Digital data are accumulating at unprecedented rates. These contain a lot of information
about the natural world, some of which can be used to answer key ecological questions …

Megaherbivores perform vital ecosystem engineering roles, and have their last remaining
stronghold in Africa. Of Africa's remaining megaherbivores, the common hippopotamus …

Citizen science is fundamentally shifting the future of biodiversity research. But although
citizen science observations are contributing an increasingly large proportion of biodiversity …

Discrete, ephemeral natural phenomena with low spatial or temporal predictability are
incredibly challenging to study systematically. In ecology, species interactions, which …

Vertebrate animals are known to consume other species' faeces, yet the role of such
coprophagy in species dynamics remains unknown, not least due to the methodological …

Citizen science has emerged as an important tool in biology, ecology, and conservation
studies. In this paper, we examined YouTube (YT) videos featuring the behaviour of red …

Every internet search query made out of curiosity by anyone who observed something in
nature, as well as every photo uploaded to the internet, constitutes a data point of potential …

The widespread occurrence of litter is a severe threat to global ecosystems. We have
analyzed online media, to assess the diversity of animals that are prone to getting trapped in …

Birds with plumage colour aberrations are of interest to both the general public and
scientists. However, due to their rarity in nature, information on the presence of colour …

Recent changes in agriculture have had a very strong impact on avian populations, but
detailed mechanistic explanations are scarce. Some proposed solutions to avian declines …