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1. Mondays 🧵 is about long term monitoring.
How many people have a wall like this in their house? It’s the basic principle of long term monitoring: measure the same thing, the same way, in the same place, over many years (until your kids have flown the nest 😢) 🪺🪹
#Data
How many people have a wall like this in their house? It’s the basic principle of long term monitoring: measure the same thing, the same way, in the same place, over many years (until your kids have flown the nest 😢) 🪺🪹
#Data
2. Long term monitoring and data collection leads to LTER – Long Term Ecological Research, where we use these data to understand natural variability, but also the complex interactions between people and nature over many years 📈📉📊🌳#LTER @eLTER_Europe @ILTER_network
3. In Burrishoole, data collection started in 1955 with counting fish: how many migratory (diadromous) fish were moving between freshwater (Lough Feeagh– top of photo) and the sea (Lough Furnace – bottom of photo) ??????
Acclimating a new office buddy! Another long, slender, gray tube of an #amphibian - the #caecilian !
(It and Perry the #amphiuma will be neighbors)
(It and Perry the #amphiuma will be neighbors)
That overbite tho, and those rolls!
Meet Typhlonectes natans aka a “rubber eel.” In reality it’s an #amphibian & more closely related to #frogs than to true #eels .
Meet Typhlonectes natans aka a “rubber eel.” In reality it’s an #amphibian & more closely related to #frogs than to true #eels .
Typhlonectes natans is an aquatic #caecilian native to northern South America, & this species is (to my understanding) the most common caecilian in the pet trade.
(this guy/gal is captive bred & was being sold at a reptile show in MN)
(Map: iucnredlist.org/species/59601/…)
(this guy/gal is captive bred & was being sold at a reptile show in MN)
(Map: iucnredlist.org/species/59601/…)
