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🌍 Gaia Hypothesis | Scientific insights into Ecosystems as self-regulating systems | Bridging nature and knowledge | Crafted with love 💚 by @nmouquet.bsky.social | #Gaia #Biodiversity #EarthSystems #Ecosystems 🌈 Profil images (c) Glynn Gorick

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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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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🌐 Global Ecology Feed Digest, May 18 – June 18 | 59 posts ✨Crafted with 💚 for you to read and share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... 📩 DM if you’d like to receive the digest by email every two weeks. 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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Global Ecology Digest from May 18, 2026 to June 01, 2026
59 curated posts from the Bluesky Global Ecology feed (May 18 - Jun 01, 2026): biodiversity, ecosystems, conservation – terrestrial, freshwater & marine.
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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 · 20/05/2026
Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack Vol. 3 is full and curated !! ✨💚 Vol. 3 👉 go.bsky.app/MkLHiKU Let’s start a Vol. 4 🕺🏼 👉 go.bsky.app/Dsk4TQ3 simply reply or DM if you want to be in ! Please share so they will fly into the bluesky 🦋🌈 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾
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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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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🌍 The earth’s green is increasing and its centre is moving north-east. Vegetational shift to the north is even stronger in the southern summer – surprising new facet of #globalgreening 🌱 Published in PNAS 1/x
The greenness of the Earth’s terrestrial vegetation changes throughout the seasons. Researchers can calculate the global “green centre” and track its movement over several decades. They have observed a gradual shift towards the north-east. By Ida Flik. https://greenwave.earth/
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Dr Jess Williams @jjwilliams924.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
NEW PAPER🚨Ecological Feedbacks in the Earth System🌍We present an urgent call to the scientific community for the rapid development of understanding of ecological feedbacks and integrated ecosystem—Earth system research 🌐🧪 @imperiallifesci.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Ecological Feedbacks in the Earth System
The role of our planet's diverse ecological feedbacks in Earth system processes is a major knowledge gap We review current knowledge on ecological feedbacks within ecosystems, and between ecologi...
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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
⚠️ Editorial Expression of Concern for the Report : Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances 🪲 DOI:10.1126/science.aax9931 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🧪🌍🦤
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Editorial Expression of Concern for the Report “Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances”
On 24 April 2020, Science published the Report “Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances” by R. van Klink et al. (1). The editors have been made awar...
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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #48, Jan 19-26, 35 posts ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #48
Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.
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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
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High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100
Harmonized land-use and land-cover datasets that include past and future periods are key to solving sustainability issues, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However, existing harmonized pr...
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Andrew Abraham @andrewabraham.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt. Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2
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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #42 Dec 01-08, 27 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #42
Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Check out our latest publication from the #FREE group at #CESAB taking a functional and trait perspective on classic metapopulation ecology led by @nmouquet.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 · 24/11/2024
📢 Global Ecology feed ! A new feed for large scale biodiversity, ecosystems and conservation sciences, covering both terrestrial & marine realms - DM @nmouquet.bsky.social to be added as contributors - Tag posts with globe meridian emoji 🌐 to show up in this feed bsky.app/profile/nmou... 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐
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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Clam shells sound warning of Atlantic ‘tipping point'. New research from @exeter.ac.uk using centuries-old clam shells has found signs that key Atlantic Ocean currents may be losing stability. Full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🦑🐟🧪🌐🌍🌊 #AcademicSky @uniofexeternews.bsky.social
a closeup of bivalve shells. text overlaid in a bold white font: Clam shells sound warning of Atlantic ‘tipping point’. New Uni of Exeter study finds evidence of "stability loss"
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/10/2025
A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."
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Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience
A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.
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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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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Macrosystems ecology: A new engine and frontier in contemporary ecosystem science ? let's have a look : doi.org/10.1016/j.ge... 🌐🧪
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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 · 28/05/2025
Still time to apply to the #CESAB IdeaShare & DataShare call to advance BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration 💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods 📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets 📆 deadline: september 2025 👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁
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[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...
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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Seasonal dynamics of #detritus flows and #decomposition across #ecosystem boundaries: We quantified annual dynamics of #leaf litter input 🍂🍃 & decomposition 🍽️ in temperate #forest — headwater #stream #meta-ecosystems 🌍🌐🔬🌳🦐 @cellpress.bsky.social #CurrentBiology www.cell.com/current-biol... 1/3
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Is there a global pattern in our planet's chemistry consistent with life? Looking at our atmosphere, Mars, Venus, and interstellar space, we found that Earth follows the same architecture as a living cell, while the others do not. Would this be used as a biosignature? web.archive.org/web/20060113...
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The Global Ecology feed is growing — 20-30 posts/week on large-scale biodiversity science — 390 contributors! 🌍🧪🦤🦑🪴🍁 DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join and tag 🌐 in your posts to see them on the feed Let’s build a engaged community together ✨🌈💚 Pls share to spread! 👉 bsky.app/profile/nmou...
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
How do biological systems cope with their changing worlds? This is a deep problem within evolutionary biology. In this paper by @sfiscience.bsky.social external faculty Lauren Ancel Meyers and James Bull, an elegant unifying picture is provided zo.utexas.edu/research/mey...
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
‪The #CESAB open a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration 💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods 📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets 📆 deadline: september 2025 👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁
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[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚 Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈 Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Vol2 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in ! 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾
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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“ “It’s the song not the singer” (ITSNTS) theory does that, also claiming that evolution by natural selection of processes is more easily understood and explained as differential persistence than as differential reproduction” 🧪🌐🧬🦠 #ComplexSystems www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Processes and patterns of interaction as units of selection: An introduction to ITSNTS thinking | PNAS
Many practicing biologists accept that nothing in their discipline makes sense except in the light of evolution, and that natural selection is evol...
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
How do we test the (Gaia) theory of planetary self-regulation (Lovelock-Margulis)? We just started our experimental implementation on bioreactors using #synbio to bring planetary scale to the Lab.Exciting day! @vmaull.bsky.social @ftmaestre.bsky.social @vdlorenzo.bsky.social @jordiplam.bsky.social
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Gaia Lovejoy @pachagaia.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Viruses aren't just killers! They can drive a « shunt » in the ocean, creating a self-regulating cycle of nutrient recycling. 👉 N.E. Gilbert et al. Jan 2025 in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🔑 This boosts phytoplankton & is key to maintaining oxygen levels! 🌐 #GaiaTheory
A colorful floral like ball featuring an assortment of pixels in multiple shades & color, representing a cyanophage capsid.
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Gaia Lovejoy @pachagaia.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
#Gaia breathing: Vegetation actively shapes climate! 👉 D Miralles et al. Jan 2025 in Annals of the NY Acad. of Sci. doi.org/10.1111/nyas... 🔑 This review explores how plants modulate energy, water, & carbon cycles, impacting everything from local microclimates to global weather. 🌐 #GaiaTheory
Visual representation of the Earth's climate cycle, illustrating the interconnected processes of weather patterns and environmental changes are several scales
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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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Gaia Lovejoy @pachagaia.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🌍 Ecosystems are shaped by feedbacks! ✨ From tipping points to spatial patterns, this study by @ricardsole.bsky.social shows how non-linear thresholds govern biodiversity loss and resilience 🌳🔥 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... 🔑 Embracing #Gaia’s complexity is key to conservation! 🌐🌍🦤🍁#GaiaTheory
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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
📢 Global Ecology feed Digest #7, Jan 20-27, 2025 - 25 posts ✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a online DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share ! 🌈 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
A logo design featuring an intertwined tree and fish in a yin-yang style, symbolizing the connection between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. This is the logo for the Global Ecology Feed.
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Gaia Lovejoy @pachagaia.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Today let’s honor, Dian Hitchcock (1932-1991) whose insights and collaboration with #Lovelock were pivotal in shaping the #Gaia hypothesis 💚🌍 She co-authored a key paper with Lovelock, refining #Gaia scientific foundation through her expertise in microbiology and biochemistry. #WomenInScience 🧪🌐
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Gaia Lovejoy @pachagaia.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
🌍 A new twist on #Gaia: This study uses #AI agents to model local #ecosystems, balancing fire suppression and resource use. 🌳🔥 👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... 🔑 Like a next-gen #Daisyworld, it shows how cooperation & ecological engineering emerge to manage environmental extremes. 🌐🧪🌍
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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
55 fellows in 🚀 who’s next ? reply to be added, share to spread 🌈
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Global Ecology starter pack was full, a Vol. 2 was needed! here it is 🕺 👉 scientists working on biodiversity, ecosystems, and conservation at a large scale, both terrestrial and marine realms go.bsky.app/L37W5uH Already 30 fellows in, who’s next ? reply to be added, share to spread 🌈 🌐🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁
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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🔥 It is happening now ! Mediterranean ecosystems under fire: 👉 T. Ermitão et al. Jan 2024 doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... 🔑 Recurrent fires reshape Mediterranean ecosystems, with declining recovery rates—needle-leaved forests recover faster, shrublands struggle, and climate extremes worsen disruptions 🌐🌍
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Recovery Following Recurrent Fires Across Mediterranean Ecosystems
Mediterranean ecosystems worldwide are frequently affected by fires. Focusing on areas that burned two times over the past 22 years, we study the post-fire dynamics, applying a statistical model to t...
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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
24% of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction ! 👉 By Sayer et al. Jan 2025 in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🔑 Multi-taxon global IUCN red list freshwater fauna (23,496 species) assessment shows that pollution, dams, water extraction, agriculture and invasion are the main threats. 🌐🌍
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Gaia Lovejoy @pachagaia.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Boreal forests are on the edge of a tipping point! 👉 by R. Rotbarth et al., Jan 2025 in @pnas.org 🔑 Boreal forests might shift to an open state with just 30-50% tree cover. This profound shift will disrupt #Gaia balance, altering fire regimes, carbon storage, and global climate regulation! 🌐🍁🌍🔥
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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
📢 Global Ecology Digest #4, Dec 17 to Jan 06 ✨For the lazy (yes we are) & friends who don't like social media (yes they can) but might benefit from Global Ecology feed, here’s a DIGEST ! 101 posts after curation ! 🚀 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... Crafted with ❤️, please SHARE 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁
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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #4
For the lazy (yes we are) and friends who do not like social media (yes they can) but could benefit from the news on the Global Ecology feed ... here is a curated digest of the 🦋 bluesky Global Ecolog...
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