#refugia

[melangle]

snail climbing a mountain in western australia, 

this mountain suffered a pretty big fire last year so it’s good to see invertebrates. This mountain and others nearby each have several species of invertebrates endemic to single peaks. Theres at least 3 velvet worm species, each on a single peak. 5 or more trapdoor spiders, 2 or more pelican spiders. I met a guy 2 years ago wandering the bush in hot summer like a lunatic (though so was i..) he was studing moths because supposedly the moths in the stirling ranges are relictual and related to some of the moths found on the opposite side of the continent on kangaroo island. these mountains are pretty special and have the sort of endemism and diversity you’d expect from a island, they are refugia for many species that were stranded in thier isolated microclimates after the temperate gondwanan rainforest that covered WA retreated to fragements in the bottom soutwest 

[riverwindphotography]

Just standing there, thanking the forest

(c) riverwindphotography, October, 2019

[riverwindphotography]

Yield

(c) riverwindphotography, October, 2019

[mollyringle]

Refugia

"...what I need may not be the call to march forward, to align with the highest benchmarks of humanity, to hold fast and to take skillful action, to neither wince nor flail. I need refugia and the wisdom of ancient beings like a river, trees, and moss… Refugia are small and hidden and full of darkness, but they are potent. They may be characterized as sanctuaries, but they are cauldrons, wombs, incubators. They are everywhere: in a poem, the eyes of a friend, a preserved landscape, a permaculture garden, a prayer in the wild… Some would say that is the definition of hope, an invitation to act out of our places of refugia, out of the wisdom of mosses, rather than reaction to the certainty of the dystopia we think we know has arrived." - Lindsay McLaughlin, Friends of Silence

[literaryartisan]

Frog 'saunas' help endangered frogs survive the devastating impacts of a deadly fungal disease

Macquarie University researchers have used heat to develop a simple and effective way to help endangered frogs survive the devastating impac

[the-new-royalty-world-me]

Recensie : Refugia

Refugia Auteur: Erik Persoons Uitgever: Kramat Junior 9789462420847

Nog verbluffender! Nog spannender!

Meer dan 100 jongeren schreven voor de tweede editie van het schrijfexperiment een thriller onder regie van Erik Persoons

Bram is verdrietig. Zijn enige vriend Daan is verhuisd. Hij heeft geen zin om met de jeugdbeweging op zomerkamp te gaan.

Op het kamp maakt hij kennis met een mooi, maar…

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Monos se toman ciudad tailandesa y los humanos se encerraron - Asia - Internacional

Monos se toman ciudad tailandesa y los humanos se encerraron – Asia – Internacional

En medio de las cuarentenas decretadas en varios países por la pandemia del nuevo coronavirus, se ha visto que algunas especies de animales han aparecido en zonas donde, normalmente, estaban los humanos.

Es el caso de Lopburi, ciudad de Tailandia, donde miles de monos recorren, a diario, las calles. No obstante, aunque pueda sonar divertido, la escena es más bien tétrica, pues las personas,…

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Deeper coral reefs experience reduced temperatures and light and are often shielded from localized anthropogenic stressors such as pollution and fishing. The deep reef refugia hypothesis posits that light-dependent stony coral species at deeper depths are buffered from thermal stress and will avoid …

¿Is it true the mesophotic reef refugia?

As we said in our previous publication, the refugia hypothesis is still debatable and controversial. We need ecological, genetic and evolutionary analyses to support it.

Here we want to share one publication at the Caribbean Sea, presenting the unlikely climate change refugia scenario of its MCEs (Smith et sl. 2016).

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