Over a quarter of a million seabirds on Rathlin Island are now safer! 💙 Rathlin Island has been declared ferret-free: a world-first conservation success helping Puffins, Guillemots and more raise their young safely again. Read the full story: www.rspb.org.uk/media-centre...

In memory of Paul Ehrlich legal-planet.org/2026/03/19/p...

Biogeographical patterns of the genus Plectostoma H. Adams, 1865 (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in Sundaland’s limestone ecosystems biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php... If you are interested in land snails [and if not, why not?], here's a paper well worth a read, on a highly diverse region

Body mass–abundance relationships reveal uneven global energy distribution across body size classes in vertebrates biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php... Interesting article on species abundance vs body mass globally, just out this week

Super honoured to have contributed to this epic piece of work, lead masterfully by @szymon-czyzewski.bsky.social. We review multiple lines of palaeoecological evidence to reassess vegetation structure over the last 23 million years: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Next in our Frontiers roundup: Using Appalachian pollen records, Shuman et al. explore how the tree communities of the Holocene were formed by interactions between climate variation and species climate niches: doi.org/10.21425/fob...

Diverging responses of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic plant diversity to biogeographic parameters in arid habitat islands of southern Africa biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php... new work on quartz habitat islands in Southern Africa

Towards the human-induced “eemification” of the recent Holocene: a perspective from the Canary Islands biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php... Introducing the concept of Eemification - an interesting new perspective article just out today in Frontiers of Biogeography

The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Our latest effort to understand ISARs for plants globally!

I am honored to have received the 2025 Tansley Medal @newphyt.bsky.social! Thank you to everyone who pushed, challenged, and supported me along the way to complete the underlying work.

Two new papers to start your week! First, big distributions and little genetic divergence in the global biogeography of zoantharians: biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1742...

Phytoplankton regionalism in natural mesocosm-like wetlands of an island archipelago in the Aegean Sea biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php... Interesting concept of triple insularity

Small-island effect is detected for both native and non-native seed plants in the largest archipelago of China - and shown for both species richness and phylogenetic diversity -https://biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=168932

Fish species composition reflects geomorphology in the Western Amazon, the Earth's vertebrate biodiversity hotspot biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...