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Had a blast presenting some ongoing work at the dScience lunsjseminar! Thanks for the invite Christoffer Hals and dScience – Centre for Computational and Data Science!
🌍🐦 How can citizen science data reveal the impacts of climate change on alpine birds? ❄️📊 That was the topic of this year’s final dScience lunch seminar! 🍽️🧠 🤩 Special thanks to Kristin Brunk from Department of Biosciences, CEES - Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo that delivered an excellent talk! 🤩 And of course, big thanks to our awesome participants for great questions and engaging discussions as always! 👏 👏 Stay tuned for more lunch seminars in 2025! 🎉 Here' an abstract of today's presentation: One-third of Norway’s bird species are currently threatened with extinction, according to the Norwegian Red List. Perhaps even more insidious are documented population declines in some of Norway’s ‘common’ species. The threat of climate change is particularly acute for wildlife in arctic and alpine habitats, where changes are more extreme and happening more rapidly. While species are generally expected to shift their ranges northward and upslope in response to changing climates, actual measured shifts in species distributions have been mixed and sometimes unexpected. In this talk, I will present our work focused on the occupancy dynamics of a common and iconic alpine bird, the bluethroat (Luscinia svecica). We leveraged opportunistic citizen science data from across the Fennoscandian peninsula over the last 45 years (including over 900,000 observations) to test the hypothesis that the breeding distribution of bluethroats has shifted towards higher latitudes and higher elevations to track climate change. I will also touch on some of our ongoing projects using bioacoustics to study local-scale factors impacting bluethroats, which have high potential for forging collaborations with data scientists. More about the speaker: Kristin Brunk joined IBV/CEES as a postdoc in January 2024. Her research lies at the intersection of conservation, quantitative ecology, and behavioural ecology, and the questions that most interest her are those with implications both for ecological theory and for the sustainable management of natural resources. Brunk's projects at UiO are increasingly data-driven, including using citizen science data and bioacoustics (using sound to study wildlife) to investigate regional patterns and local processes. Morten Dæhlen, Arne Bang Huseby, Eva Michelsen Ekroll, Kjetill Jakobsen, The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Christoffer Hals