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Diversity and Distributions @consbiog.bsky.social · 7h

Mountain #biodiversity is highly threatened by #ClimateChange. ⛰️ Using #SDMs for 272 #lichens across the Alps, this new study reveals major habitat losses and unexpected refugia in deep valleys, urging targeted conservation.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 9h

It's crazy to think that while heading toward 9 billion people on Earth, we ere still undescribed (and know nothing about) hundreds to maybe thousand mammalian species
academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...
"projections of ∼7,079 species by 2030 and ∼8,376 by 2050 if these trends continue"
🧪 #Macroecology

A graphical history of mammalian species-group name descriptions since the start of zoological nomenclature on 1 January 1758, incorporating all 28,382 available names (including preoccupied, replacement, and suppressed names) and 6,759 names currently recognized as valid species in MDD2.

Type locality locations for species-rank mammal taxa described from 1 January 2000 to 15 August 2024.

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 18h

Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A place for natural history in the 21st century

Natural history provides an important basis for observing interactions between organisms in their environments. Biotropica recently inaugurated a new paper category called “Natural History Field Note....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr. Bethany Allen @bethanyjallen.bsky.social · 9h

Looking forward to this! I will be helping @josephtobias.bsky.social lead discussions on what preregistration could look like for macroecology - join us on Wednesday 📝🌍

SORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 9h

🚨 SORTEE’s conference #SORTEE2025 is fast approaching

This year, we have opted once again for a format that facilitates lively exchanges of ideas & which has led to wonderful outcomes. Some examples: www.sortee.org/past/
There is still time to join us - register at sortee.org/upcoming/

Past events

Past events by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

www.sortee.org

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Grant Hamilton 🐨 @ecologygrant.bsky.social · 2d

The shrew’s extinction increases the tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 to 39 species. This is far more than for any other country. These losses represent about 10% of all Australia’s land mammal species before colonisation 🧪

theconversation.com/and-then-the...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

Australia’s only known shrew has been declared extinct. Its loss emphasises the need for national protection of Australia’s rare and unique wildlife.

theconversation.com

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 2d

9/ The global rate of species introductions has shown no sign of saturation. Under human influence, species are moving exponentially faster, farther, & in greater numbers than at any other time in Earth's history, creating novel evolutionary pressures on naive biotas. www.nature.com/articles/nco...

No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide - Nature Communications

Alien species of animals and plants can invade new regions of the earth. This study performs a global analysis of temporal dynamics and spatial patterns of alien species introductions over the past 200 years, and reports no saturation in the rate at which these invasion are increasing.

www.nature.com

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Diversity and Distributions @consbiog.bsky.social · 2d

Spanish forests are shifting under #ClimateChange 🌍 🔥
This study proposes a “climate-wise” #ConservationNetwork to maintain forest #connectivity over time, using distribution models and dynamic habitat analyses.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 1d

📖Published📖

In our recent application paper, Ravenscroft et al. develop an unsupervised Historical Occurrence Georeferencing System (HOGS) to georeference point locations from high-resolution images of species distribution maps 🗺️ 📍 Read more 👇

buff.ly/7W25bf2

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GBIF Morpho 🦋 @gbifmorpho.bsky.social · 13d

New paper in Journal of Biogeography using @gbif.org mediated data:

Arctic‐Boreal Bryophyte Dynamics Since the Last Glacial Inferred From Ancient DNA Metabarcoding

#CiteTheDOI: ❌

https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70015

Arctic‐Boreal Bryophyte Dynamics Since the Last Glacial Inferred From Ancient DNA Metabarcoding

Aim This study investigates the main changes in bryophyte diversity and composition during the last 30,000 years in arctic and boreal ecosystems. Turnover in biological and ecological trait composit...

doi.org

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 7d

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details.
@gfoesoc.bsky.social
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@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@uslter.bsky.social

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Stellenangebote: Universität Hohenheim

Aktuelle Stellenangebote der Universität Hohenheim.

www.uni-hohenheim.de

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Conservation Biology @conbiology.bsky.social · 1d

In this article, McClanahan et al discuss how diversifying the identification of #climatechange refugia for #coralreefs requires more environmental and coral life-history metrics. Read their article at: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
#refugia #wordoftheweek #conservation #science #stem

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BES ALDER Network @besaldernetwork.bsky.social · 5d

Hi everyone, we're the BES ALDER Network 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌳 Follow us for information about upcoming events, opportunities, community stories, & resources

Want more info? Join our newsletter? www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/join... @britishecologicalsociety.org

Who are we? ALDER (Advancing LGBTQIA+ Diversity, Equality & Representation) is a Network for the LGBTQIA+ ecologist community to interact, share and support each other.

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 12d

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

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Giacomo Puglielli @gpuglielli.bsky.social · 12d

Working with individual trait data and functional trait spaces and bored about means?

With @cpcarmona.bsky.social, Agnese Bissi and @etordoni.bsky.social, we put together a perspective to test the effect of individual observations on trait space properties 👇👇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces - npj Biodiversity

npj Biodiversity - Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces

www.nature.com

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 12d

Classic macroecological laws-long held as signatures of biological systems-also emerge in economic and geological systems. The real signal lies not in the static universal patterns, but in how those patterns shift with scale 🌐🧪 #scaling #macroecology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Separating Macroecological Pattern and Process: Comparing Ecological, Economic, and Geological Systems

Theories of biodiversity rest on several macroecological patterns describing the relationship between species abundance and diversity. A central problem is that all theories make similar predictions f...

journals.plos.org

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 12d

Useful overview of R packages / functions for modelling different kinds of response variables (continuous, proportional, counts, bounded, zero-inflated, etc.) in a regression framework, with mixed models and Bayesian options too: strengejacke.github.io/regressionmo...

Overview of R Modelling Packages

Overview of modelling strategies and packages. Which model do I need for my data?

strengejacke.github.io

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 13d

Great two days of BES data/code hack-a-thon. 111 people (in person + online) collating data and chatting about open science. Big take homes so far: people ❤️ open science; data/code archiving means different things to different people; we can make some simple improvements with big impacts!

A room full of people working on laptops

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Sep 11

Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations | doi.org/10.1002/fee.... | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 13d

🌿Liana diversity, abundance and basal area were influenced mainly by tree species richness, precipitation and soil nutrients. Liana diversity and density were positively associated with precipitation 🧪🌎
🔍Article: buff.ly/6N7Vhq6
📰Blog: buff.ly/TKRw6UU

Patterns and drivers of liana community structure across five forest ecosystem types in Ghana

buff.ly

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 18d

🦋 Butterflies are booming across England, thanks to nature friendly farming

New research shows that agri-environment schemes (AES) are significantly boosting biodiversity by paying farmers to adopt nature-friendly practices like wildflower strips and hedgerows.

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 17d

Generalised bumblebee–flower interactions demonstrate weak floral niche partitioning despite a high bee diversity vist.ly/488q8 #NicheOverlap #NicheWidth

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Will Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 17d

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org

We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 17d

"differences in squamate fossil record completeness stem from ...anatomy/body size and affinities of different ...groups to specific lithologies and depositional environments."
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
Toxiferans: snakes and mosasaurs the kings of the squamate fossil record 👇

Squamate species abundance through time. Occurrences and abundances of major squamate lineages, mapped onto the time-calibrated combined-evidence hypothesis of squamate relationships from Simões et al. (2018).

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Alessandro Chiarenza @macroecoevoale.bsky.social · 17d

What are the biggest questions in #paleontology? New paper out today in Paleobiology led by Smith & Kiessling with ~200 coauthors on the relevance of our field, methods, & museum collections to climate & biodiversity research🦖 #FossilFriday @paleosoc.bsky.social 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 18d

I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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