#ecosystemservices — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ecosystemservices, aggregated by home.social.
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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 -
5/8
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 -
4/8
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 -
2/8
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 -
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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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
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2ipebi4cuxifikswemt3ll5e/post/3mefy7mimu6r2 -
Gardener issues urgent warning against seemingly innocent plant: ‘They are terrible’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1549812/gardener-issues-urgent-warning-against-seemingly-innocent-plant-they-are-terrible-2/ #EcosystemServices #garden #gardener #gardening #InvasiveSpecies #JapaneseBarberry #LymeDisease #ticks
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Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Margaret E. K. Evans Department of Wildland Resources,…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Biodiversity #Climatechange #ClimateChange/ClimateChangeImpacts #Climate-changeecology #Conservationbiology #Ecosystemservices #EnvironmentalLaw/Policy/Ecojustice #Evolutionaryecology #general #Science
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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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The second day of #LBS2025 conference is about to start, and so is the onslaught of presentations from @digigeolab members and alumni on topics like #mobility #BigData #GIScience #MachineLearning #NatureRecreation #Segregation #EcosystemServices #Geography
I have the dubious honor of the very last presentation of the day, acting as the firewall between the scientific program and the conference dinner. Let's see how many turn up 😅
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Understanding the connections between #FunctionalTraits and #EcosystemServices can help address #ClimateChange and #HumanActivities. So Cheng Zheng et al. used the #Response–effectTraitFramework to disentangle the effects of #EnvironmentalChange on the ecosystem services.
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Nature Positive
Australia's collapsing ecosystems declared a 'critical infrastructure'Australia has destroyed and degraded nature. The remaining collapsing ecosystems are declared a 'critical infrastructure'. This new system of governance to organise life is framed as a 'Nature Positive' policy with the help of a large consulting business.
The remaining nature is now a market not a common good and has no rights (Rights of Nature laws). The ‘more-than-human-worlds’ becomes a market of 'ecosystem services' to serve a few of the human species. Nature is now a mere 'essential infrastructure' like roads, highway, sewers, sewage etc.
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"At least 19 Australian ecosystems have been reported to show signs of collapse or near collapse."
https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/overview/environment/ecosystems"Nature Positive Plan:
better for the environment, better for business." au gov
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/publications/nature-positive-plan"The term “nature-positive”
has become a call to action across society and business." PwC
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/corporate-sustainability/environmental-stewardship/nature.html##biodiversity #nature #NaturePositive #infrastructure #EcosystemServices #governance #CriticalInfrastructure #KMGBF #depletion #ResourceFrontiers #NatureNegative #Unsustainability
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Nature Positive
Australia's collapsing ecosystems declared a 'critical infrastructure'Australia has destroyed and degraded nature. The remaining collapsing ecosystems are declared a 'critical infrastructure'. This new system of governance to organise life is framed as a 'Nature Positive' policy with the help of a large consulting business.
The remaining nature is now a market not a common good and has no rights (Rights of Nature laws). The ‘more-than-human-worlds’ becomes a market of 'ecosystem services' to serve a few of the human species. Nature is now a mere 'essential infrastructure' like roads, highway, sewers, sewage etc.
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"At least 19 Australian ecosystems have been reported to show signs of collapse or near collapse."
https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/overview/environment/ecosystems"Nature Positive Plan:
better for the environment, better for business." au gov
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/publications/nature-positive-plan"The term “nature-positive”
has become a call to action across society and business." PwC
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/corporate-sustainability/environmental-stewardship/nature.html##biodiversity #nature #NaturePositive #infrastructure #EcosystemServices #governance #CriticalInfrastructure #KMGBF #depletion #ResourceFrontiers #NatureNegative #Unsustainability
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Nature Positive
Australia's collapsing ecosystems declared a 'critical infrastructure'Australia has destroyed and degraded nature. The remaining collapsing ecosystems are declared a 'critical infrastructure'. This new system of governance to organise life is framed as a 'Nature Positive' policy with the help of a large consulting business.
The remaining nature is now a market not a common good and has no rights (Rights of Nature laws). The ‘more-than-human-worlds’ becomes a market of 'ecosystem services' to serve a few of the human species. Nature is now a mere 'essential infrastructure' like roads, highway, sewers, sewage etc.
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"At least 19 Australian ecosystems have been reported to show signs of collapse or near collapse."
https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/overview/environment/ecosystems"Nature Positive Plan:
better for the environment, better for business." au gov
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/publications/nature-positive-plan"The term “nature-positive”
has become a call to action across society and business." PwC
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/corporate-sustainability/environmental-stewardship/nature.html##biodiversity #nature #NaturePositive #infrastructure #EcosystemServices #governance #CriticalInfrastructure #KMGBF #depletion #ResourceFrontiers #NatureNegative #Unsustainability
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Nature Positive
Australia's collapsing ecosystems declared a 'critical infrastructure'Australia has destroyed and degraded nature. The remaining collapsing ecosystems are declared a 'critical infrastructure'. This new system of governance to organise life is framed as a 'Nature Positive' policy with the help of a large consulting business.
The remaining nature is now a market not a common good and has no rights (Rights of Nature laws). The ‘more-than-human-worlds’ becomes a market of 'ecosystem services' to serve a few of the human species. Nature is now a mere 'essential infrastructure' like roads, highway, sewers, sewage etc.
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"At least 19 Australian ecosystems have been reported to show signs of collapse or near collapse."
https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/overview/environment/ecosystems"Nature Positive Plan:
better for the environment, better for business." au gov
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/publications/nature-positive-plan"The term “nature-positive”
has become a call to action across society and business." PwC
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/corporate-sustainability/environmental-stewardship/nature.html##biodiversity #nature #NaturePositive #infrastructure #EcosystemServices #governance #CriticalInfrastructure #KMGBF #depletion #ResourceFrontiers #NatureNegative #Unsustainability
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Nature Positive
Australia's collapsing ecosystems declared a 'critical infrastructure'Australia has destroyed and degraded nature. The remaining collapsing ecosystems are declared a 'critical infrastructure'. This new system of governance to organise life is framed as a 'Nature Positive' policy with the help of a large consulting business.
The remaining nature is now a market not a common good and has no rights (Rights of Nature laws). The ‘more-than-human-worlds’ becomes a market of 'ecosystem services' to serve a few of the human species. Nature is now a mere 'essential infrastructure' like roads, highway, sewers, sewage etc.
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"At least 19 Australian ecosystems have been reported to show signs of collapse or near collapse."
https://soe.dcceew.gov.au/overview/environment/ecosystems"Nature Positive Plan:
better for the environment, better for business." au gov
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/publications/nature-positive-plan"The term “nature-positive”
has become a call to action across society and business." PwC
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/corporate-sustainability/environmental-stewardship/nature.html##biodiversity #nature #NaturePositive #infrastructure #EcosystemServices #governance #CriticalInfrastructure #KMGBF #depletion #ResourceFrontiers #NatureNegative #Unsustainability
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🆕 Two #project reports were recently added to the #NaturaConnect collection: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.247 in our #openscience #journal!👌 The #HorizonEU project supports the development of the Trans-European #Nature Network through #transdisciplinary #research.
#biodiversity #biodiversityloss #speciesloss #species #conservation #ecosystems #ecosystemservices #naturalcapital #monitoring #birdlife
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🆕 Two #project reports were recently added to the #NaturaConnect collection: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.247 in our #openscience #journal!👌 The #HorizonEU project supports the development of the Trans-European #Nature Network through #transdisciplinary #research.
#biodiversity #biodiversityloss #speciesloss #species #conservation #ecosystems #ecosystemservices #naturalcapital #monitoring #birdlife
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🆕 Two #project reports were recently added to the #NaturaConnect collection: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.247 in our #openscience #journal!👌 The #HorizonEU project supports the development of the Trans-European #Nature Network through #transdisciplinary #research.
#biodiversity #biodiversityloss #speciesloss #species #conservation #ecosystems #ecosystemservices #naturalcapital #monitoring #birdlife
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🆕 Two #project reports were recently added to the #NaturaConnect collection: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.247 in our #openscience #journal!👌 The #HorizonEU project supports the development of the Trans-European #Nature Network through #transdisciplinary #research.
#biodiversity #biodiversityloss #speciesloss #species #conservation #ecosystems #ecosystemservices #naturalcapital #monitoring #birdlife
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🆕 Two #project reports were recently added to the #NaturaConnect collection: https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.coll.247 in our #openscience #journal!👌 The #HorizonEU project supports the development of the Trans-European #Nature Network through #transdisciplinary #research.
#biodiversity #biodiversityloss #speciesloss #species #conservation #ecosystems #ecosystemservices #naturalcapital #monitoring #birdlife
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New publication: Integrated #modeling of #nature’s role in human well-being: A research agenda. #biodiversity #climatechange #ecosystemservices #landusechange #humanwellbeing
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102891 -
I’d add:
“Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps”, Brock, Cini and Sumner, 2021.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/brv.12719
#wasplove #Aculeata #wasps #Hymenoptera #EcosystemServices #entomology
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Just published in @Nature with @unaipasku et al: paper based on @ipbes #ValuesAssessment where we underline the need to shift social & institutional values away from emphasis on GDP growth & material accumulation to community-based, sustainability aligned values. Plus check out the fab new IPBES values typology!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06406-9
#Sustainability
#SustainabilityScience
#Biodiversity
#NatureEmergency
#GlobalBiodiversityFramework
#EcosystemServices
#ecologicalcrises
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My humble contribution as an amateur entomologist: document the beauty, variety and abundance of insects around us https://www.inaturalist.org/lifelists/albertcardona?view=tree&details_view=observations and proselytize the incalculable value of insect's ecosystem services (e.g., for Aculeata, the wasps: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/brv.12719 ) to humanity.
#entomology #insects #EcosystemServices #EcosystemCollapse #Aculeata #Hymenoptera
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Kelp forests are beautiful and biodiverse and very valuable for humanity. A new study has estimated that they provide services worth more than $1 trillion annually. These include food, oxygen, carbon capture, nutrient cycling, and coastal protection.
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Have been facilitating citizen panels in #MiltonKeynes, #Caerdydd and #York on better integration of the social and cultural values of trees into urban planning, as part of the Branching Out project http://valueoftrees.co.uk
We talked about living in treescapes, and living from, with and as trees.
#DeliberativeDemocracy #Treescapes #EcosystemServices #Lifeframes #LifeFramework -
This is also why I like the notion of local organizing with global networking and a global perspective. Different regions will have different needs, from a social perspective, from an engineering perspective, and from an ecological perspective. Folks on the left talk about the intersection between social dynamics like race, sex, gender, class, and so on, and bringing environmental justice into that has brought us to the point where it’s pretty clear that the social, engineering, and ecological perspectives aren’t really different things at all.
#EcosystemServices #EcosystemManagement #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Elephants #EcosystemEngineering
https://freethoughtblogs.com/oceanoxia/2023/01/26/let-there-be-elephants/
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Newcomer in Mastodon, escaped from Twitter. I am biogeographer interested in freshwaters and geodiversity-biodiversity relationships. Also ecosystem services fascinate. #macrophytes #macroecology #biogeography #freshwaters #aquaticplants #macroecology #geodiversity #boreal #arctic #lakes #ecosystemservices #plants #gis #geography #spatial #metacommunity #PhysicalGeography #freshwaterecology #biodiversity #sdm #CommunityEcology #plantecology #mapping #maps #limnology #spatialecology
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Our research group recently welcomed a new #PhD candidate: Khant Sandar Htet from #Myanmar. Htet is an #agricultural specialist, interested in cultural ecosystem services, climate change and #rural people’s #LocalKnowledge and #traditional cultural practices.
Find a #blogpost about her research here: https://medium.com/people-nature-landscapes/cultural-ecosystem-services-and-climate-change-in-rural-landscapes-of-myanmar-d8d5b114ecfd
Other good reads about our group's work can be found on the #People • #Nature • #Landscapes blog: https://medium.com/people-nature-landscapes