Sebastian Theis, PhD

BON in a Box: An Open and Collaborative Platform for Biodiversity Monitoring, Indicator Calculation, and Reporting Abstract. The Convention on Biological Diversity’s Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals to protect and restore biodive

Our new paper on BON in a Box is out! 📦

This project has high ambitions: linking biodiversity science to meaningful policy, transforming messy data into useful metrics. 🐝 🌳 📊 💡

Our vision is to make biodiversity science more user friendly, powerful and accessible!

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From 7 global nature-market evaluations to 5 rules for scientifically credible carbon & biodiversity outcomes. doi.org/10.1038/s415... and open access rdcu.be/eYFx8 #biodiversity #naturemarket #creditsystem

Great time speaking at the #IBA2025 on nature-related financial disclosures.
For nature markets to be credible and avoid green-washing, we have to solve the Measurement, Reporting, and Verification problem and make reliable nature data a public good.
doi.org/10.31235/osf...

#NatureMarket #TNFD

Hidden Ecosystem Buried for 130 Years Wakes Up After Bulldozer Uncovers Green Shoots in Toronto Life had either just carried on all the same after being buried, or it had entered some state of hibernation, ready to wake up at the right

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/microscopic-... 2 weeks old but I still love it.

The Toronto Blue Jays are going to the World Series

Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... #restoration #toronto

JOIN US I am recruiting graduate students, analysts, and postdoctoral researchers for funded projects in a variety of research themes. See the links below for specific opportunities or contact [stephanie.g…

For anyone looking for an amazing PhD opportunity with Steph Green in marine global change ecology and conservation for 2026: greenlab.ca/opportunitie...

New paper introducing the term of SUPER HABITAT for sharks in which all critical activities (resting, feeding, mating & giving birth) occurs.
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Access the paper here:
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@dr-yannis.bsky.social @charlie-huveneers.bsky.social

Text: Tomorrows catch: securing our future fisheries. Image: A shadow of an angler against a sunset background.

Content With Purpose (CWP) and @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social debuting “Tomorrow’s Catch: Securing our Future Fisheries” at #AFS155.

Through storytelling, this movie series connects data with emotion to educate audiences about issues for our freshwater and marine ecosystems across the US and Canada.

Very excited to share our latest paper as part of ResNet and an amazing team of co-authors. We present a cross-disciplinary analysis of Essential Ecosystem Service Variables (EESVs).
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
#ecosystem #essential #economic #ecological #ResNet #monitoring #cultural

Blue female Faxonius virilis from the St. Lawrence river.

Blessed to find this beautiful electric blue Faxonius virilis while sampling the St. Lawrence for my doctoral work! This is a fairly rare phenotype for this native North American species!

A schematical graphic shows an umbrella shading darkness from a street lamp. On the umbrella there are nocturnal animals for whom regulations to protect the dark exist (e.g. bats, marine turtles, insects) while under the umbrella many other animals are also protected from artificial light at night (ALAN).

Our new forum piece is out now in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social 🥳

We argue that existing & expanding regulations to protect specific animal groups from light pollution 💡 (e.g. bats 🦇 marine turtles 🐢 insects 🦋) might co-protect many other organisms ...

doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 🔓🧪

Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Global Roadkill Data: a dataset on terrestrial vertebrate mortality caused by collision with vehicles

The numbers are mind-boggling, and I honestly wasn't aware of the full extend of roadkill's doi.org/10.1038/s415... #biodiversity #species #vertebrates

🧵 REVEALED: Community energy projects in Scotland are generating 100x more local wealth than privately-owned wind farms.

But just 0.5% of the renewable power is community-owned. Why this staggering imbalance?

Evidence-based urban greening: a missing piece in biodiversity conservation With calls for increased greenery in cities to safeguard biodiversity and its associated benefits to humans, urban vegetation must be managed carefully and efficiently. It is time to change paths from current spurious attempts to manufacture resilience and instead usher in evidence-based urban greening to secure ecosystems for the future.

Online now: Evidence-based urban greening: a missing piece in biodiversity conservation

New crayfish curriculum engages students in Great Lakes and local invasive species issues - Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant Crayfish can frequently be found in the role of classroom pet, but as with many school critters, they can pose a threat if they are released into local waters—non-native species can prove to be invasi...

Out now! Our new curriculum for grades 6-12 helps educators across the #GreatLakes region engage their students to think critically about freshwater ecosystems through the lens of crayfish - read more about it here: iiseagrant.org/new-crayfish...

Come work with us on CO2 removal model comparisons and help us improve #CDR representations in Earth system models
Deadline: 27th May 2025
www.geomar.de/en/karriere/...

Glad this post is finding an audience.

If you’re interested in #biodiversity, #ecology, #climate, #water, check out the archive here: open.substack.com/pub/predirec...

CIEE/ICEE | Joe Bennett Please see ad below, and please repost. Thank you! The Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution - Institut canadien d’écologie et d'évolution (CIEE-ICEE) seeks a new Director and Host Univers...

Please repost! The Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution is looking for a new Director and host university: www.linkedin.com/posts/joe-be...

Deep Sea Crucial to Our Lives, Study Shows - Our World A comprehensive new paper aims to explain to a broad audience the valuable functions and processes provided by the deep sea to humans, including carbon sequestration.

Happy #DeepDay. The deep sea seems so far away and yet we are more connected to it than we think.

I consider myself very lucky that my work allows me to go to and study this amazing ecosystem.

ourworld.unu.edu/en/deep-sea-...

New research from ENSURE – a research partnership between the University of Exeter and The Chinese University of Hong Kong offers practical guidance for achieving balance between economic growth and long-term protection of marine biodiversity.

Links to full paper in original post ⬇️

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What if everyone had a biobank in a matchbox?
A distributed seedbank; shared by post, scattered with care.
Not stored in vaults like in Svalbard or Wakehurst Place but alive in our laneways, verges, windowsills.
Guerrilla rewilding.
Cheap. Communal. Powerful.
A future held in every pocket. 🌍

From the front garden to the continent, here's why biodiversity does not increase evenly from small to large The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales—a phenomenon ecologists have recognized for decades. Now, an international team of scientists, inc...

🌍 Why doesn’t biodiversity increase evenly from garden to continent?
🐸 A new theory explains the 3-phase pattern of species growth with scale — key to predicting loss of biodiversity
700M records, global scope.
Study in Nature Communications.🧪
#Ecology #Biodiversity
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Save the Endangered Species Act By changing the meaning of a single word, the Trump administration could gut habitat protections for all endangered species. Speak up now to protect endangered species and their habitat — and the Enda...

For a quick way to act, @biologicaldiversity.org provides a customizable comment and submits it for you: act.biologicaldiversity.org/z0VvP2_CV0Cd...? The goal is to get a LOT of comments as this rule will likely end up in the courts, which will look for objections from the public. #wildlife #birds 🌎

Turning Insight into Action: How the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Can Drive Real Change | Transformations Community Turning Insight into Action: How the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment Can Drive Real Change Co-Hosted by the Transformations Community, cCHANGE and So ...

Turning @ipbes.net Insight into Action!
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#biodiversity #transformations @transformationscommunity.org
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A rare carnivorous caterpillar—previously unknown to biologists—stalks spiderwebs for food whilst dressed in the remains of its prey, a new Science study reports.

This new species, dubbed the “bone collector,” is found only on a single mountainside on the Hawai’ian island of Oa’hu. scim.ag/3GBDcV7

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement Global biodiversity targets focus on landscape and seascape connectivity as a foundational component of biodiversity conservation, including networks of connected protected areas. Recent advances allo...

So happy to share our Review paper

A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Coming up tomorrow but it's definitely not too late to register!

Team Trump Offers Dire Wolf Excuse to Abandon Endangered Species Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum credited the supposed revival of dire wolves as reason to look past the necessity of the endangered species list.

Even IF de-extinction would work (which it doesn't) - it still doesn't address the fact of lost or degraded habitat. So this is incredibly reckless to consider #biodiversity #endangered www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admini...