2026. Importance of elephants for dung beetle biodiversity and ecosystem functions | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
New study underscores on DNA from 120,000-year-old fallow deer from Germany shows low genetic differentiation to modern fallow deer specimens, rejecting a separate species status www.eurekalert.org/news-release... 🦌 #fallowdeer #dådyr #deer
Robust projections of risks to the Amazon rainforest
Amazonian deforestation is altering atmospheric moisture transport; as a result, even low levels of global warming could trigger dieback of most of the remaining forest. 🌐🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01158-8 🌐🧪
Ecologists theorize that removing highly connected species from ecological networks will trigger waves of coextinction, but empirical evidence is scant. We show that elephants are central to a general...
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Jens-Christian Svenning
Alan McElligott
novelty: not just as loss, but as a lever for biodiversity, society, and biosphere resilience. Come and hear @jcsvenning.bsky.social, head of @econovoau.bsky.social, talk on how we can manage novelty in our #WBF2026 session. 14 June, 3pm | Room Wisshorn #Rewilding #BiodiversityFutures
"Scientists say the current period is likely the hottest Earth has experienced in 125,000 years... Forests are being forced to quickly adapt to climatic changes that normally unfold over millennia... Heat and drought push Europe's trees into survival mode, often fatally."
phys.org/news/2026-05...
Amazonian deforestation is altering atmospheric moisture transport; as a result, even low levels of global warming could trigger dieback of most of the remaining forest.
www.nature.com
Brian J. Enquist
The once-majestic oak tree is all but dead: battered by repeated heat waves, it has shut down vital functions to conserve water and is slowly dying in a French forest.
Surprising result from our new study in Proc. R. Soc. B: alien #wildpigs were associated with fewer invasive plants in eastern US forests, while native white-tailed #deer showed the opposite pattern 🦌🐗 Ecological effects depend on feeding behaviour more than nativeness🌿Led by @niming-eco.bsky.social
➡️Paper: Divergent effects of native deer and alien wild pigs on forest understoreys 🦌🐗🌿
doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #mesoherbivores #deer #boar #feralpigs #forestecology
Early-career scientist & interested in this topic - see our open 2-year postdoc: international.au.dk/about/profil...
Alejandro Ordonez
Abstract. Mesoherbivores are expanding globally through both native population irruptions and alien introductions, yet their broad-scale ecological impacts
🌿 We are hiring a new 2-yr postdoc in @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuniint.bsky.social, on large-#herbivore ecology, trophic #rewilding & novel ecosystems- asking when alien & feral #ungulates enhance biodiversity & when they contribute to degradation🐪🐎🦓
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European fallow deer faced a dramatic loss of genetic diversity since the last interglacial period. This was revealed by 120,000-year-old fossils from central Germany's Neumark-Nord site (Saxony-A...
