🆕 in "Ecological Monographs": Static models miss the mark—adding nonlinear, density-based facilitation helps predict coexistence, persistence, and realistic community dynamics 📄Neighbor density-dependent facilitation promotes coexistence and internal oscillation doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Very excited about this work led by Sergio

Meghna Krishnadas will present the next PopBio seminar: The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST. Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/u7B1fyzRAwar...

What a good start to the week: My first paper just got published in Oikos! 🌱 "Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback" with Christian Guill and Toni Klauschies doi.org/10.1002/oik.... #ecology #phdlife #phdchat

Back in the field in Western Australia.

I-Ching Chen will present the next PopBio seminar: Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely. Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/kb6aHitUsL5f...

Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar: "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales" Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/uRJwbK1ZacZH...

Joe Wan will present the next PopBio seminar: "A unified theory of community structure" Join us online, Thursday July 31 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/ZG8ghPoz2oX4...

Save the dates! We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific. Sign up to this google form to receive announcements: forms.gle/2vn885K3uLC1...

Cool seeds! Nicotiana rotundifolia under the microscope today.

Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar: "Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens" Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...

🗺️ Ever wander to a new place and think, "Hmm I wonder what birds/plants/[insert favourite taxonomic group] I can find here?" 🔍 We built {infinitylists} 📋 to help nature lovers create personalised, location-based taxon lists! 🌏

Join us online this Thursday 1pm AEST. Hye Jin Park @hyejinpark.bsky.social (Inha University) will present: "Artificial selection for collective composition" Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/53hkcdcKPGfa... NB. This seminar won't be recorded.

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...

Join us online for our second seminar this Thursday 1pm AEST. Akshit Goyal @akshitg.bsky.social (ICTS) will present: "Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations via a Geometric Approach" Sign up to receive the zoom link forms.gle/XzypgbUp53fW... NB. Time changes in SE Aus from last month!

#lirpaloof Since it's already 2025-04-01 for most of the world ... a slightly updated version of the `celebrate` package: `remotes::install_github("bbolker/bbmisc/celebrate")`. (Description: Celebrate your successes and mourn your failures.) Now supports `htest` objects!

Very exciting news! In Sept 2025, I will move my lab to the School of Biological Sciences @monashbiol.bsky.social at #Monash University in Melbourne! I am recruiting #PhD students to work on #ecological & #evolutionary dynamics of #phytoplankton #communities – find out more here giuliaghedini.com

The idea for this seminar series is the product of a conversation at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference. We were inspired by great online seminars like the @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social and @theobiophysics.bsky.social but wanted to have something in our time zone. Now the idea has come to life 🤩

We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next few months! Starting with Ryan Chisholm in March and then @akshitg.bsky.social @hyejinpark.bsky.social @barnesecodiv.bsky.social. Fill in this google form to receive announcements forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL...

Very excited for this online seminar series I am organising with @ecologyisamess.bsky.social @darmitage.bsky.social @giuliaghedini.bsky.social @masatoyamamichi.bsky.social Lynette Loke, Andrew Letten And Po-Ju Ke. Follow to find out more!

Ecology is counting stuff…

Amazing to me how useful looking at data in 2D PCA continues to be, even though the approach sounds crazy on paper—"p-dimensional ellipsoid", rantings of a madman. PCA is the cockroach of dimension reduction. I expect it to be present in any advanced galactic civilization.