📢 New #TreeDivNet paper:
Tree diversity enhances predation by birds but not by arthropods across climate gradients
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Excited to see this work started by Dr_M published in Ecology Letters! Huge thanks to Carla Vázquez-González & Bastien Castagneyrol onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

This morning I went to check the local lowland heath site where we take RHUL Biology students on a field trip every year. Was greeted by a duet of cuckoos and found several lovely sundews - can't wait to show them to students on Friday!

📢 PhD fellowship opportunity

POST and British Ecological Society (BES) are offering a 3 month funded fellowship to BES members who are currently completing a PhD, where you'll be based in Parliament supporting its use of research evidence.

Apply by 12 June: post.parliament.uk/british-ecolog…

On May 13th Royal Holloway is hosting Surrey Wildlife Trust Research and Monitoring showcase. Find out more about SWT work and attend presentations on exciting applied conservation projects! Registration is free and lunch is included. Register at eventbrite.co.uk/e/surrey-wildl…

Calling #schools , clubs & #parents /carers. Our 7th G4N #schools #BioBlitz is running June 10th-July 10th. Spend 1hr in your schoolgrounds, garden or park boosting #wellbeing & exploring #nature
schoolsbiodiversityproject.com/grounds4nature
RHUL Biology Royal Holloway Schools Learning through Landscapes BTO The Wildlife Trusts

All about eggshells. An older article I wrote, but I think now open access:
birdguides.com/articles/ornit…

Great visit at the student meeting Royal Holloway RHUL Biology with my dear plant scientist colleagues Laurence Laurence Bindschedler and Alessandra Alessandra Devoto

Congrats Hana Merchant on your PhD paper out today in Ecology and Evolution! Our paper (with Chris Faulkes Queen Mary University of London, & team at University of Pretoria) is all about 'New insights into morphological adaptation in common mole-rats along an aridity gradient'. Link below! RHUL Biology Bowen Research Group #OpenAccess

Our Optimow 2024 booklets are heading out...
Keep an eye out for yours in the post if you've signed up and if you haven't yet, sign up before it's too late #citizenscience #pollinators

Congratulations to Dr Becky Thomas (Becky Thomas) from RHUL Biology who led on today's Youth Action for Nature 2024 event, in partnership with Surrey Wildlife Trust Royal Holloway surreywildlifetrust.org/events/2024-04…

IN BRIEF: Playing the field: The molecular basis of fruit morphology-based bet-hedging (Leonard Blaschek) buff.ly/49C8PqC Royal Holloway Jake Chandler Dr Waheed Arshad Noe Fernandez-Pozo RHUL Biology ASPB #PlantSci

Name that plant (in a Byzantine pharmacy text by John the Physician)! Inter-disciplinary and institutional RH Research Royal Holloway.

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Royal Holloway History Department RHUL Earth Sciences RHULGeography RHUL Biology Bob Allkin Kew Gardens MPNS Mark Nesbitt Kew Science

Two weeks left to apply for the post of a Teaching Fellow in Vertebrate Biology and Ecology at our Department!

Optimow 2023 was a success! In 2024, we want to understand more about citizen interventions & managing garden lawns for pollinators🐝🦋
If you've got a garden & can help, please sign up below to join this citizen science project:
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The dimorphic diaspore model Aethionema arabicum (Brassicaceae):Distinct molecular and morphological control of responses to parental and germination temperatures (Jake O Chandler et. al.) buff.ly/3Vviagw Royal Holloway Jake Chandler Dr Waheed Arshad Noe Fernandez-Pozo RHUL Biology ASPB

📢 New The London NERC DTP PhD project is available RHULGeography on biodiversity of Wet Woodlands Research Network with Alice Milner, Emily Lines, Dr Scott J. Davidson and myself as supervisors. Deadline - April 15th #forestecology #nbs #biodiversity #remotesensing
findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

Happy #InternationalDayofForests ! Here is the blog I wrote for Functional Ecology few months ago describing my group's work at the Satakunta forest diversity experiments in Finland 🌲🌳🐛🐦🍄🦌functionalecologists.com/2023/08/29/jul…

Next session of Surrey Wildlife Trust Wild Recorders scheme will take place Royal Holloway campus this Sunday, March 24th. Join in to learn how to ID bumblebees and reptiles! 🐝🐍🦎Book your place here:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-recorde…

Great opportunity to join our department as a Teaching Fellow in Vertebrate Biology and Ecology to teach modules in Animal Physiology, Marine Ecology and Conservation Science to BSc students. Closing date - April 22nd 2024 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…

Excited to be representing TreEPlaNat project TreE PlaNat at the workshop Uni of Reading on KE UKTreescapes project on Future Treenscapes in the Chilterns Chilterns National Landscape