#animalmigration — Public Fediverse posts

Monarch Watch (Habitat 🌄)

Monarch Watch is a volunteer-based citizen science organization that tracks the fall migration of the monarch butterfly. It is self-described as "a nonprofit education, conservation, and research program based at the University of Kansas that focuses on the monarch butterfly, its habitat, and its spectacular fall migratio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_Watch

#MonarchWatch #Habitat #CitizenScience #AnimalMigration #LandscapeEcology #InsectConservation

Wildlife corridor (Habitat 🌄)

A wildlife corridor, also known as a habitat corridor, or green corridor, is a designated area that connects wildlife populations that have been separated by human activities or structures, such as development, roads, or land clearings. These corridors enable movement of individuals between populations, which helps to prev...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_corridor

#WildlifeCorridor #Habitat #Habitats #SystemsEcology #AnimalMigration #ConservationBiology

Wolf distribution (Biogeography 🌍)

Wolf distribution is the species distribution of the wolf. Originally, wolves occurred in Eurasia above the 12th parallel north and in North America above the 15th parallel north. However, deliberate human persecution has reduced the species' range to about one-third, because of livestock predation and fear of wol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_distribution

#WolfDistribution #Wolves #Biogeography #AnimalMigration #PopulationEcology #PopulationGenetics

We used #outlieranalysis and #telemetry and found that migration success of Atlantic #salmon depended on genotype. See what you think:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.15.553252v1
(boosts welcome, first time I’ve properly tried to share some science since the other place)

#EvolutionaryBiology
#FishSci
#smolt
#AnimalMigration
#SNPmarkers
#salmonid
Photo: Stuart Brabbs, Ayrshire Rivers Trust

They Wanted You to Bet on Sharks. The Odds Were Not in Their Favor. - Gambling on shark migration patterns could raise awareness, some experts say. But it could also fu... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/science/sharks-online-gambling.html #fischerchris(marineresearcher) #conservationofresources #computersandtheinternet #your-feed-science #your-feed-animals #animalmigration #gambling #mybookie #ocearch #sharks