Really moving stories about how quiet nature has become #silentspring

I would love to hear nature at full volume once again theguardian.com/environment/20…

Are there REALLY more insects out at night?🌞🌘🦋

Our global study Nature Communications empirically tackles this 'simple question a child may ask, the answer to which is important, unknown, and subject to various ecological hypotheses'–Reviewer 1😆

Open Access:
nature.com/articles/s4146…

New paper led by Paul Dufour where we quantify how often island endemic bird species originate from migratory drop-off 🏝️🦆🐦🪿🐦‍⬛

🚨🏝️🐦 Check out our new #openaccess paper in Royal Society Publishing, in which we investigate the importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

We already have some interesting papers in the pipeline of this call, but since some of you missed the past deadline, we decided to extend it until 31 May 2024. Submit! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

Our new study in NatureEcoEvo looks at how assemblages of birds, butterflies and plants have changed across Great Britain in the last 50 or so years.

🔗nature.com/articles/s4155…
🧵Some key results

Holy shit. A lot of wild stuff in this new bird phylogeny. Most notably, their radiation of modern birds is completely unrelated to the KPg mass extinction. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Check out the 3rd paper from my MSc published in GECCO:

'Bycatch-threatened seabirds disproportionally contribute to community trait composition across the world'

Open Access: doi.org/10.1016/j.gecc…

Amanda E Bates Rob Cooke D Bowler Kristina Boerder 🌻
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New publication out today with David Roy 🐛 Dr Manuela Gonzalez-Suarez Tom Oliver
Marc Botham Colin Harrower Richard Comont and Ian Middlebrook on the relationship between asynchrony and trait dissimilarity! 🦋🐝🥰
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1…

NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world.

I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.

🚨PhD Position: Evaluation of protected areas and other conservation measures in an era of land use and climate change

🌱Join a lovely team looking back in time to study biodiversity change and its drivers

🇸🇪Based in Uppsala, Sweden. Deadline 25/2

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🏝️In our new paper we explore trends in floristic similarity between 15 sites, on 13 South Pacific islands over the last 5000 years nature.com/articles/s4155… 🖌️illustration by Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte

Another preprint from Kwaku Peprah Adjei - A sequential Monte Carlo algorithm for data assimilation problems in ecology. Or 'how to avoid lots of MCMC a second time' drnickisaac.bsky.social Rob Cooke
arxiv.org/abs/2401.06515

NEW: we don’t reflect enough on how severe the housing crisis is, and how it has completely broken the promise society made to young adults.

The situation is especially severe in the UK, where the last time house prices were this unaffordable was in ... 1876.

Some good news as the scimitar-horned oryx moved from Extinct in the Wild to Endangered, according to the latest IUCN Red List update.
 
Once gone from the wild due to poaching and droughts, this antelope is making a comeback.

Learn how bit.ly/41fwRVG

New paper! Butterfly communities in Spain & the UK use different mechanisms to alter their body temperature- while Spanish butterflies change their posture relative to the sun, British butterflies rely on microclimates. Great work led by Eric Toro-Delgado doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Our review comparing 'agroecological' vs 'conventional' faming is now published via Defra UK. Lots of info on what agroecological systems can achieve, how they can develop through farmer-led innovation, and how we can better model and monitor them randd.defra.gov.uk/ProjectDetails…

In our new paper, published online today by @nature, we show that the species that were most abundant in the past, show the strongest average declines. Ofcourse #openaccess
Thanks for the collaboration Jonathan Chase!
Here are our main findings: 1/9
nature.com/articles/s4158…

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📢PhD opportunity! 🌿

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Nature-based interventions for human & planetary health: what works, for who, under what conditions?

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