Some butterflies may seem more beautiful than others. And believe it or not, this is influencing their conservation and researchers' interest! - Take this 10-min test to contribute to a research into our perception of butterfly beauty: www.unveiling.eu/en_US/introd...

Rapid Global Deforestation Leaves Forest‐Dependent Raptors With Half of Their Suitable Habitat Remaining 📄 buff.ly/g0CHFXG

New research finds that marine environments with offshore wind turbines have higher levels of biodiversity and biomass. Turbines provide surfaces for barnacles, algae, and sea sponges, which can support an ecosystem. Things like this show we can design with nature, rather than against it. 🌎🧪🌐🏡

New paper out, a lovely way to finish 2025!✨“Ethical & equitable approaches in AI for vector-borne disease management”🦟A truly collaborative effort, this paper started as a conversation at the #InsectAI meeting, & was a joy to work on! Shout if you’d like the pdf🧪🌐🌍 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Happy to see our paper out! 🎉 We assess the relative roles of past/present environmental & anthropogenic drivers shaping functional & phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean forests, highlighting the key role of past climate stability 🌳 ➡️https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70177 (1/8)

Here is a link around the paywall for my latest commentary in One Earth titled " A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions" authors.elsevier.com/a/1mIX89C%7E...

📖 Published📖 In our new application paper, Mestre-Tomás introduce GLOSSA, an open-source R package and Shiny application designed to make marine species distribution modelling more accessible 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/W3cemFv

Wonderful collection of articles exploring what the concept of anthromes - human-modified biomes - means for our understanding of the global carbon cycle 🌐

Remember to check out our latest paper: "Habitat preferences of European bison in contemporary European landscapes" by Gabriele Retez and colleagues. Out in the Journal of Applied Ecology -> besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #newpaper #bison #biogeography #europe

Our new review lays out a framework for understanding the social-ecological benefits of protected areas to their surroundings - just published in One Earth: www.cell.com/one-earth/ab... doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101462

New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #44 Dec 15-19, 21 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

The future of the Amazon may rely on its past. According to study, landscape interventions by the forest’s pre-Columbian Indigenous inhabitants might still affect its ecological functions, including its capacity to store biomass, absorb carbon, and withstand climate change eos.org/articles/how...

Humans have driven biodiversity gains in Europe for eight millennia. Are we simply the latest megafaunal species to generate the complex, diversity-boosting habitat mosaics Europe's ecosystems need? 🌏🧪🌐 Read OA here: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23... #Biodiversity #ScienceSky #SciComm

2025 Georgina Mace Review now out in #ProcB - How monitoring matters for nature #conservation: 15 reasons framed in a theory of change #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Miss our last MEE live? Watch now! 🌍 🧪 In this webinar, Stefano Mariani explains how easy-to-use and effective the metaprobe is proving to be and encourages anyone with an interest in eDNA – or biodiversity assessment in general – to have a good go! 🧬 🤿 Watch here 📺 👇

We’re getting lots of new Bluesky friends! Please share your favorite science and conservation starter packs as a reply here and I’ll share them. Let’s get our science and conservation friends lots of followers! 🧪🌎🦑

Land-use change is the main cause of deforestation in the Amazon, but the risk of abrupt forest decline, along with its potentially devastating consequences, increases as the planet warms, with a strong nonlinear trend beyond 2.3° C of warming. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/6Prr50XKAN1

Fun collab w an awesome group of ecologists, led by Jenn Williams and Tom Miller! Linking Climate and Demography to Predict PopulationDynamics and Persistence Under Global Change dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

🌍 Human impact is largely associated with biodiversity decline, but in Holocene Europe (11,700–150 years BP), human ecological influence led to increasing landscape, habitat and biological diversity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"Given the ongoing global extinction crisis, preserving genetic diversity is critical for long-term #ecosystem resilience." This recent Research Paper in #EnvironmentalConservation highlights the importance of integrating DNA barcoding from understudied geographic regions into #conservation plans.

Climate change impacts the non-market value of nature: A case study of birding cultural ecosystem services in South Africa Manley+ doi.org/10.1371/jour... CES value down in most protected areas impact differs between domestic vs. international CES non-market value and tourism

I've read the intro and the Ingold piece and I can already tell this is a banger of a special issue on more-than-human agency in conservation. 🌎🌐

💥Ignite: Too big to miss: body size biases in tetrapod species descriptions and their implications for conservation vist.ly/4im5v #Amphibians #Bias #Birds #Conservation #Mammals #Reptiles #Taxonomy

Increasing human ecological impact over the Holocene (11,700 - 150 years ago) led to biodiversity gains in Europe. Why? From ~8,500 years ago, the spread of farming created heterogeneous, habitat-rich landscapes that enhanced biodiversity. Read our new paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.... 🌏 🧪

The number of glaciers disappearing worldwide each year is projected to sharply increase, peaking at 2,000–4,000 per year around the middle of the century, depending on the level of warming above pre-industrial levels, according to a study in Nature Climate Change. go.nature.com/4pEfbP5 ⚒️ 🧪

🚨🐭🦠 New preprint! Monitoring wildlife disease is expensive, so we need to be smart about where we sample to get as much useful info as possible. We show how SDMs can guide adaptive sampling for zoonotic disease surveillance, using case studies in rodents.

hot off the press! Led by the mighty Marie Perga, including many members of the Fooδ-webs team, and kindly funded by the Foundation for Research on Biodiversity/CESAB besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Compounding risks of climate change: the authors "assess European birds’ historical exposure to multiple extreme events and identify where and how the risk of compound events will change under different emissions scenarios". doi.org/10.1111/con4... Spoiler alert: compounding increases risk ☹️

Digital data mining in recreational #fisheries science, a new book chapter led by @venturellilab.bsky.social now available with OA here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #fishsci #ecology #fisheriesscience #recreationalfisheries #ichthyology #iEcology #conservationculturomics #culturomics

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #43 Dec 08-15, 23 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

🌲⚡ This #NationalEnergyConservationDay, New research shows selective thinning boosts carbon storage while improving tree stability. 🌳 Forest management is climate action: doi.org/10.1007/s116... #JFR #ForestryResearch #CarbonSequestration #ClimateAction 🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿

#Socialmedia data reveal novel habitats for #invasivespecies – our new paper led by @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social now out in #BiologicalConservation doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... with @bbmwong.bsky.social #biologicalinvasions #alienspecies #nonnative #invasive #pests #conservation #iEcology

The Thermal Ecology Alliance is approaching 1000 members! Join here: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/participation

Latest piece of Sam Ross's global takeover with #ResponseDiversity thinking just accepted @oikosjournal.bsky.social! Such a cool collaboration with @ceresbarros.bsky.social @lauradee.bsky.social @owpet.bsky.social @hannah-wht-eco.bsky.social Takehiro Sasaki & Anna LoPresti! doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🌍 Ready to take your biogeography journey to the next level? Join us at #TIBS2026 in Aarhus and experience: ✨ World-class invited speakers 🎤 Cutting-edge contributed talks 🔬 Hands-on interactive workshops 📊 TWO vibrant poster sessions 🚶 Unforgettable excursions #TIBS2026 #Biogeography #AarhusUni

Have you heard about our new journal, PLOS Ecosystems? 🌍 We publish cross-disciplinary research tackling urgent challenges in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. Explore our scope, submissions, and policies in our FAQs: plos.io/4pllZRx #OpenScience #EcosystemsResearch

More than a year ago researchers from @hifmb.de and @icbm-uol.bsky.social started to write about different perspectives on marine biodiversity change from natural and social science perspectives. This morphed into a review paper that was published online today link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪

Biogeography and evolutionary patterns of temperate deciduous forests in the Northern Hemisphere vist.ly/4i9h2 #Flora #Phylogeny #SpeciesRichness

Flying changes how metabolism scales with body mass –> NEW META-ANALYSIS of insects and spiders in Ecology Letters with @vojsavagjoni.bsky.social, H. Tan, A. Hirst and D. Atkinson onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🌊🐟 New #BAAE article: Introducing fwtraits, an R package unlocking freshwater ecological parameters from FWE! Easily access traits for fishes, inverts, plants & algae to power reproducible biodiversity analyses and identify critical habitats. 🌿📊 DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba... @gfoesoc.bsky.social

Plant #conservation in a changing #Mediterranean world John D. Thompson, Marine Fauché, Guillaume Papuga, and Perrine Gauthier nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Societal Impact Statement also available in French, Spanish and Italian. #PlantScience #LatestIssue #ThomasReview

Comment article: Matthew Fagan, Naomi Schwartz and Ruth DeFries offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets to ensure responsible use of remote-sensing datasets in ecology and environmental science. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share my new publication in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415.... Vegetation spillovers from Aus protected areas are common & widespread; also, management inside the area can affect vegetation outside the area. Spillovers don't factor much into conservation policy, but perhaps they should! 🧪🌍🌐

Destructive by nature? What human-driven extinctions of mammoths and mastodons mean for today's planetary environmental crisis. 🌎🌐 doi.org/10.1017/ext....

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Thrilled to share our new #stoichiometry paper on the environmental correlates of plant and animal stoichiometry. This was a fantastic collaborative work supported by #idiv www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fascinating new paper by @andrewabraham.bsky.social on how salt starvation shapes the abundance of large animals in Africa - the thread below explains the science … 🌐