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🌱 Help secure the future of the Biodiversity Heritage Library! 🙏
Your donation will keep biodiversity knowledge open, connected, and growing, and fund the dedicated staff who make it all possible. 📖 👩‍💻 🌱 🌏 🧪
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An historic illustration of of two brown stripy butterflies and a caterpillar on a plant with white flowers.
October 18, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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BHL's future is uncertain, but hopeful. Securing its future requires new partners & sustained investment. For more information, follow along here & on the #BHLblog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. Help us safeguard the world’s collective biodiversity knowledge. #ILoveBHL 🧪 📖 🌱 🌏
September 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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🌿New metric alert! Ever heard of forest ecosystem distance diversity?
A smart way to quantify forest biodiversity even in early succession stages 🌲
💡Better structure = richer biodiversity = healthier forests!
Dive in: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Biodiversity #Forestry #Sustainability
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Research on the distance diversity of forest ecosystems based on the uniformity theory - Journal of Forestry Research
Biodiversity has always been valued by ecology, Diversity is generally believed to lead to stability, and biodiversity is an important condition for ecosystems to maintain health. So what factors are ...
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August 13, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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🐘 This #WorldElephantDay, we celebrate elephants as keystone species, architects of healthy forests.
From seed dispersal to shaping vegetation, they sustain biodiversity. 🌱
📖 Explore more in the Journal of Forestry Research: link.springer.com/journal/11676

#Elephants #Biodiversity #JFR
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August 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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🌱 We honor & celebrate the roles #Indigenous Peoples & local communities play in #biodiversity conservation, restoration & sustainable use.

#IndigenousPeoplesDay 🌏🧪
An infographic featuring Aboriginal art with three extracts from the IPBES Values Assessment and Transformative Change Assessment highlighting the value of Indigenous knowledge.
August 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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This #TigerDay we echo 2025’s theme "Ensuring a Future for Tigers."
With less than 5,000 left in the wild, saving their forest homes is urgent. Forests aren't just tiger territory they’re biodiversity hubs.

📚Learn more: link.springer.com/journal/11676

#Forestryresearch #ForestForTigers

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July 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
ipbes.net
Together with the other nexus elements of health, food and climate, #biodiversity & water are closely & inextricably linked.💧🌱🌏🧪

Read more about this and response options in the @ipbes.net #NexusAssessment: https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment
"FACTS ABOUT WATER" "Biodiversity loss reduces water availability." "Unsustainable freshwater withdrawal, wetland degradation and forest loss have decreased water quality and climate change resilience" "At least 50 diseases are attributable to poor water supply, water quality and sanitation." "Wetlands and inland water bodies cover just 2.6 per cent of the terrestrial Earth surface but play a significant role in water regulation and climate change mitigation."
July 29, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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July 26 is #MangrovesDay 🌱🌊🌏
Since 1970, global mangrove cover has shrunk by ~38%. These ecosystems store carbon, support unique biodiversity, and protect coasts. Restoration and conservation are vital.
🔗 All IPBES Assessments: https://www.ipbes.net/assessing-knowledge🧪
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July 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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BHL contains the foundation of our understanding of biodiversity. 🌱 🌏 🦎 📖 🪱 🧪 🦉 There are countless researchers, educators, policy makers, fields, institutions, databases & species that rely on BHL. Please share our Call for Support as widely as you can: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/06/tran...
June 16, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Communal deciduous oak dehesas, once vital agrosilvopastoral systems, are biodiversity hotspots for old-growth species. Now largely unprotected and abandoned, they urgently need recognition to meet EU biodiversity goals.
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New paper out:
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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June 12, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Contrasting impacts of nitrogen enrichment on soil nematode diversity in natural and managed ecosystems 🌱🧪

Understanding the mechanisms is critical for enhancing the ecological resilience of soil food webs and sustaining soil biodiversity 📊🌏

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
June 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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How do wildfires reshape soil biodiversity and chemistry? 🌱🔥
Published in JFR, this study explores the complex impacts of the 2021 Aspromonte fire on soil microbes, enzymes, & nutrient dynamics.

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Read more:
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#SoilScience #WildfireEcology #Forestry
Research Highlights: - Wildfire increased soil pH and phenol levels, while reducing nitrogen and fungi. - Bacteria and actinomycetes thrived in burned soils, but fungi were heat-sensitive. - Catalase activity increased after the fire, reflecting microbial stress responses.
June 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Keynote presentation for the 2025 Rhododendron Research Network Convention

Shweta Basnett
Marie Curie Fellow
Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Rhododendrons and its association with Climate and Pollinators

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#botany
#pollinators
#plantscience
Shweta Basnett - Naturalis Biodiversity Center - Rhododendrons, Climate and Pollinators
YouTube video by Rhododendron Research Network
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June 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Life at the (h)edge—Multidiversity in shrub ecotones is driven by habitat quality & shrub foliage cover 🌱🌏

To maximise biodiversity benefits across taxa, recommends managing shrub ecotones at the landscape scale, maintaining a mosaic of open & half-open shrub ecotones 📈🧪

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
May 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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🌏 This year's BHL Annual Meeting was unlike any before – pivoting from celebration to urgent action after news of BHL’s transition. Catch up on the highlights & #BHLDay2025 in our latest blog post: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/05/refl... #Biodiversity #OpenAccess #Berlin #ILoveBHL 🌱 📚 🔗🧪
Reflecting on the 2025 BHL Annual Meeting in Berlin
From April 7–11, 2025, the global Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) community gathered at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin for the BHL Annual Meeting. Hosted at one of Europe’s premier natural…
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May 23, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Don’t miss your chance to see this award winning film on biodiversity loss and how each one of us can make a difference

We’ll be screening May 29th during the Rhododendron Research Convention

Oh and Great talks too on Rhododendron and all their dimensions of biodiversity

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heyrhododendron.bsky.social Rhododendron Research @heyrhododendron.bsky.social · May 19
Pushed up the Mountain

A poetic and emotionally intimate film about plants and the people who care for them.

Just confirmed!
We’ll be screening this amazing film at our upcoming convention!

Registration is FREE!

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Pushed up the Mountain - Trailer
YouTube video by Pushed up the Mountain - film
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May 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Rhododendron Research Network
Virtual International Convention
May 29-30 2025

Rockin' Around the Clock
Visit the world's major Rhododendron biodiversity regions

Physiology, horticulture, ecology, evolution, conservation

For a general audience

Registration
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Convention Logo for "Rhododendron Research Network Rockin' Around the Clock May 29th-30th, 2025". The image shows a black and white clock with colorful Rhododendron flowers at 12, 3, 6 and 9 representing the major clades of Rhododendron. At twelve we see a large elepidote truss with 8 hot pink flowers and dark red flare, at 3 we see a vireya truss, four yellow tubular flowers with a flared orange throat. At 6 we have a pentanthera, or deciduous azalea truss, two large star-shaped red-orange flowers, behind them are the unopened flowers which are shaped like a claw pointing toward the sky. Last at 9 is the Rhododendron clade, or Lepidotes. Five large Star shaped flowers with lavender petals and hot pink sitgma and stamen
May 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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2025 Rhododendron Virtual Convention
WEST ASIA SESSION
May 30th 9-11am EDT

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
DR. SHWETA BASNETT
@shwetabasnett.bsky.social
Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Rhododendron and its association with climate and pollinators

Register at medeiroslab.com/2025-virtual...

#PlantBiology 🌏🧪🌱🍁🌺🌐
Dr Shweta Basnett wears a field hat and stands in a shady forest next to a Rhododendron 3x her height, with large leaves and white trusses Stripe-throated yuhina pollinating Rhododendron grand in Sikkim region of India. The bird has pollen all over its cute little face. From: Ecosystem services provision by Rhododendron forests in the Sikkim Himalaya, Journal of the American Rhododendron Society 2024. Sukumol and Basnett. Photo credit Shweta Basnett Bumblebee sp pollinating a bright purple Rhododendron setosum. From: Ecosystem services provision by Rhododendron forests in the Sikkim Himalaya, Journal of the American Rhododendron Society 2024. Sukumol and Basnett. Photo credit Suryamol Sukumaran Swollowtail Butterfly pollinating orange-yellow Rhododendron calendulaceum, a native species of Eastern North America.
April 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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#remotesensing #gis #conservationscience #conservation #wildlife #EcoRestore #GenerationRestoration #biodiversity 🌏🌐🧪#🌱
March 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Natural regeneration in Australian forests (e.g., eucalypt woodlands) boosts biodiversity, but monoculture bias limits multi-trophic recovery. Soil health—key to ecosystem function—needs focus, alongside clear metrics, monitoring, & funding to tackle fragmentation and megafires
#AusEcology #soil 🧪🌱🌏
March 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Biodiversity offsets risk being a license to destroy without strong regulation, transparency & robust science. Ecosystems take decades+ to recover. Poor monitoring means losses aren’t compensated. Like carbon offsets, without accountability, they risk greenwashing 🧪🌏🌱

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Biodiversity offsets, their effectiveness and their role in a nature positive future - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Biodiversity offsets, applied as part of the mitigation hierarchy, aim to ensure that ‘no net loss’ of biodiversity occurs as a result of human development projects and activities. This Review explore...
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March 1, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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This looks good (pity I can only get the abstract) AI has the potential to bridge critical knowledge gaps in many fields of science. By integrating complex data types, AI could unlock insights from genes to soils to ecosystems, helping meet 2030 biodiversity and SDG targets. 🧪🌏🌱
February 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Hi Bsky! Figured I should introduce myself here:

I am an atmospheric scientist, currently wrapping up my PhD in Environmental Health & Engineering.

I’m generally interested in:
Climate change 🔥🌊
Earth science 🌍🌏🌎
Atmospheric chemistry 🧪🛰️
Carbon cycle ♻️
Biodiversity & agriculture 🌾
Sustainability 🌱
February 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
jappliedecology.bsky.social
Cacao grafting increases crop yield without compromising biodiversity 🌱🌏 🧪

Suggests cacao grafting is able to
👉rejuvenate old, unproductive cacao trees
👉enhance smallholder income opportunities
👉reduce pressure for new deforestation-based plantations

🔗 https://buff.ly/40SKmev
February 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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This study finds that genetic diversity is declining globally, impacting 628 species.

Key threats—land use change, disease, and exploitation—which also harm soil, reducing its biodiversity and resilience.

Protecting ecosystems above and below ground is crucial for a sustainable future.

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natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jan 30
Genetic diversity has declined within two-thirds of more than 600 species over the past three decades, according to research published in Nature. The findings highlight the need for conservation efforts to prevent genetic diversity loss. https://go.nature.com/42EpVo5 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows a summary of the systematic review dataset.
January 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM