Do montane birds evolve more efficient wing shapes for flying at high elevations? Our global analysis published today suggests that they do! 🧵(1/8)⬇️ www.cell.com/current-biol....

A new study by @alexpigot.bsky.social and colleagues reveals the critical role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems. @uclcber.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looks interesting 🧐 ‘Metabolic trade-offs can reverse the resource-diversity relationship’ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Evolutionary history of host trees amplifies the dilution effect of biodiversity on forest pests journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Variation in Avian Predation Pressure as a Driver for the Diversification of Periodical Cicada Broods www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Prob the best studied climate-related range expansion of any European #birds is the Cetti’s Warbler. This skulking brown bird is the sole European representative of a largely Asian genus & is a resident species of reedbeds & wet scrub. 1/N 🌿🌏 🧪 Pics Nick Goodram CC BY 2.0 flickr.com/search/?user...

Exciting update! @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social - launch the Interactive Climate Atlas atlas.climate.copernicus.eu/atlas
 This new tool builds on the data of the IPCC Climate Atlas and enables exploration of CMIP6 climate projections and other datasets including observations and reanalysis.

Here is the video recording of my talk exploring what energy flow through ecosystems can tell us about nature's health and functions, and in particular, bring the roles of animal wildlife more firmly into our understanding of how the biosphere functions

The lack of evidence for declining local diversity through time must be because everything is homogenizing, leading to larger-scale losses. Right?! Nope, says our analysis of 500+ meta-communities through time just published in Science Advances 🧪🌎🐟🌳🦋 🐦🦌 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Between 10% and 47% of Amazonian forests may be exposed to climate stresses that could push the biome past a tipping point as soon as 2050, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4bG7nWC 🧪