Our new paper shows how a small Iberian stream, dry for 50 years, bounced back to good ecological status in <2 years after environmental flows were restored. 🌊🪱 👉 doi.org/10.1111/rec.70198 #RiverRestoration #EnvironmentalFlows #FreshwaterEcology

Space-for-time substitution is most problematic when forecasting near-term ecological responses that lag behind climate change. It assumes equilibrium (rapid ecological responses) and strong climate causality (ignoring confounders). www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mekevans.bsky.social

Great to see research briefing from our @uktreescapes.bsky.social TreEPlaNat project on using natural processes for woodland creation published by @forestresearchuk.bsky.social Research briefing: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/publications... News: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/new-res...

Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years! The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es

Cereghetti et al: #Seasonal #dynamics of detritus flows and #decomposition across #ecosystem boundaries. 🌿🍂🦐 🌐🌍 We studied seasonal dynamics/phenology ⏱️ of 🟩terrestrial-🟦aquatic linkages across a year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Out in #CurrentBiology @currentbiology.bsky.social 1/4

Super excited to share our new paper out today in Nature Water led by Christina McCabe. @naturewaterjnl.bsky.social “The ecological benefits of more room for rivers” Find the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Free to read version: rdcu.be/eeuBx #rivers #floods #biodiversity #resilience

Using remote sensing, this study establishes the nitrogen budget for 5,768 lakes. Results show that reducing watershed #nitrogen input improves water quality nonlinearly, emphasizing targeted watershed management to meet the #SDG of global clean #water. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/6 Paper Alert📢📢📢 New publication from #ECONOVO on the widespread ecological novelty across the terrestrial biosphere🌱 Read the article here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Key take homes below👇

An improvement in freshwater biodiversity in England's rivers in the 1990s and early 2000s was linked to reduced zinc and copper pollution as coal use and heavy industry declined, say researchers. Read more about a new UKCEH-led study: www.ceh.ac.uk/press/biodiv... #rivers #WaterQuality 🧪 1/

Do spiders select prey based on its nutrient content? This is challenging to study outside the lab - but evidence from the field in our new @oikosjournal.bsky.social paper led by @jordancuff.bsky.social supports the idea 🧪🌍 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚 Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈 Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Vol2 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in ! 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾

📢✨ Join us for this year #BESAG2025 annual meeting! We are going to host the conference at #ZSL, in London (UK) @londonzoo.bsky.social , on the 15th-16th of September. Save the date and link to registration coming soon! 💧🧪🌍🌊🕸🐟🦈🦭🪼🦑

Lots of excellent ecology and biodiversity folks in Global Ecol 2 - and still a few spaces left go.bsky.app/L37W5uH

[new paper] EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant-Pollinator Networks onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Another wonderful paper of @joseblanuza.bsky.social making open more than >1500 networks and looking at their properties. Come for the data, stay for the cool figures!

📢 Excited to share our new paper on differences in structuring tropical and temperate biodiversity in riparian forests. Brilliantly led by Liam Nash, with @gqromero.bsky.social @tim36chambers.bsky.social, Victor & Fatima - just published in Proceedings B: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 In this @globalchangebio.bsky.social study we used 1327 time series of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities across Europe to investigate whether dispersal capacity changes with the ecological quality of rivers. @sgn.one onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Nature research paper: Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity https://go.nature.com/3WD7cWa

This looks like a really interesting paper, tackling the knotty problem of bias in biodiversity monitoring data. In the past we've used post-stratification to try to tackle some of these issues e.g. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Human barriers are replete across the world! This paper just out in Nature Water aims to advance a more comprehensive river barrier mapping solution to support environmental management www.nature.com/articles/s44... @jjopperman.bsky.social @americanrivers.bsky.social @wwf-water.bsky.social

Ecologists seek to understand how species distributions relate to environmental factors, but often relationships are radically human-altered. Our new @jvegsci.bsky.social paper uses historical data in niche models to understand presettlement distributions of forest trees. 🧪🌿🌎 doi.org/10.1111/jvs....

A detailed extinction risk assessment of freshwater fauna, covering more than 23,000 species, reveals that around 24% of the studied species are threatened with extinction. The analysis identifies major threats from pollution, dams, agriculture and invasive species. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

New spatial occupancy models for data collected on stream networks Check out the last publication by @oaggimenez.bsky.social from the #CESAB DISCAR group: 👉 doi.org/10.1002/aqc.... 🔑 It offers a robust method for assessing biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems ! #SpatialModels #rstat 🧪🌐🦊🌍🦤🐍

1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding

The responses of freshwater fish to global warming. Our analyses in @pnas.org @bristolbiosci.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Made possible by #RivFishTIME

Read our new paper in EcologicalMonographs esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We introduce a framework on how to partition species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities based on species absolute change in biomass and relative change in proportion.

Latest work on Atlantic bluefin #tuna tagged off the coast of Norway showing their extensive annual migrations, high site-fidelity and dynamic vertical diving behaviour in the Atlantic #Ocean & Mediterranean Sea: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #fisheries #oceanography #movementecology

DATA CALL - DEADLINE APPROACHING We want to add new sites to our European longtime series database of freshwater biodiversity (see doi.org/10.1038/s415...) To contribute check the link with all the details of the data call www.senckenberg.de/en/call-for-... Thank you very much! #freshwaterecology

How do urban rivers recover from historical pollution and what could be applying the brakes to ongoing biological recovery? #PhD opportunity at Cardiff Uni with Steve Ormerod and me, plus UKCEH and other partners 🌍🧪 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

How do plant-pollinator communities develop in newly created woodlands? Come and help us find out in this #PhD opportunity with Jane Memmott, Kevin Watts and me 🧪🌍 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Save the date! I'm delighted that Nottingham Trent Uni. will host the Freshwater Biological Association's 'restored' Annual Scientific Meeting on Wednesday 25 June 2025. Keynotes include @davetickner.bsky.social and other speakers include @louiselavictoire.bsky.social www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/sa...

Gravel is the unsung hero of healthy rivers. I think it is (almost) as important for river wildlife as the water that flows over the top. The sediments, pebbles rocks and stones are vital to healthy rivers but they are also under threat. Read on to find out why 👇

Amazing to finally interact with so many lovely people! And on that note, we have a PhD available on water quality impacts with large wood in river restoration at the @uniofexeter.bsky.social in CREWW. There’s a form to fill but please do contact me directly! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data, have been updated today. It’s not good news. 😔 The ‘all bird species’ index shows an overall shallow decline of 16% since 1970. Find out more ➡️ www.gov.uk/government/s...

Hello to new & old Blueskiers 👋 If you're looking for interesting folk to follow, here's the Nature Writing Starter Pack. Please do share around... go.bsky.app/NXoPc6D

Ecologically, rivers in England and Wales have recovered a lot from historical pollution since 1990. But this isn't the whole story: our recent study led by Emma Pharaoh highlights where quality has declined www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪

Left the other place run by Trump's buddy? Here's a starter pack of freshwater scientists to get you started. Also, if you're a freshwater scientist and want to be added, let me know. Still space available. go.bsky.app/K5ubDhb

FreshLanDiv: A Global Database of Freshwater Biodiversity Across Different Land Uses 🌎 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....