https://www.europesays.com/uk/87278/ The ecological niche and population history shape mosquito population genetics on a group of three Caribbean islands | Parasites & Vectors #Dispersal #DutchCaribbean #Entomology #GeneticDiversity #Genetics #HaplotypeNetwork #InfectiousDiseases #IntroducedSpecies #MitochondrialDNA #Mosquitoes #Parasitology #PopulationStructure #Science #TropicalMedicine #UK #UnitedKingdom #VeterinaryMedicine/VeterinaryScience #Virology
Logging machinery and other combustion machines are driving koalas out of their habitat at Bellingen/ Gleniffer's Tuckers Nob forests.
#biodiversity #dispersal #bellingen #gleniffer #GlenifferRoad #NSWLogging #cars #sprawl #FCNSW #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #SaveTuckersNob
Endangered spectacled flying foxes and vulnerable grey-headed flying foxes - misinformation is rife
"Tim Pearson, a wildlife ecologist who specialises in flying fox behaviour and communication, says the “double whammy” of destroying native forests while providing alternative food sources in farms and residential areas creates the potential for human-bat conflict and harassment, identified as a threat in recovery plans for endangered spectacled flying foxes and vulnerable grey-headed flying foxes."
“The Australian attitude towards wildlife has always been positive, providing it doesn’t inconvenience you...Unfortunately for flying foxes, in their case it often does. Things have been getting better, Pearson says, but flare-ups still occur when practical concerns – about noise, the animals’ impact on fruit growers, power outages or potential disease threats – are reported in breathless terms by the media. At worst they’re vilified and face a constant battle of disinformation, hate speech and are even persecuted.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/03/australia-flying-foxes-endangered-species-list
#bats #FlyingFoxes #persecution #wildlife #dispersal #harassment #coexistence #NSWLogging #HateSpeech #MSM #ShiftingAttitudes #biodiversity #destruction
#COVID19 #pandemic #interventions reshaped the #global #dispersal of seasonal #influenza viruses
Source: Science, Structured AbstractINTRODUCTIONDespite the availability of updated seasonal influenza vaccines and treatments, annual influenza epidemics continue to cause millions of hospitalizations and substantial burden on health care systems. The global circulation of seasonal influenza lineages depends on continued virus antigenic evolution and patterns of human…
@PeerCommunityIn Interesting study. Connecting urban nature to the nature living around cities is important. “This should encourage urban planners to pay attention to the areas promoting dispersal movements between urban habitats (e.g.,UGS) and peri-urban habitats (e.g.,forests), rather than among urban habitats, when managing urban biodiversity.”
A coral superhighway in the Indian Ocean
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-coral-superhighway-indian-ocean.html #oceans #biology #corals #larva #dispersal
‘A tragic mistake’: Decision to close Duke University’s herbarium triggers furor
https://www.science.org/content/article/tragic-mistake-decision-close-duke-university-s-herbarium-triggers-furor #DukeUniversity #herbarium #closure #protest #tragic #dispersal #priorities
A #virus controls its own long-distance dispersal: a #plant virus directly induces a long-winged morph in male insect vectors. This regulation is mediated by a species-specific unclassified #gene, which was proven a downstream factor of the #insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling pathway. The long-winged #insect #vectors induced by viruses in turn facilitate viral long-distant #dispersal and large-scale #epidemics
Challenging the accepted norm: new study by Behr et al. finds African Wild Dogs that disperse have lower mortality than those not dispersing. Could group living be riskier for some age classes than assumed due to limited access to resources? It's time to re-evaluate the costs of dispersal. Read now: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/726220 #AfricanWildDogs #dispersal #mortality
Magistrate fines earthmoving contractor $79k over koala deaths at Victorian bluegum plantation.
"A south west Victorian forest and earth moving business has been convicted and fined nearly $80,000 after hundreds of koalas were found in poor health or dead on a private property in 2020."
"The erection of a fence around the site prevented the koalas from escaping the heavy machinery works. He just did what he was contracted to do. He was not aware that he has any obligations … in relation to koalas or koala spotting."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-16/cape-bridgewater-koala-deaths-bryants-forestry-and-earthmoving/103112004
#LoggingIndustry #outsourcing #earthmoving #machinery #NativeForest #logging #CleanUp #wildlife #plantations #koalas #BiodiversityCrisis #dispersal
Pollen analysis suggests dispersal of modern humans occurred during a major Pleistocene warming spell
https://phys.org/news/2023-09-pollen-analysis-dispersal-modern-humans.html #Pollen #analysis #dispersal #modern #humans #Pleistocene #warming
With these new methods, we can estimate the wing area of thousands of bird specimens that already have wingspan information in research collections, including rare and extinct species, benefiting studies of #birdflight, #movementecology, and #dispersal.
New paper led by Jonathan Chu. We found that dispersal distances among North American birds depend on species’ flight efficiency and are negatively correlated with population sizes. This has interesting implications in macroecology, evolution, and conservation.
Way to go Jonathan!!!!
#NorthAmericanBirds #Ornithology #flight #Dispersal #macroecology #macroevolution #ConservationBiology #EEB #UniversityofToronto
@uoftnews@mstdn.cocial
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 
I'm a professor in physical geography and associate professor in plant ecology
My research focuses on #landscape & #climatechange, #biodiversity, #dispersal and #conservation
#grassland #woodland #wetland
@Stockholm_Uni #WomenInScience
Some plants can monitor #environmental #conditions around them and release #seeds at times #optimal for #dispersal.
#Dandelion seeds close up a bit in #wet #weather and don't travel as far as in their more open, #dry weather form. New #research (Seale et al. 2022) shows that dandelions hold on to seeds in wet weather and release them more in dry weather.
Do #plants exhibit #behavior? I would argue, yes.
Paper: https://elifesciences.org/articles/81962
Explainer: https://elifesciences.org/articles/81962
Distribution of corvids (only jays and nutcrackers shown here) overlaid on distribution of pines and oaks... seed-dispersers and the trees on which they depend, and that depend on them.
This leads to the next fascinating fact about Triops (and many other branchiopods): their eggs can withstand transit through the digestive tract of other animals. The presence of this feature in so many branchiopod suggests that it might be basal for the clade. If so, then what the hell was eating them and pooping out their eggs in the Devonian or before?
#dispersal #biogeography #poop
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I am a community ecologist at #CentreforEcologicalResearch #CER in #Hungary, interested in #metacommunities #spatialecology #landscapeecology #connectivity #biodiversity #salinity #dispersal
Guest researcher at #KULeuven
Formerly #WasserClusterLunz #WCL
My lab combines #experimental work (mostly #mesocosms) and #empirical studies. Recently also into #eDNA and #citizenscience
I am part of the #aquacosm community and doing lots of research on #ponds
Our #invasive #spider has spread for more than 1300 km in under 45 years. Want to know how? Check our new #openaccess study "Accelerated #invasion through the #evolution of #dispersal #behaviour" in GEB: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13599?af=R
Toot toot! Here comes my #introduction:
I am a #researcher at the #Swiss Ornithological Institute investigating #bird #ecology.
I am interested in basically everything but mostly
#behaviour
#animal #movement and #dispersal
#conservation
#biodiversity
#agroecology
#communities
#ecosystem #services and #functions
#ornithology
#bayesian #statistics
and #photography
Earlier at Lund University, Agroscope and @unibern
I hope to find an inspiring, supporting and collaborative #community here...
