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Pedro Alonso

@pedroecology.bsky.social

Just another biologist account 🦜🦇🌴🚵🏼‍♂️ Working on neotropical bee diversity 🐝 on an elevational gradient

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Christopher Cartwright@chriscartwright.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fascinating Three years of rewilding on a former dairy farm in east Somerset have led to the number of recorded bird species soaring from 67 to 94, butterfly species 🆙 from 11 to 24 and small mammals growing in number. Stop the #WarOnNature #Metacrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Hold your nerve and trust nature’: birds, bats and butterflies rebound at Somerset rewilding farm

Letting nature take over at a former dairy farm has resulted in a surge of species in just three years

theguardian.com

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When billionaires and their stooges say that their priorities are "anti-woke", "anti-cancel culture" and "unrestricted free speech", don't take their claims at face value. They're a coded way of saying, “I should be allowed to do whatever I want, regardless of the impacts on other people.”

Robert Fletcher@fletcherecology.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors. We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time. We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time

Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on interpreting snapshots of current...

cell.com

Joseph Tobias@josephtobias.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Mildly bonkers. The colourful face and wattles of the cassowary don’t reflect ultraviolet, but the casque does!

Dr. Todd L. Green@thecassowarykid.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨NEW SCIENCE ALERT!🚨Read our new, open-access publication in Scientific Reports (@nature.com) describing #biofluorescence in #cassowary casques! Very excited to unveil this after keeping it secret for 5 years⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41... NYITCOM @akiopteryx.bsky.social @jonathanberman.bsky.social

Anthony Edwards@edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It’s been a brutal month for California’s snowpack, which is now at just 25% of normal. The snowpack is now 8% of normal in the northern Sierra, 28% of normal in the central Sierra and 44% of normal in the southern Sierra. NASA satellite images from Feb. 22, March 6 and March 24.

Anthony Edwards@edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Peak snowmelt is happening nearly two months earlier than normal in most of California. “A melt of this rate is a big deal any time, but in March it’s unheard of,” said Mike Hittle, a hydrologist at the California-Nevada River Forecast Center.

Ariane Dellavalle@arianedellavalle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Space-for-time studies of land-use change rely on a baseline. But what if that baseline has already changed? In our new Ecography paper we show this can underestimate biodiversity loss. 🐦📉🧵(1/9) nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Shifting baselines increase the risk of misinterpreting biodiversity trends

Ecological studies quantifying the impact of land-use change on biodiversity may be sensitive to the choice of reference points – or baselines – particularly when sampling across human land-use gradi...

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

American Museum of Natural History@amnh.org · 5mo ago

Meet the sand cat. Thick soles on its paws allow it to withstand the temperature extremes of desert sand. In parts of its range, days can reach 124° Fahrenheit (51° C) and then plummet to 31° Fahrenheit (-0.5° C) by night! Photo: Cloudtail the Snow Leopard, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr

A close up photo of a sand cat peering at the viewer with narrowed eyes. Its coat is golden in color.