Pablo Deschepper

From sea ice to ocean currents, Antarctica is now undergoing abrupt changes – and we’ll all feel them The vast ice of Antarctica has long seemed impregnable. But sudden changes are arriving – from shrinking sea ice to melting ice sheets and slowing ocean currents.

A new study in @nature.com shows that abrupt changes to Antarctica’s currents, ice and glaciers are already underway – and likely to significantly intensify in the future, with global impacts for generations to come.🧪🌏

Read more in @theconversation.com 

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🌍 Why countries need GBIF: lessons from Belgium

A recently published policy brief provides details how Belgium has leveraged GBIF to support sustainable development, conservation and innovation for effective #biodiversity governance.

🔗 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

This Lesser Sunda Islands pit viper is a testament to nature's beauty!

While this species is not threatened, many snakes are. Your support helps us protect snakes globally by funding education & conservation efforts.

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💡 Think carefuly about the analytical choices made when relating #eDNA #concentrations to species #abundance and #density!

⚠️ We show that a variety of (suboptimal) methods are used to investigate these relationships, and that these problematic statitiscs lead to flawed outcomes

👇 #OA article below

Shedding the mitochondrial blinkers: A long-overdue challenge for species delimitation in herpetology The advent of molecular methods has revolutionised the field of species delimitation and description, one of the key tasks of systematic biology. In animal taxonomy, one marker, the mitochondrial DNA ...

Wolfgang Wüster nails it: species delimitation is still too often based solely on mtDNA. Robust delimitation requires NGS data, and researchers should tread carefully with concatenated trees. A lot of the common pifalls are discussed in his recent paper.

Script that automates visualization of several biodiversity metrics with some neat features: github.com/thesnakeguy/.... Largely relying on the #obisindicators package.

We are excited to present our first scientific publication on Project RattleCam! 1/5

The article is available for free download here:
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Snakes in Europe Under Climate Change: Is It Getting Too Hot for the Cold‐Blooded? Modelled projections indicate a widespread decline in ecological suitability for snakes across Europe, with cold-adapted species demonstrating particular vulnerability to global warming.

I combined my love for snakes🐍 with data science to study climate change impacts on the snake diversity in Europe. Cold‐adapted snakes and W. Europe will be impacted the most. Protecting refuges & resilient habitats is key. Read more: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...