Advantages of being short lived and growing in the winter.
Also on youtube.com/@Bill_Sutherla…

Announcing the winning ecologists of our journals' Early Career Prizes!🎉

This year’s exciting research spans an array of topics, from combining remote-sensing tools to using soundscapes to increase oyster recruitment!

britishecologicalsociety.org/british-ecolog…

We’re seeking enthusiastic secondary teachers or FE lecturers to participate in our fully funded teacher training day

Gain skills & ideas to engage your students with ecology
Receive equipment to help your school engage with nature

Apply by the 29 April

britishecologicalsociety.org/learning-and-r…

Why are habitats where they are? All depends on angle of sun and circulation cells. Slightly longer version youtube.com/@Bill_Sutherla…

How do we conserve species in a matrix of patches? Here I briefly try and explain the Lawton principles whilst at a titchy nature reserve in the middle of Brandon Industrial Estate. Also here:
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A Swedish colleague bought this John Davis picture, but left it on the train at Farrington on the 24th March. The train continued to Three Bridges. It is the original from the book Jewels Beyond the Plough. He is really keen to refind it. Any kind person know where it is? Thanks

I was done for underage drinking in The Rising Sun, Nether Green, Sheffield. Everytime I hear this it reminds me.
There is a house in Nether Green
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know I'm one.

Why are there forests in the tropics, deserts at about 30 degrees, temperate forest at about 60 degrees, deserts at the poles, and grassland, shrubs and savanah in between? The patterns are the same in both hemispheres. Here I try to explain these patterns youtube.com/watch?v=WWkK4n…

The Water Restoration Fund uses the money from water company fines and penalties to improve water and wetlands for nature and people. Excellent. Hope they consider the evidence.
gov.uk/government/new….

Thank you Tanya Plibersek for rejecting Australia’s proposed Toondah harbour development, which went against international commitments under Convention on Wetlands on wetlands & Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) on migratory species. A critical decision #ForNature & people! 💚💪👏

theguardian.com/australia-news…

My 1st freshwater Bryozoans! Cristatella mucedo, in Nattergal High Fen ditch outflowing to Cut-off Channel. Mistook them for globs of gelatinous algae stuck to the reed stems. Each dark bit is stomach of 1 animal in the colony, mouths fringed with delicate tentacles. #MySwim 1/13

Important PhD available on Colonial Natural Historical Collecting in the South Asian Indian Ocean. Joint between Cambridge Zoology museum and the Faculty of History.
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Magical to swim thro' endless clouds of Daphnia, golden in the spring sunshine, in a well flooded ditch at Nattergal High Fen nattergal.co.uk/blog/the-chang…. Saw no fish (explanation for high density of these Water Fleas?) but mistook big beetle? larvae for a Stickleback! #MySwim 🧵1/11

This is absolutely horrific... and at the start of it was a woodlotting sale. We need to stop this through legislative change as well as enforcement action... see savespringalls.co.uk for what's happening in our neck of the woods. Woodland Trust🌳 The Wildlife Trusts Natural England

A Conservation Evidence success story.
Impact assessments need to account for the fact that birds move!
Blog from 7 Apr 2023🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2023/04/07/con…
Paper by Josh Nightingale | Global Wader was cited as evidence in decision not to renew the environmental licence for new airport.
#ornithology

Want to work with farmers to help them improve their sustainability at scale? Come work with us!

Super cool job for a post-doc or research assistant at University of Oxford Oxford Martin School Oxford Biology with HESTIA Farm Sustainability Toolkit, EJ Milner-Gulland and me.

Very excited to share our *new paper* in Conservation Biology reviewing how mining as a threat to biodiversity is covered in high-level conservation policies, & proposing 8 key components of a global strategy to address mining threats. Led by Aurora Torres @[email protected]

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co…

Songbird Survival is looking for someone to join their Board of Trustees.
songbird-survival.org.uk/who-we-are/wor…

Study assessing the overlap between mining operations and great ape habitats. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Wonderful week in Iceland with Fuglavernd - BirdLife Iceland BirdLife Iceland, flying in over active volcano, seeing Common Seals, Common Eiders & Herring Gulls mins after landing.
Exciting chats on conserving & restoring Iceland's lowlands for migratory waterbirds & <carbon. #BirdsSeenIn2024 🧵1/6