Lars Gamfeldt

Phengaris teleius (Scarce Large Blue) in a French meadow. One of the 17 species in the European Grassland Butterfly Index. Photo: Martin Warren)

The latest European Grassland Butterfly Indicator is out. It shows that grassland butterflies have declined by 47% since 1991, indicating a huge loss of grassland biodiversity. The data come from 16,150 transects & 15,000 volunteers. We are calling for urgent action. www.bc-europe.eu/documents/69...

Kosterhavets nationalpark – en papperspark? - Deep Sea Reporter Deep Sea Reporter granskar bottentrålning i marina skyddade områden – del två.Som nationalpark omfattas Kosterhavet av Sveriges starkaste naturskydd. På pappret. I praktiken pågår omfattande bottentrå...

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Har du 11 min över idag så ägna dem åt denna film. Lågmäld men slagkraftig information om en marin jätteskandal.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Thank God for Bruce youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w

A cute kiddo standing with a plant experiment. There are four blocks in the table, with each block having one replicate of three treatments. Blocks are labeled and ivy pots are labeled with treatment and pot number with labels varying by color matching treatment. Treatments are randomized within blocks. Heck yeah. She’s doing it right for the science fair!

Kiddo’s first randomized controlled blocked design. Gotta start ‘em right.

Varningen: Stora datacenter kan höja elpriset - Ekot I år är ansökningarna om stora datacenter i Sverige som vill ansluta sig till elnätet fem gånger högre än förra året.”Vi har ansökningar på över 5000 megawatt ...

“[M]otsvarande produktionen från fem kärnkraftsreaktorer”.

Alla de organisationer som hajpat användningen av AI i Sverige får hemskt gärna återkomma med en plan på hur detta ska gå ihop med mänskliga elpriser och klimatmål.

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Towards a broader perspective on marine biodiversity change - Marine Biodiversity Biodiversity decline jeopardizes the foundation of natural ecosystems and human well-being, a concern that prompted major global agreements aiming to bend the curve towards a net positive biodiversity...

More than a year ago researchers from @hifmb.de and @icbm-uol.bsky.social started to write about different perspectives on marine biodiversity change from natural and social science perspectives. This morphed into a review paper that was published online today link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪

i love people!

But what is the environmental status of European waters? Consult the following paper for an overview:
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Can someone point me to recent papers about the decline, and lack of recovery, for the #kelp Macrocystis in #Tasmania?
I have Butler et al 2020 MEPS.
#Ocean #warming. #Herbivory.
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A new Nature paper accompanying the Global Carbon Budget finds that the land and ocean sinks are 25% smaller and 7% smaller, respectively, than they would have been without the effects of climate change over 2015-24:

Question: Does anybody know of papers studying the connection between #yeast #biodiversity and #ecosystem #functioning?
Can coexisting yeast strains show complementarity and niche partitioning?
Any articles would be highly appreciated.
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The Swedish Research Council is setting up a programme for strategic recruitment of associate senior lecturers In January 2026, the Swedish Research Council will issue a call for career support funding for associate senior lecturers. Higher education institutions are invited to nominate candidates whose resear...

Description for the call can be found here.
www.vr.se/english/just...
I can communicate interested people to my Department (Dep. Marine Sciences) for potential nominations. (3) of (3)

Nominations need to be via my department, and timeline is extremely short (a week from now). Scientific achievements need to be "Highly excellent" as defined by the Swedish Research Council. There will be further calls 2026. (2) of (3)
Please

Opportunity!
Anybody knows of young marine ecologists (within 7 years from earned PhD) that would like to come to Gothenburg, Sweden, for a nationally funded Assistant Professorship? It is highly competitive but well funded. (1) of (3)

Amazing (and prestigious) opportunity in Sweden: The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity.
The announcement can be found here: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
I've heard that the position will come with a lot of resources.
🧪 #biodiversity

The team of (5) undergraduates that led this research project at an scenic lookout in Mo'orea, French Polynesia.

Super excited to share this work looking at seaweed trait differences across microhabitat! Proud of this team of undergraduates for working so hard to make get this paper published. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Fascinating dive in a kelp forest to urchin barren transition zone yesterday in Monterey! 🌊🤿

Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

How very disappointing and backwards…
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No drones, no AI, not very high-tech at all, only hard working people shaking and rinsing Ascophyllum to get all associated fauna out for biodiversity analyses 💪🏼🌱 #PhycologyFriday

Woah!...

Fig. 3. Estimated mitigation potential from forestation varies with land availability assumptions. (A) Global and regional ecosystem carbon sequestration. BA19 (10), GR17 (8), and Qin24 (24) refer to respective assumptions of land potentially available for forestation. The “committed” assumption considers only national commitments, and “achievable” shows currently achievable land limited by availability defined in Qin24 (see materials and methods section M3). (B) The currently achievable mitigation potential varies among countries and income groups. Country-specific data are available in data S3 (24). Country codes and corresponding income groups can be found in table S6.

The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐

Yellowstone’s free-moving large bison herds provide a glimpse of their past ecosystem function Although momentum is building to restore bison across North America, most efforts focus on small, managed herds, leaving unclear how large, migrating herds shape landscapes and whether their effects enhance or degrade ecosystems. We assessed carbon and ...

The importance of large herds of mega-herbivores. Interesting paper in Science. #EcosystemFunctioning
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Despite all my rage, I’m still just a kelp in a cage.

‘The forgotten forest’: how smashing 5.6m urchins saved a California kelp paradise Pollution, warm oceans and hungry urchins devastated Pacific kelp. Now, thanks to divers with hammers, one of the world’s most successful rehabilitation projects has helped it rebound

Smashing urchins.

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Vi måste avverka mer för att kunna skydda mer skog? 🙃

That’s a lot of Ascophyllum!

”Utan intäkter från ett aktivt skogsbruk saknas resurser för skogsvårdande åtgärder och för att utveckla den biologiska mångfalden.”
Vad menas med ”utveckla” tro?

Ojoj, vilket inlägg i debatten om skogsbruk. Monokulturer och nya trädarter…

Once again on the “achievements” of the most right wing government in the history of #Finland. Sigh.

To warn others to learn from our mistakes.

On the left, government projections of new jobs (blue) vs the reality (red); on the right, distribution of tax cuts by income decile.