Absolutely delighted that one of my photos picked up 'Specially Commended' in the @royentsoc.bsky.social 2023 Photo Competition!
Congratulations to everyone else who picked up wins in this year's competition. Let's support #insectweek & show some love for the little creatures that run this world! 🧪
The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in southern Oregon/northern California has a new draft management plan and we need people to submit substantive comments by July 5.
We climbed up the Büelenhorn (2512m) and Büelenberg, a quite lonely mountain ridge above Davos. A lot of nice biodiversity to see in the #alpine zone! (and sahara sand)
Presenting the Biodiversa+ soil pilot at the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos. We compared traditional and eDNA methods to assess soil biodiversity in forests.
Do the public and scientists look for earthworms in different places? Do they therefore find different species? Are 'rare' earthworm species really just living in overlooked habitats?
YES to all of the above! Find out more (open access):
In GSBI's latest blog, Dr. Julia Köninger discusses the diversity of soil organisms 🐜🐛🪱 across 787 sites in Europe using soil DNA. This study spanned ecosystems such as croplands 🌾, grasslands 🌱, and woodlands 🌳.
Yesterday was formatting day at Translating Soil Biodiversity and we have 4 new translations of Soil Biodiversity Articles for Kids published: - 1 in Urdu - 2 in Croatian - 1 in Finnish (new language!) www.idiv.de/de/young-min...
Yes #Dolomites, and a very controversial alpine hut that you can see from the capital city and where a private person bought land on the mountain (never happened before, maybe also illegal, but backed by rhe government...).
Ein solches Bild soll also die Forschung tausender Wissenschaftler:innen von vielen Dekaden weltweit widerlegen?
Und weil einmal das Wasser 15-Hundert-Irgenwas an dieser Stelle hoch stand, gibt es keine GLOBALE Erhitzung?
Prof. Rahmsdorf und seine Kollegen arbeiten mit Millionen Messdaten...
SAVE THE DATE! Irish Soil Biodiversity Research Network (ISBRN) Meeting 26 JUNE 2024 10:00-16:00 (TBC) For all Principal Investigators across the island of Ireland who carry out or plan to carry out research on soil biodiversity. forms.office.com/e/ygcrs6Tq76
„Sonst nicht mit Fähigkeiten ausgestattet, die ihm zur Aufmerksamkeit der Öffentlichkeit verhelfen würden, hält er halt immer und immer wieder sein Stöckchen hoch: Irgendwer wird schon wie ein dressiertes Karnickel drüber springen.“
🫖 Teatime in @BugNet_research! Lots of green an roibos tea is packed and shipped to our collaborators to test the importance of aboveground insect🐛 , fungal pathogens🦠 and molluscs🐌 for decomposition 🍵
Lots of insects take advantage of black and yellow warning colors to help keep predators like birds away. This is called aposematic coloration. It might work a little too well, as some people choose violence instead of taking the time to appreciate them.
These are all flies and cannot sting.
*Martin, P. A., et al. (2024). Meta-analysis reveals that the effects of precipitation change on soil and litter fauna in forests depend on body size. Global Change Biology.
Awesome news, can't wait to read it. And all the best in the writing process 👏 I am sure it will be a wonderful piece of paper with many of your photos!
Climate Action Tracker (climateactiontracker.org/blog/eus-gre...) zeigt eindrucksvoll,wie wichtig Wahlen fürs Klima sind. Durch den Green Deal hat sich die EU-Klimapolitik ggü. 2019 um mehr als 1 Grad verbessert. Da ist natürlich noch Luft für mehr - daher Augen auf bei der Europawahl am 09.06.2024.
Nice to see the recent Christchurch City Nature Challenge and my Macrophotography covered in Western News, NZ. Some well-deserved credit for the organising team in this article, including Rob Cruickshank, who did an amazing job of engaging with the local community 🧪
I really enjoy the science and climate community here and I would love for it to grow. If you’re still on X, why not use it to invite people to come over here? I do, every week!
RT if you agree 😁
Als Naturwissenschaftler und #Umweltaktivist verstehe ich es ja vielleicht nicht, aber was ist jetzt "grün" daran, wenn ihr Meatballs bewerbt, um damit Bäume zu pflanzen? 🤔
Woke-Alarm für Tiroler Mega-Patrioten 🚨 Wurden die vor den lila Nordlichtern eigentlich gewarnt? War es eine linksgrüne Propaganda? Wir werden es NiEmAlS erfahren!!1!elf!
Lieber Herr Merz, ich bin Ingenieur und Erfinder und ich kann Ihnen ganz genau sagen, wie wir unsere Klimaziele erreichen. Wir brauchen:
- Solarenergie
- Windenergie
- Batteriespeicher
- Stromnetze
- Elektroautos
- Wärmepumpen u.v.m.
Die Politik muss die passenden Rahmenbedingungen dafür setzen.