Stereomicroscope taxonomic ID is a key step: bees and ground beetles are premier bioindicators. The former reflect air quality and pollination, the latter soil health in cherry ecosystems. Monitoring them is vital to measure ecosystem resilience and guide conservation. 🔬🐝🪲🍒 #Science #Agroecology

How we miss sampling! Did you know that in the 1960s, Verona was the top province in Italy for cherry production?🍒 Today, cherry orchards are shrinking (1,300 ha) due to urbanization, vineyards and hill management issues; the system has evolved from mixed crops to specialized, high-density plots.📉🚜

La violenza dello sci "Noi continueremo ad utilizzare i cannoni, fino a che il mare non arriverà in Val di Fiemme" Tiziano Romito, presidente Marcialonga L’ostinazione del modello dello sci alpino è da anni palese: davanti...

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First year of TRANSForm sampling in Italy done!🌞To better understand biodiversity, we tested various techniques: pan and pitfall traps for pollinators and carabids, Audiomoth to study birds, netting for targeted pollinator capture, topsoil cores for chemical-physical analysis, and eDNA extraction.🍒🌳

SAFER project officially launched in Bordeaux last week! We're beginning the ambitious work to expand agroecological farming & strengthen agricultural landscape multifunctionality across Europe.

Learn more: www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer

Genomic signatures indicate biodiversity loss in an endemic island ant fauna Insect populations have declined worldwide, but the extent and drivers of these declines are debated. Most studies rely on field surveys performed in the past century, leaving gaps in our understandin...

Great paper! Genomic signatures indicate biodiversity loss in an endemic island ant fauna | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Disentangling biodiversity and temperature effects on bees and pollination services in mountain agroecosystems Pollinating insects are declining globally due to habitat loss, agricultural intensification, and climate change. Wild bee loss threatens the delivery…

Another chapter from Sebastiano Zanini’s PhD thesis has just been published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thank you! 🙏 So grateful for the amazing team behind this work. It's great to see it having an impact — and I’m really glad we did it together!

A preprint of our paper on #CausalInference in #Ecology - Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - led by Hannah Correia is now up as a preprint ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... 🧪🌍

This came from a GREAT workshop last year, and gives a solid framework and howto

Happy Friday everyone! I just posted what I think is an important blog post on my website. It is a critique of meta-meta-analyses: meta-analyses of meta-analyses.

Link: matthewbjane.github.io/blog-posts/b...

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Excited to launch #TRANSFOrm! 🌱🍎
We’re revitalising Traditional Agroforestry Systems as Nature-based Solutions to:
🐝 Halt biodiversity loss
🌍 Tackle climate change
🥗 Support sustainable food & well-being
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🌳 Revitalising traditional agroforestry systems (TAS): TRANSFORm explores the potential of TAS in the Euro-Mediterranean region as NbS to address biodiversity loss, climate change, and promote sustainable food production & human well-being. #BiodivNBS
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