Reto Schmucki

We just released the latest update of the European Grassland Butterfly Indicator.
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With nearly 50% decline since 1991 and the decline not reversing, this is again an urgent call for actions for bending the curve, restore habitat and protect biodiversity

What's new in the world of Generalized Additive Models YouTube video by Bottom of the Heap

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update.

On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R

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#RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

Common birds have higher abundances in croplands with lower pesticide purchases Abstract. Field studies on pesticide impacts often lack detailed use data, struggle to disentangle their effects from agricultural intensification, and ove

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Transformative Change Assessment - What is transformative change? YouTube video by IPBES Secretariat

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A full report of our latest European Grassland Index has just been published. It gives individual species trends as well as the overall decline of 50% since 1991-2023. Another update will be coming soon to include 2024 (which was not a good year for many butterflies) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Nature Today | Grassland butterflies at shockingly low numbers It is the height of summer in Europe, a time when many people head out into nature or to enjoy urban greenspaces . But over recent decades, people are seeing landscapes with fewer and fewer butterfl...

Grassland #butterflies keep declining in Europe. Since 1991, the average abundance of the 17 grassland butterfly species has declined by 50% in 2023, highlighting the urgent need for more actions to protect and restore natural and semi-natural grassland habitats.
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Research reveals best plant seed mixes for pollinators and people New research involving the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has identified the best plants to include in annual flowering displays to attract bees and hoverflies, enabling gardeners, councils and see...

Well done, @abigaillowe.bsky.social - Nice work and so helpful!

Research reveals best plant seed mixes for pollinators and people | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

‘It absolutely took off’: five UK biodiversity success stories From new butterfly habitats in the Cotswolds to arctic willow planting in the Scottish Highlands, there are increasing numbers of places where humans are giving nature a helping hand to re-establish i...

Biodiversity conservation success stories to start your day 🙏 (no AI involved 😁) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Butterflies extinct in NL: Pearl-bordered Fritillary (zilvervlek, Boloria euphrosyne). Always rare, only 219 records. Would pop up at a site (from D or B?), could be abundant for a few years, and then disappeared again. Last collected specimen from 1959, after that only a few claims without evidence

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Canada is the same… so much that we have some outdoor ice rink monitoring scheme; all this while we are still extracting and load of exporting fossil fuel.

Simple and effective communication

Excellent! So relevant to reflect on this, well done

UK injects £14.5 million in land use and net zero research Five UK research projects have each received a share of £14.5 million under phase two of the Transforming Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People programme.

Great news 5 UK research projects, looking at soil health, land use & agriculture responses to net zero, have received funding by UK Research & Innovation & government partners. BTO will look at biodiversity consequences of each scenario. www.ukri.org/news/uk-inje...