My 1st thesis chapter is out in #EcologicalMonographs! 🎉 With @curromolina.bsky.social @ibartomeus.bsky.social How is #climatechange reshaping plant–pollinator timing (phenological overlap) in Mediterranean ecosystems? Can #biodiversity buffer mismatches? Find out here👇 dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

This semester I ran a class where we read recent papers in phylogenetics / systematics. I'd prepare an intro for each with background, then we'd dig in. I'd write a blog post after each as well. All the papers, slides and posts are now available at brianomeara.info/posts/phylop... 🧪 #AcademicSky

🌍 How trustworthy are your spatial predictions? In my talk for the Rome R Users Group, I showed practical ways to evaluate where spatial predictions are trustworthy, and where they aren't. Slides: jakubnowosad.com/rome2025 Video: youtu.be/uZe7thh80MI #RSpatial #RStats #GISchat #SpatialModelling

Postdoc at the University of Bristol on Global Change Ecology, working with Chris Clements, Dylan Childs, and Andrew Beckerman on how chordate niches may change in the coming decades. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPP951/s...

Study area shape matters when tracking species range shifts & we may underestimate longitudinal range shifts to the benefit of latitudinal range shifts, potentially undermining drivers other than T°C 🌡 🌐🌏🌎🌍🧪🐠🐍🦋🦉🦇🌳🌲 shorturl.at/prp63

Funded PhD opportunity!!🧪🌎 Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected? Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods? This PhD could be for you! Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH (UK or settled status applicants) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📣 Job Opportunity: Plant Conservation Post Doctoral Associate (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)🌿 🌎 Escondido, CA 🧑‍💻 Using SDMs, plant collections, monitoring, & env. datasets, identify plant conservation action priorities in seed collections and translocations for CA rare plants ⌛ 3y FT 💸 $87k

Global Cold‐Water Coral Biodiversity Redistribution Under Projected Climate Change 🔗 buff.ly/FyhJb97

Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 🧪🌐 "we detect consistent nonlinear interactions between ALAN and night duration, with Ecosystem respiration " www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Learn more about Methods in Ecology and Evolution's ‘Perspectives’ articles, intended to stimulate scientific debate, these articles offer conceptual advances and opinions, or identify gaps in knowledge. Find out more: https://ow.ly/uaM450XtKVB

Interested in the biogeography of lizards?🦎 We studied the historical biogeography of Sceloporus lizards and the link between their dispersal and climatic niches 🌎🌦️ @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social @ndimhypervol.bsky.social @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social Learn more here 👇: academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

The Soil Ecology Group seeks a volunteer communications representative.  As part of the role, you will  - develop a communication strategy, - manage social media, handle quarterly newsletters, - and participate in monthly meetings.

Excited about this paper led by Katja Poveda & Heather Grab! We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality. Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas. One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome. Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

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...

📰Published📰Trait coordination reveals the fast-slow plant economics spectrum along the vertical canopy profile in central Amazonian forests🌳 buff.ly/yOux1Ot 🧪🌍

In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

The seismic fingerprint of wind-induced tree sway @besmacro.bsky.social lead by Umlauft @scadsai.bsky.social w @chriswernerlab.bsky.social , Wirth @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social , Gerberding, Kattenborn @ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social #forestMonitoring #ML #timeSeries #treeSway #spectralAnalysis

Delighted to announce a new paper, led by Mansi Mungee, which studies insect populations over the UK using weather radar and is covered by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... more below... #entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability

We are happy to introduce the Soil Ecology SIG @britishecologicalsociety.org! Our aim is to connect soil ecology researchers across career stages, facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration. Check out www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan... and feel free to get in touch!

Dr. Brett Scheffers will be giving his Funk lecture this week! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/oc...

Interested in island life and arthropods? There's a new PhD project advertised at the University of Birmingham to study the evolution of 'island syndromes' in a chosen group of island arthropods, with both museum and fieldwork-based research are expected. More details at: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...

How can issues of classifications and mapping scales for defining native vegetation have significant implications for #biodiversity conservation? This Report in the latest issue of #EnvironmentalConservation considers Mato Grosso, #Brazil www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #conservationscience🌎

📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻 gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/... ➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC

🦌 Deer migration, deer density, tick distribution and incidence of a tick-borne zoonosis ➡️ buff.ly/4wXYf5c

Still some seats left for David Tilman's talk this afternoon. On line and in-person followed by a drinks reception, everyone is welcome. oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com

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🧪🌐🌾

#BiologyLetters How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics

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

Sweet-looking postdoc with Chris Cooney (who is awesome) on perceptual bias and animal communication signals. FWIW, Sheffield seems to be a genuinely great place to live. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB994/r...

📢 Call for Abstracts! Join us at the World Biodiversity Forum 2026 (Davos, 14–19 June) for our session “Shaping Biodiverse Futures” Explore how the Nature Futures Framework informs ##biodiversity-centric #scenarios 🌱 🗓️ Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 #WBF2026 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...

🌱 A new study reveals the dual role of common #mammals as #dispersers of #plants and micro-invertebrates across isolated #wetlands 🦌 Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

New paper out 🥳 Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

Interested in community-scale trait environment relationships? Check out commecometrics R package by Maria Aleja Materon Hurtado and A. Michelle Lawing! @tamueccb.bsky.social Also at bdj.pensoft.net/article/1682...

🌿 New paper by @camilledelavaux.bsky.social shows how naturalised nitrogen-fixing #plants are more likely and abundant on islands compared to mainlands, especially on remote islands.

🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday! 🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling 📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines! 🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

A heads-up for anyone interested in research quality, repeatability & transparency: I'm leading a 2-hour session at 10 am UK-time tomorrow, in conjunction with others. Hopefully this can form the basis of a guidelines paper, so we're hoping you can join online to guide us in the right direction. 🌐🌎

Mountain #biodiversity is highly threatened by #ClimateChange. ⛰️ Using #SDMs for 272 #lichens across the Alps, this new study reveals major habitat losses and unexpected refugia in deep valleys, urging targeted conservation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

It's crazy to think that while heading toward 9 billion people on Earth, we ere still undescribed (and know nothing about) hundreds to maybe thousand mammalian species academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva... "projections of ∼7,079 species by 2030 and ∼8,376 by 2050 if these trends continue" 🧪 #Macroecology

Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Looking forward to this! I will be helping @josephtobias.bsky.social lead discussions on what preregistration could look like for macroecology - join us on Wednesday 📝🌍

The shrew’s extinction increases the tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 to 39 species. This is far more than for any other country. These losses represent about 10% of all Australia’s land mammal species before colonisation 🧪 theconversation.com/and-then-the...

9/  The global rate of species introductions has shown no sign of saturation. Under human influence, species are moving exponentially faster, farther, & in greater numbers than at any other time in Earth's history, creating novel evolutionary pressures on naive biotas. www.nature.com/articles/nco...

Spanish forests are shifting under #ClimateChange 🌍 🔥 This study proposes a “climate-wise” #ConservationNetwork to maintain forest #connectivity over time, using distribution models and dynamic habitat analyses. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

📖Published📖 In our recent application paper, Ravenscroft et al. develop an unsupervised Historical Occurrence Georeferencing System (HOGS) to georeference point locations from high-resolution images of species distribution maps 🗺️ 📍 Read more 👇 buff.ly/7W25bf2 🌍 🧪

New paper in Journal of Biogeography using @gbif.org mediated data: Arctic‐Boreal Bryophyte Dynamics Since the Last Glacial Inferred From Ancient DNA Metabarcoding #CiteTheDOI: ❌ https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.70015

JOB ALERT! Do you also love large ecological experiments? Become coordinator of our big new geo-biosphere experiment in @terra-cluster.org. 7-year position! Follow link for details. @gfoesoc.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @uslter.bsky.social Please repost!

In this article, McClanahan et al discuss how diversifying the identification of #climatechange refugia for #coralreefs requires more environmental and coral life-history metrics. Read their article at: doi.org/10.1111/cobi... #refugia #wordoftheweek #conservation #science #stem

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