Ruth Howison

Senior Researcher Sustainable Agriculture,
Knowledge Infrastructures | Campus Fryslân

[Global Flyway Network @GlobalFlyway]

Country-wide breeding distribution & home ranges of black-tailed #godwits (#grutto, national bird of NL) assessed in unbiased ways (using individuals tagged during staging in Iberia) shows how sparse suitable grassland has become.
Summary now available at:
https://t.co/1NkqgwW2Km

[Applied Ecol. Resources|Ecol. Solutions & Evidence @AER_ESE_BES]

📰Published📰
High-intensity land use remains largely unavailable and necessitates black-tailed godwits to use larger breeding areas 🚜🥚

🔗https://t.co/M9A8bXRFC7

@Yuhong_Li_ @RuthHowison @GlobalFlyway

[Ruth Howison @RuthHowison]

Congrats Yuhong Li @AER_ESE_BES showing how agricultural land-use intensity impacts the core range size of Black-tailed Godwits at nationwide scale @GlobalFlyway @univgroningen @CampusFryslan

[Yuhong Li @Yuhong_Li_]

Our new paper in @AER_ESE_BES found that Black-tailed Godwits, tracked independently of their breeding locations, strongly selected for low-intensity agricultural land at the nationwide scale of The Netherlands. @RuthHowison, @GlobalFlyway @univgroningen https://t.co/byy0UpZDlB

[Selen Eren I [email protected] @selenerenselen]

An inspirational story written w/ passion by my dear friend and colleague: Yes, we, esp. early career researchers, should not shy away from acting on our “big dreams”.

As the Dutch saying goes: You already have a “no”, but can try for a “yes”! 💪🏼

#SoilHealth #PlanetaryBoundries

[Ruth Howison @RuthHowison]

Worldwide soil degradation is strongly interrelated with declining biodiversity. Soils provide habitat for ~25% of the world’s biodiversity, thus our call to integrate Soil Degradation into the #planetaryboundaries framework, see: https://t.co/PO9pMVVgvE

[Antarctica.cl @Antarcticacl]

El #Suelo es un recurso no renovable amenazado por la deforestación, desertificación y erosión. Proponen agregar la “Degradación del Suelo” a los existentes #LímitesPlanetarios (aquellos q no debemos cruzar🛑 para no desestabilizar el sistema terrestre)👇https://t.co/6nL9wlnnQF

[Carol Garzón López @[email protected] 🐘 @Carol_Xim]

Soil degradation, the 10th planetary boundary. #SoilHealth #WorldSoilDay

[Clarisse Kraamwinkel @ClarisseKraamw1]

Should soil degradation be added to the planetary boundaries framework? Read our comment ‘Planetary limits to soil degradation’ to kickstart this important discussion! https://t.co/MgJHSLgeeN

What do you think @FAO , @sthlmresilience ? #PlanetaryBoundaries #SoilHealth #SDGs

[Campus Fryslân - University of Groningen @CampusFryslan]

Soils are essential to life on Earth, but rapidly degrading. A 10th planetary boundary is needed to draw attention to soil degradation, argue @ClarisseKraamw1,@JAnneBeaulieu,@RuthHowison and Teresa Dias in @CommsEarth
https://t.co/TVPu81vFdn

[Communications Earth & Environment @CommsEarth]

Soil degradation is a key Earth system process that should be added to the planetary boundaries framework to help achieve global sustainability, argue @ClarisseKraamw1 @JAnneBeaulieu Teresa Dias and @RuthHowison at @univgroningen @CampusFryslan

https://t.co/sMG05WTP46

[Global Flyway Network @GlobalFlyway]

Het wonderbaarlijk leven van Sinagote en de andere lepelaars van Vlieland wordt ontrafeld en verteld in het nieuwe boek 'SINAGOTE het levensverhaal van een lepelaar'. Gisteren hebben we gewerkt aan de opnames voor een artistieke introductie van dit (b)oek!
#Waddenzee #flyway

[Global Flyway Network @GlobalFlyway]

De landbouw in Nederland staat voor grote opgaves. Hoe komen we tot bedrijfsmodel op basis van natuurlijke processen in bodem, water en lucht?
De #grutto als boerenlandvogel laat zien of het de goede kant op gaat. 2020 was eerste jaar met deze focus. Zie:
https://t.co/momeJMevhg

[Global Flyway Network @GlobalFlyway]

Black-tailed #godwits Wolvegea (green) and Warnserpolder (blue) just arrived in l'Albufera nr Valencia, with Estevao (grey) already present. Yesterday they were photographed 1-by-1 by Antonio Alcocer Cordellat, this morning roosting together by Nacho Dies. https://t.co/baocug4ZOp

[Ruth Howison @RuthHowison]

Youngest participant #NAEM2021, attending Yuhong Li's presentation on Black-tailed Godwit space use. Yuhong shows how godwits increase their core habitat range during the breeding season in relation to increased land-use intensity at the scale of the entire NL

[Global Flyway Network @GlobalFlyway]

Gisteren presenteerde @univgroningen samen met @WUR #online de onderzoekplannen aan #grutto's, #landschap, #bodem & agrarische bedrijsfvoering in @gemeenteswf en langs #flyway. 64 aanwezigen.

Verslagen in @lc_nl & @OmropFryslan.

https://t.co/zX0pYKQd6A

https://t.co/9MzsWlTOt5

[Global Flyway Network @GlobalFlyway]

Black-tailed #godwit WOLVEGEA MADE IT to Djoudj NP on Senegal river, #grutto gateway to WAfrica. Along flyway, godwits need farmers that create wet grassland habitats. Farmers need godwits as indicators of healthy naturally renewing soils. Casamance, subsistence ricefarming-2018.

[Global Flyway Network @GlobalFlyway]

Eerste grutto vroeger dan ooit in Friesland! Omdat dit een door @univgroningen gekleurringde #grutto is, weten we dat het om een Nederlandse/Friese broedvogel gaat. Waarneming: Jan Kramer. En uitleg over het lot van #gruttoAmalia's zender. @TijsenW. @lc_nl

[University of Groningen @univgroningen]

Voor toekomstbestendige #landbouw voor natuur én boer is behoefte aan meer inzicht en kennis over hoe landbouw en natuur elkaar kunnen versterken. Om deze reden maakt het #WNF de leerstoel Agro-ecology van prof.dr. Pablo Tittonell mogelijk. Morgen oratie! https://t.co/EuAKoL5F2L

[Wim Tijsen @TijsenW]

Ex-zender #grutto #Amalia begint op te vetten in rijstvelden v/d #Extremadura. Het Abdominal Profile Index(API) steeg van 2 naar 3. Hoe groter bolling tussen staart/poten, hoe meer conditie voor láátste vlucht nr Friesland. @KeningGreide @landschapnh @GlobalFlyway @VroegeVogels

[Global Flyway Network @GlobalFlyway]

Migration in full swing!
•1st colour-ringed black-tailed #godwit back in The Netherlands
•2 birds heading north along the NW Africa coast
•1st of satellite-tagged godwit, Burdalo, migrating from Extremadura, Spain > French Atlantic coast

Check out https://t.co/KTuUCULT5Z