🌍 Save the Date! The 12th International Biogeography Society Conference is coming to Aarhus, Denmark 🇩🇰 📅 January 6-10, 2026 📍 Aarhus University Join biogeographers from around the world to exchange research, foster innovation, and push our field forward! #TIBS2026 #Biogeography #Aarhus

The GM blog is continuing our "islands" mini-series with an interview with Prof. Richard Ott @georichard.bsky.social on his work on Crete and carbonate landscapes! 🏝️🌟⛰️🐚Check it out: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gm...

in "General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally", we provide key insights into species’ vulnerability to environmental change and the processes that structure biodiversity at global scales. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️30th October 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week to hear from Dr Oskar Hagen, on “Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time” 🌐 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

A new study published in Science Advances reveals that Madagascar’s striking landscape was shaped by not one, but two great rifting events, separated by nearly 80 million years. @eth-eaps.bsky.social eaps.ethz.ch/en/news/arch...

Paper out in Ecology Letters! We - incl. @westobymark.bsky.social @biogeokreft.bsky.social and others - show that traits are linked to species’ colonisation and extinction probabilities on #islands — with direct implications for species persistence and the Equilibrium Theory of Island #Biogeography

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

The 2025 call for #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships drew 17,058 applications worldwide. A 64.6% increase from 2024, it's the most popular call in over four decades. Excellence thrives where it is enabled, protected and shared — and Europe provides that environment. → europa.eu/!jcnGgP #ChooseEurope

Ever wonder about what spatial scale of biodiversity #eDNA 🧬 samples capture? We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity. (Please share with #eDNA folks!) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Symposia at #TIBS2026: • Functional island #biogeography • Co-evolution of #landscape & life • Biocultural #geography incl. #culture & #languages • Quantitative #paleoecology in the era of big data 📅 Abstracts –Sep 8 📅 Early-bird reg. Oct 31, 2025 👉 conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-2026/registration

Are you curious about how geology shapes biodiversity patterns? Would you like to explore this topic with exciting discussions? If so, join us at the TIBS conference! We are hosting a symposium on the Co-evolution of Landscape and Life, stimulating interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations!

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average. 📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Too much sediment from rivers can hurt coral reefs, but in the long term, rivers can also keep reefs healthy by forming passes (gaps) that connect lagoons with the ocean. Megan Gillen explains how in her new paper (open access): doi.org/10.1029/2025...

New paper out today in @pnas.org presenting near-complete phylogeny of the Grevilleoideae subfamily of Proteaceae plants, representing years of work and huge collaboration from an amazing team - ft. @marcelcardillo.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social @austinmast.bsky.social and many others not on bsky

A global analysis shows consistent energy–diversity relationships across birds, mammals, amphibians & reptiles, resolving decades of ecological debate. Paper now out in @science.org : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌍🌐 #ecology #MetabolicTheory

Great to get this paper out on macroevolutionary trends of the hyperdiverse southwest Australian and eastern Australian floras! @alexskeels.bsky.social Article is open access and can be downloaded here: lnkd.in/gaxzYppQ

“observed patterns of island biodiversity … demonstrate that neutral models can make accurate predictions of higher-order diversity statistics. “ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪🌐

Abstract submission for the international biogeography society meeting in Aarhus (January 2026) is now open. I hope to see a lot of people there! 🌐🧪 conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

🦏🦣🦌 LARGE paper alert!!! We tracked 60 million years of large herbivore evolution—over 3,000 fossil species—to uncover how ecosystems have changed and reorganized through time. What we found might help us understand the next big tipping point 🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Distinguishing species boundaries from geographic variation Chambers et al. 2025 PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

New online! Impacts of deglaciation on biodiversity and ecosystem function

For geomorphologists going to EGU, here is your one-page overview of all of the GM sessions and activities next week! Looking forward to a week of free and open science, EDI discussions and activities, and plenty of talk about climate change...

Due to construction work, our train from Zurich to Vienna partially changed to bus. But this gives us an unique opportunity to explore the Austria Alps 🏔️ #train2EGU #EGU25 #greenEGU

Tomorrow we go to the flume lab with Sinéad Lyster (Penn State)! The impact of vegetation on delta landscapes and stratigraphy: Insights from physical experiments 🌱🌱🌱 🟨🟨🟨🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟦 More info here: www.landscapeslive.org

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... please check out our new publication on invasive plants assesment in the us forests!

The talk by @yaquanchang.bsky.social is now on our Youtube page! 🌿🌱🌳🍄 🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️ 🌳🍄🌲🌱 youtu.be/4-3VU0iVf6s

Tomorrow Thu. April 17 at 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EST, 07:00 PST, we host @yaquanchang.bsky.social for her talk on "Tectono-geomorphic controls on plant biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains" 🌿🌱🌳🌿 🏔️🏔️🏔️🏔️ 🌳🌲🌲🌱 More info here: www.landscapeslive.org

I am happy to share my 1st PhD chapter is one of the most widely read papers in New Phytologist! #TopViewedArticle @newphyt.bsky.social Many thanks my supervisors and collaborators for their amazing supports! @ele-ethwsl.bsky.social @loicpellissier.bsky.social @nezimmermann.bsky.social Sean Willett

In this mountain biodiversity review, we emphasized roles of habitat creation, disruption, and oscillation in driving biodiversity. Additionally, we developed a set of geomorphic predictors that may influence biodiversity patterns, with the potential for application to other montane systems.

The Laboratory of Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution at the ETH Zurich is looking for candidates to fill a post-doctoral position as part of the fully funded SNSF Consolidator project “Burgeon”. Check out the detail at: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Have a species list and want to get a phylogeny for them? Try this R package: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Feedbacks are welcome.

Mac (age 6, from the UK) asked Professor Sean Willett from @ethzurich.bsky.social how mountains grow. Here is what he said.

New! @jenncoughlan.bsky.social kindly shared their MIRA NIH award with our github repo. If you have a successful grant app you're willing to share, please contribute! github.com/RILAB/statem...

This is so cool - this study used Chinese poetry to reconstruct 1400 years of range change for the Yangtze finless porpoise, and showed that most of the range loss happened in the last century papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Instant classic of the macroevolution and geobiology: "Cryogenian glaciations appear to define this shift toward greater extinction and diversification rates" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪 #Paleobio #Complexity #EvoBio ⚒️ #Geology

Liran Goren just presented her recent work with Eitan Shelef on the links between channel concavity and drainage planform network. This is really elegant and captures the non-recoverable reorganization from wet➡️arid➡️wet climate cycles. esurf.copernicus.org/articles/12/...

Functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities are decoupled - check our new study just out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🍃🍀🌸🍁🍂🌴🌳🌸🌼🪻#plants #vegetation #ecology #plantecology #communityassembly

Co-evolution of life and planets at EGU 2025! See you there! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Are you studying interactions between biologic, climatic and tectonic processes over geologic time? Consider submitting an abstract to our EGU session on the co-evolution of life and planetary processes! Abstract submission deadline on the 10th of January! More info: tinyurl.com/yshn4vfr

Postdoc position at the interface of plant population and community ecology at Ben Blonder’s lab at UC Berkeley, in collaboration w my lab at Oxford @oxfordbiology.bsky.social. Details aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04677