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Alvaro Gaytan

@agaytan.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (IRNAS-CSIC) || Associate editor at Journal of Applied Ecology || Exploring the impact of global change on plant-based species interactions

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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Paper Out @oikosjournal.bsky.social!: @nordicoikos.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Piecewise structural equation modelling in ecology: common pitfalls and best practices for causal inference
Structural equation modelling (SEM) has become a cornerstone tool in ecology for testing hypotheses about causal relationships and disentangling direct and indirect effects. However, its growing use ....
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Radio 5 RNE @radio5rne.rtve.es · 27/07/2026
🗣️"Hacemos inversiones desbocadas en extinción, pero en España apenas se hace prevención" ▪️Hablamos con @fernandopulidodiaz.bsky.social, catedrático UEx y coordinador del Proyecto MOSAICO para la prevención de incendios 📻 Escucha la entrevista completa aquí ➡️ rtve.es/a/17169853/
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Fernando Pulido, experto en incendios: "En España apenas se hace prevención"
Fernando Pulido, experto en incendios: "En España apenas se hace prevención"
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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
⏰️ There's still time to submit a proposal to our Special Feature with @jappliedecology.bsky.social and @journalofecology.bsky.social! 🐛 We're looking to further understanding of how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions 🔍️ Find out more here 👉️ buff.ly/Lm9UISB
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
⏰ Two weeks left to submit a proposal to our cross-journal Special Feature! ⏰ If you want to further understanding of how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions, find out more 👇
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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Paper out! 🌳🌳🌳 Early warning signals of Mediterranean oak dieback
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Evidence for linkages between the root elementome and oak decline in Mediterranean systems invaded by soil‐borne pathogens
Our findings highlight the value of multi-scale elementome analysis for identifying sites and trees vulnerable to decline. Specifically, we showed that nutritional imbalances (particularly the K:Ca r...
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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
🌳🐁Paper out! Here, we add some information on how rodents disperse acorns. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Disentangling Multitrophic Interactions: How Vegetation Cover, Wild Boar, Deer, and Predators Shape Rodents Activity and Acorn Dispersal
Vegetation cover promotes rodent activity and acorn dispersal, while wild boars exert a direct negative effect on mice. Conversely, deer and predators displayed no significant impact on rodent behavi....
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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
🚨Our cross-journal special feature is open to proposals!🚨 🐛Focus: how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions, including those involving phytophagous insects, plant pathogens and more 💡Find out more: buff.ly/fFy6ker @jappliedecology.bsky.social @journalofecology.bsky.social 🧪🌍️
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Proposals for our Special Feature with @journalofecology.bsky.social & @funecology.bsky.social are open!🦗 If you're looking to further understanding of how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions, particularly through links to management strategies, then click the link👇 bit.ly/45ZalEf
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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🌱🐛| Now we can easily check which lepidopteran species eats which plant in Europe. A beautiful resource ready to be exploited! @ecol-evol.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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European Lepidoptera–Plant Associations: A Species‐Level Interaction Matrix
A continental-scale interaction matrix encompassing 5152 Lepidoptera species and 3275 vascular plant species across Europe.
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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🌱 BES Cross‑Journal Special Feature! We’re seeking papers on how climate change reshapes plant–antagonist interactions. Join us in Journal of Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology & Functional Ecology 📅 Proposals due 30 April 2026 🔗 Submit here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/call-for...
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Climate change and plant–antagonist interactions: Implications for ecosystem functioning, conservation and management
Plant–antagonist interactions play a critical role in structuring ecological communities and influencing key ecosystem processes as nutrient cycling, biodiversity, productivity, ecosystem resilience and ecosystem services. Yet, these interactions are increasingly disrupted by climate change drivers as global warming or altered rainfall regimes, which can either enhance or weaken antagonistic dynamics depending on the context (e.g., predation, parasitism, herbivory or competition). Understanding how such interactions respond to accelerating environmental change is critical for prediction ecosystem functioning under future conditions.
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Parques Nacionales (OAPN) @oapngob.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Desde que tú no me quieres yo todos los días me muero. Y alimento, con mi carne, en Monfragüe buitres negros, en Monfragüe buitres negros.   Robe Iniesta🪽
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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Did you publish with researchers outside your lab during grad school? Or published as faculty with a student not under your supervision? I’m collecting examples of cross-lab collaboration in graduate training. Please share your experience & this post! Repository: bit.ly/4pT66BE (list is growing)
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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Every now and then, I am impressed by books on evolutionary ecology for kids! This piece will be a gift for my 5-year niece 😅
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Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología @irnase.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Texto de la comunicación oral presentada en el 9º Congreso Forestal Español 16 al 20 de junio Gijón (Asturias) @irnase.bsky.social @mbgcsic.bsky.social y @ebdonana.bsky.social
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SAOCousins @saocousins.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍 Apply 30th of November su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Landscape Ecology
Department of Physical Geography is one of the major departments within the Faculty of Science. The department has approximately 100 employees and educates approximately 1 000 students annually. Our r
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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
📢 Paper out! We show that the oak leaf miner outbreak in Sweden is not caused by Acrocercops brongniardella, but by a cryptic species, A. andreneli — both sharing an entire parasitoid community.
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A cryptic moth species drives major outbreak dynamics on oak without escaping its natural enemies
Global forest ecosystems are experiencing increasingly frequent and severe insect outbreaks, driven by complex interactions among climate change, land…
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SAOCousins @saocousins.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Become my colleague We are recruiting a PhD student in Physical geography with a focus on Glaciological remote sensing 🌍⚒️ #science #glaciology #remotesensing #phd @stockholm-uni.bsky.social share.google/n5eQOzCf35wO...
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PhD student in Physical geography with a focus on Glaciological remote sensing
Department of Physical Geography is one of the major departments within the Faculty of Science. The department has approximately 100 employees and educates approximately 1 000 students annually. Our r
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Michal Bogdziewicz @micbog.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🚨 Postdoc opening 🚨 Join us at Forest Biology Center (Poznań, Poland) to study forest ecology under climate change. 2-year contract (extendable), start Jan 2026 (flexible). Apply by Sept 30, 2025. 🔗 forestbiologycenter.amu.edu.pl/our-team/joi...
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Forest Biology Center - Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Centrum Biologii Lasu Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I will happily spend the summer at @eawag.bsky.social 🇨🇭. Not really in aquatic research but in multilayer network analyses with my terrestrial ecology stuff.
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Rike Stelkens @stelkens.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Job alert! We have a postdoc position available in the Stelkens Lab at Stockholm University. Join us and apply experimental evolution and comparative genomics in the model system yeast to test for parallel climate adaptation. Apply through this link: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 15 August.
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Christopher Wheat @chriswheat.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
🚨Postdoc opportunity🚨: LepEU postdoc: comparative population genomics of European scale adaptation in butterflies 2 year, full-time PD in my group, Stockholm Univ. Applications assed on rolling basis, deadline: 23 August 2025. Planned start 1 Oct. Details: christopherwheatlab.wordpress.com
The aim of this proposal is to place population genomic insights into a comparative framework to gain fundamental insights into the determinants of evolutionary outcomes. The project will work within LepEU, the European Lepidopteran Population Genomics Consortium (https://lepeu.github.io/). LepEU provides access to field samples from European populations of diverse species. Chromosome-scale reference genomes are provided by Project Psyche (https://www.projectpsyche.org/). Networking during the postdoc will be facilitated by participation in the 10kLepGenomes COST Action (https://10klepgenomes.eu/). Existing datasets await analysis, while additional samples need DNA extraction and submission for sequencing. Functional validation capability (CRISPR/Cas9 gene manipulations) is also available to test emergent hypotheses of allele-to-phenotype impacts. Personal research interests of the postdoc will be important to determine the exact project, as the project has a generous sequencing budget.The successful applicant should have a PhD (obtained within 6 years of the application deadline) in a suitable subject area, such as evolutionary biology or population genomics. A strong interest in population genomics, local adaptation, comparative analyses, and experience working with genomic-scale data is essential. The candidate must have a documented publication record demonstrating relevant skills. Experience working with bioinformatic pipelines (e.g., Snakemake), or working with butterflies is welcome but not essential. The net salary is 28,000 SEK/month (~2,430 Euro, not subject to Swedish income tax) and comes directly from the Carl-Trygger Foundation stipend, which is paid out directly to the postdoc. Only PhD candidates acquired outside of the host department can apply. Currently, the lab of Prof. Wheat consists of 3 postdoctoral researchers, while the Dept. of Zoology provides a vibrant and excellent research environment of active, dynamic researchers. 

Applications should include: i) a succinct description of research interests and experience, detailing your contribution to any relevant publications (max 1 page), ii) why you are the ideal candidate for this position in the lab (max 1 page); iii) a CV including a list of publications, and iv) the name and contact information of two personal references. 

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with a deadline of 23 August 2025. The project is planned to start on 1 October, but flexibility in the starting date can be provided for a suitable candidate. Please contact Prof. Wheat for additional information.
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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
New week, new conference. This time enjoying the Spanish National Forestry Congress in Gijón, Asturias. #9CFE
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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Really special place where Mediterranean oaks have branches touching the sea! (Poo, Asturias, Spain)
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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Many thanks to @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social for a fantastic week in Pontevedra! #SIBECOLAEET2025
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Steve Brown @stevenslbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Clouds darkening over NOAA research. We are slated for elimination in next years budget. Astonishing loss to the nation and the world if it happens.
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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Paper out! @canelotara.bsky.social @micbog.bsky.social @irnase.bsky.social
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Alvaro Gaytan @agaytan.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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La sequía y los patógenos exóticos amenazan la regeneración de los bosques mediterráneos - Delegaciones CSIC
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We're happy to introduce our 5 new Associate Editor mentees! ✨🌎 Throughout the 2-year scheme, each mentee develops their knowledge of the peer review process and handles manuscripts with the help of our Senior Editors, who act as mentors 💭🧪 Read more: bit.ly/4aUnHTD
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Welcoming our 2025 Associate Editor Mentees!
Journal of Applied Ecology offers a two-year mentoring opportunity for early career researchers to gain experience of the Associate Editor role. Each mentee works with one of our Sen…
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Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología @irnase.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Artículo recientemente publicado @irnase.bsky.social y ya en nuestro repositorio institucional Digital CSIC Título: Livestock shifts lepidopteran herbivore community due to intraguild elimination in Mediterranean agroforestry systems Autor: Gaytán, Álvaro et al... hdl.handle.net/10261/376122
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Livestock shifts lepidopteran herbivore community due to intraguild elimination in Mediterranean agroforestry systems | DIGITAL.CSIC
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