BioMonI team at the #WBF2026 for literature workflows @plazi-species.bsky.social @nathalygr.bsky.social @fabio-mol.bsky.social #disentisroadmap

Rob Waterhouse@rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rainer Krug from @sib.swiss summarises outcomes from the #WBF2026 #biodiversity literature workshop here in Davos

Today at the #WBF2026, BMD partner Robert Waterhouse from SIB gave a presentation on the topic of text mining of species traits integrated with genomics to transform biodiversity modelling 🦦🧬 👉 More info about the presentation: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/meet...

🥁New paper out! doi.org/10.1111/1365... In Sumatra 🏝️ tree islands inside oil palm landscapes revealed 27,000+ phytochemicals 🧪🌴 many still unknown! Tree islands in oil palm plantations can enhance phytochemical diversity through natural regeneration 📈💚 #islands BioMonI and #EFForTS-BEE project 🤝

Phytochemical diversity of naturally regenerated plants in a biodiversity enrichment experiment

Tree islands established within an industrial oil palm plantation promoted the recovery of phytochemical diversity through natural regeneration. Ten years after planting, untargeted metabolomics of 7...

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For the first time in nearly 200 years, tortoises with Floreana ancestry have returned to Floreana Island, following the recent release of 158 individuals reared in a special captive breeding program. 🐢 spklr.io/6043D4JCU

New paper just out deciphering the global species–area relationship for plants with @biogeokreft.bsky.social @patrickweigelt.bsky.social and others in @pnas.org Across islands area alone explains 66% of variation in richness best described by a classic power-law model www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Plenary Speakers Announced! Further details will be shared soon. - Anna Traveset (IMEDEA) - Takashi Kamijo (University of Tsukuba) - Takeo Kuriyama (University of Hyogo) - Koh Nakamura (Hokkaido University) - Yuya Watari (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)

IslandBiologyJAPAN@islandbiologyjapan.bsky.social · 6mo ago

プレナリーセッションの登壇者を先行公開！ 詳細は順次お知らせいたします。 ・Anna Traveset（IMEDEA） ・上條 隆志（筑波大学） ・栗山 武夫（兵庫県立大学） ・中村 剛（北海道大学） ・亘 悠哉（森林総合研究所）

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Anyone attending Island Biology in Japan? 🌏 BioMonI will be there! Submissions for symposia are closing on 31 March, don’t miss the deadline! sites.google.com/view/island-...

Island Biology 2026 - Call for Symposia

Call for Symposia

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Island community we need you! Help us complete two short surveys on island socioecological systems and biodiversity monitoring, shaping island biodiversity research! Survey 1: forms.gle/CiSp9QqxMbGv... Survey 2: forms.gle/dwBWWUcry1fY... Questions? Biomoni2024@gmail.com #islandbiology #BioMonI

Understanding Social-Ecological Island Systems

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The Global Ecology starter pack has been so successful there's a third iteration (and it includes me!) I'm told there's still space if you're a global ecologist and want to be added: DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join. go.bsky.app/MkLHiKU 🌐

The 6th FloraMac International Symposium – FloraMac 2025 will take place in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Island, Azores, between the 22nd and 26th of September 2025. More info: floramac2025.weebly.com

FloraMac 2025

FloraMac is an international symposium that convenes researchers specializing in various disciplines—such as taxonomy, vegetation ecology, biogeography, phylogeography, paleoecology or biodiversity...

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Climate models suggest that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation will not shut down completely, even under extreme climate conditions https://go.nature.com/4ikyetQ

Atlantic circulation could be more resilient to global warming than was thought

Why the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation might not shut down.

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Invasive alien species are a threat to #nature, nature’s contributions to people, and good quality of life. Read the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report at: www.ipbes.net/ias 🧪🌍

Excited for the first webinar of 2025's Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social. Our first presenter is Luís Valente @evoisland.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register here: forms.gle/mFtLXHCWXQkD... and see image for details.

Invasive species are implicated as threats to New Caledonia's biodiversity: "Sur l’ensemble des plantes évaluées, près de la moitié sont menacées par au moins une espèce exotique envahissante. Quant aux lézards, ils sont menacés par la fourmi électrique." #bioinvasions www.lnc.nc/article/nouv...

Deux tiers des lézards et 40 % de la flore menacés de disparition en Nouvelle-Calédonie

Mené par l’association Endemia pendant dix ans, un état des lieux de la biodiversité calédonienne met en évidence les risques de disparition qui pèsent sur 69 espèces de lézards et 643 espèces de plan...

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Join us: 100 % Postdoctoral researcher position (2025-2026), 24 months in Palynology, Université de la Réunion. More details: biomoni.github.io/BioMonI/