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Kari Norman
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Ecologist at Rocky Mountain Research Station. Thinking about measuring biodiversity change, monitoring, and tools for making those things easier.

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ÉPICBiodiversity @epic-biodiversity.org · 5h
🧪🌎 Only 12% of Colombia's Tropical Dry Forest is located within protected areas, which puts over 750 species of plants, birds, and mammals at risk of habitat loss.

Read more about our most recent paper, where we also tie this trend to national-level biodiversity commitments.
Are we there yet? Ongoing habitat loss in Colombia’s Tropical Dry Forests | ÉPICBiodiversity
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Carl Boettiger @cboettig.bsky.social · 5d
We're hiring a full-time research software engineer for biodiversity & bioacoustics!

Position offers a strong research component with independence + research pub opportunities and real-world impact.

expected salary range $111K - $116K.

dse.berkeley.edu/news/were-hi...
We’re Hiring! Help Build the Future of Biodiversity Research | The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley
We’re excited to announce a new, full-time position opening for a Research Software Engineer / Data Scientist, who will focus on biodiversity and bioacoustics research.
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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · 26d
Thought our experience earlier this year receiving 8 reviews, some of which were for the wrong paper, was a bizarre one-off. Apparently not!
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Over a month ago, Ecological Indicators returned us either the wrong editorial decision, or the wrong reviews. In a month of emails with Elsevier, we have been unable to get any help.

The last time I published there, they also returned the wrong review to us. What is going on there?

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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · 26d
Yes, a great time was had by all 👍👍👍

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 26d
Over a month ago, Ecological Indicators returned us either the wrong editorial decision, or the wrong reviews. In a month of emails with Elsevier, we have been unable to get any help.

The last time I published there, they also returned the wrong review to us. What is going on there?

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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Dec 5
I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉

gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
Opportunities
***PhD and MSc openings – Movement ecology and conservation*** I will periodically support graduate students, postdocs, and other staff through the Biology Department at the University of New…
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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · Nov 28
With all the conversation surrounding the environmental impact of AI, we decided to give our two cents on what it all means for ecologists! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The role of AI in ecology’s computational carbon footprint
Click on the article title to read more.
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Keila Stark (she/her) @keila-stark.bsky.social · Nov 4
Most major theories in ecology assume some sort of equilibrium, but only ~half of empirical tests acknowledge it & even fewer observed it in their system. Does this matter? How did the idea become so pervasive in ecology anyway? Find out in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Equilibrium Conundrum
Although an assumption of equilibrium dynamics underlies most ecological theory, the evidence for this dynamic in nature and in empirical studies is scarce. This creates an unfortunate disconnect bet...
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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · Mar 24
Really excited to have been a part of this one! Hopefully sparks some conversation about what exactly we want our protected areas to *do*.
ecologyofgavin.bsky.social gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Mar 24
“Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions.”

New paper in BioScience “Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes”

Link: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes
Abstract. Protected areas form the backbone of modern conservation. However, the current policies and practices in protected areas reinforce a static view
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Mar 24
“Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions.”

New paper in BioScience “Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes”

Link: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes
Abstract. Protected areas form the backbone of modern conservation. However, the current policies and practices in protected areas reinforce a static view
academic.oup.com

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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · Feb 25
Shameless plug for my recent paper looking at this via functional traits - we found interesting local changes in functional structure but no general trends! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
No General Trend in Functional Diversity in Bird and Mammal Communities Despite Compositional Change
Aim Despite unprecedented environmental change due to anthropogenic pressure, recent work has found increasing dissimilarity due to turnover but no overall trend in species diversity through time at...
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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · Feb 12
Some postdoc work up now up as a preprint! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Choosing sites for monitoring biodiversity is critical for robust inference - so which algorithm should you use to pick sites? We found similar performance for algos and outline the features that might influence your decision.

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Katherine Siegel @katherinesiegel.bsky.social · Jan 21
New paper from me + @lauradee.bsky.social on using causal inference methods and concepts in ecology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... (1/5)
Two directed acyclic graphs showing causal relationships. The first shows a simple relationship between the presence of rare plant species (x), illustrated with icons of individual plants, and grassland productivity (y), illustrated with icons of grasses. There is an arrow going from x to y. The second shows the same relationship, but this time with omitted variables (u). The omitted variables include observed omitted variables (like precipitation) and unobserved omitted variables (like legacies of agricultural activity). These are illustrated with an icon of a rain cloud, a fence, and a shovel. There are dashed arrows going from the omitted variables to both x and y.

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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · Jan 15
I'd love to be added!

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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · Jan 7
tl;dr: big changes can happen in the functional space even when species-based metrics look otherwise stable through time, and on the flip side, losses/gains of species or changes in species identity can have little to no impact on the functional space

Please dm me for a pdf if you're paywalled!

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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · Jan 7
We also found that individual studies fell into four general groups: no change in species or functional metrics, functional diversity change independent of species change, loss of functional redundancy, and increasing species richness.

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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · Jan 7
We found no trend across communities in functional richness, evenness, or divergence - in line with other species-based work. This also held true for almost all models of the means of individual trait axes.

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Kari Norman @karinorman.bsky.social · Jan 7
My inaugural post is for my paper recently out in GEB! A contribution to the conversation around local biodiversity change, we reconstructed thousands of functional diversity time series to assess shifts in functional structure for bird & mammal communities. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
No General Trend in Functional Diversity in Bird and Mammal Communities Despite Compositional Change
Aim Despite unprecedented environmental change due to anthropogenic pressure, recent work has found increasing dissimilarity due to turnover but no overall trend in species diversity through time at...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com