Hippo Poop Kills Fish, but There’s an Upside - JSTOR Daily A robot disguised as a crocodile is helping scientists understand that mass fish die-offs serve a purpose.

Hippo, meanwhile, is still in the Limpopo River, where he has recently taken care of business. Large quantities of hippo poop can sometimes cause mass fish die-offs, providing a food source for scavengers like crocodiles. #EcosystemEngineers #2026MMM

Elephants are well-known #EcosystemEngineers, & their presence "positively correlate[s] with the abundance of mammal species, especially ungulates and primates" (Li et al 2025) #2026MMM

Results showed a significant effect of topography on limpet movement at panel scales, whilst modelling revealed a significant interaction between panel complexity and spatial arrangement at landscape scales 📈

#Limpets are #EcosystemEngineers !

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🌊💙 Small but mighty! Mussels are one of the vital species to the seabed's recovery. The sea’s unsung heroes — engineering new habitats, quietly filtering seawater and boosting biodiversity under the waves. To find out more about this ecosystem engineer, visit links in our bio.
#EcosystemEngineers

OPINION | Save the turtles - Act now to save them and Pacific biodiversity - The Fiji Times SMALL things, big impact! These words come to mind thinking about turtles, widely considered keystone species and ecosystem engineers, in efforts to maintain the balance and biodiversity of both marin...

Fiji 🇫🇯 media reports on local efforts to protect #MarineTurtles, #EcosystemEngineers of the sea in the #Pacific 🌍

www.fijitimes.com.fj/opinion-save...

Squirrels: the forest’s quiet architects.
Squirrels plant forests by forgetting nuts, spread fungi, feed predators. Chaos with a purpose.
Little architects keeping the woods alive.
Respect the tail.
Who knew the chaos agents were actually on payroll?
#SquirrelAppreciation #EcosystemEngineers

Best mascot in the U.S.! #ecosystemengineers

Giant Ground Sloth Extinction Led to Loss of Ecological Services - Evolution@Vanderbilt By Andy Flick, Evolutionary Studies scientific coordinator Giant ground sloths were more than just Ice Age oddities. They were ecosystem engineers whose disappearance reshaped the landscapes they once...

Paleontology study of the extinct Giant Sloth reveals that loss of #ecosystemengineers means losing the #ecosystemservices they also provide - a warning for today 🌍

www.vanderbilt.edu/evolution/gi...

#BiodiversityLoss #SpeciesLoss #Extinction #Ecosystems

So next time you spot these crimson seaweeds clinging between mussels and barnacles, remember — they’re quiet but powerful builders of coastal life.

#RedAlgae #Rhodophyta #MarineScience #IntertidalEcology #OceanBiodiversity #EcosystemEngineers #MarineBiology #SeaweedScience #Fieldwork

Fungi, existing nearly a billion years earlier than thought, played a crucial role in Earth's development by forming soils and recycling nutrients, paving the way for plant life. 🌍🍄 Link: https://tinyurl.com/23jbdctw #FungalHistory #EcosystemEngineers #AncientBiodiversity

Elephants are Ecosystem Engineers, playing a vital role in their habitats by supporting countless other species. Their complex social structures and emotional depth highlight the interconnectedness of all life.
Visit us here: gst4u.link/sir1a
#EcosystemEngineers #ElephantRole #WildlifeEcology

The death of dinosaurs dramatically re-engineered Earth's landscapes Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs acted as ecosystem engineers, shaping vegetation and even the meandering of ri...

Dinosaurs as #ecosystemengineers !

#biogeomorphology

www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

Net-spinning caddisflies create denitrifier-enriched niches in the stream microbiome AbstractLarval net-spinning caddisflies (Hydropsychidae) function as ecosystem engineers in streams where they construct protective retreats composed of or

Molecular analyses revealed that the microbiomes of hydropsychid caddisfly biostructures differ taxonomically and functionally from adjacent rock biofilms (~2 cm distant). They were enriched in microbial taxa associated with ecosystem functions including denitrification #ecosystemengineers

Bison grazing boosts grass nutrition without harming soil Bison in Yellowstone improve grassland health by boosting nutrients, biodiversity, and resilience through natural grazing.

Bison do what bison do, and as a result along their trails in Yellowstone we see improved soils, improved grassland nutrition and increases in plant biodiversity too 🌍

#EcosystemEngineers #LargeFauna #YellowstonePark #NitrogenCycle

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🦫☀️ Our #beavers at the Old River Bed are thriving this season — keeping busy with dam repairs, dusk swims, and munching.

📍 Seen a chewed stump or a tail splash near ORB lately. Longer evenings to spot signs of their incredible engineering!

#ShropshireWildlifeTrust #Rewilding #EcosystemEngineers

Our #EditorsChoice spotlight continues! Today, it's the turn of #RESEcolEnt.💡

The latest Issue's #FreeToRead article finds that body size mediates the role of insect seed predators as #EcosystemEngineers for #arthropod communities

Read it now🔽
doi.org/10.1111/een.13420

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OTD in '21: 🦫 #Beavers showing off their bipedalism. 🐾

We don't take a lot of video (fills cards, eats batteries, different metadata, etc.) but have a few over the years. In this case monitoring their dam building work.

#trailcam 🦊 #wildlife #cameratrap #ecosystemengineers
#castor #beaver #damcam

are dogs still human's best friends..? cause daaam(n), not only are… | Mitch Rawlyk | 10 comments are dogs still human's best friends..? cause daaam(n), not only are beavers exceptional at holding back the literal number one thing that basically all life on this planet needs to survive, but...

#Beavers #EcosystemEngineers

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Wild boar and their antics in my little olive grove in Portugal, a little montage of this family of wild boar that do all the hard work for me - it makes it a LOT easier to plant potatoes in this stony olive grove!
youtu.be/KV2ZPGn7c3Y
#CameraTrap #WildBoar #EcosystemEngineers #livingwithwildlife

🐜 As the days warm up, #woodants spring into action - foraging for food and repairing their nests 🍂

These tiny #ecosystemengineers play a crucial role in forest health - controlling pests, spreading seeds, and enriching the soil 🌲

Full details are available in the Australian Zoologist at doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2.... Visit www.rzsnsw.org.au for more information about the Royal Zoological Society of NSW.

#Termites #EucalyptForests #EcosystemEngineers #Biodiversity #RZSNSW #AustralianZoologist

Graphical abstract of: Body size mediates the role of insect seed predators as ecosystem engineers for arthropod communities

New research in #RESEcolEnt shows cavity diameter & number from #insect #seed predators are key factors in their role as #EcosystemEngineers for plant-dwelling #arthropod communities🔽
doi.org/10.1111/een.13420

@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com

‘I feel real hope’: historic beaver release marks conservation milestone in England Four beavers were legally released at Purbeck Heath in Dorset in what experts say is a huge step for national nature recovery

Amidst multiple crises, a beacon of hope: England's historic beaver release marks a conservation milestone! Restoring ecosystems, one dam at a time. 🌿✨

#BeaverRevival #EcosystemEngineers #NaturalRewilders

Wild beavers release approved for England The decision follows years of trials but some farmers are concerned there could be negative impacts.

While farmers are generally supportive of reintroducing wild beaver - hunted to extinction there 400 yrs ago - to rural England, some have concerns over the effects on small farms.

Wild beaver release approved for England
#agsky #beavers #EcosystemEngineers #flooding
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Animals as architects of the Earth: First global study reveals their surprising impact Animals are not just inhabitants of the natural world—they are its architects. A new study led by Professor Gemma Harvey from Queen Mary University of London has revealed how hundreds of species shape...

From ants shifting soil to salmon reshaping riverbeds, study highlights the #diversity & scale of animals' impact across all freshwater & terrestrial ecosystems.

Identifies 603 species, genera, or families that influence Earth's surface processes #EcosystemEngineers

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Cascading effects driven by population recovery of sika deer on habitat use of sympatric mammals under heavy snow conditions This study focused on direct/indirect ecological impacts of sika deer (Cervus nippon), one of the most influential ecosystem engineers. Although the destructive disturbances on local flora caused by ...

2025. Cascading effects driven by population recovery of sika deer on habitat use of sympatric mammals under heavy snow conditions. sika deer (Cervus nippon) - #EcosystemEngineers #SikaDeer zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Hyacinth Macaw is a prime example of an ecosystem engineer—a species whose actions shape and sustain its environment.
#HyacinthMacaw #ConservationMatters #WildlifeProtection #SaveTheSpecies #Biodiversity #EcosystemEngineers #ProtectNature #EndangeredSpecies #RainforestConservation #ParrotLovers

Did you know that a sub-1 kg bandicoot can turn over 4 tonnes of soil in a year?
#ecosystemengineers #ecology #Australia
doi.org/10.1007/s107...

How Wolves Change Rivers

by @GrrlScientist via @substack

#wolves🐺 #ecology #evolution #EcosystemEngineers #TrophicCascade #Yellowstone #SciComm🧪 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/how-wolves...

Our lit review of #beaver impacts has been added to a special #WIREsWater collection on:
"#EcosystemEngineers in #Water #Environments".

An interesting set of papers! See them all...