Sebastian Theis, PhD
@sebtheis.bsky.social
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Post-doc | Freshwater ecologist💧| Conservation policy enthusiast🍃| Offsetting and mitigation banking♻️| Ecosystem service management🏞️| Favorite species - Percopsis omiscomaycus 🐟| Fantasy and SciFi connoisseur💍🧙‍♂️
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sharkmourier.bsky.social
New paper introducing the term of SUPER HABITAT for sharks in which all critical activities (resting, feeding, mating & giving birth) occurs.
🦈🌴❤️🍽️ 👶
Access the paper here:
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@dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social
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afs-scicomm.bsky.social
Content With Purpose (CWP) and @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social debuting “Tomorrow’s Catch: Securing our Future Fisheries” at #AFS155.

Through storytelling, this movie series connects data with emotion to educate audiences about issues for our freshwater and marine ecosystems across the US and Canada.
Text: Tomorrows catch: securing our future fisheries. Image: A shadow of an angler against a sunset background.
sebtheis.bsky.social
Very excited to share our latest paper as part of ResNet and an amazing team of co-authors. We present a cross-disciplinary analysis of Essential Ecosystem Service Variables (EESVs).
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
#ecosystem #essential #economic #ecological #ResNet #monitoring #cultural
Redirecting
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vanmierlo.bsky.social
Blessed to find this beautiful electric blue Faxonius virilis while sampling the St. Lawrence for my doctoral work! This is a fairly rare phenotype for this native North American species!
Blue female Faxonius virilis from the St. Lawrence river.
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gkalinkat.bsky.social
Our new forum piece is out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social 🥳

We argue that existing & expanding regulations to protect specific animal groups from light pollution 💡 (e.g. bats 🦇 marine turtles 🐢 insects 🦋) might co-protect many other organisms ...

doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 🔓🧪
A schematical graphic shows an umbrella shading darkness from a street lamp. On the umbrella there are nocturnal animals for whom regulations to protect the dark exist (e.g. bats, marine turtles, insects) while under the umbrella many other animals are also protected from artificial light at night (ALAN).
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platform1983.bsky.social
🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms.

But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?
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jdtonkin.bsky.social
Glad this post is finding an audience.

If you’re interested in #biodiversity, #ecology, #climate, #water, check out the archive here: open.substack.com/pub/predirec...
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exetermarine.bsky.social
New research from ENSURE – a research partnership between the University of Exeter and The Chinese University of Hong Kong offers practical guidance for achieving balance between economic growth and long-term protection of marine biodiversity.

Links to full paper in original post ⬇️

🦑🌍🧪🌐🌊
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cerialmrott.bsky.social
What if everyone had a biobank in a matchbox?
A distributed seedbank; shared by post, scattered with care.
Not stored in vaults like in Svalbard or Wakehurst Place but alive in our laneways, verges, windowsills.
Guerrilla rewilding.
Cheap. Communal. Powerful.
A future held in every pocket. 🌍
dublininquirer.com
An ecosystem in a matchbox served as an ice-breaker at a meeting of a new Dublin biodiversity network on Saturday. It’s meant to be a forum for sharing ideas, and knowledge – and working together to push for change. www.dublininquirer.c...
An ecosystem in a matchbox serves as an ice-breaker for a new Dublin biodiversity network
It’s meant to be a forum for sharing ideas, and knowledge – and working together to push for change.
www.dublininquirer.com
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romangoergen.bsky.social
🌍 Why doesn’t biodiversity increase evenly from garden to continent?
🐸 A new theory explains the 3-phase pattern of species growth with scale — key to predicting loss of biodiversity
700M records, global scope.
Study in Nature Communications.🧪
#Ecology #Biodiversity
phys.org/news/2025-04...
From the front garden to the continent, here's why biodiversity does not increase evenly from small to large
The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales—a phenomenon ecologists have recognized for decades. Now, an international team of scientists, inc...
phys.org
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science.org
A rare carnivorous caterpillar—previously unknown to biologists—stalks spiderwebs for food whilst dressed in the remains of its prey, a new Science study reports.

This new species, dubbed the “bone collector,” is found only on a single mountainside on the Hawai’ian island of Oa’hu. scim.ag/3GBDcV7
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ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
Coming up tomorrow but it's definitely not too late to register!
ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
Join our next webinar with professional ecologists in different fields! *Exploring Career Opportunities in Ecology* returns 4/15 with Rese Cloyd from @doee-dc.bsky.social and @aerinj.bsky.social with @ncccnc.bsky.social, 2:00 PM ET esa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A promotional image for the event, Exploring Careers in Ecology, stories and advice for all job seekers. Includes headshots of Emily Therese Cloyd and Aerin Jacob; click the link for more information and to register
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aukeflorian.nl
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet. A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
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vanmierlo.bsky.social
Check out our new paper "Bioclimatic, terrain, and specific peatland composition are major drivers of woodland caribou winter habitat suitability in northern Ontario". I am grateful to have worked on this important topic with this amazing team!

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