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Invasive species, particularly plants, especially in freshwater...
🇿🇦Senior Lecturer (Asst. Prof), Univ of Stirling🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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DrZP @zarahpattison.bsky.social · Nov 21
Hi all! I'm a #plant ecologist 'slightly' obsessed with #invasivespecies & love splashing around in #freshwater. Interested in how habitats/communities change with invasions, climate & anthropogenic stressors.
'Understatedly' obsessed with #dogs. Especially #rescuedogs...
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Selfie safari crisis as social media drives dangerous, unethical wildlife tourism | Daily Maverick
<p>Millions of tourists flock to private and public wildlife reserves in Africa every year. But this unrelenting desire for social media footage — and accompanying bad behaviour — comes at a price.</p...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Mapping our deep-rooted relationship with medicinal plants share.google/GVDKOKcA77Zj...
Mapping our deep-rooted relationship with medicinal plants
Long before modern pharmaceuticals, our ancestors turned to plants to find cures for ailments from infections to parasites to fevers. A new study by Harvard researchers reveals the deep roots of that ...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Small-bodied native and non-native characoid fishes wage a ‘small war’ in Brazilian reservoirs, with trophic roles and niche overlap shifting dramatically between neighbouring systems and seasons.

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November 26, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Iran's Capital Has Run Out of Water, Forcing It to Move | Scientific American share.google/yZaKVGB64CEt...
Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe
The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame
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November 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Parasitic plants in Europe: ecological niches and spatial patterns onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... - happy to have been part of this collaboration on some of Europe's most special #plants 🌿#parasites #forbs
Parasitic plants in Europe: ecological niches and spatial patterns
Parasitic plant functional types in Europe exhibit different distribution patterns in terms of habitats, geography, and major environmental gradients, reflecting their physiological properties.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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If you work in this area (road safety, lighting specialists, ecologists) then please join our Knowledge Network (information below)
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"Our research at Newcastle University was the first to show a direct link between street lighting and local insect declines"

A new European research initiative, SAFELUX – The Light We Need, is to transform how we light our roads at night. ⬇

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November 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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@invder.bsky.social has spent 15 years teaching a course on biological invasions, and he ends each semester with a very creative potluck. For the event, his students prepare dishes using #invasivespecies as ingredients - everything from kudzu and feral pigs to insects 🐗🥬🦗

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Virginia Tech professor hosts potluck, challenging students to create dishes featuring invasive species
We all know about invasive species, especially as spotted lanternflies impacted much of our area throughout the summer. Luckily, a Virginia Tech professor is getting creative while teaching students a...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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When selfies become ice plant data @scanavan.bsky.social

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These beautiful flowers have become very destructive ecological invaders
Invasive ice plants are shifting their flowering schedules, helping them outcompete native species and reshape fragile coastal ecosystems.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Source: The Times of India
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Herbal Biodiversity Conservation: Protecting medicinal species - The Times of India
India's rich herbal heritage, deeply intertwined with Ayurveda, faces pressure from increasing demand for commercial herbal products. Conserving medic
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November 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Source: The Conversation
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75% of Kilimanjaro’s natural plants have been wiped out – and climate change isn’t the biggest threat
75% of Mount Kilimanjaro’s indigenous plants have been wiped out over the last century.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Source: The Conversation
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How control of water shapes power and security in Africa
Control over water underpins national security, economic stability and social wellbeing, as disputes over rivers from southern Africa to the Nile show.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Source: Nature
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Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism - Nature Climate Change
The authors combine light intensity data with eddy covariance observations from 86 sites to show that artificial light at night increases ecosystem respiration and alters carbon exchange, with impacts...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Check out the summary of our new research in @jappliedecology.bsky.social led by Patrick Cook with @nigelwillby.bsky.social @dralanlaw.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk

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Beavers provide a boost for declining pollinators, study reveals
Beaver-created wetlands increase pollinator numbers, boosting biodiversity, according to new research by the University of Stirling.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Malaysia’s ‘fish hunters’ target invasive species, one catch at a time | Environment News | Al Jazeera share.google/vc95ioXj6plL...
Malaysia’s ‘fish hunters’ target invasive species, one catch at a time
Invasive species are an issue the world over, and waterways in mega-biodiverse Malaysia are threatened by imported fish.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Non-native tree devastates Ethiopia’s ecosystems and threatens livelihoods | Gallery News | Al Jazeera share.google/zTCVEwWtKdFc...
Non-native tree devastates Ethiopia’s ecosystems and threatens livelihoods
Prosopis, introduced to Ethiopia in the 1970s, now depletes water, harms livestock and disrupts ecosystems across Afar.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Source: Nature
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Armed conflicts and biodiversity research - Nature Sustainability
Nature Sustainability - Armed conflicts and biodiversity research
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November 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Source: Nature
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Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science. But its real-world impact is poorly doc...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Source: Archaeology Magazine
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News - Invasive Rats May Have Contributed to Deforestation of Rapa Nui - Archaeology Magazine
TUCSON, ARIZONA—Phys.org reports that Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) may have played a larger role in […]
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November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Source: The Conversation
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Pollution, poverty and power: the real cost of environmental inequality in the UK
Cleaner air is progress, but injustice remains. Environmental racism still decides who breathes dirty air, who gets sick and who gets heard
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November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Source: UnHerd
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DEI research soars in UK grant funding
The resignation of two senior BBC executives over documented Left-wing bias at the broadcaster has exposed a progressive-industrial complex that is increasingly prevalent in public life. Its upstream ...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Source: The Guardian
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Galápagos had no native amphibians. Then it was invaded by hundreds of thousands of frogs
Scientists are only beginning to grasp the scale of the issue and understand what impact the tree frogs may have on the islands’ rare wildlife
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November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Source: The Conversation
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The secret life of baobabs: how bats and moths keep Africa’s giant trees alive
New research shows that baobab tree flowers have adapted to meet the needs of either bats or moths, and without these creatures, the trees will not survive.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Source: Nature
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Pressure to publish is rising as research time shrinks, finds survey of scientists
Researchers feel that pressures to publish are increasing, but the time and resources available to do research are decreasing, according to a survey by Elsevier.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Source: The Guardian
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We need to restore Britain’s connection to nature | Letter
Letter: The country must implement a truly connected system of protected areas to preserve the natural world, says Dr Marcelo Lima. Plus a letter from Elia Kabanov on all the ways nature is around us ...
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November 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Source: The Daily Galaxy
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They Removed 131 Cats From an Island—What Happened to the Ecosystem Next Defied All Scientific Logic
A critically endangered species staged a comeback no one thought possible, revealing a genetic twist that’s rewriting the rules of extinction.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM