual seminar hosted by the Royal Statistical Society, East Midlands Local Group. He presented research about the impact of conservation on waders from his first and second chapter of his PhD and discussed how counterfactual evaluation can be used in ecology.
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Fellow Kathrin Holenstein presented a poster entitled Permeability of Protected Areas to Non-Native Species in September 2020 at Neobiota, the 11th International Conference on Biological Invasions, in Vodice, Croatia.
She analyzed non-native animal and plant data from a Norwegian biodiversity data base and showed that non-native species present surrounding protected areas influence the community of non-native species within them.
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Fellow Maria Lumbierres did a presentation entitled Updated Area of Habitat models to map global biodiversity of terrestrial mammals and birds on 6th July 2020 during the online GeoBon Conference. Maria presented a combination of hers and Prabhat‘s work explaining how they developed a novel data-driven crosswalk between the IUCN Red List Habitats Classification Scheme and the Copernicus Global Land Service Land cover, using a logistic regression model. She also explained having fine-resolution distribution maps help guiding conservation action worldwide and having a clear view of the relationship between habitat and land cover helps us to understand the impacts of land-use change on species.
Inspire4Nature fellow Gonzalo Albaladejo presented an E-poster entitled Vertebrate fast and slow species response to spatial heterogeneity during the British Ecological Society annual meeting that took place in Belfast (Northen Ireland) from 10th to 13th of December 2019. Gonzalo presented a method to integrate life-history theory into species distribution modelling, using the theory of Island Biogeography as a bound mechanism between spatial heterogeneity due to land-use and life-history strategies respond to it. This new approach will serve to better understand the response of biodiversity to global changes from a functional perspective.
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Fellow Sean Jellesmark presented at the British Ecological Societies Annual Meeting on the 12th of December in Belfast. He assessed the impact of RSPB lowland wet grassland reserves on wetland bird species using a quasi-experimental method.
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Inspire4Nature fellow Shawn Dove did a presentation at the British Ecological Societies Annual Meeting on the 13th of December 2019 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. During the conference, Shawn presented a method that uses a model of accuracy built by comparing trends generated from synthetic datasets. It is the first method for measuring the accuracy of a time-series based biodiversity indicator.
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Inspire4Nature fellow Maria Lumbierres presented a poster entitled Modelling habitat-land cover associations for mapping species distributions on October 4, 2019 at the International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference in Salzburg, Austria. She presented a crosswalk model that determines the association between Copernicus Global Land Service land cover and IUCN Habitats Classification Scheme. This crosswalk serves as a way to improve the accuracy and repeatability of Area of habitat maps.
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Inspire4Nature fellow Matt Ford participated in the European Ichthyology Congress which took place from 2 to 6 September 2019 in Lausanne, bringing together some of the world’s foremost ichthyologists. Matt made an oral presentation and also participated in a poster.
Inspire4Nature fellow Carmen Soria presented a poster entitled Trait data quality and availability: a review of mammal trait databases in July 2019 at the International Conference on Conservation Biology, at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She analysed some of the most popular publicly available mammal trait databases following a hierarchical methodology to produce a combined database obtained. This allowed her to identify which mammal orders, trait types and parts of the world are data deficient.
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