Mateus Silva introduces a tool to facilitate seed provenancing for climate-smart ecosystem restoration📊🌎

Shortlisted for the 2025 Southwood Prize 🏆🧪

appliedecologistsblog.com/2026/04/05/m...

Redefining ecosystem integrity for an Anthropocene biosphere: a process‐ and lineage‐based framework for restoration Restoration increasingly operates in rapidly transforming landscapes shaped by human-driven global change, where historical reference states no longer represent achievable or even desirable targets. ...

Nature restoration aims for "ecosystem integrity". But how to define integrity in a human-modified (read: "messed up") biosphere?
@jcsvenning.bsky.social shares really good ideas on this in @restorationecology.bsky.social .
It is #OpenAccess.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#RestoreNature

Wikipedia page about the Laotian rock rat

One of the craziest discoveries of a new 'living fossil' and Lazarus taxon - Laotian rock rat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laotian... the last member of Diatomyidae. Survived in the isolated mountain pockets.
And here is fun video about it: youtube.com/shorts/sZI3Z...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk Scientists say their work on fires and climate change could be lost as the agency moves its headquarters to Utah from Washington and shuts 57 research stations.

The U.S. Forest Service is closing 57 of its 77 research facilities in 31 states under a reorganization plan announced this week, threatening science that looked at how wildfires, drought, pests and global warming are putting pressure on forests.

Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon A new, comprehensive study shows that Europe’s landscapes over the past more than 20 million years have predominantly been a mosaic of grasslands, scrub and woodlands of varying density. A light...

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

Looking very much forward to this important project on the ecological responses to #depopulation 🌿

TWS Journals During our 4-year study, we documented 2 cases of Mexican wolves killing and consuming free-roaming horses in New Mexico and Arizona, USA. Although wolf predation on feral and native wild horses has ...

2026. Mexican wolf predation of feral horses in the southwestern United States. wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Excellent new paper on ecosystem integrity in a changing world.

This is the type of thinking we need to guide action.

Thank you :)

What does ecosystem #integrity mean in a rapidly changing #Anthropocene biosphere? I argue for a shift from static reference states toward 1) the ecological processes that sustain biodiversity & 2) evolutionary heritage➡️ doi.org/10.1111/rec....
#ecology #restoration #biodiversity #ecosystemintegrity

a brown horse with a white mane and tail is standing in a field . ALT: a brown horse with a white mane and tail is standing in a field .

Species in the Spotlight: Year of the Horse zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... via @jzoology.bsky.social @elissazcameron.bsky.social

Redefining ecosystem integrity for an Anthropocene biosphere: a process‐ and lineage‐based framework for restoration Restoration increasingly operates in rapidly transforming landscapes shaped by human-driven global change, where historical reference states no longer represent achievable or even desirable targets. ...

Now, the paper is online: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Some cork oaks (Quercus suber; probably the original forest) survived the pine plantation & the fire! Now resprouting epicormically. Cork oak is much more resilient than those plantations! Serra da Estrela fire 2025, Portugal
🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🌾🌿🔥🍁 #PlantBiology wildfire

Excited to see important work on plant informatics 🌿💻🌐 #BIEN

Ny #dkforsk viser, at vilde heste og kvæg kan skabe mere robuste og varierede økosystemer end traditionel naturpleje. Når dyrene får lov til at leve frit og forme landskabet over tid, opstår der en naturlig dynamik, som øger biodiversiteten 👉 bit.ly/3PMROph @jcsvenning.bsky.social

A beaver swims in green-tinted water, as it holds food in its paws. Logs and green foliage are in the background, adding depth to the serene, natural scene. Adobe stock image.

Beaver-induced hydrological change turned wetland into a net carbon sink with an approximate carbon storage of 100 tons per year, according to an analysis in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/4dvQTTZ 🌍 🧪

Name That Plant is an amazing #WildFlowerID resource created by @milneorchid.bsky.social!
The website namethatplant.org is built on a photo library of >2,700 plant taxa.
We were delighted when Richard very kindly agreed to let us use those fabulous images on the new BSBI website: bsbi.org/plants!

A Restoration Ecology professor job!

On World Rewilding Day, we are celebrating the first ECONOVO @dg.dk-funded PhD 🎉. Today @jonastrepel.bsky.social passed his thesis on Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere: Large Herbivores as Drivers of Vegetation Structure and Plant Diversity with flying colors and 6 months ahead of time 👏!

Neue Studie: Europas Urlandschaften waren Wald-Grasland-Mosaike Eine neue Studie der Universität Aarhus widerlegt die weit verbreitete Annahme, dass Europas ursprüngliche Landschaften hauptsächlich aus dichten Wäldern bestanden. Stattdessen bildeten Wiesen, Buschl...

Europas „Urnatur“: Ein Mosaik aus Wiesen, Büschen & Baumgruppen – geprägt von großen Pflanzenfressern. Warum das wichtig ist: Das Leitbild von dichtem Wald könnte Natur schaden statt nützen, warnt @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social oau.bsky.social im @riffreporter.bsky.social-Interview.

Ecosystem integrity is a central concept in #conservation & #restoration. I argue for shifting from pattern-focused views to ecological processes & evolutionary lineages. Happy to see it accepted in @restorationecology.bsky.social🌿It'll become available at DOI: 10.1111/rec.70390 #ecosystemintegrity

Zugfahrten sinnvoll nutzen - bin gespannt 😊

Danke @ddejrnaes.bsky.social für den Literaturtipp

Human-driven landscapes of fear for Africa’s largest terrestrial predator in human-used conservation landscapes

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing Indigenous knowledge confirms a trend scientists have observed- large bird populations are declining faster than small birds.

Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing 🦜🦚🦉 #defaunation #birds

Wolves kill—and ravens remember where Do ravens follow wolves to feed on their kills? For decades, biologists assumed they did. Ravens are often seen flying with wolves, following their tracks, or gathering quickly at fresh carcasses A t...

Wolves kill—and ravens remember where | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #raven #wolves #scavengers

Den europæiske savanne Unaturligt. Ny forskning tegner et billede af et Europa fyldt med elefanter, næsehorn og åbne landskaber. Det bør få os til at gentænke den måde, vi rejser skove på, mener professor.

–Vi skal fokusere på mosaikker af skov, åbne naturtyper og rewilding, hvor man udsætter store planteædere i naturreservater og giver plads til naturlige processer i økosystemerne, siger @jcsvenning.bsky.social, @econovoau.bsky.social blandt andet i artiklen her👇🔒
www.weekendavisen.dk/ideer/den-eu...

🆕 research in "Ecosphere": best practices in using stable isotopes to infer animal diets ⤵️

2 'Lazarus' animals thought to be extinct for over 7,000 years found alive in New Guinea The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, until now known only through fossils, have been rediscovered.

Two marsupials previously believed to be extinct found in New Guinea:

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Itä-Suomen luonnosta halutaan Venäjää vastaan vihreä muuri – laajoja suunnitelmia vireillä Itärajan seudun luonnon ennallistamista edistetään ensimmäistä kertaa ministeriötasolla.

A Finnish government study, to be published in May, will outline a plan to “build” a “Verdant Wall” along #Finland’s Eastern border by #rewilding and restoring natural habitats, especially marshlands, as barriers to invasion. Win win win!

#biodiversity #defence

National analysis of cancer mortality and proximity to nuclear power plants in the United States - Nature Communications ‘Populations residing near nuclear power plants may experience low-level chronic exposure to ionizing radiation through environmental release pathways. In here the authors find higher cancer mortality rates in U.S. counties closer to operational nuclear power plants, with the strongest relative risks observed in older adults.’

A study published in Nature Communications reports higher cancer mortality rates in U.S. counties closer to operational nuclear power plants, with the strongest relative risks observed in older adults. 🧪