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Join us for a 4-year PhD studentship on 'Why does buzz pollination evolve?' We seek a student interested in evolution, pollination, and doing experiments with bees and flowers. You can read more and see how to apply here: plant-evolution.org/wp/2024/08/08/… Deadline: 18 Sep '24. Pls RT

Thread of photos and videos featuring humans to help the eye determine the size of things. 1. Dendrocalamus Giganteus also known as Dragon Bamboo, is a species of giant bamboo that is indigenous to Southeast Asia

Is it a growing book debt of shame or am I just in massive book credit 📚

What a nice cover nature has this week 😀 If you want to learn more about the paper behind this cover and about the unexpectedly high functional diversity of dryland flora see rdcu.be/dRBA1

Three Kinds of Research xkcd.com/2977

Our paper on how biting helps during buzz pollination is free to read. Thanks to @UU_University for providing open access fees. Buzz-pollinating bees deliver thoracic vibrations to flowers through periodic biting: Current Biology cell.com/current-biolog…

Being a scientist is all about feeling stupid, every day (if you do it right). #Wisdom

A new study reveals that developing new climbing routes is the biggest threat to cliff plants, cutting species richness by nearly 40% 🧗‍♀️ As a result, this study proposes a conservation protocol that regulates climbing and preserve pristine cliffs ⛰️ 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Leaf movement is not random but an evolutionary process that converges with shape, anatomy, structure and external environmental factors. I have spent several years capturing the #leaf movement of #ferns species. Plant Physiology Journal of Experimental Biology SEB @sebiology.bsky.social In Defense of Plants @AmerFernSoc

Oxford comma or the win! 😉

🔥New paper out in Science!!🔥 Science Magazine We found that a third of the seed dispersers and interactions face potential extinction, in Europe 🌿🌳🐦‍⬛🦆🌍 This was an incredibly challenging (and rewarding!) chapter of my PhD thesis! #seeddispersal science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

How useful is long term data in #tracking #invasivespecies? We test this Senckenberg Research SENCKENBERG using #biomonitoring #data of #german #rivers. The results are astounding: patchy distributed sites tracked 32 #nonnative species over ~50 years. doi.org/10.1186/s12302…

This is another great output from the European Research Council (ERC) funded BIODESERT global survey. To find more details about this survey check this Web Ecology article we.copernicus.org/articles/22/75…

Human pressure drove strong #megafauna diversity loss across Europe thru the Holocene w/ recent #wildlife comebacks reflecting novel levels of human-fauna coexistence due to sociocultural shifts🌍🦌🐻🐎See our new study Diversity & Distributions led by Marco Davoli🫎🐺🦫onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dd…

JUST PUBLISHED: What time of the day do ripe fruits drop to the ground? Who cares? The answers in this intriguing work led by Pedro Garrote: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

✨The Call for Abstracts for #ICCB2025 is now open!✨ We’re excited to invite conservationists, scientists, and practitioners from around the world to share their research and insights in Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia in June. Learn more: conbio.org/mini-sites/icc… #conservation

Two papers. On the left, a non-randomized, non-crossover study showing that a one-off sauna exposure significantly decreased arterial stiffness, with implications on cardiovascular health. On the right, a randomized, crossover (more robust) study, showing no benefits on

Trade-offs involved in the choice of pot vs field experiments 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np… #Commentary by Montesinos highlighting the recent work by Zhu et al. 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/GRUKFCYD…

Very interesting article on #biocrust global distribution & factors influencing it in SOIL Journal by former lab member Ning Chen & collaborators soil.copernicus.org/articles/10/76…

Check my 2024 iNaturalist stats! 😀🌷🪺🐰🐸🐍🐳🐦‍⬛🕷️🐚🦀🦑🦋🐝🐛 inaturalist.org/stats/2024/dan…