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🌍 #WorldSeagrassDay 💡Learn more about advancing seagrass conservation in 100 questions👇

📢 New "Researchers in the Spotlight" article is out! 🌊 We welcome Vasilis Dakos, CNRS researcher on tipping points at the Institute of Evolution, who led the #EuroMarine BlueTipS workshop. 🌍In this interview, he answers our most pressing questions on tipping points of blue carbon storage in seagrass ecosystems and explains how the Foresight Workshop contributed to the advancement of this research topic. With the "Researchers in the Spotlight" campaign, we showcase the cutting-edge research conducted within the EuroMarine Network, promoting our researchers' achievements, with the aim of inspiring others to explore new frontiers in marine sciences. 👉 Read the interview here: https://lnkd.in/d67spuG6

late posting successfully completed Marine biology online course at American museum of natural history offered by Coursera. This course is about life in the oceans, from the sunlit surface to the inky depths, from microscopic phytoplankton to the great blue whale. The ocean is among the world’s most inhospitable environments for scientific research, which is why we know as much about the surface of the moon as we do the bottom of the sea. This course uncovers the evolutionary history of marine organisms, adaptations to life in water, the behavior and functional morphology of sea animals, interactions between species, and current threats.

What is colour? 🎨 How do plants and animals create colour and how do we perceive colours? And what can colour in the natural world tell us about biodiversity? As part of the Brain Awareness Week, University of Groningen biologists Jocelien Olivier and Casper van der Kooi (Faculty of Science and Engineering - University of Groningen) explain how colours are produced in nature, and how our eyes and brain help us perceive colours. 👇 #brainawarenessweek #colours #perception #universityofgroningen #rijksuniversiteitgroningen 📹: contributed by Young Academy Groningen and Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences

The first paper of my PhD has been accepted! We highlight the importance of a heterogenic forest habitat mosiac to support resident birds year-round, because: -> Post-disturbance habitat use of resident birds differed between winter and spring ->Winter and spring bird diversity hotspots did not spatially overlap ->This is probably because of different drivers of habitat use of resident birds in winter and spring Find the full paper here: https://t.co/C2CFjCvH95

Dear colleagues! We invite you to participate in the International Scientific Conference "Biogeosphere and Socium" (BGS-2024) which will take place on 25-27 September 2024 at the Pomeranian University in Słupsk (Poland) Seven years of experience in organising the periodic International Scientific Conference "Natural Resources of Border Areas under a Changing Climate", known as NARBAC, have convinced us that the problem of the relationship between man and nature requires the involvement of more than just ecologists, geographers and biologists to solve it. For this reason, the partner universities have broadened the range of topics to be discussed. Therefore, from 2024, the best traditions of NARBAC will be taken up by the BGS – "Biogeosphere and Socium". The International Conference themes / Thematic Sessions Functioning of biological and ecological systems; Geosystems and landscape complexes; Natural resources in a changing climate; Protected areas; Agrobiodiversity; Man and the technosphere; Human health; Recreational resources, Tourism; Peculiarities of national and ethnic, territorial and settlement communities; Methodological and pedagogical aspects of the study of nature and man.

"Artificial light can be used to deter unwanted non-target catch (bycatch) from #fishing gear, which is thought to be achieved by repelling bycatch, or highlighting escape routes on nets. To select for responses in bycatch species, light should (1) cause the bycatch #species to avoid capture, and (2) not invoke the same reaction in target species. One way to maximise the chance of a bycatch species responding to light is to ensure the light colour used is more visible to #bycatch species. Some studies have considered the visual sensitivity of certain species to address this. In particular, the wavebands of light that a species is sensitive to. However, using this measurement alone is incomplete as it does not consider other factors that affect visibility, such as the ambient light spectrum, and wavelength-dependant light attenuation in different water types and depths. To account for these variables, and to more accurately predict how both target and bycatch species view light colours in a fishing context, we used a model of the vision of commercially relevant species in #fisheries across the world. From this, we show whether a light colour is more visible to a bycatch species compared to a target species in a particular depth and water type, and how modelling can be used to make informed #assessments of the selection of relevant light colours in fishing. We also discuss the limitations of using vision models alone and the need for corresponding #behaviour and/or fishing #trials with lights." If you are interested in performing a fishing trial using artificial light please do come forward and contact me or SafetyNet Technologies directly

A holistic, ecocentric – ecosystem-centred – fishery management approach, incorporating all relevant elements of the natural and human environments, is needed to ensure a balance between food security, healthy sea, sustainable fishery practices, and stable blue-economy and employment, researchers of the EU-funded EcoScope project argued in an editorial published in October 2023 in the scientific journal Frontiers in Marine Science. Current circumstances underscore the “pressing need for a paradigm shift” towards ecocentric or ecosystem-based fishery management (EBFM), and away from “the anthropocentric ( = human-centred) perception of commercial stock surplus yield” dictating the overall approach until now, the EcoScope researchers said. EBFM necessitates an interdisciplinary approach among scientists to gather information on biotic, abiotic and human components of ecosystems and their interactions, including social and economic factors impacting marine ecosystems. The editorial was written by EcoScope project coordinator Athanassios Tsikliras of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) School of Biology’s Laboratory of Ichthyology, Gianpaolo Coro of the Alessandro Faedo Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Georgi Daskalov of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, David Grémillet of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) Centre for Functional and Evolutive Ecology at the University of Montpellier and the University of Cape Town Department of Science and Technology’s FitzPatrick Institute, Marco Scotti of the GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel and the Italian National Research Council’s Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources, and GEORGIOS SYLAIOS of the Democritus University of Thrace - (D.U.Th.). Find out more about this research paper 🐟🌊👉 https://lnkd.in/daNqXqaf #EcoScope #Marine #Ecosystems #Research #EBFM #FoodSecurity #Fisheries #Management #ClimateChange #Mediterranean Frontiers

Learn more about recent FSU graduate Aaron Ridall and his research on microplastics in my latest alumni spotlight article, here:

Press Release of 22.03.2024 from the University of Oxford:   A new paper by Matthias Becher (RIFCON), Grace Twiston-Davies (University of Exeter) et al. is now published in "Insect Conservation and Diversity". Please check the press release from the University of Oxford Department of Biology: https://lnkd.in/esCibkPH   Using the agent-based bumblebee model (https://lnkd.in/e5PyjNga) the authors show the importance of early flowering resources on bumblebee queen production and population dynamics. They suggest to improve pollen and nectar availability in early spring, e.g. by enhancing hedgerows with ground ivy, red dead-nettle, maple, cherry, hawthorn, and willow.   Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ePqusQrX Further information about the authors: Matthias Becher Grace Twiston-Davies Juliet L. Osborne: https://lnkd.in/eAU2Zxqi Tonya A. Lander: https://lnkd.in/emfCp4Cy