Biodiversity and climate issues are holistically linked to other modern day threats, and we need to start taking them seriously.
Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt
A mystery seed from a Breckland, eastern England ghostpingo core as found by @hayleymcmechan.bsky.social. help oh botanists!!! 1 mm scale @annasolcova.bsky.social @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @timholtwilson.bsky.social
Please consider filling this in for Tom Smith, an MPhil researcher at the University of Wolverhampton, if you have seen an alpine newt preying on/being prayed upon by another amphibian! UK only!
Great to see #lizards represented! 🦎
New study modelling common lizard declines in Belgium, using structured survey and citizen science data 🦎📉
#lizard #zootoca #herpetology
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Awesome study out now from @miaryras.bsky.social studying the impacts of winter warming on wall lizards! 🦎❄️🌡
Amphibians migrating to breeding ponds has to be the best sign that spring is coming 🐸
Simon Baeckens
Monitoring species distribution and dynamics is essential for conservation strategies. While monitoring efforts often focus on rare or endangered species, common and widely distributed species are oft...
Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share
#science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education
Matt Armes 🦎 🇪🇺
We had a great session today led by our new MscRes students who introduced the work they plan to do over the next year+. Brilliant to hear about their research plans! Exciting stuff to come! (Didn’t manage to get a pic of everyone)
Carl Sayer
🦎 Funded 4-year PhD position on Lizard Evolutionary Ecology in our lab at UCLouvain (Belgium)! Apply before 9 March! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...
New paper out now in @jexpbiol.bsky.social! Led by star PhD student @miaryras.bsky.social, we tested the effects of winter warming (a constant increase as well as fluctuating temps - see pic) on common wall lizard behaviour and physiology.
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...
Nicole Grimason 🐸
Simon Baeckens
Behaviour, Ecology & Physiology at Bangor University
Kirsty MacLeod
🚨Looking for a PhD project on 🐝? look no further! ✅
"Metapopulation dynamics of pollinating bees under pesticide pressure"
Hosted @bristolbiosci.bsky.social and University of Swansea, with myself, @harrysiviter.bsky.social, and Miguel Lurgi
Full details:
bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...
