Terrestrial biodiversity grows with tree cover in agricultural landscapes Farmers plant or preserve riparian buffers for various reasons, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion, or maintaining hunting habitat. Now, a new study from the University of Illinois U...

Ecologists at University of Illinois lean on #eDNA to detect how species respond to tree restoration of #RiparianHabitats 🌍

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A quick ‘kick sample’ of the stream and out popped Hydropsychidaea a species of caddisfly.
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A photograph of a small gold coloured and dried up fish, stuck by its spines to a wooden fence rail.

The same fish as the previous image, but this one has a blurry background.

Kingfishers strike spiked fish like stickleback against branches, this to stun it and to soften the spines.
This 3 spined stickleback however, became inpaled on a fence post and the kingfisher(assumed) was unable to remove it.
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