Sylvaine Giakoumi

Marine Spatial Planning in the Aegean Sea Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) needs to answer a fundamental question: where should protection and restoration happen so that biodiversity goals are met while coastal communities remain economically vi...

Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) aims to protect and restore biodiversity whilst ensuring coastal communities remain economically viable. Read our latest post from the @biodiversa.eu INSPIRE Greece-Aegean Sea case study to find out more about our approach. 🐟🌊

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NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8

Two PhD positions available to come and work with us - please share!

[1] Detecting rapid evolutionary responses to climate change in UK plants

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[2] Natural GM: The role of horizontal gene transfer in crop adaptation and evolution

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Why is modelling land-cover changes over time so important and challenging? It is now widely known that climate is expected to change over the coming decades causing dramatic impacts on biodiversity and modifying...

Why is modelling land-cover changes over time so important and challenging? Read our latest blog post from our #Tagus case study to learn more: www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/why-is-...

This graphical abstract shows three marine Mediterranean habitats (sandy bottoms, rocky reefs and Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows. Each of them has a different fish community. We also mention the functional trait metrics we used to assess the functional diversity of the fish community in the 3 different habitats; these metrics are: Functional Richness, Rao's quadratic entropy, functional divergence, functional b-diversity

Our study investigated the functional diversity of coastal fish communities across habitats in the Mediterranean Sea. It demonstrates that sandy habitats contribute disproportionately to functional beta diversity in Mediterranean infralittoral ecosystems authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

ICMB XIII goes to Cape Town, South Africa!

The next International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions is now confirmed for 2027! Follow for more updates.

Hope to see you there!

@marinebioinvasions.bsky.social #bioinvasions #NIS #marinebioinvasions #ICMB2027 #capetown #southafrica

Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Biology on Simons Foundation

Postdoc Opportunity - Interested in plant scaling, quantitative botany, or theoretical plant biology? join our group to explore how plant form, function & scaling principles connect across levels of organization
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-postdoctoral-fellowships-in-plant-biology🧪🌾🌐

Photo of Jane Goodall in the center, signing a book, with three women standing slightly hunched behind her. A very young Michelle is to the right, smiling.

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.

However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

Blog Neocolonial Narratives of Primate Conservation 25th May 2020 Michelle A. Rodrigues, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Twitter: @MARspidermonkey Website: Recently, I watched the Jane Goodall…

Several years ago, I watched the National Geographic "Jane" documentary, and wrote a Twitter thread about it, then rewrote it in blog form for the @peopleprimate.bsky.social. And I'm dismayed to see so much of her memorials repeating this narrative (2/10)

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YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts Why most conservation projects fail to learn

Excellent advice from Hugh Possingham on monitoring conservation projects and why most Monitoring and Evaluation is flawed. youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?...

Does anyone know what is wrong with this scorpionfish?

Does anyone know what is wrong with this scorpionfish?

To boldly go where no woman has gone before...

The ecological value of the Tajo River basin “The Tajo River received its name from a king of all the Spain’s; it is born in that place and dies in the Ocean Sea, kissing the walls of the famous city of Lisbon, and it is thought that its sands a...

Take a look at our latest blog article on 'The ecological value of the Tajo River basin'. Born in the Sierra de Albarracín (Teruel, Spain), the Tajo flows westwards meeting the Atlantic in the Portuguese capital of Lisboa. #Spain #Portugal #Tajo
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Applying CAMBioMed's sampling protocols in Croatia #StazioneZoologicaAntonDohrn #RodjerBoskovicInstitute

Applying CAMBioMed's sampling protocols in Croatia #StazioneZoologicaAntonDohrn #RodjerBoskovicInstitute

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
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#languagebarriers

Analiza el reto de abordar legalmente la interacción entre mascotas y fauna silvestre desde 3 perspectivas sobre la falta de armonía entre las leyes de conservación y bienestar animal:
🦜 Mascotas asilvestradas
🐈 Mascotas con libertad de mov
🐕 Paseo de mascotas
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Researchers from #StazioneAntonDohrn and the #UniversityofPisa implemented #CAMBioMed 's monitoring protocols for temperate rocky reefs in Tuscany last week. In contrast to the Cyclades Islands (Greece), macroalgal forests were present whereas no alien herbiovores were recorded.

Economic Valuation and Spatial Mapping of Coastal Ecosystem Services in the Aegean Quantifying the economic value of ecosystem services is essential for making evidence-based decisions in conservation and marine spatial planning. In the case study of the Aegean Sea, a comprehensive ...

Quantifying the economic value of #ecosystemservices is essential for making evidence-based decisions in #conservation and marine spatial planning. Read our latest blog post from our #Aegean Sea case study to learn more: www.inspire-biodiversa.com/post/economi... 🌍🐟🌊

Today workers from all fields in Italy required that the Italian government puts sanctions on the criminal government of Israel for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

@cambiomed-biodiversa.com‬ is a biodiversa project but I see you have included Bioboost+ as well

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🧪Australian ongoing position in academia

Current Vacancies

🧪Australian academic position

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Wildlife and Spatial Ecology.

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New paper led by @martinjung.eu presenting a protocol/tool that increases transparency in reporting Systematic Conservation Planning projects

Besides attending super interesting presentations, it is such a great pleasure to meet old friends/colleagues at #ICCB2025 @hugepossum.bsky.social @robsalgo.bsky.social @mariabeger.bsky.social

Great work!

Jorge Alvarez-Romero provides a succinct description of how #Marxan delivers prioritised spatial decisions for nature in the spatial planning course @iccb2025.bsky.social

Excited to be back in Brisbane after 10 years for the @iccb2025.bsky.social but it seems like the Cyclades are still following me :-) Γεια σου ρε ελληνική διασπορά!

Repeating the field work conducted by @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social and colleagues 17 years ago in the Cyclades. Lots of changes have been observed, waiting for the data analyses...Main results of the historical data can be find in these publications https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/maec.12059 and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0272771411002137

Repeating the fieldwork conducted by @sylvainegiakoumi.bsky.social and colleagues 17 years ago in the Cyclades. Lots of changes have been observed! Main results of the historical data can be find in these publications onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... and www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

During our first week of sampling, we have already noticed a remarkable difference between the percentage cover of macroalgae in the same spots in the Cyclades Islands. Once macroalgal forests, now turf...

During our first week of sampling, we have already noticed a remarkable change in the percentage cover of macroalgae in several sites of the Cyclades Islands. Once macroalgal forests, now turf...
@skatsanevakis.bsky.social @rilovlab.bsky.social @ceabcsic.bsky.social