🚨New paper alert🚨
So thrilled that the last paper from my PhD is now published in Journal of Applied Ecology.
Title: “Land-use intensity and relatedness to native plants promote exotic plant invasion in a tropical biodiversity hotspot”

Full paper #OA 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

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En nuestra reciente publicación documentamos fitolitos producidos por plantas nativas y endémicas de las Islas Canarias para su uso en estudios de arqueobotánica y paleoecología :) 🌿 #Archaeology #Palaeoecology link.springer.com/article/10.100……
AMBI Lab
Fernández-Palacios Lab
Cienci@ULL

'Some 80% of biodiversity is currently stewarded on Indigenous lands, Dr. Jacquelyn Gill points out. “Which should tell you [that] it’s not the presence of people that’s the problem[.] The solution [...] is changing the way that many dominant cultures relate to the natural world”'

In the past month, 4 new records from the Indo-Pacific region have been uploaded to Neotoma, total for 2024 is 10. The total number of sites is now 107. To add your records to this growing list, contact me or another Neotoma steward.
AQUA
ANU CHL
CABAH
Neotoma Database

Another great multidisciplinary study from the #Azores led by Simon Connor is out! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Feeling grateful for the opportunity to be part of this work from a rather stunning place!

Exciting opportunity! UiT Norges arktiske universitet is recruiting a PhD fellow (4-years) in plant ecology and evolution 🍃🧬 #AncientDNA #ArcticGreening #ClimateChange #Palaeoecology #SedDNA
jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Come and do a PhD on the history of fire regimes in Britain with Mark Hardiman and I! Deadline 19th January for October start port.ac.uk/study/postgrad… SEGG, University of Portsmouth University of Portsmouth

Cold weather continues across parts of northern Europe with both Finland and Sweden provisionally recording their lowest temperatures this century ❄️

Merry Xmas & Happy New Year #palynology #pollen #botany #palaeobotany
Glad to share a paper on #Parrotia :doi.org/10.1016/j.revp… Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology Benjamin Adroit 🍃 Pepe Carrión Jen O'Keefe Dr S. Yoshi Maezumi Huasheng Huang 黄华生 Rebecca Hamilton Dr Emma Rehn Nichola Strandberg Henk Brinkhuis Lydia Mackenzie @lydiamackenzie.bsky.social

The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price.
My column on a modern-day Scrooge
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I am happy to announce that 100 sites from the Indo-Pacific pollen database are now live on Neotoma! Site number 100 was core KG951VC1 (catchy), taken off the Queensland coast. Neotoma Database ANU CHL CABAH AQUA

I am extremely proud of this collaborative project from the sedaDNA scientific society: a book about sedaDNA scientific society from 50 scientists. Please RT and (ask your PI to) buy it ^^ link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

📌New paper alert!
We found that up to 1400 bird species have been lost, doubling current estimates. 🦤☠️Our research reveal the largest vertebrate extinction event in history caused by people.

I'm hiring: 2 yr Natural Environment Research Council postdoc investigating global flood hazard as part of the NERC_EvoFLOOD team based University of Southampton. Advert: jobs.soton.ac.uk/2562023WR Apply by 16th Jan 2024.