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Rodrigo Granjel
@granjel.bsky.social
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Ecologist • postdoc at Basque Centre for Climate Change • diversity × interactions × stability × function • 🌱🌊 — he/him

Formerly: Fulbright @ncstate.bsky.social, Santander Iberoamérica UNESP-Río Claro, FPU @unisevilla.bsky.social
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Rodrigo Granjel @granjel.bsky.social · Nov 17
Assembling my community on these 💙 skies! If you're into community ecology, check out my @newphyt.bsky.social paper with Oscar Godoy and Eric Allan. 🌱 We explored how nitrogen enrichment and foliar fungal pathogens drive plant multispecies coexistence: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Nitrogen enrichment and foliar fungal pathogens affect the mechanisms of multispecies plant coexistence
Changes in resources (e.g. nitrogen) and enemies (e.g. foliar pathogens) are key drivers of plant diversity and composition. However, their effects have not been connected to the niche and fitness...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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annaliisalaine.bsky.social
New study out in Ecology Letters 🌱🐑!

Using long-term Åland monitoring data, we found that herbivory increases plant diversity across scales and flips the diversity–area relationship: a positive relationship is found in grazed sites while a negative one in ungrazed sites.

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Herbivory Modifies the Role of Spatial Processes in a Grassland Plant Metacommunity
We empirically examined how mammalian herbivory interacts with habitat size and connectivity to affect plant diversity in a natural grassland metacommunity. We found that herbivory increased plant di...
doi.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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frankashwood.bsky.social
The cover art is finished for my new book and I LOVE IT!

This safari tour of the life in soil and what is means to us, is now available for pre-order as ebook, soft and hardcover in the UK and Commonwealth. Published in August next year (US date soon), I hope it'll entice everyone to love soil! 🧪🪱
A book cover featuring artwork of winding roots and soil animals, entitled 'THE WORLD BENEATH OUR FEET', with roots winding around the text.
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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sebastianschreiber.bsky.social
Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026
Poster announcing the workshop.
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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canobarbacil.bsky.social
Why do so many ecologists share common feelings of disconnection between their research goals and real-world impact? 🌍

Our new article in #FE&E explores the constraints that limit ecological research and how we can mitigate them. 👇

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Overcoming barriers that limit the impact of ecological research
Ecology and conservation researchers have diverse goals that often include both personal career aspirations and desires to enhance the well-being of the natural world and its inhabitants. Perception ....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
granjel.bsky.social
Alguén publicou, ou sabe dalgunha publicación, na que (polo menos) o abstract fora traducido ao galego, ademais do inglés orixinal?

Buscando exemplos en revistas en ecoloxía, especialmente, pero calqueira outro campo é ben recibido.
November 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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oikosjournal.bsky.social
👀Is an ecosystem perspective sufficient to understand meta-ecosystem processes? A critical reflection

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#AquaticTerrestrialCoupling #MetaEcosystem #NetworkTheory #RiparianEcosystem

November 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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animalecology.bsky.social
🐘 New research - Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales

➡️ buff.ly/zqRgqqo

@jonastrepel.bsky.social @joe-atkinson.bsky.social @andrewabraham.bsky.social @jessekalwij.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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spaincivilwartours.bsky.social
Lesser kestrels (cernícalos primillas) in "The Collins Birds of Europe" featuring La Giralda, once the minaret for the Great Mosque of Seville, since Christian conquest the bell tower of the Cathedral. This is the only building shown in the essential European bird guide.
November 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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dannykay68.bsky.social
EXCELLENT graphic on the drain of scientific publishing! zenodo.org/records/1759...
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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minyaaa.bsky.social
Wait New Phy @newphyt.bsky.social supports authors to show their real name (if non English) now?!?!? Omg I love it!!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩
A new Phy paper with Chinese authors listing their Chinese names by the English spellings
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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tommaso-jucker.bsky.social
🚨Job opportunity🚨

We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you!
🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄

www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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dskarp.bsky.social
Another really cool pest paper just came out in @esajournals.bsky.social! Led by Mia Lippey, we show how variable pest responses are to landscape context... even in the same cropping system!

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
One landscape does not fit all: Diverse arthropod responses to land use
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esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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masonfidino.bsky.social
Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ecologists have limited options when modelling species distributions through time, especially when data are limited. The autoOcc R package provides a solution to this, making it simple to fit autologistic occupancy models, compare them, and make model predictions.
November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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stephenturner.us
Positron pro tip: put copilot in timeout for 5 minutes (bottom right of the IDE, snooze) #Rstats
November 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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raquelmuga.bsky.social
Very happy to see the last and my favourite article of the PhD out in @funecology.bsky.social! We show how an invasive moth can alter plant-frugivore interactions in the Mediterranean dwarf palm🦋🏝️🍒🐐
@imedea.bsky.social @annatraveset.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Trait‐mediated effects driven by an invasive herbivore alter functionally diverse plant–frugivore interactions
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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erc.europa.eu
Rob Marchant, Laura Pereira, Unai Pascual, and Thomas Hickler will use their ERC Synergy Grant to understand how nature and societies interact in and beyond mountain socioecological systems ⛰️

@rob-marchant.bsky.social @laurap18.bsky.social @upascual.bsky.social

👉 buff.ly/ZQhLp4h

#ERCSyG
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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esajournals.bsky.social
🆕 in "Ecological Monographs": Static models miss the mark—adding nonlinear, density-based facilitation helps predict coexistence, persistence, and realistic community dynamics

📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation
doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
Schematic illustrating how species interactions can depend on neighborhood density and identity.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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milanchytry.bsky.social
Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
November 10, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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mrillig.bsky.social
Paper just out @newphyt.bsky.social

Ajaz et al.
Maximum entropy networks show that plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associations are anti-nested and modular

w/ Tancredi Caruso

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Maximum entropy networks show that plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associations are anti‐nested and modular
There is uncertainty in whether there is a common pattern of nestedness and modularity in plant–arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi associations, partly because of limitations arising from the use of ...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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ricardsole.bsky.social
What is the origin of diversity in allometric laws scaling across species? Check our new paper led by Andrea Tabi where
we propose a new theory of metabolic scaling grounded in thermodynamics and stochastic fluctuations at the cellular level.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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danimontoya.bsky.social
I am pleased to announce a new postdoctoral position in Theoretical Ecology. More info here: info.bc3research.org/2025/11/06/p...
Postdoctoral position in agroecology for TRANSFORM Project
The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) is offering a full-time postdoctoral research position to support activities within a Horizon Europe project. The project focuses on developing innovative cr...
info.bc3research.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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elinamantyla.bsky.social
Thompson et al. Making “scents” of how plant volatiles influence agriculturally important insects: a review academic.oup.com/ee/article/d...
Making “scents” of how plant volatiles influence agriculturally important insects: a review
Abstract. Plants emit hundreds, if not thousands, of different volatile chemical compounds, although the function of most individual volatiles remains elus
academic.oup.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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philmartin.bsky.social
Ok, so since there's nothing coordinated anywhere, I've decided to make my own crowd-sourced list of ecology and conservation conferences here. If you know of a conference that fits, please add it to the list! Let's turn this into a useful resource for the community tinyurl.com/yb6e6mb2
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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newphyt.bsky.social
Microbes boost pest mortality and parasitoid recruitment through complementary mechanisms

Rivero et al. @ainhoamartinez.bsky.social @eezcsic.bsky.social @axeltouw.bsky.social @irnasa.bsky.social @nmvandam.bsky.social @igzleibniz.bsky.social

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
MIR involves priming of direct or indirect defenses depending on the timing of herbivory
October 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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chaintist.bsky.social
Had to draw a cartoon for this fascinating finding!
Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#SymbioSky
A cartoon/ digital drawing summarising the findings of the paper "Defensive fungal symbiosis on insect hindlegs" by T. Nishino et al published in 2025. On the top left, a female Megymenum gracilicorne bug shows off symbiotic organs on the hind legs where she carries Ascomycota fungi. These were previously assumed to be Tympanal organs in these bugs but only females had them?; that didnt make a whole lot of sense to the authors...To the right of the bug is a row of eggs lying side by side. The paper shows that the bugs deposit the symbiotic fungi on the egg surface after egg-laying. Next on the image, fungal conidia grow on the egg surface. The eggs are pinkish in colour. A few fungi wear sunglasses like they are body guards. The paper shows that they protect the eggs from Trissolcus brevinotaulus, a parasitoid wasp, that likes to lay its eggs inside the developing bug's eggs. There are two wasps in this cartoon "eyeing" the fungi and looking frustrated. Eggs turn from whitish to pinkish within 10-days because they are reflecting the body colour of the nymph within the eggs.
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM