A bit delayed start of the mushroom season in Satakunta, Finland, but chanterelles and wood hedgehogs are now abundant and hopefully the boletes will follow soon

Creeping lady's tresses (Goodyera repens) and heath spotted orchids (Dactylorhiza maculata) seen with @conorboakes.bsky.social at Seitseman National Park, Finland

Loving Finnish mires 💙

Spent a lovely day in Seitseminen National Park, Finland admiring old-growth forests there and imagining what our Satakunta forest diversity experiment might look like in 200+ years

Monk's hood lichen (Hypogymnia physodes) looks equally attractive on birch and pine bark in the Satakunta forest diversity experiment, Finland

Exobasidium vaccinii, fungal gall on Vaccinium vitis-idaea. Seen a lot of it in Satakunta, Finland this year

Biodiversity effects under climate extremes intensify with aridity in grasslands but not forests. New paper led by Takehiro Sasaki is out in @natecoevo.nature.com and it includes data from our Satakunta forest diversity experiment www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new #OA paper on importance of risk of bias assessment for ecology and evolutionary biology is out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. It was great to be part of this project brilliantly led by @anticac.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What do ecologists do on their day off? Explore the local bog, of course! Lots of cloudberries, cranberries and sundews and other cool stuff. Hopefully more luck with arctic grayling next time @conorboakes.bsky.social

So glad to be back to my happy place, Satakunta forest diversity experiment in Finland (www.sataforestdiversity.org) for @trees4adapt.eu project's fieldwork with a lovely team of ECRs

Good day at Ash Link local nature reserve with @rhulbiology.bsky.social practical field ecology class and @elisaffueyo.bsky.social doing woodland surveys and sampling benthic inverts in the river. Many thanks to Leanne Yeung for demonstrating and for the photos

Good visit to the British Wildlife Centre with @rhulbiology.bsky.social ecology class today

Nice visit today to @rowantnnr.bsky.social with @rhulbiology.bsky.social practical field ecology class. Did vegetation and lichen surveys and seen some lovely greater butterfly orchids as well

Orchids and opera go well together! Four species spotted so far at Glyndebourne: pyramidal, common spotted, bee and common twayblade #wildflowerhour #orchidchallenge

Got a handsome visitor

Spotted my first flowering bee orchid @royalholloway.bsky.social campus today

Our new meta-analysis on effects of restoration practices on biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests led by @malintalle.bsky.social is out in Conservation Biology conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Nice morning with @rhulbiology.bsky.social students on Box Hill exploring chalk grassland vegetation

A chapter from Juri Felix's thesis (co-supervised with @philstevenson.bsky.social) on effects of tree species diversity on growth and leaf traits in Scots pine and Norway spruce is now published #OA in @oikosjournal.bsky.social May issue dx.doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Just some of the 49 species of orchids we have seen last week at @mariposanature.bsky.social Orchids of the Gargano Peninsula tour + lots of fab insects, birds and reptiles. Many thanks to our wonderful guides @dunnjons.bsky.social & Andrea Corso for sharing their knowledge and enthusiasm with us!

Mediterranean conehead mantis (Empusa pennata) on pyramidal orchid seen @mariposanature.bsky.social Orchids of Gargano tour today 😍

Today's star of the show at @mariposanature.bsky.social Orchids of the Gargano Peninsula tour was this wonderful Ophrys montis-gargani

Came across this lovely beastie on Gargano couple of days ago. Scarabaeus variolosus, I believe

Sometimes more than 3...

How many people it takes to photograph an orchid? At least 3. Very much enjoying @mariposanature.bsky.social Orchids of Gargano tour led by @dunnjons.bsky.social and Andrea Corso. Highlight of today was a beautiful hybrid of Man Orchid and Naked Man Orchid, Orchis × bivonae aka semi-naked man 😂

Oak apple galls caused by Biorhiza pallida and galls caused by oriental chestnut gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus spotted in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens today

Judas tree, Antalya, Turkey

1st stakeholder workshop for the case study "Diversifying Finland's forests" within @trees4adapt.bsky.social project is done! Good discussions on risks to Finnish forests from climate change and biodiversity loss and feasibility of forest diversification as a tree-based solution to these risks

It was great to host Zoe Davies from @dice-kent.bsky.social at @rhulbiology.bsky.social today for the departmental seminar. Fantastic talk, lots of questions and good discussions afterwards

Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis), sweet violet (Viola odorata), stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus) and spurge laurel (Daphne laureola) are some of the #signsofspring I have spotted this week #wildflowerhour