Alexander Lees

Oct 13, 2024 | illuminem.com | Alexander Lees

Even for a conservation biologist numbed to bad news about nature, the biennial Living Planet report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is a stark reminder of our failure to arrest the loss of biodiversity – the variety of living things and the ecosystems they live in.

Oct 10, 2024 | theconversation.com | Alexander Lees

Even for a conservation biologist numbed to bad news about nature, the biennial Living Planet report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is a stark reminder of our failure to arrest the loss of biodiversity – the variety of living things and the ecosystems they live in.

Jun 3, 2024 | nature.com | Brittany T. Trew |David Edwards |Alexander Lees |Regan Early |Martin Svátek |Radim Matula | +6 more

AbstractTropical forest biodiversity is potentially at high risk from climate change, but most species reside within or below the canopy, where they are buffered from extreme temperatures. Here, by modelling the hourly below-canopy climate conditions of 300,000 tropical forest locations globally between 1990 and 2019, we show that recent small increases in below-canopy temperature (<1 °C) have led to highly novel temperature regimes across most of the tropics.

May 9, 2024 | tolerance.ca | Alexander Lees |Manchester Metropolitan

By Alexander C. Lees, Reader, Manchester Metropolitan University The weather is warmer and the nights are lighter. What are those black, curved silhouettes looping in the sky?

May 9, 2024 | theconversation.com | Alexander Lees

The weather is warmer and the nights are lighter. What are those black, curved silhouettes looping in the sky? Assuming you are looking at birds and not attending the World Boomerang Championships, those shapes will likely be the UK’s only breeding member of the Apodiformes (a grouping that includes the hummingbirds): the common swift (Apus apus), harbinger of summer.