A brief delve into the recent science history of network theory (including food webs)

Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26 Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈 👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8 #Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

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/...

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...

🔥Ignite - Warming threatens aquatic–terrestrial linkages: evidence from tropical geothermal streams vist.ly/467kq #BayesianMixingModels #EffectsOfWarming #FluxAcrossEcosystems #FoodWebStructure #IsotopicAnalyses #TropicalRiparianForest #WaterLandInterfaces

Mark Novak, @kecoblentz.bsky.social, John DeLong FTW - a very cool paper I need to dig carefully through!

Researchers from #Eawag have conducted an extensive meta-analysis of field studies worldwide to better understand how land-cover changes in the watershed influence freshwater food webs. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @florianaltermatt.bsky.social #foodwebs #landuse

July issue: Perspective led by Benoit Gauzens on the application of interaction networks to different ecological questions, and that provides guidance on selecting the appropriate type of interaction network. 🧪🌎 Web link: go.nature.com/3GLdOwN Readcube: rdcu.be/ewqXc

🌳 One of my dearest projects—with brilliant friends and colleagues—is out in @NatureComms We show that how you plant tree species (not just which) can significantly boost forest functioning. 🔗 rdcu.be/evtXs 👇 A short thread

By combining theory, modelling and empirical work, Luo et al. show that species synchrony decreases with time series length and its relationship with diversity switches from positive to negative www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In ectotherms, temperature-species richness relationships matched predictions of metabolic theory 🧪🌐 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Planktonic C:N and N:P ratios rose markedly in the late twentieth century, followed by a decline, suggesting a progressive alleviation of P limitation, probably driven by increased anthropogenic P inputs” 🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our new paper on how empirical research can better support mechanistic models—through realistic, interdisciplinary data and by embracing complex, individual-level mechanisms. Born from a @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social symposium! doi.org/10.1111/2041... @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social

In a synthesis of over 3000 population trends in the Wadden Sea, we show a substantial reorganization of biodiversity with over 38% of populations undergoing significant change (i.e., increases or decreases), identify winners and losers and critical time points of change! dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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Ecological assemblages may be spatially organized by both context dependency and general processes. A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution finds general patterns in the organization of regional biodiversity in biogeographical regions. go.nature.com/3FILzhN 🧪

Nature research paper: Old carbon routed from land to the atmosphere by global river systems https://go.nature.com/3Sz8Jdn

Less known than keystone species, keystone communities! Check out the last preprint of Gabriel Khattar and Pedro Peres-Neto about this important property for biodiversity responses to disturbance. doi.org/10.22541/au....

New study out! 🌐🧪 Human pressures are boosting invaders, cutting fishery value by over 50%. A 21-year study led by Dieison Moi shows how invasions reshape ecosystems and threaten vital services. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Ecology #EcosystemServices

I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support www.nature.com/articles/s41...

OIKOS @oikosjournal.bsky.social CALL FOR PAPERS - BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE www.oikosjournal.org/blog/call-pa...

Our preprint "Revealing the organization of species stability in ecological communities" now available at doi.org/10.1101/2025... Comments welcome!

This paper - Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate - was motivated by the need to anticipate and quantify how extreme events, which are accelerating with climate change, impact nature;s contributions to people, YET ... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Warming can affect many physiological processes. But any attempt to scale up individual-level processes to population-level consequences must assume a relationship between temperature & the strength of density dependence. But what does it look like? In our new paper, we tried to find out.

The structure of aquatic food webs does not fit standard allometric predictions. Here, García-Oliva & Wirtz explain the co-evolution of specialist and non-specialist predators in aquatic food webs and how this helps reconstruct food webs on the basis of a relatively small number of observations 👇

Our new paper, based on data from 1,705 studies, shows that pesticides are toxic to organisms they are not intended to harm, including fungi, microbes, plants, insects, & vertebrates such as ourselves. Questions the wisdom of applying over 3 million tonnes of them every year...

Thrilled to see this paper published! 🎉 Huge congratulations to PhD student Patrik Ståhl on his first published paper—what an achievement! 👏 Read it here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @marienordstrom.bsky.social @riikkapd.bsky.social @tvarminne.bsky.social #foodwebs

Let us celebrate the founders of Ecology. Fred Clements, Ph. D was author of a 1905 guidebook to its practice. Clements, by all accounts a rather imposing dude, was obsessed with making ecology a quantitative science and toward this end, invented the quadrat and transect method. 1/4

📢 I am very excited to share our new paper in @commsbio.bsky.social: nature.com/articles/s42... . 🔥 🌍🧪How does #warming affect #plankton #bodysize distributions? We used one of the largest outdoor #mesocosm experiments to test our hypothesis 1/

Get simulating! #Biodiversity / #foodweb dynamics with #julialang. Classic bioenergetic model, consolidation of lots of add-ons & super fast. Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Do you ignore the effects of #ConfoundingVariables in your models? Do you remove correlated variables because of a statistical test rather than causal reasoning? If so, read this paper by @jebyrnes.bsky.social and @lauradee.bsky.social! #AcademicSky 🧪🌏 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Yayy 🌱🪲🐝🐌- A list of stellar ecologists and myself showed that (1) species interactions can be summarised at the guild level, except for a few critical species, (2) they occur along a continuum from positive-to-negative, and (3) they have relatively weak strength except between plants!

Nature research paper: Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity https://go.nature.com/3WD7cWa

My new substack newsletter explains the fundamental trade-off in experiments in ecology and environmental sciences: you can either have mechanistic resolution or realism, but not both in the same experiment. #ecology #environment #science matthiasrillig.substack.com/p/why-you-ca...

Latitudinal differences in thermal response curves across populations demonstrate context-dependent warming effects within species https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10953 @nordicoikos.bsky.social #predatorprey #climatechange #latitude #thermalresponse #aquatic

Thrilled to share our new paper in @asn-amnat.bsky.social "Toward a more dynamic metabolic theory of ecology for predicting climate change effects on biological systems" www.naturl.link/9jpy6M It's one of several papers in an upcoming special feature "Demystifying Fundamental Theories in Ecology"

New paper out! 🎉 We synthesise the mechanisms oh how crop diversification can benefit pollinators with a focus in Western Europe and North America. @eeraertsmaxime.bsky.social @catrinwestphal.bsky.social Led by @ThijsFijen link.springer.com/article/10.1...