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Tag Archives: fieldwork

Making the most of #BES2018 – Highlights of events to make you a teaching pro!

December 13, 2018by Journal of Animal Ecology Leave a comment

It can be tricky being an academic, managing so many competing demands can mean that we might struggle to find time to be a great teacher as well as carrying […]

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Guest post

Divergent Migration in Lake Sturgeon

February 13, 2018by Sarah Marley Leave a comment

Studying aquatic animals has never been easy. Hidden from view beneath the water surface, they can be hard to find let-alone study in terms of their long-range movements. A recent paper […]

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Guest post

It’s a bear! Adopting a ‘computer vision for animal ecology’

February 6, 2018by Sarah Marley 4 Comments

How can automated image processing be applied for detecting, counting and identifying animals in natural landscapes? A recent review article published in the Journal of Animal Ecology covers this exact […]

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Guest post

Badgers and Disease Ecology

October 13, 2017by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Traditionally one of the UK’s most charismatic (and certainly distinctive) mammals, the badger has received mixed attention in recent times as a result of their involvement in disease transmission.  To […]

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Guest post

Field Reports: Tim Coulson

August 11, 2017by Ravindra Leave a comment

We are back with another episode of the Field Reports podcast. I spoke to Prof. Tim Coulson of the University of Oxford about his fieldwork stories of taking a wrong […]

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Podcast, Video

When Some Choughs Do Better Than Others

July 3, 2017by Sarah Marley 1 Comment

Red-billed choughs are a species of conservation concern, as discussed a recent Journal of Animal Ecology publication investigating their effective population size.  Amanda Trask, lead author of the study, recently finished her […]

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Guest post

Field reports with Nathan Sanders

May 19, 2017by Ravindra Leave a comment

For the first episode of our podcast, I interviewed Nathan Sanders, a ‘former professional wrestler’ and an ecologist at the University of Vermont. We talk about his first fieldwork experience, […]

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Podcast

Introducing Field Reports podcast

May 18, 2017by Ravindra Leave a comment

Do you have stories of fieldwork that you would like to share?  Maybe about the day you first saw a wild elephant, or the biggest ant that has ever crawled […]

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Announcements, Video

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