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parasitoidrex.bsky.social
It was a pleasure to work with @nathanjaybaker.bsky.social and @swarmofthoughts.bsky.social on this long-term insect time-series. The megadiversity of #DarkTaxa is a serious blind spot for #biodiversity monitoring - by focusing on well-known groups, we neglect the vast majority of species. 🧪🦟🪰
July 21, 2026 at 1:57 PM
jameslowenwild.bsky.social
Couldn’t match Mike’s Phyllosc megadiversity at Holkham yesterday, but did chance upon a Pallas’s Warbler on a migrant-rich Stiffkey Binks - a place I like but keep forgetting to go to. A couple of Glossy Ibis encounters & two Firecrest were otherwise the best in the Stiffkey-Warham area #UKBirding
mcbuckland.bsky.social Mike Buckland @mcbuckland.bsky.social · Nov 16
Yesterday with Sibe Phylloscs all around the best I could find was a late Willow Warbler. Today at Holkham I made up for it: first up a Hume’s was soon followed by a Pallas’s and concluded when they were joined in a flock by a Yellow-browed, a Sibe Chiff, a Firecrest & 3 Chiffchaff! #NorfolkBirding
A Hume’s Leaf Warbler showing its distinctive muted shades, buffy supercilium and wing bars was joined in a flock at Holkham Pines in Norfolk by a Pallas’s Warbler, a Yellow-browed Warbler, a Siberian Chiffchaff, 3 Common Chiffchaffs and a Firecrest! Norfolk November birding at its best.
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
lerwildphoto.bsky.social
Trepadora esmeralda / Emerald climber
La rana de árbol de morelet (#Agalychnis moreletii), Familia #Hylidae, Orden #Anura. #Megadiversity.
#Guatemala #nature #naturaleza #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #macrophotography #frog #herpetology #anphibians #LaUnion #Zacapa #Cloudforests
March 22, 2024 at 4:29 AM
biogeography.bsky.social
Carlos Daniel Cadena will be August's Funk Biogeography Seminar speaker! Join us to hear about the origin and fate of megadiversity: how did today's biogeographical patterns originate? How and why has it changed over time?

Learn more here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/au...
This is a flyer advertising the monthly Funk Biogeography Seminar series hosted by The International Biogeography Society. The society logo is at the top of the flyer in natural colors, followed by various images of Earth's fauna and flora, such as dolphins and sunflowers. The text advertises the seminar content: the title is "The origin and fate of megadiversity: A look from the northern Andes." The speaker is Dr. Carlos Daniel Cadena from Universidad de los Andes, and the seminar will take place on Wednesday, August 26, 2026, at 1:00PM UTC. Additional information and registration can be found at www.biogeography.org.
August 17, 2026 at 9:12 PM
lerwildphoto.bsky.social
Miniatura del bosque / Forest miniature
La rana de suelo (#Craugastor campbelli), familia #Craugastoridae, Orden #Anura. #Megadiversity.
#Guatemala #nature #naturaleza #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #macro #fotografiamacro #frog #herpetology #anphibian #SantoTomasdeCastilla #Izabal
March 16, 2024 at 3:36 AM
lerwildphoto.bsky.social
Arquitectura natural / Natural architecture
#worldWildlifeDay presentó al membrácido (#Cladonota gonzaloi), pertenece a la familia #Membracidae, del orden #Hemiptera. #Megadiversity
#Guatemala #nature #naturaleza #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #macrophotography #BosqueEncantado #Jalapa
March 4, 2024 at 1:22 AM
phypapers.bsky.social
A genomic approach to Porites (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) megadiversity from the Indo-Pacific https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39551223/
November 19, 2024 at 7:43 AM
plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social
Beyond forests: Harnessing conservation gardening for open biomes in #Brazil

Flávia Santos Faria, Luciane Vilela Resende and Fernando A. O. Silveira

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#PlantScience #conservation
Overview of the campo rupestre landscape and its native megadiversity.
August 14, 2026 at 11:07 AM
royalsocietypublishing.org
Trypanosomes in Neotropical frogs: unveiling hidden megadiversity and complex host–parasite: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #OpenBiology #Microbiology
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
smunoztobar.bsky.social
Excited to share our new paper in @nature.com Scientific Data: Barcoding Megadiversity! 🦟🧬
We compiled 25 datasets spanning 1–7 years of arthropod sampling across 10 sites in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama, Galapagos & Cocos Islands—complete with DNA barcodes & geo-data
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Barcoding Megadiversity: An Arthropod Database from Sites in the Neotropical Eastern Pacific Bioregion - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Barcoding Megadiversity: An Arthropod Database from Sites in the Neotropical Eastern Pacific Bioregion
www.nature.com
July 23, 2026 at 6:44 PM
phytokeys.pensoft.net
🤗Delighted to welcome Dr. Sandy Knapp, Editor-in-Chief of PhytoKeys, at @pensoft.net's booth at #BioSyst2026 in Uppsala!

🌿Her keynote "Taming the beasts: strategies for studying megadiversity" explored how to understand mega-diverse genera (>1,000 species) across the Tree of Life.
August 19, 2026 at 8:20 AM
gkalinkat.bsky.social
„Die 17 zu Megadiversity-Ländern erklärten Staaten beherbergen über 70 % der auf dem Land lebenden Arten“
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadiv...
Megadiversität – Wikipedia
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadiversität
February 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
zookeys.pensoft.net
🐝What an insightful talk from Alexandra Viertler at #BioSyst2026: "When models meet megadiversity." Using a dataset of 203 extant & 86 fossil Darwin wasps she tested Fossilized Birth-Death models for estimating the K-Pg mass extinction's impact - revealing key limits for hyperdiverse insect groups.
August 19, 2026 at 1:14 PM
stephenclarkenz.bsky.social
Publication Day!

"Since 1980, the peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand have fundamentally changed through new policies and new patterns of migration – from a largely Pākehā population with 10 per cent Māori in 1980 to today’s megadiversity ...." aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/edges-of-emp... #migration
Edges of Empire: The Politics of Immigration in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1980–2020
Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading scholarly book publisher.
aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz
September 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
jhr.pensoft.net
🐝Great talk from Alexandra Viertler at #BioSyst2026: "When models meet megadiversity." Using 203 extant & 86 fossil Darwin wasps, she tested Fossilized Birth-Death models to estimate K-Pg extinction impact - revealing key limits for hyperdiverse #insect groups.

#paleontology
August 19, 2026 at 12:57 PM
lerwildphoto.bsky.social
Canto del arroyo. /. Song of the creek
La rana de arroyo de copán (#Plectrohyla hypomycter), familia #Hylidae, Orden #Anura. #Megadiversity.
#Guatemala #nature #naturaleza #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #macrophotography #frog #herpetology #anphibian #anfibios #Coban #AltaVerapaz
March 19, 2024 at 5:28 AM
ymilesz.bsky.social
Very exciting to see the description of a new extinct family of #Hymenoptera! Protoitidae are the oldest known Chalcidoidea from Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber, and 10 new species are described! Great work by Jonah Ulmer et al (@krogmann.bsky.social)

jhr.pensoft.net/article/1054...
At the dawn of megadiversity – Protoitidae, a new family of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from Low...
The earliest representatives of Chalcidoidea are described from Barremian age Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber and classified in Protoitidae Ulmer & Krogmann, fam. nov. (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea)....
jhr.pensoft.net
October 24, 2023 at 9:42 PM
sharpebirder.bsky.social
Arguably not the primary motivation, but this would catapult the USA to #1 megadiversity country...
May 13, 2026 at 6:09 AM
kinetoplastpapers.bsky.social
Trypanosomes in Neotropical frogs: unveiling hidden megadiversity and complex host-parasite patterns pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41253277/
November 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
envconsjournal.bsky.social
Does the evidence of Brazil nut trees support the notion that conservation through sustainable use can maintain Amazonian megadiversity?

See this literature review on 'Bertholletia excelsa' in the latest #EnvironmentalConservation #conservationscience🌎

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Amazonian forest conservation through sustainable use: evidence based on Brazil nut life histories linked to human occupation | Environmental Conservation | Cambridge Core
Amazonian forest conservation through sustainable use: evidence based on Brazil nut life histories linked to human occupation - Volume 52 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:24 AM
masoudmim.com
scenario 1) Earth has warmed enough that shallow seas blanket much of the continents, creating a warm‑world megadiversity populated with tropical‑like marine life, plankton blooms, and fast‑growing coral that thrive under higher temperatures.
February 9, 2026 at 9:25 PM
rowhoop.bsky.social
But this doesn't take account of the megadiversity of coral reefs, the sheer amount of biomass they support. It doesn't make sense just to calculate the loss of the coral skeleton alone - you also lose a vast ecosystem
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Apr 15
Coral calcification (i.e., making corals) releases CO₂. No, really. 🌊

Ocean warming and acidification will reduce coral calcification, which could increase annual ocean carbon uptake by 1.25 billion tonnes of CO₂ by 2050. So killing corals is bad for biodiversity but potentially good for climate. 🫠
Abstract EGU25-10326
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
May 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
lerwildphoto.bsky.social
Belleza en la hojarasca /  Beauty in the leaf litter
La salamandra tropical centroamericana (#Oedipina elongata), familia #Plathodontidae, Orden #Caudata. #Megadiversity.
#Guatemala #nature #naturaleza #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #macrophotography  #Salamander  #herpetology  #Izabal
March 14, 2024 at 3:27 AM
byjasonpdinh.bsky.social
Central, the world's best restaurant, puts Peruvian ecosystems on a plate

for Atmos, I talked to chef-owner Virgilio Martinez and his sister and researcher Malena about gastronomy, ecology, cultural anthropology, climate change and more 🧪
Plating Peru’s Megadiversity at the World’s Best Restaurant
At Central, the best restaurant in the world, Virgilio and Malena Martinez incorporate nature and Indigenous history into their menu.
atmos.earth
August 9, 2023 at 1:17 PM
fr.pensoft.net
🐝Great talk from Alexandra Viertler at #BioSyst2026: "When models meet megadiversity." Using a dataset of 203 extant & 86 fossil Darwin wasps, she tested Fossilized Birth-Death models for estimating the K-Pg mass extinction's impact - revealing key limits for hyperdiverse insect groups. 🐝
August 19, 2026 at 12:53 PM