Bec Raynal, PhD

One quarter of freshwater animals at risk of extinction - IUCN Red List - Shoal One quarter of freshwater animals at risk of extinction – IUCN Red List The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date has revealed that 24% of...

❌ BREAKING NEWS ❌
1/4 of freshwater animals are at risk of #extinction‼️
The largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List to date has revealed that 24% are at high risk of extinction, according to analysis published in Nature today.
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Yellow- tailed black cockatoo feasting on a protea.
These birds have a huge and powerful beak that can be used for everything from sipping nectar (which is what this female is doing) to gouging insect grubs out of hard wood! 🪶🌿🌏🤩

This made me feel better about all the stupid feelings! A great read.

Classics: Declining and small population paradigms ‘Classics’ is a category of posts highlighting research that has made a real difference to biodiversity conservation. All posts in this category will be permanently displayed on the Cla…

#ConservationClassics: declining and small population paradigms conservationbytes.com/2008/08/23/d...

Great idea, I would love to be added thank you :)

Scientists counted 49 ways Australia is destroying the ecosystems we hold dear – but there is hope Many ecosystems face multiple serious threats. Recovery will be complex and difficult – but not impossible.

Australia's Threatened Ecological Communities receive less attention than Threatened Species. Public knowledge and understanding of TECs often a major threat, especially for TECs that mostly exist on private land, but is rarely considered in conservation advice theconversation.com/scientists-c...

It's World Wildlife Conservation Day! Australia's unique wildlife needs help, so let's each do 1 thing for wildlife today. Options: write conservation letters to politicians, donate to save wildlife as a Chrissy gift, raise the profile of a 'boring' species, keep your cat indoors. 📸Mangrove Monitor.

New paper showing a small Australian freshwater fish can acclimate quickly to rising water temps. Additionally, we found that metabolic rate measurements (SMR, MMR and aerobic scope) ALL increased as acute test temperature increased!
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photo: G. Schmida

Thank you!

Hello! I'd love to be added to this list 😊

A few years ago on 🐦 we had a wonderful culture of sharing Australian ecological science and nature photography with the #WildOz hashtag.

I'd love to bring it back to Bluesky, so here's a starterpack of Australian ecologists, botanists, naturalists & nature photographers! 📸🦘🌳🐨🦜

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ecoevojobs.net 2024-25

Pinning the EcoEvo job board so I’ll no longer have a reason to revisit the blue bird website.

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Screen grab of the google scholar citation count for the scientific paper Aerobic scope measurements of fishes in an era of climate change: respirometry, relevance and recommendations

Our paper hit 1000 citations today!
Why so many? A few thoughts. 🧪🦑🐟

Hello, can you please add me to the feed?
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Thank you!