Renato Morais
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Ecologist @PSL ๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ท. Macro ecology, comparative ecosystem ecology, coral reefs, fish.
pinned post!
Our new paper on the historical and scientific basis of Darwinโs โcoral reef paradoxโ is out
@currentbiology.bsky.social
! Summary below by
@gobyone.bsky.social
. Also with
@paulinenarvaez.bsky.social
@oclaripv.bsky.social
and Vale Parravicini! Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3QW8S...
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Cher Chow ๅจ้ฆฅๆบข
2 months ago
Super excited to announce I've started as a postdoc at LEC REEFS
@lec-reefs.bsky.social
with James Robinson
@james-robinson.bsky.social
and Renato Morais
@renatoamorais.bsky.social
. Not only can I stick with my reef fish, but we're scaling up work on fish productivity and nutrient fluxes ๐ฆ ๐
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Global Change Biology
4 months ago
Coral Bleaching: The EquatorialโRefugia Hypothesis ๐
buff.ly/xtRwbvO
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Florian Altermatt
4 months ago
2-years
#postdoc
#position
:
#eDNA
๐งฌ๐ฌfor integrated
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and
#biodiversity
assessment
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable
#biodiversity
#monitoring
methods & implement into practice. ๐๐ณ๐๐
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https://apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/pub/1/index.htmlEffective
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Fredrik Jutfelt ๐
4 months ago
Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in
@plosbiology.org
shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.
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Malte Jochum
5 months ago
Check this out: the global biomass of mammals since 1850 just out in
@natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The global biomass of mammals since 1850 - Nature Communications
Here, the authors estimate mammalian biomass from the 1850โs to today, tracking an increase of over five-fold in human and domesticated mammal biomass and a two-fold decrease in wild mammal biomass. R...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63888-z
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Rahul Mehrotra
5 months ago
I am pleased to announce the publication of the most extensive assessment of the coral reefs of Thailand conducted to date! This took years of work, but we are now placed for conservation action to embrace the nuances and complexity of reef ecosystems! Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology
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Dominique Berteaux
5 months ago
Canids seem to be the routine lovers, reusing their travel routes more than felids. This shapes hunting, encounters, and even disease spread. Insights from 1,239 GPS-tracked carnivores, including the Arctic foxes we track on Bylot Island ๐งช๐ฟ๐๐๐ฆ. Read in the latest PNAS at
bitly.cx/TxI2
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Fantastic paper from
@helenyan.bsky.social
showing the importance of considering abundance in field-based biodiversity-ecosystem functioning assessments! Check it out! ๐๐ฝ
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Our new paper on the historical and scientific basis of Darwinโs โcoral reef paradoxโ is out
@currentbiology.bsky.social
! Summary below by
@gobyone.bsky.social
. Also with
@paulinenarvaez.bsky.social
@oclaripv.bsky.social
and Vale Parravicini! Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3QW8S...
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9 months ago
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Simon J. Brandl
10 months ago
Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts ๐๏ธ... Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong... ๐ ๐ฆ๐งช ๐งตโฌ๏ธ
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Tommaso Jucker
10 months ago
So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at
@natcomms.nature.com
โฌ๐งช๐ Paper link ๐:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brief thread of what we found ๐งต
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John Holbein
10 months ago
Nice.
arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607
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Cher Chow ๅจ้ฆฅๆบข
10 months ago
Are you a community/macro ecologist? Looking for more data? Sick of compiling/cleaning data?? ๐งช๐๐ฆค๐ฆ๐
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Jรฉrรฉmy Carlot
11 months ago
๐ Are you a marine MSc or PhD student passionate about climate change and biodiversity? Join our Summer School in Ischia, Italy! ๐ Sept 14โ20, 2025 ๐ Apply by May 26 โ
bit.ly/42VRjfL
๐ฌ Explore seawater chemistry, R & GitHub, blue carbon, drone surveys, and photogrammetry โ right in the field ๐๐๐งช๐ฆค
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When youโre cornered by your supervisor and forced to explain why that paper hasnโt been submittedโฆ
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Brian J. Enquist
11 months ago
Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness ๐งช ๐
#macroecology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness
Aim Tropical biodiversity overshadows the number of species inhabiting other regions. Age, area, and stability constitute three classical ideas used to explain the higher richness in these warm and ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.15126
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity
11 months ago
New online! Biodiversityโecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity
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Biodiversityโecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00040-1Maintaining human well-being in an era of biodiversity loss requires understanding the role of biodiversity in ecosystem function. We argue that absolute abundance can drive ecosystem function and that this measure should be considered alongside traditional measures of biodiversity.
https://bit.ly/4j9t9oW
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Florian Altermatt
11 months ago
Cereghetti et al:
#Seasonal
#dynamics
of detritus flows and
#decomposition
across
#ecosystem
boundaries. ๐ฟ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ We studied seasonal dynamics/phenology โฑ๏ธ of ๐ฉterrestrial-๐ฆaquatic linkages across a year:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Out in
#CurrentBiology
@currentbiology.bsky.social
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So, now Macronโs government wants to look good and attract talent pushed out of the US? Do not be fooled, this is a political stunt to capitalise on geopolitics. Phenomenal in-house resources forced to leave science but thereโs always money to look good:
france2030.agencerecherche.fr/ChooseFrance...
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Call - ยซ Choose France for Science ยป
https://france2030.agencerecherche.fr/ChooseFranceForScience-2025/accueil.php
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Nature
about 1 year ago
More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the Royal Society to reassess the billionaireโs membership following cuts to US science
https://go.nature.com/41dzNUx
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Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Muskโs fellowship
More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the worldโs oldest science society to reassess the billionaireโs membership following cuts to US science.
https://go.nature.com/41dzNUx
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about 1 year ago
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Florian Altermatt
about 1 year ago
44,000
#biological
#interactions
extracted from 84,000 publicationsโin just a few hours using GPT4o Preprint
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
by
@francoiskeck.bsky.social
et al
#ecology๐๐๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ชฐ๐ฟ๐ชฒ
#predation
#parasitism
#mutualism
๐ Potential applications seem endless & will change how we do
#ecology
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James Robinson
about 1 year ago
Calling coral reef scientists, oceanographers, isotope ecologists: new post-doc at Lancaster Environment Centre with me
@lec-reefs.bsky.social
@renatoamorais.bsky.social
@remotereefs.bsky.social
@drmanateena.bsky.social
Deadline 28 Feb | Apply๐ | ๐ฆ ๐งช ๐ ๐
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Fantastic opportunity to push the boundaries of work on the interface of reef ecology and oceanography! Please, do apply!
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James Robinson
about 1 year ago
You'll join LEC REEFS - a big interdisciplinary team of 7 PIs, 9 post-docs, 10 PhD. This project is also partnered with 3 superb collaborators in Bangor, Perpignan, and Brisbane:
@renatoamorais.bsky.social
@drmanateena.bsky.social
@remotereefs.bsky.social
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Josh Cinner
about 1 year ago
Our new Nature paper on the multi-dimensional contributions of small scale fisheries just dropped
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
. We find that SSF supply ~40% of global fish catch worth >$77billion, with knock on benefits that support numerous sustainable development goals. A truly monumental effort
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Illuminating the multidimensional contributions of small-scale fisheries - Nature
A study aimed at revealing the role of small-scale fisheries in sustainable development shows they provide at least 40% of the global fishing catch and affect the livelihoods of 1 in 12 people in the ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08448-z
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Ana S. L. Rodrigues
about 1 year ago
Iโve grown wary of using metrics of functional diversity and rarity to guide conservation planning. In this paper I explain why, and discuss three promising approaches for accounting for functionality in the identification of global conservation priorities. (1/7) ๐
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Accounting for functionality in the identification of global conservation priorities: promises and pitfalls | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Whereas preventing species extinctions remains a central objective of conservation efforts, it must be complemented by the long-term preservation of functional ecosystems and of the benefits humans de...
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0209
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Graeme Cumming
about 1 year ago
I mentioned previously that we are hiring a joint AIMS/UWA postdoc. I'm happy to say the advert for a *second* position (UWA & Minderoo) is active:
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/51...
Looking for someone with expertise in fisheries models to work on spillovers from marine parks. Please share!
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Nick Graham
about 1 year ago
Still hope for coral reefs. Using 28-years of data in Seychelles, we find reefs recovering 4-5 years faster from the 2016 bleaching event, than they did after 1998. Also, a reef that had regime-shifted to macroalgae for over 15 years, is recovering to coral.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Increased resilience and a regime shift reversal through repeat mass coral bleaching
Assessing coral reefs across the inner Seychelles islands, using a 28-year dataset, we document faster coral recovery from the 2016 than the 1998 marine heatwave events. Further, a reef that had regi....
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14454
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Prof. Feynman
about 1 year ago
Play with ideas the way children play with toysโwithout fear of breaking them.
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Global Ecology ๐
over 1 year ago
From data to knowledge : ๐๐คโจ Process-informed neural networks (PINNs) in Ecology and Beyond ! by Marieke Wesselkamp et al. | Ecology Letters ๐
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
๐ PINNs outperform traditional models in ecological predictions, particularly in data-sparse scenarios ! ๐งช๐๐
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Helen Czerski
over 1 year ago
On today's Rare Earth we were discussing the impacts (good and bad) of space use/exploration on the environment. Satellites are incredibly useful, but just look at this interactive webpage that shows all the current satellites and where they are (and there are SO MANY):
sky.rogue.space/
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Alec BM Moore
over 1 year ago
Re-posting here a
@uk.theconversation.com
article on recently published marine historical ecology research
theconversation.com/we-gathered-...
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We gathered centuries-old written records to show the seas around Wales once teemed with life
Research shows a long decline, but reveals what the seas could look like again in future.
https://theconversation.com/we-gathered-centuries-old-written-records-to-show-the-seas-around-wales-once-teemed-with-life-238139
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Jens Daniel Mรผller
over 1 year ago
Ocean Acidification is reshaping life and biogeochemical cycles. In our latest study, Niki Gruber and I reconstructed its progression in the global ocean interior over the industrial era, based on our previous estimates of anthropogenic carbon accumulation.
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
A ๐งตabout the ๐...
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Progression of ocean interior acidification over the industrial era
The rapid downward progression of anthropogenic carbon accelerates ocean interior acidification and threatens marine biota.
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado3103
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Kelly Bodwin
over 1 year ago
Wrote up a lil
#rstats
opinion post based on an interesting discussion on here about where aes() should go in a ggplot.
kbodwin.github.io/paRticles/po...
(Useful, or did I just want to title a post "Move your aes"? You decide.)
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paRticles - Move your aes
https://kbodwin.github.io/paRticles/posts/2024-11-22-aes/
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Dustin Marshall
over 1 year ago
I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly itโs something we need to be talking about more.
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Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution
Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.14400
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Rodrigo Granjel
over 1 year ago
I hope this starter pack helps bring our community together on this platform. If you identify as an ECR, work in community ecology, and would like to be added, please reply! ๐ฑ It's currently too land-centric, but I'd love to see folks from marine and freshwater systems join! ๐
go.bsky.app/5XJXVyX
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Zack Labe
over 1 year ago
Rough week. So let me fill your
@bsky.app
feeds with one of my favorite data visualizations... Enjoy! ๐ Seasonal migration patterns of birds varying with air temperature using community science observations (eBird). Animation created by:
sos.noaa.gov/catalog/data...
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Alex Best
over 1 year ago
As my follower count creeps towards that of the old place, an unashamed plug for the FREE online textbook I wrote for
#mathbio
students. 'Introducing Mathematical Biology' is FREE, interactive, accessible and FREE. Please feel free to share with students.
sheffield.pressbooks.pub/introducingm...
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