Cath Dickson
@cath-dickson.bsky.social
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Conservation Ecologist, all things esp botany 🌿 wetlands 💧, Subantarctic ​| Environmental NGO ​| Nipaluna, Lutruwita/Tasmania
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Busy start to #ICCB2025 - sharing @tasland.bsky.social ten year fauna camera data set - pre & post-fire at Five Rivers. Huge shout out to coauthors including @drdevildave.bsky.social & Jo Potts
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Great #NESP Resilient Landscapes Hub session @ #ICCB2025 - translating science into convention outcomes through meaningful relationships. Two fantastic @tasland.bsky.social @utas.edu.au projects presented by Natasha Stoudmann and Laura Smith.
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Anne Boothroyd sharing her work on @tasland.bsky.social Conservation Prioritisation System (using MARXAN) to I'd our priorities across Tasmania, as part of TNC's Barbara Thomas Fellowship. @iccb2025.bsky.social #ICCB2025
Download our CPS Guidebook here:
tasland.org.au/wp-content/u...
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tasland.bsky.social
This #citizenscience month we are so excited to share with you our new #WildTracker video, produced by the incredibly talented #animation students at North Metro TAFE in WA.
Huge thanks to Charlotte, Kai, & the rest of the team for their #hardwork & #creativity.
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nanitundra.bsky.social
🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸

Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Illustration of a Greenlandic landscape, showing in the foreground Rhododendron lapponicum on a cliff, with sea ice and icebergs in the background. Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social)
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Awesome job Team Quoll!
tasland.bsky.social
This #WorldWildlifeDay, we‘re celebrating a #wildlife win that has been multiple years in the making. After extremely detailed bg research & prep, UTAS, TLC & WWF_Australia conducted a #conservation translocation of #easternquolls to The Quoin. Read more @ tasland.org.au/blog/quoll03...
Photos by Chloe Frick, David Hamilton and Morrigan Guinane
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Celebrating a wildlife win on World Wildlife Day, with quoll-ity conservation outcomes 🤩

Our scientists joined with several partners to kick off one of the biggest eastern quoll conservation efforts ever seen in Tasmania!

More: brnw.ch/quoll
(Follow @drdevildave.bsky.social for more quoll BEANS)
David Hamilton releases a quoll into the wild 
Photo credit: Cath Dickson A close up of quoll feet
Photo credit: David Hamilton A close up of a quoll in an enclosure 
Photo credit: Chloe Frick
cath-dickson.bsky.social
This is a fantastic opportunity for those looking for a funded Masters by Research shorebird project, including a paid internship with our Science Team at @tasland.bsky.social - details below or get in touch!
@drdevildave.bsky.social
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We are pleased to be partnering with Federation University to offer a #paidinternship to a post-graduate student interested in completing their #MastersbyResearch, with Dr Birgita Hansen, investigating the characteristics of Latham’s Snipe habitat. More info at federation.edu.au/research/gra...
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The joy of heading south as the #MacquarieIslandConservationFoundation rep and with part of the MI Wildlife Monitoring Team - looking forward to seeing Macca again 🐧🦭
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tasland.bsky.social
It is with great pleasure that we share this photo of an Eastern bettong for our first @bsky.app post. This friendly fellow also graced the cover of our 2023-2024 Annual Report. Our report is now online and available to download at tasland.org.au/about-the-tlc/annual-reports/
Photo of an Eastern bettong
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jappliedecology.bsky.social
Nutrients, isolation and lack of grazing limit plant diversity in restored wetlands 🌱🌏 🧪

Restoration of plant diversity in wetlands is challenging, but the results of this study point to potential remedies 💭

🔗 https://buff.ly/3YINJDk
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journalofecology.bsky.social
🌎 #Plants are at the heart of nature-based solutions.
🌱 This Special Feature covers #grasslands to #mangroves & from #agro-#ecosystems to #urban #forests that illustrate how we can improve & scale up NbS by incorporating cutting-edge theory & techniques: jecologyblog.com/2024/11/28/%...
🌎Special Feature: The plant ecology of nature-based solutions
Senior Editor, Yvonne Buckley, introduces a new Special Feature in Journal of Ecology on The plant ecology of nature-based solutions: November has been a big month for biodiversity and climate with…
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drdevildave.bsky.social
🎶 It’s me, hi! 🎶
🎶 I’m the problem, it’s me 🎶

Did you know - 99% of camera trap photos taken in Tasmania are of brushtail possums messing with equipment…