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New paper released - Hurricanes can have major impacts on ecosystems, and their effects on wildlife can last long after the storm has passed. Hurricane intensity, intensification rate, and associated rainfall rate have been increasing. In fact, in 2023, all seven tropical cyclone formation basins developed a Category 5 tropical cyclone in the same year, for the first time on record.
The Rangeland Wildlife Ecology Lab and colleagues recently published a paper titled "How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short-term tactics and long-term impacts," that synthesizes how wildlife respond during and after hurricanes and what those responses can mean over longer timescales.
The paper highlights tactics that wildlife use to survive the immediate impacts of hurricanes, such as fleeing or sheltering in place. It also shows that, in some cases, human actions can help wildlife recover after hurricanes. Still, an important unanswered question remains: how well can wildlife recover from increasingly frequent, high-intensity hurricanes as habitat loss, fragmentation, and other threats continue to grow?
Read the full paper in Biological Reviews: https://doi.org/10.1002/brv.70166
The Rangeland Wildlife Ecology Lab and colleagues recently published a paper titled "How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short-term tactics and long-term impacts," that synthesizes how wildlife respond during and after hurricanes and what those responses can mean over longer timescales.
The paper highlights tactics that wildlife use to survive the immediate impacts of hurricanes, such as fleeing or sheltering in place. It also shows that, in some cases, human actions can help wildlife recover after hurricanes. Still, an important unanswered question remains: how well can wildlife recover from increasingly frequent, high-intensity hurricanes as habitat loss, fragmentation, and other threats continue to grow?
Read the full paper in Biological Reviews: https://doi.org/10.1002/brv.70166
New paper released - Wildlife monitoring is becoming increasingly automated, and researchers are relying more and more on computer vision to keep up with rapidly growing datasets. But AI "hallucinations" do not just affect information provided by language models. Ecology computer vision models often misidentify species too.
In collaboration with Archbold Biological Station's Predator-Prey Program, we recently published a manuscript on the topic. Led by Dr. Meliane and supervised by Dr. Ellington, we show how AI misidentifications can create false positives in ecological data and distort estimates of animal activity. We then show how to account for those errors, helping preserve the accuracy of ecological information while still benefiting from the efficiency of these technologies.
Link to the full paper: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73388
In collaboration with Archbold Biological Station's Predator-Prey Program, we recently published a manuscript on the topic. Led by Dr. Meliane and supervised by Dr. Ellington, we show how AI misidentifications can create false positives in ecological data and distort estimates of animal activity. We then show how to account for those errors, helping preserve the accuracy of ecological information while still benefiting from the efficiency of these technologies.
Link to the full paper: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73388
New paper released - Where does an urban carnivore have and raise its young? Dr. Meliane, Dr. Ellington and colleagues from Ohio State University just published new findings on coyotes in the suburbs of the Chicago metropolitan area.
These results build on long-term research from the Urban Coyote Research Project that now spans over two decades! They used telemetry to track adults, find den sites and identify how coyotes select their dens in urban environments.
Their work provides information on the denning behavior of a key urban predator and aims to reduce human-wildlife conflict in cities.
Check out the full study here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2026.129388
Read more about the Urban Coyote Research Project here: Urbancoyoteresearch.com
These results build on long-term research from the Urban Coyote Research Project that now spans over two decades! They used telemetry to track adults, find den sites and identify how coyotes select their dens in urban environments.
Their work provides information on the denning behavior of a key urban predator and aims to reduce human-wildlife conflict in cities.
Check out the full study here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2026.129388
Read more about the Urban Coyote Research Project here: Urbancoyoteresearch.com
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