See also the excellent @theconversation.com article by University of Melbourne colleagues, Raphael Trouve, Craig Nitschke & Patrick Baker—decades of data provide evidence of reduced forest carrying capacity as trees are subject to a range of stressors from a warming climate

Quantifying similarity among ecological network is getting feasible to understand assembly processes from communities to species interactions. Upcoming publication using this for African mammal food webs is under revision now. Stay tuned! #Ecology #EcologicalNetwork #Macroecology #Biogeography

It was a short visit, but wonderful to catch up with @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social again and to see some inspirational experimental sites at Bad Lauchstädt!

TECHNICAL ADVANCE If You're Rare, Should I Care? How Imperfect Detection Changes Relationships Between Biodiversity and Global Change Drivers 🔗 buff.ly/FvZGYmA

In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🌎🧪🌐 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌀Turnover vs. Loss — local biodiversity isn't declining as expected. 🔄 Some species disappear, others appear — so does overall richness change? 🧐 In this #InsideBiodiversity episode, @jon-chase03.bsky.social explains why reality is challenging assumptions. 🔗https://insidebiodiversity.podigee.io/

Scientist’s guide to developing explanatory statistical models using causal analysis principles 🌎🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Interested in #ecological #theory & live on this side of the world (Asia-Pacific)? Tune in to the @pop-bio.bsky.social seminar series! I'm speaking next on #biodiversity change, #food-web energetics and #ecosystem function. Register here: forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL... 🌐🌏🍁🧪 @newzealandecology.bsky.social

This is HUGE! 40% yield drop expected for Europe. And we are still discussing if a single DNA base change has to be considered as a GMO. And that just because the organic sector is complaining? Decadence? madness? or both?

Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... 🌐 🦑🧪 🧵⬇️

Like Bird of the Year? LOVE Bug of the Year? Vote for NZ's Fungus of the Year 2025! interactives.landcareresearch.co.nz/foty/

Indigenous researchers and communities are reshaping how Western science thinks about data ownership. #AANHPIHeritageMonth scim.ag/4m5VBJZ

Call for papers for a NZJZ special issue! Challenging traditional theory: Unexpected findings from the #biodiversity of the Global South.🌐🌏 More info here: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Integrating food webs in species distribution models can improve ecological niche estimation and predictions https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07546 #Biodiversisty #Modelling #Metanetworks #SDM

Cool study just out linking above and belowground compartments of ecosystems via trophic energy fluxes @currentbiology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just out in scientific data: StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content - 28,049 records from 5,876 species from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine realms. Led by Angelica Gonzalez and Olivier Dezerald. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @idiv-research.bsky.social #sBIOMAPS

So excited to see past masters student Poppy Joaquina Romera's paper is shortlisted for the @funecology.bsky.social early career Haldane Prize! functionalecologists.com/2025/03/24/2.... Read the paper here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Come join us in the Biodiversity, Ecology and Behaviour team at University of Waikato @waikatouniversity.bsky.social! We are advertising a 3-4 year Lecturer position in Animal Behaviour. Especially ideal for anyone specialising in vertebrates! 🌏🌐 www.seek.co.nz/job/83279795...

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5

A new study by @alexpigot.bsky.social and colleagues reveals the critical role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems. @uclcber.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next few months! Starting with Ryan Chisholm in March and then @akshitg.bsky.social @hyejinpark.bsky.social @barnesecodiv.bsky.social. Fill in this google form to receive announcements forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL...

Brief interruption in my/our doom scrolling/posting to share a paper I'm really proud of that has taken almost a decade with the very patient @exconomist.bsky.social @katehelmstedt.bsky.social P. Reich, S. Polasky & K. Boersma www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/n

📢New paper!! 📢using #BioTIME #timeseries we showed that faster rates of #turnover in community composition were associated with faster rates of #temperature #change across biomes, for both cooling & warming + microclimate availability & human impacts modulate these responses go.nature.com/3WD7cWa

🌎🧪 #biodiversity www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Podium finish for the Giant Springtail - thanks for all the support! Congratulations to the Velvet Worm for a well-deserved win. Having two soil inverts in the top three is great awareness raising for soil biodiversity! Nice to see my photos in the Guardian too: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Hopefully this gets people thinking about the origins of life's thermal optimisation. I'm also super excited about this study - it's probably one of the most "stretchy" projects I've ever worked on, but great fun!

Excited about our new paper asking: Why does the growth of most life have an optimal temperature below 40°C? We argue the average maximum oceanic temperatures of <37°C for 2+ billion years drove evolution of the temperature optima of prokaryotes. 1/5 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper that may be of interest to ecologists studying global change, disturbances, biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, or response diversity: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

This change to @marsdenfund.bsky.social is a deeply concerning shift for #aotearoa New Zealand #Science funding. How can we progress as a country without funding the #humanities and #social sciences? www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...

### NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ### Global Joint Synthesis Call "𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲" Funding of: ➡️ Working groups ➡️ Postdocs @several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍 PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX! www.idiv.de/research/sdi...

Impressive new study shows consistent and predictable impacts of multiple extreme events on #soil #microbial communities. @knightjar.bsky.social @frantecol.bsky.social @natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And lastly from EcoDivLab, Stella Bachmann presents her PhD research investigating effects of restoration age on microbial community assembly mechanisms in urban forests #NZES2024

And again from the EcoDiv Lab, Kasey Kiesewetter presents her research on impacts of habitat fragmentation on soil microbial communities in Florida #NZES2024

Estela Folch-Chaos now presenting her research on impacts of #warming on #soil food webs along NZ geothermal gradients! #NZES2024

Kara Allen is kicking off today's exciting special symposium on global change impacts on belowground ecosystems! Presenting research on belowground effects of habitat edges #NZES2024

📢 Global Ecology feed ! A new feed for large scale biodiversity, ecosystems and conservation sciences, covering both terrestrial & marine realms - DM @nmouquet.bsky.social to be added as contributors - Tag posts with globe meridian emoji 🌐 to show up in this feed bsky.app/profile/nmou... 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

APC is not a solution for OA.

Ah, and here are typical scientific papers in the trait-based ecology field ;-D

New paper out in Global Change Biology, led by Marie Sünnemann: Sustainable Land Use Strengthens Microbial & Herbivore Controls in Soil Food Webs in Current and Future Climates onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #GCEF @barnesecodiv.bsky.social @amyntas.bsky.social @benrosenbaum.bsky.social

❗❗New paper alert ❗❗ Findings from the GCEF experimental facility show higher control of #herbivores & #microbes in #soil food webs with sustainable land use in current and future climate scenarios Another great publication from Marie Sünnemann's PhD work! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Want to learn more about the wonderful world of soil biodiversity? Well then here's the starter pack for you! If I've accidentally missed anyone off the list then please let me know in the comments. Also check out @msteinwandter.bsky.social who has been working on one too! go.bsky.app/UxXTyxD

The lack of evidence for declining local diversity through time must be because everything is homogenizing, leading to larger-scale losses. Right?! Nope, says our analysis of 500+ meta-communities through time just published in Science Advances 🧪🌎🐟🌳🦋 🐦🦌 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Still 2 weeks to apply for 2 funded #PhDposition in Aotearoa New Zealand! Come work on food web stability & ecosystem functioning in response to warming in geothermal soils! Descriptions here (2nd position with Charlotte Alster): www.ecodivlab.com/contact @marsdenfund.bsky.social

What are the key predictors of invasion success? We are seeking a 2024 PhD applicant to explore a variety of questions available in a system of endemic and differentially invasive blowflies to determine what it takes to be a successful invader.

Check out our new preprint: a global meta-analysis of the ecosystem functions and services provided by dung beetles! Excellent PhD chapter From Fevziye Hasan! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

2 fully funded PhD positions with Charlotte Alster (researchers.lincoln.ac.nz/charlotte.al...) and myself! Come work at geothermal sites in Aotearoa New Zealand to explore how warming influences microbial trade-offs, food web structure, and soil ecosystem resilience. @marsdenfund.bsky.social

So thrilled to receive a @marsdenfund.bsky.social grant to work with Charlotte Alster on our Co-designed project "Turning up the heat on soil food webs: will global warming erode ecosystem resilience?". Also with @louisschipper.bsky.social Julie Deslippe, Anton Potapov & Adriana Romero-Olivares