🚨 LIGHTS OUT ALERT FOR SUN 4/28 - TUE 4/30 🚨

We are in another peak of spring migration, with TENS OF MILLIONS of birds expected to migrate through the DC area in the next three days. 🤯

Urbanization & climate change are reshaping ecosystems' adaptive capacity, by altering eco-evolutionary dynamics. UrbanEcoEvoNet's new paper nature.com/articles/s4155… led by Mark C. Urban proposes a framework to understand their joint effects & calls for integrated strategies to protect…

Check our paper on this SI urban cavity-nesting #bees and #wasps 'Urban intensity gradients shape community structure, life-history traits and performance in a multitrophic system'

👉doi.org/10.1111/icad.1…

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#transforming #urban #ecology - read what shifts are taking place, how we conceptualise and how we can be part to a science for society with Cary Institute Steward Pickett danielchilders Timon McPhearson (he/him) Tischa MunozErickson Stad Genk doi.org/10.1007/s13280…

I published this op-ed 1 year ago in The Urbanist

I'm now about to submit a study that we (@BVanDeynze Simone Des Roches) wrapped up on win-win-wins for housing, conservation, & people's nature-derived wellbeing.

Housing policy & equity are conservation policy
theurbanist.org/2023/04/25/hou…

Check out our new #openacess paper in which we propose a research agenda to advance green space equity policy.

Area-diversity relationships vary between lawn and non-lawn species and people perceive these species differently. Congrats to my lab group and colleagues for pulling this great study together. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Rapid responses of bees and butterflies but not birds to targeted urban road verge habitat enhancements 🛣️

Modifications such as additional plant species may be required for urban road verges to provide habitat for a greater range of taxa 🌸

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Delighted to share a perspective on the 'Effects of urban-induced mutations on ecology, evolution and health', just out in NatureEcoEvo. Discussions around this important field of research have been on-going for the past few years, great to see this out!
nature.com/articles/s4155…

🌿JOB ALERT!! 🍃We are recruiting a new Assistant Professor in Botany (Plant Physiology). 🌿Fantastic opportunity to work in the leafiest university Department (sorry)!! 🌿Deadline for applications: May 9th. 🌸🍄🥀🪷🌵 Search 'plant' here:
my.corehr.com/pls/trrecruit/…

🆕🗞️New paper in IJURR.org! How does #greengentrification worsen #racism and racial tensions in #cities ? 💭We cannot allow the green city to remain the domain of white and green privilege. 🧵👇onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Become a citizen scientist & help us learn more about pollinators with a Flower-Insect-Timed count

No expertise needed - all you need is a spare 10 minutes, a comfy spot, and a patch of Dandelions 🐝

There's even a free app💚

Find out more here➡️ tinyurl.com/56zxchb6

Patient & Public Involvement hat in der Schweiz an Bedeutung gewonnen. Das #SeedGrant Projekt «Zusammenarbeit zwischen Patient*innen, Angehörigen und Forschenden» untersucht, wie sich eine solche Zusammenarbeit gestaltet.
citizenscience.uzh.ch/de/projekte/fi…

#CitSciMonth #PPI

‘We need to accept the weeds’: the Dutch ‘tile whipping’ contest seeking to restore greenery theguardian.com/environment/20…

Our new paper is out in Journal of Animal Ecology! Land-use change in the past 40 years explains shifts in arthropod community traits.

doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

A highly collaborative project supported by Agroscope, WSL Umweltforschung, and FiBL.

A very nice talk by Matti Barthel on our work on the Ruki River in the DRC. Our science very clearly explained in simple words and with beautiful imagery SAE Group @ethWFSC D-USYS@ETH ETH Zurich
youtube.com/watch?v=HFfH9t…

thewalrus.ca/cities-are-goo…

We need to get better at keeping #trees and let them grow old.

#330300rule #urbanforestry

Happy to see that my third PhD chapter on how resource availability drives niche partitioning between urban wild bees and urban honeybees is among the top dowloaded papers in Ecological Applications 🥳

#urbanecology #urbanbees #urbanbeekeeping

🦔🐿️ Discover #Zurich 's wild side! PhD candidate Anouk Taucher uses camera traps & eDNA to map city wildlife. Learn more in this article written by PhD candidate and ardent in-house science communicator Wilhelmine Bach: usys.ethz.ch/en/news-events…