#foodweb — Public Fediverse posts

13-Nov-2025
Mystery of how much squid short-finned pilot #whales eat resolved
There’s plenty more #squid in the sea for Hawaiian short-finned #pilotWhales

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1104709

#science #ecology #FoodWeb #MarineBiology #cetaceans

Warming seas threaten key #phytoplankton species that fuels the #foodweb, study finds
“These are #keystonespecies — very important ones,” said François Ribalet, a research associate professor at the University of Washington’s School of #Oceanography and the study’s lead author. “And when a keystone species decreases in abundance, it always has consequences on #ecology and #biodiversity. The food web is going to change.”
https://apnews.com/article/phytoplankton-prochlorococcus-decline-food-web-warming-oceans-c9e31c10b3ff9d613b41517836d55122

Early 2024, my 2nd PhD Chapter was published about the key roles of species body sizes and trophic positions in determining the outcomes of #invasivespecies in communities subject to gradients of #temperature and nutrients levels. A pretty cool study with N. Pichon, A. Sentis and D. Boukal.

Read more there:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.14310

#warming #eutrophication #foodweb #biodiversity #stability #ecology #metabolicEcology #species #extinction #trophic_cascades #trophic_interactions

A look back at my 1st paper in 2021, when my 1st PhD chapter was out, on the role of body size and mesohabitats productivities in the linkage of #pelagic & #benthic systems, with David Boukal.
#ecology #limnology #eutrophication #foodweb
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13772

This #EarthDay, here's a reminder that environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening*.

*Nothing against gardening, but we're currently facing global ecological collapse within our lifetimes.

article 1: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/almost-70-of-animal-populations-wiped-out-since-1970-report-reveals-aoe

article 2: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature

#environment #ecology #ecological #greensocialism #green #greensocialist #ecocide #ecosocialism #ecosocialist #earthday2024 #happyearthday #happyearthday2024 #environmental #environmentalist #environmentalism #gardening #biosphere #foodweb #ecologicalcollapse #extinction #massextinction #earth #motherearth

Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters

"Stockholm researchers several years ago found that PFAS from ocean waves crashing are released into the air around shorelines, then can travel thousands of kilometers through the atmosphere before the chemicals return to land."

“We thought PFAS were going to go into the ocean and would disappear, but they cycle around and come back to land, and this could continue for a long time into the future."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/19/ocean-spray-pfas-study
#PFAS #pollution #ocean #air #breathing #coast #SeaSpray #ForeverChemicals #packaging #FoodWeb #water #contamination