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NEWS FLASH: We have CLAMS living on campus!

As part of last week's Sustainability Week at #LincolnUniversityNZ, our freshwater ecology tutor Elysia Harcombe did some kick sampling along a farm ditch. Yes, she found clams!

It's the first record on #iNaturalist of clams on campus, or anywhere in Lincoln (and we've been kick sampling in the Liffey Stream through Lincoln for several years in my biodiversity class).

There are records of some clams living in the Yarrs Lagoon wetland reserve to the south of campus, but that's about 3 km to the south (which is downstream and is not connected to campus).

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/316195607

#clam #FreshwaterEcology #nz

[Edit: “Sustainability Week”, not “Sustainability Weed”, which would be a bad thing. ]

Thrilled to welcome Dr V V Binoy (NIAS, India) as a plenary speaker at #ABL2025. 🙌

Dr Binoy will explore how his team integrates stakeholders’ perceptions with their research on behavioural insights of mahseer megafish—bridging science, conservation, and community to protect India’s ‘Tiger of the River’. 🐟🐅

#Conservation #Mahseer #FreshwaterEcology #BehaviouralEcology

Visual for the plenary speaker with his picture and talk title

Diet and trophic niche of the invasive signal crayfish in the first invaded Italian stream ecosystem

Holdich, D. M. M., Reynolds, J. D. D., Souty-Gros…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Italiandiet #Freshwaterecology #HumanitiesandSocialSciences #invasivespecies #Italia #Italian #ItalianDiet #italiano #italy #multidisciplinary #science #Stableisotopeanalysis
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2163425/diet-and-trophic-niche-of-the-invasive-signal-crayfish-in-the-first-invaded-italian-stream-ecosystem/

Check out my recent #JFB Editor's Choice: "Pick on someone your own size! Arctic grayling do". It contains one of JFB newest features, embedded videos! Bringing research to life. What better way to demonstrate this feature than with video of #ArcticGrayling feeding aggregations in the crystal clear waters of an Alaskan river https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.16073

It highlights this original study by Holubová et al https://doi.org/10.1111/JFB.15974
#FreshwaterEcology #BehaviouralEcology #Alaska #FishSci

If you want to chill out to something a little different, I recommend this short video from the #PBS Oregon Field Guide series about Professor Judy Li effusing about the wonders of stream invertebrates.

It's also got some amazing underwater macro photography of the insects going about their insect business in the stream.

https://www.pbs.org/video/judy-li-and-the-caddisfly-yea49h/

#nature #FreshwaterEcology #entomology #insects

Wetland (Habitat 🌄)

A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor processes taking place, especially in the soils. Wetlands form a transitional zone between waterbodies and dry lands, and are different from other terrestrial or a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetland

#Wetland #Habitat #Wetlands #BodiesOfWater #AquaticEcology #FreshwaterEcology

Check out my first #JFB Editor's Choice! (Previously Between the Covers): Aquatic habitat destruction in the Amazon and the unexpected response of fish https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.16018

Highlights work by Barros et al which examined the impact of #damming caused by road construction in the #Amazon
https://doi.org/10.1111/JFB.15906

What they found is, #fish in #dam habitats became more specialised to the limited resources, rather than becoming more generalist.

#FreshwaterEcology #Ecology #Conservation #Evolution