Interesting analysis of state of knowledge of seed dispersal at a fine level of taxonomic resolution

State of the art review - of interest to island palaeontologists and biogeographers --- The potential of sedimentary ancient DNA to increase our understanding of island ecosystem dynamics biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Delighted about this recognition for three brilliant colleagues and friends; I think I've known them collectively for 83 years! Have learnt a huge amount about science, leadership and how to be a great colleague from all three. Congratulations @timcoulson.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social & Kathy

Interesting instance of avian hybridisation

Excited to have our new garden dormouse paper out! Small mammals are underrepresented in conservation research. Here we explore patterns of genetic erosion in garden dormice, considered the fastest-declining mammal in Europe, in its core German range #consgen link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Join us on May 27th for the next Funk Biogeography Seminar! Dr. Michael Landis from Washington University in St. Louis will be speaking about the use of phylogenetic models to explore the biogeography of the past. Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ma...

Wednesday May 27th, 4pm British Summer Time / 5pm Central European Summer Time. Alfred Russel Wallace webinar, by Dr. Tom Matthews (University of Birmingham) “Assessing the wider implications of species extinctions: island birds and beyond ”. islandbiology.com/news/ver.php...

Western Balkan sky islands exemplify how past climatic oscillations fostered lineage diversification - see : Climatic swings triggered incipient postglacial speciation of flightless Calosoma beetles in Western Balkan sky islands biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...

The poorly known Timor Green Pigeon may be in danger of extinction unless urgent conservation measures are implemented:

Contrasting effects of climate, land use, habitat structure and predation on two Mediterranean lacertids at their range edge biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...

We just published a global synthesis of mountain glacier extent during the last ice age! #LGM www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.nature.com Led by marvellous ECR Augusto Lima @ac-lima.bsky.social mountainsinmotion.w.uib.no @mohnfoundation.bsky.social @bjerknes.uib.no #UIB-BIO 🧵👇

Saproxylic beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) of Greece: A synthesis of diversity, biogeography and conservation challenges, with the first national checklist biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php...

Check out the new and improved newsletter from @biogeography.bsky.social. It's a great way to keep abreast of all the happenings in biogeography and beyond. And if you like what you see and are not yet subscribed, do so on their website! www.biogeography.org/news/news/ne...

Is the taxon cycle working on plants? See our recent work on the Canarian vascular flora showing a predictable progression of colonization, range expansion, diversification, range contraction, and eventual extinction, often driven by competition among congenerics. More here: doi.org/10.1002/brv....

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...