New #WhiteShark #openaccess paper alert! We used #biologging tags to record the movements of sharks in California, finding habitat was key to shaping their swimming patterns and routine... 1/3
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How do #stingrays produce blue, nature's rarest color?
Our paper tinyurl.com/stingblue in Adv Optical Mat shows the mechanism: a combo of melanin + a unique #structuralcolor cell, with a #coreshell #photonicglass structure
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Ashlie McIvor Shahrouz Amini

The world’s spectacular animal migrations are dwindling. Fishing, fences and development are fast-tracking extinctions theconversation.com/the-worlds-spe… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Down on his luck

FIVE post-doc positions available in beautiful Sydney, to join a new interdisciplinary marine research group, led by the excellent Joshua Cinner Get your applications in!

🚨My first PHD chapter titled “Links between the three-dimensional movements of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) and the bio- physical environment off a coral reef” is out TODAY 🚨
Read it #OpenAccess !
🔗link here: doi.org/10.1186/s40462…
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📸: Brooke Pyke

A huge amount of work in this data set. Really valuable for those interested in the effects of fishing on coral reef ecosystems

Novel aerial observations of a possible newborn white #shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in Southern California link.springer.com/article/10.100…

An ecological chain reaction: An invasive ant disrupts a native ant–tree mutualism, rendering acacia trees more vulnerable to elephant damage. The reduced tree cover allows large mammals (zebras) to detect lions, reducing their predation risk by 3-fold. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Published in Frontiers - Marine Science & led by Luciana Ferreira, scientists analysed 484 satellite tracks from turtles, whales + sharks.

“Exposure of marine megafauna to cumulative anthropogenic threats in north-west Australia”
🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2…

Biodiversity and Conservation Science Santos

Forget elections, wars! 'This spring, for the first time since 1803, two cicada groups known as Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, and Brood XIII, or the Northern Illinois Brood [~ a trillion cicadas], are set to appear at the same time, in what is known as a dual

New Caledonia court bans shark culls amid environmental backlash theguardian.com/world/2024/jan…

Incredible to watch tens of thousands of Grey-headed Flying-fox megabats (Pteropus poliocephalus 🦇) leave their roost at sunset to forage for nectar overnight - so many that they're accidentally mapped as rain on the Bureau of Meteorology, Australia weather radar! 🤯 #wildoz

Flowers are “giving up on” pollinators and are evolving to be less attractive to them and self-pollinate as insect numbers decline.

A new study found that ongoing environmental changes are leading to pollinator decline which is causing pollen limitation to plants and change the

Swalethorp, R., Landry, M.R., Semmens, B.X. et al. Anchovy boom and bust linked to trophic shifts in larval diet. #stableisotopes Nat Commun 14, 7412 (2023). doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

It's not for lack of solutions that we face a climate crisis, writes Gus Speth. The problem is our misguided values.

Individualism wars against community. A focus on the present distracts from the future.

Many now see the need for a spiritual awakening.
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