Alan Law

How to find grant funding for your freshwater restoration project Image: Cottonbro Studio | Pexels Creative Commons As the need to restore Europe’s freshwaters becomes ever more pressing, so too does the demand for funding to support ambitious restoration project…

🌊 As the need to restore Europe’s freshwaters becomes ever more pressing, so too does the demand for funding to support ambitious restoration projects.

🤝 A new @merlin-project.bsky.social publication guides you through the grant funding landscape.

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Did Helen walk through the Bamff estate and see the beavers at work?

Lines in the landscape - Communications Earth & Environment Ditches have many overlooked environmental and societal roles, including impact on biodiversity and pollution, and management strategies to enhance their multifunctional landscape-scale benefits are n...

It's out! 🧪 "Lines in the landscape," on the under-appreciated importance of #ditches as diverse ecosystems: doi.org/10.1038/s432.... By @peatymike.bsky.social, @fluitans.bsky.social, @drtatariw.bsky.social, @timaukel.bsky.social, @jordannabergman.bsky.social, @juliecrabot.bsky.social, ...

🌱 🐟🦫 No.1 Freshwater Detective Agency from the University of Stirling take on Finland’s beaver ponds 🇫🇮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Day1: 16/72 audiomoths installed so far… and as many bug bites…

🪵 #beaverlogbook

@dralanlaw.bsky.social
@nigelwillby.bsky.social
+ myself, Alex Adams, and Alice Turner

I followed the link but there’s nothing about shed roofs. Do you have a guide of how to do this DIY?

Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2) Abstract. In recognition of the importance of inland waters, numerous datasets mapping their extents, types, or changes have been created using sources ranging from historical wetland maps to real-tim...

This new map provides a global view of the distribution of a multitude of aquatic ecosystems, including various wetlands. It's a pretty big step forward, and I look forward to seeing how it will be used e.g. to study wetland greenhouse gases.

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Village ponds are hotspots of CO2 and CH4 emissions regulated by biological communities Ponds in rural villages (village ponds) potentially emit substantial greenhouse gases (GHG), since they are pervasive and often highly eutrophic. Howe…

New paper out with collaborators from Tianjin University:

"Village ponds are hotspots of CO2 and CH4 emissions regulated by biological communities"

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But some species are more sensitive than others, or in habitats that have less resilience.

Precision ecology for targeted conservation action - Nature Ecology & Evolution The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should draw on such approaches to provide dec...

How do we decide on conservation actions in the face of context dependency?

In our new paper on ‘Precision Ecology’

we show how methods developed in medicine & marketing

can be applied to predict site-specific outcomes

allowing effective & targeted conservation
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I remember when authors used to thank the reviewers in the acknowledgements section... maybe that's a thing of the past? Or maybe I've become reviewer number 2?!

Today, we are also celebrating the winners of the 2024 Annual Meeting Prizes: Emily Holden and Alice Turner (from left to right).

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If you squeeze him, does he do smelly dog farts?

Beaver recolonization explains aquatic insect emergence patterns | Freshwater Science: Vol 44, No 1 Abstract Emerging aquatic insects are an important aquatic-to-terrestrial subsidy that can make up a large portion of the diet of riparian predators. The biomass and abundance of aquatic insects can b...

While there have been papers looking at Beaver effects on immature aquatic insects, the latest @freshwaterscience.bsky.social #FreshwaterScience issue shows how Beaver dams can increase biomass in emergent adult insects - along with community changes www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Amazing!

The Tesco delivery guy used to feed the Torridon red deer a whole bunch of bananas most nights.

I was walking along my local river last night and was so pleased to see that beavers have returned. I managed to get a picture.

Beaver Versus Human: The Big Differences in Small Dams Illustration of the net benefits and costs of different types of dams considered in this paper. The types of dams are ordered by relative benefit from left to right, with the most beneficial on the l...

Beaver Versus Human: The Big Differences in Small Dams
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The ecological benefits of more room for rivers - Nature Water This Review synthesizes the ecological features and processes that arise when rivers are given room to move. Understanding these interactions will support more sustainable decisions that weigh river e...

Super excited to share our new paper out today in Nature Water led by Christina McCabe. @naturewaterjnl.bsky.social

“The ecological benefits of more room for rivers”

Find the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Free to read version: rdcu.be/eeuBx

#rivers #floods #biodiversity #resilience

A beaver themed prize giving! 🦫 - Eileen Stuart then presented the prizes for best talk to James Macarthur at UHI Inverness and the best poster to Alice Turner from the University of Stirling.
#SNSC2025

PS - I promise it wasn’t rigged towards the organisers!

A dam good talk from Emily Simpson @emofthewoods.bsky.social on the role of beaver ponds in sediment trapping and recognising beaver ponds for carbon accreditation 🦫 #SNSC2025

Coypus taking the credit beavers are due… @britishecologicalsociety.org

Active wetland restoration kickstarts vegetation establishment, but natural development promotes greater plant diversity Active steering of wetland restoration by introducing target species and preventing herbivory accelerated vegetation development, while natural development took longer. However, natural development r...

Active #wetland restoration kickstarts vegetation establishment, but natural development promotes greater plant diversity

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Greetings of the evening undistinguished speaker!

It really is! Collecting the duckling at the end of each day would be nice.

Duckling body mass increases with abundant aquatic invertebrates: experimental approach In Fennoscandia, waterbirds have declined over several decade, and this decline could be linked to problems in the breeding success and loss of foragi…

Duckling body mass increases with abundant aquatic invertebrates: experimental approach
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Alan is an unpopular name, but naming a beaver Nigel would just be cruel 🤣

Aerial view over an oil palm plantation at a rainforest edge and the text Summer Internship Programme 2025 Apply Now!

✨ We have EIGHT amazing summer internships with our National Capability for Global Challenges scheme!

Work with UKCEH scientists on topics like ozone pollution, modelling, satellite imagery, soil health & more.

🔗 Apply by 2 April: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...

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Looks like they’ve been maintaining that dam nicely 👌

An image of a tree-lined lake with the text, "We are hiring. Assistant Professor: Water Quality and Impacts of Climate Change. Visit careers.msu.edu. Job No. 1023203. Michigan State University."

Job: Come work with me! Please repost!

We're seeking a faculty colleague whose research, teaching, and outreach focuses on water quality and freshwater ecosystems in the context of climate change. Review of applications will begin April 15, 2025.

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Beavers return to Northamptonshire for first time in 400 years A family of eight is released into an enclosure in Rushden.

Naming a beaver Alan is a perfectly acceptable in my opinion.
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