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Hans Henrik Eduard Reventlow Bruun is a Danish sociologist and diplomat. He is an MA in political science (cand.scient.pol.) from University of Aarhus. Through nearly thirty years, he served in the Danish diplomatic mission. From 1987 ambassador to Turkey, from 1999 to France. After his retirement from the foreign service, he joined the staff at the University of Copenhagen Institute for Sociology as an adjunct professor. In his academic field, he is an expert on the philosophy of Max Weber. .. more

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Reposted by Hans Henrik Bruun, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Richard Betts

Olivier Honnay @olivierhonnay.bsky.social · 7d

📢 Vacancy: I am urgently recruiting a PhD candidate to join a project on selection processes in pedunculate oak.
📅 Start date: no later than December 1st.

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 12d

Well, I believe it’ll be more applicable than the binary concept in less studied taxa and regions, as it is less evidence demanding when it comes to questions like “how did the species arrive in the focal area” etc.

Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you, Camilla Colding-Jørgensen for leading this important work, and to @jcsvenning.bsky.social and @r-ejrnaes.bsky.social for the collaboration, which was funded by the 15 June Foundation

Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 13d

Using the flora of Denmark, we show that a large proportion of species are treated as 'native' by one source and as 'non'native' by others, i.e. are of uncertain status. Using a graduated definition, most of these species end up in the 'near-native' category

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 13d

Native and near-native species share most of their Pleistocene history. Are near-natives may well be our new natives under global climate change.

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Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Jonathan Lenoir

Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 13d

Nativeness cannot be binary, if is to make sense and be practically applicable at the scale of countries.
We propose a graduated definition, in which species native to neighbouring territories are considered "near-native"
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A graduated nativeness definition for overcoming dilemmas and difficulties of vascular plant species

Nativeness is a concept central to biodiversity conservation and invasion biology, but there are several problems related to a classic binary nativeness definition. Dilemmas arise from the dynamic na...

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 13d

Bilbo Segge ville være misundelig (sorry, lousy joke)

Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 13d

Men ja, egentlig er det jo logisk nok. Alligevel tror 99% af den danske befolkning (og politikere) at biodiversitetskrisen skal løses ude på markerne. Den grønne trepart bygger 100% på at gøre ingenting i de officielt, men ikke reelt, beskyttede naturområder, men i stedet lave *skovrejsning*

Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 13d

Nja, bare at sandsynligheden for lokal uddøen er lige så stor inden for Natura2000- og §3-beskyttede områder som udenfor. De officielt beskyttede naturområder DK melder ind til EU og CBD er streger på kort uden reel virkning for de truede arter. Læs videre her:
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Redirecting

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 16d

"We show that unmanaged forests are the backbone of biodiversity conservation ... We conclude that to preserve forest biodiversity in Europe, we should increase the proportion of unmanaged forests and the amount of structures supporting biodiversity in extensively managed forests.

Sabina Burrascano @sabina-burrascano.bsky.social · 16d

Just out in PNAS!

We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes.

Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sustainable forest planning: Assessing biodiversity effects of Triad zoning based on empirical data and virtual landscapes | PNAS

The Triad framework seeks to balance the economic and ecological functions in forested landscapes by combining intensively, extensively, and unmana...

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Sabina Burrascano @sabina-burrascano.bsky.social · 16d

Sustainable forest planning: Assessing biodiversity effects of Triad zoning based on empirical data and virtual landscapes | PNAS

The Triad framework seeks to balance the economic and ecological functions in forested landscapes by combining intensively, extensively, and unmana...

www.pnas.org

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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 23d

Besser kann man es nicht zusammenfassen

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Ariel Brunner @arielbrunner.bsky.social · 23d

Sweden and Finland have increased logging levels to such a point that their forests are now a net source of emissions.
Their Prime Ministers are asking to be exempt from EU #Climate target so that they keep going. Oh and they blame climate change.

#NoShame #Forests

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 23d

Natürlich! Bien sûr!

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 27d

Here is our original study. With the word "consumer" in the title, but in a completeky different meaning than a constumer in a webshop
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Simple attributes predict the value of plants as hosts to fungal and arthropod communities

Fungal and arthropod consumers constitute the vast majority of global terrestrial biodiversity. Yet, the link from richness and composition of producer (plant) communities to the richness of consumer...

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 27d

I have also contacted the EiC of Review of Communication Research. They say they will pass on my report to the editorial staff. Let's see what verdict is reached there ...

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 27d

I first got a message from ResearchGate: "Your work has been cited". When I realized the nature of that citation, I reported the fraudulent content to ResearchGate. Their response: "we have decided *not* to remove the reported content"

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 27d

In their Table 2, the authors claim to summarize data from our paper and 14 others. But the figures do not come from our study of plants, insects and fungi (how could they?). The authors surely haven’t read, nor understood, our study. But much worse, their data must be considered *fabricated*

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · 27d

Disturbing citation
In 2022, we published a study on *consumers*, i.e. animals and fungi that consume biomass produced by other organisms, e.g. plants.
Now, our paper has been cited in what claims to be a metaanalysis of "Consumer Satisfaction in Live Streaming E-commerce". Far out!

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · Aug 15

New gall mite species, Fragariocoptes tridentatae Ripka & H.H.K.Bruun, which I found last summer during field work in southern Greenland. It induces really conspicuous galls on Sibbaldia tridentata
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It's a 100% bycatch, but I love it anyway 😍

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Reposted by Hans Henrik Bruun, Håvard Kauserud

Eric Rosén @detljuvalivet.bsky.social · Jul 30

Minst 18 500 barn har dödats i Gaza sedan Israel inledde sitt försök att utrota den palestinska befolkningen. Washington Post har samlat och publicerat deras namn: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Michael Parks @jurassicparks.bsky.social · Dec 13

Having an interesting conversation with @moreorloess.bsky.social about surprising research on history American buffalo and found this fascinating, accessible convo w/ one researcher

Two big myths under review: bison just ate grass and bison were “migratory”

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12,000 Years of Bison Behavior in the Central U.S. – Interview with Dr. Chris Widga

This is a post I’ve wanted to do for a long time. Bison, of course, are one of North America’s most iconic and revered species, and for good reasons. As well-known as they are, however,…

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Reposted by Hans Henrik Bruun, Jill Marshall

Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson @hilaryrosed.bsky.social · Jan 5

First #TruffleDog paper co-authored by my sister and myself is out! #SiblingScientists

We demonstrated that hard-to-see Genea #truffle #fungi are almost everywhere in western Oregon, most of the time.

#Mycology #Ecology #NaturalHistory #Biodiversity #OpenAccess 🧪🌎

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Use of a Truffle Dog Provides Insight Into the Ecology and Abundant Occurrence of Genea (Pyronemataceae) in Western Oregon, USA

Genea is an overlooked but abundant underground fruiting fungus (“truffle”). We used a dog who is trained to find all truffles (not just culinary species) to look for Genea in Oregon. We found that G...

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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · Jan 1

Researchers from the Crick, @uclofficial.bsky.social and @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social used a new way of analysing ancient DNA to better understand European migrations in 1-1,000 AD

Findings were led by Leo Speidel with senior author @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social

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Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick Instit...

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Botany One @botany.one · Feb 6

📝 The Natural Spies Inside Bird Feathers 🧵
https://doi.org/n5b8

Tiny grains of pollen are revealing the secret lives of birds, acting as natural tracking devices that tell scientists where they have been.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief

A Willow Warbler (Phylloscopus trochilus) perched on a lichen-covered branch. The small songbird has olive-brown upperparts, pale cream underparts, and a subtle yellow eyestripe. The delicate bird, weighing just a few grammes, is photographed in sharp detail against a soft, blurred background of foliage. Despite its diminutive size, this species undertakes remarkable long-distance migrations between Europe and Africa, carrying microscopic botanical evidence of its journey in its feathers.

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Reposted by Teja Tscharntke, Hans Henrik Bruun

Jess Awad @parasitoidrex.bsky.social · Feb 12

Gall midges and their parasitoids are abundant, megadiverse, and very hard to identify! Such "double dark taxa" systems present special challenges for ecology and agriculture. 🧵🧪🐙 @smnstuttgart.bsky.social @marinamoser.bsky.social @krogmann.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/aesa...

Untangling host specialization in a “double dark taxa” system

Abstract. Platygastrine wasps (Hymenoptera: Platygastridae) are parasitoids of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae). They and their hosts are exceptionally

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · Jul 20

Hvis man vil vide hvor Helvede ligger, kan man tjekke artens udbredelse på GBIF. Det er tankevækkende her i feriesæsonen hvor mange danskere der frivilligt tager til Helvede for at slappe af 😉

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · Jun 22

We followed primary succession of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on a man-made island, Peberholm, 2010-2016. AMF communities diversified through more and more deterministic processes. They remained less diverse than on nearby island Saltholm.

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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · Apr 6

More spring flowers 🤩
# Stenshuvud Nationalpark

Anemone ranunculoides, Anemone nemorosa, Hepatica nobilis, Orchis mascula (budding)

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Hans Henrik Bruun @hhbruun.bsky.social · Apr 4

Springtime 😍

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