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A massive thank you to @CorncrakeLife for the great week of crex conservation!

From May 01st, we have none other than @RuthFCarden taking over the account! Image
Ruth is a (palaeo)zoologist, zooarchaeologist and Quaternary faunal specialist working in Ireland on commercial and academic projects for the past 20+ years.

Ruth is a part time Research Scientist with the School of Archaeology, UCD on the Irish Cave Bones Project.
She has wide-ranging commercial/research interests driven by a multidisciplinary approach involving key themes including zoology, palaeoecology, GIS spatial modelling, zooarchaeology & dynamics between human-animal relationships, & palaeoenvironment during the past 50,000 years
Stay tuned for a great week explaining the where, what, why and who of Irish ecology!

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Day1: Intro 🧵
Thanks to @IrelandsEnviro for inviting me on to chat to ye all about our research & work on #IrishCaveBones, cave research, past ecosystems & humans/animals in Ireland during past c.50,000 years! so we start-some background first, why we started and who we are. 1/n
2/n Back in 2006/7, I was researching the origins of red deer in Ireland, along with some others. I approached @NMIreland Natural History Division to access animal bones that had been excavated from Irish caves in late 1800s to mid 1900s, seeking red deer bones if present.
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1/Friday we made it! We saw briefly/incompletely how #pollen #beetles preserved in #peat can shed light on long term #ecological change. There are other 'proxies' + the #peatland #archaeological record, esp rich in 🇮🇪, a remarkable 'archive' of past people/environments/climate A black and white drawing o...
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Feb 9
1/ An evening thread! Yesterday #Pollen next its beetles #Palaeoentomology - preserved in #peat fragments of bugs (wing cases, head capsules etc) are difficult to ID but provide key evidence of #Palaeoenvironments - #Prehistoric #woodland, #Biodiversity changes+extinctions! Two people, stood in a pit with an exposed face of peat in f
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1/Hi all! This afternoon we look (selectively) at what pollen records, tell us about long term changes, from the end of the last Glaciation. How has climate, humans+related processes shaped the 🇮🇪 vegetation over thousands of years? (Nick Miller, From Cogan's Shed, 2004) Image
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1/7 –Hi I’m Jo - I’m an ecologist specialising in plants and bryophytes My aim is to introduce you to the world of bryophytes (mosses, liverworts and hornworts). See thread for today’s introduction to this group.
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Good morning folks 🌊

It's Sunday morning so I am going to keep it light and easy - with a 🧵of interesting videos that you can watch at your leisure😎📺🌊
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