For long I've had a dislike for the concept of "ecosystem services" and here Arne Næss perfectly expressed it in his book Ecology of Wisdom: "Opponents often argue that we defend nature in our rich, industrial society in order to secure beauty, recreation, sport, and other nonvital interests 1/2 🌍
Nutrient niche differentiation among European herbaceous species reflects an extinction to invasion continuum https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.20.670250v1
@aunz.theconversation.com featured a new piece about our recent A-Island paper in @jvegsci.bsky.social
Some more insights on the fun process of assembling such a dataset.
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#ecology #islands #plants #botany #Australia
Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️
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Plant functional traits & the entangled phenotype -
Sandra Díaz reviews concepts that have long been at the core of #ecology & #evolutionary #biology but are at risk of being increasingly ignored
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