Vial Deeds

Ecology @unimelb PhD working on Wurundjeri & Boon wurrung lands [-O-] Artificial Light at Night-Eucalypts-Psyllids-Birds. Also Lego-Whisky-Sci-fi-Chocolate.

[City of Melbourne @cityofmelbourne]

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[Dr. Kylie Soanes @kyliesoanes]

Melbourne! Get out and about and looking for fairywrens please and thank you #wildoz #citizenscience #urbannature

[Vial Deeds @marty_lockett]

@skyglowberlin @urbanlightlab *to* photosynthesize

[Vial Deeds @marty_lockett]

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is bad for animals but… what about trees? Do they photosynthesize at night? Lose water? Grow more? Change shape? New paper from the @urbanlightlab has the answers! 🧵1/

https://t.co/iibIyswmwk

[Vial Deeds @marty_lockett]

@skyglowberlin @urbanlightlab We aimed to replicate light levels higher up where streetlights intersect tree canopies (as is commonly the case); in that context there is more than enough light photosynthesize and (it seems) provoke morphological responses to dim light

[Vial Deeds @marty_lockett]

@urbanlightlab Thanks to my awesome co-authors @Theresabemused @BecRasmussen8 @weArndtalab @GarethRHopkins, @UrbanLightLab volunteers, Susan & Murray, 2 anonymous reviewers 🥸🥸 who improved the paper in countless ways, and the editorial staff at Elsevier / Environmental Pollution 🤗🤗🤗 10/10

[Vial Deeds @marty_lockett]

@urbanlightlab In summary – Eucalyptus trees exposed to ALAN adapted to dim light morphologically, but not physiologically (we also explored the effects on colonizing herbivores (lerp psyllids) – but that’s a whole other thread!) /9

[Vial Deeds @marty_lockett]

@HollyKirk Looks quite pellet-y. Best guess (based on size) is a pellet from a Kookaburra or small owl?

[Vial Deeds @marty_lockett]

@gndaskalova We lost a few recorders (4/24 over two years) until we started putting them inside nylon stockings - provided a bit of camouflage but perhaps more importantly *didnt* look valuable/interesting. Also mounting them just out of reach (using a step or short ladder) seems to help.

[A/Prof Phil Zylstra @Phil_Zylstra]

We've known that burning forest in SW WA promotes dense shrub growth. We've now shown that this causes 4-5 decades of greatly increased bushfire likelihood, and that older, self-thinned forests have been the least likely places to burn all along.
https://t.co/olN2maPbN4

[Travis Longcore @travislongcore]

New #lightpollution paper out from our #BeachLight project. We're looking for thresholds for impacts and see decreasing habitat suitability for plovers above 0.05 lux and for grunion a 0.1 lux. These levels are far lower than thresholds typically used for env. impact analysis.

[HometoBilo @HometoBilo]

Nades has his forklift license & his old job is waiting for him at the local meatworks in Biloela.
Country towns are crying out for hard workers like Nades. But Mr Morrison's Ministers are STILL stopping his family coming #HometoBilo.Take action https://t.co/3TQhvephVl
#forklifts