#ecosystemservices — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ecosystemservices, aggregated by home.social.
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐆🚗 On #Washington’s #OlympicPeninsula, camera traps and tracking collars show #deer shift their space and time use wherever #pumas roam, avoiding #roads and sleeping through the night hours when collisions are worst.
The result is a drop of up to 76% in deer-vehicle crashes where the #predators are most active. Notably, pumas deliver this benefit mostly by scaring deer, not killing them, essentially serving as free wildlife bridges.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/pumas-prevent-car-crash/
#pumas #puma #cougars #mountainlions #wolves #predators #ecology #wildlife #roadsafety #deer #behavior #ecosystemservices #olympicpeninsula #conservation #science
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🦫 Could Beavers Help Tackle One Of Climate Change’s Fastest-Growing Challenges? [UK] 🦫
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/climate-change-beavers-hidden-battle-against-britains-rome-cook-frgve/ <-- shared technical article
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx26r1gz1x8o <-- shared media article, “Beavers have helped reduce flood risk…”
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https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/saving-species/beavers <-- shared overview, beavers in the UK
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https://www.npr.org/2026/05/21/nx-s1-5738979/beavers-britain-climate-change-flooding <-- shared media article, “As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers”
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https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/why-rewild/reintroductions-key-species/key-species/eurasian-beaver <-- shared reintroduction overview
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https://youtu.be/NXZjt1M6loY?si=pwjU0t1GXxGLfNnD <-- shared video, “Watch the moment wild beavers return to Cornwall” [UK]
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https://youtu.be/65HBgO33GDo?si=2qfBAa2Qaz23I81g <-- shared video, “First Beavers in Bedfordshire in over 400 years” [UK]
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https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/our-work/our-projects/scottish-beavers/ <-- shared overview, beaver reintroduction into Scotland
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https://youtu.be/vCjvCQHX7mQ?si=fJS9E1wi0LyDq5Fw <-- shared video, “Scotland Released 11 Beavers Into a Dead River — What They Did With Mud and Sticks Was [amazing]”
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H/T @RomeCook
“In [this] article, [the author] explore[s]:
🌿 How beaver-created wetlands support biodiversity
🦟 Their potential influence on mosquitoes and other insect pests
🕷️ The indirect role they may play in tick ecology
🦇 How dragonflies, bats, birds, amphibians and beneficial insects contribute to natural pest regulation
🚜 What this could mean for sustainable agriculture and agroforestry
🌍 Why this matters for biodiversity, farming, and human and animal health in a changing climate…
The beaver isn’t simply creating wetlands. It may be rebuilding the ecological balance that our landscapes have gradually lost….”
#Beavers #BeaverConference2026 #NatureBasedSolutions #Wetlands #Ecology #Biodiversity #Entomology #IntegratedPestManagement #BiologicalControl #Agroforestry #SustainableAgriculture #ClimateChange #OneHealth #EnvironmentalScience #Conservation #Research #ResearchCollaboration #Wildlife #EcosystemServices #bioviversity #conservation #restoration #landscaperecovery #trophiccascade #Rewilding #Nature #SpeciesReintroduction #Environment #EcosystemEngineers #nature #restoration #floodmanagement #FloodMitigation #flood #flooding #floodrisk #sustainability #wetlands #hydrography #hydrology #dams #impoundment #deadwood #waterresources #landscapeengineer # agriculture #benefits #agroforestry #vegetation #waterquality #ecology #ecosystem #restoration #riversystemsstabilisation #climatechange -
The root problem is accounting. You cannot compensate for what the ledger does not record.
We are building that ledger: ecological events — soil carbon, pollination, water quality, biodiversity — in the same data structure as farm economics. Open standards. Auditable. Portable.
Not because better software fixes the politics. But because once the data exists, the question gets harder to avoid.
@growgood.org.au #RegenerativeAgriculture #EcosystemServices #AgriculturalPolicy #AgTech
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An ecosystem service is not a service provided by the ecosystem as if it is its goal, it is just the results of its existence. So, not being its function it cannot malfunction as well. That is an interesting approach.
#ecosystem #biodiversity #ecosystemserviceshttps://aeon.co/essays/why-we-need-to-think-again-about-ecosystem-failure
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Biodiversity loss is directly threatening human health and welfare, according to new research led by the University of Bristol. The study, published in Nature today [06 May] reveals, for the first time, how the decline of insect pollinators undermines essential ecosystem services that support human nutrition and livelihoods. Biodiversity also plays a vital role in supporting people’s everyday health and resilience, too.
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CW: Some notes about land-use
When talking about land-use, it is, however, important to understand that land is not something that is used and then thrown away (ok, there are some heavily destructive uses, e.g. mining).
Land provides multiple services (biodiversity, carbon storage, water cycling, recreation, agricultural production, space for building stuff...). Some land-uses reduce the capacity of land to provide these services.
The next issue is the order in which the services are priorized. Some services have a more or less evident price tag (agricultural production, or space for buildings), while other (ecosystem) services, like water purification, carbon storage or biodiversity, are usually not taken into account by the market, except by really motivated people(TM) or administrations treating these services as public goods that deserve protection.So, to make a fair comparison, it is important to assess the capacity of the different land-uses to provide the land-related services. And here it gets somewhat messy because management comes into play. E.g. 'agriculture' can be an conventional, pesticide-based soil degrading extractive system with all the consequences for soil, water and biodiversity; however, you can also have an agroforestry system that provides its functions in the interest of society and nature.
And here comes into play that e.g. pastures, despite taking up a lot of land, can be quite well-managed and score high on ecosystem services (of course, capitalism promotes the opposite: land degradation an unnecessary suffering*).
Just wanted to provide this context to the great map.* of ccourse, reducing meat intake is a goal the whole society should work towards.
#LandUse #EcosystemServices #Biodiversity #Pastures #Agroforestry #LandManagement
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Who knew bat poo could be worth millions?
A new study shows Australia's grey-headed flying foxes are dropping bat ripple magic across millions of hectares. Their seed-dispersing guano helps grow a median of around 90 million new trees every year, mostly eucalypts.
That's an estimated 217 million to 955 million boost to the timber industry alone. Not bad for some flying forest gardeners who connect bushfire-scarred landscapes like pros.
Time to stop seeing them as pests and start celebrating these keystone heroes. Protect the bats, protect the forests.#flyingfoxes #batripple #australianwildlife #ecosystemservices #biodiversitymatters #savethebats
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8/8
I hope you enjoyed the #MarshMadness photographs which I have been posting this month, which have included photos of many of the wetlands I have had the rare privilege to study over my career. Wetlands are increasingly threatened globally, even here in Canada, and deserve our protection as a matter of urgency.
#Wetlands #Science #Ecology #EcosystemServices #Conservation #AerialInsectivores #Bats #Swallows #Entomology #CrossEcosystemFlux -
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This highlights the importance of preserving these poorly-studied, ephemeral habitats, which are often the first to be lost as rivers become disconnected from their floodplains. When this happens, we lose not only the natural beauty of the riverscape, but also a larder for aerial insectivores - both birds and bats - which forage the river corridor
#MarshMadness #Wetlands #Science #Ecology #EcosystemServices #Conservation #AerialInsectivores #Bats #Swallows #Entomology #CrossEcosystemFlux -
6/8
Early results from our study are showing that wetlands which fringe the main river channel, which may completely dry up by the end of the summer, nevertheless provide a much richer and more abundant source of food for insectivores when compared to more isolated wetlands, which are generally less productive.
#MarshMadness #Wetlands #Science #Ecology #EcosystemServices #Conservation #AerialInsectivores #Bats #Swallows #Entomology #CrossEcosystemFlux -
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Here in the Canadian Maritimes, rivers remain diverse and productive, hosting a rich insect fauna, which emerge around the time of arrival of migratory insectivores such as tree swallows. A close up of our light trapping system, shows both aquatic and terrestrial insects (including a very large hawk moth!).
#MarshMadness #Wetlands #Science #Ecology #EcosystemServices #Conservation #AerialInsectivores #Bats #Swallows #Entomology #CrossEcosystemFlux -
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In addition to quantifying insect biomass, we also collect specimens of flying insect species to analyze their fatty-acid content. Fatty acids are extremely important in the early development of swallow nestlings, and aquatic insects provide a rich source. Sampling is performed at dusk using UV light attractors, when insects are on the wing,.
#MarshMadness #Wetlands #Science #Ecology #EcosystemServices #Conservation #AerialInsectivores #Bats #Swallows #Entomology #CrossEcosystemFlux -
3/8
The study, supported through an #NSERC Discovery Grant, is examining a set of five wetlands - four of which connect to the river, and another isolated (perched) basin. We measure flux of aquatic insects from these wetlands using pyramidal emergence traps, which collect emerging insects which provide a key food supply for aerial insectivores.
#MarshMadness #Wetlands #Science #Ecology #EcosystemServices #Conservation #AerialInsectivores #Bats #Swallows #Entomology #CrossEcosystemFlux -
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Aerial insectivore - both bats and birds - are declining globally. For this reason, knowing more about their critical breeding habitats is important to conserve these important species, many of whom migrate intercontinental distances from their overwintering areas to their summer breeding grounds here in Canada.
#MarshMadness #Wetlands #Science #Ecology #EcosystemServices #Conservation #AerialInsectivores #Bats #Swallows #Entomology #CrossEcosystemFlux -
1/8
As a finale to my #MarshMadness posts this month, I’ll tell you about an ongoing project in my lab. With my field crew and PhD student Thamarasi Aththanayaka, we have been studying the role played by river floodplain wetlands in providing food to aerial insectivores including swallows and bats, in an urban river floodplain here in Fredericton, New Brunswick
#Wetlands #Science #Ecology #EcosystemServices #Conservation #AerialInsectivores #Bats #Swallows #Entomology #CrossEcosystemFlux -
A new study reveals urban scavengers in Ethiopia such as spotted hyenas, African wolves and vultures are providing a vital ecosystem service by consuming organic household waste that, left to rot, releases greenhouse gases and spreads disease.
#ClimateChange #scavengers #diseases #organicwaste #ecosystemserviceshttps://phys.org/news/2026-03-reveals-ethiopia-hyenas-combat-climate.html
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A fisher mending her nets. Galgamuwah, Sri Lanka. 2002.
#MarshMadness #SilentSunday #Wetlands #SeasonalTank #Photography #EcosystemServices #InternationalWomensDay -
PLAN-B's "Review of light and noise pollution impacts on terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services" is now published.
#ALAN #LightPollution #Noise #EcosystemServices #Ecology #Pollution #Environment
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...your regular reminder that all models are wrong, but some are delicious! 😋
Our next #LunchBoxModels #seminar is scheduled for Wednesday (Feb 25) at 12 CET. Boris Schröder-Esselbach (TU Berlin) will talk about #EcologicalModelling and how it provides key contributions to coastal #EcosystemServices and the restoration of seagrass meadows. Don't think twice, join us! 😊
More info here:
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this is a good opportunity to take action, #restore habitats and species, and recover ecosystems, to be fully functional and supply #ecosystemservices for humans #MarineEcology #Research
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at the Basque Country, we are restoring #seagrass fields, in estuaries which lost completely the populations, and these actions are being very successful! restoring #biodiversity and #ecosystemservices #MarineEcology #Research
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Working on #ParticipatoryMapping or #CitizenScience approaches to advance #EcosystemServices? Please submit an abstract to our session at the Ecosystem Services Partnership Europe Conference (Prague, 18.-22.05.26). Submission deadline: 31.12.25. https://www.espconference.org/europe2026/home
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📄 Call for Abstracts! We're hosting a session on "New data, new tools, new challenges" for digital cultural ecosystem services at the 6th ESP Europe Conference
🗓️ 18-22 May 2026, Prague
⏰ Abstract Deadline: 31 Dec 2025
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Are you interested in #Agroforestry, #EcosystemServices & rural-urban dynamics? And would you like to join our Social-Ecological Interactions Group? Please apply for a 4-years (65%) PhD position on “Effects of tree-based agriculture on ecosystem services supply, distribution & access in a rurban environment”. Fieldwork will take place in Morocco. Infos: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/358166. Deadline: 24.07.25. @unikassel.
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Global study reveals critical ecosystem service supply-demand mismatches: Climate change and human activities reshape nature's balance, impacting food, carbon, soil, and water services across regions. #Sustainability #EcosystemServices
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this week's #CurrentBiology feature: how #tinyForests planted with the #Miyawaki method became a big thing https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-big-story-of-tiny-forests.html #science #ecology #forests #ecosystemServices #conservation #earthwatch #citizenScience #tinyforest
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my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 12: how #tinyForests planted with the #Miyawaki method became a big thing https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-big-story-of-tiny-forests.html #science #ecology #forests #ecosystemServices #conservation #earthwatch #citizenScience #tinyforest
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👋 Hello Mastodon!
We are the Ecosystem & Landscape Ecology Group at the University of Innsbruck 🌿⛰️Our research explores #biodiversity ecosystem functions & services, land-use change, and sustainability in #mountain environments.
Follow us for updates on our projects, fieldwork insights, and more!
#ecology #ecosystemServices #landscape #climateChange #Alps #research #UIBK