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We are the British Ecological Society Macroecology & Macroevolution Special Interest Group. We run the annual #BESMacro conference and will gladly repost papers and opportunities of interest to our members!
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The spatial scaling of multiple dimensions of functional diversity in habitat islands | Dias et al. | Functional Ecology

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
it's an array from the linked paper; not clear what it means without the caption, so the point here is just "pretty colours!"
September 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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EcoregionsTreeFinder—A Global Dataset Documenting the Abundance of Observations of > 45,000 Tree Species in 828 Terrestrial Ecoregions

Kindt & Pedercini, GEB

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
a figure from the linked paper, showing substantial (and continent-mediated) latitudinal diversity gradients in trees
June 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Morphological Limitations Imposed on Lizards Facing Urbanisation

Row et al., GEB

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
three panels of scatter plots, showing no relationship between urbanisation and (morphological) PC1 but significant relationships between urbanisation and PC3/PC3
June 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Future Palaeontologists Will Detect Current Mammal Latitudinal Biodiversity Gradient

Galván et al., GEB

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a figure from the linked paper, describing geological bias, biological bias, and sampling bias and its effects on the mammalian latitudinal diversity gradient
June 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Ecology and Biogeography of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Squamates, Liang et al., GEB

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
a figure from the linked paper, showing size global maps and lots of strong geographic gradients
June 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Baradun et al., Ecography: Global patterns in plant environmental breadths

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
an image from the linked paper, showing the latitudinal gradient of latitudinal range for trees and non-trees
June 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Gorné et al., Ecography: Use and misuse of trait imputation in ecology: the problem of using out-of-context imputed values

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a figure from the linked paper, showing when to impute trait values and when not to
June 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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de Oliveira et al., Ecography: Niche packing, but not niche expansion, explains the co-occurrence of hummingbirds-visited plants

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
a figure from the linked paper, showing how flowers might expand their niche (increased niche volume) or pack their niche (increased niche overlap)
June 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Congratulations to our student plenary speaker, Margaret Bolton (University of Exeter). Her talk, "Parasites show greatest potential to shape mammalian host ranges at higher latitudes" will be featured at #BESMacro2025

Thank you so much to all who applied; this year was particularly competitive!
a headshot of Margaret Bolton, smiling
May 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Complex Life Cycles Shape the Functional Biogeography of European Dragonflies

Iversen et al. 2025 GEB

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Figure 1 from the linked paper, showing a medium-positive correlation between adult and nymph functional diversity, as well as the spatial distribution of the residuals of that adult-nymph relationship.
May 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Emergence and Dynamics of Regional Species Pools

Jarzyna et al. 2025 GEB

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Figure 1 from the linked paper, showing regional species pools, dispersal over time, and range dynamics (in the US state of Florida)
May 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Trophic convergence of marine vertebrate communities worldwide

González-Trujillo et al. 2025 PNAS

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Fig 1 from the paper, showing colourful pie charts of different dietary guilds, arranged in a circle around a cartoon of marine life
May 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
a figure from the paper, with panels labelled "framework", "replication", "spatial extent", and "temporal extent". The third shows a strong partial bias towards Europe, the NE US, and SE Australia. The fourth shows a strong bias to post-2020 and terrestrial
May 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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ICYMI: #BESMacro2025 will be at the University of York July 10-11 (with a one-day workshop July 9). Registration for the conference will be opening soon -- keep an eye on our mailing list (see if www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/macr... to join) and socials for future announcements!
Central Hall, University of York (a kinda space-ship-like building next to a lake) a picture of the Shambles in York, a narrow medieval-looking street (with an ominous sunset[?] [sunrise? I don't know anything about York's geography] in the background)
January 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Hello world! We are BES Macro, the British Ecological Society Macroecology and Macroevolution Special Interest Group. We're probably going to be pretty quiet on here, but if you tag us in things of interest to our members, we'll gladly re-post!
image of the earth (Africa most prominently) from space
January 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM