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El Miri Abel
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2nd year MSC in the @master-rainet.bsky.social course in Montpellier. Interested by #functional diversity and #rewilding through a community #ecology based approach.
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When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed.

ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...
Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming
Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.
www.eenews.net
October 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Beavers boost bats! Beaver ponds had higher bat richness (4→5 spp/night), 1.6× activity, and 2.3× feeding vs. controls. Structural changes (standing deadwood, more heterogeneous canopy) and more prey help explain why:
Journal of Animal Ecology:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Habitat heterogeneity and food availability in beaver‐engineered streams foster bat richness, activity and feeding
Beavers reshape ecosystems in ways that benefit bat richness, activity and feeding activity. We linked increased habitat structures (standing deadwood and canopy heterogeneity) and prey abundance to ...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Today is an incredibly thrilling day, @econovoau.bsky.social! The DNRF is here for our annual dialogue. Our very own @jcsvenning.bsky.social, the center leader, will be taking us through an exciting rundown of our highlights. It's going to be a fantastic event!
August 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Why did some #megafauna survive? 🦣🦘🦌
Our new study shows #extinction risk was higher for larger, flat-footed, island species— and lower for those closely related to tropical African/Asian fauna, likely filtered by earlier human impacts 👣🍖
📄 doi.org/10.1111/geb....
#hominid #hunting #evolution
August 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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The decline of large seed-dispersing animals has serious implications for trees and other flora.

It's also further proof of how very short-sighted it is to view forests as merely bunches of trees, rather than the complex *ecosystems* they are (or at least, should be).
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Many plants rely on animals to disperse their seeds, but some groups of these seed-dispersing animals are facing severe declines. This Review summarizes evidence of seed disperser declines and discuss...
www.nature.com
May 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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📖Published📖

The fluxible #rstats package provides tools to process #ecosystem gas fluxes in a fully #reproducible workflow, while offering full flexibility to the user 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

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October 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Just deal with people being different than you.
September 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM