PhD in Ecology and Conservation Interested in plant-animal interactions and conservation of oceanic island plants |🌱🌺🦇🐦🦎| Invasive species | 🐭🐵🐜
Republic of Mauritius
Joined May 2019
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Roussea simplex and me - a love story or a complicated relationship. Read more about my work on
news.mongabay.com/2019/09/ra…!
#phdlife
#islandplant
#mongabay
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Maurice: la mortalité du pigeon rose à Pétrin
Depuis 2021, 23 pigeons roses ont été tués par des véhicules. La Maurician Wildflife Foundation appelle à protéger ces oiseaux précieux
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#varunabiodiversite @VarunaBiodiv @AFD_France @expertisefrance @IUCN
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1) What makes a good evidence synthesis in #ecology? Where can you find top-tips to help you? Look no further (well you need to look a bit further…) @BecksSpake , @BowlerDBear & I came up with a few slides with tips, tricks & guidance (10.5281/zenodo.11178722). Check it out:
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A unique (and highly recommended) post-doc opportunity in Panamá with STRI for someone working in restoration ecology or applied ecology, that features an intriguing balance between research and outreach with indigenous communities. Please share widely! @stri_panama
ALT Description of advertised job position
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For those who check model assumptions (you ALL should), the {easystats} package makes it very easy to do this with various models but particularly regression models
My PhD journey in a nutshell. 💚🙂
#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #ecology #conservation #plants #Mauritius
Our Dr @prishnee_b explains with great passion the feeling of achieving her PhD, and how it all started. Documentary broadcasted in the local TV channel now available (in French). Let's enjoy Prishnee's travel at youtu.be/249Kj0qiekk?si=clTJ…
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Tune in for yet another exciting talk by our team member @AshmiBiologist insectivorous #bats in #Mauritius and their conservation on 13 Feb 2024 - Women in #Batscience! For info 👇🏼!
#ecology #AcademicTwitter #Sciencetwitter
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You love bats? 🦇 You wanna learn about the amazing work that some batwomen are doing? Save the date! Sign up 👇
#COUNTDOWN to our Women in Bat Science Indaba 2024...4 days to go!
Meet speaker Ashmi Bunsy who will present 'Conservation challenges of an endangered endemic insectivorous bat species on Mauritius island'.
Open to all. Sign up: lght.ly/p4b6g38
#WiBS2024
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Do not miss out on this upcoming talk by our team member @geetikabhanda - on the Mauritius frugivorous bats 🦇🦇🦇!! Sign up details 👇🏼!!
#COUNTDOWN to our Women in Bat Science Indaba 2024 8 days to go
Meet speaker Geetika Bhanda who will present her research focused on the growing human-wildlife conflict emanating from the Mauritian Flying Fox feeding on commercial fruits
Sign up lght.ly/5bkng #WiBS2024
📢 New paper alert!
doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2024.1…
Congrats to @VashistSeegobin and team! Highlighting how alien plant invasion and their control in native forests of #Mauritius impact habitat quality where frugivorous #bats forage! 🦇💚
#conservation #sciencetwitter #AcademicTwitter
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"Reformers who focus solely on how to pay for rising health-care costs fail to address the root problems of why care is so costly to begin with."
malo v razmislek
Happy #WorldWetlandDay 2024. 💚
Kudos to @Francoisbag from @Tropical_IBEC! Interviewed today on the importance of wetlands and their role in terms of ecosystem services, and how they contribute to the wellness of human society. Find the full interview 👇🏼facebook.com/watch/live/?ref…!
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Pl@ntNet is one of the 6 finalist teams in the X-Prize Rainforest competition, alongside the Brazilian team 🎉. It's a technological challenge for the study of forests that we are going to attempt to tackle 🌳.
xprize.org/prizes/rainforest
fealq.org.br/brazilianteam_r…
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Most of the @Tropical_IBEC members were together today at the @UniOfMauritius Research week
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Before lunch, our @Tropical_IBEC member, Dr @prishnee_b gave a talk about the red listing of the #Mauritius endemic Roussea simplex at the Research Week of @UniOfMauritius
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@jensmolesen1 and Pierre Michel Forget (MNHN, Paris) were the examiners of @prishnee_b PhD. They wonderfully gave her confidence that she deserved her degree. Thank you for all.
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Dr @prishnee_b first talk after her PhD viva, together other @Tropical_IBEC members @AshmiBiologist @Francoisbag and Raphael Merven, talking to the next generation, some that might become conservationist
Happy to have shared our passion for nature conservation with young minds at Ecole du Centre today! Terrestrial biodiversity 🌳, insectivorous and frugivorous bats 🦇, coastal mangrove ecosystem 🐟in Mauritius and gorilla conservation in Gabon 🦍 - topics on the menu of the day!
Thank you very much for the compliments! Means a lot!🙂
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First of the first! @prishnee_b defended her PhD thesis today. First of @Tropical_IBEC and first viva voce at @UniOfMauritius. Congratulations Dr Bissessur
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Soo proud of @BiovIntCIAT_eng's #Agrobiodiversity Index Team for winning the @FoodPlanetPrize in Stockholm🏆 Their index is a game-changer in measuring agricultural biodiversity worldwide.
Congrats to our great scientists! 👏
Learn more about the index👉bit.ly/3OXFm3M
