Nature conservation e.g. by NGO Fundacion Jocotoco, can help to bend the curve of biodiversity decline. The graph shows how large parts of the diversity comes back due to natural regeneraion of a rainforest. It illustrates the main finding of our study published in Nature: Protection restores 90% of species diversity in 30 years.

Good news! #Biodiversity🦜🐜🐒🐸 in a tropical #rainforest 🌴🇪🇨can naturally recover quickly 📈 (if the conditions are suitable = enough surrounding forest). Our new study in #Nature
#forestecol #restoration @jocotoco.bsky.social
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Better late than never 😅

Happy to share that the final paper of my PhD was out this February in @journalofecology.bsky.social ! We asked: what drives the functional recovery of seed rain as tropical forests regnerate after disturbances? 🫘🌿

@reassemblynet.bsky.social #restoration #forestecol

Expected to start in July/August 2026.

Looking for ECR ecologist (PhD <3yrs) with interest in #ecologicalnetworks to join the DISPERSIFY project for 11 months www.uc.pt/community-ec..., U. Coimbra, Portugal. You'll analyse seed dispersal #networks from the Botanic Garden of Coimbra. 🐦🌱
Deadline 12th May: www.apply.uc.pt/en/procedure...

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Locally unusual fruit compositions drive rare-biased seed dispersal Frugivore preferences for rare fruits are a powerful mechanism for plant diversity maintenance. Nevertheless, the drivers of frugivore preferences and…

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The weirder the better: how bird 🐦 preference for unusual fruits 🍒 help to keep rarer species in the community.
🌐 🧪 🌍

Seed dispersal assists in the recovery of burned sites rather than being an alternative to resprouting or post-fire seeding 🌱🌳🌍
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pest-predators network

Just out, the role of bats and birds as potential pest suppressors in smallholder rice-dominated agroecosystems in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa🌍 #NetworkScience
Check it out.
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REMOTE ROLE FOR ECOLOGISTS, NATURALISTS, AND TAXONOMIC EXPERTS at Pivotal Future in London, UNITED KINGDOM Jan 2, 2025 | Ecologists, Naturalists, and Taxonomic Experts ‍ Can you identify birds, bats or frogs from acoustic data? Or can you identify plants,... | EXPIRES IN 4 DAYS

We are still recruiting Brazilian experts in species ID at Pivotal. It's remote flexible work so a really handy side gig.

If you can identify Brazilian plants or mammals from photos, of frogs, bats or birds from audio, please apply! 🧪

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Removing institutional barriers to long-term fieldwork is critical for advancing ecology Long-term fieldwork is essential for ecology and conservation, but is hindered by institutional barriers, such as the publish-or-perish culture of aca…

Long-term data is critical for understanding how ecosystems work and how they might look in the future. But it's getting harder and harder to do due to funding limitations. We need to prioritise this sort of research and to stop cutting funding for it.

ECOSISTEMAS is a great option to publish free to read and free to publish (no APC) from the Spanish Ecological Society. We are growing internationally, support us by sending your cool results!

Climb forest, climb: diverse disperser communities are key to assist plants tracking climate change on altitudinal gradients Climate change is forcing species to shift their distribution ranges. Animal seed dispersers might be particularly important in assisting plants tracking suitable climates to higher elevations. Howe.....

🔥 New paper out 🔥

Seed dispersers help plants tracking climate change on mountains!

Animals are dispersing plant species to higher elevations... but over half of the plants arriving at higher elevations were exotic. 🦎🐦💩🌿

@newphyt.bsky.social

🧪🍁🌐🌏

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Friend or foe? Attitudes of rice farmers toward wild animals in West Africa - Ecology & Society As the global human population grows and the demand for space and resources increases, human-wildlife interactions and conflicts are expected to rise, particularly in biodiversity-rich tropical agroec...

Just published: preceptions by rice farmers of wildlife.
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Tinderbox: Portugal’s difficult relationship with fire 2024 became yet another fire year of record for Portugal. Photojournalist Neal Haddaway looks at the damage and what the future holds.

JUST PUBLISHED: Tinderbox 🌍🔥

In just 3 days, Portugal broke wildfire records as abandoned farmland and eucalyptus plantations burned.

In my latest for The New Climate, I explore how we can rethink land, fire, and resilience.

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#Wildfires #ClimateCrisis

haven't yet posted much here, though.
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Deciduous forest restoration guided by an umbrella species benefit beetle diversity and stand structures, but target levels are not reached 🪲

Repeated restoration is needed to ensure a continued positive development of natural values 📈

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