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Allan Watt
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Living in the Scottish Borders, Fellow U.K. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, co-organiser of the Alternet summer schools in Peyresq and member of the Alternet Management Board, Honorary Fellow and trustee Royal Entomological Society.
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Applications for this year’s Alternet summer school open until the end of April: Biodiversity and society: transforming science and policy alterneteurope.eu/summerschool/ supported by @biodiversaplus.bsky.social and taking place in Peyresq, a mountain village in the Haute-de-Provence Alpes, France 🧪
Alternet summer school students and tutors in discussion in breakout groups sitting outside around the tables also used for lunch, surrounded by trees and other vegetation that are found around the mountain village of Peyresq.
April 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Dates 3-13th September 2025 and, once again, the summer school is held in Peyresq, Haute-de-Provence Alpes, France, with field trip to Lac d'Allos in the Parc National du Mercantour 2/2
The village of Peyresq, set in the French mountains, surrounded by trees and pasture.
April 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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"Biodiversity and society: transforming science and policy": this year's @alterneteurope.bsky.social summer school supported by @biodiversaplus.bsky.social is open for applicants from postgraduate students and early career researchers, deadline 30th April: alterneteurope.eu/summerschool... 1/2
Alternet summer school students on field trip at Lac d'Allos, the lake and partly tree-covered mountains in the background.
April 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Species of beetles living in dead oak wood are influenced by degree of wood decay (from early to well decayed) in winter: new paper in @royentsoc.bsky.social Agricultural and Forest Entomology resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #saproxylic #insects #Coleoptera #biodiversity 🧪
Figure from paper showing dead wood survey process and saproxylic beetle sampling: (a) entomologist in forest taking dead wood sample; (b) sample bolts, 50 cm in length; (c) wood samples in emergence four chambers; (d) room with about 20 emergence chambers.
December 28, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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Many thanks to all the authors (some pictured here) who published in the @royentsoc.bsky.social's Agricultural and Forest Entomology this year, and the many reviewers who supported @jordancuff.bsky.social, myself and the other editors: resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1461... #insects 🧪
Fourteen of the authors who published in Agricultural and Forest Entomology recently, pictured in agricultural fields, forests, the lab and giving a presentation on their work.
December 20, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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And to Laura Pietrantuono for a paper on the influence of host genetics on the feeding behaviour of a native moth on Nothofagus trees resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪
Moth larva feeding on the underside of a Nothofagus leaf in the lab.
December 12, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Highly commended Early Career Entomologist awards for Agricultural and Forest Entomology went to Yevhen Suprunenko for work on the spread of an invasive forest pest, oak processionary moth resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... 🧪[Photo from Forest Research]
A cluster of oak processionary moth caterpillars on a branch, their long, irritating hairs surrounding them.
December 12, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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The Agricultural and Forest Entomology ECR best paper award for 2023 goes to José Neiva Mesquita Neto for their paper showing that native pollinators can be more important than exotic bees imported in huge numbers from Europe for pollinating blueberry in Chile www.royensoc.co.uk/res-journal-... 🧪
Three entomologists talking in a blueberry field in Chile.
December 12, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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The @royentsoc.bsky.social has just announced the winners of the new ECR awards for best papers in 2022 and 2023: the Agricultural and Forest Entomology award for 2022 goes to Kae Natsume for paper which shows how ants are underappreciated pollinators of crops www.royensoc.co.uk/res-journal-... 🧪
An ant pollinating buckwheat flowers.
December 12, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Quantifying the foliage consumption of leaf-cutter ants, one of the most important insects pests in the Neotropics: New research in Agricultural and Forest Entomology from Fundación para el Estudio de Especies Invasivas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Two members of the research team working in a young forest plantation.
December 10, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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Privilege to know brings responsibility to act? How to define your power position - Sander Jacobs, last speaker at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #sciencepolicy
Sander Jacobs speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq
September 14, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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Considerations of time, bias and expertise in knowledge synthesis - Nils Bunnefeld from the Eklipse initiative at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #policy #ecosystemservices #AlternetSummerSchool
Nils Bunnefeld speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq
September 12, 2024 at 7:16 AM
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Social-ecological transformations: Power and equity in the co-production of ecosystem services in Peru - Bruno Locatelli at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ecosystemservices #SES #waterregulation #AlternetSummerSchool
Bruno Locatelli speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq Bruno Locatelli speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq, some students, a piano and a bust of the head Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
September 11, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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Art and nature - Steve Redpath back at the Alternet Summer School after many years #biodiversity #nature #drawing #landscapes stephenmredpath.com
Steve Redpath speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq
September 9, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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From conflict to transformation? Lou Lécuyer CESAB @FRBiodiv at Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #power #jaguar #humanwildlifeconflict
Lou Lécuyer speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq
September 9, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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Can we reverse the decline of Earth’s habitability? Wolfgang Cramer IMBE at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ipbes #ipcc #climatechange #sustainability
Wolfgang Cramer speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq
September 9, 2024 at 7:27 AM
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Communication Strategies for Success in biodiversity - Julie de Bouville, Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ipbes
Julie de Bouville speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq
September 8, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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The end of (big) cities? Transforming rural areas and food systems to conserve biodiversity - Nicolas Dendoncker, Alternet Summer School #farming #transitions #nature #alternetsummerschool
Nicolas Dendoncker speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq
September 8, 2024 at 9:33 AM
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Innovative futures thinking and decolonial praxis, participatory futures methodologies and games - Laura Pereira, Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature
Laura Pereira speaking outside in Peyresq village
September 7, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Negotiating multifunctional landscapes: Where values and needs clash? Francis Turkelboom, Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #landuse #conflict #stakeholder #engagement
Francis Turkelboom speaking in the Peyresq lecture theatre
September 7, 2024 at 7:17 AM
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Towards a social-ecological system thinking - Emilie Crouzat at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ecosystemservices #SES
Emilie Crouzat speaking in the Peyresq lecture theatre
September 6, 2024 at 7:19 AM
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Wine, biodiversity and climate change Sebastian Candiago at the Alternet Summer School #biodiversity #nature #ecosystemservices
Sebastian Candiago speaking in the lecture theatre in Peyresq
September 5, 2024 at 4:00 PM
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Peter Bridgewater opens this year Alternet Summer School: Transformative Change: Much ado about nothing, A midsummer nights dream or All's well that ends well?
Peter Bridgewater speaking in the Peyresq lecture theatre
September 4, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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Day 1 of the 18th Alternet Summer School in Peyresq - Biodiversity and society: perspectives on science and policy - waiting for the students to arrive
View from village of Peyresq, dominated by tree-covered hills.
September 4, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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Deadline 25th April - Biodiversity and Society: science, policy and transformative change - experience a unique learning environment at this year's Alternet_Europe
summer school, supported by Biodiversa+
in the village of Peyresq, France. Apply: alterneteurope.eu/summerschool/
Four students working outside at last year's summer school.
April 21, 2024 at 9:11 AM