🥁New paper out! doi.org/10.1111/1365... In Sumatra 🏝️ tree islands inside oil palm landscapes revealed 27,000+ phytochemicals 🧪🌴 many still unknown! Tree islands in oil palm plantations can enhance phytochemical diversity through natural regeneration 📈💚 #islands BioMonI and #EFForTS-BEE project 🤝
"Watching the tortoises step onto Floreana and start exploring was incredibly moving. It felt like the end of a 26-year effort but at the same time, a beginning." —James Gibbs, vice president of science and conservation for the nonprofit Galápagos Conservancy
For the first time in nearly 200 years, tortoises with Floreana ancestry have returned to Floreana Island, following the recent release of 158 individuals reared in a special captive breeding program. 🐢 spklr.io/6043D4JCU
New paper just out deciphering the global species–area relationship for plants with @biogeokreft.bsky.social @patrickweigelt.bsky.social and others in @pnas.org
Across islands area alone explains 66% of variation in richness best described by a classic power-law model
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Plenary Speakers Announced!
Further details will be shared soon.
- Anna Traveset (IMEDEA)
- Takashi Kamijo (University of Tsukuba)
- Takeo Kuriyama (University of Hyogo)
- Koh Nakamura (Hokkaido University)
- Yuya Watari (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)
Anyone attending Island Biology in Japan? 🌏
BioMonI will be there!
Submissions for symposia are closing on 31 March, don’t miss the deadline! sites.google.com/view/island-...
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Help us complete two short surveys on island socioecological systems and biodiversity monitoring, shaping island biodiversity research!
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The Global Ecology starter pack has been so successful there's a third iteration (and it includes me!)
I'm told there's still space if you're a global ecologist and want to be added:
DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join.
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The 6th FloraMac International Symposium – FloraMac 2025 will take place in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Island, Azores, between the 22nd and 26th of September 2025. More info: floramac2025.weebly.com
Climate models suggest that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation will not shut down completely, even under extreme climate conditions
https://go.nature.com/4ikyetQ
An infographic detailing facts about the impacts of invasive alien species from the IPBES Invasive Alien Species Report. The infographic also depicts images of various different invasive alien species such as the grey squirrel, alexandrine parakeet and red fox.
Invasive alien species are a threat to #nature, nature’s contributions to people, and good quality of life.
Read the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report at: www.ipbes.net/ias
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Excited for the first webinar of 2025's Alfred Russel Wallace series by the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social. Our first presenter is Luís Valente @evoisland.bsky.social. Everyone is welcome, please register here: forms.gle/mFtLXHCWXQkD... and see image for details.
Invasive species are implicated as threats to New Caledonia's biodiversity: "Sur l’ensemble des plantes évaluées, près de la moitié sont menacées par au moins une espèce exotique envahissante. Quant aux lézards, ils sont menacés par la fourmi électrique." #bioinvasions
www.lnc.nc/article/nouv...