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Pedro Alonso

@pedroecology.bsky.social
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Just another biologist account 🦜🦇🌴🚵🏼‍♂️ Working on neotropical bee diversity 🐝 on an elevational gradient

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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is our extraordinary 🌎 Even leopard seals, when they see us, don't want to hurt us or kill us....but offer us a meal Stunning footage....Never seen anything like it And we kill those animals and destroy their habitat Shame on us #WarOnNature #Metacrisis #oceans #Nature #diving
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Fascinating Three years of rewilding on a former dairy farm in east Somerset have led to the number of recorded bird species soaring from 67 to 94, butterfly species 🆙 from 11 to 24 and small mammals growing in number. Stop the #WarOnNature #Metacrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Hold your nerve and trust nature’: birds, bats and butterflies rebound at Somerset rewilding farm
Letting nature take over at a former dairy farm has resulted in a surge of species in just three years
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
When billionaires and their stooges say that their priorities are "anti-woke", "anti-cancel culture" and "unrestricted free speech", don't take their claims at face value. They're a coded way of saying, “I should be allowed to do whatever I want, regardless of the impacts on other people.”
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
World temperature anomalies 22.04.2026 More of the same Deep 🥶🥶 over Canada + Alaska , most of Russia , East China 🔥🔥 #Greenland superstar Central 🇺🇸 NW Africa + Spain East Kazakhstan + Mongolia + nw China West Australia is also nicely over overage #ClimateCrisis
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors. We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time. We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time
Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on interpreting snapshots of current...
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Pedro Alonso @pedroecology.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Once again, if you plant some trees, that’s not a forest 🌳 blogaeet.org/2026/04/20/d...
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Desbiologizar lo vegetal
Deshumanizar, despojar de su condición humana al enemigo, adversario o simplemente diferente, ha sido a lo largo de la historia un paso previo a la aniquilación física del grupo deshumanizado (Hasl…
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Pedro Alonso @pedroecology.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Seems like spring finally arrived in Germany. Curruca curruca male singing from his favorite bush in @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social parking lot earlier today.
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Christopher Cartwright @chriscartwright.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The #Wildfires season is 🆙 to a great start in America #ClimateChange is a hoax According to 🇺🇸 voters #Pyrocene #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis
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SARE Lab @sarelab.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This week we began our first round of #fieldwork for the season, keeping busy with #plant-pollinator interaction surveys, #flower marking, #biomass collection and more 🌿🐝. Teamed up with new and returning members, we are ready to tackle yet another year in #Gorbeia Natural Park 💪.
Six members taking a selfie in front of Itxina before heading to the fieldsites. Team members are carrying insect nets and other misc field supplies. Two team members are surveying for bumblebees in open fields of a meadow. Hoverfly on Bellis perennis Lasioglossum on Taraxacum sp.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
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Kim L. Holzmann @kimholzmann.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Wrote a news article about our recent study on thermal limits🌡️
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Professor John R. Hutchinson @johnrhutchinson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Seems like a pretty important result; title says it all. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Oxygen supply through the tracheolar–muscle system does not constrain insect gigantism - Nature
New evidence suggests that diffusive oxygen transport through the tracheolar–muscle system is not the limiting factor on insect body size.
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Pedro Alonso @pedroecology.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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La vida dio un salto 'imposible': científicos españoles proponen que un cambio de “sistema operativo” sacudió la evolución
Enrique Muro, Fernando Ballesteros, Bartolo Luque y Jordi Bascompte han recibido el prestigioso Premio Cozzarelli de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de EEUU por un innovador trabajo en el que sugiere...
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Joseph Tobias @josephtobias.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Mildly bonkers. The colourful face and wattles of the cassowary don’t reflect ultraviolet, but the casque does!
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Kim L. Holzmann @kimholzmann.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Our paper on the drivers of dung beetle diversity along a tropical elevational gradient is now out in #ProcB @royalsocietypublishing.org 🪲🪲🪲 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @royalsociety.org @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · 25/03/2026
Insects in the #Amazon could reach their heat thresholds. Rising temperatures already threaten dung beetles. A study conducted by scientists from #Würzburg and #Bremen shows this trend. @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @kimholzmann.bsky.social ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-... 📸 Kim Lea Holzmann
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
It’s been a brutal month for California’s snowpack, which is now at just 25% of normal. The snowpack is now 8% of normal in the northern Sierra, 28% of normal in the central Sierra and 44% of normal in the southern Sierra. NASA satellite images from Feb. 22, March 6 and March 24.
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Dr. Viktor Baranov🧪🦟🐛🪲 @swarmofthoughts.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Today , as proposed by @hormiga.bsky.social 13 yrs ago, is a #Taxonomist appreciation day, so we celebrated it in @ebdonana.bsky.social by having an open discussion on the role of taxonomy in eco/ evo/ palaeo research. Lots of early career folks came by, so that´s was great! 🦖🦴🐛🧪
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Kim L. Holzmann @kimholzmann.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Really happy that a moth made it to the cover of @nature.com! Thanks to my co-author Gunnar Brehm for this great photo 📸 Find our study on thermal limits in this week's issue: www.nature.com/nature/volum... @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de
The photo shows the cover of the nature journal, displaying a colorful moth sitting on moss. The caption says: Heat Sensitive. Tropical insects show limited ability to cope with a warming world.
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Cuckoo update 🪶 Joe & Jim are about 12 miles from each other in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) while Cleeve is just 31 miles to their north. Arthur is the furthest north of these five birds & Sayaan the furthest east, having just crossed the border from Ghana. Follow their journeys➡️ www.bto.org/cuckoos
A map featuring Africa shows the locations of BTO satellite-tagged Cuckoos. Wording alongside reads: Fab five landed in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Five head shots of the Cuckoos in this area are featured in circular frames.
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Nando Mateos-González @bioblogo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Journal of Applied Ecology abre sección para compartir aventuras de campo. Desde estudiantes hasta profesionales consolidados. #biotapas appliedecologistsblo...
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Get involved in our Field Diaries series!
Have you been in the field recently? Share your experiences in our new Field Diaries series! From undergraduate students to long-term academics and practitioners, we are looking for individuals to …
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Ariane Dellavalle @arianedellavalle.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Space-for-time studies of land-use change rely on a baseline. But what if that baseline has already changed? In our new Ecography paper we show this can underestimate biodiversity loss. 🐦📉🧵(1/9) nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Shifting baselines increase the risk of misinterpreting biodiversity trends
Ecological studies quantifying the impact of land-use change on biodiversity may be sensitive to the choice of reference points – or baselines – particularly when sampling across human land-use gradi...
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Several male Goshawks breeding deep in Poland's Białowieża Forest 'routinely travelled up to 20 km to hunt feral pigeons in a town' with the authors concluding that 'urban environments shape the foraging behaviour of raptors even within primeval forests' #ornithology 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Main foraging areas (75% AKDE) of male Goshawks foraging
exclusively in forest (A), in forest and farmland (B), and in forest and
town (C). Foraging areas of individual birds are indicated by different
colours. The town of Hajnówka is shown in grey. White dots indicate
known active Goshawk nests.
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Nature @nature.com · 04/03/2026
Nature research paper: Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature go.nature.com/4ua5R82
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Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature - Nature
A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal tolerance is limited by fundamental properties of protein architecture.
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Pedro Alonso @pedroecology.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Fantastic paper by @kimholzmann.bsky.social if you are interested in thermal adaptations in tropical insects check it out!!! 🏔️ 🐝 🪲 🐜
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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 01/03/2026
Meet the sand cat. Thick soles on its paws allow it to withstand the temperature extremes of desert sand. In parts of its range, days can reach 124° Fahrenheit (51° C) and then plummet to 31° Fahrenheit (-0.5° C) by night! Photo: Cloudtail the Snow Leopard, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr
A close up photo of a sand cat peering at the viewer with narrowed eyes. Its coat is golden in color.
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
IUCN updated Red List of Bees finally published: op.europa.eu/en/publicati...
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European red list of bees - Publications Office of the EU
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Science Magazine @science.org · 26/02/2026
Intact tropical forests are seeing mysterious bird declines. Is another “silent spring” brewing? Learn more: scim.ag/4aCs0Er
Graphic with two parts, a map and a chart. Top section: A map showing intact tropical forests in northern South America, most of them in the Amazon River basin. Three locations are called out: 1 is in Panama; 2 is on the eastern border of Ecuador, near the borders with Colombia and Peru; and 3 is in Brazil, on the Amazon River. Undisturbed tropical forest areas are defined as areas where no disturbances were detected in a comparison of satellite imagery from 1990 to 2024. Bottom section: Dot plot with confidence intervals. For each of the three map locations, the chart shows the average annual change in mist net captures for insectivores and for the total bird community. For all three locations, the average annual change for insectivores is in the negative and is lower than for the total bird community.
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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · 18/02/2026
Canopy openings can harm the biodiversity of dung #beetles 🪲: Scientists of the University of Würzburg examined 234 areas in eleven #forests across Germany. Rising temperatures exacerbate the problem. ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-... 📸 Johanna Asch
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Pedro Alonso @pedroecology.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
From the Amazon to the Cloud forest, the elevational gradient we study in Peru in 3 pictures 🌎🐝
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Pedro Alonso @pedroecology.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Bombus butteli, a cloud forest dweller of the tropical Andes, at 2600 m asl, Peru
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Pedro Alonso @pedroecology.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Bombus transversalis, the only lowland bumblebee in the Peruvian Amazon
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Ecoflor 2026 Tortosa @ecoflor.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Thank you all for coming to Tortosa to share your ideas and research! See you next year!
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Claudiki @claudiki.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Enjoying the rest of the talks after giving ours at @ecoflor.bsky.social what a great experience!! 😄 Also… we’re on the lookout for a postdoc opportunity 👀 If you think we might be a good fit for your group, let’s talk! 🐝🌳 @pedroecology.bsky.social
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the @valor-project.eu Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...
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Joining the lab
2-year Postdoctoral position on VALOR EU-project: We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators (VALOR; The candidat…
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Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology (Zoology III) @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Exciting news: Our Global Change Ecology Double Degree Program with Norway is OFFICIAL! #JMU #UiB. This programme provides advanced training in the fields of Ecology, Conservation Biology and Global Change Biology. We welcome all students in Bioscience to join us here in Würzburg and Bergen!✊
Bergen landscapeWürzburg grasslandBergen cityWürzburg city, ©Peter Schumann
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Carlos M Herrera @cmhmaliani.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
"There has been a progressive decline in fieldwork-based research and education in ecology over recent decades", precisely at a time when we most urgently need a better understanding of how natural systems work. So sad. Trends in Ecology & Evolution [paywalled] www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Extinction of experience among ecologists
Fieldwork-based research and education in ecology are under multiple threats and are progressively declining. We call for greater attention to this ongoing loss of direct field experience within the ecology community, as it could have widespread consequences for science and education, ultimately hindering efforts to address the ongoing biodiversity crisis.
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 02/01/2025
El desconocido papel de las urracas en la regeneración forestal: “Se desmontan mitos que revelan su contribución a la dispersión de semillas”
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El desconocido papel de las urracas en la regeneración forestal: “Se desmontan mitos que revelan su contribución a la dispersión de semillas”
Una investigación de la Universidad de Alcalá desvela que utilizan una eficaz estrategia territorial para asegurar el alimento durante el invierno, aunque no se basa en la memoria espacial como se cre...
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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 19/12/2024
🚨Research alert! A study led by Javier Blasco, a Ph.D. student from the University of Lisbon & Museum curator Lorenzo Prendini reveals new insights about the cave-dwelling scorpion Euscorpius studentium—previously known only from juvenile specimens.
A photo of Javier Blasco standing in front of a cave. He is wearing a t-shirt and a headlamp. A photo of Euscorpius studentium. The scorpion is illuminated by UV light and is bright blue in color.
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Pedro Alonso @pedroecology.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Just a pretty lizard (Sceloporus malachiticus) from Costa Rica to start this account.
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Kerr_yqoutes @kerryromeo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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