JV Montoya
@aquatico1.bsky.social
Researcher @ IVIC, Caracas-Venezuela 🇻🇪. Limnology, Aquatic Metabolism, Plankton, Meiofauna, Flood Ecology, Large Rivers and Floodplain Lakes, Orinoco, Amazon.
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JV Montoya
@aquatico1.bsky.social
· Jul 15
Lago de Maracaibo, Venezuela. Primera campaña de muestreo. Julio 2025
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🌏 Biodiversity loss has deep-rooted causes—from power imbalances to short-term priorities. These shape indirect & direct drivers like land/sea use change, exploitation & climate change.
Graphic from the IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment ⤵️
Graphic from the IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment ⤵️
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
🌏 Biodiversity loss has deep-rooted causes—from power imbalances to short-term priorities. These shape indirect & direct drivers like land/sea use change, exploitation & climate change.
Graphic from the IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment ⤵️
Graphic from the IPBES #TransformativeChange Assessment ⤵️
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Often overlooked, small water bodies - streams, damp ditches, small bogs, ponds - support more rare species compared with larger habitats while high-quality ponds support about 2/3 of all freshwater plant + animal species in a landscape.
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freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/start-w...
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freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/start-w...
November 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Often overlooked, small water bodies - streams, damp ditches, small bogs, ponds - support more rare species compared with larger habitats while high-quality ponds support about 2/3 of all freshwater plant + animal species in a landscape.
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freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/start-w...
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freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/start-w...
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Strands of gold 💛
Not a bad first day back in #Iceland. Pretty windy but managed to get the drone up anyway...
This is the Markafljót river with Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands) just visible in the distance.
#DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography
Not a bad first day back in #Iceland. Pretty windy but managed to get the drone up anyway...
This is the Markafljót river with Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands) just visible in the distance.
#DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography
November 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Strands of gold 💛
Not a bad first day back in #Iceland. Pretty windy but managed to get the drone up anyway...
This is the Markafljót river with Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands) just visible in the distance.
#DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography
Not a bad first day back in #Iceland. Pretty windy but managed to get the drone up anyway...
This is the Markafljót river with Vestmannaeyjar (Westman Islands) just visible in the distance.
#DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography
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Conservation in a hotter world open.substack.com/pub/american...
The AGS Globe: Rethinking Conservation in a Hotter World
The American Geographical Society's Weekly Newsletter for Tuesday, October 21, 2025
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Conservation in a hotter world open.substack.com/pub/american...
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Calling all ocean-inspired artists! - We’re launching our festive Ocean Art Card Competition.
We’re inviting you to dive into the wonders of our science – celebrating ocean biology, the hidden marine microbiome, and the beauty of coastal ecology.
Enter here - www.mba.ac.uk/art-competit...
We’re inviting you to dive into the wonders of our science – celebrating ocean biology, the hidden marine microbiome, and the beauty of coastal ecology.
Enter here - www.mba.ac.uk/art-competit...
October 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Calling all ocean-inspired artists! - We’re launching our festive Ocean Art Card Competition.
We’re inviting you to dive into the wonders of our science – celebrating ocean biology, the hidden marine microbiome, and the beauty of coastal ecology.
Enter here - www.mba.ac.uk/art-competit...
We’re inviting you to dive into the wonders of our science – celebrating ocean biology, the hidden marine microbiome, and the beauty of coastal ecology.
Enter here - www.mba.ac.uk/art-competit...
Lago de Maracaibo, Venezuela. Primera campaña de muestreo. Julio 2025
July 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Lago de Maracaibo, Venezuela. Primera campaña de muestreo. Julio 2025
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Very interesting finding: photochemical formation of N2O in freshwater and marine waters.
The N cycle gets more complex. 🧐
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The N cycle gets more complex. 🧐
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sunlight drives the abiotic formation of nitrous oxide in fresh and marine waters
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas and the main stratospheric ozone-depleting agent, yet its sources are not well resolved. In this work, we experimentally show a N2O production pathway no...
www.science.org
March 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Very interesting finding: photochemical formation of N2O in freshwater and marine waters.
The N cycle gets more complex. 🧐
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The N cycle gets more complex. 🧐
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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We are now starting the second part of the #NFR_HITLICE project on Senja, Northern Norway, where we infect migrating salmon smolts with salmon lice and tag them with acoustic transmitters with predation sensors to investigate the vulnerability to predation 🐟
June 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
We are now starting the second part of the #NFR_HITLICE project on Senja, Northern Norway, where we infect migrating salmon smolts with salmon lice and tag them with acoustic transmitters with predation sensors to investigate the vulnerability to predation 🐟
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How does #biodiversity control 🍂decomposition in #RiverNetworks?
In our new Ecological Monographs paper, we show that 🪲macroinvertebrate key taxa drive decomposition, while #FunctionalDiversity reduces decomposition #variability! Network-scale #BEF in action, check it out!
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
In our new Ecological Monographs paper, we show that 🪲macroinvertebrate key taxa drive decomposition, while #FunctionalDiversity reduces decomposition #variability! Network-scale #BEF in action, check it out!
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
May 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
How does #biodiversity control 🍂decomposition in #RiverNetworks?
In our new Ecological Monographs paper, we show that 🪲macroinvertebrate key taxa drive decomposition, while #FunctionalDiversity reduces decomposition #variability! Network-scale #BEF in action, check it out!
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
In our new Ecological Monographs paper, we show that 🪲macroinvertebrate key taxa drive decomposition, while #FunctionalDiversity reduces decomposition #variability! Network-scale #BEF in action, check it out!
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
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As consumption of antibiotics has risen around the world, so has antibiotic pollution of rivers. A model identifies the rivers most likely affected and the drugs most likely to be found in the water. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
April 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
As consumption of antibiotics has risen around the world, so has antibiotic pollution of rivers. A model identifies the rivers most likely affected and the drugs most likely to be found in the water. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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New publication: Erosion of traditional ecological knowledge under conditions of hydrosocial rupture: Insights from the Mekong floodplains communities
Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Erosion of traditional ecological knowledge under conditions of hydrosocial rupture: Insights from the Mekong floodplains communities - Ambio
What role does traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) play in resource-based livelihoods under conditions of hydrosocial rupture? Does such knowledge come into its own, or is it sidelined, even eroded...
link.springer.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
New publication: Erosion of traditional ecological knowledge under conditions of hydrosocial rupture: Insights from the Mekong floodplains communities
Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Open access link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Animal movement in space and time: the role of thermal barriers and individual variation in modulating predator–prey overlap in stratified lakes
https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10528
#BrookCharr #HabitatFragmentation #HabitatSelectionAnalysis #MovementEcology #Predation #ZooplanktonCommunities
https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10528
#BrookCharr #HabitatFragmentation #HabitatSelectionAnalysis #MovementEcology #Predation #ZooplanktonCommunities
April 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Animal movement in space and time: the role of thermal barriers and individual variation in modulating predator–prey overlap in stratified lakes
https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10528
#BrookCharr #HabitatFragmentation #HabitatSelectionAnalysis #MovementEcology #Predation #ZooplanktonCommunities
https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10528
#BrookCharr #HabitatFragmentation #HabitatSelectionAnalysis #MovementEcology #Predation #ZooplanktonCommunities
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Altered Phenotypic Responses of Asexual Arctic Daphnia After 10 Years of Rapid Climate Change
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📄 buff.ly/6R4EAKl
April 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Altered Phenotypic Responses of Asexual Arctic Daphnia After 10 Years of Rapid Climate Change
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📄 buff.ly/6R4EAKl
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On Per Theodor Cleve (1840-1905) the amazing part-time protistologist: ejournals.eu/en/journal/a...
#protistsonsky
#protistsonsky
April 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
On Per Theodor Cleve (1840-1905) the amazing part-time protistologist: ejournals.eu/en/journal/a...
#protistsonsky
#protistsonsky
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Switzerland is one of the few countries to have introduced "tertiary" cleaning of sewage. Cleaning the sewage 3 times, removes not only bacteria & viruses but also chemicals & medicines - reducing risk of antibiotic resistant bacteria developing.
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
Streams of medicines: how Switzerland cleaned up its act – podcast
In the second of a two part series, Phoebe Weston travels to Switzerland to find out how the country has transformed its rivers, from sewage-filled health hazards to pristine swimming spots. She tells...
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Switzerland is one of the few countries to have introduced "tertiary" cleaning of sewage. Cleaning the sewage 3 times, removes not only bacteria & viruses but also chemicals & medicines - reducing risk of antibiotic resistant bacteria developing.
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
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Second video in the series: how to spot toxic labs, for example during an interview
youtu.be/TVXk2hUo5qA
youtu.be/TVXk2hUo5qA
Toxic labs: how to spot them during the interview or afterwards. #phdlife #academia #toxicworkplace
YouTube video by Life in academia
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April 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Second video in the series: how to spot toxic labs, for example during an interview
youtu.be/TVXk2hUo5qA
youtu.be/TVXk2hUo5qA
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🔊 America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2025 report! From Alaska to New Jersey, whether threatened by drought, mining, or flooding, these 10 rivers all have one thing in common: they are all at a tipping point, facing an urgent decision in the coming months.
Take action: mostendangeredrivers.org
Take action: mostendangeredrivers.org
April 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
🔊 America’s Most Endangered Rivers® of 2025 report! From Alaska to New Jersey, whether threatened by drought, mining, or flooding, these 10 rivers all have one thing in common: they are all at a tipping point, facing an urgent decision in the coming months.
Take action: mostendangeredrivers.org
Take action: mostendangeredrivers.org
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Just published! 🚨 Microplastics are persistent pollutants and hotspots for bacterial biofilms, including halotolerant pathogens. Could these plastic carriers be spreading harmful microbes? 🦠 Dive into this research in Anatolian saline lakes 🌊 @juanppacheco.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
April 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Just published! 🚨 Microplastics are persistent pollutants and hotspots for bacterial biofilms, including halotolerant pathogens. Could these plastic carriers be spreading harmful microbes? 🦠 Dive into this research in Anatolian saline lakes 🌊 @juanppacheco.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
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Go support your Free-for-all community-based scientific journals !
www.sedimentologika.org
www.sedimentologika.org
January 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Go support your Free-for-all community-based scientific journals !
www.sedimentologika.org
www.sedimentologika.org
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It’s pretty gnarly out there today, so here’s a stormy photo from a few years ago. 📷
January 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It’s pretty gnarly out there today, so here’s a stormy photo from a few years ago. 📷
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" (...) it is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."
(Jennifer Powers, A place for natural history in the 21st century, Biotropica. 2025;57:e13364. doi.org/10.1111/btp....)
(Jennifer Powers, A place for natural history in the 21st century, Biotropica. 2025;57:e13364. doi.org/10.1111/btp....)
December 18, 2024 at 11:49 PM
" (...) it is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."
(Jennifer Powers, A place for natural history in the 21st century, Biotropica. 2025;57:e13364. doi.org/10.1111/btp....)
(Jennifer Powers, A place for natural history in the 21st century, Biotropica. 2025;57:e13364. doi.org/10.1111/btp....)
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From Sagan's 1995 book.
Prescient and chilling.
Prescient and chilling.
December 18, 2024 at 11:47 PM
From Sagan's 1995 book.
Prescient and chilling.
Prescient and chilling.
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Interesting food web interaction across ecosystem boundaries: stream decapods feeding on inputs of terrestrial fruit in neotropical forest catchments
Linking Neotropical riparian and stream food webs: nocturnal foraging behavior and facilitation among decapods in response to added palm fruit - Hydrobiologia
Freshwater macroinvertebrates can connect tropical forests and stream food webs by consuming both terrestrially and aquatically produced foods, but direct observations of nocturnal feeding behavior in...
link.springer.com
December 16, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Interesting food web interaction across ecosystem boundaries: stream decapods feeding on inputs of terrestrial fruit in neotropical forest catchments
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Not a fish or a dragon scale, but a single cell of a #protistsonsky. This rhizarian testate amoeba creates perfect tiny glass scales to build it's shell. From a peat bog. #protistaday.
December 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Not a fish or a dragon scale, but a single cell of a #protistsonsky. This rhizarian testate amoeba creates perfect tiny glass scales to build it's shell. From a peat bog. #protistaday.
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Los salares son texturas, formas, luces y geometrías.
El agua se evapora, las sales se concentran y cristalizan formando polígonos u otras formas que se moldean con el viento y el sol. El tiempo atemporal de la sal.
📸 Salar de Maricunga, región de Atacama 🩵
El agua se evapora, las sales se concentran y cristalizan formando polígonos u otras formas que se moldean con el viento y el sol. El tiempo atemporal de la sal.
📸 Salar de Maricunga, región de Atacama 🩵
December 9, 2024 at 5:59 PM
Los salares son texturas, formas, luces y geometrías.
El agua se evapora, las sales se concentran y cristalizan formando polígonos u otras formas que se moldean con el viento y el sol. El tiempo atemporal de la sal.
📸 Salar de Maricunga, región de Atacama 🩵
El agua se evapora, las sales se concentran y cristalizan formando polígonos u otras formas que se moldean con el viento y el sol. El tiempo atemporal de la sal.
📸 Salar de Maricunga, región de Atacama 🩵