Megafaunal extinctions, including saber-toothed cats and ground sloths, simplified food webs in the American tropics, which now feature smaller predators and fewer prey species per predator, compared with tropical food webs in Africa and Asia. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/o1mi50YV4M3

Our recent paper on human-induced trait shifts and predator–prey interactions is on the cover of the May issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 😭😵‍💫 The paper is available open access here -> www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

New paper out! doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We examined how historical legacies of evolution history, environmental dynamics, and past species losses have shaped today's mammal food webs 🐅🐆🦁 🦌🦓🐗across the globe. #MammalFoodweb #DietaryNiche #Extinction #MacroEcoEvo #EcologicalNetwork

📣 New paper out in @plosbiology.org What drives global patterns of species richness? 🌍 Using a unified framework across 129 tetrapod clades 🐸🦎🐦🐘, we find: 👉 Productivity-driven equilibrium dynamics largely explain biodiversity patterns ⚖️🌱 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #Macroecology #Biogeography

Excited to be part of this collaborative effort tackling a longstanding question: how does productivity shape community assembly from simple species co-occurrence to complex trophic interactions? Check out what we discover! #foodweb #communityassembly #africa #plantproductivity #macroecology

The "birds that don't exist" paper is out in Ecology Letters! 🍻 We found a viable body form that has never evolved in a big clade of songbirds, and tested a series of hypotheses to figure out why. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My paper just came out! Urban parks and green spaces are widely known for their environmental benefits in mitigating climate change. However, my study reveals that managements can interrupt the natural connection between plants, soil organisms, and microbes that keep soils healthy and carbon-rich.

Now published: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 Open access in Facets, including open data www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

I’m excited to share the winners of the Outstanding Publication Award in EEB at MSU! I’m truly grateful to have served on the selection committee together as Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows, Becca and Nichole, and inspired by the outstanding, insightful work of our EEB graduate students.

For the first Funk lecture of 2026, @biogeography.bsky.social will be hosting @comecology.bsky.social. You do not want to miss this! Register under the link below. www.biogeography.org/news/news/ja...

As we get into the final parts of the amazing meeting that #TIBS2026 was, a reminder to follow and share the starter pack for ECRs in Biogeography: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK And a reminder to check it again, as we've had many new additions over the conference. See you all at the dinner!

New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

BBS Taiwan is listed! Check out handy R packages that can boost your research. #Ecology #OpenScience

Join at 🌏 Species on the Move in Taiwan! A global forum where researchers, practitioners & policymakers share insights, innovations, and strategies shaping the future of biodiversity. #Ecology #ClimateChange #RangeShift #Biodiversity #Conservation

Which paleoclimate dataset do you use for your research? In my latest research, I compared temperature estimates from five well-known paleoclimate datasets to proxy data and found that inter-dataset variability can strongly affect temperature-delimited reconstructions. 🧵 ➡️ doi.org/10.21425/fob...

Lab’s publication came out! Bye-bye butterflies? Insects are in 'precipitous decline' in Midwest. #ZipkinLab #Ecology #QuantitativeEcology #Conservation

First postdoc paper just dropped! Using 50 years of Breeding Bird Survey data, we found that the unexpected functional shifts of bird communities in North America do not track species-level expectations, and these unexpected shifts can be explained by just 5% of “hyper-dominant” species.

Quantifying similarity among ecological network is getting feasible to understand assembly processes from communities to species interactions. Upcoming publication using this for African mammal food webs is under revision now. Stay tuned! #Ecology #EcologicalNetwork #Macroecology #Biogeography