Some bad photos of my favourite speakers (the ones I remembered a photo!) from #ESAus2024 last year in Melbourne. Juli Li - tropical natural reforestation, Carla Archibald - habitat footprint of agriculture, Hannah Thomas - regrowth for threatened species, Jeremy Simmonds - nature positive outcomes
It's always nice to finish the year in Australia, even more so when it involves sharing about #peatlands with like-minded folks at the #ESAus2024 ! I even managed a visit to the Royal Botanic Gardens, full of botanical treats including my old friend Melaleuca nesophila.
#nerdalert #ecology #botany
Hands up if you use #environmental variables in ecology models 🙋♀️ Last week at #ESAus2024, I spoke about how #spatial res of variables can impact species distribution models #SDM using a #coral eg 🪸
Check out our preprint for more info on what to do about it!
DOI.org/10.22541/au.172916471.11570079/v1
Here's your #ESAus2024 wrapped 😜 If it felt like a massive week, you're not alone - it was our biggest and best yet! #SpotifyWrapped
My sold-out #scicomm workshop @ #ESAus2024 was well received! Participants improved their scicomm ability by learning: 1) what audience to choose, 2) how to⬆️ reach, 3) how to create fancy tiles, 4) pitch an article for @theconversation.com, & 5) protection from cyber bullies. DM 4 workshop enquiries
Yvonne standing infront of her conference poster.
Still on an ecological high after the week that was #ESAus2024! Thanks to everyone who dropped by my poster for a chat. I had a blast talking #ecology, #plants and #pollinators 🌻🐝🌸🪰🌱
I especially loved seeing the floating wetlands in the Yarra!
Congrats to @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social @jacintahumphrey.bsky.social and the whole team!
#ESAus2024 #gadigaltogunnedah #notes
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We learnt a lot about #urbanbiodiversity at #ESAus2024, with several sessions run by @sbekessy.bsky.social and a keynote by @drkyliesoanes.bsky.social
This is a great summary by @jacintahumphrey.bsky.social:
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#gadigaltogunnedah #notes
One mug to rule them all.
Terrific conference swag from the massive #ESAus2024 conference in Melbourne last week featuring some of Victoria’s threatened and iconic species. Thanks to the local organising committee for their efforts creating such a great week for Australia’s ecological community.
Photo of a slide showing a map of western Victoria, with photos of three rare plant species and their approximate distributions in Grampians NP and Little Desert NP. The species, all shrubs, are Spyridium furculentum, Sphaerolobium acanthos and Grevillea microstegia
Photo of a slide entitled "Grevillea microstegia", with images of the many vertebrate pollinators found visiting this plant's flowers, including the eastern spinebill (55% of visits), new holland honeyeater (17%), pygmy possum (image in black-and-white as taken at night, 15% of visits), yellow-faced honeyeater (6%), brown thornbill (4%), silvereye (1%)
Linda Riquelme highlighted that pollination can be key to plant translocation success.
She investigated pollination in three critically endangered shrub species, all of which depend on pollinators to set seed. Pollinators = 🐝 (S. aca), 🐦🐿️ (G. mic) and 🪲🪰🦋 (S. fur)
#ESAus2024 🌏🧪
We absolutely loved seeing everyone’s #EcologicalFashion at #ESAus2024 - thank you for always turning it out! 🐸
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A photo of a slide entitled "Visitors -> Pollinators", with bullet points that state "pollen library from study plants", "matched to pollen on insects (539 identifications)", "created pollen transport networks". Images on the right hand side of the slide show close up photos of a pinned Flower Wasp specimen (Austroscolia sp.) bearing a mix of pollen grains. Other images show pollen grains from 5 native and 1 non-native plant species, with the clarification that the non-native species (Hypochaeris sp.) was not included in network analyses
A slide showing a bipartite pollination network, with insect pollinator morphospecies on the top and flowering plant species on the bottom. Text below the network states that 545 interactions were detected overall, with 237 individuals from 54 morphospecies of insects in 7 orders (and 5 flowering plant species), with high connectedness in the network
Allison Menzies @invertally.bsky.social spent 8 weeks sampling pollination networks in a Victorian grassland.
Though field conditions weren't great (lots of rain) she still found a decent network with lots of connectance, few honey bees and a lot more flies visiting than pollinating
#ESAus2024 🌏🧪
Photo of a slide showing a Xenoplatyura conformis fungus gnat attempting to mate with the labellum of a 'rustyhood' Pterostylis orchid. For pollination to be successful the labellum should trigger and capture the fungus gnat
Photo of a slide with the title "Pollinator behaviour", and bullet points "high rate of attempted mating" and "low capture rate". A graph shows that, for four species of Pterostylis orchid, more fungus gnat pollinators alighted on the flower and attempted mating than triggered the labellum (necessary for pollination to occur). An image on the left shows one species of Pterostylis with a visiting fungus gnat
Eamonn Culhane investigated pollination in 4 species of arid Pterostylis orchids (rustyhoods).
Despite sharing a widespread fungus gnat pollinator, these sexually deceptive orchids rarely set seed - perhaps because they rarely succeed at capturing their amorous gnat visitors
#ESAus2024 🌏🧪
A slide showing bright pink flowers of Eremophila maculata with flower parts labelled with botanical terms
A slide posing the question, "Does trait matching determine feeding and pollen transfer efficiency in honeyeater-plant interactions?" and answering this question with "Somewhat... Honeyeater species differ in feeding and pollen transfer efficiency at Eremophila maculata flowers. Trait matching: pollen removal (cross); pollen deposition (tick); feeding efficiency (cross)
Okay some belated highlights from pollination talks at #ESAus2024 :
Amanda Hewes ran behavioural experiments to test trait-matching between Australian honeyeaters and Spotted Fuschia-bush. Results? A bit mixed - some matching between bill and corolla length for pollen deposition but not removal
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Was lovely to catch up at #ESAus2024, Clancy!
My first ESA Conference 🤯🙌🏻
@ecolsocaus just had over 900 talks and almost 1400 attendees‼️
My fav parts:
🐝 Presenting my research on native bee/plant interaction in Arnhem Land
🐝 Floating wetlands tour
🐝 Urban ecology, and nature in cities forums
🐝 IK and indigenous ecology
#ESAus2024
Urban bushland along rail line near Sydney
Lomandra (mat rush) planted on rail corridor near Sydney
Street plantings in Sydney
Of course, it's not just the bush that's interesting. As we learned at #ESAUS2024, urban biodiversity is so important, and rail corridors can be vital places for that
#gadigaltogunnedah
Had a great time at #ESAus2024 talking detection dogs and learning about other people’s amazing research, but it is nice to be back with this utter pest 🐶 We won some toys last week, and Zorro is OBSESSED
Next leg on the trip home from #ESAUS2024. The Country Link train from Gadigal land (Sydney) to Gunnedah.
Six hours of fascinating vegetation, including Sydney sandstone, grassy woodlands, Triodia grassland, and, of course, vine thicket!!!
Strap in!
Excellent collection of stats on Bluesky posts during #ESAus2024. Something to consider, perhaps, @wmau.bsky.social @wikimediaaotearoa.bsky.social ?
See you later, narrm. Thanks for the great weather for #ESAUS2024. I'm off to more vine thicketty places.
wonga wonga vine clambering over a wire fence, narrm, Melbourne
And then there's this little beauty from the vine thickets and other rainforest, for @john-m-dwyer.bsky.social and @jradford-smith.bsky.social
Wonga wonga vine
#esaus2024
Prior to #ESAus2024, I had a go at making polymer clay earrings for the first time. They’re potoroos in case you can’t tell🫣 But they’ve got nothing on some of the home made/sewn outfits others were rocking!
Petition to have a workshop on DIY #ecologicalfashion at future ecological conferences!
Just heading home from a week at @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference #ESAus2024. Had a small burnout the week before and wasn’t feeling the best but I went ok because the ESA crowd are bloody amazing. Thanks to everyone who I hung out with and taught me great things.
Set table at a restaurant with Portulacca pot plant as a table decoration
I'm still around the #ESAUS2024 venue. Naarm really is turning on the weather!
Also seeing low flammability plants in all sorts of places.
This is Portulacca, perhaps P. afra
Graphs in this thread are inspired by @ejrollinson.bsky.social's efforts during the Botany conferences (e.g., github.com/erollinson/e...).
None of this would be possible without the `atrrr` package + vignette by @jbgruber.bsky.social, @benguinaudeau.bsky.social, + @favstats.eu
#ESAus2024 #ESAus24
A wordcloud in shades of blue featuring large words of talk, can, conference, species, biodiversity, people, great, come, looking, research, and biodiversity.
What did we talk about at #ESAus2024 / #ESAus24? Lots of invitations to come see talks! But also #species, #nature, #conservation, and #Australia.
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Barchart of total posts made at ESAus2024. The list is ordered from handles satellitesci, daxkellie, lizzylowe, zoexiro, skylosecology, lilydun, julesfarquhar, juergenknauer, yungenchee, and botanybyyen.
@satellitesci.bsky.social started the most conversations at #ESAus2024 / #ESAus24, followed by @daxkellie.bsky.social and @lizzylowe.bsky.social.
This is the metric I'm most interested in because replies are what made Blue Sky social, rather than just broadcasting into the void.
The top most popular post at #ESAus2024 / #ESAus24 was by @daxkellie.bsky.social, sharing fabulous slides on GitHub.
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Barchart of total posts made at ESAus2024. The list is ordered from handles hollykirk, terngirl, cnzdenek, hilaryrosed, daxkellie, timcurran, ecolsocaus, euanritchie, justinehausheer, and bambiraptorf.
The most total likes in #ESAus2024 / #ESAus24 goes to @hollykirk.bsky.social, followed by @terngirl.bsky.social and @cnzdenek.bsky.social.
