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🐝 #Bee -yond Boundaries🐝
Felix Fornoff, Benoît Geslin 🇺🇦, Michael Orr,Elia Guariento, Alexandra-Maria Klein,Katherine Parys, Guy Smagghe,Tina Tuerlings & Co looked at #LifeHistoryTraits of #SculpturedResinBees using data from #Literature , #Museums & #CitizenScience !

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Plastic & Giant resin bee, teaser for our #wildbee #NaturalHistory study on Megachile sculpturalis. Check out the papers supplements for more videos! Benoît Geslin 🇺🇦, Michael Orr,Elia Guariento, Alexandra-Maria Klein,Katherine Parys, Guy Smagghe,Tina Tuerlings , Silas Bossert

Our new paper is out today in nature , showing that bumblebees possess the cognitive capacity for some of the key ingredients of cumulative culture, previously though to be unique to humans
nature.com/articles/s4158…

Despite their benefits for nature and people, community gardens are often threatened ecosystems lacking tenure and policy protection. Here we use our research in Munich and Berlin to recognize their role in conservation and argue to defend them. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa…

The publics perception of insects. Wasps get an undeserved bad rap.

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Eight new Pacific masked bees just dropped 🐝! What’s really cool about these bees is that (i) they’re mostly restricted to forest canopies, (iii) prefer for red flowers, and (ii) resolve how Hylaeus tuamotuensis got to French Polynesia!
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New paper out today with a great group around the world looking at home and away (introduced populations) of Megachile sculpturalis. With Felix Fornoff Michael Orr Guy Smagghe Tina Tuerlings and lots of others! So happy to see it finally out!

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TRIBUNE. «Un acte déraisonné» : le gouvernement enfonce un clou de plus dans le cercueil de la biodiversité et de la transition écologique en mettant fin au programme voué à accompagner les agriculteurs vers une sortie des pesticides.
liberation.fr/idees-et-debat…

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2⃣ more ipbes #InvasiveAlienSpecies Factsheets📣 on :

‌📌 Biological invasions & stakeholder engagement
📌 #ClimateChange & biological invasions

‌Helping you to more quickly access the latest IPBES Report📚
🔗ipbes.net/ias

Very exciting to see additional @ipbes #InvasiveAlienSpecies assessment factsheets online UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

L’usage massif de pesticides est la cause du printemps silencieux qui se traduit par l’extinction des oiseaux et des insectes dont les pollinisateurs.

Un collectif de chercheurs revient sur l’hérésie que constitue la suspension du plan Ecophyto ⬇️ liberation.fr/idees-et-debat…

20 years ago I started my Phd and read Bascompte et al. 2003 PNAS on the prevalence of nestedness for plant-pollinator networks. Today, we publish a pice confirming empirically (6 years of data across 12 sites) that the structure of interactions carries predictive power.

Honeybees in Italy
“steal” pollen off the backs of bumblebees - or are they simply harvesting it from other pollen herbivores (a la frigate birds) - is this just survival of the fittest or are honeybees bad sciencenews.org/article/honeyb…

We are happy to announce the winner of last year's E4 award: Crisfield et al. A big congratulations! 1000 Euro cash prize.
Full open access paper: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…
Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution

New article: Improving wild bee monitoring, sampling methods, and conservation sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

R ggplot2 color palettes inspired by Hayao Miyazaki’s animes by Joanna link.medium.com/YgRnpZ6SqGb #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2 #dataanalytics #datascience

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…

📢 Two Doctoral and Researcher College, Uni of Reading opportunities wt me SAPD at Reading Uni
1. Using drones to assess hedgerow quality for pollinators wt @ukceh closes 12 Jan 2024
2. Wt Natural History Museum Science assessing historic bird phenology data & climate closes 25 Feb 2024
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Insect declines: Formerly abundant species are taking the biggest hit, according to a new study published in nature. iDiv Biodiversity Research Universität Halle Roel van Klink Jonathan Chase #insects #entomology #ecology #biodiversity More: shorturl.at/bcyAN