Marc Peipoch
@marcpeipoch.bsky.social
Systems ecology at Stroud Water Research Center | Nutrient and algae dynamics in fluvial ecosystems | It's pronounced 'Pay-pock'
What co-benefits do we gain when planting trees along stream margins? We don't fully know. Fully-funded PhD going now — mapping food webs across Mt Taranaki's "ring of restoration" 🌱🐟 Please repost among your networks Email: frank.burdon@waikato.ac.nz
🐦 A cuckoo's first challenge. A rare moment from the field in the Mutěnice ponds: a newly hatched Common Cuckoo chick ejects its foster host's egg from the nest. 🎥 Watch the remarkable beginning of one of Europe’s most extraordinary birds. Video recorded by @biosulc.bsky.social
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Rejected a review invite from Geophysical Research Letters which asked for a 14 day deadline with the option to "e-mail to arrange a possible extension." No! Just give reviewers a month by default. I review a lot, and GRL is a great journal, but can we normalise civilised review times. @agu.org
Proud of this paper just published in 𝙀𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙚, 𝘾𝙤𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 with Andres Lucas Fernandez Vilar, @irene-gil-luna.bsky.social and Lluís Zamora @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Connection to the sea and flooding mediate the abundance of a threatened cyprinodontiform and invasive mosquitofish in a Mediterranean saltmarsh
The fish assemblages of small Mediterranean coastal lagoons remain understudied, despite their importance for biodiversity and ecological functioning.…
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Enjoyed working with @veritasium.bsky.social on this video on scaling and the hidden math that governs life. A nice introduction to the pervasivness of scaling in biology and an introduction to #MetabolicScalingTheory youtu.be/tL9Lw250spc?... 🧪🌾🌐
Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life?
YouTube video by Veritasium
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🧪 🪲 🌋 🌡️ When are things too hot to handle? Our new paper on insect thermal tolerance across elevation in @pnas.org nas.org suggest perhaps not too far in the future. @gdfcf.bsky.social sky.social @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵
Curious about biodiversity in tropical streams? In Costa Rica, Stroud Center scientists used a tracer to follow energy: microbes➡️algae➡️insects➡️crabs➡️fish—1,700 samples of the food 🕸️ ➡️ stroudcenter.org/news/tracing... Subscribe @ stroudcenter.org/subscribe/ #FreshwaterScience #biodiversity #CostaRica
The Most Important Animals May Be the Ones You Never Notice
Researchers are following the path of nitrogen in a tropical stream to uncover relationships that support the entire ecosystem.
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New journal article led by @kwardinski.bsky.social is now out in #Biogeochemistry! "Water table rise sustains carbon release from soils in wetland-dominated landscapes: an intact soil core study" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #DelmarvaDisco #wetland #soil #water #carbon💧🌎🧪👩🔬
Water table rise sustains carbon release from soils in wetland-dominated landscapes: an intact soil core study - Biogeochemistry
Wetland-dominated landscapes influence carbon cycling through their potential to act as both carbon sinks and sources. Wetlands in low-relief landscapes have dynamic terrestrial-aquatic interfaces tha...
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Up to 400 fish die in Calderstones Park lake during heatwave - BBC News share.google/g9h9tZTK7KTi...
Up to 400 fish die in Calderstones Park lake during heatwave
One angler says the city council's action to boost oxygen levels with aerators was "too late".
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Can't never put the toothpaste back into the tube...
American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 2w agoFew statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.
In our episode “The cost of correctness”, Matt proposes a few changes to the science funding system that could help support bolder ideas in science. #science #scicomm #biology #sciencecommunication #bigbiology
The cost of correctness (Ep 151)
What have so many influential scientists been at some time been ridiculed and disbelieved by their peers or institutions?
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Biotic interactions shape the realized niche of toxic cyanobacteria www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
Biotic interactions shape the realized niche of toxic cyanobacteria - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Using five years of daily lake plankton monitoring data and empirical dynamic modelling, this study shows that grazing, competition and facilitation reshape the temperature and nutrient conditions req...
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Nitrate‐Driven Selenium Release From the Monterey Formation in Coastal California Watersheds—A Recycled Water Conundrum - Hibbs - 2026 - JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Nitrate‐Driven Selenium Release From the Monterey Formation in Coastal California Watersheds—A Recycled Water Conundrum
Recycled municipal wastewater is increasingly used for non-potable irrigation in California, but its moderate nitrate content may mobilize redox-sensitive trace elements in geologic units such as the...
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I was at CBC's As It Happens, taking about our @pnas.org paper on Brueghel and the bird-eating noctule he painted 400 years ago (see below) Around minute 40:00 in the link @romero-vidal.bsky.social @elena-tena.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Miguel Clavero@chikichanka.bsky.social · 4w agoWe are thrilled to see our @pnas.org piece in so many international media Here goes a threat with some examples @ebdonana.bsky.social @romero-vidal.bsky.social @elena-tena.bsky.social 1- @timesofindianews.bsky.social , India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/scie...
Happy to see this paper from the @restore4cs.bsky.social project, led by @cabrerabrufau.bsky.social, published! We measured CO₂ and CH₄ fluxes in preserved, degraded and restored coastal wetlands, showing how restoration can enhance CO₂-eq mitigation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Assessing the effects of restoration and conservation on gaseous carbon fluxes and climate mitigation potential across six European coastal wetlands
Coastal wetlands play a substantial role in regulating Earth's climate through exchanges of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Current European policies promote…
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What's the human-equivalent number for 19 baby birds? 5 human children?
c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4w agoMom, Dad & their 19 babies drinking some water from a backyard pond. These are Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) in the Catalina Foothills of Arizona. Let's ask why they drink via the 'sip-and-tilt' method... (📷: Desert Critters of Arizona via YT)
"Migrants from tributary populations accounted for 93.5% of adult (Yellowstone cutthroat) trout captured in the main stem Snake River, w/ individuals traveling up to 134 km to access main stem habitat." Not just salmon who need connected rivers! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Releasing a Trout into the Water
ALT: Releasing a Trout into the Water
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Diversidad funcional de #macroinvertebrados de sistemas lóticos andinos. Nuevo artículo -Online First- publicado en #Limnetica. Por: Laura Velandia-Pérez, Camilo Roa-Fuentes, Camila Diaz-Rojas y Yimy Herrera-Martínez. Artículo completo en: www.limnetica.net/es/limnetica...
"We’ve got the world’s biggest economy, in my view, not because of real estate developers but because of science," says @captmarkkelly.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/mark... #SciAmYoungScientists: sciam.com/youngscientists @sciam.bsky.social
Senator Mark Kelly reveals why science is critical to America’s future
On steering the path forward for research and innovation
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Missed the Rigler Award plenary at the IAGLR & SCAS-SCSA 2026 Joint Conference? Watch Dr. Irena Creed share insights on freshwater science, ecosystem resilience, and the future of water research: https://bit.ly/49YnOhB #ConnectedWaters26 #iaglr26
Plenary: Irena Creed, University of Toronto Scarborough, Rigler Award Recipient
Rewired watersheds and toxic blooms in northern lakes
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Bravo! Geology and habitat features drive energetic functions in streams | Freshwater Science: Vol 45, No 2 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Geology and habitat features drive energetic functions in streams | Freshwater Science: Vol 45, No 2
AbstractPast research has suggested that geology has an important influence on stream energetic functions. However, potential geological factors are confounded by other variables, such as drainage bas...
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“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.” — Karl Popper
Excited to see our piece advocating for embracing (or at least acknowledging) artificial aquatic ecosystems published! Indefatigable leadership from @jackiewebb.bsky.social to transform our casual conference chats to this powerful (imho) piece. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
New paper out in Freshwater Biology! We found that nutrient reductions in a hypereutrophic Québec lake led to a shift from colonial Microcystis toward filamentous Dolichospermum — a reminder that lake recovery is rarely simple. I 💚 working with stellar collaborators!! doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
Phytoplankton Regime Shift Toward Filamentous Cyanobacteria Following Nutrient Reductions in a Hypereutrophic Lake
Phytoplankton community responses to nutrient-management interventions in agricultural catchments remain poorly understood, particularly with respect to functional group transitions. Petit-lac-Sai...
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Understanding biodiversity trends requires long-term monitoring and baseline data. This analysis shows 20th century insect declines in Switzerland & more recent partial recoveries and identifies drivers of both trends. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ninety-year trends reveal sharpest insect declines in the mid-twentieth century - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Assessing the magnitude and drivers of recent biodiversity losses requires informative, long-term baseline data. Here the authors reconstruct the temporal trajectories of butterflies and saproxylic be...
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The King in the Crosshairs: Evidence of a Predation Attempt on European #Bison by #Wolves: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
