🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #32, Sept 15-22, 26 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 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲 Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization. doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧵 (1/6) 🌐🧪🌱🌍

New publication alert! Together with colleagues, we show how combining eDNA with remote sensing can improve models of fish biodiversity in tropical rivers. 🔗 Read the article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...

Trait-space disparity in fish communities spanning 380 million years from the Late #Devonian to present www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #traits #fish #evolution #ecology 🌏🧪

🚀 Do you work with #data analysis, maps, #GIS or #climatemodels? We need you! Together with the European Space Agency - ESA @esa.int we are developing a new High-Resolution Land Cover product of ALL the planet 🌐 And... 👇

🥁New paper from Northeastern Mtn🏔️ Network❗️The patterns of herbivory & resource utilization vary along elevational gradients & affect tree seedling 🌱 survival, thus shaping species range shifts. @sunyesf.bsky.social @sunyofficial.bsky.social @appmtnclub.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s100...

In case you feel lazy & do not want to read the whole paper, I added a bit more context on the key findings of our recent paper investigating 🌸 time shifts across 11 ⛰️ ranges in 🇨🇳🌏🌐

Happy to have contributed to this nice study just published in #GCB on plants' phenological shifts across China's subtropical mountains: we used data from herbarium specimens to generate time series of flowering time at the species level & infer phenological shifts 🌺🌸💮🏵🌎🌐🍁🍂 shorturl.at/26dwH

Happy to share this commentary on our new paper in @pnas.org, led by William Farhan-Rios, exploring responses of tropical tree communities to climate warming from the Amazon to Andes Mountains 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐 An uphill struggle for tropical forest trees | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Uncertainty in blacklisting potential Pacific plant invaders using species distribution models 🌎🌐 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cool... a global focus on three core traits of ectotherms: metabolic rate, development time and fecundity. ShareTrait: Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait-based data in ectotherms #OpenTraits #FunctionalTraits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪🌐

New publication! We mapped the global genetic diversity of marine forests of brown macroalgae. Using genetic data, machine learning & past climate projections (LGM, ~20k yrs ago), we identify hotspots of diversity that shape resilience & conservation priorities. 🌍 🌊 Link: doi.org/10.1038/s420...

FAMM is by far the largest #fossil database (~3400 specimens), including 3 #Whale 🐋 species, #PolarBear 🐻‍❄️, #Walrus, 6 #Seal species 🦭, and the Steller's Sea Cow. FAMM is also the FIRST fossil database to harmonize #Radiocarbon ☢️, #StableIsotopes ⚛️, and #AncientDNA 🧬 at the specimen level! 🧵 2/🦴

FAMM will be particularly useful for researchers seeking to use inter-disciplinary techniques to understand how #Arctic #marine #mammals will respond to the current #ClimateCrisis Open-Access Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 🦴/🦴

🚨Have your say on the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide for #DarwinCore The @tdwg.org Darwin Core Maintenance Group has opened a 90-day public review and comment period for the new conceptual model and Data Package Guide. 🗓️ 17 September – 16 December 2025 🔗 www.tdwg.org/news/20...

Hedgerows play a crucial ecological role in maintaining connectivity in the fragmented Atlantic Forest. This study showed hedgerows matched forest fragments in seed rain and litter, with even greater fruit richness, highlighting their role in biodiversity conservation. ➡️ doi.org/10.5091/plec...

Prochlorococcus — Earth’s smallest and most abundant photosynthetic organism — may see population reductions of up to 51% in tropical oceans by 2100 under moderate and high warming scenarios, according to a study in Nature Microbiology. go.nature.com/3V3mvGn 🌊 🧪

Local Adaptation Drives Leaf Thermoregulation in Tropical Rainforest Trees 🔗 buff.ly/1b3WfmT @kalimiddleby.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social @jcuofficial.bsky.social

Across 97% of forest area from eight million sampled forested locations, the density of aboveground biomass is lower near forest edges than in forest interiors. This edge effect is estimated to be responsible for 9% reduction in forest aboveground biomass.🧪🌲🌴🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper out today in @nature.com describes a grim fate for coral reef growth under climate change in the Western Atlantic. We also estimate that reef restoration could offer pockets of local hope, but overall cannot keep up with the effects of climate change www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share our new study exploring how different dimensions of functional diversity scale with area and shape community assembly. 🧪🌐🌎 #Ecology #Biodiversity #Biogeography #Conservation #Birds shorturl.at/WkrG5

New in #ProcB - From policy to practice: Progress towards #data- and #code-sharing in ecology and evolution @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social @eivimeycook.bsky.social tell us more in our blog royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

Our Editorial concludes a Research Topic with 26 insightful articles on how #ecosystems respond to human pressures & #ClimateChange: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar... Explore the full collection: www.frontiersin.org/research-top... #MarineScience #Conservation #Biodiversity #MarineEcology 🧪🌍🌐🌊

Why are some species widespread while others are found only in small, isolated areas? A study in Nature Communications shows that species with narrow ranges, and thus higher extinction risk, are often island-restricted, poor dispersers, and have evolved relatively recently. #evosky 🧪

OPINION Ecosystem Phenology: Integrating Traits and Processes Beyond Observable Events 🔗 buff.ly/62Ij1xB

Limits to the accurate and generalizable use of soundscapes to monitor biodiversity 🌎🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Harms of introduced large herbivores outweigh benefits to native biodiversity: " We therefore advise caution regarding the intentional introduction of large mammalian herbivores for conservation purposes (rewilding, assisted colonization) [...]" 🌐🌎 #bioinvasions www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global analysis indicates that phosphorus limitation on terrestrial primary productivity has become stronger and is increasing more rapidly than nitrogen limitation. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📰Published📰ShareTrait: Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait‐based data in ectotherms💻 buff.ly/nhzs60F 🧪🌍

When It Gets Too Hot, Insects Move Too: New Study on Thermal Preferences Summary & Analysis by Patrick Stillson of "Thermal preference plasticity in ectotherms: Integrating temperature affinity and thermoregulation precision" by Deconninck et al. amnat.org/an/newpapers...

ICYMI: New online! Impacts of onshore wind energy production on biodiversity

INVITED REVIEW Making Restoration Effective for Dynamic Coastal Wetlands 🔗 buff.ly/G2GVo4a

Should farmers share space with non-food biodiversity on farms, or should they aim for maximum yields on minimum acreage to spare land for other species? A literature review recommends context-specific solutions combining sharing and sparing. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

A meta-analysis of 102 studies finds that climate change is reducing the diversity of bacteria and fungi in soil by an average of 16.0% and 19.7%, respectively, which will reduce the ability of soil to store carbon—which could accelerate warming. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #31, Sept 08-15, 28 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 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

What have been the trends in the study of Nature Contributions to People in the Southern Cone? The @CONATURAR Network tells us all about it in this brand new study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @imbivconicetunc.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @upascual.bsky.social @ipbes.net

How reliable are model-based blacklists of invasive plant species if occurrence & environmental data are limited & under different model choices? New paper by PhD researcher Valén Holle @jappliedecology.bsky.social #SDM #invasive #plants #Pacific besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚀 Book in progress: Spatial Data Visualization with tmap A guide to creating thematic maps in R with the tmap package. Covers everything from loading data to interactive and animated maps, with reproducible code. Read online: tmap.geocompx.org #rstats #rspatial #geocompx #gischat #maps

New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #OpenScience #FAIRdata

Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

What are the interconnections between livelihoods, biodiversity, and the services that connect the two? Maria J. Santos (University of Zurich) will address this question at our Biodiversity Seminar today. Join us in-person or online! 10 Sep at 11 am CEST biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...

🚨 Important paper in Nature: "Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super awesome new paper in #MEE describing #causal #detection of shifts in #biodiversity! So many great insights here—a must read for those interested in #causalinference And love Fig 3! Congrats team! @lsantinieco.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Check our ongoing work on #ConservationPlanning in the eastern #Mediterranean Sea accounting for cross-realm threat #connectivity. #MarineEcology 🌍🌐 #MSP #SpatialPlanning

Around 354 million people in North America and Europe are likely to have been affected by fine particulate matter pollution from the 2023 Canadian wildfire season, a paper published in Nature suggests. go.nature.com/42iffKC ⚒️ 🧪

Elevational ranges are a focus of intense study, particularly as climate change drives species upslope. But what are they and how do we measure them? In his Synthesis, Linck addresses these questions and more with community science data. Now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Climate Change Is Altering Ecosystem Water Use Efficiency in Water‐Limited Ecosystems 🔗 buff.ly/t5NgFNY

One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

OPINION The Emergence and Promise of Functional Chemogeography of Organic Matter 🔗 buff.ly/D7eeXQV