Industrialization changed Italy’s Bagnoli Bay. Analyzing the DNA that was trapped in sediment, known as sedaDNA, offers a record of what was lost—and a clue as to how to get it back.

Written by Sean Mowbray

#eDNA #DNA #sedaDNA #shiftingbaselines #BagnoliBay

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/peeling-back-the-sediment-layers/

After 30 years of unearthing tiny fish bones, zooarchaeologist Dimitra Mylona reveals the #MediterraneanSea’s lost bounty.

Written by Paul Greenberg.

#ShiftingBaselines #seafood #archaeology #Greece #MediterraneanDiet

https://hakaimagazine.com/features/unearthing-the-original-mediterranean-diet/

Hello #sciencemastodon, this is my #introduction. I am a conservation biologist working at the CNRS (based in Montpellier, France) interested in #protectedareas, #speciesextinction, #speciesrecovery, #birdmigration and #shiftingbaselines.

More info here: https://tinyurl.com/4ekkjtfj

Looking forward to interesting discussions & information sharing with this community.

Many thanks to all the people who are working behind the scenes to make/keep this a nice place for us all (inc @alxsim)