Calling all macroecologists! 📡 Tracked any broad-scale patterns lately? Submit to the new Global Ecology & Biogeography special issue on insights gained from the biologging revolution. ⏰ Deadline: 31 Dec 2026 🔗 Read the CFP & submit today: https://ow.ly/MPoG50YAJxI

Looking for a post-doc in macroecology or paleobiology? Work with the fabulous Erin Saupe in @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology : my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Excited to be part of this collaborative effort tackling a longstanding question: how does productivity shape community assembly from simple species co-occurrence to complex trophic interactions? Check out what we discover! #foodweb #communityassembly #africa #plantproductivity #macroecology

📣 New paper out in @plosbiology.org What drives global patterns of species richness? 🌍 Using a unified framework across 129 tetrapod clades 🐸🦎🐦🐘, we find: 👉 Productivity-driven equilibrium dynamics largely explain biodiversity patterns ⚖️🌱 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #Macroecology #Biogeography

Just published! Using suitability estimates from observed and dark diversity - set of suitable but absent species - we show that despite no net change in species number, species respond with delays, with distinct trait profiles linked to extinction debt and immigration credit. shorturl.at/wYzF5

Weecology is hiring a postdoc to work with my long-term, large-scale Everglades wading bird project. We have data on nest effort at multiple spatial scales over 30+ years for multiple species. We also do fun stuff w/ drones. Sound interesting? See our ad! jabberwocky.weecology.org/2026/04/15/p...

Know any distinguished senior ecologists with global impact on the field? Or maybe you're one yourself?! The BES Fellows programme is now open for applications (closes on 23 April). www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/beco...

The deadline for #BESMacro2026 registration (if you'd like to present) is rapidly approaching! Come hang out with us in Reading in July! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Very happy to announce that my paper on cross-species patterns in habitat selection of terrestrial mammals is finally published in Global Ecology & Biogeography! doi.org/10.1111/geb.... The highlights: - Strong road avoidance! - Lots of variation - Selection driven by environment rather than traits

📣 paper alert 😀 Our study on the evolutionary history of true #ladybirds 🐞 #Coccinellini is out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! #OA Another great collab with @isyeb.mnhn.fr and other colleagues! @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social / @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Are you (or something you know) looking for a PhD? Like trait macroevolution but also yearn for an applied topic? Think plants are neat? Want to live in beautiful northeast Scotland?! 🌊🐬⛰️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I'm advertising a PhD in my lab! Deadline April 22, email me any questions. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Diversification rate shifts are everywhere. Analyses of phylogenies covering >300k species reveal widespread changes in speciation dynamics across the Tree of Life. @bjorntko.bsky.social @hoehna.bsky.social @acapomorphic.bsky.social ‬ academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Fish will have to adapt to a warming world, what will that adaptation do to fisheries yields? We answer that question today in Science. I’ll summarise our findings very briefly in this thread www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

Environmental and geomorphological drivers of frog diversity on islands worldwide vist.ly/4us4d #Anurans #IslandBiogeography

Our review of #trait - based approaches to ecological restoration is finally out in @esajournals.bsky.social *Ecological Applications*, highlighting the value of functional traits for creating system-general restoration strategies. 🌐 🧮➕📏 urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

Super excited to share that the first article from my PhD has been published! Taking 60 years of research, we looked at how long distance vocal communication in aquatic and land mammals has evolved and why. Read here: tinyurl.com/3eydkwwc The Conversation article: tinyurl.com/mryr7sme

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research 🧪 #Macroecology

PhD opportunity in Marine Macroecology 🌍 Global mangrove biodiversity: drivers, patterns, and resilience under climate change. Strong mentorship and support for a competitive FCT PhD fellowship application. Send a brief CV: www.biodiversitydatascience.com/contact/

New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟

Thousands of jute sticks float in the river, creating natural patterns in Bangladesh. Jute is soaked in water for 20-25 days to separate the jute fibre from the plant stem. The fibres are then sold for use in textiles such as yarn, sacks, carpets, and curtains – a vital part of Bangladesh’s economy.

Space-for-time studies of land-use change rely on a baseline. But what if that baseline has already changed? In our new Ecography paper we show this can underestimate biodiversity loss. 🐦📉🧵(1/9) nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Rapid and repeated evolution of pigmentation patterns in reef fishes #ichthyology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Registration is open for #BESMacro2026 ! 15-17 July, in Reading, deadline of April 17 if you'd like to present! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨 🗓️26th February 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️ Join us next week for our next instalment, given by Dr Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social from Natural History Museum, London, on “Hack-a-thons: what, why and how to run them” 💻 Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

📊 Thomas Pape et al. introduce a set of indicators to assess species list quality, a tool to improve biodiversity data and its use in research and conservation 🌍🧬  👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

New online! Extreme events and river biodiversity under climate change

Beyond species means – the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation A #CommunityResource by Fischer et al. 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

Registration for BES Macro 2026 is now OPEN. This year will be 15-17 July, University of Reading, with a great series of plenaries/workshops lined up. Register by April 17 if you'd like to present! #BESMacro2026 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

Monocots. 🌴 Geophytes. 🪻 Mediterranean biome. 🔥 Phylogenetic diversity. 🤓 Check. It. Out. 🥳 (This project took 5+ years for various reasons. Science takes time sometimes and that’s ok!) dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Interested in how climate change will impact oxygen and CO₂ extremes in mangroves? Check out our new paper: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Our latest effort to understand ISARs for plants globally!

What is a forest? Remarkably we don't have a consistent answer to that question,which is why we don't actually know how much forest there is on Earth or where it is. 🌏🧪🌲🌳

New in @natecoevo.nature.com, we show that nonlinear dynamics like oscillations & chaos occur in 81% of marine fish populations worldwide. Nonlinearity was correlated with the magnitude of fluctuations & amplified by temperature variation & in fast-lived species. 🌍🌐 Link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

why do males defend territories in some species while pairs or family groups defend territories in others? then-undergrad Shreyas Arashanapalli did a fantastic project to find out, analyzing 3177 playback experiments on 264 species the best predictor? latitude academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

👀 Global maps of 37 plant #FunctionalTraits as defined in the TRY Plant Trait Database with a resolution of 1 km and a global extent 🌐🧪 📏🧮🌮 global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-...

Why is there such variation in the birds encountered as you go up or down a mountain? New paper in #ScienceAdvances examines how climate and ecological interactions drive bird distributions in mountains throughout the year: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 1/10 ⬇️

What do we want? Fossil databases! 🐚🦕 When do we want them? Forever! 🗓️ Nice new paper highlighting how academic funding systems and digital architecture need to change, to ensure we can protect and sustain our precious fossil data 📚 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Important new paper from colleagues here @sheffielduni.bsky.social Biosciences, providing robust new estimates of normalisation constants for allometric relationships between body size, metabolism and production, at genus and metabolic group level onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

📖Published! Ecological and evolutionary drivers of inflorescence diversity in Chinese angiosperms🌻🌼 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/6wfXhKZ

How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9

📢 Postdoc opening in avian biogeography & macroecology (Olomouc, CZ) Vladimír Remeš (excellent scientist and mentor) is hiring a postdoc to study bird diversity across biomes, linking species pools, traits, climate & history using big data, fieldwork, and modelling. 🔗 pracuj.upol.cz/nc/zprava/cl...

A postdoc position in Biogeography and Macroecology is available at Palacky University, Czech Republic, with an application deadline of March 15, 2026. For details, contact prof. Vladimir Remes at [email protected]. More info: https://vladremes.github.io #postdoc

Demographic shifts, inter-group contact and environmental conditions drive language extinction and diversification | Coelho et al. Proc B royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Happy to share my solo-authored Perspective "An Interpretation, Survey, and Outlook of Microbial Macroecology"! Making time these last few months to take stock of the patterns us microbial ecologists examine + models we invoke has been invaluable. Feedback welcome! ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Interesting perspective on the interaction of pyrodiversity and the biodiversity. One more case showing the importance of the creative destruction and abiotic (here more of a blurred interactive 'bio-abiotic') factors in keeping biotic structure. www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🧪 ⚒️ #Macroecology

New paper out: The flounder effect: disparities in taxonomic and ecological study intensity across extant and fossil marine organisms hamper conservation with @fossildetective.bsky.social, @bigfacecats.bsky.social, Curtis Congreve & @jonhendricks.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44... 🦑⚒️

Citizen science data are increasingly used in biodiversity monitoring. This study applies a digital twin approach to biodiversity monitoring using a large citizen science dataset on birds from Finland, demonstrating its potential for ecological forecasting 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share that the 2nd paper of my PhD was published! 🍋 We use a phylogenetic approach to explore the food–medicine continuum across Eurasia, showing how food, medicinal and condiment plants share lineages across cultures. Huge thanks to my coauthors 💚https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2337

Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...