The Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC) will be February 27-28, 2026 at UGA in Athens, GA. The theme is 'Centering Community' and we're excited to be hosting @anandian.bsky.social as our Keynote Speaker! Abstract submissions are currently open! #conservation #interdisciplinary #conference
Since the inaugural conference in 2018, ICC has provided a place for collective learning and collaboration, bringing students, researchers, and practitioners together to share their interdisciplinary work with each other. Reach out if you have questions!
🪶 New map, new questions: I am making an attempt at using community scientists' photos to link movement with breeding status. Here is what I am learning so far:
As always, research takes a whole team, and none of this would have been possible without the support of many people, including my field assistants, forest departments staff; faculty, biologists and my advisors at the Wildlife Institute of India, and RRCF India who helped fund my work.
There's so much to learn about scavengers in India, vertebrate and invertebrate, and hopefully our experimental approach and inferences can help guide future studies in this field. If you're interested in studying these topics I'd love to speak with you!
Vertebrate scavengers consumed carrion biomass much faster than invertebrates or microbes. This is one of the first studies on scavenging ecology in India, and we're just looking at the tip of this iceberg. There's lots more to learn, like the effects of species composition on carrion consumption
We used chicken carcasses in an exclusion experiment setting to compare the rates at which different groups of scavengers (vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes) consumed carrion, near the Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Really excited to share that my paper "Super-scavengers: Vertebrates outperform invertebrates and microbes at removing carrion from a tropical forest", based on my Master's thesis work, is out! Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#scavengers #carrion #vultures #ecology
Sharing an article I wrote about vertebrate scavengers, the topic of my Master's thesis. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in Central India, studying vertebrate scavenger communities in two different protected areas - one with an abundance of vulture, one without.
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A golden jackal faces down white-rumped vultures in Kanha National Park, India
The first two pages of an article titled "Beyond Boundaries: Reimagining Wildlife Tourism in India" by Bhavya Iyer in the April 2024 issue of Sanctuary Asia magazine.
touching moss
Hey #ecology bluesky! I'm Bhavya, a PhD student interested in spatial ecology + people's values towards nature. I'm a wildlife biologist, birder, and nature writer! I mostly like to write about my travels+research.
#science #nature
