🧩Human modification does not always lead to a biotic homogenisation. Using a scenario-based approach, we found that beta diversity increased despite reductions in local alpha diversity, thereby maintaining gamma diversity, when relatively natural landscapes were modified into mixed landscapes.

Welcome to Beijing!

TIBS Aarhus 2026@tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The news is finally out — #TIBS2028 will be held in #China 🇨🇳 The conference will take place in #Beijing, bringing the global #biogeography community together again after two years. High expectations for an exciting meeting and stimulating discussions.

#TIBS2026 brings together island biogeography, macroecology, paleobiogeography, and conservation to spark boundary-crossing ideas about Earth’s past, present, and futures. 📍 Aarhus, Denmark #TIBS2026 #Biogeography #BlueSkyScience #Macroecology #EarthFutures

My first PhD paper is out today in Conservation Biology! @society4conbio.bsky.social Freely available to read here: doi.org/10.1111/cobi... Tldr 🧵 below!

Increasing human ecological impact over the Holocene (11,700 - 150 years ago) led to biodiversity gains in Europe. Why? From ~8,500 years ago, the spread of farming created heterogeneous, habitat-rich landscapes that enhanced biodiversity. Read our new paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.... 🌏 🧪

What’s up?! Nesting mandarin duck🪶at summer palace

Viking has been very hardworking on Christmas Eve🤣 Merry Christmas 🎄 🎄🎄

Should contribute more in the next year

🚨Fully-Funded UK PhD Opportunity!🚨 I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity! Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED

Got my Viva done yesterday! Many thanks to my examiners @hannah-wht-eco.bsky.social & @elvarobinson.bsky.social, it’s been a great discussion! And a big thank you to my supervisors Chris and @cmbeale.bsky.social for being excellent supervisors!

Tiny little thing

Portland Bird Observatory@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social · 2y ago

Pallas's Warbler trapped at the Obs

Yellow-browed warbler at Bempton. Haven’t seen you in four years! Thanks for coming to see me from the far east😂

Woooo. Little owl was so loud.

🌾🌍🌱🍄🌿Prizes and applause for team Take It or Leaf It from University of York who led throughout Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 but just lost in the final. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @oxfordbiology.bsky.social

‘Doing a PhD with my second language’

Celebrating the mid-autumn festival with the ’mid-autumn duck’!! Scaly-sided Merganser. 02/05/2019 Erdaobaihe, Jilin