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NEW PAPERS!: Today our TWO review articles on the biodiversity of Madagascar were published in Science Magazine. This project included 84 co-authors and 50 institutions, born from an Antonelli Lab group meeting in 2020. Kew Science, Kew Madagascar & Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre led the papers.

Great explainer thread on two Madagascar focused papers just out in Science Magazine. Was brilliant collaborating with such a fantastic international team! MEEB @BangorSNS

Our new paper in New Phytologist: Mapping the root systems of individual trees in a natural community using genotyping-by-sequencing doi.org/10.1111/nph.18… 1/8

First week in Hyderabad 🇮🇳attending a workshop on the application of genetic methods in biodiversity monitoring! Hosted by colleagues at CCMB & OSMANIA UNIVERSITY. After a warm welcome from the VC, there have been great talks/discussions. Looking forward to future collaborations!

Joining @stefanako71, all the MEEB team @BangorSNS offering massive CONGRATULATIONS to Kirthana Pillay for her successful viva defence on Friday and for being such a great team member! A wonderful day and good luck Kitty in your new post-doc position!

Big congrats to newly minted Dr. Bethany !! 🙌🏻👏 Thanks to AberMycol and @LMarkesteijn for examining and Nia Whiteley for chairing. #PhDone CoSE Postgrads at Bangor University BU Biology & Zoology

Thrilled to announce my latest publication #JFB: The environmental impact of keeping a tropical aquarium in Northern Europe! This side project, on a topic dear to my heart, outlines for the 1st time the energy & water demands of tropical fish keeping rb.gy/qw2zo 🧵👇

really enjoyed introducing my project to MEEB this morning! 🐦🌊🧬

Huge thanks to Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social for hosting me for the Eawag departmental seminar. Great to share the work of Natural Environment Research Council MEEB @BangorSNS #LOFRESH project and catch up with Dr Kristy Deiner and big thank you to Dr Rosetta Blackman for co-ordination! Impressive work all!

What a start to the New Year! Our review, 'Addressing the challenges of combined sewer overflows', has been published in Environmental Pollution: bit.ly/3tGFNXV. If you're interested in the release of untreated sewage into the natural environment, it's worth a read! 🧵👇

Thrilled that our recent paper on #eDNA in rivers is now out in Nature Communications! bit.ly/3x1kQZq With data from 5 rivers (Europe & US), and a year time series, we measured #biodiversity patterns across a range of taxa, demonstrating the powerful insights eDNA can yield 🧵👇

William Perry fishsci.com/William Perry fishsci.com/@DrWillPerry Nature Communications So great to see this MEEB Natural Environment Research Council Highlight Topic #LOFRESH paper out, that reveals the ecological relevance of #freshwater #eDNA across diverse spatial and temporal scales - huge thanks to the heavy lifting of @DrWillPerry and team! Environmental & Natural Sciences @ Bangor Univ.

MEEB #MScRes 2024-25 studentship, now fully-funded using #eDNA approaches to illuminate vertebrate diversity from invertebrate samples as part of SUPERB - forest restoration ecology, close 30th June #UKDNAWG24 Environmental & Natural Sciences @ Bangor Univ. BU Biology & Zoology meeb.bangor.ac.uk/opportunities.…

How DNA analysis of our rivers and lakes can reveal new secrets about their biodiversity bit.ly/45pVEZx

Hot off the press! Check out this piece I wrote with Simon Creer which discusses biodiversity loss, the importance of monitoring freshwater habitats and our recent Nature Communications #eDNA paper! Original paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… The Conversation article: bit.ly/3XnjMKj

New paper led by the wonderful Rachel Williams in Water Research: bit.ly/45tpewZ! For me, the most interesting finding was that RNA degradation over time for many of the viruses was non-linear & differed between genes. 4°C storage also came out on top for raw wastewater!🧬

Our new paper shows that plasticity that has evolved to deal with one stressful situation, can help plants to adapt rapidly to new stressful situations. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… MEEB @kewscience KewGardens ENVISION Natural Environment Research Council PNASNews

We’re recruiting for a #PhD opportunity funded by NERC Envision DTP, investigating the impact of climate change on chytrid disease dynamics in Appalachian salamanders. Full details here: findaphd.com/?pj=182328

🌴Our new paper just came out! We show that the Cape Verde date palm is actually a feral form of date palm, with interesting implications for conservation and breeding of drought resistant varieties. Read more: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pp… Muriel Gros-Balthazard 🌴🧬🏺 Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar Alex Papadopulos