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This comes off the back of a paper I wrote with two colleagues a few years ago on the slightly bigger topic of using extinct flying vertebrates as models for aircraft design: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Volant Fossil Vertebrates: Potential for Bioinspired Flight Technology
Animal flight is ecologically important and has a long evolutionary history. It has
evolved independently in many distantly related clades of animals. Powered flight
has evolved only three times in ve...
www.cell.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This comes off the back of a paper I wrote with two colleagues a few years ago on the slightly bigger topic of using extinct flying vertebrates as models for aircraft design: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Reposted by Queen Mary School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences
Key insights:
‣ Only 1% of known insect species have reliable population data.
‣ 20% of assessed species are classified as threatened (IUCN).
‣ Most monitoring focuses on Europe and North America, leaving huge gaps in Africa & South America.
#Biodiversity #Conservation
‣ Only 1% of known insect species have reliable population data.
‣ 20% of assessed species are classified as threatened (IUCN).
‣ Most monitoring focuses on Europe and North America, leaving huge gaps in Africa & South America.
#Biodiversity #Conservation
Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change
Insects dominate animal species diversity yet face many threats from anthropogenic drivers of change. Many features of insect ecology make them a challenging group, and the fragmented state of knowled...
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Key insights:
‣ Only 1% of known insect species have reliable population data.
‣ 20% of assessed species are classified as threatened (IUCN).
‣ Most monitoring focuses on Europe and North America, leaving huge gaps in Africa & South America.
#Biodiversity #Conservation
‣ Only 1% of known insect species have reliable population data.
‣ 20% of assessed species are classified as threatened (IUCN).
‣ Most monitoring focuses on Europe and North America, leaving huge gaps in Africa & South America.
#Biodiversity #Conservation