I am pleased to announce a new postdoctoral position in Theoretical Ecology. More info here: info.bc3research.org/2025/11/06/p...

Our work was featured in the latest tip sheet by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social ✨ Check it out!

🌼🌡️ 🐝 Thermal conditions can directly reshape species interaction networks under climate change. ⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.

PhD opportunity - Listening to Food Webs: Ecoacoustic insights into Bird Predator–Prey Networks in Changing Landscapes, with @btobirds.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk and @sciencesncl.bsky.social iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Floral scent chemodiversity 🌸🧪 increases generalization in interactions with pollinators 🪰 – but reduces diversity of bacteria 🧫🦠 associated with flowers. New publication led by @mhanusch.bsky.social. @chemodiversity.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

PhD applications are now open @treesdla.bsky.social for 2026 intake. Have a look at a project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators that we advertise with @philstevenson.bsky.social. Do apply/get in touch if you are interested! www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

A new #OpenAccess Concepts & Synthesis paper in "Ecological Monographs"👀...

What sustains biodiversity? 🌿🌸🐝🐦‍⬛ It’s not just about species, it’s also about individuals.   Our new paper in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecol. Monogr. shows how the way individuals specialize on their mutualistic partners can scale up to shape species persistence.   🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Mañana estaremos en la casa de la ciencia con el taller: ¿En qué se parecen las abejas silvestres visitando flores y Twitter?🌼🐝 @blancaac.bsky.social @nermonper.bsky.social @curromolina.bsky.social @violetacalleja.bsky.social @juliagdealedo.bsky.social www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...

I’ll be teaching “Introduction to Network Analysis & Modelling” – covering theory, hands-on Python exercises, and applications to real systems. Starts Sept 22 to 1 Oct @eco-aeet.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social More info in this link → www.transmittingscience.com/courses/syst...

Novak et al. derive a functional response model that unifies Holling’s classical forms. The model clarifies when linearity can be a mechanistically-reasoned description of predator feeding rates and the impact it has on predator-prey dynamics. Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Really happy to have participated in #EcoNet2025 this week. Such an inspiring symposium with amazing people, can’t wait for the next one!

🥳 Meet Dr. Blanca Arroyo-Correa (@blancaac.bsky.social), our new subject editor from from Seville, Spain Get to know her and her research by reading her interview here: vist.ly/445wh

Herbicides harm more than weeds! 🐝🧪 A new study suggests that they indirectly disrupt plant-pollinator networks, potentially risking pollination services 🌼🌏 @julitavella.bsky.social 🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70113

#EcoNet2025 Plenary speaker: Paulo Guimarães, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 'Indirect effects in ecological networks: consequences for evolution, ecology and ecosystem services' Register now: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 3-5 September 2025, Newcastle University

#EcoNet2025 Plenary speaker: Blanca Arroyo-Correa, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC) 'Bridging scales in mutualistic networks: from individuals to community assembly' Register now: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 3-5 September 2025, Newcastle University

#EcoNet2025 Plenary speaker: Jane Memmott @bristoluni.bsky.social 'People & pollinators in a network context' Register now: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 3-5 September 2025, Newcastle University

So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social

📜Forum: Navigating a changing world. On the significance of rewiring for mutualistic interactions, caveats and future directions The study explores "rewiring" in mutualistic networks, highlighting hidden drivers like trait variability and competition. vist.ly/32h4i #Ecology #Conservation

🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals. 📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

📖 A new review concludes that understanding the functional consequences of biodiversity loss is critical but we need to be clear about what type of biodiversity change we are measuring and to focus on the loss of stably coexisting core species.🌳🌲🌼 👉 buff.ly/kqQghYU

🌿 PhD Opportunity in Biodiversity Sciences 🌿 Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network. Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB

Our new study shows how animal biodiversity loss is a climate problem: tropical forests recover far less carbon where seed dispersers have declined. We’re not just losing forests – we’re losing their ability to regrow. Reversing that trend could align biodiversity recovery with climate solutions.🧵

📖Published📖 Check out our new research article 👉 Inference of ecological networks and possibilistic dynamics based on Boolean networks from observations and prior knowledge 🌍 🧪 buff.ly/5w4c7S0

📰Published📰 Phenological turnover matters when making trait-based predictions of plant-pollinator interactions🐝 buff.ly/ol0Zrxd 🧪🌍

EcoNet2025: VII Symposium on Ecological Networks 3-5 September 2025 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: ncl.ac.uk/.../events/e... PLACES ARE LIMITED TO 150 SO BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT Call for talks and posters closes 20th June.

Global change reshuffles species communities: who could interact with whom? We introduce new ways to measure the capacity of species & communities to rewire interactions, which can be used to predict how ecological networks might adapt to changing conditions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Are you interested in predator-prey interactions and movement ecology? I am looking for a PhD student to work on the project "A mechanistic theory of functional responses: zooming into movement behaviour to understand and predict predator-prey interactions" euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/342402.

#BlogAEET "La singularidad de las plantas y su impacto en los animales frugívoros: efectos de la variación individual en las interacciones planta-animal" por Elena Quintero @elequintero.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social blogaeet.org/2025/05/19/l...

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper w/ Jonathan Levine and @exp-evoeco.bsky.social! We induced plastic responses in annual plants through early-life competition. These responses tended to make subsequent species interactions stronger and coexistence less likely. Link: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just out: A geometric approach to beta diversity esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Led by the brilliant @clsong.bsky.social & Muyang Lu.

Excited to see this out!! In this thought-provoking review led by @davidperis.bsky.social and Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente we further demonstrate that insect #pollination was once widespread among #gymnosperms and existed long before the origin of #angiosperms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🆕 in Ecological Monographs: Summer-blooming plants in a hot setting cool their flower heads, creating a "refrigerated floral layer" that aids pollination 📄Flowers that cool themselves: Thermal ecology of summer-blooming thistles in hot Mediterranean environments tinyurl.com/mr2mkjrz

Our paper is out, and it is distressing. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌱Un estudio de @ebdonana.bsky.social analiza cómo las plantas individuales de varias poblaciones estructuran sus relaciones con los animales que consumen sus frutos 🦜El trabajo sugiere que existen patrones en cómo se organizan las interacciones ecológicas en la naturaleza 👉http://tiny.cc/2k2c001

Flower constancy helps pollinators avoid the cost of switching search images or handling skills. But in nature, where flowers grow in clusters, could it also increase travel costs? If you've ever wondered about this, check out our latest paper in @funecology.bsky.social #Ecology bit.ly/3QtUVzK (🧵)

1/ New paper @pnas.org on the structure of mutualistic #networks between individuals plants and frugivore species. Last chapter of @elequintero.bsky.social's PhD thesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ecopubs

New Special Feature aimed at increasing accessibility of ecological theories available now! Read "Demystifying Fundamental Theories in Ecology" by Rachel Germain & Sebastian J. Schreiber now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

New special feature available ahead of print! Jawad Sakarchi & Rachel M. Germain break down MacArthur’s consumer resource model with insights on the mechanistic understanding and biological intuition of how competition and coexistence operate. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Why does one metapopulation decline while another grows? Differences in habitat quality? Movement patterns? Schreiber quantifies the relative contributions of spatial & temporal variation in demography & dispersal to metapopulation growth rates. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I had an incredible time defending my PhD and celebrating science! Really excited for what’s to come!

Foundations and future directions for causal inference in ecological research, forthcoming w/ @katherinesiegel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4mm57zzd. We wrote it based on our experience teaching causal inference to ecologists w/ some stuff we wish other papers had reviewed to share w/ the students 1/n

Now out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social - Land Use Change Consistently Reduces α- But Not β- and γ-Diversity of Bees - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

One step closer to the finish line! My PhD thesis is finally printed and in my hands 🌿🌸🐝 So grateful for this incredible journey and for the amazing people I’ve had the privilege to collaborate with along the way. Now, it’s time to defend it!

Today, I am excited to share our new paper in The American Naturalist’s (@asn-amnat.bsky.social) special feature: Demystifying Fundamental Theories in Ecology. Check out “MacArthur’s Consumer Resource Model: A ‘Rosetta Stone’ of Competitive Interactions.” doi.org/10.1086/733516 DM for a copy!

Where are all the field studies? This ⬇️ important but rather depressing paper describes how conducting, & crucially initiating, field studies is becoming harder & rarer. A short 🧵 (and a call for more fieldwork) www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Is cognition a universal feature of the living world? How can we define it? Is a nervous system needed? If so, why? If not, why not? Check this fascinating @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue led by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social & co. on Basal Cognition royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

I have a new PhD opportunity with @juliakoricheva.bsky.social at Royal Holloway University of London on the effect of tree diversity on nutritional and chemical diversity of pollen and nectar resources for bees in the forest understory - deadline 20th January 2025 www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...