BIG NEWS - my big project I've been working on, is my new Pond Lab YouTube channel, which is now live!

Here is a clip of a Dragonfly nymph catching its Water Flea prey with its amazing mouthparts, from my new 10 Garden Pond Creatures video on the channel

#Pondwatch Royal Entomological Society

We have a new PhD opportunity at #Cawthron Institute in partnership with The University of Waikato 🎓 studying biodiversity and foodwebs using #eDNA in #Aotearoa New Zealand lakes: cawthron.elmotalent.co.nz/careers/career…
SIL Limnology The eDNA Collaborative GLEON ASLO SeDNAs environmental DNA COST Action CA15219

New in Science: Researchers have developed a model that can predict the decomposition rate of organic matter in rivers worldwide.

The global model estimates decomposition rates in rivers across vast understudied areas of Earth. scim.ag/7go

The Klamath River is experiencing an amazing transformation. The remaining 3 of 4 dams are coming down. This winter, Yurok crews hand planted 8.5 tons of native seeds in the former reservoirs. Now, an array of locally adapted wildflowers & grasses cover much of the clay soil.

This video will be really useful for my Rewilding Rivers course next semester #restoration

Wanna feel hopeful? Check out this 9 min doc on the rapid recovery of summer steelhead in the Elwah River after dam removal:

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Feeling a bit bummed out to be missing #2024SFS this year but in consolation I have a stack of marking to keep me company. Keep on keeping on SFSers, here's a river in New Zealand to represent from afar

Coevolution between interacting species is thought to increase biodiversity - and this study elucidates speciation dynamics in a coevolving system between host birds and their brood parasites science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Happy to be part of this new publication Science Magazine We use the #Celldex data to highlight human drivers of decomposition rates in rivers at a global scale. We also confirm that the assay used is a strong predictor of actual leaf decomposition #CSA science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

If you are interested in any of the following: aquatic-terrestrial linkages, food-webs, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and would like to develop your skills in Aotearoa New Zealand then get in contact!

Interesting study assessing the algal priming effect on invertebrate detritivores, but it would have been good to have an algae only treatment to see if fungi + algae enhances growth over single microbial functional types #biodiversity aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ln…

Today is #WorldFishMigrationDay ! 🐟 Over half of Aotearoa's native freshwater fish are migratory, which is unusually high. Eels and several other species migrate to the ocean to breed, whereas others breed in freshwater and then the juveniles head out to sea #fishpassage

It's #BiodiversityDay ! These Creek Chub and Common Shiners are providing the spawning conditions necessary for Endangered Redside Dace. We need species diversity and diversity (variation) within species (the stuff of natural selection) for healthy ecosystems.

Did you know > two-thirds of long rivers are no longer free-flowing, impacting biodiversity? Learn more about the importance of maintaining freshwater connectivity in #EnvironmentalReviews : ow.ly/MH5k50RG9zp

And in @forbes: ow.ly/EIzK50RG9z2

#BiodiversityDay

I missed this one in my Products of Evolution lectures - an experimental study on Bahamanian anoles provides strong support for eco-evolutionary dynamics in nature by closing a feedback loop involving lizards, vegetation, and #foodweb interactions
pnas.org/doi/full/10.10…

We advertising a funded PhD project The University of Waikato 🎓 but based in sunny Nelson Cawthron Institute as part of the wider #OLOF program

The project involves an excellent supervisory team and will focus on integrating eDNA with #foodweb ecology

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This new paper in Trends in Ecology & Evolution captures the zeitgeist for #BiodiversityDay Trophic rewilding may provide benefits to #biodiversity under novel biosphere conditions in a human-dominated world #restoration
cell.com/current-biolog…

Got to love the sound of running water

Nice photo of Lake Taupō with Tokaanu Village in the foreground