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

Our new online application EVA-MAP provides interactive maps of vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive and ReSurveyEurope databases. It enables filtering the plots by various criteria. More details can be found in this new article in the IAVS Bulletin: www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytr...

#plants #botany #seaweed #oceanography 'The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection. ' today.ucsd.edu/story/ellen-...

Just published in @journal-evo.bsky.social: Different diets, different speciation rates in the most ecologically diverse family of mammals, the amazing Phyllostomidae 🦇 tinyurl.com/5xd3p3mz Para un pequeño resumen, ve las figuras 👇

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Le suivi de ~4 000 doctorants issus de 107 pays différent montre les sujets d'inquiétudes de ces jeunes scientifiques Les préoccupations financières viennent en 1er (les ♂️ plus que les ♀️) Puis vient la santé mentale & le syndrome de l'imposteur (les ♀️ plus que les ♂️) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"If we lose hope, we're doomed." We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Long-term data result in more reliable species distribution models. Perhaps expected, but nice to see it quantified formally! Thanks @nico-anselmetto.bsky.social for leading this effort at the HJ Andrews LTER. @uslter.bsky.social 🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Transformative change for a just and sustainable world often seems overwhelming. @annelarigauderie.bsky.social and the @ipbes.net Transformative Change Assessment co-chairs highlight the roles we can each have in achieving #transformativechange. 🧪 #biodiversity #sustainability plos.io/3VGKknN

In June 2025, Ecuadorian police seized a package containing almost 3,000 seahorses that were likely destined for Colombia. Most seahorses are caught in industrial and artisanal trawl nets as bycatch, but they are then funneled into a lucrative illegal trade.

Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐

Deforestation kills Forest clearance has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found. This is a local effect in addition to global heating. Article by me. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace webinar "Diversity in island plant functional strategies" by Kasey Barton and the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/546VrpYBbccb...

800.000 Pflanzen aus aller Welt sind in unserem #Herbarium archiviert – darunter 15.000 Typusbelege, anhand derer Arten das erste Mal beschrieben wurden. Manche Exemplare sind jahrhundertealt. Eindrucksvoll, oder? Im Blog von @forumwissen.bsky.social steht mehr:

🔥 Mujeres del Fuego Sudamérica | Mulheres do Fogo da América do Sul 🔥 Una red de mujeres unidas por la ecología del fuego y su valor cultural. Uma rede de mulheres unidas pela ecologia do fogo e seu valor cultural. 💫 Únete/Participe: shre.ink/t8I0

📣 A global assessment of the status, trends and gaps of #non-native (alien, partly #invasive) #species A new #publication with 65 authors from all continents (except Antarctica), 42 article pages and >500 references. doi.org/10.1111/brv.... 🌐 #ecology #globalchange

Light pollution is causing birds around the world to sing for longer each day, prolonging their vocalizations on average by 50 minutes, according to a new study in Science. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Uz7vzP