PhD student investigating eco compensation policies and inverts 🐝🐞🦋 @OxfordBiology @NatureRecovery she/her 🏳️🌈🏴 https://xitter.cf/t.co/lqJMDyJabp
Oxford, England
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Very excited to share our new pre-print!
@miniwildlife
and I looked at the relationship between the metric used to evidence BNG in England and ground invertebrate biodiversity 🪲🕷️1/6 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
I’m going to be leaving X and will just be using bluesky and linkedin from now on! If anyone wants to connect, I’m at:
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Our new paper led by Mattia Mancini explores the trade-offs in the UK's #BiodiversityNetGain policy, and shows how current implementation compares, on multiple dimensions, to options which maximise either biodiversity gain or access for people sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Brilliant to work with @NatDuffus on this important paper. The culmination of several years' work examining how the BNG Metric lines up with primary invertebrate field data @oxmartinschool @NatureRecovery. 1/2
Very excited to share our new pre-print!
@miniwildlife
and I looked at the relationship between the metric used to evidence BNG in England and ground invertebrate biodiversity 🪲🕷️1/6 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Thank you to all the wonderful co-authors & funders of this work!
@OwenTLewis
@sophusticated
@rich_
@EJMilnerGulland
@wildbusiness
@oxmartinschool
@NatureRecovery
@OxfordBiology
@ReubenCollege
While area-condition metrics are an incredibly helpful tool for decision making, accompanying data remains essential. Without it, we risk not fully understanding our biodiversity impacts! 6/6
We discuss some reasons why this might be in the paper and the importance of using real on-the-ground species data collection to understand patterns of species diversity. 5/6
We find that invertebrate communities are incredibly variable even between habitats of the same type and condition! Indeed, some sites which received relatively low metrics scores were among the most invertebrate rich & abundant. 4/6
Here we collected data on ground inverts across a range of sites over 2 years, to test the relationship between invertebrate biodiversity and scoring by the metric used to evidence BNG in England. This metric is the basis for a (growing) number of metrics globally. 3/6
Proxy metrics based on combined habitat area and condition are proliferating globally in response to demand for simple, standardised ways to measure biodiversity. This includes for evidencing No Net Loss, Net Gain, and biodiversity uplift to evidence biodiversity credits. 2/6
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Where are all the butterflies?
Years of habitat destruction, climate breakdown and pesticide use have taken their toll. If we're to restore nature and save our butterflies and moths we must act now.
Sign our letter to @SteveReedMP 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/e…
#ButterflyEmergency
ALT A colourful wildflower meadow with no insects. Text overlay reads: "Where are all the butterflies?" with alarm and butterfly graphic above the text. Image credit Philip Hambly. Butterfly Conservation logo in top left corner.
Incredibly honoured to have been interviewed for this piece on Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) with @BBCSouthNews!
Hear @NatDuffus talk about Biodiversity Net Gain on yesterday's BBC South news! 🍃
Starts at 13:35 mins, available until 19:00 today 👇
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
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New paper in @naturesustainab led by @Tomswinfield & I on designing scientifically-credible nature-based carbon & biodiversity offset markets rdcu.be/dP6P6.
TLDR: LinkedIn thread here: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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Following @RachelReevesMP promise to "get Britain building again", we call on the new UK Government to take a coordinated, cross-departmental approach that addresses the housing, nature and climate crises together🏡
Read our blog from @beckyjpullinger 👇wildlifetrusts.org/blog/beck…
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Ive been working through the excellent back catalogue of @NatureRecovery podcast on a series of long journeys. This one with @NatDuffus about #BNG is really good.
open.spotify.com/episode/4d4…
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JOB ALERT - UK biodiversity and nature recovery. We're hiring a postdoc with natural history skills (or someone with equivalent experience) for a new fieldwork-focused project on nature recovery near Oxford. Closes 25th June. Please retweet! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
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For anyone in Oxford, I am looking for two paid field assistants to survey soil macro- and mesofauna along a land-use gradient of permanent pasture in mid-July. Please, send me a DM if you're interested. Deadline is noon, 10th June. @BiodivOxford @ecioxford @OxfordBiology @ymalhi
