The paper: Hazelnut shell isotope values indicate open and semi-open growing conditions in Early–Mid-Holocene southern Scandinavia www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Stable carbon isotopes from #Mesolithic hazelnuts from 6 Danish sites show that 83% of source hazels grew under open or semi-open conditions - in contrast to classic closed-forest expectations🔆🍃Thx to Laila Rehmeier & @felixthehauskat.bsky.social for leading!⬇️
#Palaeoecology #Archaeology #Forests

Exciting talk by @jcsvenning.bsky.social, director of @econovoau.bsky.social, showcasing the role of #rewilding as a key tool to redirect ecological changes under the ongoing #Ecological #Novelty.

Glad to give a session keynote today at the #NSO2026–#GfOe2026 conference: megafauna extinctions & trophic #rewilding in temperate/boreal Europe. How can restoring large herbivores revive mosaic biomes? Join us 14–16 in the plenary room. Thx to @skjoldsoendergaard.bsky.social & co-speakers🌿🦬

In @elife.bsky.social: Small mammalian herbivores at moderate densities facilitate livestock growth by improving vegetation composition in grasslands doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #pika #lagomorph #ochotona #interactions #herbivores

Why did the #neandertals go extinct? Our new analysis shows no climate-driven fragmentation of #neanderthal habitats prior to their #extinction, arguing against climate-driven habitat loss as the cause - and pointing to Homo sapiens👣 #archaeology #hominids
➡️https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-026-03960-8