Pollinators are important for our economy (and they're cute) but we know so little about their populations! We need to start monitoring more than butterflies. Read more in our new paper on Ecological Indicators.
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@ThijsFijen @David_Kleijn @ibartomeus@vlinderNL Monitoring schemes for pollinators and better monitoring of habitat quality :) I'm happy to see there's increasing interest by farmers to provide higher quality habitats for pollinators in their orchards (here in Israel). Exciting times!
First project starting in my new lab ๐ on flowering cover crops to boost wild pollinators and pollination in almonds. Busy days meeting the farmers and learning about their problems (and eating almonds).
Please RT: exciting postdoc opportunity on a timely question: When are we expecting alternative stable states (catastrophic regime shifts once passing a tipping point)?
#ECCB2022_Prague was awesome! Many sessions on agroecology ๐ Including great talks on conservation biological control and interventions for arthropod diversity by @fboetzl@eap_martin and Ricardo Perez-Alvarez showing we can harness biodiversity to improve farming methods!
@CorinaMaurer That was definitely a key message throughout all sessions! We need to integrate this into policies and planning. I think it was nicely presented in @LynnDicks talk Friday.
@ron_efrat@Society4ConBio I agree that name was a bit awkward. Many talks in the agroecology and pollinator conservation sessions were case studies.
I also noticed a bias on presenter's country, most Israeli participants were in smaller and later sessions despite giving great talks!
Agricultural landscapes can be a complex matrix to handle even for mobile species. Small birds need linear features as pathways, and suffer from high landscape simplification. Great talk by @HandelMichal in #eccb2022 in Prague this week.
Excited to open my new lab for Agroecology & Nature Conservation in Volcani center, Israel next month. Enthusiastic about combining productive agriculture with healthy ecosystems and have background in ecology/agronomy/economics/modeling? Join us: https://t.co/Y4d137ze31
@yuval_sapir @jillthanderson@SMWadgymar @SeemaSheth @emjosephs Looks interesting, thanks! The problem with the to-read pile is it just keeps increasing..
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