The fascinating story of Gelderse Poort, birthplace of Climate-smart Rewilding 🐎🦦🐂🌳💧🌊 @ambio-journal.bsky.social 👉🏼 rdcu.be/fxDG5 #rewilding #transformativechange #climatechange #naturebasedsolutions #largeherbivores #floods #ecosystemrestoration @niooknaw.bsky.social @ark-rewildingnl.bsky.social
Nacho Villar
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Research Ecologist discovering the cool things that large Wildlife do in the Wild & for Restoration #Trophiccascades #Rewilding #Defaunation #Communityassembly #Zoogeochemistry #Ecosystems @niooknaw.bsky.social
🌲🌲➖️🐎🐂🟰🔥🔥 STOP THE CULTURE OF MONOCULTURES Seen thousands of hectares burned travelling through Portugal and Spain this summer. No wild grazers but loads of #Eucalyptus and #Pinus plantations are perfect recipy for fire #rewilding #fire #landabandonment #spain #portugal #largemammals #mediterranean
🐗🎺📣Mammal zoogeochemical effects change litter and soil biogeochemistry in a tropical rainforest 🌴🌴 doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... Our new paper with #wildlife #experiments #cameratraps shows mammalian biomass transforms #litter and #soil quantity and quality in the jungle 😵+Unexpected climate effects
💡 😃 Have you heard about this thing called "CLIMATE-SMART #REWILDING❓ 🐎Read our latest conceptual work merging #ecosystemrestoration with #climatemitigation & #climateadaptation & people 🧐: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #wildlife #upscaling #naturebasedsolutions @niooknaw.bsky.social
🌴🐗 Large #mammals play a #keystone role in maintaing spatial #biodiversity in #tropical #forest ecosystems Our latest work from the largest long-term mammalian exclusion #experiment in the #neotropics just published @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #defaunation #rewilding
Hoe toon je aan dat #rewilding werkt? Kom erachter op 20 maart, bij het rewilding-symposium Evidence-based Rewilding. Tijdens het #symposium lanceert ook het Rewilding Expertisecentrum. NIOO-onderzoekers Liesbeth Bakker en Nacho Villar leiden het symposium. Meer info: nioo.knaw.nl/en/events/sy...
Symposium Evidence-based Rewilding & Launch Rewilding Expertise Centre
What evidence shows that rewilding actually works? The symposium also marks the launch of the Rewilding Expertise Centre by NIOO researcher and special WUR professor Liesbeth Bakker on World Rewilding...
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Are you looking for a #postdoc that combines #bioinformatics with #microbial #ecology, metabolomics and data integration? NIOO is seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to develop and curate a comprehensive microbial volatile #database. Respond by 13 March: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
Postdoc Development of a Microbial Volatile Database
We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to develop and curate a comprehensive microbial volatile database within the framework of an interdisciplinary project at the Netherlands Inst...
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International Symposium Evidence-based Rewilding & Launch Rewilding Expertise Centre 🐎🦅🐢🦋🦀🌵🐛🌊🔥🌬 Join us ONLINE for a fascinating trip on #worldrewildingday 20 March for landmark event to build a robust evidence-based #rewilding for #restoration that works! 👉Register: rewildingexpertisecentre.nl/en
The poop is the new cool 💩=😎 Read about our work on how tapir toilets become buffets & boost global awareness of forest biodiversity via @mongabay.com 🌴 #defaunation #tapir #tropicalforest #seeddispersal #rewilding #naturalhistory #conservation #latrines @mongabay.com @mongabaylatam.bsky.social
After our #CommunalTapirLatrines paper got out last year, people from Mongabay reached out to publish two stories: one about the findings of the study (https://lnkd.in/eMhMYwyT), | Laís Lautenschlage...
After our #CommunalTapirLatrines paper got out last year, people from Mongabay reached out to publish two stories: one about the findings of the study (https://lnkd.in/eMhMYwyT), and more recently,...
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🥳 Let's celebrate the wild unstoppable mommentum of rewilding 🐾 www.linkedin.com/posts/nacho-...
#worldrewildingday #rewilding #rewild #generationrestoration… | Nacho Villar
🥳 Let's celebrate the wild unstoppable mommentum of rewilding 🐾 Today 20th March is the International Rewilding Day. As an active rewilding researcher, I…
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Very worrying news coming from our colleagues across the Atlantic. Mass firings that will decimate U.S. science agencies remember the aftermath of 2008 financial crisis: mass firings & closed doors for an entire genration of scientists (inc. brand new PhDs like me). www.science.org/content/arti...
Mass firings decimate U.S. science agencies
White House dismissals and rationale challenged by dismissed scientists and lawsuits
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Global #climate models systematically neglect the important role of large #wildlife in the #carboncycle. Find out why this is wrong & how move forward in our new review paper @society4conbio.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... @niooknaw.bsky.social #
Defaunation impacts on the carbon balance of tropical forests
The urgent need to mitigate and adapt to climate change necessitates a comprehensive understanding of carbon cycling dynamics. Traditionally, global carbon cycle models have focused on vegetation, bu...
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