Year 3 underway on comparing #urban vs #rural #turtle pops with @eren2010.bsky.social at Continental scale #UndergraduateResearch 🌍🦤🧪🌐🌱🐢

If You're Rare, Should I Care? How Imperfect Detection Changes Relationships Between Biodiversity and Global Change Drivers 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"35% [of new hillside development] occurring within global biodiversity hotspots, significantly exacerbating habitat fragmentation. This has far-reaching consequences for biodiversity, directly affecting ~70% of globally threatened species."🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🌿🐦 New Research Highlight: “Successful Home Garden Model for Biodiversity Conservation in Sri Lanka” 📚 Our recent work published in Loris shows that home gardens are key players in conserving biodiversity AND delivering climate, social, and economic benefits.

🧪🌊🐚 We are hiring: Biology MS in #MarineEcosystems in #CapeVerde 🌍🪸 Spring 2026 start, at Bridgewater State Uni in #coastalEcology, #biodiversity 💸 Funding includes: GA + tuition waiver 📅 App: Oct 15, 2025 www.bridgew.edu/center/case/... 📫[email protected], [email protected]

📰Published📰How species turnover influences fish invasion patterns in lakes🐟 buff.ly/t9BsOdU 🧪🌍

Fire in focus: Clarifying metrics & terminology for better ecological insight 🔥🧪 This framework can help researchers & practitioners to 👉select fire metrics for research & management 📊 👉interpret previous studies 💭 👉form a growing body of knowledge 🌏 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Hello. Today in “One day, one paper”, native grassland species show greater drought resistance than introduced ones. However, this advantage disappears when other global change drivers like nutrients, temperature, or grazing are present🌎🍁 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Had a successful session on #urbanAgriculture & #urbanBiodiversity 🏙️🌱🌿🦤 @ #ESA2025 We presented a framework to survey urban #biodiversity in university campus #greenSpaces Designed as #undergradResearch & multisite #ecological research 💰 Support #NSF #RCN 🌍🌐🧪

🌱 Join us at #ESA2025 Urban Agriculture as an Accessible Framework for Ecological Research 📅 Wed Aug 13 8–9:30 AM Hilton Key 11–12 Urban ag: a powerful, underused lens for ecological research & education 🌿🐝🌾

🌊 We're recruiting an MS student! 🌿 Join my lab at Bridgewater State Uni, MA. ✅Conduct your own thesis in Cape Verde’s #marine & #coastal ecosystems ✅ mentor undergrads ✅ RA + #NSF summer stipend @ #ESA2025 come find me or DM—love to chat! 📩 [email protected]

🌱 Join us at #ESA2025! Urban Agriculture as an Accessible Framework for Ecological Research 📅 Wed Aug 13 8–9:30 AM Hilton Key 11–12 Urban ag: a powerful, underused lens for ecological research & education 🌿🐝🌾

🌿🦋 We led a successful pre- #ESA2025 workshop at #MICA, Baltimore on #biodiversity in campus food & pollinator gardens! 🎓 Developed undergraduate-focused, inquiry-based research protocols for ecology & allied teaching labs. #undergraduteResearch #NSF funded #RCN 🧪🌍

Really excited to see our paper on the effects of prolonged #drought and non-native 🐟 on emerging insects out in L&O @aslo.org! 🧪🌎 See 🧵 below ⬇️⬇️

Wetland restoration: Predicting vegetation trajectories over 25 years 📊 Such models can provide managers with tools to 👉assess failure risks across potential restoration sites🧪 👉select the most suitable locations🌏 👉tailor planting to maximise success🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Just out! our new paper calling for multicity research networks to tackle urgent #OneHealth challenges in our rapidly urbanizing world. As cities 🏙️ grow, so do risks: Pollution; #Zoonotic 🦠spillover; Habitat loss

In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Really nice metastudy of citizen science contributing to ecology & biodiversity research @inaturalist.bsky.social @aibsbiology.bsky.social 👀🔎🍄🧪🌎🌐 iNaturalist accelerates biodiversity research academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Need to make a species list for an area? 📋🌱 Learn how to download a list of species, cross-reference with conservation status lists, and visualise with {ggplot2} in a new ALA Labs post by me & Amanda Buyan 🔗 labs.ala.org.au/posts/2025-0... #rstats 🧪🌏📊

Together with the other nexus elements of health, food and climate, #biodiversity & water are closely & inextricably linked.💧🌱🌏🧪 Read more about this and response options in the @ipbes.net #NexusAssessment: https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment

Global change asymmetrically rewires ecosystems onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌍 🧪 🦤

That's a big ol' dataset! 🐸 🌏 australian.museum/blog/amri-ne...

If society wanted to reduce the # of extreme wildfires and the unhealthy smoke they create, there is one action that's hands down most effective -- reintroducing low to moderate intensity fire. We've known this for decades. Yet under tRump the federal agencies are going in the opposite direction. 🌏

'Bridging gaps in ecological security: spatial conservation prioritization through balancing ecological features in a great Chinese city'. A new publication as FirstView in #EnvironmentalConservation bit.ly/44NEUez #conservation #conservationscience🌏 #habitat #Megacities #policy #China #Beijing

This article is free to access for two weeks! Download now! 👇🌎🧪

How should we best design marine protected areas for megafauna with large range sizes? New work from Betty Boyse et al suggests we should include taxon-specific coverage since multispecies MPAs can't address all taxon-specific ecological needs 🧪🌍🦑🦭🐳🐟 doi.org/10.1111/csp2... @mariabeger.bsky.social

Hey @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social, check out our Nature Relationship Index (NRI) — a new way to measure how well people and planet are thriving together. Might even score higher than Diet Dr Pepper. 🌍💚 #AnthropoceneReviewed #NRI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"We argue that common species ... are too often neglected and that their conservation is urgent." This applies well for bird hunting in Southeast Asia, especially as estimates of both populations and hunting rates of common species vary wildly. doi.org/10.1111/conl... #birds 🌏

🌳This recent study "highlights the influence of park size and human activity on biodiversity, demonstrating eDNA's utility for urban conservation and wildlife management"🌍🧪 buff.ly/vM7Ny4C

Here is the link to the original article in @conphysjournal.bsky.social 🌎🐻‍❄️🧪📸 academic.oup.com/conphys/arti...

📰Published📰A hypothesis explaining how fluctuating environmental conditions direct different developmental outcomes🐊 buff.ly/dwwbKSX 🧪🌍

Experimental research @betafor.bsky.social finds that canopy gaps with deadwood boost insect diversity by supporting rare phylogenetic lineages 🧪 Natural dynamics and targeted management can help conserve them and their ecosystem functions 🌳 🌏 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🐠Findings from a recent study "highlight the importance of incorporating life-history strategies & biotic interactions into ecological niche models and species distribution predictions."🌍🧪 buff.ly/2KkguEt

A global analysis shows consistent energy–diversity relationships across birds, mammals, amphibians & reptiles, resolving decades of ecological debate. Paper now out in @science.org : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌍🌐 #ecology #MetabolicTheory

Lots of invaluable advice here for both early stage researchers and well established folk. Well thought out impactful figures are key to getting your points across, and it's all too common to see poor practice 🧪🧬🖥️🌍 #datavis #bioinformatics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌊Recent study "examines how predator body size variation shapes aquatic community structure. Findings highlight the pervasive, multi-channel influence of predators across all trophic levels in communities."🌍🧪 buff.ly/TGU8uWb

🐸🐍 My #undergrad team at Bridgewater State is out in the field surveying #amphibians & #reptiles across restored #wetlands & streams in SE Mass! Tracking how these 🐢🦎 communities bounce back after restoration. #RestorationGeneration #UndergradResearch 🌱🦤🌍

📢 Summer science in action! Our #undergrad team is documenting #streamHydrology & channel structure to understand how restored streams change over time—and what that means for aquatic habitat We are building data to support better restoration #StreamEcology #UndergradResearch #GenerationRestoration

Hi. In "One day, one paper", glacier retreat threatens unique biodiversity and ecosystem functions across glacier-influenced environments.As ice melts, short-term biodiversity peaks give way to homogenization and decline.Understanding species interactions is key to conservation🌎 tinyurl.com/53ydyks9

New article looking at the use of microbiome science to characterise infectious transmission at wildlife/livestock/human interfaces and better understand dynamics. 🧪🌍 @ilri.org @cirad.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We believe sport can help save species. 🦁⚽ In our new @FrontEcolEnviron paper, we explore how professional teams, fans & conservationists can team up to turn iconic mascots into real-world action for biodiversity. 🌍🏟️ 📄 Read it: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SportsForNature

Biodiversity change under human depopulation in Japan www.nature.com/articles/s41... "... we advise that passively waiting for spontaneous habitat and biodiversity recovery to occur in depopulating areas anywhere will probably result in an underwhelming outcome"

Identifying ecological thresholds from functional traits for optimal ecosystem management ->Nature | #Ecosystem #Ecological | More info from EcoSearch

Should Ecology be more proactive & vocal on one of the key issues of our times? What systemic & institutional changes are needed for the ecological community to be at the forefront of the response? If these are questions that speak to you, this new paper may be of interest lnkd.in/eXfXG4xM

🐢 Out doing some pilot work for a #freshwaterTurtles nesting study & stumbled upon several nesting female common snapping turtles in action! 🥚🪺 Also spotted signs of nest predation—likely raccoons. ⚔️🦝 #FieldWork #Herpetology #Wildlife 🌍🦤🌱🧪

Just published: Leveraging #phenology to map seasonally dynamic #wetland 🌿 plant communities! We used 🛰️ #Sentinel NDVI time series + ground observations to refine ecosystem classification.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #OneHealth

island.lk/a-new-bluepr... @thilinas.bsky.social @ebengoodale.bsky.social

🚨 Breaking Research: Saving Sri Lanka’s Rarest #Lizards🦎 Our study reveals critical gaps in protecting Sri Lanka’s endemic agamid lizards. Using Species Distribution Modeling (SDM) lead by PhD candidate @ireshawijerathne.bsky.social

So proud of my students! Matt (my first grad student!) just earned his MS in Biology — the 2nd thesis-track MS to graduate from Bridgewater State’s Biology program! Keeley completed her BS in Biology with Honors.