Congratulations to the PhD Veronica Pinelli! Chance, necessity, and ecosystem functioning.

Metacommunity mechanisms in restoration ecology. Large restorations with homogeneous habitat can magnify competitive differences at the landscape level; degrading coexistence conditions. Understanding the final effects of local interventions require a landscape perspective. doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Connectivity can propagate local impacts of pollutants to the metacommunity level by promoting pollutant-tolerant species or attenuate impacts by a rescue effect from less impacted communities when pollutant produce a general reduction in community abundance. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

The spatial paths in an early invasion of bullfrogs is determined by well-connected but intermediate abundance populations. Lessons from a long-term monitoring of a pondscape invasion. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Advancing the role of trait matching and species abundances on the modular organization of food webs and occurrence networks doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Join the first EPCN webinar of 2026! 🌿💧 📅 18 May | ⏰ 11:00 CET Topic: Mountain ponds Featuring the new EPCN Mountain Pond WG by @lfehlinger.bsky.social & a talk on climate change impacts (CIMaE Project). To receive the meeting link, please contact: [email protected] #ponds #webinar

New chapter 📢 How does #salinization affect aquatic #foodwebs? With @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social, @mphebert.bsky.social, @zadereev.bsky.social, BKefford and MCañedo-Argüelles, we summarize effects across trophic levels and how they can propagate through the food web Read here: shorturl.at/0YfLL

Ahir a Rupià, projecció de la pel·lícula PANTERAS d’Andoni Canela… preciosa! Més de 90 persones, tot un èxit. Gràcies #festadelanaturaderupià Avui seguim amb una passejada per conèixer les papallones de Rupià 🦋🌿

Nova lectura de tesi doctoral de l’IEA. Segur que serà molt interessant!

New paper out 🚀 masterfully led by Tao Xiang What drives fish invasions globally? We show that being different pays off: non-native species are more likely to establish when they are functionally or phylogenetically distinct from native ones. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Si sou a prop de Rupià, aprofiteu l'ocasió per visitar-nos!!! Super iniciativa del nostre regidor Iñaki Relanzón.

Amazing video from Respond project people!!! youtu.be/Ck95FHxhYeY?...

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 Thrilled to co-author this work as part of Camila’s PhD in the MEINNET UY project 🌍✨ (PI: @carlaulmusminor.bsky.social) Science, teamwork, and big ideas 🙌 Congrats, Cami! 🎉💡 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s107... @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

📊🌱 Hoy #8M lanzamos encuesta sobre #cuidados y carrera científica en #ecología. ¿Quién cuida en la comunidad científica? ¿Cuánto tiempo implican esos cuidados? ¿Influyen en las trayectorias investigadoras? Si trabajas en ecología, cuéntanos 👇 aeet-comisionigualdad.limesurvey.net/485287?lang=...

New paper from my group out in Ecology Letters, led by PhD student Daniel Hernández-Carrasco revealing a new method to account for the influence of community turnover along environmental gradients on compositional uniqueness.

www.diaridegirona.cat/girona/2026/... doi.org/10.1038/s414... @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social @univgirona.bsky.social @reservoirwebs.bsky.social @timaukel.bsky.social

Aquí podéis consultar el programa completo: news.pcuv.es/home-pcuv-el...

Lamentable: hay info suficiente lo que falta es voluntad para afrontar problemas difíciles pero importantes. Por desgracia, los intereses económicos de unos pocos siempre pasan por los problemas ambientales de tod@s 🥲 www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/...

We’ve loved having Dr. Matias Arim with us this week! 🙌 Super inspiring visit, great chats about what we’ve done so far #funMETANET and what’s coming next🚀... and thanks for jumping in to help with the field sampling too 😉🌿 @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social

With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins. go.nature.com/49fOOrP

Academia friendly peer-reviewed journals in EEB: academic.oup.com/jeb/advance-...

Very glad to contribute to this review on #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪🌍🌐 #Non-native species

During & 2 years after the restoration of a scrubbed over farm #pond. A massive increase in biodiversity observed. Return of Great Crested Newt & appearance of the mega rare Tassel Stonewort. We can report on 100s of stories like this from Norfolk. Ponds should be a higher conservation priority

Many thanks to Anaïs Calabuig for her nice illustrations!!!!

New funMETANET educational output 🎉 📘 El gran viatge de la Tuga i la Closca: de bassa en bassa fent xarxa Supported by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (REF PID2020-114440GB-100), Diputació de Girona, and UdG Social Council. 🔜 Freely downloadable SOON!!!. 📡 Stay connected for updates!

Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions out in EcoLett Nov issue Communities can disproportionately insure (functional sources) or depend on (functional sinks) neighbour communities, a dual relationship not captured by metrics of functional beta diversity doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🌐🌍🦤🧪

🚨New paper🚨From a survey of 560 garden-pond owners, nearly half keep invasive macrophytes, often bought through online communities that are blind spots for researchers and authorities. #waterhyacinth #waterlettuce #invasiveplants #citizenscience 🌿🌱🌺 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Avui amb en @jordi-bou.bsky.social hem realitzat un Seminari del Projecte GiroNat: La gestió de la infraestructura verda i blava en el municipi de Girona, al Màster en Canvi Ambiental i Transició Socioecològica. @iea-udg.bsky.social @greco-udg.bsky.social

📢 First step of the PhD! 📄 Waterscape dataset of the municipality of Girona 🔍 With @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social, #LMartín, #DBoix and @jordi-bou.bsky.social 💧 A work of @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

Hoy #25N, la Comisión de Igualdad de la AEET recuerda en el #BlogAEET a las mujeres que dejaron la vida por la ciencia. blogaeet.org/2025/11/25/2...

Del 17 al 28 de novembre, es pot visitar al Hall de la @udgeducaciopsic.bsky.social l'exposició "Gir cap a la renaturalització" que organitzen les biblioteques dels campus Barri Vell i Montilivi de la @univgirona.bsky.social. 🔗 www.udg.edu/ca/fep/facul...

Why does a gender gap in scientific “productivity” persist? 📅 Oct 8, @aaronclauset.bsky.social in Umeå: biased networks, not ability, explain the difference. Join us! 🔗 www.umu.se/en/events/ic... @umeauniversitet.bsky.social

And other publication by GenderAIL group: a 10-step guide to close the gender gap in scientific societies and help them to become powerful agents for gender equality. #WomenInScience #DiversityInSTEM doi.org/10.1038/s441...

New publication by the GenderAIL group 🙌🙌: The "triple presence" burden for women in academia: not just scholars and mothers, but also primary caregivers for older relatives. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolutionary "hills" or "islands"? Very interesting new approach to measure the uniqueness of a biological community, with great potential use as baseline to identify high-value biodiversity sites at multiple scales.

Thrilled to share our new article published in Hydrobiologia!🎉 We found that hydrological connectivity, rather than pond age, was the key driver of community assembly in coastal ponds. Many thanks to the co-authors🙌🏻 📃: doi.org/10.1007/s107... @iea-udg.bsky.social @greco-udg.bsky.social

📢 Us convidem a la lectura de la tesi doctoral Integrating Ecological Complexity and Physiological Traits into Environmental Risk Assessments Per Amina Khalid 🗓️ 5 de setembre de 2025 · 11.00 h 📍 Aula Magna, Facultat de Ciències 👉 També on-line: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

📢Amazing August news 📢 Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1111/geb....

📢 #GiroNat is out in @journalofmaps.bsky.social 📃 Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🔵 | Hem presentat al·legacions contra el parc solar Julia: 75.000 plaques, 93 ha i 15 km de línia d’alta tensió que travessa el riu Ter i espais protegits. ➡️ Llegeix la notícia: https://tuit.cat/q7cmi

July's meeting of the EcoAqua research group. Lots of interesting talks, amazing research and fun interactions. I've talked a bit about Open Science and we all made some drawings (sooo glad that we all focused on an academic and not an artistic life..haha). Looking forward to the next meetings!

Acaba de sortir del forn! En aquest article, resultant dels projectes AquiPondSys i TREASURE, expliquem l’origen geològic únic en el món de les basses de l’Albera👇🏼👇🏼 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Insightful talk today by @oldenfish.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social at @iea-udg.bsky.social @univgirona.bsky.social on bounty programs as a management strategy for native and non-native species

Some weeks ago we published a work leaded by #Dorottya & @csabaiz.bsky.social in #FWB where we looked at the relevance of spatiotemporal connectivity across different intermittent streams 😄 A nice output from our exchanges in #Pécs around #DRYvER project @tdatry.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/fwb....

Si esteu prop de #Girona i us interessa l’ecologia, les espècies invasores o els peixos continentals, no us es perdeu aquest seminari d’en Julian Olden (“highly cited researcher”) aquest dijous 26 de juny

Carlos Durán Ruiz, presentant: USING A STEREO-VIDEO SYSTEM TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GAMBUSIA HOLBROOKI AND APHANIUS IBERUS.

Anna Equisuany Ruiz, presentant: THE ROLE OF CONNECTIVITY IN SHAPING METACOMMUNITY BIODIVERSITY