🐟 Morphological disparity in tropical reef fishes links intra- and interspecific variation, shaped by ecological and evolutionary processes. @ele-ethwsl.bsky.social @fableprieur.bsky.social @loicpellissier.bsky.social @camilleethz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s42...

We are excited to share that ELE PhD researcher Monika Goralczyk is currently working with the WWF team in Washington DC to leverage eDNA in pressing environmental challenges and deliver substantial benefits in conservation work. Looking forward to sharing more insights from this exciting research!

Publication alert: The socioeconomic and environmental niche of protected areas reveals global conservation gaps and opportunities. Researchers identify potential versus unrealistic conservation gains, favourable and unfavourable to protected area establishment. Read more at: lnkd.in/dfgbaBdT

Publication alert: “Projecting Untruncated Climate Change Effects on Species' Climate Suitability: Insights From an Alpine Country”: Our results indicated important effects of projected climate changes on species' climate suitability. Read full article at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Publication alert: A spatial matrix factorization method to characterize ecological assemblages as a mixture of unobserved sources: An application to fish eDNA surveys. Check out full article at: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🌱 Major Milestone for Conservation in Bhutan! 🌏 The eDNA Clean Lab at the College of Natural Resources, Bhutan, is now fully operational, supported by ETH Zurich. Excitingly, the lab’s first eDNA analyses are already underway to study biodiversity from water. #Biodiversity #Conservation

Pre-print alert! 🚨 Excited to share my second PhD chapter: species link habitats through food webs. We show that removing species from one habitat (e.g., wetlands) can cascade across the multi-habitat regional food web, reducing its robustness. 🌿🐝🐦🦌 Check it out here: doi.org/10.21203/rs....

What is the role of a continuously evolving #vegetation on 🌎’s carbon-climate regulation system? The balance between past environmental changes & vegetation capacity to adapt could've strongly influenced #carbon fluxes between 🌎’s surface & #geologic reservoirs. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ETH BiodivX has been awarded the Bonus Prize at the XPrize Rainforest competition! A special thanks to everybody from the ETH BiodivX team for their commitment and support throughout this adventure! Photo credits: Luca Desiderato and Veronica Condello

Last month, we held our 1st Biodiversity Research Day at WSL. With 31 talks (from PhDs to group leaders), lively discussions & a full house, the event was a big success! A big thank you to all the speakers & to the staff who helped us with the organization. biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/news/the-...

In case you missed Dr. Amanda Bates' Funk Seminar last month, it’s now available on our YouTube page. Feel free to check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ers2...

Post doc in conservation science and ecological networks www.maraujolab.eu/2024/10/25/p...

"Fieldwork Greenland" This summer, postdoc Virginie Marques spent a month in Greenland for the last fieldwork session of the GreenFjord project, aiming to understand the effect of glacier melt on marine biodiversity from plankton 🪼 to fish 🐟 lnkd.in/gEG82y8V lnkd.in/gpYP47p9

Karma Sherub, wrapped up camera trapping in the forest of #Bhutan📸🌲. He focusses on #eDNA and camera methods to identify terrestrial mammals🧬🐾and promoting peaceful co-existence between humans and #wildlife

Ao Luo and colleagues map global flowering plant #biodiversity, uncovering crucial #conservation #hotspots. Analysis of 300k+ species reveals mismatches in protected areas, stressing the need for balanced conservation planning. Dive in here: doi.org/10.1007/s114...