Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon
A new, comprehensive study shows that Europe’s landscapes over the past more than 20 million years have predominantly been a mosaic of grasslands, scrub and woodlands of varying density. A light...
Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon - Europeβs landscapes for 23 Myr were mostly tree- & flower-rich mosaics shaped by large herbivores, not dense #forests, see our new synthesis www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #forests #woodlands #paleoecology #nature #trees #refiorestation
04.03.2026 07:36 β
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Dat Vlaanderen ooit één groot, dicht en donker bos was, is een misverstand. Het landschap was veel gevarieerder.
04.03.2026 10:17 β
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Interessante analyse van kaartmateriaal uit de periode 1774-2022. Vlaamse landschappen worden steeds meer eenheidsworst.
02.03.2026 13:14 β
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Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) zur Promotion im Bereich BiodiversitΓ€tsfΓΆrderung und Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen im urbanen Raum
Promotionsstelle (75% fΓΌr drei Jahre) im Bereich StadtΓΆkologie
Die Gruppe StadtΓΆkologie und BiodiversitΓ€t sucht neue Mitarbeiter*innen im Bereich KonnektivitΓ€t urbaner LebensrΓ€ume, urbane BiodiversitΓ€t und Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen.
Weitere Informationen: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/d...
23.02.2026 14:39 β
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Day 100 of receiving yet another, nearly identical, enshittified, chatGPT-generated proposals for some form of tech X restoration proposal for Restoration Ecology from a group of (real? fake?) professors who clearly have no restoration experience and no idea what restoration ecology even is.
18.02.2026 20:22 β
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"Denk aan de Kalmthoutse Heide. Midden in dat beschermde gebied, tussen het kerngebied en de Steertse Heide, ligt er nog een maΓ―sakker. Zo absurd is het soms."
β> en zo ken ik veel voorbeelden. Natuurbescherming in Vlaanderen is niet serieus, dweilen met de kraan open
17.02.2026 05:54 β
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illustrations by Maria Sibylla Merian of plants and insects associated with them + group listening to explanations by curator Tine Hens at Expo Found - Boekentoren Gent
Expo Found - Boekentoren #UGent - rondleiding door curator Tine Hens en Annelies Jacobs. => centraal: 17e eeuwse wetenschapper en kunstenares Maria Sibylla Merian, "one of the worlds first ecologists" een van de eerste die metamorfose van rups naar vlinder beschreef www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wiw...
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These Pets Are Armored, Spiky and Pricey. Poachers Want to Cash In.
Yep, this joke was written in the context of this @nytimes.com article starring isopods and exposing the growing international trade of isopod species, many colourful and rare, some not even scientifically described. Isopods are barely protected by legislation!
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/c...
11.02.2026 16:54 β
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YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Seth Holds a Surprise Inspection of His Monologue Writers in February 2026
How come isopods end up in the late night show with @sethmeyerspencil.bsky.social ?
First, enjoy the joke ππ
See below to get the story behind it π§΅
youtu.be/T58hOrsaGoI?...
11.02.2026 16:54 β
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These Pets Are Armored, Spiky and Pricey. Poachers Want to Cash In.
@fornalab.bsky.social colleague Pallieter De Smedt made it to the @nytimes.com with his paper on isopods π€π₯³π€©
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/c...
28.01.2026 14:20 β
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In our new article in Nature Cities, led by Susanne Tautenhahn, we used our recently published European datasets of plant indicator values, linked them to citizen science data, and mapped environmental conditions for Europe and, at a finer resolution, for 326 cities.
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16.01.2026 19:22 β
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Honored to have been part of the jury of the interdisciplinary PhD of Janne Teerlinck. Combining bioscience engineering with sociology in a garden project looking for the climate adaptation potential π€©. She studied the citizens of our FlowerPower De Tuin CS project. #garlock @dfornatlan.bsky.social
19.12.2025 21:43 β
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π³πͺ± New #BAAE article: Urbanization reshapes soil biodiversity in green spaces ποΈ
Soil compaction & pore loss reduce nematode diversity, showing that physical soil changes matter as much as chemical ones for healthy urban ecosystems.
DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
19.12.2025 07:01 β
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Ja, er was wat technische shizzle bij Videoland. Maar het stikstof(verbindingen)-verhaal van donderdag is ook op YouTube te zien:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJju...
18.10.2025 06:38 β
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Stikstof pakt nog erger uit voor natuur dan gedacht
Gangbare maatregelen om de heide te beschermen tegen te veel stikstof doen meer kwaad dan goed, blijkt uit het promotieonderzoek van Joost Vogels.
Wat is er mis met de heide? Ik vind dat Joost Vogels van Stichting #Bargerveen en Radboud het erg goed uitlegt.
"De verhoogde #stikstof depositie is de basis van alle ellende: die verstoort de delicate balans tussen stikstof en fosfor in de bodem."
#stoichiometrie
www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/e...
10.10.2025 22:13 β
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Intensifying grassland management leads to massive loss of arthropod species. However, total arthropod numbers remain more or less stable. Many losers, few winners. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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Front cover of the European Butterfly Red List, showing Polyommatus humedasae. The report can be downloaded at https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=red-list-butterflies-2025
The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europeβs 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
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@europarl.europa.eu votes to scrap CAP green rules π¬
This move opens the door to harmful farming in protected areas
And yet ignores the root causes of farmersβ struggles ππ¨π½βπΎ
Read full reaction ππΌ www.wwf.eu?19513941/Eur...
08.10.2025 11:19 β
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