Latest posts tagged with #EcosystemEngineers on Bluesky
Results showed a significant effect of topography on limpet movement at panel scales, whilst modelling revealed a significant interaction between panel complexity and spatial arrangement at landscape scales 📈
#Limpets are #EcosystemEngineers !
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🌊💙 Small but mighty! Mussels are one of the vital species to the seabed's recovery. The sea’s unsung heroes — engineering new habitats, quietly filtering seawater and boosting biodiversity under the waves. To find out more about this ecosystem engineer, visit links in our bio.
#EcosystemEngineers
Fiji 🇫🇯 media reports on local efforts to protect #MarineTurtles, #EcosystemEngineers of the sea in the #Pacific 🌍
www.fijitimes.com.fj/opinion-save...
Squirrels: the forest’s quiet architects.
Squirrels plant forests by forgetting nuts, spread fungi, feed predators. Chaos with a purpose.
Little architects keeping the woods alive.
Respect the tail.
Who knew the chaos agents were actually on payroll?
#SquirrelAppreciation #EcosystemEngineers
Best mascot in the U.S.! #ecosystemengineers
Paleontology study of the extinct Giant Sloth reveals that loss of #ecosystemengineers means losing the #ecosystemservices they also provide - a warning for today 🌍
www.vanderbilt.edu/evolution/gi...
#BiodiversityLoss #SpeciesLoss #Extinction #Ecosystems
So next time you spot these crimson seaweeds clinging between mussels and barnacles, remember — they’re quiet but powerful builders of coastal life.
#RedAlgae #Rhodophyta #MarineScience #IntertidalEcology #OceanBiodiversity #EcosystemEngineers #MarineBiology #SeaweedScience #Fieldwork
Fungi, existing nearly a billion years earlier than thought, played a crucial role in Earth's development by forming soils and recycling nutrients, paving the way for plant life. 🌍🍄 Link: https://tinyurl.com/23jbdctw #FungalHistory #EcosystemEngineers #AncientBiodiversity
Elephants are Ecosystem Engineers, playing a vital role in their habitats by supporting countless other species. Their complex social structures and emotional depth highlight the interconnectedness of all life.
Visit us here: gst4u.link/sir1a
#EcosystemEngineers #ElephantRole #WildlifeEcology
Molecular analyses revealed that the microbiomes of hydropsychid caddisfly biostructures differ taxonomically and functionally from adjacent rock biofilms (~2 cm distant). They were enriched in microbial taxa associated with ecosystem functions including denitrification #ecosystemengineers
Bison do what bison do, and as a result along their trails in Yellowstone we see improved soils, improved grassland nutrition and increases in plant biodiversity too 🌍
#EcosystemEngineers #LargeFauna #YellowstonePark #NitrogenCycle
www.earth.com/news/bison-g...
🦫☀️ Our #beavers at the Old River Bed are thriving this season — keeping busy with dam repairs, dusk swims, and munching.
📍 Seen a chewed stump or a tail splash near ORB lately. Longer evenings to spot signs of their incredible engineering!
#ShropshireWildlifeTrust #Rewilding #EcosystemEngineers
Our #EditorsChoice spotlight continues! Today, it's the turn of #RESEcolEnt.💡
The latest Issue's #FreeToRead article finds that body size mediates the role of insect seed predators as #EcosystemEngineers for #arthropod communities
Read it now🔽
doi.org/10.1111/een.13420
@wiley.com
OTD in '21: 🦫 #Beavers showing off their bipedalism. 🐾
We don't take a lot of video (fills cards, eats batteries, different metadata, etc.) but have a few over the years. In this case monitoring their dam building work.
#trailcam 🦊 #wildlife #cameratrap #ecosystemengineers
#castor #beaver #damcam
Wild boar and their antics in my little olive grove in Portugal, a little montage of this family of wild boar that do all the hard work for me - it makes it a LOT easier to plant potatoes in this stony olive grove!
youtu.be/KV2ZPGn7c3Y
#CameraTrap #WildBoar #EcosystemEngineers #livingwithwildlife
🐜 As the days warm up, #woodants spring into action - foraging for food and repairing their nests 🍂
These tiny #ecosystemengineers play a crucial role in forest health - controlling pests, spreading seeds, and enriching the soil 🌲
Full details are available in the Australian Zoologist at doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2.... Visit www.rzsnsw.org.au for more information about the Royal Zoological Society of NSW.
#Termites #EucalyptForests #EcosystemEngineers #Biodiversity #RZSNSW #AustralianZoologist
Graphical abstract of: Body size mediates the role of insect seed predators as ecosystem engineers for arthropod communities
New research in #RESEcolEnt shows cavity diameter & number from #insect #seed predators are key factors in their role as #EcosystemEngineers for plant-dwelling #arthropod communities🔽
doi.org/10.1111/een.13420
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com
Amidst multiple crises, a beacon of hope: England's historic beaver release marks a conservation milestone! Restoring ecosystems, one dam at a time. 🌿✨
#BeaverRevival #EcosystemEngineers #NaturalRewilders
While farmers are generally supportive of reintroducing wild beaver - hunted to extinction there 400 yrs ago - to rural England, some have concerns over the effects on small farms.
Wild beaver release approved for England
#agsky #beavers #EcosystemEngineers #flooding
www.bbc.com/news/article...
From ants shifting soil to salmon reshaping riverbeds, study highlights the #diversity & scale of animals' impact across all freshwater & terrestrial ecosystems.
Identifies 603 species, genera, or families that influence Earth's surface processes #EcosystemEngineers
phys.org/news/2025-02... 1/2
2025. Cascading effects driven by population recovery of sika deer on habitat use of sympatric mammals under heavy snow conditions. sika deer (Cervus nippon) - #EcosystemEngineers #SikaDeer zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Hyacinth Macaw is a prime example of an ecosystem engineer—a species whose actions shape and sustain its environment.
#HyacinthMacaw #ConservationMatters #WildlifeProtection #SaveTheSpecies #Biodiversity #EcosystemEngineers #ProtectNature #EndangeredSpecies #RainforestConservation #ParrotLovers
Did you know that a sub-1 kg bandicoot can turn over 4 tonnes of soil in a year?
#ecosystemengineers #ecology #Australia
doi.org/10.1007/s107...
How Wolves Change Rivers
by @GrrlScientist via @substack
#wolves🐺 #ecology #evolution #EcosystemEngineers #TrophicCascade #Yellowstone #SciComm🧪 grrlscientist.substack.com/p/how-wolves...
Our lit review of #beaver impacts has been added to a special #WIREsWater collection on:
"#EcosystemEngineers in #Water #Environments".
An interesting set of papers! See them all...
An important lesson on why it is so crucial to conserve megafauna http://ind.pn/17hg1n2 #ecosystemengineers
