@Stephinscience

Ecologist interested in insects, plants, and urban landscapes 🦋🌼 Assistant professor at Lakehead University 👩‍🎓

 Thunder Bay, Ontario
Joined March 2022
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Happy Earth Day! #EarthDayEveryDay #cosmos #angiosperm #flower
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A quiet moment from last winter with a Dark-eyed Junco at the Montreal Botanical Garden 🪶 #birds #junco #biodiversity #winter @EspacePourLaVie @IRBV_Montreal
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It's the right time of year to start seeing Round-lobed Hepatica! Native to Eastern North America, this forest understorey species can have flowers that vary from pink, to blue, to white 😍
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We're excited to share the first 2025 issue of Insect Conservation and Diversity! Explore what's inside Volume 18, Issue 1⬇️ resjournals.onlinelibrary.wi… @RoyEntSoc @WileyEcolEvol
Cover image of: Insect Conservation and Diversity Volume 18 Issue 1 January 2025

ALT Cover image of: Insect Conservation and Diversity Volume 18 Issue 1 January 2025

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Thanks @InsectDiversity for featuring my photo as your cover this year!🦋 📸: European Common Blue butterflies, Polyommatus icarus, show off their mud-puddling abilities in Montréal, Quebec.
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Can't get over this Dun Skipper's cute little face from this past summer (Euphyes vestris)😂
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Join the conversation 😊 theconversation.com/climate-… via @ConversationCA and @hkharouba

Climate change means we may have to learn to live with invasive species

Invasive species are not always harmful; some can even provide key benefits to native habitats in an era of climate change. Canadian conservation efforts should embrace the movement of species.

theconversation.com
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Stephanie Rivest, PhD retweeted
Heather Kharouba@hkharouba30 Aug 2024
Thank you to @MaximLarrivee and @riva_ecology for the great meeting on butterfly conservation and modelling! Can’t wait to get started on all the great projects. Also shout out to @Stephinscience for great project ideas!
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At #ESA2024 and interested in learning about the composition of urban plant communities (and the role that traits play)? Come see my talk tomorrow at 10 am in COS059! 🌿🌳
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Later today, Sufia Khader will present her project on the clonal structure and conservation of the rare plant Polemonium vanbruntiae. #Evol2024 📌 5:45, poster session 1, room 220DE 📷 : @Stephinscience
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In a world-first, an international team of scientists demonstrated that Painted Lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui) flew at least 4,200 km over the ocean from West Africa to French Guiana, South America.
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Happy Tuesday from the humble black-capped chickadee!🌞
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More #OpenAccess work from The Ecology and Conservation of #UrbanInsects Special Issue! @stephinscience & @hkharouba report on taxonomic & functional homogenization of #butterfly communities along an urban gradient: doi.org/10.1111/icad.12729 #UrbanEcology Photo credits: S.Rivest
Photo credit: Stephanie Rivest.

ALT Photo credit: Stephanie Rivest.

Photo credit: Stephanie Rivest.

ALT Photo credit: Stephanie Rivest.

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Butterflies... nature's role model for re-inventing yourself 😅 ft. female European Common Blue in Montreal
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City nature challenge in 1 week! Get your cameras ready...👀👀
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New paper in @InsectDiversity with @hkharouba & @uOttawa on the impacts of urbanization on butterfly community composition! Read it here... doi.org/10.1111/icad.12729 @RoyEntSoc 🧵1/3
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Butterflies are present in cities! But the communities are species-poor, homogenized, and contain more non-native butterflies than surrounding rural areas. 🏙️🦋 2/3
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Flight period length may help to explain some of this variation! Butterflies with longer flight periods were more common in urban areas... like this painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui)! 3/3 All images: S. Rivest
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First time at the @csbq_qcbs symposium! Having a great time 😃 – at Montréal, Québec
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Stephanie Rivest, PhD retweeted
CSBQ-QCBS@csbq_qcbs10 Jan 2024
🌿 Discover the hidden treasures of urban greenspaces in #Montreal! 🌳 Join researchers, community partners, and residents in redefining their value in person or online 🏞️ Info : concordia.ca/cuevents/office… @carlyziter @cu4thspace @Concordia
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