Paul Foster
@vinedude.bsky.social
field station co-director, tropical plant ecologist, bird enthusiast, admirer of all things imaginative and well-crafted
The world we're living in.
www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
September 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The world we're living in.
www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
www.firsthandaccounts.org/impacts/2025...
Reposted by Paul Foster
Featured prominently in this heartbreaking article are our very own Dan and Winnie. #insects #costarica #insectos #biodiversityloss #climatechange #cambioclimatico
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Featured prominently in this heartbreaking article are our very own Dan and Winnie. #insects #costarica #insectos #biodiversityloss #climatechange #cambioclimatico
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Paul Foster
Here is the paper - nice work by @evangora.bsky.social How some tropical trees benefit from being struck by lightning: evidence for Dipteryx oleifera and other large-statured trees 🌾🧪https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.70062
How some tropical trees benefit from being struck by lightning: evidence for Dipteryx oleifera and other large‐statured trees
Lightning strikes kill hundreds of millions of trees annually, but their role in shaping tree life history and diversity is largely unknown. Here, we use data from a unique lightning location system...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Here is the paper - nice work by @evangora.bsky.social How some tropical trees benefit from being struck by lightning: evidence for Dipteryx oleifera and other large-statured trees 🌾🧪https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.70062
If you use iNaturalist, consider joining our Bioblizt. It's a great group of people! iNaturalist is a wonderful way to keep track of your natural history adventures and learning more about the biodiversity around you.
February 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
If you use iNaturalist, consider joining our Bioblizt. It's a great group of people! iNaturalist is a wonderful way to keep track of your natural history adventures and learning more about the biodiversity around you.
Reposted by Paul Foster
"Extinction of experience" in disciplines like ecology & paleobiology isn't just about fieldwork. It's also the loss of taxonomic expertise. Any focus on Big Data, divorced from knowledge of natural history, is a largely vacuous enterprise with limited capacity to generate meaningful insights. 🧪
January 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"Extinction of experience" in disciplines like ecology & paleobiology isn't just about fieldwork. It's also the loss of taxonomic expertise. Any focus on Big Data, divorced from knowledge of natural history, is a largely vacuous enterprise with limited capacity to generate meaningful insights. 🧪