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Prof. Jeff Ollerton @jeffollerton.bsky.social · 26d

A new review gives us a deeper understanding of the evolution of plant-pollinator interactions!

A brilliant critical review of the Grant–Stebbins model of how plants evolve by Kathleen Kay and Bruce Anderson just published.

Read more about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/12/a...

A new review gives us a deeper understanding of the evolution of plant-pollinator interactions

If you’ve read my book Birds & Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship, you’ll know that I spend a few pages discussing the long-standing paradigm of how interactions betw…

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James Hitchcock @jameshitchcock.bsky.social · Jul 9

I recently completed work with my colleagues at CSIRO modelling the Murray River's food web

From phytoplankton to the Murray cod: modelling the Murray River’s food web

I recently completed work with my colleagues at CSIRO modelling the Murray Rivers food web.

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James Hitchcock @jameshitchcock.bsky.social · 27d

Had the pleasure to contribute to a new paper just published, led by Jo Bennett (CSU), on using environmental water to maintain wetland refugia and increase ecosystem resilience to severe drought www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Conservation planning for environmental water to climate refugia in the manageable Murray–Darling Basin

One mechanism for improving the resilience of freshwater systems affected by climate change is to use environmental water to support refugial habitats…

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Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social · 27d

It was such an honour to present my research at UTS! Thank you to @zoexiro.bsky.social and @ecologybrad.bsky.social for the invitation and to everyone who came to listen to my talk 🌿

Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · 28d

🐝🌸 With climate change, many organisms are shifting their ranges, but some are shifting in the opposite direction to what we expect.
Insightful and entertaining seminar by Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social on "Climate Change and Shifting Interactions: Where Do Species Go from Here?"

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Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · 28d

🐝🌸 With climate change, many organisms are shifting their ranges, but some are shifting in the opposite direction to what we expect.
Insightful and entertaining seminar by Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social on "Climate Change and Shifting Interactions: Where Do Species Go from Here?"

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Aug 9

📖Published📖

Arnold et al. propose a design that will allow ecologists to simulate more realistic heat events in the field by combining a controllable convection heater system with a semi-enclosed chamber with adjustable vents 🌍 🧪

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Images of the chamber and active heating system. (a) Annotated detail image of the heating system, electrical components, and chambers (not to scale). Field photos from Mt. Hotham, VIC, Australia (Case study 1): (b) two polycarbonate chambers attached via black ducting to one heating system under a tarpaulin for protection from the weather; and (c) side view of a chamber with its semi-enclosed, overhanging lid with adjustable portholes, circulating fans, and Stevenson screen housing thermocouples. (d) Field photo from Perisher Valley, NSW, Australia (Case study 2). The heating system attached to three chambers showing improved insulative ducting and open tent protecting and ventilating the heating system. Note that chamber lids are transparent like the chamber sides but appear grey due to reflections of cloud cover.

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Brad Murray @ecologybrad.bsky.social · 28d

Bearded dragon spotted during field teaching. Wonderful camo!

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Roamer @terraroam.bsky.social · Sep 7

Today is #nationalthreatenedspecies Day. This picture represents the halfway point of a long and heartbreaking project to create a visual display of Australia's 2200+ critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable and extinct plants and animals
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Over 1000 images of over 1000 threatened and extinct species of plants and animals. This is only half of a project creating a banner with over 2200 of Australia's threatened and extinct species.

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Anne in Blue Mountains @bluemountainsanne.bsky.social · Sep 7

Spent threatened species day surveying for...threatened species. Perfect weather for the Bathurst Copper Paralucia spinifera. Such stunning butterflies and so very threatened. Sad to see blackberry and scotch broom untreated and expanding on important sites.

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · Sep 3

📰Published📰 Do sun orchids mimic buzz-pollinated plants?🐝
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Check out a video about this research here!📽️
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Do sun orchids mimic buzz-pollinated plants?

Daniela Scaccabarozzi, Nina Sletvold This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Check out this video from the authors for more details about …

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Sep 3

🌐 The @ipbes.net #NexusAssessment Report reveals critical interactions among nexus elements—biodiversity, water, food, health, and climate change. 🌏🧪

🚨 Explore how cascading effects like land-use change can reduce biodiversity⤵️

A figure from the Nexus Assessment showing interactions between nexus elements.

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Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy Wattle Day!

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Jun 11

infinitylists: A Shiny application & R package for rapid generation of place-based species checklists

In #AppsPlantSci by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social ‬& @willcornwell.bsky.social ‬

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Mosaic of three images. Top left, someone holding a mobile phone using the infinitylists Shiny app. Top right, two botanists on a boardwalk in a Melaleuca swamp in northern Sydney, looking closely at a small plant on the ground. Bottom, pink flowers from a rosy sundew (Drosera spatulata). Photo credits (clockwise from top left): Kate Mesaglio, Hervé Sauquet, Thomas Mesaglio

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Fonti Kar @fontikar.bsky.social · Jun 11

Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Jun 11

infinitylists: A Shiny application & R package for rapid generation of place-based species checklists

In #AppsPlantSci by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social ‬& @willcornwell.bsky.social ‬

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @unswbees.bsky.social

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Phil Garnock-Jones @theobrominated.bsky.social · Aug 21

After a decade of photographing & writing, I finally have an advance copy of my book. It'll be launched 10 October in Wellington and should hit the shops 9 October. Many thanks to talented designer Duncan Munro & the wonderful people at Auckland University Press. #pukapuka #bloomscolling #bloomsky

A new book, called He Puāwai a natural history of New Zealand flowers. The dust jacket is black with 24 individual flowers arranged in rows, all different colours. The title is purple and the subtitle teal.

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Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'm still buzzing after an amazing day at the Sydney Science Trail, Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan! #NationalScienceWeek

I had a great time talking to the community about how pollination ecologists study and conserve plants and their pollinators
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#Pollination

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Ryan @lost-in-botany.bsky.social · Jul 25

The early flowering Winter Donkey Orchid, #Diuris brumalis is in flower atm! These orchids like many of these types of Diuris mimic Pea flowers to fool pollinators! This species is common in the Perth hills and up to Mogumber where it often grows in gravely lateritic soils and outcrops

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New Zealand Ecological Society @newzealandecology.bsky.social · Jul 25

📢 Save the Date!

Announcing the upcoming joint conference of the New Zealand Ecological Society & the Society for Conservation Biology Oceania, 30 November - 4 December 2026, in Tamaki Makaurau, Auckland. Looking forward to seeing you there! 🌿

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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · Jul 25

If you want a provocative paper, this is the one right now. I missed a reference to Locey and @ethanwhite.weecology.org paper, which made me think very deeply about this (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...).

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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · Jul 25

♻️🆓: A functional view of flower–pollinator trait matching. A commentary on ‘Mismatching explained: constricted corolla tubes in Roscoea elevate the nectar’
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Jul 24

24 July is #EarthOvershootDay. That means humanity has used up Earth’s yearly natural resources budget in just 7 months. In 2024, the date was 1 August.

The date keeps creeping earlier—but the trend can be reversed: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/up...

This image illustrates Earth Overshoot Day using a visual metaphor: planet Earth hanging a “SORRY WE’RE CLOSED” sign in space. The message below reads, “We have exceeded our natural resource budget for 2025,” emphasizing the urgent need to live within ecological limits.

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Yvonne Davila @ydavila.bsky.social · Jul 23

🌼🐝 Can plants respond to sounds made by pollinators with changes in floral nectar and aroma?
Amazing seminar given by Tomás Matus @jtmatus.bsky.social at UTS RES Hub on 'Deciphering plant-to-plant and plant-to-insect communication mechanisms via volatile organic compounds'.

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JPE - Journal of Pollination Ecology @jpollecol.bsky.social · May 23

Methods paper by Ollerton et al. on how to improve data quality of plant-pollinator relationships in large data bases that would be worthwhile to become a standard for pollination research! doi.org/10.26786/192...

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Jennifer Mach (she/they) @jennifermach.bsky.social · Jun 16

Question for #PlantScience BlueSky, what program are you using to assemble multi-panel figures nowadays? Trying to give guidance to authors on uploading high-res final files for one of our journal clients.

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · Jun 16

A team of scientists has discovered the secret to making ‘Boronia Babies’ is a tiny moth. Heliozelidae pollinate the weird flowers made famous by May Gibbs.

A weird group of boronias puzzled botanists for decades. Now we’ve solved the pollination mystery

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