Grow #NativePlants & #WildFlowers because they provide the best food source for invertebrates, which are the foundation of the #garden #FoodWeb #ecosystem

Use online references to *get to know* these little critters. For example, Ragwort (Jacobea vulgaris) is a food plant for the moth Autographa pulchrina.

This is the UK Database of Insects and their Food Plants:
http://dbif.brc.ac.uk/hosts.aspx

‘What Are We Willing To Sacrifice?’ A Journey Down America’s Most Endangered River [Colorado]
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/09/colorado-river-endangered-climate-crisis-tour <-- shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #USA #USWest #colorado #coloradoriver #watermanagement #waterresources #climatechange #ecosystems #climatecrisis #GlenCanyonDam #waterrights #ecosystems #changes #model #modeling #environment #sustainable #sustainability #dam #LeesFerry #biology #hydrology #geology #endangered #archaeology #ecology #anthropogenic #resource #wilderness #FirstNation #foodweb #research #science #interconnectedness #culture #cultural #USGS #watersecurity
@usgs

New NIOO publication: Connecting lakes: Modeling flows and interactions of #organisms and matter throughout the #waterscape. #watermanagement #waterquality #freshwaterlake #foodweb #eutrophication #sustainablewateruse
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105765

New NIOO publication: Timing matters: Sampling frequency for early-warning indicators across food web components in a virtual lake. #criticaltransition #ecosystemmodel #pclake #regimeshift #lake #foodweb

New NIOO publication: How sharp is the knife? Herbivore and carnivore sensitivity to resource stoichiometric quality. #stoichiometry #foodweb #knifeedgehypothesis #homeostasis
https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09898

Just a reminder that today we will be hosting Ferenc Jordan from the University of Parma, who will be giving a super interesting talk titled: "Food web aggregation: mathematics or biology".
📆30 May | 🕑14h (UTC+1) | 🌐Zoom https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/99937264705
#Ecology #Biodiversity #EcologicalNetwork #FoodWeb #TheoreticalEcology #EcologicalModeling #webinar

https://www.med.uevora.pt/pt/mai-30-2023/

Great #BEM2023 talk from @wilkes_lexi shows #ecosystemServices are more vulnerable to species loss than food webs - and we see this best using climate vulnerability than traditional explorations of #foodweb robustness.

Happy #EarthDay! To celebrate, here’s our video about the Food Web, and how it’s a better model for ecosystems than the food chain. We made it for our friend the @RvingNaturalist’s channel, and she has a lot more videos there about nature and ecology that you should check out! https://youtu.be/OxKvcA4NpaQ

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #FoodWeb #FoodChain

The #alga #Melosiraarctica, which grows under #ArcticSea ice, contains ten times as many #microplastic particles as the surrounding #seawater. This concentration at the base of the #foodweb poses a threat to creatures that feed on the algae at the sea surface. Clumps of #deadalgae also transport the #plastic with its #pollutants particularly quickly into the #dee sea & explains high #microplastic #concentrations in the #sediment there. https://phys.org/news/2023-04-arctic-ice-algae-heavily-contaminated.html

LT: il y a un faucon qui semble avoir repéré le lapinou #foodweb

El Niño Watch Has Been Issued By NOAA, With Large-Scale Atmospheric And Oceanic Changes Now Being Detected As We Head For The Next ENSO Phase
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https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/el-nino-watch-noaa-forecast-seasonal-weather-impact-summer-winter-united-states-canada-europe-fa/ <-- shared article
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El Niño Watch Issued By NOAA's Climate Prediction Center
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/el-nino-watch-issued-noaa-climate-prediction-weather/ <-- shared media article
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El Niño Disrupts the Marine Food Web
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https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/86895/el-nino-disrupts-the-marine-food-web <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #model #modeling #global #marine #extremeweather #elnino #elniño #ecosystems #remotesensing #climate #climateprediction #weather #climaterisk ##ElNinoWatch #ecosystem #currents #cooling #warming #water #thermocline #nutrients #foodsupply #foodweb #MODIS #drought #hurricanes #SouthernOscillation
NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration | NOAA National Ocean Service | NOAA Fisheries##

RT @AntonCollembola
Interested in #soil #foodweb? If you're from the EU/a neighbouring country, get in touch with me. We can pay for a short visit to our group to work together on data mobilization on feeding preferences of soil fauna. @EUdaphobase @theGSBI

New NIOO publication: Restoring gradual land-water transitions in a shallow lake improved #phytoplankton quantity and quality with cascading effects on #zooplankton production. #MarkerWadden #foodweb
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.119915

RT @Pablo_M_Lucas
1⃣ NEW PREPRINT OUT!🚨 🐻We tested whether including biotic interactions in #SDM improved our understanding of the species niche (RQ1).We used the #brownbear in Europe as a study case. #foodweb #biogeography #climatechange #globalchange #conservation #mammals #carnivore #Bears

Another news story about #salmon in British Columbia, this time about endangered southern resident #KillerWhales. Their preferred prey are the lipid-rich spring Chinook from the Fraser River, which have very low populations right now. The whales have to eat more, less-fatty fall Chinook, which does not help either population to recover. Ocean warming and #FoodWeb changes can also affect fatty acid content in salmon.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/killer-whale-diet-1.6758658?cmp=rss

"Weather-related disruption has caused supply shortages of vegetables from places including Spain and North Africa.". https://theconversation.com/why-supermarkets-are-rationing-food-and-how-to-prevent-future-shortages-200557

Humans can't eat fossil fuels & wood fuels.

I must of wrote this type of post thousands of times - human actions are causing a 'creeping' ecological catastrophe. Every day humans burn Carbon based fuels, is another day that is degrading the planet's life support systems.

Further more, because those actions are related to money - humanity, in general, is biased about the subject. On average, Humans tend to not want to accept inconvenient or hard truths. For example, many humans beliefs are not based on any experimental evidence. They believe incorrect "truths" about themselves & their 'world view'. For instance, how many humans have even considered studying the science of ecology. And yet, humans exist in an ecosystem.

How much politics, economics or religion is there in, for example, a ecology text book? At most, it may have a section about how ecology provides 'ecosystem services'.

Approximately, fifty years ago, scientists started warning cultures about the dangers of emitting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere (causing Global heating). Humanity, though not in general, has been aware about the diseases caused by air pollution for longer (e.g., "smokey Victorian London in the 1800s)

However, the fuel industries are deceiving criminals that are still making "record profits". That's money in the wrong 'hands'.

Money in the right hands can be used to invest in a sustainable culture (including agriculture).

But, evidently, too many industries are being managed by greed based crazy despot mentalities.

Animals can't eat money. Humans can't eat money. Wildlife can't eat money. But, many humans develop money based ideologies. That shape their sociopolitical & economic agenda's.

#science #news #ecology #FoodWeb #FossilFuels #AirPollution #ClimateChange #prediction #FoodCrisis

#ConservationBiology #agroecology #renewables #CleanAir #sustainability

Hey, #foodweb / #ecology #networks people, me and @tpoisot are organising a 📡 half-day at this year @netscisociety meeting

Attention #Florida - especially folks in the #TampaBay region! The #StPeteScienceFest is on Saturday Feb 18. Several #USFCMS labs will be there with cool activities for the whole #family to enjoy. Our lab is preparing our #seagrass #foodweb maze and activity and we can’t wait to share! #science #outreach

RT @OBuzhdygan
Come work with us! We have a #PhD position opening at @tietjenlab @FU_Berlin & @BExplo_research on the #forest management effects on #foodweb structure and #functioning of #multitrophic #freshwater #communities. Apply to oksana.buzh@fu-berlin.de

> This argument blithely obscures the fact that most natural chlorine found in the environment is inertly bound up as salt. The chemical industry invests huge amounts of energy to split #salt molecules to produce caustic soda and highly reactive chlorine gas, most of which is directed to form downstream products called #organochlorines (carbon-bonded chlorine compounds). Nearly all organochlorines are #toxic, persistent or liable to #bioaccumulate in the #FoodWeb once..[in] the environment.