🔥New Paper!🔥 from Julianna Santos,
@ltkelly.bsky.social @lluisbrotons.bsky.social @urbanfrogger.bsky.social @cristinaaponte.bsky.social , Lauren Ponisio, Stephen Mason, and David Keith!

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Inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions. Katus shortfall- the unknown loss of biodiversity past, present and future is broader than ‘dark extinction’- species becoming extinct before being formally described nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

National climate change risk assessment for #Australia’s natural ecosystems tech reports are online: We report

Australia’s natural ecosystems are highly exposed & vulnerable to climate change across the land and sea. 1/🧵

What happens when an 'extinct' plant species is rediscovered?

We a casestudy Atriplex, and found...not much

Despite being 'rediscovered' three times in the last decade Atriplex acutiloba remains listed as extinct. And it isn't alone. Nor is the phenomenon new.

doi.org/10.1111/aec.70101

🔥Are you investigating how plants respond to shifting fire regimes? Submit to our new Special Collection🌱
Title: "After the fires: Plant responses and resilience under shifting fire regimes"
📖 Submit by 30 Sept 2025.
🧪 Details 👉 www.publish.csiro.au/bt/content/C...
#Fire #Botany #Plantscience

Congratulations to Dr Chantelle Doyle @saltandbrine.bsky.social - joining ABC's Top5 Science program for 2025 www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Hugely excited for our work on the Nullarbor Caves to be featured on the ever excellent First Dog on the Moon. Oh yeah...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I've been banging on about this issue - immature alpine ash, fire and seed - for years so it was great to get a chance to contribute to this ABC Landline story about it. "A 'time bomb' in the state's ash forests" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Finite resources, lots of species requiring conservation. @saltandbrine.bsky.social asks the question - how far do we go for each plant species? A simple question generating deep thought! #ICCB2025

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍

We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

There's "a false perception that Labor values the environment movement & its endorsement. In reality, Labor only wants to neutralise it. [..] They want to be able to name-drop supportive organisations in press conferences, but they’re far less willing to adopt those same groups’ policy proposals"

Thank to everyone involved, not sure whos on here sorry if you don't get tagged

P.S. the papers pay walled but I know a guy who can pass it on for free.... 4/4

@markooiecol.bsky.social @saltandbrine.bsky.social @seedysarah.bsky.social @joe-atkinson.bsky.social

Our study shows managers can have confidence in rapid assessments of extinction risk and it has great potential as a tool for quickly responding to megadisturbances. We also believe the project shows comprehensive assessments of the Australian flora are within reach given the right resourcing 3/4

The rapid assessments accurately identified species as threatened in 84% of cases despite much less time and data per species. Importantly they were accurate in identifying Critically Endangered species (67%) and Endangered species (54%). 2/4

New paper out! After the 2019-2020 #fires in Australia our team undertook #IUCN Red List assessments of fire affected #plant species, to handle the volume we undertook paired rapid and full assessments and compared their accuracy 1/4

doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Thanks to my awesome coauthors Dr Chantelle Doyle @saltandbrine.bsky.social, Dr Amy-Marie Gilpin and Associate Professor Mark Ooi @markooiecol.bsky.social. And thanks to the Editorial team and reviewers at @ausjbotany.bsky.social their input was invaluable. 5/5

#bees #varroamite #plantconservation

To get started we are launching a citizen science project on iNaturalist where anyone can contribute images of honeybees or native pollinators visiting native flowers so we can have a baseline for how flower visitation changes before and after varroa mite reaches different parts of the country 4/5

There is a huge need for more research on pollination in native species and support for existing work. Collection of baseline data is crucial as is monitoring already threatened species. There may also be unexpected impacts arise through interactions with other threats like fragmentation or fire 3/5

We found a decline in feral honeybees will be good news for some plants and bad news for others. But we found major gaps in our knowledge of how honeybees influence native plant pollination and pollinators. The loss of feral honeybees due to varroa mite is an opportunity to fill these gaps 2/5

Varroa mite arriving in Australia has been a big worry for agriculture and bee keeping but it will also result in a massive decline in feral honeybee populations. This will affect many native plant species visited by honeybees, our new paper aimed to understand what those effects might be 1/5

There are many issues with preprints, but one of the biggest is when they are seen as credible before being peer-reviewed.

This is potentially very dangerous. A 🧵

🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky

10 = The officially recognised number of #extinct Australian #invertebrates.

We show the actual number is likely much higher, 9,000+ species. AND 1-3 invertebrate species are being lost each week.

This level of loss is not sustainable. This is a wake up call 🌍🧪

theconversation.com/around-9-000...

Thanks to everyone who came, if you still have questions or just want to chat and see me around #ESAus2024 come say hi.

Overcoming Major Barriers in Seed Ecology Research in Developing Countries | Seed Science Research | Cambridge Core

doi:10.1017/S0960258523000181