@jcsvenning
Scientist: #biodiversity, #macroecology, #climatechange, #restoration & #rewilding, #novelecosystems, #plants & #vegetation, #megafauna, #human-#nature relations & #remotesensing. Director, https://econovo.au.dk/
"Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papua."
Oh yeah this is super cool as both the pygmy long-fingered possum and ring-tailed glider were previously only known from fossils 🤯🧪🐀
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Despite gap-phase dynamics, current unmanaged forests are much denser & darker than what the paleorecord shows as the former norm & inconsistent with the ecological requirements of extant species pools, even forest plants
Yes, pre-industrial land use surely did, also cf. www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
Yes, it's a really widespread dynamics that affects the conservation status of many species, eg www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon - Europe’s landscapes for 23 Myr were mostly tree- & flower-rich mosaics shaped by large herbivores, not dense #forests, see our new synthesis www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #forests #woodlands #paleoecology #nature #trees #refiorestation
Thrilled to share our new preprint:
“Extreme Heat as the New Normal” 🌡️🔥
We introduce a roadmap + code for identifying and mapping extreme heat 📏 and linking it to ecology:
🧭 Species distribution models 🐦
🌿 Biophysical models & microclimates 🦎
📉 Population dynamics 👥
doi.org/10.64898/202... 🧵 ⬇️
Link to the scientific study: Space-use by feral #cattle and #horses shapes #vegetation structure in a trophic #rewilding area esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Pressemeddelelse vdr. vores nylige studie om de økologiske dynamikker i #rewilding arealet ved #Molslaboratoriet: Ved at koble fem års uafbrudt GPS-sporing med satellitbilleder påviser vi at vilde #heste og #kvæg skaber en mere robust & varieret #natur🐎🌿🐂 bio.au.dk/om-institutt...
Stuffed skin of a duck from a museum collection.
New species of steamer duck, the Chiloe steamer duck (Tachyeres ketru), distinguished on the basis of bill color and vocalizations: audiornis.org/journal/arti... 🪶🧪 (📷López-Lanús & Costa)
Good to see our research reported in the Guardian
The original paper: Fast-growing alien trees surge as slow native species decline worldwide www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Nice feature in French on our recent work on the ongoing fundamental change to the global tree flora: La disparition des espèces locales et l’essor des arbres à croissance rapide menacent les forêts www.goodplanet.info/2026/02/20/g... #foret #arbres
"These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Professor: Strandet hval burde blive liggende i vandet www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl... - stadig relevant! 🐋🐋#kaskelot #hval #stranding
New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟
Wrapping up my two-week research visit to the ECONOVO center at @au.dk today! Feeling grateful to have had this opportunity and looking forward to developing the project we planned here with Celina Aznarez @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social , Ujala Ejaz and @jcsvenning.bsky.social .
Some argue protected areas in fire-prone landscapes can undermine forest carbon (fuel build-up → higher fire risk). This paper shows Spanish protected areas consistently outperform comparable unprotected lands, strongest in National Parks.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
"Overall, constructed dune wetlands support diverse but compositionally distinct, early-successional plant species assemblages. Rather than replacing natural systems, they complement them at the landscape scale. "
The effect was seen even with conservation grazing in just under 80 dune wetlands.
Importantly, the work also indicates even stronger environmental engineering (intended and unintended) by pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer people (Homo sapiens) in Europe🔥🏹Link to the scientific paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #mesolithic
Nice feature on our recent work on neandertals (led by @nikulinaav.bsky.social) and their effects on their environment👣 deephistory.substack.com/p/the-neande... #neandertal #neanderthal #archaeology #anthropology #wilderness
New study: Deforestation will exacerbate heatwaves under #climate change
"A hot spell that would have been tolerable under forest cover becomes a prolonged, hazardous heatwave."
theconversation.com/heat-with-no...
Big thx to @wbwu.bsky.social for the initiative :)
From our Chinese New Year celebration at @econovoau.bsky.social today (a little early)
Conservation genomics and assisted introgression is saving the American chestnut from extermination by invasive non-native pathogens. #consgen
🌍🌱 Constructed #wetlands as novel ecosystems. New paper led by #Sustainscapes PhD student Michael Straarup shows constructed #dune lakes host high plant diversity yet remain compositionally distinct —highlighting #restoration in the Anthropocene www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #novelecosystems
Neanderthals & Mesolithic foragers reshaped Europe’s ecology long before agriculture… 🌍 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
NEW PAPER: Lepidagathis konkanensis sp. nov. (Acanthaceae: Barlerieae) from Lateritic Plateaus of Konkan Region of Western Ghats based on morphological and molecular evidence by Patil et al. The new species is geographically isolated and threatened by fires, tourism and forestry.
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Also good 🐍🐍
