Several small reserves hold more beetle, spider and bird species than a single large reserve of the same size in Central Europe, with habitat heterogeneity being an important driver. First PhD paper by Anne Huber (not on Bsky), w/ @sebseibold.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

📝 Help shape the future of ecosystem restoration! The BiodivRestore Knowledge Hub is surveying experts & practitioners to identify key gaps, barriers & solutions. Your input will guide research & action for the decade ahead. Take the survey: ecologic.limesurvey.net/197389

How effective are perches in promoting bird-mediated seed dispersal for forest regeneration? New publication brilliantly led by Jelaine! doi.org/10.1186/s137... "We recommend...natural perches be preserved... but in areas lacking these...explore the use of artificial or semi-natural perches"

:)

One of our postdocs, @elywok.bsky.social from @ua.es, did an excellent job at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social explaining how the skewness–kurtosis relationship can be used to understand biogeographical patterns of body mass across taxa and which drivers explain it. @biodiversa.eu #SIBECOLAEET2025

Our viewpoint made the cover of BioScience! Beautiful picture from Jean Marie Twambaze academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

It's exciting to see our research featured in the Monash University Science Bulletin and being featured on the UN Biodiversity Day. Here is the full story: www.monash.edu/science/news.... Interested in joining our lab? You can find more about our research here: shawanchowdhury.com.

Check our new review on niche truncation and how to avoid it with N-SDMs

We finally had time for a hike this weekend. Maybe too early for Swiss butterflies, but the view was lovely!

you might think N American species are getting common at their north range limit and rare at their south range limit as temps get warmer but you would be wrong new paper in GEB w/ @eliotmiller.bsky.social & Matt Strimas-Mackey, eBird Status & Trends ftw onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Yesterday I could access the review history for this article ⬇️. Today, the link points somewhere else. @royalsociety.org can you pls fix? I’m curious to learn how this paper was reviewed and the decisions leading to publication. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Enjoy this great short (9 min) film on the work of Constanti Stefanescu, co-ordinator of the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Such schemes are not only important for the butterfly counts, but also as a social network bringing butterflies to the people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...

Visited Bologna and met my nephew! I'm glad to welcome little Jack

Exotic Easter snack

These roof gardens actually sustain unexpected species!

Had a great time in Wageningen at the international symposium on Future for Butterflies & Moths

🆕New paper: "A nature tourism and citizen science alliance" by a current PhD student, Caroline Martin, and colleagues. Check it out at doi.org/10.1093/bios... #openaccess

Mythical. And one of the first pointing out that fragmentation, when controlling for habitat area, does not necessarily imply lower species richness www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I'm thrilled to share our new review paper with the world.

Hello, world!