An #ethical #assessment of the use of old and new #methods to study #sociality in #wild #animals

#OpenAccess
@MethodsEcolEvol

"Review of the current trends in field animal #behaviour #research, with a focus on studies on sociality, and investigation of the forms under which such practices can impact animals, with a particular focus on the notions of #disturbance and #invasiveness."

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.13988

It's there,
right there!
Just a moment...
not again!
I can feel it,
that itch,
all over my skin.
That great #disturbance !
It seethes out from within —
impossible to pinpoint
once it begins!
It's there...
please, please!
Get it if you can!

Ahh... sweet relief,
until it comes again.

#MastoPrompt #SmallPoems #poetry

pebble in the pond
causing disturbance
for a minute

#MastoPrompt - #disturbance
#haiku
#poem
#SmallPoems
#poetry
#PoetryCommunity
#writing
#WritingCommunity

@tanweerdar

@poetry

#disturbance
The neighbours were at it again.
She closed the windows, a little too hard. Quite loudly, actually.
Sighed to the temperature in the livingroom, thought about getting in the car as so many times before.
But it had been a bad night, the pain was still distracting, she was dizzy, and she could not quite remember if she took both medications the night before.
She probably shouldn't drive.
She was trapped in their noise.

#MastoPrompt
Saturday 15thJuly2023
#MicroFiction #SmallStories

Drones are disturbing critically endangered shorebirds.
Yet another threat to shorebirds along the coastline - habitat destruction, dogs and boats

"Drone disturbance can interrupt birds as they rest or feed. It can even cause them to avoid some locations altogether. This is particularly concerning for species such as the eastern curlew, which migrate thousands of kilometres to breed."

'Regulating drone use near critical shorebird habitats will help us to avoid exacerbating population declines, while still allowing the use of a valuable tool, where appropriate."

https://theconversation.com/drones-are-disturbing-critically-endangered-shorebirds-in-moreton-bay-creating-a-domino-effect-209391
#endangered #shorebirds #conservation #harm #disturbance #Birds #Drones #gadgets #technosphere #sky

#Bats in disrupted #ecosystems are more infected with #coronaviruses, reveals study.

#landuse #disturbance

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-disrupted-ecosystems-infected-coronaviruses-reveals.html

@seanreiser #OMG #TomBaker I have not felt such a #disturbance in the #force since this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiRjmD9h-YY #ChristopherLee

Nice illustration of disturbance - several hundred Brent geese were sat on a small island on the lake and not bothered by cars or people, until a dog went past. They settled back down again quickly however
#ornithology #disturbanceecology #disturbance

AUTOSAURUS REX (2022)
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/autosaurusrex

"Among the different species that inhabit our planet, one stands out from the others by its power and its impact on ecosystems. It is the Autosaurus Rex!"

#cars #pollution #territory #disturbance #bike

I spotted this, and was impressed that the #Swiss #Police are familiar with the phases of #sleep.

#Zug #disturbance #noise

RT @frank_burdon
We need to prioritize the human costs first, but these floods will also test the resilience of stream ecosystems and the biota that inhabit them #disturbance https://twitter.com/Pakeha_G/status/1625820851756220425

People often interpret Ashby’s Law (after W. Ross Ashby) as if the system’s internal states must have the same level of variety as its environment in order to survive, which implies that the system should be able to respond (react) to every little disturbance from the environment.

This is not completely true because, on the lowest, #regulation, level, the system blocks #variety from an (environmental) #disturbance reaching the (internal, system protected) #EssentialVariables in two ways:

1️⃣ #Passive isolation (sheltering) from most environmental disturbances, and

2️⃣ #Active reaction to (parring with) the remaining disturbance that managed to break through this passive protection.

from “Intro to #Cybernetics”
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html

On the road: #Anthropogenic factors drive the #invasion #risk of a #wild #solitary #bee species https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154246 #IMBEpapers #InvasivePollinator
#SpeciesDistributionModelling
#Disturbance #Megachile #sculpturalis

RT @Oikos_Journal@twitter.com

Fine root traits of herbs differ according to plant longevity and belowground nonacquisitive organs

https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08794
@WileyEcolEvol@twitter.com @NordicOikos@twitter.com @Jitka_Klimesova@twitter.com #SIRoots #ecology #productivity #gradient #rhizomes #clonal #species #disturbance

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Oikos_Journal/status/1619697215387189248

RT @WSL_research
📗 #Textbook "Disturbance Ecology" available in English! WSL researcher Thomas Wohlgemuth, Anke Jentsch of @unibt and Rupert Seidl of @TU_Muenchen provide an overview of the state of knowledge in #disturbance #ecology: http://wsl.ch/en/newsseiten/2023/01/textbook-disturbance-ecology-now-available-in-english.html @RupertSeidl @DisturbanceEco1

A quotation from King, Martin Luther:

«««««
True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/king-martin-luther/2287/

#quote #quotes #quotation #calm #disturbance #justice #passivity #peace #quiet #stress #tension

According to #WRAshby, #Regulation is blocking the flow of #Variety from the (environmental) #Disturbance to the (internal, #System protected) #EssentialVariable. There are two primary forms of blocking the effect of the disturbance on the system:
1️⃣ Passive (by sheltering from), and
2️⃣ Active (on par with)
From:
W. Ross Ashby (1956) - An Introduction to Cybernetics, (Chapman & Hall, London) - available electronically from:
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html

RT @efiresilience@twitter.com

The #disturbance #database represents an invaluable resource for assessing #forest disturbance dynamics & impacts on a European scale and will be very useful for developing scenarios.
🌳🔎Read the I-Maestro #PolicyBrief ➡ http://bit.ly/3PnMK6Q

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/efiresilience/status/1605478647418101760

@leahstokes Greetings! I work at CARB, #modeling #FireEmissions, and generating #Geospatial estimates of #EcosystemCarbon stocks and stock-change with #Disturbance attribution.

The 2022 NOAA #ArcticReportCard is out (https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2022) with important new information, including a change in the pan-Arctic #greening signal from the last two reports. Specifically that the #satellite greening trend has declined likely due to a changing #disturbance regime in the Siberian #Arctic, as well as an overall increase in the frequency of disturbances across the pan Arctic region. You can find the #tundra greeness chapter here https://arctic.noaa.gov/Report-Card/Report-Card-2022/ArtMID/8054/ArticleID/986/Tundra-Greenness