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Jingyi Yang @jyang19.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Do montane birds evolve more efficient wing shapes for flying at high elevations? Our global analysis published today suggests that they do! 🧵(1/8)⬇️ www.cell.com/current-biol....

White-fronted Ground-tyrant, a resident species at extreme high elevations in the tropical Andes with very elongated wings. Photo: Matti Rekilä.

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Alex Pigot @alexpigot.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

Evolutionary history of host trees amplifies the dilution effect of biodiversity on forest pests journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Alex Pigot @alexpigot.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Variation in Avian Predation Pressure as a Driver for the Diversification of Periodical Cicada Broods www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Prob the best studied climate-related range expansion of any European #birds is the Cetti’s Warbler. This skulking brown bird is the sole European representative of a largely Asian genus & is a resident species of reedbeds & wet scrub. 1/N 🌿🌏 🧪 Pics Nick Goodram CC BY 2.0 flickr.com/search/?user...

A rare relatively unobscured image of a Cetti's Warbler, probably singing. It is a warm brown on the head, back wings and tail fading to white on the throat and belly with a tiny white eye-stripe. Beady black eye and that's about it. Half hidden by a bunch of twigs.

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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 20/02/2024

Exciting update! @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social - launch the Interactive Climate Atlas atlas.climate.copernicus.eu/atlas  This new tool builds on the data of the IPCC Climate Atlas and enables exploration of CMIP6 climate projections and other datasets including observations and reanalysis.

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Here is the video recording of my talk exploring what energy flow through ecosystems can tell us about nature's health and functions, and in particular, bring the roles of animal wildlife more firmly into our understanding of how the biosphere functions

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Jonathan Chase @jon-chase03.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

The lack of evidence for declining local diversity through time must be because everything is homogenizing, leading to larger-scale losses. Right?! Nope, says our analysis of 500+ meta-communities through time just published in Science Advances 🧪🌎🐟🌳🦋 🐦🦌 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Synthesis reveals approximately balanced biotic differentiation and homogenization

Homogenization is most common at large temporal and spatial scales but is balanced by differentiation at smaller scales.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 14/02/2024

Between 10% and 47% of Amazonian forests may be exposed to climate stresses that could push the biome past a tipping point as soon as 2050, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4bG7nWC 🧪

This is figure 1, which explores ecosystem transition potential across the Amazon forest biome as a result of compounding disturbances.

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