#ecology — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ecology, aggregated by home.social.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: Researchers in #Brazil reconstructed 3.3 million years of #tropical #vegetation #history and projected changes by 2050.
They found that #climatechange could produce #ecosystem shifts within decades that took millions of years to unfold naturally. Species that evolved in stable tropical refuges, including much of the Malay #Archipelago, face the highest risk from this compression of change over time.
#climate #amazon #biodiversity #deforestation #globalwarming #ecology #science #ufmg #machinelearning #conservation
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: Researchers in #Brazil reconstructed 3.3 million years of #tropical #vegetation #history and projected changes by 2050.
They found that #climatechange could produce #ecosystem shifts within decades that took millions of years to unfold naturally. Species that evolved in stable tropical refuges, including much of the Malay #Archipelago, face the highest risk from this compression of change over time.
#climate #amazon #biodiversity #deforestation #globalwarming #ecology #science #ufmg #machinelearning #conservation
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#greenEnergy #greenTransition #greenpower #transitionEcologique #transitionenergetique #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ecology #environment #climate #change #innovation #citizen #changementclimatique #ClimateAction #savoirscientifique #pédagogie #citoyenneté #transitionEcologique #tech #technology #technologie #teamfortheplanet #tftp
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#greenEnergy #greenTransition #greenpower #transitionEcologique #transitionenergetique #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ecology #environment #climate #change #innovation #citizen #changementclimatique #ClimateAction #savoirscientifique #pédagogie #citoyenneté #transitionEcologique #tech #technology #technologie #teamfortheplanet #tftp
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Restored human-made wetlands, though typically championed for their ecological benefits and carbon storage, can act as significant sources of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that complicates their role as definitive climate change solutions.
#Biogeosciences #Ecology #Climatology #EnvironmentalScience #sflorg
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Restored human-made wetlands, though typically championed for their ecological benefits and carbon storage, can act as significant sources of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that complicates their role as definitive climate change solutions.
#Biogeosciences #Ecology #Climatology #EnvironmentalScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/es07292602.html -
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Life on the edge: Mesolithic population size and viability on Malta
" Our results show that following disconnection from Sicily, Malta would have been unable to support a viable, persistent forager population, including for the minimum 1000-year timespan of the Maltese Mesolithic record. As a result, only repeated, long-distance sea voyaging can explain the longevity of Mesolithic occupations of Malta, opening up the possibility that other south-central Mediterranean islands were reached and explaining the presence of European hunter-gatherer ancestry in North Africa."
James Blinkhorn, Lucy Timbrell, Matt Grove, Andrea Manica, Mario Mata-González, Huw S Groucutt, Nicholas C Vella, Eleanor M L Scerri, Life on the edge: Mesolithic population size and viability on Malta, PNAS Nexus, Volume 5, Issue 7, July 2026, pgag234, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag234
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropolgy #Ecology #Mesolithic #Mediterranean #Prehistory #Malta #Europe #Africa #Academia
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Life on the edge: Mesolithic population size and viability on Malta
" Our results show that following disconnection from Sicily, Malta would have been unable to support a viable, persistent forager population, including for the minimum 1000-year timespan of the Maltese Mesolithic record. As a result, only repeated, long-distance sea voyaging can explain the longevity of Mesolithic occupations of Malta, opening up the possibility that other south-central Mediterranean islands were reached and explaining the presence of European hunter-gatherer ancestry in North Africa."
James Blinkhorn, Lucy Timbrell, Matt Grove, Andrea Manica, Mario Mata-González, Huw S Groucutt, Nicholas C Vella, Eleanor M L Scerri, Life on the edge: Mesolithic population size and viability on Malta, PNAS Nexus, Volume 5, Issue 7, July 2026, pgag234, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgag234
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropolgy #Ecology #Mesolithic #Mediterranean #Prehistory #Malta #Europe #Africa #Academia
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Incendie en Gironde et ailleurs.
Pendant que Madame De... se fait bronzer le fion au bord de sa piscine dans sa forêt privée. Je n'en dit pas plus, je risque de m'énerver.
#incendie #changementclimatique #ecologie #ecology #climatechange #environnement
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Sacred Sites As Refuges For Native Plant Diversity In An Urbanized Tropical Landscape [Madagascar]
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-026-00489-x <-- shared paper
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H/T @nicolas Salliou | Senior scientist at ETH Zürich
“When [the authors] investigated the potential for blue-green infrastructures for the capital of Madagascar,… a large team surveyed plant communities along a rural-urban gradient.
They found that 12 Malagasy "sacred" hill settlements, situated in the core of a pre-colonial kingdom, are particularly precious as they host a high diversity of native plants. A key insights when one considers that Madagascar is a unique hotspot for biodiversity and human cultures…”
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“In fragmented and intensively managed remnant urban green spaces, enabling natural regeneration is crucial to sustain ecosystem functioning and associated services. Natural regeneration therefore offers an important lens into ecological resilience in human-modified landscapes. Here [the authors] present one of the most comprehensive field-based assessments of urban plant diversity in the Afrotropics, comprising over 25,000 naturally regenerating woody plant individuals of 206 species (39% native) across 329 vegetation patches in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Landscape-level native species diversity declined with greater building complexity, density and socio-economic development, whereas exotic species showed no consistent associations with determinants of urban characteristics. Native species richness was highest in ‘sacred’ forest fragments, many of which contain historic remains dating back to pre-colonial times. Notably, seven of the ten most species-rich patches were located in such sites. [Their] findings highlight the potentially important role of these sites in sustaining native species diversity and indicate how socio-cultural factors can present both opportunities and barriers for tropical urban conservation and restoration...”
#sacredsites #antananarivo #madagascar #vegetation #nativeplant #urban #greenspace #tropical #hillsettlements #spatialanalysis #survey #ecosystem #biodiversity #ecology #regeneration #humanimpacts #GIS #spatial #mapping #afrotropics #forest #forestfragments #precolonial #sustainability #diversity #native #sociocultural #restoration -
Sacred Sites As Refuges For Native Plant Diversity In An Urbanized Tropical Landscape [Madagascar]
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-026-00489-x <-- shared paper
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H/T @nicolas Salliou | Senior scientist at ETH Zürich
“When [the authors] investigated the potential for blue-green infrastructures for the capital of Madagascar,… a large team surveyed plant communities along a rural-urban gradient.
They found that 12 Malagasy "sacred" hill settlements, situated in the core of a pre-colonial kingdom, are particularly precious as they host a high diversity of native plants. A key insights when one considers that Madagascar is a unique hotspot for biodiversity and human cultures…”
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“In fragmented and intensively managed remnant urban green spaces, enabling natural regeneration is crucial to sustain ecosystem functioning and associated services. Natural regeneration therefore offers an important lens into ecological resilience in human-modified landscapes. Here [the authors] present one of the most comprehensive field-based assessments of urban plant diversity in the Afrotropics, comprising over 25,000 naturally regenerating woody plant individuals of 206 species (39% native) across 329 vegetation patches in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Landscape-level native species diversity declined with greater building complexity, density and socio-economic development, whereas exotic species showed no consistent associations with determinants of urban characteristics. Native species richness was highest in ‘sacred’ forest fragments, many of which contain historic remains dating back to pre-colonial times. Notably, seven of the ten most species-rich patches were located in such sites. [Their] findings highlight the potentially important role of these sites in sustaining native species diversity and indicate how socio-cultural factors can present both opportunities and barriers for tropical urban conservation and restoration...”
#sacredsites #antananarivo #madagascar #vegetation #nativeplant #urban #greenspace #tropical #hillsettlements #spatialanalysis #survey #ecosystem #biodiversity #ecology #regeneration #humanimpacts #GIS #spatial #mapping #afrotropics #forest #forestfragments #precolonial #sustainability #diversity #native #sociocultural #restoration
