Our work on the huge, and diverse impacts of Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, in the Ebro Delta just made 100 GS citations Nice achievement for a wonderful collaboration with @nfranchv.bsky.social and some other clever colleagues @ebdonana.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sad news … we lost a visionary scientist. His work and writing changed my understanding of the rules of ecological systems and evolutionary history

Happy to see our paper out! 🎉 We assess the relative roles of past/present environmental & anthropogenic drivers shaping functional & phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean forests, highlighting the key role of past climate stability 🌳 ➡️https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70177 (1/8)

Lion attack in Europe just 6000 years ago 🦁👣 #megafauna #carnivore #bigcats #Holocene

A charming new paper from @jcsvenning.bsky.social 's department provides more strong evidence "that the closed-forest model commonly used in restoration does not match the evolutionary history or ecological preferences of most temperate forest plants" and "that dense 1/ phys.org/news/2025-05...

The website for the 68th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science has been launched: 2026gijon.iavs-meetings.org Many thanks to Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and his colleagues for this invitation. See you in June in Gijón, on the northern coast of Spain.

Wonderful collection of articles exploring what the concept of anthromes - human-modified biomes - means for our understanding of the global carbon cycle 🌐

Elephants along with red deer, horses and wolves on the Spanish coast, not so long ago 🐘🦌🐎🐺🐾🇪🇸 #megafauna #lastinterglacial phys.org/news/2025-12...

🦙🧬Pleased to present our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧬🦙 Palaeogenomics of early camelid use in the Atacama Desert (Chile). We used ancient DNA to revisit animals being hunted/herded >3,000 years ago. Manuscript here: rdcu.be/eVwwl #aDNA #popgen Thread below🧵 Reposts appreciated :)

New #INTEGRADIV paper shows #paleoclimate stability is major driver of functional & phylogenetic diversity in animals & plants across Mediterranean #forests🌿❄️ Important implications for impacts of #climatechange ♨️Thx to @cmlmagneville.bsky.social for leading! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A third of tree species in heavily hunted Amazonian forests are struggling to reproduce There are no animals left to disperse their seeds Conserving forests means more than stopping deforestation. We need to stop defaunation too onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Come work with us! #PhD position on #ecosystem and #biodiversity effects of large #herbivores on the Eurasian steppes now announced: www.euraxess.de/jobs/395512 Nice combination of fieldwork and meta-analysis, co-supervised by @jonastrepel.bsky.social and ejlundgren.github.io

We're constantly told that renewables are unpopular, but that's simply not true

Congrats to Marco Davoli, former PhD student in @jcsvenning.bsky.social's team, for winning the 2024 Early Career Researcher Award for a paper from his PhD! Congratulations to Marco and co-authors for this outstanding achievement! 👏 #Conservation #RestorationEcology #Wildlife #ResearchExcellence

Technological progress comes with social costs. A new paper by Stefan Thurner et al. shows that "polarization started to increase exactly with the advent of smartphones and social media." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Join the BES Macro committee! We're recruiting a vice chair and 1-2 ordinary members to help us make macroecology & macroevolution a better place. More information on how to apply in the link, and come chat at #BES2025 if you happen to be around! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/...

🎉Proud to share GMA Lab member Marco Davoli won the Early Career Researcher Best Paper Award2024 @consbiog.bsky.social🏆Thanks to @jcsvenning.bsky.social @tobiaskuemmerle.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy Sophie Monsarrat Jennifer Crees Michela Pacifici Andrea Cristiano onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

A close-up of one of Ireland's three native translucent rainforest ferns: Tunbridge filmy. Best appreciated in the wet, its fronds swell and glisten with fat drops of succulence.

Beautiful "new" violet species🌿#plants

#NewSpecies Ceratostema limonensis A newly discovered #ericaceae from #ecuador Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/A2628450-... Publication: doi.org/10.3897/phyt... #phytoKeys #CeratostemaLimonensis #FAIRdata #openaccess #biology #ecology #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #flowers #plants

With many thanks to: @celestemare.bsky.social, @ymalhi.bsky.social, @duvallecology.bsky.social, @jcsvenning.bsky.social, @fonsvanderplas.bsky.social, and many others not on bluesky

Excited to see this contribution to our understanding of the #megafauna-soil nutrient links out in Nature Ecology & Evolution! Big thanks to @andrewabraham.bsky.social for leading this work 🐘🧂#salt #sodium #herbivores

Culture shapes conservation. & Culture is evolving....🌎🌐 Foundational principles of an applied cultural evolutionary science for natural resource management and conservation royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

*The role of fire on Earth* The final version of this paper is now available #OA in BioScience 75 (12) @aibsbiology.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌿🌐 wildfire #ecoevo @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csicdivulga.bsky.social

An extinct condor from the open & semi-open ecosystems of eastern Brazil in the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene - part of a diversified guild of scavenging #birds that suffered severe #extinction when South America's rich #megafauna was decimated by Homo sapiens www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Solar panel areas can be designed to be better for bird diversity than cropland: Ecovoltaic solar energy development can promote grassland bird communities besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #solarpanels #birds #energy #greenenergy #jernmarker

"We describe Stachytarpheta forzzae, a new species from an inselberg....the discovery of this new species stemmed from an initial record on iNaturalist" @nordicjbotany.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #newspecies #plants #speciesdiscovery #inaturalist #citizenscience

I'm very sad to say William Bond, of the University of Cape Town & Fellow of the Royal Society (@royalsociety.org ), has passed away. It is a great loss. He was an enthusiastic ecologist and a critical thinker. I learned a lot, and I still had a lot to learn from him. RIP. 😢 🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience

See our new study led by @ninadm.bsky.social in Nature Sustainability: 16 yrs of data show invasive #plants in #India expanding fast as passengers+drivers of change—reshaping #habitats, #fire & #livelihoods while creating novel ecosystem🌿🐅Collab w/ WII & NCBS. ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s418... #alienplants

The new Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED5, 2002–2022) shows that at the global scale 1) by far, most area burned are grasslands; 2) area burned is declining; & 3) fuel consumption is increasing: ie, fires are increasing in forests & encroached grasslands. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🌐

Europe’s earliest blue mineral pigment? From the Palaeolithic, you ask?? Indeed - read it here first, now even fully paginated 👇

2025. Native megafauna (Bison bison) act as a surprising inhibitor of cedar tree expansion in a Great Plains grassland esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Centre for Environmental Humanities and @irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social were honoured to host @jcsvenning.bsky.social from @au.dk for our keynote Rewilding lecture to close out our Autumn seminar series. Thanks to our panelists @whittledaway.bsky.social and Anya Murray. Video available soon.

Nice explainer of our recent plant #macroecology study in @pnas.org 🌐🌿🌴🍀🌐

🌲Happy to coauthor a new international study on #yew 🌲 One of Europe’s most overlooked & poorly understood #trees is far more versatile & ecologically complex than often assumed. #Herbivory, #light & #Taxaceae links are key🌲 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Homo sapiens and the environmental mismatch hypothesis "It is possible that the rapid industrialisation of our habitat is outpacing our adaptive capacity & is imposing selective pressures that threaten our evolutionary fitness." Longman & Shaw onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🏺 #ecoevo

Parasitic plants in Europe: ecological niches and spatial patterns onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... - happy to have been part of this collaboration on some of Europe's most special #plants 🌿#parasites #forbs

Looking very much forward to discuss #rewilding at Trinity College in Dublin next week ☘️🦬 iwt.ie/events/

#meetECONOVO @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social, postdoctoral researcher working on #ecologicalnetworks under #globalchange, predicting pollination & seed dispersal network structure & rewiring across future scenarios. She is broadly interested in species interactions, #functionaltraits & #macroecology🌱

A reminder that the 12th @biogeography.bsky.social conference is coming up! And I know it will be a blast, so don't forget to register.

🌍 Save the Date! The 12th International Biogeography Society Conference is coming to Aarhus, Denmark 🇩🇰 📅 January 6-10, 2026 📍 Aarhus University Join biogeographers from around the world to exchange research, foster innovation, and push our field forward! #TIBS2026 #Biogeography #Aarhus

👀- Ja, der har formentlig været store flokke af kaskelothvaler herhjemme. Og de kan komme tilbage. Vi kan få det hele igen, @jcsvenning.bsky.social, @econovoau.bsky.social til @videnskab.dk videnskab.dk/naturvidensk...

Our Rewilding in Europe event next week is sold-out, but as before we will record it & share on our YouTube channel ▶️ 📢 We are delighted to announce that @whittledaway.bsky.social + @miseanja.bsky.social, will join @jcsvenning.bsky.social for a panel discussion. www.youtube.com/@irishwildli...

New #BIEN collaboration paper out in @pnas.org🍃 We show, using data for ~250,000 #plant species, that broader climatic niches consistently predict larger geographic ranges and higher dominance - a key insight for #biodiversity under #climatechange🌍🌱👉https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2517585122

🐘 New research - Large herbivores are linked to higher herbaceous plant diversity and functional redundancy across spatial scales ➡️ buff.ly/zqRgqqo @jonastrepel.bsky.social @joe-atkinson.bsky.social @andrewabraham.bsky.social @jessekalwij.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social

#meetECONOVO @cmlmagneville.bsky.social, postdoctoral researcher working on the drivers and protection of #Mediterraneanforests diversity with @anordonez1.bsky.social, @jcsvenning.bsky.social & Kent Olsen🌿 Camille’s research interests include: #functionalecology #ecosystemfunctioning #conservation

Vegetation change in dry grasslands in NE Germany was studied across 20–25 years.There were early signs of biodiversity decline. Increase in competitive, mesophytic species and decline in disturbance-tolerant specialists was found. Highest diversity was associated with intermediate levels of grazing

#meetECONOVO - Postdoctoral researcher Maciej Sykut investigates past novel ecosystem dynamics using isotopic paleoecology of ungulates, collaborating with @felixthehauskat.bsky.social, @jcsvenning.bsky.social, and @trinekellberg.bsky.social. His research centers on #Isotopicecology🔬 #ECONOVO

Thanks to the great team, including @joe-atkinson.bsky.social , @andrewabraham.bsky.social, @jessekalwij.bsky.social, @jcsvenning.bsky.social, @econovoau.bsky.social, Rob Buitenwerf, Liza le Roux, Londiwe Mokeona, Michelle Greve, Steven Khosa, Caroline Makofane, Anika Oosthuizen & more! (3/3)

Amazing output of our #BIEN - #bigdata on #plants - project! Big congrats & thx to @gabrielmoulatlet.bsky.social for leading! 🌿🌴🌲🌳🌐🌍🌎 #macroecology