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Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC) 🌎🐦🧬 Globe Institute | UCPH 🔗 https://teapaw.org/t.co/Tpn0ojXtq7 🦋 https://teapaw.org/t.co/5Ef5ySyM1O

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Joined December 2010
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Freshwater species face widespread human pressures, but where those pressures affect biodiversity has remained poorly understood. New Science research maps 45 threats across more than 21,000 freshwater species, revealing hotspots of impact and helping guide conservation and management efforts where they are most urgently needed. Learn more in this week’s issue: scim.ag/4jH5Vtm
A fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) rests beside a forest stream in Bratsigovo, Bulgaria. Freshwater species face widespread human pressures, but where those pressures affect biodiversity has remained poorly understood. Research mapping 45 threats across 21,490 freshwater species reveals hotspots of impact, helping guide conservation and management efforts where they are most urgently needed. Photo: Guy Edwardes/NPL/Minden Pictures

ALT A fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) rests beside a forest stream in Bratsigovo, Bulgaria. Freshwater species face widespread human pressures, but where those pressures affect biodiversity has remained poorly understood. Research mapping 45 threats across 21,490 freshwater species reveals hotspots of impact, helping guide conservation and management efforts where they are most urgently needed. Photo: Guy Edwardes/NPL/Minden Pictures

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Listen to nature. It tells us: monitored wildlife populations have declined by an average of 73% since 1970. But it tells us this too: what falls can rise again. Elephants, tigers, green turtles, tuna. All made a comeback. Not by chance. By people. Share with hope. #LivingPlanetReport Footage credit: WWF & Open Planet
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Early-career researchers are shaping the future of #macrophyte science 🌿 A survey of 147 ECRs highlights the need to pair innovation with field ecology and address funding and career barriers. NEW PAPER out in Aquatic Botany by Trottier et al. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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The Contemporary Pacific gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) gene pool includes ancestry from a potential ghost population: Inferences from population genomics 🐋 Paper out @HeredityJournal by Allen et al. @AnnaBruniche #popgen academic.oup.com/jhered/arti…
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Of all the myriad animal senses, the most mysterious and controversial is the perception of magnetism. Somehow, migratory songbirds, sea turtles, and other creatures detect Earth’s magnetic field and use its directionality to help them navigate. A recently published paper has found a surprising mechanism: Iron-rich immune cells within homing pigeons’ livers seem to give the birds their magnetic compass. Learn more: scim.ag/4uF8WNi
‘Mind-blowing’: Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate New study identifies a surprising mechanism for sensing Earth’s magnetic field

ALT ‘Mind-blowing’: Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate New study identifies a surprising mechanism for sensing Earth’s magnetic field

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Of all the myriad animal senses, the most mysterious and controversial is the perception of magnetism. Somehow, migratory songbirds, sea turtles, and other creatures detect Earth’s magnetic field and use its directionality to help them navigate. A recently published paper has found a surprising mechanism: Iron-rich immune cells within homing pigeons’ livers seem to give the birds their magnetic compass. Learn more: scim.ag/4uF8WNi
‘Mind-blowing’: Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate New study identifies a surprising mechanism for sensing Earth’s magnetic field

ALT ‘Mind-blowing’: Iron-rich immune cells help homing pigeons navigate New study identifies a surprising mechanism for sensing Earth’s magnetic field

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New mycologist must-have 🍄‍🔍 With +30 yrs in the making, "Fungi of Temperate Europe" covers +4,600 species with beautiful illustrations, photos, and scientific identification keys. By Læssøe et al. Out now @PrincetonUPress 👇 press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
Front cover of book showing purple fungi on a green-ish background.

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How animals sense Earth’s magnetic field is one of biology’s enduring mysteries. Researchers in Science have now identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/4uAKQDl
How animals sense Earth’s magnetic field is one of biology’s enduring mysteries. Researchers have now identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons (Columba livia) to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. Photo: Andreas Teichmann/laif/Redux

ALT How animals sense Earth’s magnetic field is one of biology’s enduring mysteries. Researchers have now identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons (Columba livia) to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. Photo: Andreas Teichmann/laif/Redux

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New paper: Tracing the Drivers of Range-Wide Bowhead Whale Genomic Structure and Diversity 🐋 In Molecular Ecology by M. Wesbury, @Smilodontology, et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Ancient and modern dingo DNA reveals eight genetically distinct groups of dingoes – and the limited influence of domestic dog genes. theconversation.com/new-dna-…
New DNA evidence shows dingoes are almost 90% pure – and fall into eight distinct groups

New DNA evidence shows dingoes are almost 90% pure – and fall into eight distinct groups

Ancient and modern dingo DNA reveals eight genetically distinct groups of dingoes – and the limited influence of domestic dog genes.

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New study of 300+ dingoes using aDNA shows they retain ~90% dingo ancestry. Dog genes are limited, linked to human areas and control. Insights could help improve conservation strategies 🐕🧬@ConLetters conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
Paleogenomics‐Informed Inferences of European Dog Admixture Enables Scalable Dingo Conservation

Paleogenomics‐Informed Inferences of European Dog Admixture Enables Scalable Dingo Conservation

Dingoes, mainland Australia's sole terrestrial apex mammal for over 3000 years, are important components of many ecosystems and Indigenous cultural heritage. Yet, conflicts with farmers over livest...

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Happy 100th birthday, Sir David Attenborough 🎉❤️ The broadcaster who changed how we see the natural world. #DavidAttenborough
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Sehr empfehlenswertes PIK-Video: Rockström zu #PlanetaryBoundaries Science In Folge 1 der Video-Serie “Zentrale Forschungsthemen des PIK" erklärt Direktor @jrockstrom das Rahmenwerk zur Stabilität der Erde und zum sicheren Handlungsraum der Menschheit. 👇 youtu.be/Rphpxvl_9T8
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Past whaling nearly wiped out bowhead whales. By mapping logs, researchers find that sea ice slowed whalers & created natural refuge. This helps explain why some populations rebound faster today🐋🐋 @PNASNews @Smilodontology @DamienFordham @Carsten_Rahbek pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25…
Historic logbooks reveal spatial footprints of commercial whaling | PNAS

Historic logbooks reveal spatial footprints of commercial whaling | PNAS

Commercial harvesting of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus), primarily by British and American whalers during the late-1700s to early-1900s, nearl...

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🐋 Big bowhead whale paper! Details on the other app! bsky.app/profile/smilodontol…
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To fight climate change we need renewable energy, which is much better for the #environment. But wind turbines, solar panels, and dams for water power can harm animals, causing #biodiversity loss. How we can keep wildlife safe as #renewableenergy grows? fro.ntiers.in/GreenAndSafe
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The genomic impact of population connectivity and decline in Africa’s elephants 🐘🐘 New paper out @NatureComms by Pečnerová et al. w. CMEC co-author @AnnaBruniche #conservation #popgen nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
The genomic impact of population connectivity and decline in Africa’s elephants

The genomic impact of population connectivity and decline in Africa’s elephants

Nature Communications - The two species of African elephants are facing severe declines. Here, authors assess their continent-wide genomic diversity, identifying differences in their evolutionary...

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We publish two papers on the inadequacy to introduce the European Bison in the Iberian Peninsula. Lack of evidence of previous presence, wrong habitat/climate conditions, legal aspects...and much more conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c… conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
Improving connectivity is key for restoring large mammals and human safety. A response to “Introd...

Improving connectivity is key for restoring large mammals and human safety. A response to “Introd...

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The placement of renewable energy infrastructure matters for #biodiversity outcomes 💡 New paper out @CellPressSust by @antogorosabel, @FarooqHarith, Iversen & @jgeldmann. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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New paper 📢 Conservation evidence is biased but can support decision-making for prevalent and severe threats in tetrapods. By González-Suárez et al. incl. @jgeldmann in @JAppliedEcology. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Conservation evidence is biased but can support decision‐making for prevalent and severe threats in...

Conservation evidence is biased but can support decision‐making for prevalent and severe threats in...

Despite taxonomic and spatial biases, substantial conservation evidence is available to support decision-making by practitioners, particularly for the most prevalent and severe threats. Given the...

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