How we miss sampling! Did you know that in the 1960s, Verona was the top province in Italy for cherry production?🍒 Today, cherry orchards are shrinking (1,300 ha) due to urbanization, vineyards and hill management issues; the system has evolved from mixed crops to specialized, high-density plots.📉🚜

First year of TRANSForm sampling in Italy done!🌞To better understand biodiversity, we tested various techniques: pan and pitfall traps for pollinators and carabids, Audiomoth to study birds, netting for targeted pollinator capture, topsoil cores for chemical-physical analysis, and eDNA extraction.🍒🌳

SAFER project officially launched in Bordeaux last week! We're beginning the ambitious work to expand agroecological farming & strengthen agricultural landscape multifunctionality across Europe. Learn more: www.agroecologypartnership.eu/safer

Great paper! Genomic signatures indicate biodiversity loss in an endemic island ant fauna | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Another chapter from Sebastiano Zanini’s PhD thesis has just been published in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A preprint of our paper on #CausalInference in #Ecology - Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - led by Hannah Correia is now up as a preprint ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... 🧪🌍 This came from a GREAT workshop last year, and gives a solid framework and howto

Happy Friday everyone! I just posted what I think is an important blog post on my website. It is a critique of meta-meta-analyses: meta-analyses of meta-analyses. Link: matthewbjane.github.io/blog-posts/b... #stats #metascience

Excited to launch #TRANSFOrm! 🌱🍎 We’re revitalising Traditional Agroforestry Systems as Nature-based Solutions to: 🐝 Halt biodiversity loss 🌍 Tackle climate change 🥗 Support sustainable food & well-being Follow us 👉 @biodiversa.eu plus.bsky.social ‪ @transform-biodiv.bsky.social ‬ ‪

🌳 Revitalising traditional agroforestry systems (TAS): TRANSFORm explores the potential of TAS in the Euro-Mediterranean region as NbS to address biodiversity loss, climate change, and promote sustainable food production & human well-being. #BiodivNBS www.biodiversa.eu/2025/04/08/t...