🐒🌱Linking seed dispersers' foraging decisions and movement to their impacts on seed dispersal patterns vist.ly/54bmi #Foraging #Gibbon #Movement #ResourceAbundance #ResourceDistribution #SeedDispersal #Simulations

🦜🍒Successful frugivory interactions recovery 53 years after the reintroduction of the ariel toucan Ramphastos ariel in the Atlantic forest 📷 Flávia Zagury vist.ly/5477q #Frugivory #InteractionCredit #PlantAnimalInteractions #Ramphastos #RecoveryOfInteractions #Rewilding

🛶🔣Asynchronous river floodplain environment dampens ecological variability across scales vist.ly/532uz #Floodplain #Landscapes #Metacommunity #MetaEcosystem #MobileConsumers #TemporalVariability

🗺️🌳Interactions between propagule pressure, native diversity and local assembly processes in mediating invasion outcomes 📷 Urmi Poddar vist.ly/53wnq #BiologicalInvasions #DversityInvasibilityHypothesis #EnvironmentalFiltering #LimitingSimilarity #PropagulePressure

🛖🦗Matching habitat choice could be brightness-based instead of hue-based in green-brown polymorphic grasshoppers vist.ly/53hqv #Acrididaeb #BackgroundColourMatching #GreenBrownPolymorphism #HabitatSelection #Luminance #Orthoptera

🔗🔷🔹Linking regional and global functional trait data: insights from mammal communities in a fragmented Atlantic Forest landscape vist.ly/53dat #Brazil #Biodiversity #EnvironmentalFiltering #FunctionalDiversity #HabitatFragmentation #IntraspecificVariation #MammalConservation

🌴🔄Partial recovery of large seed arrival following ecological restoration in fragmented tropical rainforests vist.ly/538fd #DispersalLimitation #ForestRecovery #Fragmentation #NaturalRegeneration #Restoration #SeedDispersal #SeedRain #SourceLimitation #TropicalRainforests

Our cover for May! 🐠 On Hawaiian reefs, a field experiment conducted by Brush et al. (2026) shows that early-arriving competitors and predators can strongly shape who gets to live on coral colonies. vist.ly/533y4 📷 Erik Brush

A chapter from Juri Felix's thesis (co-supervised with @philstevenson.bsky.social) on effects of tree species diversity on growth and leaf traits in Scots pine and Norway spruce is now published #OA in @oikosjournal.bsky.social May issue dx.doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Ignite💥: 🪲Evaluating baselines for long-term ecological monitoring of biodiversity trends: insights from the US National Ecological Observatory Network carabid data 📷Isa Betancourt vist.ly/42wy6

🌿🌊Environmental influence on intraspecific trait variation in the tropical seagrass Halodule uninervis vist.ly/42auc #EcosystemService #FunctionalTrait #HaloduleUninervis #IntraspecificTraitVariation #Seagrass

💥Ignite: 🚯🐢Marine litter can shift sea turtle nests toward the shoreline vist.ly/4zy46 #CoastalSqueeze #InundationRisk #LoggerheadTurtle #NestSiteSelection #NestingBehaviour #PlasticPollution

💥Ignite: 💭The niche variation hypothesis predicts hunting returns across human cultures vist.ly/4znxi #Foraging #IndividualSpecialization #IntraspecificVariation #SubsistenceHunting #WithinIndividualVariation #Plasticity

🟢🪵Community dynamics of lignicolous lichens on standing deadwood in a 275-year chronosequence vist.ly/4zi8a #BorealForests #EpiphyticLichens #EpixylicLichens #KeloTrees #SnagDynamics #SnagLongevity #Succession

Missed the deadline? We’ve got good news! The abstract submission deadline for this year’s NSO-GfÖ Conference has been extended until 30th April! Join us at one of Europe’s largest ecology conferences—submit your abstract by 30 April 2026 here: 👉 vist.ly/4z76b #NSO2026 #gfoe2026

Apply by 29th April to one of the NSO Grants 2026! We have Networking and Education as well as Early-Career Researcher Grants to support your events. ➡️All info on how to apply: vist.ly/4zgwv

🍅🤝Fruit-quality tradeoffs generate asymmetry in plant reliance on mutualistic frugivores vist.ly/4zdhx #DispersalDependence #EcologicalStrategyEvolution #Frugivory #LifeHistoryTraits #Mutualism #PlantAnimalInteractions

🌱Seedling survival response to neighborhood density associated with mycorrhizal type and soil nutrients availability in a warm temperate forest 📷 Yan Zhu vist.ly/4z8rx

Our cover for April! 🪺 A study of Corsican blue tits by Dion-Phénix et al. shows that adding aromatic plants to nests can reduce bacterial diversity, providing experimental support for the idea that birds use these plants to protect their offspring. vist.ly/4yiyb 🎨 Hèléne Dion-Phénix

🕳️💧Identifying knowledge gaps about context dependency in freshwater species invasions vist.ly/4yikx #Facilitation #IndirectInteractions #Mutualism #Parasitism #Spatial #Temporal

🧩🧬The relative roles of in situ diversification and lineage dispersal underlying diversity patterns at the assemblage level vist.ly/4y9py #InSituDiversification #LineageDispersal #ColonizationAge #BiogeographicalStochasticMapping #DiversityPatterns #Myrtaceae

🦌🌱Impacts of reindeer grazing on phosphorus sorption and nutrient availability in a tundra site vist.ly/4xzhh #LargeHerbivore #NutrientCycling #PSorptionIndex #Reindeer #WaterExtractableN #WaterExtractableP

📊🔗Linking differences in personality to demography in the wandering albatross vist.ly/4xv37 #Boldness #Demography #MatrixPopulationModel #Personality #PopulationDynamicsSensitivity

🔄🏠The interplay between landscape change and plasticity in habitat selection determines dispersal movements and settlement in small non-flying vertebrates vist.ly/4xqhg #DispersalStages #Fragmentation #HabitatLoss #SmallMammals

🦭📉Temporal changes in the dietary niche of sympatric seals provides insight into the role of competition in population declines vist.ly/4wwpq #CumulativePreyCurves #DietDiversity #NicheBreadth #NicheOverlap #PreyCompetition #PreyHardParts

🌿Phenotypic plasticity in amphibious plants across a latitudinal (climatic) gradient vist.ly/4wsfh #ClimateGradient #FunctionalTraits #LocalAdaptation #NorthAfrica #Plants #TemporaryWetlands

🌡️🦋Increasing temperatures and heatwave durations negatively affect the performance of a dietary generalist vist.ly/4wmwb #ClimateChange #DietBreadth #ExtremeHeatEvent #FallWebworm #HyphantriaCunea #InsectFitness #TemperatureSizeRule

🔍🗺️Multi-omics insights into environmental adaptation and invasion potential of the ascidian Molgula manhattensis vist.ly/4w8x7 #BiologicalInvasion #Climate #Mal #Adaptation #EnvironmentalHeterogeneity #EpigeneticVariation #GeneticVariation #MultiOmics

💥Ignite: 🥬Fire buffers drought impacts on reproduction in a resprouting Mediterranean shrub vist.ly/4w4ea #AnthyllisCytisoides #CombinedDisturbances #Drought #Fitness #PostFireResprouting

📃✍️Payment-based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology vist.ly/4vy75 #GlobalBias #OpenScience #ResearchEquity #ScientificInclusion #SocioPoliticalDisparities

🌼🐝Floral resource diversity drives spatiotemporal variation in plant–pollinator network structure vist.ly/4vtvb #FloralRewards #FunctionalTraits #Modularity #MutualisticInteractions #Nestedness #NetworkMotifs

🦇🍇Stratified sampling enhances the understanding of bat–fruit networks in the southern Atlantic Forest 📷 Fernando Carvalho vist.ly/4vjz7 #EcologicalNetworks #Frugivory #PlantAnimalInteractions #SeedDispersal #VerticalSpace #Zoochory

👩‍🔬📑Expert-led priorities for a response diversity research agenda in ecology vist.ly/4vgch #EcologicalStability #ExpertSurvey #FreeTextAnalysis #FunctionalDiversity #HorizonScan #QualitativeCoding #ResearchPrioritisation #ResponseDiversity

🚜🐦Functional diversity in agricultural landscapes: evidence of long-term clustering and multi-scale effects of land use on avian communities vist.ly/4v7yb #AgriculturalLandscapes #AvianCommunity #FunctionalDiversity #LandUse #SpatialScales #TraitClustering

🔵🐟A case of the blues: linking guild coloration to service quality in a marine cleaning mutualism 📷 Patrick Vetter vist.ly/4un9s #CleanerGobies #Cleaning Mutualisms #GuildColoration #ReefEcology #Signaling #StandardizedPhotography #SymbioticRelationships #VisualEcology

Our cover for March! 🔥 A study of Brazilian savannas by Manzan et al. shows that fuel traits strongly shape fire behavior, with vegetation structure and environmental conditions influencing flammability and helping predict where fires are most likely to occur. vist.ly/4uj6q

🫒🌴Seed dispersal and seed predation networks highlight important dual roles for plants and terrestrial vertebrates in a tropical forest vist.ly/4ui67 #AntagonisticNetwork #FunctionalTraits #MutualisticNetwork #SouthEastAsia #Versatility

💥⛓️Overexploitation can counteract top-down control and the paradox of enrichment in simple food chains vist.ly/4uaqi #BottomUpControl #Enrichment #Overexploitation #PlantHerbivoreInteractions #Stability #TopDownControl

🐝🌼Shifts in phenology influence synchrony of flowering plants and their pollinators along an elevation gradient 📷 Mikko Tiusanen vist.ly/4tyzh #PlantPollinatorInteractions #FloweringPhenology #PhenologyShift #NicheOverlap #ElevationGradient

Forum 📜: Rethinking community-weighted means: why geometric averages matter vist.ly/4tv4c #CommunityWeightedMean #GeometricMean #LogNormalDistribution #PlantFunctionalTraits #TraitBasedEcology #TraitEnvironmentRelationship

The next round of NSO Grants is now open! Apply by 29th April for the Networking and Education or the Early-Career Researcher Grant. Check out full application guidelines here: vist.ly/4tpjk and become a member before applying: vist.ly/4tpjh

🧬🧫Cross-feeding constrains the evolution of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli vist.ly/4tqrg #AdaptiveCapacity #AntibioticTolerance #AuxotrophicBacteria #BacteriaInteraction #CrossFeeding

Society publishers are learned societies publishing research for their scholarly communities. At the NSO, publishing is mission-driven: we reinvest in our members, support their research through our journals and uphold research integrity. 🌿🔬 #SocietyPublishing #OpenScience

🪲🌿Epichloë endophytes impair performance and preference of Rhopalosiphum padi by disrupting aphid feeding behaviour in tall fescue vist.ly/4tka7 #AphidFeeding #Endophyte #EPGTechnique #InsectBehaviour #Symbiosis

🐠🪸Habitat characteristics and priority effects shape fish and invertebrate assemblages inhabiting the coral Pocillopora grandis in Hawaiʻi 📷 Erik G. Brush vist.ly/4t69y #CommunityEcology #PriorityEffects #Hawaiʻi #HabitatEffects #CoralReefs

⬜◻️◽Ecosystem size reverses the effect of the spatial coupling between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems vist.ly/4szkj #AllochthonousInput #Disturbance #Landscape #Scaling #SpeciesAreaRelationship #Subsidies

🪪📐Species identity and spatial scale drive context‑dependent tree diversity effects in a Finnish forest experiment vist.ly/4sut5 #DBH #NeedleTraits #NorwaySpruce #ScotsPine #SpeciesDiversity #TreeDivNet

🌳〰️Anisotropic community turn-over at habitat edges informs on assembly drivers: simulation and empirical test on soil macrofauna vist.ly/4sqhk #Biodiversity #CommunityAssembly #HeterogeneousLandscape #MassiveDNABarcoding #Metacommunity #SoilMacrofauna

🕰️🌿Time tells: plasticity and developmental asynchrony underlie trait variation in a dune-building grass vist.ly/4sk4f #BiogeomorphicFeedbacks #CalamagrostisArenaria #EnvironmentalGradients #PlantLifeCycle #VegetatedCoastalSystems

🌿🏝️Disentangling the relative roles of biased colonization and in situ evolution in driving the island syndrome in Coprosma (Rubiaceae) vist.ly/4sbf3 #AncestralReconstruction #CorrelatedEvolution #IslandBiogeography #IslandSyndrome #PlantEvolution #StructureEquationModelling