They're ripping this out and replacing it with concrete and weeds (exotics). Disgraceful act of shoddy ignorant urban design. #urbanecology #urbanwetlands #poorplanning

@academicchatter

Vera is going to the GFÖ conference in Leipzig next week. Check out her session on Green infrastructure for biodiverse and healthy cities if you are attending.

#gfö2023 #urbanEcology

If you are attending #gfö23 , consider

Session 64 Green infrastructure for biodiverse and healthy cities

on the relation among biophysical properties, social characteristics, and social landscapes.

More details:
https://gfoe-conference.de/index.php?cat=sessions

#urbanEcology

Ten days and counting until this fantastic conference kicks off in Meanjin / Brisbane and online!

Are you interested in how we can survive and thrive together as all the shit starts hitting all the fans?

Interested in how we feed ourselves? How we make decisions? How we don’t be racist? How we design for people not cars, and for heat and affordability and liveability together?

Come along!

#democracy #urbanism #UrbanAgriculture #UrbanEcology #PoliticalEcology #Greens #Decolonisation #transport #climate

https://www.greeninstitute.org.au/events/green-institute-conference-2023/

Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find

"Birds have never shied away from turning human rubbish into nesting materials, but even experts in the field have raised an eyebrow at the latest handiwork to emerge from urban crows and magpies.

Nests recovered from trees in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and Antwerp in Belgium were found to be constructed almost entirely from strips of long metal spikes that are often attached to buildings to deter birds from setting up home on the structures."

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/11/crows-and-magpies-show-their-metal-by-using-anti-bird-spikes-to-build-nests

#birds #adaptation #corvids #urbanecology

Glorious all the way down (the paper itself, research team, underlying #urbanecology #curatorial work, rebellious birds, the nests...). That the whole process transforms the ugly stuff of hostile architecture into beauty is just wonderful! https://twitter.com/AukeFlorian/status/1678703433900064773?t=LXWsm-EGzgY9u_3fhy-btg&s=19

🌳 Please join us for Part 2 w/FRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST. Link in bio and available on all the podcast apps.

Topics include:

* “green gentrification”
* FUF’s community outreach
* IDing where to plant trees
* trees’ ability to fight climate change effects
* how you can get involved

📸 Jeff Hunt

#trees #treeplanting #urbancanopy #ClimateChange #environmentalism #environmentaljustice #health #climate #ecology #UrbanEcology #nonprofits #BIPOC #WOC #storytelling #SoundsofTheCity

Raccoon Greetings for National High Five Day! This is a portrait of a former neighbour who showed up at my back door like this, to enquire as to where I had moved the compost bin. So I took his photo and made a print.

Toronto belongs to the raccoons. They just let us live here because we have food.

#Raccoon 🦝 #linocut #printmaking #HighFive #typography #urbanEcology #wildlife #Toronto

Years of playing ZooTycoon and Age of Empires trained me for work in GIS and urban ecology. #gis #spatialecology #urbanecology

🚨 New paper! What happens to #TreeCavity availability over time in #urban habitats? We went to #forest #park & #residential sites 7 yrs apart to collect data and find out. Led by MS student David Hohl. #UrbanEcology 🌳 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1618866723000973

For those who live in urban areas in continental North America, and probably valid for many other urban areas worldwide, birds are still our most accessible wildlife. I started recording briefly on my Merlin Bird app this spring morning, and it picked up eight species! Live very close to a large water body, which may explain the Heron (flying by).

#birding #birds #urbanwildlife #urbanecology #merlinbirdapp #carync #ncbirds

How light pollution disrupts plants' senses.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230308-how-light-pollution-disrupts-plants-senses

#Ecosystems #LightPollution #UrbanEcology #Plants #Pollinators

@evoldir

Tagging @jobsecoevo so that this #PhD #Graduate position in #UrbanEcology is in #Switzerland is boosted to the group's followers.

https://evoldir.tumblr.com/post/711022174129078272/fwd-graduate-position-switzerlandurbanevolution

Recommendation: follow @evoldir for more job adverts!

#AcademicJobs #job #Ecology

Plant and animal species that adapt quickly to city life are more likely to survive
#Manitoba #Winnipeg #Environment #Tech #Cities #Urban #Ecology #Plants #Animals #Coyotes #redSquirrels #UrbanEcology #UrbanNature
https://the-14.com/plant-and-animal-species-that-adapt-quickly-to-city-life-are-more-likely-to-survive/

22-Feb-2023
Climate change, urbanization drive major declines in L.A.’s birds

A new study uses current and historical bird surveys to reveal how land use change has amplified — and in some cases mitigated — the impacts of climate change on birds in Los Angeles and the Central Valley

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980305 #science #ecology #UrbanEcology #cities #ClimateChange

23-Feb-2023
Urban ponds require attention to ensure biodiversity https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980674 #ecology #UrbanEcology #cities #freshwater #science #biodiversity

The lesser of two evils. Under high risk of brood parasitism by common cuckoos, redstarts actively seek nest location in the vicinity of human.

#Science #Biology #AnimalBehaviour #Ethology #UrbanEcology #Bird #Cuckoo #Redstart

📄 Zhang et al (2023) Brood parasitism risk drives birds to breed near humans. Current Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.047

I thought that these were some sort of pipe, but upon closer inspection it was actually strangling fig roots growing through the gaps of tiles. The straight and right angled growth patterns caused by the interaction between plant and paving are really interesting. #urbanFicus #urbanEcology

Hello again everyone. I just moved instances so this is my reintroduction.

I'm trained as an entomologist and ecologist with some interests in statistical #ecology and #taxonomy.

Although these days I find myself working more with #UrbanEcology and #SciComm, with some projects looking at the relationship between Malaysian food, art and biodiversity, as well as some ongoing #CitizenSci initiatives to study urban fireflies.

Milwaukee's hottest club is Winterfest at the Washington Park #UrbanEcology Center. This place has everything.