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Marten Winter

@smartenwinter.bsky.social
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Ecologist & Researcher | Head of a research think tank/science funder -> iDiv's Synthesis Centre sDiv idiv.de/sdiv | Global Alien Plants glonaf.org | SciCom | TEDx tiny.cc/aliens | Indierock drummer for wal.band | avid hiker & nature lover

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marilyn grell-brisk. cis. she/her @grellmary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Advocacy and activism are not dirty words. We should not hide behind the argument that publicly advocating for evidence-based policy undermines our scientific credibility. Remaining on the sidelines under the guise of neutrality is itself a political choice.” #DecisionScience #TakeAStand
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
❓ 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧❓ ‼️I'm sure, most of us‼️ Check our new paper, which might help you with it: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
❓ 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧❓ ‼️I'm sure, most of us‼️ Check our new paper, which might help you with it: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A fantastic funding opportunity when you are interested in biological invasions!!👇👇 Please distribute it further!
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🚨 Two major iDiv calls are now accepting applications! 🔹 iDiv Synthesis Centre Working Group Call 🔹 iDiv Fellowship Programme Call 🔗 More info, application criteria + deadlines: www.idiv.de
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iDiv - Integrative Biodiversity Research
The German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) is a global leader in biodiversity science, dedicated to understanding the variety of life on Earth.
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Watch this space & spread the word. New @idiv-research.bsky.social synthesis working group & fellowship (ie Sabbatical) calls coming these days. Great funding opportunities to collaborate with researchers in and visit @idiv-research.bsky.social
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Rob Foley @robfoley.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
ICArCHEB in Portugal has put out a call for proposals for HEIRS (the Hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis). HEIRS supports collaborative research projects designed to produce syntheses of important issues in the field. A wonderful opportunity - link below heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...
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Call for Group Synthesis Project 2026 – heirs
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Fantastic funding opportunities for biodiversity related research projects👇 1. Synthesis Working Groups 2. Senior Fellows Please spread the words & apply :)
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Watch this space & spread the word. New @idiv-research.bsky.social synthesis working group & fellowship (ie Sabbatical) calls coming these days. Great funding opportunities to collaborate with researchers in and visit @idiv-research.bsky.social
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
High‑resolution global maps revealing the expansion risk of thousands of non-native plant species under today’s conditions and future climate and land‑use scenarios have been produced for the first time. 🗺️ @natecoevo.nature.com @univie.ac.at @smartenwinter.bsky.social www.idiv.de/global-model...
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Models project future global shifts in non‑native plant expansions
Calculations show that expansion patterns could move from subtropical regions into temperate zones, accompanied by substantial changes in species composition.
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Jesper Andersen (318 ppm) @2xges.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Are MPAs in the transition zone between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea effective? We have mapped cumulative effects of multiple stressors in the Skagerrak. Anchored in this, and a statistical model, we have compared pressures within outside the MPAs. Most MPAs are so-called 'paper parks'.
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Thomas Köhler @tomcoal.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Über die toxische Beziehung von #Vögeln und #Glasscheiben sprach ich mit @smartenwinter.bsky.social vom @idiv-research.bsky.social. Wie ist der Stand, was muss man tun und was ist das #Projekt #EcoGlassBird? Grüße an die @wildvogelhilfe.bsky.social und den @nabu.de. www.l-iz.de/top-posts/20...
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Vögel und Glasscheiben, eine toxische Beziehung: Gespräch mit Dr. Marten Winter vom iDiv · Leipziger Zeitung
Jahr für Jahr sterben Millionen Vögel, allein in Deutschland, nach Kollisionen mit Glasfassaden oder Fenstern. Das ist ein Fakt, die Anzahl übersteigt
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Fantastic & amazing collaboration & research project about modelling & predicting the future of our global floras in a world of Plant invasions! Almost 10.000 SDMs & range projections😱😍💪
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is a huge coordination success & a lot of work in the last years. A global call across many synthesis centre on "Interaction of climate and biodiversity"
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
📍 Beobachtungen melden: vogelschlag.wildvogelhilfe-leipzig.de (3/3)
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Vogelschlag melden
Schnell, sicher und hilfreich
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Ziel ist eine Hotspot-Karte, um Risikofaktoren wie Gebäudedichte, Glaskanten und die Nähe zu Grünflächen besser zu verstehen. Im nächsten Schritt untersuchen wir, wie Vermeidungsmaßnahmen kosteneffizient und im großen Maßstab umgesetzt werden können. (2/3)
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Das ist ein mir sehr wichtiges Thema👇
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Heute ist #WorldWildlifeDay 🐦 Kollisionen mit Glasstrukturen töten in Deutschland schätzungsweise 18–115 Mio. Vögel pro Jahr. Im Projekt EcoGlassBird @smartenwinter.bsky.social analysieren wir gemeinsam mit der Wildvogelhilfe Leipzig Vogelschlagnachweise in Leipzig. (1/3)
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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🚨 New perspective piece - How to face Environmental crises? By aligning actions across roles, ecologists & environmental scientists can do more for a sustainable future, and professional societies can help them! 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/3d1GZZL
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Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella) @floryannelli.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
We reviewed 73 professional societies across 42 countries. Only 18% had codes of ethics or similar documents addressing responsibilities of individual members. Most focus on advancing science & far fewer articulate responsibilities toward sustainability or society.
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Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella) @floryannelli.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Despite decades of research, environmental crises continue to escalate. So we asked: Are ecologists and environmental scientists (EES) doing enough — and do we have clear guidance for how to act?
The image is from a forest with a dividing road that has two sign pointing to opposite directions and the text "This way?" "That way?". There is a text that reads "We need guidance on how ecologists and environmental scientists can take action, individually and collectively"
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
❓️How can we environmental scientists & our professional societies be more impactful❓️ READ OUR PAPER👇‼️🎉 @gfoesoc.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social @entsocamerica.bsky.social @scbeurope.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social @esajournals.bsky.social
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
New paper published as a result of another great #sDiv working group: sTraitChange 💚
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Registration is now open! 📢 Join us for the Science:TBD Symposium — a space for exchange and discussion around emerging questions that resonate beyond disciplinary boundaries. 📍 3 & 4 March 2026, Leipzig 📝 Register now: www.idiv.de/science-tbd #Science #Biodiversity #Symposium #ResearchCommunity
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Fantastic study on the adaptation of species populations on temperature changes, led by former #sDiv Postdoc Viktoriia Radchuk. This is part of the #synthesis group @idiv-research.bsky.social www.idiv.de/straitchange & also shows how long it sometimes takes to finish complex studies.
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sTraitChange | iDiv
iDiv members: Holger Schielzeth Ulrich Brose Callum Lawson
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
@carlyziter.bsky.social in our @idiv-research.bsky.social seminar. Carly was part of the #sDiv #synthesis group www.idiv.de/surbio2050 & is now as sabbatical here @ufz.de, one of our main partners. ‼️That's what iDiv is great at...‼️ ⏩️Excellent & integrated science facilitated by diff approaches⏪️
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Here is a snippet of a song Feel free to follow us on Instagram www.instagram.com/waltheband #tibs2026 #indierock #rockmusic #music #alternativrock
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David Tan @mangrovepitta.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A big thank you to the @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social for organising an amazing conference in Aarhus, and to the judges for the poster prize, supported by the @newphyt.bsky.social foundation.
Poster award certificate.
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Thanks @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social & team for the fantastic conference #tibs2026 ‼️ Great science, friends & colleagues & food. Well done! Also always great to see #sDiv @idiv-research.bsky.social alumni😍 Here 4 generations of synthesis postdocs (some are Profs now).
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Heja #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social , if you need good Indie music for your hopefully successful but surely long trip home, I recommend (my band): WAL (German for whale) - atmospheric,epic & powerful IndieRock We're on all platforms: wal.band open.spotify.com/artist/6HFBs...
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Spotify – Web Player
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.social🎉‼️⏪️ ❤️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❤️ biogeography.pensoft.net #tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social
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Frontiers of Biogeography
 Launched to support biogeographic researchFrontiers of Biogeography (FoB) is the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society (TIBS, biogeography.org), a not-for-profit orga...
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Matt Kerr @mattkerr.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It was great to meet so many other Early Career Researchers at our #TIBS2026 mixer last night - both catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. To celebrate all the ECR Biogeographers, we have created a starter pack so you can follow all the exciting work being done: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK
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Flo Grattarola @flograttarola.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I’m currently in Aarhus 🇩🇰 for the @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social. Tomorrow I’ll be presenting for the first time something I’ve been working on for the past year. Come by to the auditorium 3 for the session on “Spatio-temporal modelling” #TIBS2026 #biogeography
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
⏩️ Global disruption of plant biogeography by non-native species ⏪️ -> rewriting classical Floristik biogeography #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social In case you missed the talk by Lirong Cai (now new postdoc in Copenhagen w Carsten Rahbek) here is the preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Global disruption of plant biogeography by non-native species
Biogeographical regions reflect differences in biotic composition resulting from long-term isolation and biogeographical processes, but how human-mediated introductions of non-native species have alte...
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The German research foundation @dfg.de allows AI assisting its review processes. Another way of reducing the massive unpaid workload in these processes is to decrease the length of proposal to focus on the most important parts (e.g. 5 (?) pages of state of the art isn't important).
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
⏩️"It is not that there is life on the surface of earth. Life is THE surface of earth!"⏪️ #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social with a.very interesting symposium on co-evolution of landscape & life
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Pensoft @pensoft.net · 07/01/2026
📸 Today at @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social, Robert Whittaker talked about the island species-area relationship for plants globally. Robert is also the Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of #Biogeography: biogeography.pensoft.net, the journal of @biogeography.bsky.social we are happy to publish! #TIBS2026
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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Now at #TIBS2026: the functional island biogeography symposium, with a nice intro by @biogeokreft.bsky.social. For some background on functional traits, check out our paper in @ecography.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Lets see how often we see Darwin & Humboldt in intro slides #tibs2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social I've Darwin in a talk given by Darwin Storch
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Heja #tibs2026 How is "ecometric" different to aspects of functional/traits diversity?
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
#tibs2026
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Christian Hof @christianhof.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
With the first Alfred Russell Wallace awardee, Michael Donoghue, #TIBS2026 has started, celebrating 25 years of the Society @biogeography.bsky.social. Looking forward to three days of inspiring exchange as well as meeting old friends of the #biogeography family
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Heja @ondrejmottl.bsky.social , if you could think about a synthesis question you would like to approach lets talk about #sDiv synthesis centre @idiv-research.bsky.social opportunities I'm in Aarhus too...
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
#Fossilpol a great resource for pollen analyses (synthesis) ondrejmottl.github.io/projects/FOS... @ondrejmottl.bsky.social #tibs2026 @biogeography.bsky.social on exciting paleo pollen research
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Participating the #tibs26 biogeography conference in Aarhus while trying to not fly in Europe & starting in Germany: Complete train chaos & very likely missing the reception... German train @deutschebahn.com is unreliable as review quality in MDPI journals😱😭🤏 @deutschebahn.com is unreliable ‼️
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The GloNAF database was initiated by iDiv's @smartenwinter.bsky.social together with an international team of researchers and is constantly curated & updated.
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
How do alien plants spread - and which ones thrive?🌱GloNAF is the most comprehensive open‐access database on regional inventories of naturalized alien plants. It includes 16,429 (sub-)species across >1,300 regions. doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
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The updated Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF 2.0) database
GloNAF is a continuously updated, curated compilation of alien naturalized vascular plant inventories for geographic regions worldwide. Building on its predecessor, GloNAF 2.0 now contains 16,429 tax....
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
▶️‼️𝐀 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐍𝐀𝐅, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰‼️◀️ esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1️⃣ it now contains 16,429 plant taxa 2️⃣ removal of outdated data & errors 3️⃣ 117,229 new records 4️⃣ 31% increase in the number of geographic regions
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The updated Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF 2.0) database
GloNAF is a continuously updated, curated compilation of alien naturalized vascular plant inventories for geographic regions worldwide. Building on its predecessor, GloNAF 2.0 now contains 16,429 tax...
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
🌿 In this episode of #InsideBiodiversity, @smartenwinter.bsky.social unpacks the curious logic behind how scientists classify species — and the consequences that follow. 🌍 What does “non-native” really mean in a world shaped by movement? 🎧 Listen in: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
💬This month @smartenwinter.bsky.social joins idiv's #InsideBiodiversity to explore how non-native species challenge assumptions about nature, balance, and biodiversity. Dive into the grey areas of conservation, where values, data, and definitions collide. 🎧 Listen now: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io
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