Size matters. Among the great apes, human penises are unusually large. Why? Check out our new open access paper in @plosbiology.org led by @upama.bsky.social. Link here: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
And read the lay article in @theconversation.com here: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Just published: a global synthesis of the ecological, economic, and socio-cultural impacts of #BiologicalInvasions, led by P. Haubrock. A timely framework for science, management, and policy in the Anthropocene.
👉 doi.org/10.1002/brv....
🧪🌐🌍 #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies
A reminder: Biodiversity loss, climate change, and species invasions are among the top environmental drivers of infectious disease outbreaks.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our new article in Life (MDPI) explored the vulnerability of caves inhabited by bats to anthropogenic disturbances. We found most caves in Mount Elgon (areas of Uganda) are utilized by human communities for a wide range of purposes. #bats #OneHealth. @MDPIOpenaccess
doi.org/10.3390/life...
Picture of baobab trees.
Baobab trees provide fruit, fibre, medicine and shelter for people & wildlife. Their survival depends on pollination by bats & moths. While these trees can cope with a wide range of environmental & climatic conditions, bats and moths may be more susceptible.
📰 https://ow.ly/1J6250XponU
HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN!
harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in...
You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats
Important work about biodiversity across sub-saharan Africa:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
[📢 #Recrutement #Postdoc]
Looking for a post doc (29 month) to work on Protected Areas with us #ProtectedAreas. @celinebellard.bsky.social
@oaggimenez.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social
more information here :
👉 bit.ly/43uRz6Z
New paper out in Ecology Letters! Led by Ennia Bosshard and Chris Kaiser-Bunbury, we show that proximity to natural habitat doesn’t consistently support pollination in tropical smallholder farms. Landscape complexity matters more than distance.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A study of introductions of large herbivorous mammals outside their native range suggests they do more harm than good to local biodiversity. Only 1 in 5 impacts is positive. Positive effects on certain native species often come at a cost to other natives. #bioinvasions www.unifr.ch/news/en/3344...
🌳 "Protected areas shape human-nature connections in diverse ways. Our study identifies five key narratives—learning, care, regional heritage, multifunctional production & collaborations—offering insights to strengthen conservation strategies"
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/HntSxCk
Seven key principles for the regenerative governance of social-ecological systems. The seven principles depicted here draw on the seven central insights of resilience and regenerative systems literature as summarized in Fig. 1 for resilience (i, iii, iv) and Fig. 2 for regeneration (ii, v, vi, vii). While each item is derived from either body of literature on resilience or regeneration, the list of items offered here is fully complementary. See main text for details and references and Table 1 for some of the most pertinent similarities and differences between the two bodies of literature
Resilience and regeneration for a world in crisis
Fischer+
doi.org/10.1007/s132...
building on resilience thinking
"regeneration can help through its explicit focus on human agency and mutualistic social-ecological relationships...
‘Poly-opportunities’ thus become a conceptual possibility"
Comparison of land system among four future scenarios: national level (NAT), provincial level (PRO), local level (LOC), and multi-scale (sustainable development). (a) Areal fractions of different land types. In wind-rose plots, each sector represents an areal fraction of the corresponding land types. A larger surface area indicates a larger areal fraction. Land types with an area fraction of less than 10 are additionally marked. (b) Land system changes along two pathways: 2020–2050 and 2050–2100.
Integrating Multi-Level Sustainability and Ecosystem Integrity for Adaptive Scenario Planning in China
Wang+
doi.org/10.1029/2025...
using an adaptive approach can produce better policies
that reconcile conflicting policy goals of different levels of government
📖Published📖
Sanczuk et al. present a novel means of performing a quasi-continuous quantification of microclimatic temperatures in space and over time using fibre-optic distributed temperature sensing 🌡️ Read more here 👇
buff.ly/G4iMg5m
🌍 🧪
Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Nice photos! What camera do you use? I want to get one
Researchers from #Eawag have conducted an extensive meta-analysis of field studies worldwide to better understand how land-cover changes in the watershed influence freshwater food webs.
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@florianaltermatt.bsky.social #foodwebs #landuse
Chapter 15: Ecological Modeling & Geocomputation 🌱🗺️
Modeling the floristic gradient to reveal distinctive vegetation belts! 📌 Learn spatial modeling techniques with random forests & hyperparameter tuning to analyze ecological data in R.
🔗 r.geocompx.org/eco
#rstats #rspatial #geocompx
Analysis of data on 971 bird species in Colombia finds that near-national-scale losses of bird diversity greatly exceed losses recorded at the local scale, suggesting that extrapolations from local studies will severely underestimate biodiversity losses
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪
Coming soon!
#bioinvasions #invasivespecies
Relative contribution of anthropogenic warming to the unprecedented heatwave in South America in 2023
…up to a 1-in-130-year event with
climate change boosting its likelihood by ~30%.
Heat domes + GHGs = rising extremes
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
FIGURE 1 Conceptualizing the relationship between biodiversity credits and offsets. Circles at the top in the supply side are projects (marketable or non-marketable biodiversity gains). The fungible effect at the bottom refers to the possibility of selling biodiversity credits as offset, but not vice versa. In practice today, nearly all of the world's biodiversity offsets are delivered through regional mandatory offset markets (Bull and Strange 2018), and the total value of credits traded as offsets equates to approximately $11.7 billion/year (UNEP 2023), whereas to date very few non-compensatory biodiversity credits have been purchased.
Biodiversity Credits: An Overview of the Current State, Future Opportunities, and Potential Pitfalls
Wunder+
doi.org/10.1002/bse....
"the core challenge with many environmental markets to date has been that they are overly focused on tradability, and insufficiently on the environment itself"
The most concerning part of a 'transition to management' for PSHB is that the full extent of national impacts are not clear for stakeholders, nor is what happens when the transition finishes in 18 months. Eradication is challenging but not impossible.
www.australiangeographic.com.au/science-envi...
Thrilled to announce the publication of the trophiCH database: a multi-trophic, species-level #metaweb for #Switzerland🇨🇭
Out now in #ScientificData 📃 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Want to explore the dataset? 🔍 webapps.wsl.ch/trophiCH/
#OpenData #Ecology #FoodWebs 🌐
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Extreme heat is disrupting athletic events worldwide. Is sports ready for the future?
www.nytimes.com/athletic/647...
I'm sure I'm not the first one to put this together
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
🚨 Hot off the press! We show that species loss from key habitats (like wetlands) accelerates secondary extinction in regional multi-habitat food webs. Also, we show the importance of common species to regional food web robustness. doi.org/10.1038/s420...
#Ecology #FoodWebs #Biodiversity #Metaweb
Biocultural vulnerability exposes threats of culturally important species
Reyes-García+
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
"propose a framework to globally assess the biocultural status of specific components of nature that matter to people and apply it to culturally important species (CIS)."
