A striking new finding: 👉 Amazon dieback threshold without major deforestation: ~4°C warming 👉 With severe deforestation: ~1.5°C warming Deforestation weakens the rainforest's ability to generate rainfall, pushing the entire system toward a tipping point. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Robust projections of risks to the Amazon rainforest

Amazonian deforestation is altering atmospheric moisture transport; as a result, even low levels of global warming could trigger dieback of most of the remaining forest.

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Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Little auks are small Arctic #seabirds that need to find enough food to raise their chicks in a rapidly changing ocean. This #RSOS paper studied their feeding behaviour over seven breeding seasons in Svalbard using GPS tracking, ocean data, and diet samples: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Happy to see our new paper out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters! 🌊🐦 A look into how the smallest seabirds deal with the windscape during movements across the open ocean. tinyurl.com/57vvpfsp

Storm petrels trade movement speed for information gain

Abstract. Animals travelling through air or water can benefit from surrounding flows. This is evident in procellariforms, oceanic birds capable of undertak

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Storm petrels, among the smallest seabirds, routinely seek crosswinds during long flights over the ocean, a strategy that may aid navigation and prey detection despite reducing flight speed. doi.org/hb3ts7

The RSPB is looking for surveyors to census the UK’s largest Storm Petrel colony on Mousa, Shetland. We need 2-4 volunteers who are comfortable working and camping in a remote location with limited facilities, to help complete playback surveys during mid-July 2026. 🪺🏝️🏕️

It will be spring when this book review is published, but no matter what time of year it is when you sit down to read Naira de Gracia’s The Last Cold Place, you’ll soon find yourself transported to a land of ice, snow, wind—and penguins. Read our full review here: www.aba.org/research-on-...

EDEC SA works for #CaboVerde govern and changed Brava street & port lights from yellow to strong white LED. A few days later >150 Cape Verde, Leach and WF #StormPetrels & Boyd's #shearwaters collisioned and died. Despite #ProjectoVito warned DNA, 3d later lights are on m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

The White-bellied Storm-petrel trip also gave up one of two deployed GLS loggers. 1st ever track. Aust. to Chile (10K km) and down towards the Antarctica coast. Unprecedented?! So hard to access remote colonies with over 80 island-days available (2009-2025) but only 8 landings possible.#Seabirds 🪶

❗Freshly published in Biological Conservation European strom petrels suitable foraging areas are strongly characterized by low sea surface temperature 🥶, high chlorophyll concentration🌿and eddy kinetic energy 🌀

Coping with ocean dynamics: Foraging strategy and implications for conservation of a small petrel

Seabirds' distribution is generally influenced by the ecological dynamics of marine environments. Understanding how oceanographic features shape seabi…

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New publication on European Storm Petrel foraging areas!

Bolumar Roda, S., Rotger, A., santangeli A., Tavecchia, G., Sola, A., [...] and Sanz-Aguilar, A. , 2024. Coping with ocean dynamics: Foragi...

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NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP The Storm-Petrels: The first definitive work on the European Storm-petrel and its relatives, by one of the world's leading experts on the species. For more information, please visit: https://bit.ly/4g6Ihkl

Mediterranean Storm Petrel at its nest site entrance, caught on trail camera on a small rocky island in Mallorca.

NEWS!!! #SeabirdSessions are BACK!!! DEC 16, 2024 on ZOOM! An E-mail will go out to the E-list soon with more details! In the meantime, if you're NOT on the e-list and want including, do DM me! #Seabirds #Science #Conservation #SciComm #GrantsHat

Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑‍🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...