REVIEW Global Bias‐Aware Synthesis of Meta‐Analyses Reveals Agroforestry's Potential for Improving Soil Health 🔗 buff.ly/aMNke1F

🚀Campagne de concours externes INRAE ouverte : nous recherchons notre futur ingénieur de recherche en innovation agroécologique au sein de l'équipe "Biodiversité et services écosystémiques" ! Contact: @arusch.bsky.social Infos complètes : jobs.inrae.fr/concours/con...

2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate ⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content ⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps ⬆️ Second warmest troposphere ⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs ⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Grazing is a major land use in drylands with major impact on ecosystems In a new paper, we found that plant diversity is key to increase ecosystem resistance to increasing grazing pressure. This effect is driven by complementarity in plant traits 🧪🌐 Find more here⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plant diversity enhances ecosystem resistance to increasing grazing pressure in global drylands - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Grazing affects plant diversity, but plant diversity in turn may modulate the effect of grazing on the plant community. This global analysis explores the association between plant species richness and...

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🍇 Check out this meta-analysis led by Silvia Winter about the impacts of vineyard management and landscape context on biodiversity & ecosystem services. Overall, we found that extensive management increases biodiversity and ecosystem services. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Je cherche un.e étudiant.e de M2 pour travailler sur des SDM et les ravageurs de la vigne @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social à Montpellier, en collaboration avec @arusch.bsky.social. Plus d'infos ici: sfecologie.org/offre/modeli...

📣 🪲 Check out this paper led by @tperrot.bsky.social, which provides a clear demonstration that the intensive use of pesticides can be more detrimental than beneficial for crop production due to their negative impacts on natural pest control.

Thomas Perrot@tperrot.bsky.social · last yr.

New publication in Proceedings B: urlr.me/qZ39CJ. We show that the use of insecticides reduces rapeseed yields beyond a threshold of 36g/ha. The reason is that insecticides reduce natural regulation, leading to an increase in insect pests and weeds!

Op-ed by not 1 but 2 UN special rapporteurs 😮 Marcos A Orellana & @olivierdeschutter.bsky.social www.arc2020.eu/europe-must-... #pesticides @corporateeurope.org @eeb.org @paneurope.bsky.social @fian-international.bsky.social @fianbelgium.bsky.social @foeeurope.bsky.social @slowfoodhq.bsky.social

Op-Ed | Europe Must End The Double Standards In Toxic Pesticides Exports | Agricultural and Rural Convention

A number of hazardous pesticides which are banned in the EU are freely manufactured and exported to other countries with weaker regulations, putting human health and the environment at risk. The EU al...

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Our new paper is out to day in Nature Ecology and Evolution! It is called: Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... #FunctionalTraits 🌐 ➕📏 @inrae-france.bsky.social @urep.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @bexplo.bsky.social

Thresholds of functional trait diversity driven by land use intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Land use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity change and ecosystem functioning. Here the authors identify thresholds of grassland plant community structure and stability in response to la...

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Une économie qui va couter très cher: Le cout du traitement des pesticides dans l'eau juste pour avoir de l'eau potable au robinet serait de l'ordre du milliard d'euros par an... Et on supprime des aides pour l'agence qui promeut la seule agriculture qui fait sans? Fausse économie, fausse route?

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · last yr.

Le ministère de l’agriculture supprime 15 millions d’euros de fonds alloués à l’Agence bio

Our study on the biodiversity impacts of agriculture in @natureecoevo.bsky.social rdcu.be/ekept Minimizing biodiversity loss requires a balance of expansion and intensification,while preserving unmodified land #Biodiversity #LandUse #ConservationScience @dleclere.bsky.social @tnewbold31.bsky.social

Geography and availability of natural habitat determine whether cropland intensification or expansion is more detrimental to biodiversity

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Both agricultural expansion and intensification drive biodiversity losses. Here the authors quantify and compare globally the biodiversity impact of land conversion...

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📣 We are offering 2 PhD thesis projects @inrae-save.bsky.social with Gaëtane Le Provost, Brice Giffard & my self. 1/2# Impacts of land-use change on biodiversity and ecosystem services adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...

We are offering a two-year postdoc position to work on the spatiotemporal dynamics of native and invasive pest species in vineyard landscapes. Co-supervision between @inrae-save.bsky.social & @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social with @cnmeynard.bsky.social. More info: jobs.inrae.fr/en/ot-25562

Our latest study is online! 🐣 We show that tebuconazole, a widely used fungicide, significantly reduces growth and survival of house sparrow chicks at concentrations similar to those found in birds from intensive vineyard areas ! 📢 CNRS press release 👉 bit.ly/42u5itZ 📄 Article 👉 bit.ly/4cjZs1F

One of the most widely used fungicides in farming harmful to reproduction in birds

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In our new preprint lead by @pietropollo.bsky.social we show how to use meta-analysis to compare not sample means but also kurtosis & skewness, as well as within-group covariance between multiple groups. The era of meta-analyzing whole distributions is here ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Our study ‘The global human impact on biodiversity’ is out in Nature! Through an unprecedented synthesis (2133 studies!) we show that humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new study by @alexpigot.bsky.social and colleagues reveals the critical role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems. @uclcber.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature

Despite advances in theory and experiments, how biodiversity influences the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems remains debated. By applying new theory to data on 84,695 plant, animal, and...

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A 2-year post-doc position to work on the Fellow project, about the response of arable plant communities to gradients in agricultural practices, and their role on agroecosystem functioning (particularly the link with pollinators and beneficial insects) 🌸🐝 Position based at Cesab, Montpellier

FRB｜Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité@frbiodiv.bsky.social · last yr.

[📢 #Recrutement] La FRB recrute : ◉ Un ou une post doctorant(e) qui animera le groupe de travail FRB-Cesab Fellow ◉ Un ou une manager opérationnel qui supervisera la gestion globale de @biodiversaplus.bsky.social 📝 rejoignez-nous : www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/la-fondation...

“Fragmented landscapes consistently have both lower α diversity and lower γ diversity [but higher β diversity] Our findings refute claims that habitat fragmentation can increase biodiversity at landscape scales” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Species turnover does not rescue biodiversity in fragmented landscapes - Nature

An analysis of habitat fragmentation using a dataset of more than 4,000 species worldwide shows that fragmentation reduces biodiversity at all scales, and that increases in β diversity do not compensa...

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Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

Postdoc at SLU Uppsala! 🇸🇪 The work will use a large database to investigate drivers of pest and pathogen outbreaks and their links to climate to improve crop protection 🐛🌽🌡️ Work with fantastic PIs, Ola Lundin, Hanna Friberg and Giulia Vico! Apply here: www.slu.se/en/about-slu... Please share!

[new paper] Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development rdcu.be/d39od We believe that perennial crops are an overlooked player in food production & sustainability. Here we explain opportunities and risks, led by @cmarnu.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social

Tailored policies for perennial woody crops are crucial to advance sustainable development

Nature Sustainability - Perennial woody crops are important sources of food that can provide ecosystem benefits through their long-lived nature and structural complexity. This Perspective provides...

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La chercheuse Élodie Vercken est l’une des autrices du livre « Sortir des labos pour défendre le vivant ». Prôner la neutralité, c’est dépolitiser la science et l’« instrumentaliser pour défendre le statu quo », dit-elle. Lire l'article : reporterre.net/On-assiste-a...

« On assiste à une montée en puissance de mouvements contre la science »

La chercheuse Élodie Vercken est l'une des autrices du livre « Sortir des labos pour défendre le vivant ». Prôner la neutralité, c'est dépolitiser la science et l'« instrumentaliser pour défendre le s...

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We need to all collectively decide to stop propping up these journals (MDPI and “Frontiers In” megajournals) by lending them our credibility. Every time you submit to, review for, guest edit, or even cite (??) these journals, you lend them your hard earned credibility. Don’t do it.

Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 2y ago

I was approached re: the Finnish decision to downgrade MDPI & Frontiers journals in 🇫🇮 rankings (THE article). This decision was based on broad patterns, including in our recent study "The strain on scientific publishing" (link: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...) A quick 🧵 1/n #SciPub #AcademicChatter

Last but not least. 🍇 Et avec une visio en plus.

INRAE - Santé et Agroécologie du Vignoble SAVE@inrae-save.bsky.social · 2y ago

La soutenance de thèse de Pierre Blondel, c'est aujourd'hui à 13h30 dans l'amphithéâtre de l'ISVV @isvv-bordeaux.bsky.social ! Si vraiment vous ne pouvez pas être sur place, un lien visio est disponible : inrae-fr.zoom.us/j/5262895456...

Looking for a PhD? Please apply!

Charlie Outhwaite@charlieouthwaite.bsky.social · 2y ago

1. How can AI-based insect monitoring technologies enhance large-scale insect monitoring? • Co-supervised by Tom Breeze (Reading), Alexa Varah (NHM) and Tom August (UK CEH). www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📌Bienvenue à SAVE - INRAE Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux ! ➡️ www.linkedin.com/posts/inrae-... @inrae-france.bsky.social

INRAE SAVE Santé et Agroécologie du Vignoble on LinkedIn: 📢 C'est avec grand plaisir que nous vous présentons notre vidéo…

📢 C'est avec grand plaisir que nous vous présentons notre vidéo officielle d'unité! 🥳 A la production : Coline Verneau, responsable communication de centre…

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Strongly agree with this letter in Science arguing that field-based research should be more highly and fairly valued in academia. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The value of field research in academia

From anthropology to zoology, immersion within communities, cultural settings, and study systems is integral to research and learning (1, 2). Fieldwork, the direct observation and collection of data i...

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This paper was a massive team effort that culminated in a simple story: More biodiverse communities of invertebrates, in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, have a higher content of "good fats" that are available for predators (e.g. bird, bats, fish, etc...). doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Consumer biodiversity increases organic nutrient availability across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems

Human land-use intensification threatens arthropod (for example, insect and spider) biodiversity across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Insects and spiders play critical roles in ecosystems by acc...

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La vie secrète des arbres : la théorie s’effondre … www.epsiloon.com/tous-les-num...

La vie secrète des arbres : la théorie s’effondre

L’idée est si émouvante qu’elle a conquis le public, Hollywood, et jusqu’aux plus hautes institutions  : les arbres communiqueraient via un réseau secret… Sauf que c’est faux. Les scientifiques ont...

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