Postdoc with @geobiodiversity; ecology, invasive species, freshwater, urban ecosystems
Joined February 2021
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James Sinclair retweeted
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi… new paper in @JAppliedEcology. Main findings: (i) better matrix -> better value of fragmented habitat; (ii) little evidence of extinction debt. Results consistent with a need to maximize habitat area for biodiversity, even if habitat exists fragmented.
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James Sinclair retweeted
27 Jan 2025
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨
In this #GCB study we used 1327 time series of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities across Europe to investigate whether dispersal capacity changes with the ecological quality of rivers. @geobiodiversity @Senckenberg
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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James Sinclair retweeted
7 Jan 2025
Wildlife trade is known to represent one of the greatest threats to the survival of many species; yet most species are traded legally with virtually no data
We show that over 22 years the US imported almost 30,000 wild species, & billions of individuals
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James Sinclair retweeted
9 Jan 2025
One quarter of the world's freshwater fauna threatened with extinction!! Check out our paper in the latest issue of @Nature and an accompanying story in the @NewIndianXpress @ron_of_kochi
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
@FW_Conservation @IUCNRedList @IUCNssc @jorg_freyhof @TopiltzinCM
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James Sinclair retweeted
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Shelley Arnott, Professor at @queensu, on receiving the 2025 Rigler Award!
@ShelleyArnott studies aquatic ecology, focusing on how plankton communities respond to environmental change. Read the announcement here: ow.ly/BNZF50UnwhB
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ALT Shelley is wearing black sunglasses, a blue t-shirt and orange life jacket while paddling on a lake.
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3 Nov 2024
Florida sells anything people can get their hands on in pet stores, including some very well-known invaders
3 Nov 2024
Corbicula, one of the world's most invasive molluscs, is also sold in Canadian pet stores - including (on occasion) one in Montreal.
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29 Oct 2024
Really nice to get this published in one of my favorite journals! We looked at how consistently different traits describing river invertebrate habitat preferences and characteristics (e.g., body size) responded to human impacts across Europe /1
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29 Oct 2024
These results contain both good and less good messages. Consistent changes in habitat preferences means we can use these traits to measure and predict the degree of community change in more versus less impacted habitats regardless of the region /3
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However, biological traits tend to be the most important (e.g., changing feeding guilds altering energy flow). If these responses are inconsistent across regions, then they are less broadly predictive and may only be useful on a region-by-region basis /end
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James Sinclair retweeted
24 Oct 2024
„Is it worth the extra mile? Comparing environmental DNA & RNA metabarcoding for vertebrate and invertebrate biodiversity surveys in a lowland stream“
New @unidue study by @TillMacher @SchuetzRobin & more as part of the @Umweltbundesamt project „GeDNA“.
peerj.com/articles/18016/ 🎉
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James Sinclair retweeted
22 Oct 2024
Today is World Wombat Day so I must again say that my favourite ever blessing is an Indigenous Australian one and it goes "may the wombat of happiness snuffle through your underbrush"
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James Sinclair retweeted
17 Oct 2024
Nitrogen leaching and groundwater recharge of alternative lawn conversions in subtropical climates. 2024. Crop Science. @jbunruh @kekenworthy @FLRECturf @AJReisinger @IannoneLab doi.org/10.1002/csc2.21381
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James Sinclair retweeted
More than 20 years of WFD and Europe majorly still misses the targets
15 Oct 2024
Europe's lakes, rivers, coastal & groundwaters experience pressure like never before, shows a 🆕 @EUEnvironment report
🏭Pollution
🏔️Habitat degradation
🌡️#ClimateChange
are some of the challenges we're facing
How can we turn this around?👉 europa.eu/!cyYdvF
#WaterWiseEU
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James Sinclair retweeted
15 Oct 2024
Excited to share our new paper "Hydropower impacts on riverine biodiversity" @NatRevEarthEnv.
A wonderful collaboration with @ETuebingen @oldenfish @FabioMu10038534 @JCSvenning @SCJaehnig and Zilca Campos.
rdcu.be/dWVBc
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James Sinclair retweeted
New online! Hydropower impacts on riverine biodiversity go.nature.com/484CnOz
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James Sinclair retweeted
12 Oct 2024
Does transporting salmon smolts past river migration bottlenecks enhance migration success? New paper @ProfColinBean @sceneUofG @Jessie__Lilly @hanhonkanen @JessicaRFordyce @JPeterKoene1
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James Sinclair retweeted
10 Oct 2024
BREAKING: Freshwater species populations have crashed by 85% on average since 1970 - finds new @WWF & @ZSLconservation report!
We must scale up investment NOW in protecting and restoring our rivers, lakes and wetlands - for nature & people
livingplanet.panda.org
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James Sinclair retweeted
10 Oct 2024
Interested in #microplastics in freshwater ecosystems and their growing significance to limnology? Read this article:
cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10…
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