Human Pressures Drive Compositional Homogenization and Functional Shifts in Southeast Asian Mammal Communities 🔗 buff.ly/WyxFEw6

New paper out in New Phytologist 🌱 After centuries of research in Europe, we have studied only ~37% of all seed-dispersal interactions. Birds of prey, ants, and rodents are among the most understudied - yet researchers rarely flag them as gaps! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great Seminar with Tom Matthews organised by @islandbiology.bsky.social on: Assessing the wider implications of species extinctions: island birds and beyond May 27th, 4pm British Summer Time / 5pm CET Register (it's free) with this link: forms.gle/Cn1wUvukAp2Y...

New review and meta-analysis of animal impacts on ecosystem function🖥️ 🌳 🌍 👇️ buff.ly/RTz1S0m

🌲A global analysis of 6,550 observations shows that mixed-species plantations increase soil carbon and water holding capacity by about 10.5%. The greatest gains occur in conifer broadleaf mixtures in warm, wet climates through better soil structure 👉️ buff.ly/U3sA2l4

Read the accompanying News & Views commentary 👇 Flexible photosynthesis at the end Permian www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/ff09f

ICYMI: New online! Roadmaps for addressing the biodiversity crisis

🥁New paper out! doi.org/10.1111/1365... In Sumatra 🏝️ tree islands inside oil palm landscapes revealed 27,000+ phytochemicals 🧪🌴 many still unknown! Tree islands in oil palm plantations can enhance phytochemical diversity through natural regeneration 📈💚 #islands BioMonI and #EFForTS-BEE project 🤝

Early Registration Fees: Regular: JPY 35,000 Students / LMICs: JPY 25,000 Standard Registration Fees (after April 9): Regular: JPY 39,000 Students / LMICs: JPY 29,000

Register now for the Island Biology 2026 Conference and pay later (if needed). Deadlines: Symposium Proposal: April 15, 2026 Early Registration: April 9, 2026 General Presentation Proposal: May 7, 2026 Regular Registration: September 20, 2026 More info: sites.google.com/view/island-...

Plenary Speakers Announced! Further details will be shared soon. - Anna Traveset (IMEDEA) - Takashi Kamijo (University of Tsukuba) - Takeo Kuriyama (University of Hyogo) - Koh Nakamura (Hokkaido University) - Yuya Watari (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)

Global Change Biology's top cited and top downloaded articles of 2025: Top downloaded: buff.ly/HL6FZ16 Top cited: buff.ly/f59D4Yc

Recovering European River Invertebrate Communities Homogenize or Differentiate Depending on Anthropogenic Stress 🔗 buff.ly/f8RtOzG

New paper just out deciphering the global species–area relationship for plants with @biogeokreft.bsky.social @patrickweigelt.bsky.social and others in @pnas.org Across islands area alone explains 66% of variation in richness best described by a classic power-law model www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

👀 Global maps of 37 plant #FunctionalTraits as defined in the TRY Plant Trait Database with a resolution of 1 km and a global extent 🌐🧪 📏🧮🌮 global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-...

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....

Why biodiversity science needs its own model intercomparison projects 👇. Lessons from climate science, applied to biodiversity & policy. 🌍🧬 by @geobon.org #EcoCode team @mark-urban.bsky.social @gretabocedi.bsky.social @sjevelazco.bsky.social

Registration & Call for Symposia open! more info: sites.google.com/view/island-...

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Our paper on how to use niche theory (MacArthur's minimization principle) to understand eco/evo limits to diversity got a shout out from Quarterly Review of Biology: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... The paper is hard to access but a copy can be found here drive.google.com/file/d/14EGZ...

The countdown is on 📢

New deadline: February 4th Still time to apply! www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/expl...

Very happy to share this new article on Andes-Amazon tree diversity change. We found that over the last 4 decades, tree richness changed differently across the Andes-Amazon regions. Thanks to the many researchers across the world who made this possible! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Keep reading!

Very happy to share this new paper is out! 🚀 Using multitaxa trait-based data, we introduce new indicators that capture ecosystem resilience and the critical role of functionally unique species for sustaining ecosystem functioning. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Island Biology 2026 Conference 2–6 Nov. 2026 ホームページ公開しました！ #IB2026 We’ve launched the Island Biology 2026 Conference website! 2–6 Nov. 2026 sites.google.com/view/island-... #IB2026

The key deadlines and registration fees have been added to our website! #IB2026 Early-bird registration - Regular 35,000 JPY - Student/LMICs* 25,000 JPY Standard registration - Regular 39,000 JPY - Student/LMICs* 29,000 JPY 1/3 sites.google.com/view/island-...

We appreciate the scientific clarity from @markuseichhorn.bsky.social 🌳 Evidence matters when scaling forest restoration approaches, this review is a valuable contribution. Read more forestry science in the Journal of Forestry Research: link.springer.com/journal/11676 #Forestryresearch #JFR 🍁🌺🌱🌿

Holger Kreft @biogeokreft.bsky.social (replacing @nathalygr.bsky.social) presents their great work on plant functional island biogeography. Check out their gift database gift.uni-goettingen.de #TIBS2026

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

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.

This is the second time I have photographed one of my favorite Mycena species - this one is found on leaves and has regular water droplets along the stem for a reason which remains a mystery to me. From the Chocó Andino region of Ecuador. #mycology #fungi #mycena #fungifriends

We found that when temps hit 30°C+, C3 plants start struggling - their carbon metabolism gets disrupted, they burn through sugar stores faster, and even their isotope signatures change. Meanwhile C4 plants? They're basically chilling like "this is fine" 😎 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Today is the last day of November — before I know it, it’ll be less than a year until IB2026! Island Biology 2026 Conference 2-6 Nov, 2026 In Atami city, Japan🗾 #IB2026

Africa’s forests have joined the Brazilian Amazon and Australian forests in becoming carbon sources rather than sinks. Around 2010 the previous storage of our carbon emissions flipped, mainly through deforestation and degradation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #climatechange #deforestation #Africa

🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵 #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

Reptiles confined to islands are facing a double jeopardy 🦎 New research from @ricardonature.bsky.social shows that 30% of island reptiles are threatened with extinction (compared to 12.1% of reptiles overall) - but only 6.7% of reptile-focused research since 1960 has studied them 👇 bit.ly/3LqQo1F

Our new @nature.com shows that energy flows mediated by mammals and birds across sub-Saharan Africa have declined by >30% unevenly across functional groups, with major consequences ecosystem functions shorturl.at/AD0Yb

Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fantastic summary on offsetting - still pervasive in application across many regions of the world and all too easily subject to manipulation www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out this amazing paper by @ignacioq.bsky.social et al. on the rise and fall of clades using a new fossilized birth-death model and inegrating phylogenetic and fossil occurence data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌿 CSR strategies reflect species' habitat preferences for stress and disturbance, as well as whole-plant traits, offering support for Grime’s hypothesis and highlighting its significance to understanding plant adaptation in the Anthropocene🌲 Read here: buff.ly/yFDdpAZ

Island community we need you! Help us complete two short surveys on island socioecological systems and biodiversity monitoring, shaping island biodiversity research! Survey 1: forms.gle/CiSp9QqxMbGv... Survey 2: forms.gle/dwBWWUcry1fY... Questions? [email protected] #islandbiology #BioMonI