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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🎧 Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica ? Answer this quick 5-min survey: 👉 www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en Take a break and listen to the voice of the forest 💚 Please like & share on 🦋 to reach more participants 🙏 🌐🌍🦤🧪🍁🪴

Flyer for the BIODIFUL Soundscapes survey. Text reads: 'Do you want to help us understand how humans perceive forest soundscapes in Costa Rica? Please answer our online questionnaire: Voices of the Tropical Forest.' Photo of a lush tropical forest interior, overlaid with a translucent ear icon surrounded by sound waves. Text continues: 'This anonymous survey will take only 10 min. https://www.biodiful.org/#/soundscapes_en.' Logos at the bottom: BIODIFUL, ETH Zürich, CNRS, and Station d'Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The prettier the butterflies 🦋, the more we study & protect them! With L. Dapporto & M. Portera, we found beauty bias drives public attention, research & conservation efforts; but not IUCN Red Lists, which flag real risk. @currentbiology.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.07.049 🌐🧪🌍🦤

Diagram titled "The beauty loop," showing two contrasting cycles radiating from two butterflies. Left side, from a colourful blue butterfly labeled "Beauty – showy, colourful species": a chain of plus signs leads to "Public attention," then down through "Bern Convention (1979)," "Habitats Directive (1992)," "European funding (LIFE)," "Conservation actions," and "Research effort," each link marked with a plus sign, illustrating how beautiful species get more attention, funding, and protection. Right side, from a plain brown butterfly labeled "Rarity – small range, often plain": dashed arrows marked with plus and minus signs connect to "IUCN Red Lists (2010, 2025)" and loop back negatively to "Public attention" and "Research effort," showing that rare, inconspicuous species are flagged as threatened but get less attention and study.

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Can sound help people care about overlooked species? We found that hearing the spawning calls of an endangered, non-charismatic fish 🐟 significantly increased public interest and support for its protection ! 📰 Tribot & Mouquet (2026), Biological Conservation 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... 🧪🌍🦤🦑

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Happy to release v2 of the @global-ecology.bsky.social Digest 🌐✨💚 The new version includes: • weekly wrap-ups • improved visualisation • archives A curated feed into biodiversity & global change research for anyone on to share online here 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... 🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Want to measure your publishing fairness? Here is fairpub, an R pkg companion to our recent work on citation self-awareness (doi.org/10.1093/bios...). Analyze your publication profile and/or reference list in your upcoming manuscripts and see your fairness ratio 👉 github.com/FRBCesab/fai... 🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Citation self-awareness for a fairer academic publishing landscape Check out our last viewpoint in Bioscience: In an asymmetric publishing system, citation are influenced by unconscious biases. Recognize them is necessary for a more balanced publishing landscape. doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Huge thanks to #BioScience for featuring our paper "Too Cute to Be Wild" on the cover of their March issue! 🐻🧸✨ doi.org/10.1093/bios... Never thought our work on teddy bears would take us this far! 💚 with @thierrybrassac.bsky.social, N. Blanc, N. Casajus, and A.S. Tribot 👏 🧪🌐🌍🦤

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

MPAs only partly offset decades of human impacts on tropical reefs Protecting more while continuing business as usual will just slow the decline 🐟📉 ! Check our latest paper in @natecoevo.nature.com with @uflandrin.bsky.social on 2800+ reefs & ~1700 🐠 species www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The Global Ecology feed is growing fast, now >30 posts/week on large-scale biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation science 🌍🧪🦤🦑🪴🍁 Join the convo, DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join and be added to the list of contributors ! Let’s build a community together ✨🌈💚 👉 bsky.app/profile/nmou...

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Our next #CESABINAR will take place on Dec 11th, 3 pm, Paris time Lise Conte and Jonathan Lenoir will present the work of the #BIOSHIFT group: 👉 Global redistribution of biodiversity Zoom : us06web.zoom.us/j/8295073328... key : 486426 @jonlen.bsky.social @frbiodiv.bsky.social 🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Our Bioscience paper on teddy bears 🐻 (Too cute to be wild, doi.org/10.1093/bios...) was featured in Libération, a French national newspaper! 😊 Plushology is getting some attention, maybe it’s time for a @wikipedia.org page? 🧸💚 😉

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Very proud of this paper in BioScience : « Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature » 🧸 are more than toys, they shape among our first emotional connections to nature. But their design may also distort how we see wildlife ! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧪🦤

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

The science of cuteness: where teddy bears’ beauty, comfort and care converge! 🧸✨ Check out our latest paper in The Journal of Positive Psychology, where we explore how beauty & emotional comfort shape our care motivations 🫶🌈❤️ 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1743... #TeddyBears #PositivePsychology 🧪

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Sharing some time with the #CESAB postdocs during our annual 3 days retreat in Montpellier. Amazing people, great science, and, above all, human kindness! Love you all 🫶 🧪

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Check out our new study by Gita Alisa et al., showing that large-scale restoration of coral reefs not only brings back ecological health but recovers aesthetic value to levels of healthy reefs in three years only ! 👉 Beauty, biodiversity, and people, all connected 💙 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🧪🌐🦑🦤

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Conserving the beauty of the world’s reef fish assemblages 💙 Check out our last paper @pnas.org We mapped what makes reef fish assemblages beautiful worldwide! 🌍 MPAs boost aesthetic, and developing countries have a chance to align conservation with local benefits doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🌐🧪🦑🦤

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Our next #CESABINAR will take place on June 19th, 4:00-5:15 pm, Paris time B. Mérigot and D. Palomares will present the work of the #FISHGLOB group: 👉 Fish biodiversity under global change: a worldwide assessment zoom : us06web.zoom.us/j/8969028431... key: 333782 🧪🌐🌍🦑🦤

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Remember the Costa Concordia? Its 2012 shipwreck devastated coralligenous reefs 👉 Our new study shows how active restoration helped revive the biodiversity & aesthetic value of these fragile ecosystems doi.org/10.1111/rec.... Full recovery takes time, but there’s hope 💙 beneath the surface! 🧪🌍🦑🦤

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Check out our new publication lead by Lucie Mahaut in @royalsocietypublishing.org Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change 👉 Trait diversity and redundancy drive stability; human impacts reduce it. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #ReefLifeSurvey 🌐🧪🦑🌍

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Why do we fear some animals more than others? 🕷️🐍🐊 Check out our study in @peopleandnature.bsky.social with @karlzlr.bsky.social on danger and fear in shaping human biophobia. Fear isn’t just danger—social & cultural factors matter! 🔗 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌐🧪🌍🦤

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Our next #CESABINAR will take place on March 7th, 2:00-3:15pm, Paris time A. Jeliazkov, J.N. Beisel and A. Sexton will present the work of the #NAVIDIV group: 👉 Inland navigation infrastructures and biodiversity: impacts and opportunities zoom : bit.ly/41wCEZ1 key: 599485 🧪🌐🌍

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🚀 In 2025, #CESAB will launch a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration 💡 IdeaShare: Develop new concepts, models & methods 📊 DataShare: Assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets 📆 Opening in April Stay tuned ! 🌈 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁

A picturesque landscape showcasing a vibrant field adorned with trees and birds in flight. Reminder to save the date for the CESAB Call 2025 Idea & Data Share call.

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Science under threats ! A call to action addressing global threats to academic research. From public mistrust to barriers in collaboration, this paper outlines solutions to safeguard science and advance progress. 👉 G. Piret et al. in @theinnovation.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.xi... 🌐🧪

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Our next #CESABINAR will take place on Jan 23rd, 2:00-3:15pm, Paris time Mehdi Adjeroud and Valeriano Parravicini will present the work of the SCORE-REEF group : Spatio-temporal variability of coral reefs at the global scale zoom : bit.ly/40zwwi6 key: 388280 🧪🌐🌍🦑

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Want to download spatial shapefiles of protected areas for world countries using the World Database on Protected Areas API (WDPA) ? 👉 Here is the #CESAB worldpa #R pkg : frbcesab.github.io/worldpa/ 👉 vignette : frbcesab.github.io/worldpa/arti... Thx Nico Casajus for sharing this 🧙 ! 🧪🌐 🌍🦤#rstat

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Want to list all packages used in you R project ? 👉 Here is the #CESAB rdeps #R pkg frbcesab.github.io/rdeps/ 🔑 Principles: 1️⃣ Identify all external pkg used in a project (package, compendium, website, etc.) 2️⃣ List them in the DESCRIPTION file Thx Nico Casajus for sharing this 🧙 ! 🧪🌐 #rstat

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Our fifth online CESABINAR will take place on Thurs Dec 12th, 3pm, Paris time @soniachaabane.bsky.social and @tdegaridel.bsky.social, from @cerege.bsky.social, will present the work of the #CESAB FORCIS group : Foraminifera Response to Climatic Stress zoom : bit.ly/49CsXdW key: 941365 🧪🌐🌍🦑

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Fish can simultaneously contribute to nature and people across the world’s tropical reefs See our ms in One Earth : 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.on... 🔑 Measuring 29 fish contributions to nature and people, we found that trade-offs aren’t the rule and bright-spots can be in any country 🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑 #addOcean

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

🪱 Putting Earthworm conservation on the map! Check out the last publication of our #CESAB LANDWORM and IMPACT groups by @sylvaingrd.bsky.social et al. 👉 bit.ly/4ij7sTg 🔑 They are soil keystones & face global threats, demanding broad-scale, multifaceted diversity indicators for conservation. 🧪🌐🌍🦤

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The socioeconomic and environmental niches of world terrestrial and marine #ProtectedAreas see our last study in Nat. Commun. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔑 We highlight ‘potential’ versus ‘unrealistic’ conservation gains on land and sea to meet global conservation targets. 🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑

Potential and unrealistic conservation gains for terrestrial and marine
vertebrates. We define as low vs. high conservation gains (x-axis) the bottom vs.
top-ranked (10%) unprotected areas for the conservation of vertebrates according
to themaximisation of species range size coverage on land (a birds and mammals)
and sea (b fish).We define aspotential vs. unrealistic conservation gains (y-axis), the
unprotected areas being the most likely (‘low-hanging fruits’) vs. unlikely (‘highhanging
fruits’) to be protected according to their social-environmental context.
On global maps, established protected areas are in green, while we only represent
the potential vs. unrealistic high conservation gains on land (c) and sea (d). The
gradient of colours corresponds to the relative likelihood that these unprotected
areas are turned into protected areas according to the 14 social-environmental
factors (Tables 1 and 2) and Random Forest models (see ‘Methods’). So, potential
high conservation gains are in dark blue,while unrealistic high gains are in dark red.
See Fig. 5 for the average relative likelihood of PA establishment per country on
land and sea. These patterns could be biased by missing PAs in theWord Database
on Protected Areas. Source data and codes are provided at https://doi.org/10.5281/
zenodo.11183846.

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

🐟 #CESAB ONLINE conference 🐟 Fish biodiversity facing global change 📅 Dec 5 ⏰ 2 to 6 pm Paris time 🔗 umontpellier-fr.zoom.us/j/95406319308 👉 Topics will cover imputation of missing fish traits, Red list assessments, heat waves, homogenization, fish stocks and fishery management 🧪🌐🌍🦤 #addOcean

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Updating the #IUCN status of marine fish using AI shows that x5 more species are threatened with extinction than previously thought! see our study in Plos Biol with @nloiseau.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🔑 This silent extinction affects 12,7% of marine fishes (1337 species) ! 🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I wish my notebooks were as beautiful and insightful as Ricard Solè’s… Here’s how mines look 😂. Thanks for sharing, @ricardsole.bsky.social – truly inspiring! ✨

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

🌿 Outstanding #CESAB SynTreeSys online seminar series : Understanding Tropical Forests 📅 Nov 28 - Dec 6 ⏰ 1 PM São Paulo | 5 PM Paris 28/11 H. Steege 29/11 R. Lima 03/12 T. Scalley 04/12 @tobypennington.bsky.social 05/12 C. Fortunel 06/12 J. Chave 👉 meet.google.com/gsq-gqgf-vug 🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🌾

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Reef fishes most threatened by extinction (worldwide) receive less scientific and public attention! see our publication in Science Advances : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Let’s (re)balance our focus to protect all marine life !! and beyond ... 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

🚀 Want to make your R code reproducible ? 👉 This post explains how to work with the #CESAB #R pkg rcompendium : bit.ly/4i1A6bn 🔑 Principles: 1️⃣ Organize files by conventions 2️⃣ Separate data, code, & results 3️⃣ Specify the computational environment Thx Nico Casajus for sharing this 🧙 ! 🧪🌍🌐 #rstats

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

One equation to rule them all ? A unifying formal equation for eco-evolutionary change ✨ Check out the last publication of our #CESAB & #sDiv synthesis group #UNICOP by @victorluque.bsky.social & @bradduthie.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2409.10766 🧪 🌍 #evolution #ecology #popgen

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🔬 Check out the official #CESAB GitHub repository for data, code, and resources to boost your biodiversity synthesis research ... from functional ecology to world pa, litterarure scraping, bayesian analysis and more! 🛠️ 👉 frbcesab.github.io #OpenScience #Biodiversity #DataSharing #R 🧪🌍🦤🦑

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

📢 Migrating is not enough for planktonic foraminifera in a changing ocean ! Check our the last publication from our #CESAB group FORCIS, by soniachaabane.bsky.social tdegaridel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... ... their abundances have already decreased by 24 % ! 🧪🌍🦑

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Check out our last paper on quantifying the anchoring pressure of small boats ⛵ on posidonia seagrass : We propose an automatic detection tool 🤖 from photo analysis which does the job ! This will help protect these vital seagrass ecosystems! doi.org/10.1016/j.oc... MD for pdf :) 🧪🌍🦤🦑

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Nice to see that you are excited about the bluesky dynamic. So why do you not provide a bluesky counter in your altmetric index and why do you still give so much importance to X on your metric panel (X still has its own panel!). Time to change?

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

🌿 Contribute to research on plant aesthetics ! Help us explore how people perceive plant beauty in urban spaces. Take our quick, anonymous 5-minute survey : 👉 www.biodiful.org#/plantiful_en Please SHARE to reach more participants ! 💚 🧪🌍🦤🪴

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I am working on human perceptions of biodiversity using online surveys ...reviewer #3 just nicely criticised that we have a strong bias (I agree) towards the WEIRD people (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic). Love this acronym ... will keep it in mind for our next survey :) 🧪🌍🦤🦑

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Our fourth online CESABINAR will take place on Thurs Nov 14th, 2pm, Paris time. Jos Käfer (ISEM, Montpellier) and Sylvain Glémin (ECOBIO, Rennes) : From reproductive strategies to species diversity Zoom link : us06web.zoom.us/j/8781773994... secret key: 183197 #CESAB 🧪🌍🦤🦑

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

🌿 Help us explore the beauty of plants! 🌼 Join our 5-minute anonymous survey on how we perceive plant beauty. Your opinion matters! 👉 : www.biodiful.org#/plantiful_en Thank you for SHARING this post, this will help us a lot ! 🌍💚 Plants and People in Urban Green Space project. 🧪🌍🦤

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Check out our last publication in OneEarth Measuring 29 fish community contributions to Nature or People on tropical reefs show that: 1. Contributions for Nature are correlated to biomass 2. Trade-offs among contributions are not the rule 3. Bright-spots can be in any country t.co/A4EXYVUaSJ 🧪🌍🦤🦑

Human well-being in nature: which future for tropical reefs? The four parts defined by the gradient of nature protection and exploitation illustrate different possible futures, exposed by the NFF. Optimizing nature for humans (or innovative commons if we include cultural aspects) propose a biocultural and social future where societies exploit whatever is necessary for human well-being as long as it is sustainable. Arcology calls for a future where people are concentrated in dense, futuristic, self-sufficient cities, surrounded by totally pristine nature. Between both, Sharing through sparing depicts a future where people exploit as little of nature as possible for their well-being and safeguard the remainder. Possible dynamics are highlighted in orange and red.

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Our third online CESABINAR will take place on Friday October 18th, at 3pm Paris time. Cyrille Violle (CNRS, Montpellier, France) will present : Functional rarity: from detection to conservation Zoom link : us06web.zoom.us/j/8303596665... secret key : 818872 #CESAB 🧪🌍🦤🦑

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