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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 5d

HISTORICAL ECOLOGY TALK OF THE WEEK
In 2023 several historical ecologist (sensu lato) held the SOURCES workshop in Seville, resulting in the paper below and in a series of talks, which we will present weekly
Starting with the one-and-only Chelsey G Armstrong
Enjoy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkME...

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 5d

ESTO ES IMPORTANTÍSIMO
Euskadi suspende la campaña de la pesca de la angula ante la situación crítica de la especie
Un paso crucial para lo conservación de la anguila, tomada en el territorio donde su consumo tiene más arraigo
@miteco.gob.es y otras CCAA, os toca
www.europapress.es/euskadi/noti...

Gobierno Vasco suspende la campaña de la pesca de la angula de 2025-2026 ante la situación "crítica" de la especie

El Departamento de Alimentación, Desarrollo Rural, Agricultura y Pesca del Gobierno Vasco se ha reunido...

www.europapress.es

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VirDomGar @domgarvir.bsky.social · 13d

Hoy nos hemos manifestado para pedir el fin del genocidio en Gaza.
Animamos a otros centros a contribuir con este tipo de acciones a incrementar la presión social sobre las instituciones y empresas que tienen capacidad para parar esta barbarie.
#EBDxPalestina #CSICxPalestina #FreePalestine

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Dr. Viktor Baranov🧪🦟🐛🪲 @swarmofthoughts.bsky.social · 13d

Everything is getting ready for #ERN2025 European Researchers Night tomorrow at @casacienciasevcsic.bsky.social , where we are going to present our workshop "Insects - witnesses of the past", dealing with #fossils, palaeoclimate reconstruction and ecological physiology of insects

Poster of the European Researchers night in Sevilla

3d printed replicas of the fossils of non-biting midges

Sediment core part, stickers with fossil insects, and bunch of postcard with Baltic amber insects

Part of the postcard with Archaeognatha and an ant from Baltic amber

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World Biodiversity Forum @worldbioforum.bsky.social · 15d

🌎🌿We're now accepting submissions for oral or poster abstracts for WBF2026 in☀️Davos. Explore over 90 engaging sessions, covering biodiversity-ecosystem fundamentals, policy, finance and law❗Submit now: worldbiodiversityforum.org/call-for-abs...
#Biodiversity #WBF2026

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GBIF España/Spain @gbif.es · 16d

La @ebdonana.bsky.social revela cómo la ecología histórica destapa la #biodiversidad perdida y combate la "amnesia ecológica". Archivos, mapas, arte y relatos muestran cambios ocultos en los ecosistemas y ofrecen claves para la conservación:
📰 doi.org/10.1038/s443...

La ecología histórica usa fuentes como mapas, cartas o arte para revelar cómo eran los ecosistemas antes de que los seres humanos los alteraran.
Imagen: “Mercado de pescado” obra de 1621 del pintor flamenco Frans Snyders

Estos registros ayudan a combatir la amnesia ecológica, que nos hace olvidar, más allá de un par de generaciones, la riqueza natural perdida.
Imagen: Parque nacional y natural de Doñana. Autor: Dvazquezq. Licencia: CC BY-SA 3.0 ES (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/es/deed.en)

Ejemplos como la llegada del cangrejo de río “autóctono” en el siglo XVI muestran cómo especies y paisajes han cambiado con el tiempo.
Imagen: Austropotamobius fulcisianus ssp. orientalis. Autor: Manuel Raab (https://spain.inaturalist.org/people/mani_raab). Licencia: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)

Recuperar esta memoria ambiental es clave para diseñar estrategias de conservación más justas y efectivas.
Imagen: Arrecife de coral. Licencia: CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/cc0/)

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 19d

Este trabajo surgió de SOURCES, una reunión sobre ecología histórica que tuvo lugar en Sevilla en la primavera de 2023
En el enlace se pueden ver 18 de las charlas que allí se dieron, por especialistas de disciplinas y orígenes muy diversos
@ebdonana.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · 19d

This work began at the SOURCES meeting in 2023 in Seville, which was kicked-off by an interdisciplinary symposium. Over the coming weeks, I will tell you more about the various talks but if you can't wait, you can already check them here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... @ebdonana.bsky.social

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CSIC @csic.es · 19d

🗺️ Cuadros, mapas antiguos y documentos históricos para estudiar cómo era la naturaleza en el pasado

📚 Un equipo de la #EBD_CSIC indaga en archivos históricos para analizar cómo han cambiado los ecosistemas a largo plazo y ayudar a las políticas de restauración

#Reportaje👉 http://tiny.cc/7ygs001

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · Sep 5

New online! Integrating historical sources for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation

Integrating historical sources for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 05 September 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00084-3Historical ecology uses a wide and varied range of sources to investigate long-term dynamics of ecosystems, species and their traits, and different dimensions of nature–human interactions. This Perspective discusses the value of this approach for biodiversity and conservation science, and offers a strategy for the continued development of the field.

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Maria Paniw @paniw.bsky.social · 29d

What do this👇 lovely plant, lemur, and petrel have in common? They have populations where individuals were monitored for decades - and now provide amazing resources to compare complex responses of populations to threats. So, go beyond “it’s context dependent” to find common patterns.

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Sep 6

Past to future 1/2 🌍 Our new Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com perspective shows how archives, maps, art, oral histories & palaeo-records can enrich #biodiversity science—helping set baselines, track change & inform #conservation. 🔗 rdcu.be/eEcIt #history #ecology #baselines

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Graciela Gil-Romera @gilromera.bsky.social · Sep 5

Gracias al programa CICERON del @csic.es mi colega y amigo @oscar-godoy.bsky.social y yo coordinamos este itinerario que persigue acercar la conservación y restauración de la naturaleza a la sociedad.
youtu.be/WlJCXlgp310?...
gracias! @actisandres.bsky.social @clementealvarez.bsky.social

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you so much for sharing! These resources are definitly relevant and useful for follow-ups!

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

With @chikichanka.bsky.social @gilromera.bsky.social @pszaboenviro.bsky.social @swarmofthoughts.bsky.social @dkaim.bsky.social @dfrisch.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social and many more absent from this corner of the web!

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

On a more personal note, this has been an incredibly rich experience and I hope the beginning of many more collaborations! 🤩

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

So where do we go from here? We also propose a strategy to improve the acquisition, mobilization and integration of biodiversity-relevant data from historical sources. Importantly, we highlight that interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are essential in the process.

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Now there is no universal recipe to integrate diverse historical sources. But there are already several databases (tinyurl.com/4p2chu4a) and tools available. New technologies, particularly computer vision, are also increasingly applied to mine relevant data from the historical material.

Using historical and palaeoecological data to inform ambitious species recovery targets | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Historical data are a valuable resource for addressing present-day conservation issues, for example by informing the establishment of appropriate recovery targets. However, while the recovery of threa...

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Historical ecologists have been successfully using and integrating those sources in studies all across the globe. For instance, they reconstructed natural baselines; shed lights on populations dynamics; and revealed species introductions. tinyurl.com/kpsj3mxt

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

We identified 8 types of sources and the biodiversity information they host. Beyond the usual suspects of paleo-archives and collections, old maps, written materials, oral sources, and even art can reveal the past of species, ecosystems and human-nature interactions tinyurl.com/329fxfre

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Together with Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social we organized the SOURCES symposium & workshop in Seville where we invited landscape ecologists, archeologists, geographers, palynologists, historians and conservation biologists to address this issue.

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

So how can we look further back in the past, to plan better for the future? There are in fact many information relevant to biodiversity research contained in historical materials but they have mostly been ignored by natural scientists. Now that is changing: doi.org/10.3354/esr0...

Global research priorities for historical ecology to inform conservation

Historical ecology draws on a broad range of information sources and methods to provide insight into ecological and social change, especially over the past &sim;12000 yr. While its results are...

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Biodiversity change is often assessed from the 1970s, when most of our time series start. This sets our reference with an already altered state of biodiversity, reinforcing shifting baseline syndromes and limiting the ambition for conservation. See for instance: tinyurl.com/46e87vf6

Using recent baselines as benchmarks for megafauna restoration places an unfair burden on the Global South

The potential for megafauna restoration is unevenly distributed across the world, along with the socio-political capacity of countries to support these restoration initiatives. We show that choosing ....

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
rdcu.be/eEcIt

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Biodiversity change is often assessed from the 1970s, when most of our time series start. This sets our reference with an already altered state of biodiversity, reinforcing shifting baseline syndromes and limiting the ambition for conservation. See for instance: tinyurl.com/46e87vf6

Using recent baselines as benchmarks for megafauna restoration places an unfair burden on the Global South

The potential for megafauna restoration is unevenly distributed across the world, along with the socio-political capacity of countries to support these restoration initiatives. We show that choosing ....

tinyurl.com