Experimental evidence from NZ rainforests: Selective control of invasive rats or possums triggered competitor release, with impacts on native seedfall 🐀🌏 Integrated management strategies are critical for positive conservation outcomes 📊🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Challenges of Big Data analysis 🌐🌎 academic.oup.com/nsr/article/...

Big data: Some statistical issues 🌎🌐 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Valuations of nature and its contributions to people in South America’s Southern Cone: taking stock and looking forward 🌎🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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

"Por qué liberar pigargos en España es una mala idea" Lo decíamos hace cuatro años @es.theconversation.com, el programa se paralizó, pero por lo que se ve vamos a seguir pagando las consecuencias de este mal ejemplo de conservación. theconversation.com/por-que-libe...

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...

On the functional relationship between biodiversity and economic value 🌎🌐🧪 www.science.org/doi/full/10....

If You're Rare, Should I Care? How Imperfect Detection Changes Relationships Between Biodiversity and Global Change Drivers 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A flock of Mountain parakeets (Psilopsiagon aurifrons) #argentinabirds #birds

An extension of joint SDM to jointly model species abundances and intraspecific trait variation. #ecopubs @esajournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration 🌎🌐🧪 #bioinvasions www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Human-driven extinction event not yet the "sixth mass extinction", but is very likely the largest extinction event of the last 66 million yrs. 🌏 🧪 Read about it in our new paper led by @jackhhatfield.bsky.social and Katie Davis @anthropocenebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

The rather spectacular flowers of a Tillandsia

An integrative paradigm for building causal knowledge 🌎🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🌍🌱🧪🔬🦠🧫📈🧬🖥 Scary how many #MicrobiomeSky studies ignore this "Ecological data are inherently noisy and sparse [...] As such, it is not unexpected that robust inference of complex ecological processes like species interactions necessitates large sample sizes." doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Making predictive modelling ART: accurate, reliable, and transparent 🌎🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Correcting environmental sampling bias improves transferability of species distribution models 🌎🌐🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Small invaders, big risks? Nine years of invertebrate interceptions in Australian Biosecurity. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/arph... @neobiota.pensoft.net

Biodiversity credits need credibility - more transparency and regulation required 🌍 #BiodiversityCredits #Nature #Conservation #EcologyRestoration phys.org/news/2025-08...

Invasive species eradication: How do we declare success? 🌎 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊 Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu... #QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social

Forests, Carbon, and Climate Change: Why our obsession with monetizing forest carbon may be counter productive 🌎🌐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The result of a huge amount of effort (by my co-authors) – "a comprehensive global assessment of the status and trends of alien species for major taxonomic groups (including Bacteria, Protozoa, fungi, plants, and animals) for IPBES regions." #BioInvasions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Review led by @ninadm.bsky.social‬ and @jcsvenning.bsky.social‬ explores patterns of alien plant invasions across the Greater Tropics, as well as avenues for recovery and resilience. Web link: https://bit.ly/3Jhk40k Readcube: https://bit.ly/45x0swr

'Plant genetic diversity hotspots in South America’s largest desert: implications for dryland conservation planning' A new Research Paper by Tripaldi, Quiroga,Tadey and Souto published as FirstView in #EnvironmentalConservation bit.ly/4oixid8 #conservationscience🌎 #plants #genetics #SouthAmerica

This is quite cool and useful

Very excited to share this review. Stemming from the @ipbes.net IAS Assessment, it is the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of the status of invasive alien species globally. An essential reference for anyone interested in #bioinvasions 🌎🌐 🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Digital twins of the natural environment 🌐🧪🌎 www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Ecology needs to overcome siloed modelling 🌐🌎🧪https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/abstract/S0169-5347(23)00242-2

A guanaco (Lama guanicoe) in the snow at the rather spectacular PN Los Cardones (Argentina)

Stop using MAXENT for invasive niche modeling. Instead embrace mechanisms. Check out this great review on mechanistic niche models for invasives from ‪@erolafenollosa.bsky.social‬ in ‪@ecography.bsky.social‬ 🌐 #ecology #invasivespecies nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Happy to share new work from the lab and a wonderful group of co-authors: We argue that conservation biology needs to move beyond the current focus on species richness metrics. While this has been argued before, we highlight the unappreciated impacts of using richness for a variety of problems:

Plasticity in climate change responses - just published in Biological Reviews What in the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to climate change? Looking at mechanisms from the subcellular to the community and ecosystem levels. With Stollewerk, @davidboukal.bsky.social, et al.

Invasive species can radically alter community dynamics: In Kenya, an invasive ant replaced native ants that keep elephants from destroying acacia trees, whose cover allows lions to ambush zebra. Lions shifted their hunting strategy to stalk buffalo. #bioinvasions www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Big paper from excellent researchers like @7toucans.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New perspective out today in @jappliedecology.bsky.social. We reflect on co-producing evidence in an effort to bridge the implementation gap, for evidence based, impact focused predator control. What worked, what didn't and where barriers to implimentation still remain. You can't win them all... 🧪

Interestingly, I have noticed a reticence to consider options other than population control when managing invasive species. We wrote about it here academic.oup.com/bioscience/a.... 🌐 #bioinvasions

NEW! in our journal #australianmammalogy - Rat Trap! Rakali ambush introduced Black Rats and come out on top during agressive interactions! Read more - www.publish.csiro.au/AM/AM25009

In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We traced the origin of thousands of wildlife imported into the US. Key takeaway: significant and concerning inconsistencies in the declared provenance of many species. Check it out! 🌎🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Open border ecosystems: Against globalised laissez-faire conservation 🌎🌐🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Empirical evidence of widespread exaggeration bias and selective reporting in ecology 🌎🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unequivocal case of academic misconduct, enabled by lazy reviewers (and possibly some handling editors).

Shannon's H, Simpson's D, and Pielou's J are useless in ecology. Fitting data with a compound abundance distribution based on the geometric series is a better way to quantify variation – and to estimate species richness. New paper in Ecology Letters. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A systematic review of Nature’s Contributions to People: impacts on science, policy, and sustainability 🌐🧪🌎 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A long-term field experiment measuring the effects of nonnative predators (cats & foxes) on a native mammal assemblage. Results suggest the impact of nonnative predators on native mammal populations are 10-fold higher than that of native predators.

Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🌎🧪🌐 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...