@LukeLPowell

Conservation ecologist and ornithologist at CIBIO/Biopolis in Portugal. Founding director of @__Biodiversity Initiative

 Porto, Portugal
sites.google.com/site/lukelpowell/
Joined March 2009
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Jared Wolfe@JaredDWolfe30 Jan 2025
Our research was picked up by The Guardian, alongside work from two of my favorite scientists, John Blake and @BetteLoiselle. We hope these findings contribute to solutions that help ensure the persistence of these incredible birds into the 22nd century. theguardian.com/environment/…

In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know...

Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on

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Fully funded BI PhD at St Andrews studying ants and ant-following birds in Africa! findaphd.com/phds/project/de… #ornithology #birds #myrmecology #ants #phd #biology #photo: @LukeLPowell
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TiBE 2025@tibe_biopolis28 Aug 2024
‼️Only 10 days left to submit your abstract for #TiBE2024‼️ Don't miss the opportunity to showcase your research on tropical ecology and conservation in Africa! 🌍🌴🦜 Submit here: bit.ly/468wr6e
TiBE 2025@tibe_biopolis14 Aug 2024
📢Good news for those looking to present at #TiBE2024: ABSTRACT SUBMISSION has been EXTENDED to 6 September! Submit here: bit.ly/468wr6e
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New paper! 🌍West Africa's rapid cashew expansion is threatening both biodiversity and rural livelihoods. Our latest commentary examines these impacts, with a focus on Guinea-Bissau, and offers policy recommendations for sustainable cultivation. doi.org/10.1111/btp.13374
Top cashew producing countries in West Africa overlapped with White-headed vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis) and African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) distributions and Key Biodiversity Areas.

ALT Top cashew producing countries in West Africa overlapped with White-headed vulture (Trigonoceps occipitalis) and African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) distributions and Key Biodiversity Areas.

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TROPIBIO Project@Tropibio213 Jul 2024
We are thrilled to announce that this year’s edition of the Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution (TiBE) conference will be held as part of the TROPIBIO project! Help shape the program by submitting your ideas for thematic sessions: bit.ly/3W5Pn1X Stay tuned for more!
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Max Tercel@MaximumInsect8 Mar 2024
🐜🐜 INCREDIBLY EXCITED 🐜🐜 to announce that I'm joining @CIBIO_InBIO as a postdoc researching Dorylus driver ant/siafu ecology in the rainforests of Central Africa! Dreamy! Exciting! ARMY ANTS!
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Looking for a #PhDposition ? Apply for the Gulf of Guinea Research Program. Live in Portugal, do fieldwork in Africa and take your classes in english. Tuition waiver & stipend. 79% of eligible applicants were accepted in 2022. #ornithology #biodiversity jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/search/?k…
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Watch our video on the 2023 field season! Video by Field Technician Ibon Malaxetxebarria. youtube.com/watch?v=6jEEzlpn…
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Replying to @DCaptainplanet_
@DCaptainplanet_'s work on #bats in #cocoa farms featured here in Mongabay! The shadier the #chocolate farms, the better for bats. news.mongabay.com/2023/08/st…
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New popular article on BI's work on ants and ant-following birds! sciencenews.org/article/bird… #ornithology #birds #africa #ants #myrmecology

Some African birds follow nomadic ants to their next meal

Specialized interactions between birds and driver ants in Africa could help explain why the birds are especially sensitive to forest disturbances.

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Our new demographic study is now out in #BiologicalConservation. We investigated the combined affects of increasing temperatures and fragmentation on the demographic rates of 24 understory #bird species in the Usambara Mountains of Tanzania! @NHMU @mwtingley @UCLAEEB (1/7)
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Roundtable on declines in tropical insectivores organized by @TROPIBIO21 on FRIDAY, 7 October 2022 ⋅ 3 pm – 5 pm (GMT+1 Portugal). Panel: Eliza Grames, Jared Wolfe and Henry Pollock . Moderator:Luke L. Powell. Registration: forms.gle/DJPKpkyXTqqqp1Qf9 #ornithology #birds
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EVERYONE can & must support diversity, equity & inclusion 🌈🌏 #DEI #WorldWomensDay Clear facts & straightforward solutions? ➡️ See this #thread 🧵#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM Infographic: @visualsnscience 💚 #InternationalWomensDay #worldmap #getthenumbersout
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Agora é a vez do Luke, que trabalha em florestas tropicais desde 2005. Atualmente pesquisador associado do Tropibio, ele ja foi pós-doc no Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, e de lá pra cá passou muito tempo na África Central - Guiné Equatorial e Camarões -
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Please RT! 📢🤩💚 We are hiring a #PhD for our 3-year project on #cacao #biodiversity in #Peru & feel excited to continue our research on #birds, #bats & #arthropods in this international and trans-disciplinary team! Apply until 10 Feb 👇🐦🌳🦇🌳🍫👇 bdc.univie.ac.at/
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Vitek Jirinec@VitekJirinec12 Nov 2021
Out today in @ScienceAdvances: our paper documenting shifts in body size and shape of birds within "intact" #Amazonia in response to #ClimateChange. On the last day of #COP26, this is a reminder of our pervasive impacts on the planet: science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… @UNFCCC @LeoDiCaprio
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Billi Krochuk@BilliKrochuk3 Jun 2021
Cause for pause — Birds Are Declining in a Supposedly ‘Untouched’ Region of Amazon Rainforest audubon.org/news/birds-are-d… via @audubonsociety @VitekJirinec @LukeLPowell @JaredDWolfe @TRACE_LAB @Tom_Lovejoy @AudubonErik
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#WBTC2 #Land1 Do you 🤤 when you think about 🍫? Yes! But did you know that 70% of 🍫 comes from Africa and that 🪲 #pests can cause losses of > 400,000€ million annually? 😱 #Nature can be the solution to this 👉 so far we found the main 🍫 pest in 18 🦇 & 🐦 species! 😋 1/5
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#WBTC2 #Land1 But does this #pest consumption have a significant effect on pest populations? To find out we decided to do an exclusion experiment to quantify 🦇&🐦 effect on #cacao production 🤔 For 12 months we counted everything in 16 full tree exclosures and 16 controls 🧐 2/5
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New on the blog: Bird communities in African #cocoa #agroforestry are diverse but lack specialized insectivores @CrinanJarrett @LukeLPowell @acaptainplanet @JaredDWolfe @kristin_brzeski. Read more here 👉 ow.ly/xi5c50EphYi 📸 @CrinanJarrett
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