Riccardo Pernice
@riccardopernice.bsky.social
#Ecologist | #Mountainbiodiversity | #PhDstudent @sciencecharles.bsky.social| #Datavalidator @Ipsos
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After a wolf dragged a crab trap out of water to get a snack, some scientists said the behavior revealed their ability to use tools.
Video Reveals How Far Wolves Will Go to Steal a Meal
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
After a wolf dragged a crab trap out of water to get a snack, some scientists said the behavior revealed their ability to use tools.
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
With great pleasure, I announce that another chapter of my doctoral thesis has been published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social. In our study, we explored how bird diversity varies with altitude—taxonomically, functionally, and phylogenetically—on Mt. Cameroon
With great pleasure, I announce that another chapter of my doctoral thesis has been published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social. In our study, we explored how bird diversity varies with altitude—taxonomically, functionally, and phylogenetically—on Mt. Cameroon
Functional and Phylogenetic Structure of Forest Bird Assemblages Along an Afrotropical Elevational Gradient
On Mt. Cameroon, functional richness and taxonomic diversity decreased with elevation, while functional nearest neighbor distance, functional evenness, and mean nearest taxon distance showed positive...
doi.org
August 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
With great pleasure, I announce that another chapter of my doctoral thesis has been published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social. In our study, we explored how bird diversity varies with altitude—taxonomically, functionally, and phylogenetically—on Mt. Cameroon
With great pleasure, I announce that another chapter of my doctoral thesis has been published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social. In our study, we explored how bird diversity varies with altitude—taxonomically, functionally, and phylogenetically—on Mt. Cameroon
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Some 4.3 million observations of butterflies show that 59 of 136 species have declined in abundance over the past three decades, while no species has increased in abundance. Butterfly declines undoubtedly have large ecological consequences. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
August 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Some 4.3 million observations of butterflies show that 59 of 136 species have declined in abundance over the past three decades, while no species has increased in abundance. Butterfly declines undoubtedly have large ecological consequences. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Plants have limited resources for #defense. @ethanbass.bsky.social explores a @plosbiology.org study revealing how #plants limit costs by deploying cheap traits immediately, delaying spending on costly ones until a critical damage threshold is reached. Paper: plos.io/45iSFUd Primer: plos.io/45kLk6C
August 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Plants have limited resources for #defense. @ethanbass.bsky.social explores a @plosbiology.org study revealing how #plants limit costs by deploying cheap traits immediately, delaying spending on costly ones until a critical damage threshold is reached. Paper: plos.io/45iSFUd Primer: plos.io/45kLk6C
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Scientists have found instances of sex reversal—where an individual has the physical features of one sex but the genetic makeup of the other—in five different Australian bird species. https://scim.ag/41Dvamo
‘Sex reversal' is surprisingly common in birds, new study suggests
Survey of five Australian avians finds numerous discordant individuals, including a genetically male bird that had laid an egg
scim.ag
August 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Scientists have found instances of sex reversal—where an individual has the physical features of one sex but the genetic makeup of the other—in five different Australian bird species. https://scim.ag/41Dvamo