Dr. Gernot Segelbacher @gernot@qoto.org
ornithologist, conservation geneticist and open water swimmer, love the outdoors and photography
Joined Nov 2022
Dr. Gernot Segelbacher
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Attacke auf Doñana-Nationalpark in Spanien: Eines der wichtigsten Feuchtgebiete Europas in Gefahr
Carlos Davila von der spanischen Umweltorganisation SEO/Birdlife kämpft gegen Pläne der Regionalregierung von Andalusien, verbotenen Erdbeeranbau in einem der europaweit wichtigsten Hotspots der Biodiversität zu legalisieren. Das ganze Gebiet droht auszutrocknen, warnt er
with wheatear, ortolan bunting and whinchat 121 species on the #localpatch #lowcarbonbirding - spring rocks
end of march, today at 100 species for the local patch with hoopoe and osprey , two nice adds #LocalBigYear #lowcarbonbirding
watch out for #amphibians , too many deaths on roads already again! migration is happening now (and most cars ignore them - this is so sad)
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RT @ipbes
If we don’t win the battle against #Biodiversity loss, we won’t successfully tackle #ClimateChange.🌎
Learn more about interlinkages between climate change & biodiversity with this infographic by @IngeniumCa 📷
Or w/ @ipbes & @IPCC_CH workshop report⬇️
https://www.ipbes.net/events/ipbes-ipcc-co-sponsored-workshop-biodiversity-and-climate-change
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What is the best preservative for DNA in insect traps? - article in Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, vol. 171, issue 3, pp. 218-226 by Laura-Sophia Ruppert and others like @gernot - https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.13266
office window view (and no this is not a summer thunderstorm) it is march 13th #UniFreiburg temperature maximum today 22°C
92 species now for #LocalBigYear #patchbirding includig six woodpecker species drumming and calling today #lowcarbonbirding
we have been waiting for so long - now with some rain time to migrate! #amphibians #springmigration
spring is coming - but it is dry!
while out for a walk I made a picture of the dry conditions in the landscape and checked the national database. Looks like we set a national negative record for the top soil humidity for the driest region in Germany currently - not good! . (data ufz - duerremonitor).
after doing a bit of gardening lately I noticed dry soil up to 1 min depth- so I checked the national maps - again/still on the very much extreme in our area - not too promising news for spring https://www.ufz.de/index.php?de=37937
quite worrying: rainwater has no drinkable quality across the world even in remote locations
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c02765
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Inzwischen etabliert: “klimaneutral”, “klimapositiv”
Genauso nötig: “biodiversitätsneutral”, “biodiversitätspositiv”
69 species after two weeks with #lowcarbonbirding #localBigYear - including ring-necked and ferruginous duck, great bitterns and others.... the year has started well.
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"Rabbits, hares & pikas could become this century’s new climate migrants – with up to 2/3 of species forced to relocate. There are almost certainly going to be extinctions among some of the more sensitive & less adaptable species."🐇
🗞️@ConversationEDU@twitter.com
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-threatens-more-than-two-thirds-of-rabbit-species-40281#:~:text=Now%20new%20research%20suggests%20that,of%20species%20forced%20to%20relocate
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I've seen some consternation about the (very) extreme #temperature predictions over Europe. For context, I've created a GIF of the predictions (also hindsight) by the #ECMWF for appx the first two weeks of january.
These are temperature anomalies, and they have been very extreme. The "cooler" temperatures predicted for the coming days are still well above average.
#sunrise #moeggingen the light comes back - within all the clouds
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Interesting piece in the #Nature journal about the #birdsite and its importance in #science.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04506-6
As a very recent arrival on #Mastodon and in the #Fediverse, I'm seeing far more engagement here than on Twitter, despite having far fewer followers here.
Being here feels like the earlier days on Twitter, where posts are generously shared and where there is a genuine sense of building and supporting a community
I hope this continues and that the wider #Science and #Environment communities and also #universities jump on board.
For a now slightly dated view (in Nature) of the merits of Mastodon for scientists, see also this:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03668-7
ornithologist, conservation geneticist and open water swimmer, love the outdoors and photography
Joined Nov 2022
