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

Incorporating responses of traits to changing climates into species distribution models: a path forward A Viewpoint by Peng, et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Researchers provide a national list of established non-native species in the Philippines, along with an update on the Southeast Asian region, to aid national and regional efforts in addressing the threats posed by biological invasions. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neob... @geomarkiel.bsky.social

Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace webinar "Diversity in island plant functional strategies" by Kasey Barton and the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/546VrpYBbccb...

Just one more week to submit an abstract for our biennial conference! More info found here: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

You cannot just change one into the other #ratites ~ emu ~ moa #ecology #zoology @atennyson.bsky.social

The @ec.europa.eu launches the Global Biodiversity Data Viewer (GBDV) - an #informationsystem providing simple means to assess, monitor and report the state of #biodiversity and associated pressures 🌍 #BiodiversityData #BioInfo #GlobalData knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/biodiversity...

Different Mechanisms Explain Decoupled Co‐Occurrence Patterns of Native and Non‐Native Macroinvertebrates 🔗 buff.ly/8LkDALm

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

New checklist of #birds @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @stubutchart.bsky.social

Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Hello plant functional trait peeps 👋🏽 🧪 🌱 See this opportunity to submit to special feature in Journal of Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

🚨 Study by Keck, F., Peller, T., Alther, R. et al. reveals the negative impact of human activity on Earth's biodiversity across all species and ecosystems.📉🧪 Human activities drive biodiversity loss both directly and indirectly.🌍 More via @nature.com:

New research by @celiamcmichael.bsky.social and colleagues: "Adaptive capacity in Pacific Islands: Responding to coastal and climatic change in Nagigi village, Fiji" journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

🤔 Ever used the #SIBiLS database (a.k.a. #BiodiversityPMC) to browse #scientific literature in search of e.g. #species traits or #biotic interactions? 📝Help us improve it by filling out this 5-min survey: heg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... ℹ️About BiodiversityPMC: blog.pensoft.net/2024/02/14/t...

Special Issue on Island Plant Communities: Revisiting a small Mediterranean island: How vegetation has changes in the last 15 years. Check out a case study set in Pianosa, Tuscan archipelago, by Siccardi et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New day, new paper! 🦣🌍 Led by @mapaslab.bsky.social ab.bsky.social PhD student Sofía Galván and out now in Global Ecology and Biogeography in which we asked: "Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?" 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Are specializations evolutionary dead ends? Morrison et al. reveal that in bird carotenoid evolution, continuity and stability are two sides of the same coin. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Happy birthday to Elizabeth Gould #wildlife #art @biodivlibrary.bsky.social

📖Published📖 Our recent review article synthesizes the current state of knowledge on soil fauna cryptic species identification, emphasizing specific molecular techniques as the most reliable and precise method currently available for detecting and unravelling cryptic diversity 🐛 buff.ly/l4cD4sj

How can magellanic #penguins navigate tidal currents while balancing #EnergyEfficiency & foraging opportunities? This study reveals how they adaptively make S-shaped return paths to their colony, optimizing travel in complex oceanic flows @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/40nKyD4

Meet the men and women who have thrown themselves into the battle against forest degradation. Seeds of Hope: Forest Guardians of Madagascar is a mini documentary about a life-changing forest restoration success story. It just dropped on Youtube, and you can watch it below ⬇️. 🌾🌍

Whimbrel are flying south from Iceland to West Africa, a five-day journey across the open Atlantic Ocean: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m... Research by Camilo Carneiro et al 👇Global map of Whimbrel tracks from 'Global Wader'👇 wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m... #ConservationScience🌎

Epiphytic moss coexistence links to macroclimatic niches at forest scales, shifting to species relatedness at moss pad levels. Positive interactions dominate across scales, especially at moss pads, suggesting they may be more crucial for bryophyte coexistence than competition. 👉 buff.ly/D8JD1ex

📰Published📰 Retention of ancestral traits and parallel evolution across environments partially explain the coexistence of closely related trees 🌳 buff.ly/pKWsupS 🧪🌍

A composite universal DNA signature for the tree of life www.nature.com/articles/s41... This study develops a barcoding method that uses machine learning models and low-coverage genome sequences for species identification across all domains of life 🧪

Molina-Venegas et al show that indirect reciprocal facilitation during recruitment in woody plant communities is widespread and linked with species richness, and explore its role in the coexistence of species www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A scientific future shared with #AI Our June editorial by Renee Hoch (PLOS Head Pub Ethics) and @plosbiology.org's FM Senior Editor Joanna Clarke reflects on how generative AI can contribute to a scientific future, and how it can (and cannot) ethically interface with publishing plos.io/4l7jgsG 🧪

Interested in a PhD working on patterns of biodiversity richness and evolution in New Guinea?? Then check out this amazing opportunity! urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Exciting news! Our society journal has been included in the Clarivate Journal Citation Report for the first time, with an impact factor of 2.5! It's an excellent option for fully open access publication of biogeographical research! biogeography.pensoft.net

Join us! register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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...

Call for Sessions 🤓: Submit your session for the 9th European #Conference of Tropical Ecology under the theme of “Species- Ecosystems – People” in #Passau (Germany) until the 18th of June 2025. Please use our online platform for submitting your proposal: gtoe2026-passau.de/call-for-ses...

*** Academic BFD alert *** We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Climate change and #biodiversity loss that affect the #Earth are two sides of the same coin & we cannot address one without considering the other. An approach that seems so obvious, but it is not always so. 🗞️On #WorldEarthDay we analyse it in this article on the @idos-research.bsky.social website 👇

You: Oi! I want to get in on this BES Macro stuff! When is the deadline to register for #BESMacro2025, the most fun and friendly conference around? Us: May 31! But if you want in on the student plenary, you need to apply by May 2. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...