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Lincoln Park Zoo's Urban Wildlife Institute researches species diversity on an urban to rural gradient. Tweets by @masonfidino.

 Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo
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Check out the latest @uwi_network paper led by @masonfidino which shows how the effects of gentrification in cities extends to wildlife!
Mason Fidino, PhD@masonfidino15 Apr 2024
Beyond thrilled to share the new @uwi_network paper out today in @PNASNews where we show that gentrification drives patterns of wildlife diversity in cities. #urbanecology #cameratrapping #mammals 🧵1/14 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
Fidino, M., Sander, H., Lewis, J., Lehrer, E. W., Rivera, K., Murray, M. H., Adams, H. C., Kase, A., Flores, A., Stankowich, T., Schell, C. J., Salsbury, C. M., Rohnke, A. T., Jordan, M. J., Green, A. M., Gramza, A. R., Zellmer, A. J., Williamson, J., Surasinghe, T. D., Storm, H., Sparks, K. L., Ryan, T. J., Remine, K., Pendergast, M. E., Mullen, K., Minier, D. E., Middaugh, C. R., Mertl, A. L., McClung, M. R., Long, R. A., Larson, R. N., Kohl, M. T., Harris, L. R., Hall, C. T., Haight, J. D., Drake, D., Davidge, A. M., Cheek, A. O., Bloch, C. P., Biro, E. G., Anthonysamy, W. J., Angstmann, J. L., Allen, M. L., Adalsteinsson, S. A., Short-Gianotta, A., LaMontagne, J. M., Gelmi-Candusso, T. A., and Magle, S. (2024). Gentrification drives patterns of alpha and beta diversity in cities. PNAS.

ALT Fidino, M., Sander, H., Lewis, J., Lehrer, E. W., Rivera, K., Murray, M. H., Adams, H. C., Kase, A., Flores, A., Stankowich, T., Schell, C. J., Salsbury, C. M., Rohnke, A. T., Jordan, M. J., Green, A. M., Gramza, A. R., Zellmer, A. J., Williamson, J., Surasinghe, T. D., Storm, H., Sparks, K. L., Ryan, T. J., Remine, K., Pendergast, M. E., Mullen, K., Minier, D. E., Middaugh, C. R., Mertl, A. L., McClung, M. R., Long, R. A., Larson, R. N., Kohl, M. T., Harris, L. R., Hall, C. T., Haight, J. D., Drake, D., Davidge, A. M., Cheek, A. O., Bloch, C. P., Biro, E. G., Anthonysamy, W. J., Angstmann, J. L., Allen, M. L., Adalsteinsson, S. A., Short-Gianotta, A., LaMontagne, J. M., Gelmi-Candusso, T. A., and Magle, S. (2024). Gentrification drives patterns of alpha and beta diversity in cities. PNAS.

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Mothman and chupacabra in Chicago? More like great blue heron and coyote. Check out this article we were interviewed for, honestly it was treat getting to chat about this! chicagotribune.com/2024/10/3…

Urban legends or urban wildlife? Creepy creature sightings might just be thriving city animals

Over the last decade, hundreds of reports have cropped up across the Chicago area of people’s horrifying encounters with a large, winged creature with glowing red eyes.

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Okay #cameratrap people. What do we think this coyote is carrying around? This is one of our more rural sites outside of Chicago.
A coyote carrying a meal, hard to tell what it is though.

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Ever felt like the global landcover maps were a bit lacking in urban areas? We used the OpenStreetMap database to make fine resolution LULC maps. The beauty is OSM is vector-based so you can go as fine as you want. Now published in @WileyEcolEvol shorturl.at/KDbRu
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We've been placing 'ratcams' in alleys throughout #Chicago to get a look at rat abundance throughout the city, but rats are not the only species we see. Check out this opossum investigating our camera!
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And what's a rat summit without an evening rat safari! @kaylee_byers snapped this photo of some NYC rats earlier this week.
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Urban Wildlife Inst.@LPZ_UWI19 Sep 2024
Today our Assistant Director of One Health @maureenhmurray (far right of photo), is in New York for the first National Urban Rat Summit! Dr. Murray was invited to the summit to speak about her rat research in #Chicago.
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Today our Assistant Director of One Health @maureenhmurray (far right of photo), is in New York for the first National Urban Rat Summit! Dr. Murray was invited to the summit to speak about her rat research in #Chicago.
A photo of four people, one of whom is holding a national urban rat summit sign.

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Liza Lehrer@ms_woodchuck11 Sep 2024
What kind of trees do bats like in urban green spaces? That’s what we aim to find out! Some fun field work today at Humboldt Park. @LPZ_UWI
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This paper is VERY important. We sampled raccoons, skunks, and opossum for rodenticide throughout #Chicago and detected it IN EVERY SINGLE ONE, even opossum joeys weaning on their mother! Check out this thread for more details.
Jacqueline Buckley M.S.@Jackie__Buckley10 Sep 2024
🧵 We are excited to share our new pub with @STOTEN_journal titled: "Widespread exposure to anticoagulant rodenticides among common urban mesopredators in #Chicago.“ This pub is OA for the next 50 days using sciencedirect.com/science/ar… (1/8)
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The next season of Chicago Wildlife Watch is now live! Come help us comb through our July 2024 camera trapping season! #cameratrapping zooniverse.org/projects/zoon…

Chicago Wildlife Watch | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Help us understand how animals—from coyotes to chipmunks—share this great city with us.

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We are very excited to have Dr. Tiziana Gelmi Candusso (@UrbanZoochory) to join our team! We’ve been collaborating for years via @uwi_network and are looking forward to do some really great human-wildlife conflict work across multiple cities with her!
Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso@UrbanZoochory30 Aug 2024
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Next week I start a new chapter in the same book, along my awesome partners @LPZ_UWI , inc @maureenhmurray @masonfidino @sbmagle, who I already saw as colleagues after 4 years of meetings and collaborations through the @uwi_network . I’m excited to become a part of their team.
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Emily Blackwell@EmilyABlackwell12 Aug 2024
I defended my thesis on Friday! It was really amazing to get to share this moment with so many special people who have supported me along the way. A special thank you to Dr. Stankowich, everyone in the @CSULBMammalLab, and the @uwi_network for making this work possible.
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It's been confirmed that the family of owls in Lincoln Park that died this year was the result of rodenticide poisoning for all three owls. #Chicago cbsnews.com/chicago/news/tes…

Test results released in death of Chicago's beloved Lincoln Park owls

Back in March, local bird watchers and Lincoln Park neighbors fell in love with the great horned owls, known by some as the "rockstars of the neighborhood."

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Liza Lehrer@ms_woodchuck19 Jul 2024
This bat 🦇 acoustic recorder survived the tornado on Monday 💪@LPZ_UWI
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Liza Lehrer@ms_woodchuck15 Jul 2024
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@LPZ_UWI Thrilled to be a co-host of the 2024 Midwest Beaver Summit, held on Weds, August 28, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. CT. Register now! eventbrite.com/e/2024-midwes… #beavers #beaverbeliever #MidwestBeaverSummit #coexist #wetlands #wildlife #ecologicalrestoration #water #webinar

2024 Midwest Beaver Summit

Please join us for the second annual, virtual Midwest Beaver Summit on August 28 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. CT!

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Chicago Piping Plovers@ChicagoPiping1 Jul 2024
🐣🐣🐣🥚 The day we have waited for, worked for has come! At this moment, 3 chicks have hatched and the parent plovers are still incubating the fourth egg. Our work continues as we continue to support Imani and Sea Rocket and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support.
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The 2025 Biota awards application for post-doctoral research has been posted! We'd love to explore this possibility with people wrapping up their PhDs to co-develop a project that interfaces with all the data coming out of @uwi_network. Please share! walderfoundation.org/2025-bi…
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We have been very fortunate to receive grants from the Walder Foundation in the past (if that helps with anyone considering to explore this possibility with us).
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Patty Wetli@pattywetli17 Jun 2024
I love the idea that wild endangered night herons are using captive endangered red wolves as "bodyguards." It's genius. @LPZ_UWI news.wttw.com/2024/06/14/lin… news.wttw.com/2024/06/14/lin…

Lincoln Park Zoo’s Wildest Residents Are a Colony of Free-Range Night Herons Who Like Having Wolves...

The endangered black-crowned night herons aren’t captive, they just happened to build their nests on the grounds of Lincoln Park Zoo. Why? Because they like having bodyguards.

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Check this out, and if you've not seen the study that this podcast episode was based on, you can find a link to it on the landing page for that episode!
Mason Fidino, PhD@masonfidino17 Jun 2024
The episode I did for the @PNASNews Science Sessions podcast is out today. If you are interested in urban ecology, environmental equity, and have 10 minutes to spare, then I have just the thing for you! pnas.org/post/podcast/gentri…

Gentrification and biodiversity

Mason Fidino discusses how gentrification changes biodiversity in urban areas.

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