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WHAT?? A beetle, pretending to be a moth by making "moth" noises to deter bats from eating them for dinner? COOL!

The group of plants commonly known as “cranesbills” were so named because their long, pointed seed pods were thought to resemble the beak of the long-legged wading bird, the crane. The name inspired botanists to call the genus “Geranium”, “geranós” being the Greek word for crane.

Best view from a moth trapping spot so far! Right on the green roof of the David Attenborough Building, interesting to see what species we get 🦟🐝🦋 (If anyone has another moth trap I can borrow… it would also be interesting to see the green roof vs garden 👀😅)

"Trophic cascades are often used as a justification for rewilding, with the idea that they will have positive, trickle-down effects" "[But] there is mixed evidence for their occurrence in large carnivores & their effects are context-dependent" taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/…

I'm excited to share the first publication using GPS collars from #wolves in Turkiye (and the first published chapter of my PhD)! We found that although human activity varied significantly between seasons, wolves modified only their activity, not their home range!

"Knowledge production about [conservation in] the Global South is largely produced by researchers in the Global North, implying a neocolonial power dynamic We also find evidence of bias, ... serving to uphold narratives about who should lead conservation" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Out today in Royal Society Publishing! We show that butterflies and moths accumulate so much static electricity that pollen is attracted onto them across air gaps, meaning they don't even need to make contact with the flower to pollinate it! 🦋🌻 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… 🧵👇

How the year started Vs how it ended 💃🏼 Final day of the MRes year completed for the 2023 cohort (the best cohort 😉) AI for Environmental Risks CDT

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Culls won’t solve this issue. Unless the plan is to make bears extinct in Romania, the best way to keep people safe is by learning how to live with wildlife. It’s cheaper and more effective to do things like - educate people - adapt waste management - stop people feeding bears

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🚨 New paper in Journal of Applied Ecology integrating #CT and #LEK data International Research Lab REHABS Wildlife Ecology Lab 🔗doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

A global assessment of large terrestrial carnivore kill rates. doi.org/10.1111/brv.13… Super excited to share the first published chapter of my PhD - A systematic literature review & synthesis of large carnivore kill rates, i.e. rate at which carnivores kill prey. 1/n

Novel ecosystems raise a hard question – if we can’t compare them to historical systems, what should ecologists measure? Increasingly we are looking at the scale of the whole system rather than identity – are systems properties being exhibited, such as functioning & resilience?

Evaluating the effects of wolf culling on livestock predation when considering wolf population dynamics in an individual-based model nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wl… #wolves #management #culling Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution

The Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum) is also known as Barber's Brush, Fairy's Broom and Prickly Beehive. The Romans called it 'lavacrum Veneris', basin of Venus, as the droplets of water that gather at the leaf joints were said to have medicinal and beautifying qualities. #wildflowers

Interested in Europe's former #wildwoods?🌳Our new study shows that #oak, #hazel & #yew were surprisingly abundant - much more than expected from #succession theory & conventional thinking on #climax #vegetation - besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13… Journal of Ecology🍃🐂🌳 #skov #forest #woodland

The main problem in Europe is not that we have too many #wolves, but that we need to re-learn to protect our farm animals that fall prey to these predators, says Dr. Dries Kuijper, at the Polish Academy of Sciences’ Mammal Research Institute PAS . scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news%2…

🐾 MIAU is out in Nature Conservation! This unique dataset, covering two decades of carnivore records, was created for our own research but is now available for others to explore and use 🐈‍⬛ 🦊🦨🐻doi.org/10.3897/nature… #OpenScience

Same here, first time in a long time I’m noticing a lot of bug splats!