Kudos to Yuan-zhen Liu and Philip F. Thomsen, who led the work. Thanks to all collaborators, Jesper Bechsgaard, Lynn Dicks, Toke Thomas Høye, Trine Bilde and Sean Birk Bek Craig

The rarest species, Andrena marginata, showed severe decline in the most recent 50-100 y
The other rare species, Bombus veteranus, had gone through steep decline more than 1000 y ago and a more stable trend since then
One of the common spp, B. pascuorum, showed pop size changes on a 50 ky time scale

Could it be because some human activities mimicked lost megafauna impacts from the evolutionary (Pleistocene) landscapes in which species arose and developed? The Holocene has in many ways presented aberrant ecosystem properties

A great ecologist and scientist. His southern hemisphere perspective on “European” ecology was very stimulating and thought-provoking.

doi.org/10.21203/rs....

Huge thanks to Ditte, @srosbakh.bsky.social & all collaborators

Next step: Comparison with recent data to identify winners, lossers and drivers of change 🌳🍂🥀

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link to Nature paper
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Indeed the asexual generation of the gall wasp Neuroterus quercusbaccarum on common oak. If you pop some galls off, you may find larvae of the inquiline gall midge Parallelodiplosis galliperda bladmineerders.nl/parasites/an...

Thanks in particular to Michele Di Musciano, Riccardo Testolin and Ale Chiarucci for stearing the boat safely ashore

The results only tell us that site selection was (a lot) better than random, not if the management of N2000 sites secured long-term persistence of biodiversity. Alas, lots of evidence suggest the opposite.
#N2K #spatialconservationplanning