European amphibian hotspots in the hot pot. Published in Earth’s Future doi.org/10.1029/2025... Central & Eastern Europe sites: intense temperature increments & expanded droughts Mediterranean sites: Increasing floods Mediterranean coast, France & Italy vulnerable: low fecundity+high threat

New paper from the #SteppesinHarmony workshop! Great collab with my favourite scientists in steppe bird ecology and some experts in scenario analysis. Thread below @consletters.bsky.social 👉 Full article here: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Five 3-year Postdoc positions open at @ebdonana.bsky.social. I am happy to sponsor and mentor good candidates working in my field, but note that these are quite independent positions aimed at helping stabilize new researchers in the system. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/4nqkq...

Ever wondered how morphology is affected by climate? Our new paper in Ecography shows sex-specific shifts in body size of European #bats in response to temperature & rainfall across space, but no clear temporal changes due to high variability 🌍🌐🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Great post by PhD student @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social on our last study looking at the influence of temperature and rainfall on the body size of bats across Europe. @mncn-csic.bsky.social @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social

So great to catch up in person with researchers working in the Medio Jurua region. #ATBC2025

@laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social explaining her poster on spatiotemporal niche partitioning in arboreal primates for almost 3 hours! Great attendance! #atbc2025

Researching impacts of climate change on biodiversity? Submit an abstract and register to join the British Ecological Society Climate Change Group hybrid meeting on 18th Sep 2025. Abstract submission deadline 7th July 🌍

@iagoferreiro.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk about the work we are doing in the Amazon on the characterization of ecological networks along a defaunation gradient. Great collab with the Instituto Jurua from Brazil and scientists from Norway, UK, and Brazil. #ATBC2025

Here we go!!! Congress time! So happy to be back at the ATBC annual meeting 6 years later. #ATBC2025 @iagoferreiro.bsky.social @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social

Snaps from Oaxaca🇲🇽

🌴The tropics help to sustain life as we know it, but are under immense pressure. From land-use change to resource extraction, these ecosystems face a variety of challenges. @ipbes.net  #GlobalAssessment On #TropicsDay, let’s remember that conserving biodiversity-rich areas is essential.🌎🧪

Happy pride🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!!!! @mncn-csic.bsky.social

Estas son algunas de las imágenes que nos llegan de la marcha del Orgullo 2025 de Budapest, prohibida por el primer ministro Viktor Orbán 📹 Sara Alonso Esparza www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

New preprint from the lab, led by the great @mphilippelesaffre.bsky.social . We produced layers of hunting exposure across the tropics that can be used in cumulative threat mapping approaches and vulnerability assessments. More info below 👇🏻

New paper out! We present a framework for quantifying the vulnerability of terrestrial insular biota to multiple threats. This is the first output of the #RIVAGE project, funded by @frbiodiv.bsky.social & brilliantly led by @celinebellard.bsky.social. peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

In the Amazon, rivers don't just divide land-they divide species. We found 80% of new world primates are split by natural barriers and wider rivers = more genetically distinct monkeys! 🐒🌊 #evolution #biodiversity #primatebio #sciencetwitter #conservation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The need for an individual-based global change ecology ibe.pensoft.net/articles.php...

New paper published in Ecography coming out of the ClimBats COST Action on effects of climate on #bat morphology across space and time. Led by @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social, @anabenlop.bsky.social and @lsantinieco.bsky.social 🦇🌡️🌧️ nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Statement from TIBS to our current, former, and future members

And another paper out! Here we identify 48 tropical mammal species that may not have adequate CITES protection but that are nonetheless threatened by biological resource use. A great collab with Tow Jia Hao, Jacqueline Choo and Román Carrasco, from NUS www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper on climate-driven changes in bat morphology across space and time, brilliantly led by @laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social. An output from @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social and many other institutions involved. #COSTAction #CLIMBATS

The Department of Biogeography and Global Change from the National Museum of Natural Sciences (@mncn-csic.bsky.social) has a brand new Bluesky profile! You can follow us @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social for news on job offers, new papers and ongoing department activities.

Congress time!!! #ICPSB2025 #steppebirds

Nice paper! Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature | Science www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

New paper out! This is a contribution to the #ELECTROSTEPPE project funded by @miteco.gob.es

New PhD position @mncn-csic.bsky.social to work on biodiversity risk assessments, together with @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social and myself. More details here: www.anabenitezlopez.com/job-offer-ph...

Hoy es #DarwinDay 🙂 En el #MNCN lo hemos celebrado con una lectura pública de algunos fragmentos de su principal obra: 'El origen de las especies'. ¡Toda una tradición! Os dejamos algunas imágenes del evento. ¡Ah! Y el sábado seguimos con las celebraciones. 🥳 mncn.csic.es

New paper out! Another great collab with @alfredoromero.bsky.social and @tkuemmerle.bsky.social from the Conservation Biogeography lab @humboldtuni.bsky.social, together with great scientists from the Chaco region in S America. So happy to be part of this! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

[New paper] 🧪 "Neolithic pastoralism and plant community interactions at high altitudes of the Pyrenees, southern Europe" rdcu.be/d7peE A great collaborative effort by @paleoipe.bsky.social. Super grateful to and proud of Irene Julián! 😍 Now, a thread! #globalchange #pyrenees

Some pics from my plane trip over the Amazon forest

⚠️Award Alert⚠️ Are you an early career researcher in the field of #conservationbiogeography ? We now have 2 yearly prizes for early career researchers publishing in Diversity & Distributions!! Check this out at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Just out in Diversity and Distributions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tomorrow I'll be travelling to Brazil to join our third consecutive field campaign in the Jurua, together with @iagoferreiro.bsky.social and Laura Paltrinieri. This is our second campaign of our #TROPECOLNET project. @cienciagob.bsky.social

New on European conservation science: EU-wide hunting ban allowed a quick population recovery of turtle dove across 30 European countries: 25% increase in just two years! Carboneras et al. in Conservation Letters conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧵Just published in @plosbiology.org - one of the most unusual papers that I've ever handled as editor (with help from guest ed @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social). @mallorymrice.bsky.social &co explore the consequences of problematic terminology that has grown up around ecology & evolutionary biology...

4-year grants to work in Spain🇪🇸 Ayudas Beatriz Galindo para la atracción del talento investigador - Periodo mínimo de contratación 4 años - Experiencia docente e investigadora en el extranjero - 2 Modalidades: profesor/a o investigador/a distinguido/a. - Plazo: Hasta 8/2/2025 s.mtrbio.com/wpoplpyyiq

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

Super excited to chat about the challenges of working with trait data 🍃 on Jan 14 at the ECR seminar, hosted by @dittemch.bsky.social & @nadi-mi-ar.bsky.social . Presenting along @bjenquist.bsky.social & @nanitundra.bsky.social . Join us🌿! bit.ly/3Pqingy

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In our last meta-analysis we found a 36% increase in glucocorticoid concentrations due to human disturbance in mammals, but no evidence of a generalizable effect for birds, non-avian reptiles and amphibians. Check it out! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

spAbundance package (Doser et al. doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14332) was published this year at @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! It fits a variety of single/multispecies abundance models using Bayesian Inference allowing also for hierarchical frameworks. Let me show you a funny example 🧵👇(1/6) #rstats

Check out our latest review on the links between animals, plants, and carbon, and explore the complex interactions between defaunation and ecosystem carbon in Earth's most biodiverse and carbon-rich biome, tropical rainforests. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A study of 2.9 million rivers worldwide reveals large shifts in global river flow patterns over the past 30 years. The results emphasize the critical yet changing role of upstream rivers in flood dynamics and the far-reaching consequences for both natural and human systems.

New paper led by former group member Jadelys Tonos! Simulations/empirical data reveal just a few trees bearing the most fruit in the landscape are critical for driving patterns of lemur movement & seed dispersal 🐒🥭🌱https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/1365-2435.14702

So sad to read this 😢 As someone working in 🇦🇷 for 10+ years I know that Argentine colleagues always had to face difficult and often unpredictable conditions. But the Milei government is dismantling Argentina's scientific system with unprecedented aggression - www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🙈🙉🙊🐵 www.frontiersin.org/journals/bio...

Important piece by Gittleman - “It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge..[the] One Health approach is unlimited, exciting, & necessary for the health of life on our planet” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌐🌾

El cangrejo del rey The king's crayfish A 30-minute documentary on the history of crayfish in Spain In Spanish, with English subtitles (in settings) Enjoy! (and, if enjoyed, please distribute) YouTube link in next post