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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Sep 15

They didn't include her website, so here it is: bloom-wild.com

Bloom Wild | Native Plant Consulting & Garden Design – Transform your garden with native plants! Bloom Wild offers garden consultation, design, installation, care & coaching to create eco-friendly lan...

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Sep 15

My sister on the local news, promoting native plants

www.fox5dc.com/video/170780...

Maryland's best native plants

Fall leaves are here—but should you rake them? Kristin Hanna from the Maryland Department of Agriculture and Janet Hostetler from Bloom-Wild.com. joined us to share why leaving leaves can actually ben...

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jun 29

This is so depressing. Ceding the future to other countries while we make our air dirtier and our planet hotter. Gift link, if you dare. Really hope this horrible bill fails completely.
wapo.st/44EZL4X

Senate’s tax bill seeks to gut clean energy; Musk calls it ‘utterly insane’

The Republican-controlled Congress is poised to score a major win for President Trump by repealing green energy incentives that Democrats passed in 2022.

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Feb 26

Thanks, Nicole!

Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Feb 26

Our analysis of BBS data (through 2023) just came out!
doi.org/10.5066/P1F2...

The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Analysis Results 1966 - 2023

This data product consists of a database of population change and abundance estimates for North American birds, estimated from North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data. Data are presented for 54...

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Trevor Caughlin @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · Feb 10

New paper out, led by @villarreal-miguel.bsky.social. There's a disconnect between remote sensing advances and application to ecology (including only 11 UAS papers in Landscape Ecology!). We provide a guide for using drones to answer ecological ?s: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #uas #drones

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Killian Gregory @killiangregory.bsky.social · Feb 4

2nd chapter of my PhD just published in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Another step towards linking animal migration and population dynamics using integrated modelling! The secret lies in a neat equation relating survival and transition probabilities between migratory regions

An integrative framework to combine migratory connectivity and demographic data

Migratory species experience various conditions and events throughout their annual cycle that influence their spatial and demographic dynamics. To understand these dynamics, it is essential to des...

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Nick Clark 💹 @njclark.bsky.social · Jan 31

I'm currently seeking PhD candidates to help me work on exciting ecological forecasting problems using #rstats ecogambler.netlify.app/opportunities/ 🌎

Research opportunities | GAMbler

If you are interested in joining my research group, or for any other enquiries, please contact me. You can find my most up-to-date contact details on my [University of Queensland page](https://about.u...

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Richard Hall @richardlovesbirds.bsky.social · Jan 25

Post-migratory movements in the nonbreeding season are in fact displayed by a surprising number of birds around the world, with diverse resource- or weather-based cues. Two former students in the lab wrote a paper documenting examples of this: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Post‐migratory nonbreeding movements of birds: A review and case study

While many migratory birds are conceptualized as using a single wintering site, technological advances that enable detailed tracking of individual birds are uncovering more examples of post-migratory....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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American Bird Conservancy @abcbirds.bsky.social · Jan 18

Long-billed Curlew and 'Akikiki may be an ocean apart, but they have at least one thing in common: They both benefit from funds coming from the United States federal budgeting (AKA, appropriations) process. 🪶

Image featuring two birds: on the left, a Long-billed Curlew standing amidst vegetation, and on the right, an 'Akikiki perched on a tree branch, with a blurred green background.

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 19

Check out our article here!

Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Jan 17

📖Published📖

Check out our new research article 👉 Challenges and opportunities for data integration to improve estimation of migratory connectivity 🐦🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇

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Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · Jan 14

Are you looking to get a graduate degree in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences? This funded MS project at OSU is focused on testing a range of non-invasive method for small mammals (enclosed camera trapping + thermal cameras mounted on drones) against SCR applied to live trapping data.

Joshua Twining @joshuaptwining.bsky.social · Jan 13

The masters project: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...

MS in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences: Developing non-invasive monitoring methods and models for small mammal populations | Natural Resources Job Board

jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 6

Our article in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on migratory connectivity, data integration, bidirectional data, and more just came out! 🧵 (eventually)
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Challenges and opportunities for data integration to improve estimation of migratory connectivity

Understanding migratory connectivity, or the linkage of populations between seasons, is critical for effective conservation and management of migratory wildlife. A growing number of tools are avai...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 14

This would be grand! Of course Zotero would have to guess which articles I actually read and which ones I just skimmed the abstract.

Megan @mobydickcissel.bsky.social · Jan 13

I wish zotero made me a little end of year graph showing me my reading history like storygraph does. How many non bird papers did I read?
#goodreads #storygraph

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 13

Thanks to all my coauthors (including @clarkrushing.bsky.social and several others not yet on Bluesky) on this large, collaborative undertaking! And thanks to anyone who's been waiting on me to complete this thread for your patience...

Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 13

Anyway, check out our open access paper for all this plus three real world examples (Painted Buntings, Yellow Warblers, and Bald Eagles) and more! doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Challenges and opportunities for data integration to improve estimation of migratory connectivity

Understanding migratory connectivity, or the linkage of populations between seasons, is critical for effective conservation and management of migratory wildlife. A growing number of tools are avai...

doi.org

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 13

We also developed updated vignettes detailing how to use the MigConnectivity package (smbc-nzp.github.io/MigConnectiv...).

MigConnectivity package

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 13

• Basic plotting of transition probabilities and other estimates
• In addition to bootstrapping, allow users to estimate transition probabilities using MCMC (for some data types)
• New data simulation functions

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 13

• Separating estimation of transition probabilities and MC into different functions (estTransition and estStrength)
• Allowing integration of any combination of GPS, geolocator, isotope, genetic, and mark-recapture data in estimating transition probabilities

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 13

We provide functionality to apply this method in version 0.4 of our package, MigConnectivity (cran.r-project.org/web/packages...). Other new features include:

MigConnectivity: Estimate Migratory Connectivity for Migratory Animals

Allows the user to estimate transition probabilities for migratory animals between any two phases of the annual cycle, using a variety of different data types. Also quantifies the strength of migrator...

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 13

It turns out it's possible to estimate unbiased breeding to nonbreeding transition probabilities with a weighted bootstrap, as long as one has migration data from all nonbreeding regions and estimates of the relative abundances of those regions.

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 13

Through simulation, we show that this approach often generates biased transition probability estimates with bidirectional migration data. How then to integrate these increasingly common data types?

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 13

Earlier we had developed methods for estimating transition probabilities and MC (a measure of migratory connectivity strength) using statistical bootstrapping (doi.org/10.1111/2041...), but only from unidirectional migration data.

Quantifying the strength of migratory connectivity

Technological advancements have spurred rapid growth in the study of migratory connectivity, the linkage of individuals and populations between seasons of the annual cycle. The strength of migrat...

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 13

In this paper, we show how one can integrate bidirectional migration data (e.g., animals whose breeding location is known and nonbreeding location is estimated with animals whose nonbreeding location is known and breeding location is estimated) to estimate migratory transition probabilities.

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Jeff Hostetler @jeffhostecology.bsky.social · Jan 13

Migratory connectivity, the linkages of migratory populations between seasons, is a rapidly growing field. As more migration data from multiple sources become available, flexible methods to estimate migratory transition probabilities using data integration are key.

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