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Alan Law @dralanlaw.bsky.social · 17d

Did Helen walk through the Bamff estate and see the beavers at work?

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Chelsea Clifford @ditchontologist.bsky.social · Aug 23

It's out! 🧪 "Lines in the landscape," on the under-appreciated importance of #ditches as diverse ecosystems: doi.org/10.1038/s432.... By @peatymike.bsky.social, @fluitans.bsky.social, @drtatariw.bsky.social, @timaukel.bsky.social, @jordannabergman.bsky.social, @juliecrabot.bsky.social, ...

Lines in the landscape - Communications Earth & Environment

Ditches have many overlooked environmental and societal roles, including impact on biodiversity and pollution, and management strategies to enhance their multifunctional landscape-scale benefits are n...

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emily simpson @emofthewoods.bsky.social · Jul 25

🌱 🐟🦫 No.1 Freshwater Detective Agency from the University of Stirling take on Finland’s beaver ponds 🇫🇮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Day1: 16/72 audiomoths installed so far… and as many bug bites…

🪵 #beaverlogbook

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@nigelwillby.bsky.social
+ myself, Alex Adams, and Alice Turner

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Alan Law @dralanlaw.bsky.social · Jun 4

I followed the link but there’s nothing about shed roofs. Do you have a guide of how to do this DIY?

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David Olefeldt @olefeldt.bsky.social · Jun 4

This new map provides a global view of the distribution of a multitude of aquatic ecosystems, including various wetlands. It's a pretty big step forward, and I look forward to seeing how it will be used e.g. to study wetland greenhouse gases.

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Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2)

Abstract. In recognition of the importance of inland waters, numerous datasets mapping their extents, types, or changes have been created using sources ranging from historical wetland maps to real-tim...

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Mike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · May 30

New paper out with collaborators from Tianjin University:

"Village ponds are hotspots of CO2 and CH4 emissions regulated by biological communities"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Village ponds are hotspots of CO2 and CH4 emissions regulated by biological communities

Ponds in rural villages (village ponds) potentially emit substantial greenhouse gases (GHG), since they are pervasive and often highly eutrophic. Howe…

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Alan Law @dralanlaw.bsky.social · May 29

But some species are more sensitive than others, or in habitats that have less resilience.

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · May 28

How do we decide on conservation actions in the face of context dependency?

In our new paper on ‘Precision Ecology’

we show how methods developed in medicine & marketing

can be applied to predict site-specific outcomes

allowing effective & targeted conservation
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Precision ecology for targeted conservation action - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should draw on such approaches to provide dec...

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Alan Law @dralanlaw.bsky.social · May 26

I remember when authors used to thank the reviewers in the acknowledgements section... maybe that's a thing of the past? Or maybe I've become reviewer number 2?!

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · Apr 17

Today, we are also celebrating the winners of the 2024 Annual Meeting Prizes: Emily Holden and Alice Turner (from left to right).

https://f.mtr.cool/tpabuuvzgi

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Alan Law @dralanlaw.bsky.social · Apr 15

If you squeeze him, does he do smelly dog farts?

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Steve Ormerod @steveormerod.bsky.social · Apr 7

While there have been papers looking at Beaver effects on immature aquatic insects, the latest @freshwaterscience.bsky.social #FreshwaterScience issue shows how Beaver dams can increase biomass in emergent adult insects - along with community changes www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Beaver recolonization explains aquatic insect emergence patterns | Freshwater Science: Vol 44, No 1

Abstract Emerging aquatic insects are an important aquatic-to-terrestrial subsidy that can make up a large portion of the diet of riparian predators. The biomass and abundance of aquatic insects can b...

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Alan Law @dralanlaw.bsky.social · Apr 4

Amazing!

Alan Law @dralanlaw.bsky.social · Apr 2

The Tesco delivery guy used to feed the Torridon red deer a whole bunch of bananas most nights.

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Alan Law @dralanlaw.bsky.social · Apr 1

I was walking along my local river last night and was so pleased to see that beavers have returned. I managed to get a picture.

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Alan Law @dralanlaw.bsky.social · Mar 31

Beaver Versus Human: The Big Differences in Small Dams
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Beaver Versus Human: The Big Differences in Small Dams

Illustration of the net benefits and costs of different types of dams considered in this paper. The types of dams are ordered by relative benefit from left to right, with the most beneficial on the l...

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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · Mar 22

Super excited to share our new paper out today in Nature Water led by Christina McCabe. @naturewaterjnl.bsky.social

“The ecological benefits of more room for rivers”

Find the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Free to read version: rdcu.be/eeuBx

#rivers #floods #biodiversity #resilience

The ecological benefits of more room for rivers - Nature Water

This Review synthesizes the ecological features and processes that arise when rivers are given room to move. Understanding these interactions will support more sustainable decisions that weigh river e...

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Scotland's Nature Student Conference 2025 @scotnsconf.bsky.social · Mar 19

A beaver themed prize giving! 🦫 - Eileen Stuart then presented the prizes for best talk to James Macarthur at UHI Inverness and the best poster to Alice Turner from the University of Stirling.
#SNSC2025

PS - I promise it wasn’t rigged towards the organisers!

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Scotland's Nature Student Conference 2025 @scotnsconf.bsky.social · Mar 19

A dam good talk from Emily Simpson @emofthewoods.bsky.social on the role of beaver ponds in sediment trapping and recognising beaver ponds for carbon accreditation 🦫 #SNSC2025

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Alan Law @dralanlaw.bsky.social · Mar 15

Coypus taking the credit beavers are due… @britishecologicalsociety.org

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Kevin Wood @drkevinwood.bsky.social · Mar 5

Active #wetland restoration kickstarts vegetation establishment, but natural development promotes greater plant diversity

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