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Cutting-edge #EnvironmentalScience research, explained. #scicomm

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¿Haz visto tiburones desde el cielo? #cienciaambiental #cienciaciudadana #drones #tiburones Artículo escrito por: Cypress Novick, y traducido por: @andreavalcar envirobites.org/2023/05/15/h…
¿Haz visto tiburones desde el cielo?

¿Haz visto tiburones desde el cielo?

La grabación de fauna silvestre con drones fomenta la colaboración entre investigadores y aficionados de los vehiculos remotamente operados y la fotografía.

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When Pests Infest - A new tool for identifying at-risk forests #forests #insects #outbreaks #pathogens Written by: @BrandiPessman envirobites.org/2023/04/14/w…
When Pests Infest – A new tool for identifying at-risk forests

When Pests Infest – A new tool for identifying at-risk forests

Forests globally are facing threats from insect and pathogen outbreaks. In this battle, drought and unsustainable logging have weakened forests, making them more vulnerable to attacks by insects an…

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Do Mangoes Like It Hot? Climate Change And Your Favorite Fruit @BeboutJulia #agriculture #plantbiology #tropical envirobites.org/2023/03/07/d…
Do Mangoes Like It Hot? Climate Change And Your Favorite Fruit

Do Mangoes Like It Hot? Climate Change And Your Favorite Fruit

Can your favorite fruits and vegetables survive the effects of climate change? Scientists are finding creative solutions to this problem.

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Not All Forestry Is Equal: How High Retention Logging Might Protect the Understory by @BeboutJulia #forestecology envirobites.org/2023/02/07/n…
Not All Forestry Is Equal: How High Retention Logging Might Protect the Understory

Not All Forestry Is Equal: How High Retention Logging Might Protect the Understory

Retention logging is the practice of harvesting trees while leaving some fraction of the forest in place. Studies have shown that this type of logging speeds forest recovery and maintains forest ha…

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Treating Old Forests with New Tricks #ecosystemhealth #forestmanagment #logging #Old-GrowthForests #soilmanagement envirobites.org/2023/02/02/t…
Treating Old Forests with New Tricks

Treating Old Forests with New Tricks

Research directs how we can protect the recovery of the few remaining old-growth forests from the ground up.

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Springtails stick the landing as the world’s tiniest acrobats #aerodynamics #arthropods #locomotion #springtails By: @BrandiPessman envirobites.org/2023/01/14/s…
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White, Woolly, and Worrisome: Detecting the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid with eDNA #EnvironmentalDNA(eDNA) #forests #insects envirobites.org/2023/01/03/w…

White, Woolly, and Worrisome: Detecting the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid with eDNA

Original article: Kirtane, A., Dietschler, N.J., Bittner, T.D., Lefebvre, M.B., Celis, S., O’Connor, K., Havill, N. and Whitmore, M.C., 2022. Sensitive environmental DNA (eDNA) methods to det…

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Citizen-Scientists Share Sky-High Shark Scenes envirobites.org/2023/01/02/c…
Citizen-Scientists Share Sky-High Shark Scenes

Citizen-Scientists Share Sky-High Shark Scenes

Drone footage of wildlife promotes collaboration between researchers and hobbyists

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Envirobites en Español: ¿De cuántas maneras puedes contar #lobos? #radiocollares #telemetria #conservacion Artículo escrito por: Lauren Otolski, y traducido por: @andreavalcar envirobites.org/2022/12/21/d…
¿De cuántas maneras puedes contar lobos?

¿De cuántas maneras puedes contar lobos?

Aunque el radioseguimiento se utiliza a menudo para controlar las poblaciones de lobos, los científicos se están centrando en métodos que no requieren la captura de animales vivos. ¿Cuáles son algu…

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Why are zebras striped? – Biting flies read between the lines #flies #stripes #zebras By: @BrandiPessman envirobites.org/2022/12/20/w…
Why are zebras striped? – Biting flies read between the lines

Why are zebras striped? – Biting flies read between the lines

Why are zebras striped? A simple question with a seemingly complex answer. The stark black and white striped pattern has mystified scientists as to why the animal developed such coloration. Researc…

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“Remembering” Past Climates May Help Trees Survive in a Changing World #ClimateChange #drought #ecophysiology envirobites.org/2022/12/12/r…
“Remembering” Past Climates May Help Trees Survive in a Changing World

“Remembering” Past Climates May Help Trees Survive in a Changing World

Tree growth rate can depend on both past and present environmental conditions. With increasingly frequent and intense droughts, the importance of this environmental “memory” for growth may be chang…

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What’s Right with Lights at Night? #humanimpacts #lightpollution envirobites.org/2022/12/02/w…

What’s Right with Lights at Night?

The varying effects of artificial light on the mating success of different firefly species

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Striving to Be Everywhere, All the Time: How Citizen Science Can Help Environmental Research envirobites.org/2022/12/01/s…
Striving to Be Everywhere, All the Time: How Citizen Science Can Help Environmental Research

Striving to Be Everywhere, All the Time: How Citizen Science Can Help Environmental Research

The world is pretty big. Sometimes, even when scientists breakdown and reduce their study area, they don’t have the resources to collect enough samples to be able to reliably interpret the results …

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Envirobites en Español: Abracadabra, patas de cabra: El tiburón fantasma de las profundidades desarrolló un sexto sentido #tiburones #biologiamarina Artículo escrito por: @BrandiPessman, y traducido por: @andreavalcar envirobites.org/2022/11/21/a…
Abracadabra, patas de cabra: El tiburón fantasma de las profundidades desarrolló un sexto sentido

Abracadabra, patas de cabra: El tiburón fantasma de las profundidades desarrolló un sexto sentido

Las burbujas que surgen de las profundidades del mar son señal de problemas: un enfrentamiento entre un depredador y su presa. Las profundidades marinas, un hábitat relativamente inexplorado y mist…

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According to a recent study in the Superior National Forest, how do non-invasive wolf count methods stack up against traditional aerial radiotelemetry? #endangeredspecies #wildlifeconservation #wolves envirobites.org/2022/11/10/h…
How Many Ways Can You Count Wolves?

How Many Ways Can You Count Wolves?

Although radio-collaring is often used to monitor wolf populations, scientists are turning their attention towards methods that do not require live-capture of animals. What are some of these option…

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Parasitic Plants Can (Sometimes) Help Competing Plants Coexist #communityecology #Parasites #plantecology @BeboutJulia envirobites.org/2022/11/07/p…
Parasitic Plants Can (Sometimes) Help Competing Plants Coexist

Parasitic Plants Can (Sometimes) Help Competing Plants Coexist

Did you know that plants can be parasites of other plants? It’s true, and these parasitic plants might help maintain biodiversity!

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Wimpy or Willful Wasps? The Effect of Heat on a Parasitoid’s Survival #ClimateChange #flyinginsects #heatwave envirobites.org/2022/11/03/w…
Wimpy or Willful Wasps? The Effect of Heat on a Parasitoid’s Survival

Wimpy or Willful Wasps? The Effect of Heat on a Parasitoid’s Survival

Article: Moore, M.E., Hill, C.A. and Kingsolver, J.G., 2022. Developmental timing of extreme temperature events (heat waves) disrupts host–parasitoid interactions. Ecology and Evolution, 12(3), p.e…

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“Where Did the Turtles Go?”: How One Case Study Brings Perspective On How Endangered Species Populations Are Studied envirobites.org/2022/11/02/w…

“Where Did the Turtles Go?”: How One Case Study Brings Perspective On How Endangered Species...

Recent study highlights the unique difficulties involved in estimating the state of endangered species populations.

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#SCUBADiving and #ClimateChange: How #DiveComputers Can Be Used To Better Understand Changing Ocean Temperatures By: @andreavalcar envirobites.org/2022/11/01/s…
SCUBA Diving and Climate Change: How Dive Computers Can Be Used To Better Understand Changing Ocean...

SCUBA Diving and Climate Change: How Dive Computers Can Be Used To Better Understand Changing Ocean...

Dive computers are devices used to measure the elapsed time and depth during underwater diving in order to prevent accidents from rising through the water too quickly. Modern-day dive computers rec…

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Envirobites en Español: La microfibra, un gran problema #microfibras #contaminacion Artículo escrito por: Sam Schurkamp, y traducido por: @andreavalcar envirobites.org/2022/10/21/l…
La microfibra, un gran problema

La microfibra, un gran problema

Las microfibras están llegando a nuestros lagos y océanos. Con la ayuda de nuevas tecnologías y un poco de esfuerzo comunitario, tal vez podamos detener su infiltración.

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