Tjakuranyatjara (About Tjakura, Great Desert Skink) youtu.be/jBNnhjUzYbo?si… via YouTube

Out now and OA in Nature Microbiology

A trait-based approach harnesses the vast amount of microbial genomic data and enables integration with biogeochemical models, predicting soil microbial ecology and physiology (without the need for cultures? 🦠🤔)

nature.com/articles/s4156…

We tried to collect all the matchstick grasshoppers from a remnant in Melbourne that was doomed to a housing development, but they bounced back the following year - a promising outcome for translocations PEARG Ben Phillips Conservation Letters conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

How vulnerable are amphibians to global warming? 🐸🌡️

In this new preprint @EcoEvoRxiv, we aimed to answer this question at truly global scales 🌍

doi.org/10.32942/X2T02T

A thread 🧵(1/27)

Inclined to vote No? Read this. I dare you…

I just heard that the revolutionary thermochron ibuttons are no longer being made. Does anyone know of good alternatives?

Hirst, Moginie & Stuart - Red Continent youtu.be/6yexNQD8bas?si… via YouTube

If you're coming to ESA in Portland next month and want to learn about mechanistic modelling with #NicheMapR and #TrenchR , lauren buckley and I are running a short course on 6th Aug and there are some places still available esa2023.eventscribe.net/fsPopup.asp?Mo…

Leaf temperature can now be calculated in NicheMapR using the ectotherm model (fastest, most general), the ecto_devel or the function 'leaf_temperature'. Get the latest version from github and ?leaf_temperature for more info and an example that creates the figure below NicheMapR

We've now made 500,000 pages of Australia's biodiversity heritage freely accessible on BHL! Thank you to our 42 Australian contributing organisations & to the Atlas of Living Aust for funding this critical work. Peruse the collection: biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/bhl…

If you're after microclimate data for predicting body temperature and water loss, this paper led by Abby Meyer and lauren buckley might be useful
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

How well do wingless grasshoppers get around in southern Australia? We used SNPs to find out.