Blooms of #Cyanobacteria pose a significant threat to #freshwater systems including rivers driving both #eutrophication and its dire implications for freshwater species as oxygen availability plummets and also the additional threat posed by #cyanotoxins produced by some Cyanobacteria.

This new research in Scientific Reports takes a #metagenomics and Q-PCR approach to explore the composition of the Cyanobacterial populations and their cyanotoxin production gene in major rivers across the United States (in 2019) and identifies Microcystis as the key toxin producing genus across this study.

Find out more on:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-29037-6

#microbiology #ecology #MicrobialEcology

Is there a kid in your life that you hope to indoctrinate with a love of ecology or evolution? Check our our team's recommendations for recent children's books on these themes! https://rdcu.be/c46kj
#childrensbooks #kidlit #reading #science #ecology #Evolution

A marine #microbe eating #plastic

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X22010517?via%3Dihub

This #research used stable isotope probing (SIP) to demonstrate that the bacterium digests plastics (to CO2), and also incorporates the plastic's carbon into its biomass.

Cool study! So we may be feeding specific organisms with our plastic waste. What may this mean for microbial #ecology? An #impact for sure, but the scale remains elusive..

As we (humans) get to grips with how to scale up #hydrogen as an energy source (and for energy storage) and as part replacement for #fossilfuels, this new research (once again) shows that #microbes have beaten us to it and evolved their own solutions for energy - in this case using hydrogen power.

This new research in Nature Microbiology explores how hydrogen in seawater supports growth of multiple and diverse #bacterial species.

Fof those (like me) in #Melbourne , you may be interested that the research also includes study of this process within #PortPhillipBay sediments.

Learn more on:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-023-01322-0

#microbiology #bacteria #ecology #MicrobialEcology

#Virus control

This exciting new research explores the influence of #virus #infection in changing the balance of organic matter degradation between #bacteria and #eukaryotes in #marine #carboncycling during #phytoplankton blooms.

Based on #mesocosm studies, this research demonstrates how #viruses infecting different #microorganisms change community dynamics and the release and potential fate of marine carbon from primary production.

Learn more in this new research in Nature Communications on:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-36049-3

#microbiology #ecology #MicrobialEcology

Never done a proper #introduction since opening my #Mastodon account in early October so here we go

I'm an ecologist based in Berlin and I currently work on #lightpollution & its effects on #insects. I have also worked on a range of other topics in #ecology like #foodwebs & #invasivespecies

I'm also an editorial board member at the journal Oikos & a working group speaker for science communication at the Leibniz Postdoc Network

Looking forward to expand my #Mastodon community in 2023

#introductions
Hi everyone,

I'm a German ecologist who loves to team up with e.g. #computersciences #arts #design #philosophy #EnvironmentalEthics
I am very concerned about the #biodiversitycrisis and therefore co-founded the NGO Symbio(s)cene (https://symbioscene.com/) as an #ArtsAndSciences collaboration, creating #visions for moving beyond the #anthropocene.

My current research is about #KnowledgeRepresentation working towards an #AtlasOfKnowledge

👋

#ecology #research #OpenScience

Did you miss our round-up of #ecology & #evolution content published in our journals this year? Browse the collection and consider submitting your work today!

https://www.embopress.org/page/collections/evolution-ecology-2022

@embojournal @emboreports @MolSystBiol @EmboMolMed Illustration © SciStories LLC

Happy to announce this #preprint , the culmination of last 10 years. 🥳

We find that #antimicrobialpeptides are evolved to control specific #microbiome #bacteria. This example is a textbook case of host #immune #evolution being shaped by the microbiome 🦠 which depends on host #ecology.

Thanks for comments! Bit of an experiment: we are posting pre-submit to get feedback 🙂.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.23.521774v2.full
#immunity #Drosophila #EvolutionaryBiology #inflammation #NFkB

Help us and contribute to a CRAPPY EVERYDAY COMPUTER TECH BINGO!

For a short #permacomputing talk at zinecamp this sunday in Rotterdam/NL, we will be doing a small bingo about all the everyday situations created by inaccessible, incompatible, inefficient, rigid, failing, extractivist, environmentally disastrous crappy computer tech.

We do that to address several topics to a broader audience who may not be familiar with notions of vendor lock-in, proprietary standards, software bloat, cornucopianism, siliconization, planned obsolescence, software rot, maximalism, etc, and *yet* are suffering, like everyone else, from all this stuff on a daily basis.

Do you have ideas for silly situations and painful feels? We will make a final version this coming Saturday as well as credit contributors, and point to the post's URL. Of course we will also post the final bingo board here as well 😀

(and on the permacomputing wiki of course https://permacomputing.net)

Thanks!

:boost_requested: boosts are very very very much appreciated!

#ecology #repair #tech #sendhelp

Studying wealth #inequality in animals can reveal clues about how their societies evolved #ecology #evoution #ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220503201652.htm