Paul Cross
@paulcross.bsky.social
Pollinators; Lecturer in the Environment; Politics; Hiking; Radiohead; Folk music; Beekeeping; Butterflies and Moths and Border Collies but not all in that order...
Assessment of trawling impacts on 10 Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem indicator taxa (e.g. cold-water corals) across New Zealand waters show that 30 years of trawling reduced VME area by 20.8 %, with losses up to 40.7 % in some bioregions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Researcher Spotlight Dr Rebecca Jones Food Geographer: Rebecca's research explores the the intersection of food experiences and place-making Read more here research.bangor.ac.uk/en/persons/r... Meet Our Staff
How many mamba species are there? Find out from our new paper: Phylogeny and species delimitation in an iconic snake genus: the African mambas (Serpentes: Elapidae: Dendroaspis) academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
Phylogeny and species delimitation in an iconic snake genus: the African mambas (Serpentes: Elapidae: Dendroaspis)
Abstract. The African mambas (Dendroaspis) comprise an iconic genus of four large-bodied, highly venomous elapid snakes: the black mamba (D. polylepis) fro
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I think that was my favourite as well. I wanted to walk into the painting and live there!
TrevorTheBotanist@trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · last yr.Honoured to launch Urban Plants last week at the wonderful Philip Mould Gallery, with its Cedric Morris exhibition laid on to coincide with the event. Of all the paintings, the luminous and evocative ‘Flowers in a Portuguese Landscape’ was my standout favourite #art #painting #exhibitions
Today is launch day for our friend @nicwilson.bsky.social whose fabulous book 'Land Beneath the Waves' is attracting so much interest. Hope you have a great launch event NIc!
Nic Wilson@nicwilson.bsky.social · last yr.Seems timely when I've been sharing watery writing (incl @amyjanebeer.bsky.social's beautiful description of eddylines) to thank her for this lovely comment: “What happens when a nature writer turns their attention to the most unnerving of all landscapes – those that exist in our bodies & minds? 1/2
Fabulous evening @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social
TrevorTheBotanist@trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · last yr.@bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @naturelark.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social @chiffchat.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @paulcross.bsky.social @amandatuke.bsky.social @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @naturelark.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social @chiffchat.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @jillwhitelock.bsky.social @paulcross.bsky.social @amandatuke.bsky.social @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social
TrevorTheBotanist@trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · last yr.Absolutely fabulous evening with friends, family, colleagues & botanists galore to celebrate the launch of Urban Plants at Philip Mould’s gallery last night. Thank you everyone that came along, it meant the world to me! #UrbanPlants
Oh my word! Botanist about to explode! Just unboxed my presentation copies of Urban Plants & I’m as giddy as a bee in a bellflower. It’s a beautiful thing, from the gorgeous Carry Akroyd cover to the photos kindly provided by many lovely people. Hope you enjoy it www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...
Some of the 100+ Marsh Fritillaries I saw today at Finglandrigg Wood NNR near Carlisle. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
New Queen* in the hive today! A result of supercedure whereby bees select a new queen without swarming. Our Conservation MSc students get to learn about beekeeping and this is the first time we've seen this on a field visit.(*with dot) 👑👩🎓 @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
Nice study. A future subject for a book for @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social
Stephanie A. Rivest@stephinscience.bsky.social · last yr.What role do non-native plants play in butterfly nectar diets? New paper explores this question (and more) 🌻 @hkharouba.bsky.social @respublications.bsky.social resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
What a fabulous outfit of amazing CLM students and @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social
TrevorTheBotanist@trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · last yr.Fabulous final day of fieldwork for MSc Conservation & Land Management students, assessing changes in dune vegetation communities at Aberffraw. Lots of wonderful plants, some swimming, and a bit of a grass-fest @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniscience.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
Fabulous final day of fieldwork for MSc Conservation & Land Management students, assessing changes in dune vegetation communities at Aberffraw. Lots of wonderful plants, some swimming, and a bit of a grass-fest @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniscience.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
Bracken control, the field trials, with @paulcross.bsky.social
TrevorTheBotanist@trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · last yr.They also decided to test a novel method of bracken control, concluding that it was very effective, sustainable and fun, if a bit disorienting #students #MenWiilBeBoys #EndOfTerm @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
They also decided to test a novel method of bracken control, concluding that it was very effective, sustainable and fun, if a bit disorienting #students #MenWiilBeBoys #EndOfTerm @paulcross.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social
Students completing a great day in the meadows of @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social Quadrats, sweep netting and beating trays for the MSc Conservation and Land Management. #What'snottolike @bangoruniscience.bsky.social bangoruniversity.bsky.social
Our @bangoruniversity.bsky.social 'MSc Conservation and Land Management' students are on a week's field course. You can't leave them alone for a second! 🤹😂 #learningthroughplay Join us and @paulcross.bsky.social! bangor.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Our postgraduate #Conservation students have completed a grand trip out, not bad eh? Join us! @bangoruniversity.bsky.social @studyinwales.bsky.social bangor.ac.uk/study/postgr... @paulcross.bsky.social @juliajones.bsky.social (thanks Dr Freya St John for vid)
New Primer on Bumblebees now out in Current Biology (with Guillaume Ghisbain & Denis Michez): www.cell.com/current-biol...
Relaxation of management intensity promotes butterfly communities in mountain grasslands... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Relaxation of management intensity promotes butterfly communities in mountain grasslands
Semi-natural mountain grasslands are currently threatened by either land abandonment or management intensification, which calls for evidence-based rec…
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Paper alert! I'm happy to share that my first research paper has been published! 🐝🌸 Road verges can support #pollinators but their potential for preserving representatively diverse and even communities is limited, due in part to high densities of non-native plants. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
Fires have destroyed nearly 11 million carbon offset credits in California's program. The buffer pool had only set aside a little more than six million credits to compensate for losses from wildfire. Those six million credits were meant to last for 100 years. carbonplan.org/research/buf...?
Great news! Thousands of miles of footpaths that faced being lost forever could now be saved after the government committed to lifting a deadline for all rights of ways in England to be mapped. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped
Walking campaigners welcome the move, which the government says will help prevent paths from being lost.
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[new paper] You probably suspected that loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants, but here we quantify it: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants
Nature Ecology & Evolution - A meta-analysis finds that decreasing diversity of pollinator species has a negative affect on multiple measures of plant reproductive success, with wild plant...
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Here's a wild image from the #Antarctic Peninsula for: #InternationalMountainDay2024 #InternationalMountainDay #IMD2024
By far and away, my favourite thing about this spectacularly dumb post... Is that that's THE MATTERHORN
December 7th is the feast day of St. Ambrose, patron saint of Beekeeping an candle makers. The Latin phrase for “honey” is “Ambrosia” or the food of the gods, thus the origin of St. Ambrose’s name. christianapostles.com/st-ambrose/
