Rob Puschendorf
@rpuschen.bsky.social
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Tropical biologist interested in conservation
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Rob Puschendorf
Zack Steel 🪶🦇🌲🔥
about 2 months ago
New research from our lab documents important drought impacts on desert bird communities in the SW United States 🌎🐦 25 years of bird data across the Mojave & Sonoran deserts, show drought drives clear declines in bird abundance & species richness.
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Increased drought drives avian community declines in the warm deserts of the United States
The frequencies, intensities, and durations of extreme weather are increasing under climate change, furthering biodiversity loss. In the Southwestern …
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320725004306
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Rob Puschendorf
University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute
4 months ago
New PhD Studentship Opportunity! Work with
@exeter.ac.uk
and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) on this exciting project. The programme offers 4-year fully-funded PhD studentships to support Black British researchers.
@uniexecec.bsky.social
@cornwall.exeter.ac.uk
@sarahenelms.bsky.social
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Rob Puschendorf
Louise Firth
4 months ago
We are advertising a 28-mo postdoc on hybrid
#ecoengineering
in
#saltmarshes
@ University College Cork,
@ucc.ie
🇮🇪🇪🇺. Ref no 087274. EU &
@marineinst.bsky.social
funded BLUESHORES Project. State date: 1st Sept 2025. Salary: €45,847–€52,339. 🌱🌊🦀🐌 See link:
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
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Rob Puschendorf
George Monbiot
4 months ago
When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe
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Rob Puschendorf
Schmidt Ocean Institute
4 months ago
A sea star, despite a friendly-sounding name, is a carnivore that envelops prey—expelling a cardiac stomach from the center of its body to engulf & dissolve its meal into a gastric soup. Read full caption &
@echinoblog.bsky.social
paper on sea star predation here:
www.instagram.com/reel/DKcp9OB...
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Rob Puschendorf
School of Biological & Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth
4 months ago
Dr Thomas Murphy,
@plymuni.bsky.social
has written for
@uk.theconversation.com
about the most effective and sustainable ways to meet the growing demand for more forests.🍁🌍
theconversation.com/how-to-creat...
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How to create a thriving forest, not box-checking ‘tree cover’
The UK is set to plant 20 million trees to form a new ‘national forest’ in the west of England.
https://theconversation.com/how-to-create-a-thriving-forest-not-box-checking-tree-cover-254160
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Rob Puschendorf
🍁 Alex Smith 🍁
5 months ago
🧪🪲🐞🗺️ 📢 a neat news piece from
@respublications.bsky.social
#RESEcolEnt
about the
@alexandreloureiro.bsky.social
led global
#meta-analysis
of
#elevation
&
#biodiversity
for
#beetle
#Coleoptera
families.
www.royensoc.co.uk/news/do-beet...
Read the paper here:
doi.org/10.1111/een....
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Do beetle families show a common pattern of taxon or phylogenetic diversity across elevation? - Journal Highlight - Royal Entomological Society
Do beetle families show a common pattern of taxon or phylogenetic diversity across elevation? First published: 16 April 2025 A recent review article by Alexandre M. M. C. Loureiro and M. Alex Smith i...
https://www.royensoc.co.uk/news/do-beetle-families-show-a-common-pattern-of-taxon/
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Rob Puschendorf
What an honour, thank you 👍❤️👍❤️
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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Mangrove Comeback: Restoring West Africa’s Coast Our new paper shows how hydrological repair and invasive grass removal successfully restored degraded mangrove communities in Benin achieving 90% survival over 2 years
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#mangroves
#restoration
#climateaction
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What an honour, thank you 👍❤️👍❤️
add a skeleton here at some point
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#home
, for a bit
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Article Spotlight: Future climate-driven habitat loss and range shift of the Critically Endangered whitefin swellshark Cephaloscyllium albipinnum | PeerJ Blog
https://peerj.com/blog/post/115284890317/article-spotlight-future-climate-driven-habitat-loss-and-range-shift-of-the-critically-endangered-whitefin-swellshark-cephaloscyllium-albipinnum/
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Rob Puschendorf
Kerry 🦈
7 months ago
From undergraduate thesis to published paper 📑 🦈 “Future climate-driven habitat loss and range shift of the Critically Endangered whitefin swellshark (Cephaloscyllium albipinnum)” 🔗
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
#climatechange
#sharks
#UniversityofPlymouth
#SharkResearch
#SharkConservation
#JCU
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Future climate-driven habitat loss and range shift of the Critically Endangered whitefin swellshark (Cephaloscyllium albipinnum)
Climate change is driving many species to shift their geographical ranges poleward to maintain their environmental niche. However, for endemic species with restricted ranges, like the Critically Endan...
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18787
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2nd year
#marinebiology
students learning how to identify
#plymouth
sound marine organisms 👍❤️@plymbiomarsci.bsky.social
@plymuni.bsky.social
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Rob Puschendorf
Xav Harrison
8 months ago
New PhD opportunity with me, Mirjam Schilling
@aphapublichealth.bsky.social
and Klara Wanelik at U. Surrey This project will use metagenomics to study fox microbiome dynamics 🦊 and investigate their potential to act as sentinels of disease spread.
t.co/FdjT15LgLf
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Rob Puschendorf
Climate, Ecology, War and More by Dr. Glen Barry
9 months ago
Bird flu causes deaths of cats and zoo animals as virus spreads in US
->
Fox News
|
#BirdFlu
#Pandemic
#Virus
|
More info
from
EcoSearch
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Bird flu causes deaths of cats and zoo animals as virus spreads in US
Just days after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a new order that all raw (unpasteurized) milk must be tested for bird flu, reports have emerged of animals dying of the virus. In Los Angeles County, the public health...
https://www.foxnews.com/health/bird-flu-causes-deaths-cats-zoo-animals-virus-spread-us
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
10 months ago
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#witchesrock
,
#acg
#costarica
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