Markus P. Eichhorn

Markus Eichhorn

@markuseichhorn.bsky.social

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Ecologist, author, tree watcher. Shill for Big Forest. Writing another textbook on biodiversity and biogeography. It's always karaoke time. More at treesinspace.com

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 5d

We're now 'zwischen den Jahren' (between the years), the period during which in Germany it's considered rude to give someone new work. I'm looking at you, journal editors.

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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 3h

Why are these fir trees floating in a lake? These are Christmas trees pursuing their second career creating fish habitat. Fish and wildlife managers are improving fish management using trees. This is a great use of our trees after their retirement. Read about it at Our Trees, ourtrees.substack.com

Used Christmas Trees floating in a lake to improve fish habitat. Source: Kentucky Fish and Wildlife

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 4h

I think they overestimate the amount of time Europeans spend thinking about Minnesota.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 4h

The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms

Ed @notdred.bsky.social · Jul 12

DUNESTRUCK

Dune 3's official title revealed — and fans aren't happy

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 4h

A Sand County Almanac

Ed @notdred.bsky.social · Jul 12

DUNESTRUCK

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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 8h

Flowers of Aristolochia are weird & wonderful. I find them irresistible. (Doesn’t everyone?) This is A. grandiflora, with its large, saxophone-shaped flowers, each with a long, tail-like lobe. #Aristolochiaceae #TropicalBotany #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of a large flower, POV looking straight at the flower. The heart-shaped flower is pale with a dense freckling of liver-colored spots & blotches. The central “eye” of the flower is dark maroon. The lowermost lobe of the limb is elongated into a thin “tail.” Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 8h

I'm glad they resolved to clean out Dominie's hole, although I can't see how it was their business to remove the erection.

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William (Bill) Sutherland @billsutherland.bsky.social · 11h

Want to get the family out appreciating nature? Here I explain how to estimate tree ages without any equipment. Enjoy! youtu.be/t1bqJ7VPZHY?...

Estimating tree ages without equipment

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 2d

Also lads get a grip, it's not even a boreen, there's hardly a blade of grass on it and two cars can pass so long as neither is being driven by a tourist.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 2d

Before anyone says it, of course I use the Met Éireann app for local forecasts, but I need to have both for cross-border projects.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 2d

The @metoffice.gov.uk need to find more accurate place names when they extend their forecasts into the Republic. #SpeirGorm

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The International Association for Vegetation Science @iavs5.bsky.social · 3d

Want to know a bit more about our newest recipient of IAVS Honorary Membership? 📖
Meet Milan Chytrý, founder of European Vegetation Archive & a leading figure in vegetation science
Discover his outstanding contributions to #vegetationscience in our newly published #IAVS bulletin—
shorturl.at/Sdutp

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 4d

Alas, I suspect that Toby is ineligible on grounds of not being a natural-born US citizen.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 4d

I run an annual workshop on the ecology of dragons with a book chapter forthcoming so I take this stuff very seriously 🤓

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 4d

We can also dispute whether dragons can be described as 'land vertebrates'. Their greater dispersal ability is likely to free them from impacts of localised land-use change.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 4d

Didn't we come here to get away from the dummies?

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 5d

Mainly because SF poll well among the kind of young, progressive, voters for whom this would be an easy win. There's also an undeniable element of blood sports tourism for the English aristocracy.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 5d

What an accomplishment. Well done. I expect to see it listed on your Pure profile.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 5d

Mixed, I suspect, but probably underpinned by the very strong place that rural tradition holds in the national culture. I was a little surprised to see SF out in support though.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 5d

My own opinions on the subject are ambivalent so don't read this as endorsing either side. I just expect it to become an issue at the next election.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 5d

In the UK, when opinions on fox hunting between Parliament and the population were so completely at odds, it became an effective electoral pledge for the opposition. #SpeirGorm

Bill to ban fox hunting defeated by huge majority in Dáil vote

Local councillor Audrey Buckley said she was 'very disappointed' in the bill's defeat, describing the practice as 'barbaric'

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 5d

Need to grab a last-minute gift for tomorrow? Give the gift that keeps on giving: a... necklace made of beetles? #ChristmasEveShopping 🏺 #Archaeology
Strung together and placed in a bark box, insect exoskeleton fragments were made into jewellery in Iron Age Poland.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Above: a phyllobius viridicollis beetle on a leaf. Below: several phyllobius viridicollis pronota (the section between the head and abdomen) from a grave at Domasław, south-west Poland. In one case, three are strung together, indicating they were used as beads on a necklace/bracelet.

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 5d

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Nollaig Shona…🎄

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Handgun Yoga 🇺🇦💙 @handgunyoga.bsky.social · 5d

After reading The Raven a high school classmate asked if poetry existed before Edgar Allen Poe, and what did they call it?

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 5d

Congratulations to Glòria Pallarès on winning the ACE Award 🏆

Her Mongabay investigation exposed corrupt forest finance schemes affecting 9.5M+ hectares of Indigenous land — and helped communities reclaim their rights.

Read the full investigation: buff.ly/W7RQrKp

Mongabay contributor Glòria Pallarès wins top anti-corruption reporting award

Journalist Glòria Pallarès won the Anti-Corruption Excellence (ACE) Award for her investigation into corrupt forest finance schemes published in collaboration with Mongabay. The award ceremony was…

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 5d

That's wonderful. I would want that to be there for anyone, or anyone's child. You must be incredibly proud to have such a strong son. All power to him 💪

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 6d

This should be the promotional flyer for a karaoke night.

Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 6d

Ireland has gone 10 years with the freedom to change gender and... society did not collapse. No scandals have erupted. No vile criminal behaviour has resulted. Just 300+ people per year having the right to become themselves. #SpeirGorm

‘For the first time, she could tell people who she was’: Ireland’s gender recognition decade

Ireland’s 2015 Gender Recognition Act was born in an era of optimism and consensus, but as gender-critical activism grows so does debate whether it can hold

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Caroline Lehmann @caroaceae.bsky.social · 6d

"Bond’s work leaves behind an inconvenient lesson for an era of climate urgency: that speed is not a substitute for understanding, and that good intentions, applied without care, can erase ancient worlds as efficiently as neglect." A beautiful tribute to William Bond. Forever missed by many.

William Bond, defender of grasslands

In recent years, one of the loudest ideas in environmental policy has been that trees are the planet’s universal remedy. Plant enough of them, in enough places, and carbon will be soaked up, water wil...

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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 6d

In late July 2025 I received word from a friend of his discovery of Field Eryngo Eryngium campestre on the edge of Winchester, Hampshire. Probably arrived via a car tyre with continental origins, but fab nonetheless. Formerly more widespread but now a true national rarity. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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