#Visboeck | Een in 1577 bij Saaftinge aangespoelde walvis, een orca en 2 andere afbeeldingen uit handschrift van Adriaen Coenen over zeewezens, 1579💧Alle 479 prachtige pagina’s kun je inzien via: www.kb.nl/ontdekken-be... Nationale Bibliotheek @kb.nl
Want to restore oyster reefs? Find a site where they don’t wash away or become buried under the sand!
www.nioz.nl/en/news-and-...
Overdaad aan #stikstof is terug te zien in het Europese plantenleven: dat is verschoven richting stikstofminnende soorten, blijkt uit onderzoek op basis van 644,524 (!) vegetatieplots. www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Map showing which month has the largest warming trend over the last 75 years. It's June for the southwestern portion of Europe, March for most areas east of 20E, and February for the rest of Europe.
Scientists at the MBL are building and deploying innovative clam recruitment boxes across Massachusetts tidal flats.
🔗 Read the full story and see what they discovered: go.mbl.edu/clam
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
📣We have 5 PhD positions in hadal biogeochemistry and microbial ecology at the Danish Center for Hadal Research: lnkd.in/eJ6rp_Rk. 📣
Deadline: 4 May 2026
Please share widely!
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After 4yr of hard work to compare empirical species range positions' shifts from the #BioShifts DB against predictions from niche-based models trained on climate & tailored to methodological attributes of each species & study, we found species shift ahead of models' predictions! 🦋
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Source : Denny, M. W., & Blanchette, C. A. (2000). Hydrodynamics, shell shape, behavior and survivorship in the owl limpet Lottia gigantea. Journal of Experimental Biology, 203(17), 2623-2639.
You didn't know it yet, but all you needed today was this topographical map of a limpet (Lottia gigantea) shell.
New paper - one for the headbangers! 🐳 🦑 🧪
Belated paper update from February:
A new study by @sarawinterfeldt.bsky.social et al shows that higher plant diversity boosts microbial drought resistance and promotes soil carbon storage 🌱🦠
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
@rousklab.bsky.social
@journalofecology.bsky.social
Fish will have to adapt to a warming world, what will that adaptation do to fisheries yields? We answer that question today in Science. I’ll summarise our findings very briefly in this thread
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Today the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research NIOZ welcomed her new research vessel. Christened by queen Maxima, in a typical Texel storm
In this article, we present the case for Generalized Linear Latent Variable Models (GLLVMs) as a go-to choice of statistical method for any community ecologist wanting to tackle a range of present-day ecological research questions. GLLVMs bring tools and capabilities from classic (mixed-effects) regression models to multivariate community analysis, providing a number of novel ways to tailor models specifically to one’s study questions and data properties not available when using non-model-based multivariate methods. In order to facilitate further adoption of these methods by community ecologists, we provide 1) a practitioner-focused and practical overview of the advantages the GLLVM framework brings to the table when addressing different core ecological questions, 2) a number of concrete suggestions for how GLLVMs best can be incorporated into the analytical workflow of community ecologists, and 3) two illustrative worked examples of this workflow in action on real-world data.
Nice! A Practitioner’s Guide to Latent Variable Modelling for Community Ecology doi.org/10.32942/X2K... #ecopubs
Last chapter from my PhD-thesis is finally published! We developed a mechanistic model that predicts the spatial distribution of cold-water corals in the deep sea. Quick resupply of food towards cold-water corals on the seafloor is crucial for CWC to grow.
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Over four decades, tree richness across the Andes and Amazon has shifted unevenly. Some regions are losing species while others, like the northern Andes, are gaining.
Researchers say precipitation and forest fragmentation drive the trend, and limiting deforestation could help protect diversity.
Community trajectories towards a restoration target (increase in zooplankton community diversity and abundance to regain ecosystem function, facilitated by invasive fish removal), where functional and taxonomic composition recover at different rates: In the disturbance phase, non-native fish introductions reduce the functional diversity of zooplankton communities; during active restoration, fish are removed from lakes, allowing communities to recover functions associated with naturally fishless systems; the assisted or unassisted recovery phase is characterized by the initial reassembly of functional structure via plasticity and dispersal followed by taxonomic recovery through additional dispersal. Traits are shown as univariate for illustrative purposes but can encompass multiple traits in practice.
Our review of #trait - based approaches to ecological restoration is finally out in @esajournals.bsky.social *Ecological Applications*, highlighting the value of functional traits for creating system-general restoration strategies. 🌐 🧮➕📏 urldefense.com/v3/__http://
Een zij-aan-zij vergelijking van twee websites voor het plannen van een afspraak. Links Datumprikker, dat visueel erg rommelig is doordat de pagina gevuld is met grote reclamebanners en pop-ups. Rechts het nieuwe alternatief Prikkert: een strak, wit en overzichtelijk ontwerp zonder enige reclame, waarbij direct de lijst met voorgestelde datums en beschikbaarheid centraal staat.
Ik was de pop-ups, reclames en trackers van Datumprikker helemaal zat, dus bouwde ik zelf een alternatief. Altijd gratis, geen reclame, geen account, geen tracking. En open source, zodat dat ook zo blijft. Plan je volgende etentje, vergadering of borrel eens met Prikkert.nl!
Smoothed trend 1992-2025 of most Dutch butterflies from Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects. The color indicates the linear trend over the whole period. Each line starts at a value of 100. The black dot gives the 2025 index value.
MPAs only partly offset decades of human impacts on tropical reefs
Protecting more while continuing business as usual will just slow the decline 🐟📉 !
Check our latest paper in @natecoevo.nature.com with @uflandrin.bsky.social on 2800+ reefs & ~1700 🐠 species
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑
This is worth reposting on #InternationalWomensDay
Lovely story on the BBC about iceberg a23a, which has given us decades of fun but is now nearing its end…
Really enjoyed talking with Mark Poynting about this one-time behemoth.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Zeeland ligt dwars: provincie wil geen staalslakken, ministerie wel.
‘Vanaf 2027 heeft Rijkswaterstaat op zeven plaatsen in de Ooster- en Westerschelde stortingen gepland waarvoor mogelijk staalslakken gebruikt kunnen worden.’
www.omroepzeeland.nl/nieuws/18249...
If you work on restoration, this is an opportunity to shape future approaches to restoring our oceans.
🔵ICES Workshop to Identify Indicators to Track Nature Restoration Across the Greater North Sea Basin
🗓️20-22 April
📍Copenhagen & online
🔔Register by 31 March www.ices.dk/community/gr...
Pterocoma pennata, a comatulid ("feather star") from the Jurassic of Germany
Ginkgoites huttoni, a ginkgo from the Jurassic of England.
Cymatophlebia longialata, a dragonfly from the Jurassic of Germany
Pterodactylus antiquus, a pterosaur from the Jurassic of Germany.
Look at all these beautiful flattened Jurassic friends! ⛏️🤓 All from the Paläontologisches Museum München public exhibit -names in alt-text #fossil #paleontology #paleobotany
"Hoe komt een graag geziene tuingast in het verdomhoekje terecht? Norbert Peeters kijkt met andere ogen naar invasieve exoten": www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
#SchorrenEnSlikken | Docu over de #Verzilting van Schouwen-Duiveland en het tekort aan zoet water: www.omroepzeeland.nl/tv/afleverin... @omroepzeeland.nl 💧Mede door klimaatverandering en zeespiegelstijging. Met o.a. estuarien ecoloog @jimvanbelzen.bsky.social. Terug te zien tot 4 mrt.
