Great to see @charles-cunningham.bsky.social's paper out on the impacts of woodland connectivity on the presence of woodland species in the UK. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Although ecologists talk about connectivity being important to maintain, the evidence that this is true is weak. 1/

Our new work on the impact of #conservation and management actions on bird populations within European protected areas is out. 🦆🦅 One finding being that management actions targeting habitats might help species more adjusting to impacts of climate change. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Soil property maps for Europe at 100 m resolution released by ISRIC - World Soil Information in the framework of the EU HoliSoils project to inform forest management and policies. holisoils.eu/soil-propert... 🧪🌍👇🌲🌳 #soilscience #soilhealth #soilmapping #forestsoil

Our #interdisciplinary paper investigating the synergies and trade-offs of upland treescape expansion is now out in @peopleandnature.bsky.social which is part of the STAND @uktreescapes.bsky.social project led by the @rspb.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

“Fragmented landscapes consistently have both lower α diversity and lower γ diversity [but higher β diversity] Our findings refute claims that habitat fragmentation can increase biodiversity at landscape scales” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I looked some more at these biodiversity credits. It seems the best option for a biodiversity project is to mow the vegetation until it is a pefect lawn. With NDVI then homogeneous, the credit you earn tend to infinity. People are buying/selling these credits, right now. 🌿🌏

Come and work with me! Fab #postdoc role at University of Kent on the @greenme-project.bsky.social , collaborating with Mike Hardman, Penny Cook and myself at University of Salford, and 6 other countries! Green care, GIS, data, surveys! Deadline 24th Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV078/r...

There is an idea that we can simply step away from degraded ecosystems & they will recover But truly biodiverse, resilient ecosystems are complex So, in degraded landscapes, we will often need to intervene to guide systems towards complexity besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I ended last year explaining how Robins taught us about #birds ability to see direction of magnetic fields, so I'll start this one with a story about bird's 2nd magnetic sense that allows them to navigate using a map of the local strength of magnetic fields. Garden Warblers illustrate this well.🌿🌏🧪🧵

Looking for a #PhDposition? Passionate about #pollinators and #citizenscience? Come do a PhD at @ukceh.bsky.social on developing indicators for pollinating insects using data from UK PoMS. The project includes a placement at JNCC. To apply tinyurl.com/3ve5szrh @drnickisaac.bsky.social

Out today: my final paper from my postdoc at the @universityofhull.bsky.social, in which we explored the UK public's views on brownfield sites and biodiversity! So very excited to finally be publishing this paper - a labour of love. *Please note: this is not BTO work.* doi.org/10.3351/ppp....

Excited to be at the British Ecological Society annual meeting for next few days. Hoping to catch up on loads of people! Today is action for me, then catch up later. Come meet @cascade-hei.bsky.social at lunch, then hear me talk about systematic conservation plan for the UK later! #BES2024

Great talk by @drnickisaac.bsky.social from UKCEH at #bes2024 about the development of the species abundance indicator for Defra. Honest perspective on the positive ambition and challenge of doing this week. @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

Great to see @charles-cunningham.bsky.social's work highlighted on the stage at DEFRA's #bes2024 event. I know he is enjoying his fellowship with defra, so would absolutely recomend that scheme. Actual measurement of impacts of pesticides on freshwater inverts is remarkably big knowledge gap.

🚨Fully-Funded UK PhD Opportunity!🚨 I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity! Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED

🚨NEW exciting PhD opportunity... 🚨 designing effective habitat networks for species conservation #biodiversity #conservation #restoration A fab supervisory team from University of Liverpool, Natural England, Butterfly Conservation and @ukceh.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

There’s just 6 years left to protect 30% of land and sea for nature But findings out today in Wildlife and and Countryside Link's progress report reveal the amount of protected land in England has fallen to just 2.93% while protected seas are at 9.92% 📗🔗https://buff.ly/4eoqMvW 🌍🧪

How applied ecology can support and enhance both biodiversity and food production. Also, check out the abstract in four languages!

Our new paper on the future of ecosystems is out today! We used climate and biome models to infer how anthropogenic CO2 emissions might shape the global distribution of different vegetation types over the next 500 years 🌎🌲🌴🌵 doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Joris Wiethase's 2nd PhD paper is out 2day onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... exploring traits of savannah #birds in Tanzania associated with range changes. Confirming our earlier work, we see big individual changes, but fail to find obvious patterns explaining variation between species. 🌏 🧪1/n

🚨New paper! Is homogenization really that more common than differentiation? - not really, our latest work shows that one pattern can be as common as the other. Another great work and collaboration led by this amazing team👇

🚨Still time to apply for one of these exciting opportunities! 8 fully funded PhD studentships! ▶️Deadline extended to 31st Jan!!! Come and join us - projects across a range of departments - one wild card project up for grabs too! Apply here👇

🚨Another important piece of the puzzle! - Roel and collegues expand on there 2020 analysis 🕷🐜🦋🐛🦗 to show us that being abundance doesn't necessary mean you are doing fine... 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...