Jake Bedford

Conservation scientist working on biodiversity indicators for a more sustainable economy 🌳🌊. Views my own.

[Jake Bedford @JakeBedford]

New paper out in GCB from my postdoc last year 🌊! In a great collaborative effort, we mapped trends in key plankton lifeforms across multiple surveys around the UK coast and offshore. Check it out here: https://t.co/ENX7SmRnBV

[Jake Bedford @JakeBedford]

I wrote a short piece on how businesses assessing impacts on ecosystem condition can help drive positive biodiversity outcomes on the ground- check it out! 👇

[UNEP-WCMC @unepwcmc]

“Ecosystem-level thinking” by the private sector has real potential to drive widespread #biodiversity measurement and economic transformation 🌿🌍💸

Find out more in our latest blog from the UNEP-WCMC Nature Economy team ⤵️
https://t.co/exzCxLuGrO

[Dr Amelia Bridges @Amelia_Bridges]

How can we know what species & habitats are present in vast areas of unexplored ocean? Read our new paper “Filling the Data Gaps: Transferring Models from Data-Rich to Data-Poor Deep-Sea Environments to Support Sustainable Management” to find out! https://t.co/m7H9urLdBy – 🧵👇🏼:

[James Bullock @JMBecologist]

Biodiversity is:

IPBES: The variability among living organisms. Includes variation in genetic, phenotypic, phylogenetic, & functional attributes,…changes in abundance & distribution over time & space within & among species, communities & ecosystems

Many authors: Species number

[Jake Bedford @JakeBedford]

It's wild that anyone could go to Plymouth city centre and conclude it's the trees that need replacing.

[Jake Bedford @JakeBedford]

Those free open university posters you can order at the end of Attenborough documentaries were a staple of my childhood bedroom. So exciting there is now a British Isles based one! What an inspiring show #WildIsles

[Jake Bedford @JakeBedford]

Actual chills

[EU Environment @EU_ENV]

🆕 The first draft proposal of the #COP15 deal is out: https://t.co/mx97uN8kSX

We are now in the very last stages of the negotiations, close to the final agreement

Our negotiators are pulling up their sleeves for the final stretch

More about #EUatCOP15: https://t.co/mCZebBydu0

[EU Environment @EU_ENV]

Harmonization of biodiversity measurement & valuation is on its way in the 🇪🇺 and beyond 🌍

Today, #AlignforNature is releasing recommendations providing clarity on how & what to measure when approaching biodiversity in a business context: https://t.co/mEHg2A8gD6

#ForOurPlanet

[Jake Bedford @JakeBedford]

With all eyes on Montreal for #CoP15, and the role of transformative change by business more important than ever, I'm excited that the Align project’s recommendations for a standard on corporate biodiversity measurement and valuation are launched today!

https://t.co/oOC6mw3mhl

[Phoebe Weston @phoeb0]

Everything you need to know about the once-in-a-decade chance to stop the loss of biodiversity #COP15

Brilliant summary by @pgreenfielduk https://t.co/5C333LFFUQ

[Sam @SDBedford]

If you want to recreate the experience of listening to Virgin Radio between 1993-2000 because you’ve recently watched Aftersun and are riding a deep wave of nostalgia, then boy have I made the playlist for you https://t.co/4yAFcOTAw7

[Jake Bedford @JakeBedford]

Completely amazing stuff from @ClareOstle! Multidecadal changes in phytoplankton abundance and composition influence the North Atlantic carbon sink 🙌🙌🙌🌍🌊

[Clare Ostle @ClareOstle]

NEW PAPER OUT: We demonstrate the importance of #plankton in the exchange of #carbon from the atmosphere to the surface #ocean in the North Atlantic. #Warming is driving the changes we are seeing, with future implications likely. https://t.co/yRepI7tYeS🌊🦠🔬♨️🌅

[Jake Bedford @JakeBedford]

@DavidGJOHNS1 @thembauk This has made me feel very nostalgic 😂

[Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) @BiodiversaPlus]

Jacob Bedford from the @unepwcmc takes the floor at the @EuropaBon_H2020 annual conference and presents the complexity of Corporate Biodiversity Measurement🌍

Watch LIVE ➡️https://t.co/741j3Qoqc0

[Jake Bedford @JakeBedford]

'As environmentalists, we can be so focused on being right, we sacrifice being effective' 👏👏👏 #BusinessNatureSummit

[Jake Bedford @JakeBedford]

En route to Brussels for #EBNS2022 (first work travel in 3 years!) to chat all things corporate biodiversity indicators 🚇👨‍💻🇪🇺🌎🌱

[Rob Hastings @robhastings]

🚨 Undercover investigation finds workers in China making clothes for Shein, world’s biggest fast-fashion brand, are:
👗 Paid 3p per item
👚 Working 18-hour days
👙 Given no weekends + only one day off a month

@Channel4 findings shared with @theipaper:
https://t.co/rKma5ewuQU

[ECI_bio @ECI_bio]

Nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation also have benefits for biodiversity - but we need to measure and monitor a wider range of biodiversity outcomes
Great new open access paper on the evidence base by @IssyKey @NatureBasedSols
https://t.co/gpMcqOy1Eh

[Jake Bedford @JakeBedford]

Also speaks to the fact that 'biodiversity' is more than just species richness, and 'biodiversity loss' needs to encompass composition change and change in functional traits.

[Andrew McGuire @agronomistag]

The idea that biodiversity drives ecosystem function is deeply engrained in ecology, and has been applied to agriculture. A rigorous analysis of causation vs. correlation challenges this: "there is no causal relationship found between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning."

[Dr Thomas Stamp @ThomasStamp]

New #openacess review @ICES_ASC - https://t.co/teNKncplxD

Estuaries are important for inshore and recreational fisheries, but have been subject to historic habitat loss @ThomasStamp @Dr_Emma_Sheehan @PlymUni @DevonSevernIFCA @fish_intel @OxfordJournals #essentialfishhabitat