Great Seminar with Tom Matthews organised by @islandbiology.bsky.social on: Assessing the wider implications of species extinctions: island birds and beyond May 27th, 4pm British Summer Time / 5pm CET Register (it's free) with this link: forms.gle/Cn1wUvukAp2Y...

ICYMI: New online! Roadmaps for addressing the biodiversity crisis

Read the accompanying News & Views commentary 👇 Flexible photosynthesis at the end Permian www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/ff09f

🚨🚨 Good news alert! 🚨🚨 We've rounded up five inspiring science stories – including the discovery of a new species, and a promising medical treatment for a fatal mitochondria disease. go.nature.com/4d0b1vG

Don't miss out! This month's Funk Biogeography Seminar is still open for registration here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ma...

Register now for the Island Biology 2026 Conference and pay later (if needed). Deadlines: Symposium Proposal: April 15, 2026 Early Registration: April 9, 2026 General Presentation Proposal: May 7, 2026 Regular Registration: September 20, 2026 More info: sites.google.com/view/island-...

We are currently inviting proposals for symposia (deadline Extended April 15, 2026): sites.google.com/view/island-... We welcome your proposals. Looking forward to seeing you in Japan!

This is a friendly reminder that Island Biology 2026 will be held from Nov. 2nd to 6th. We are currently inviting proposals for symposia (deadline March 31): sites.google.com/view/island-... We welcome your proposals. Looking forward to seeing you in Japan!

This is a friendly reminder that Island Biology 2026 will be held from Nov. 2nd to 6th. We are currently inviting proposals for symposia (deadline March 31): sites.google.com/view/island-... We welcome your proposals. Looking forward to seeing you in Japan!

We have received several inquiries indicating that credit card payments from Europe are not going through successfully. We are currently contacting our travel agency to investigate the issue. #IB2026 #2-6_Nov_2026 #In_Atami_city,_Japan sites.google.com/view/island-...

Plenary Speakers Announced! Further details will be shared soon. - Anna Traveset (IMEDEA) - Takashi Kamijo (University of Tsukuba) - Takeo Kuriyama (University of Hyogo) - Koh Nakamura (Hokkaido University) - Yuya Watari (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)

The School of Life Sciences, College of Natural Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is searching for a Full Professor to fill an endowed chair in Botany. More info: www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa...

New paper just out deciphering the global species–area relationship for plants with @biogeokreft.bsky.social @patrickweigelt.bsky.social and others in @pnas.org Across islands area alone explains 66% of variation in richness best described by a classic power-law model www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🤔Looking to make your #code more #reproducible? Check out our new and improved guide to Reproducible Code! 🧪🌍️ Find it here👇️ buff.ly/10TeNok @nhcooper123.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

For International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we asked our Section Editors about their experiences, and spoke in detail with @clairebrockett.bsky.social from @sheffielduni.bsky.social about why inclusion matters in her research. everyone.plos.org/2026/02/11/e... #IDWGS2026 #WomenInScience

Registration & Call for Symposia open! more info: sites.google.com/view/island-...

The British Ecological Society has curated this Virtual Issue to highlight research that is directly relevant to the work of the Intergovernmental Science Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)👇 buff.ly/LsHioXu

There is much to be done, at all levels. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

On behalf of the SIB, our Japanese colleagues are organizing the 5th International Conference of Island Biology to be held in Atami City, Japan, from the 2nd to the 6th of November this year. We are looking forward to seeing you in Japan! More info: sites.google.com/view/island-...

The key deadlines and registration fees have been added to our website! #IB2026 Early-bird registration - Regular 35,000 JPY - Student/LMICs* 25,000 JPY Standard registration - Regular 39,000 JPY - Student/LMICs* 29,000 JPY 1/3 sites.google.com/view/island-...

Island Biology 2026 Conference 2–6 Nov. 2026 ホームページ公開しました！ #IB2026 We’ve launched the Island Biology 2026 Conference website! 2–6 Nov. 2026 sites.google.com/view/island-... #IB2026

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. — @davidobura.bsky.social , @ipbes.net Chair

Climate change has already reshaped the bioclimatic space of extreme events in the Arctic 🌐❄️ Arctic biodiversity has entered a new era of bioclimatic extremes w/ more droughts, greater winter-warming 📈 & more rain-on-snow events 💧❄️ shorturl.at/pQsVP Just published in Science Advances ⬇️

The news is finally out — #TIBS2028 will be held in #China 🇨🇳 The conference will take place in #Beijing, bringing the global #biogeography community together again after two years. High expectations for an exciting meeting and stimulating discussions.

Interested in genetic diversity-area relationships as a potential proxy for genetic diversity? Check out Chloé Schmidt's latest 😀 @chloology.bsky.social 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio with Sean Hoban, @debbiemleigh.bsky.social, & Walter Jetz onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Holger Kreft @biogeokreft.bsky.social (replacing @nathalygr.bsky.social) presents their great work on plant functional island biogeography. Check out their gift database gift.uni-goettingen.de #TIBS2026

Wonderful collection of articles exploring what the concept of anthromes - human-modified biomes - means for our understanding of the global carbon cycle 🌐

The first conference was held in 2014 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I still remember the plenary talk given by Drs. Peter and Rosemary Grant. #IB2026

Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial‐Refugia Hypothesis 🔗 buff.ly/xtRwbvO

Today is the last day of November — before I know it, it’ll be less than a year until IB2026! Island Biology 2026 Conference 2-6 Nov, 2026 In Atami city, Japan🗾 #IB2026

Reptiles confined to islands are facing a double jeopardy 🦎 New research from @ricardonature.bsky.social shows that 30% of island reptiles are threatened with extinction (compared to 12.1% of reptiles overall) - but only 6.7% of reptile-focused research since 1960 has studied them 👇 bit.ly/3LqQo1F

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....

Our new paper in @plosbiology.org reveals that life history evolution is at the core of an eco-evolutionary feedback that promotes diversity. Do you want to know how? read more in: plos.io/4p7YT0a

ICYMI: New online! Layering solutions to conserve tropical coral reefs in crisis

Dr. Laura Pollock will be giving the last Funk Seminar of 2025! Registration and information about this talk can be found on our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/no...

Lead by Pili Martin Ramos 😊we present a new palaeoecological record in the Canary Islands, which reveals how climate, vegetation, and fire changed on the islands over the last 28,000 years 🌍 sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @fdezpalacioslab.bsky.social @ferpalenrique.bsky.social and more 😊🏝️

Widespread #MountainEcosystem loss (2000-2020) is driven by human expansion ( #agriculture approx. 89% and #NaturalDisasters approx 11%) Over half (approx 56%) occurred in #ProtectedAreas or #biodiversity hotspots, demanding urgent #conservation action 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is an INCREDIBLE advance in our understanding of coral diversification. 🪸🎉 Fantastic new work led by @claudiavaga.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this amazing paper by @ignacioq.bsky.social et al. on the rise and fall of clades using a new fossilized birth-death model and inegrating phylogenetic and fossil occurence data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Island community we need you! Help us complete two short surveys on island socioecological systems and biodiversity monitoring, shaping island biodiversity research! Survey 1: forms.gle/CiSp9QqxMbGv... Survey 2: forms.gle/dwBWWUcry1fY... Questions? [email protected] #islandbiology #BioMonI

The World Conservation Congress, the largest gathering of nature conservation experts, leaders and decision makes, is here! #WorldCongress #nature #conservation learnfromnaturetoday.com/world-conser...

📖Published📖 Nakagawa et al. introduce phylogenetic location–scale models (PLSMs), a novel framework that jointly analyses the evolution of trait means and variances. Read more here 👇 buff.ly/GE1ikys 🌍 🧪

Red List gets longer & longer … #WorldConservationCongress

Transformative change for a just and sustainable world often seems overwhelming. @annelarigauderie.bsky.social and the @ipbes.net Transformative Change Assessment co-chairs highlight the roles we can each have in achieving #transformativechange. 🧪 #biodiversity #sustainability plos.io/3VGKknN

Why are some species widespread while others are found only in small, isolated areas? A study in Nature Communications shows that species with narrow ranges, and thus higher extinction risk, are often island-restricted, poor dispersers, and have evolved relatively recently. #evosky 🧪

Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Our September issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... 🧪 Featuring research on: 🦅 evolution of avian powered flight 🦷 Paranthropus teeth 🌴 tropical biodiversity loss Cover shows a sunflower sea star, from Prentice et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt