6 out of 9 planetary boundaries - that maintain the stability & resilience of our planet 🌏- are being crossed. #Freshwater change in 💧Blue water (surface & groundwater) & 🌳Green water (root-zone soil moisture) exceeds safe/sustainable thresholds. stockholmresilience.org/5.3d04209a18a2…

Assessing ongoing risks and managing detections of non-native invertebrates in the Antarctic Region Isabelle Rose Onley, PhD Securing Antarctica's Environmental Future Environment Institute - University of Adelaide Justine Shaw Dr. Melissa Houghton neobiota.pensoft.net/article/124706/

This is one of my favorite papers to assign for incoming graduate students. And, re-reading it for this morning's class gave me some reminders I needed myself. ✨ journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/12…

Our goals from our NEW Strategic Plan: 1️⃣ Empower scientists to shape policy 2️⃣ Champion campaigns against misinformation 3️⃣ Foster public demand for science and evidence Read more: evidencefordemocracy.ca/about/about-e4…

Here, Lisa Tedeschi & colleagues review the conundrum of mammals threatened in their native ranges but established (& even invasive) in nonnative areas. These cases are excellent examples of the context dependency of the conservation status of populations. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

On this day in 1936, the last known thylacine—a wolf-like marsupial known as the Tasmanian tiger—died at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania. The animal’s passing marked the extinction of its species, and underscores the current need to protect our planet’s wildlife before it’s too late.

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Impacts of cats on biodiversity have been, are, and (as shown by this new preprint) will be huge Authors reviewed threats to almost 4500 tetrapods to predict that within 50 years some 140 species could be driven to extinction by cats in a bussiness-as-usual scenario (1/3)

Invasive freshwater amphipods are less carnivorous outside their native range. This looks like an interesting study which poses several questions - are these invasive species smaller in their native range with greater density-dependent competition? aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ln…

The Anthropocene: “a complex, transformative, and ongoing event analogous to the Great Oxidation Event and others in the geological record.” theconversation.com/the-anthropoce…

Research reveals the persistent risk of non-native species invading Antarctica despite #biosecurity measures, highlighting spiders as a key concern and calling for enhanced protocols. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neobio… #invasivespecies Phill Cassey 😷🇳🇿🍻🍲💉x5

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Quote: "We tend to accept as “normal” only what we have seen or experienced in our own lifetime. This can result in the dangerous shifting baseline syndrome where people have ever-lower expectations, in this case of ocean health." theconversation.com/we-gathered-ce…

Check out this new review article by Dudgeon and Strayer "Bending the curve of global freshwater biodiversity loss: what are the prospects?" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br… #OpenAccess 🔓 #freshwaterlife 🐟🐸🦆

About 345 million years old almost intact Crinoid fossil

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