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Ana Clara S. Franco

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PhD in Ecology. Post-doctoral fellow at #IEA_UdG @greco-udg.bsky.social #Bioinvasions #Species-HabitatRelations #AquaticEcology Also, Mom. Bookworm. Foodie. Coffee addict. Home baker.

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Ana Clara S. Franco @ana-franco.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🎉 Our new paper is out in Diversity and Distributions! "Preventing Invasive Non-Native Species: A Horizon Scanning for the Canary Islands" 🏝️ 37 experts assessed 823 species that could reach the Canary islands within a decade. Open access 👇 doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... #InvaNET #bioinvasions
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Preventing Invasive Non‐Native Species: A Horizon Scanning for the Canary Islands
Aim Oceanic islands host exceptional biodiversity and endemism but are highly vulnerable to biological invasions. We aimed to identify non-native species with high potential to invade the Canary Isl...
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Dr. Jane Goodall "Today, on International Day of Girls and Women in Science, we celebrate Dr. Jane Goodall, an iconic trailblazer whose research forever changed science" 🔍🐵👱‍♀️
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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Content de participar en el Prismàtic de fa uns dies, organitzat de forma excel.lent per @creaf.cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2iS... parlant d'Anàlisis de riscs i Escanneigs d'horitzó d'espècies exòtiques invasores @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social @univgirona.bsky.social #InvaNET
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Com decidim davant les espècies exòtiques invasores? Jornada Prismàtic 2025
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Carlos Cano-Barbacil @canobarbacil.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
📢 New article alert! Freshwater salinization is an emerging global threat affecting ~1/3 of freshwater ecosystems. Yet, the salinity tolerance of most inland fishes remains poorly understood. @mncn-csic.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social @oldenfish.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Global Patterns and Gaps in Research on Salinity Tolerance of Inland Fishes
Freshwater salinization is an emerging threat impacting approximately one-third of the world's freshwater bodies. However, the salinity tolerance of many inland fishes remains understudied, despite b....
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Ana Clara S. Franco @ana-franco.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Just published in Peer Community Journal: A perspective on Global North–South inequalities in science and how language and funding barriers shape who gets to participate in global knowledge production. 🌍📚 👉 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
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Ana Clara S. Franco @ana-franco.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
📢 New paper out! We propose a five-step roadmap to strengthen invasion science in Brazil, a megadiverse country facing escalating impacts from invasive species, aiming to build a coordinated, science-based and socially engaged biosecurity system. shorturl.at/3YEAT
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Pivotal steps to consistently advance invasion science in a megadiverse country
Non-native invasive species pose an escalating threat to Brazil’s rich biodiversity and ecosystem services, yet their management remains limited to fr…
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Michael Butler Margalef @michaelmargalef.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Check out our new paper on salinity effects on metabolism and movement in #invasive mosquitofish and the threatened Spanish toothcarp! Huge thanks to all the co-authors: @garciaberthou.bsky.social, @jollewjolles.bsky.social, Cesc, and Anna.🐟🔝 @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social
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Ana Clara S. Franco @ana-franco.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Many thanks to the Limnology of Mediterranean lagoons and wetlands group for this lovely gift for my son 🩷 "El gran viatge de la Tuga i la Closca. De bassa en bassa fent xarxa" is going straight under the Christmas tree. I'm sure he’s going to love it! 🎄📘 @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/10/2025
The dark truth behind FormatMyPaper.com
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Beware giving this site your unpublished data
Users noticed the website had fake testimonials and a domain name registered seemingly overnight.
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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Contento de contribuir a esta revisión liderada por Pilar Castro-Díez @uahes.bsky.social en la Revista @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social. Con miembros y colaboradores de la Red #InvaNET (RED2022-134338-T, RED2024-153581-T) (invasiber.org/InvaNET/) incluyendo...
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InvaNET – Red Temática sobre Invasiones Biológicas (InvaNET)
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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it: rdcu.be/eEcIt
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Ana Clara S. Franco @ana-franco.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I've always admired her. She was such an intelligent, strong female scientist. Inspired hundreds of women to join science. But besides all of that she was so kind to everyone. This world often sees kindness as a weakness, but a person like her shows that our words are absorbed better if they're soft
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Ana Clara S. Franco @ana-franco.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It's really sad. But she has lived a truly incredible life...
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Rachel Turba @rturba.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Evento gratuito e aberto ao público lusófono para se familiarizar com a @sortee.bsky.social (o que é, qual a nossa missão e o que fazemos), e como podemos ajudar a ampliar a conversa sobre Ciência Aberta na sua comunidade! 📅 07/10 às 15:00 ✒ tinyurl.com/sortee-socia...
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Joanna Masel @joannamasel.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Our new paper @asn-amnat.bsky.social develops a Grand Unified Theory including both exploitative and interference competition doi.org/10.1086/737628. The R* rule of ecology (that 2 species cannot coexist on a single resource), is widely broken, including via a new trade-off we describe. 1/9
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A Mechanistically Integrated Model of Exploitative and Interference Competition over a Single Resource Produces Widespread Coexistence | The American Naturalist
Abstract Many ecological models treat exploitative competition in isolation from interference competition. Corresponding theory centers around the R* rule, according to which consumers that share a si...
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
📣 Hot off the press at #ProcB! 🔍 Our study checked data/code-sharing policies in 275 eco/evo journals and compliance in Proc B (n=2,340) & Ecology Letters (n=571). Policies exist, but clarity and strictness vary, affecting reproducibility. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Ana Clara S. Franco @ana-franco.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Super pride to be part of the team responsible for this paper. It's a much needed contribution to fish invasions
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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Proud of this #OpenAccess paper where we experimentally show that invasive Gambusia impacts a threatened cyprinodontiform fish through water quality degradation and competition. Led by @irene-gil-luna.bsky.social, Lluís Zamora and myself @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social. #bioinvasions
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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
1/ Invasional meltdown is a popular but nebulous concept in invasion ecology. It involves multiple direct & indirect mechanisms, yet it is rarely studied beyond simple pairwise facilitations. In a new paper, we expand the concept & offer testable hypotheses: redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ri...
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Ana Clara S. Franco @ana-franco.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
July's meeting of the EcoAqua research group. Lots of interesting talks, amazing research and fun interactions. I've talked a bit about Open Science and we all made some drawings (sooo glad that we all focused on an academic and not an artistic life..haha). Looking forward to the next meetings!
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Ana Clara S. Franco @ana-franco.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Super interesting talk from @oldenfish.bsky.social at the @iea-udg.bsky.social on bounty programs for "controlling" species. Glad to have you here!
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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Interested in #bioinvasions in Latin America or the Caribbean? Please join this WhatsApp group. It began as participants in our symposium at #XIIICLB and is growing. We hope it will become a forum to share ideas and develop collaborations. 🧪 🌎🌱🌐 chat.whatsapp.com/D6kGcqCbykkI...
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Especies Invasoras en Latinoamérica y el Caribe
WhatsApp Group Invite
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IEA-UdG @iea-udg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
📢 Dijous vinent, no us perdeu el seminari del Professor Jamie Knitel de la California State University. Una oportunitat única per aprofundir en ecologia i canvi ambiental! 🌱 📅 Dijous 20 de març 🕚 11:00 h 📍 Sala de Graus, Facultat de Ciències, UdG @greco-udg.bsky.social
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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Successful kick-off meeting of #Proyecto_SALTFISH last Friday at @mncn-csic.bsky.social @csic.es. @mncn-csic.bsky.social @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social @michaelmargalef.bsky.social @shaunkillen.bsky.social @ana-franco.bsky.social @carolinammuniz.bsky.social
Project “Conservation biology of cyprinodontiform fishes: effects of salinity and hypoxia (SALTFISH)” #Proyecto_SALTFISH
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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Glad to coauthor this paper led by Matheus Aleixo (UEM, Maringá, Brazil) and published in @biolinvasions.bsky.social “Effects of lake area, depth, and isolation on native and non-native fish of a Neotropical floodplain” @carolinammuniz.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s105...
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Effects of lake area, depth, and isolation on native and non-native fish of a Neotropical floodplain - Biological Invasions
The roles of lake area, depth, and isolation in regulating species richness and ecological structure of floodplains is not well understood. We investigated these roles for fish assemblages of the Uppe...
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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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Invasive alien species: Can Europe win the battle?
Have you ever been stung by a tiger mosquito, or worse, an Asian hornet? It is estimated that around 14,000 alien species are present in Europe, introduced either accidentally or deliberately. Approxi...
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 15/01/2025
First up, in the article that inspired our cover art, Camila Ribas and colleagues review the influence of Amazonian geological history in shaping the region’s rich biodiversity. go.nature.com/3Cbru1W
Amazonian areas of endemism and riverine barriers. The riverine barrier width corresponds to the average time divergence of sister clades separated by that barrier. Riverine barrier colour indicates the standard deviation of all the clade splits associated with that river
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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025
NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.
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ProfColinBean @profcolinbean.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
The environmental impact of hydropower: a systematic review of the ecological effects of sub-daily flow variability on riverine fish. Rev Fish Biol Fisheries (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s111...
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The environmental impact of hydropower: a systematic review of the ecological effects of sub-daily flow variability on riverine fish - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Hydropower can help facilitate power grid decarbonization because it can respond to short-term changes in power demand and is comparatively more reliable than intermittent wind and solar. However, fle...
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Ana Clara S. Franco @ana-franco.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
"Nas últimas décadas os peixamentos têm se tornado cada vez mais comuns no Brasil. Contudo, especialistas alertam para os riscos ambientais e a falta de embasamento científico que cercam essas iniciativas, cheias de interesses eleitoreiros". Matéria em parceria com @Jean Vitule
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De boas intenções os rios estão cheios: quando a soltura de peixes causa mais riscos do que benefícios
Nas últimas décadas os chamados peixamentos têm se tornado cada vez mais comuns no Brasil. Um projeto do governo do Paraná, por exemplo, pretende soltar 10 milhões de peixes nas bacias do estado. Cont...
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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A major challenge in restoration ecology is the widespread belief that there is a correct natural community for any given location, and that identifying it is the first step in recreating it. 1/6
Temperate rain forest image taken from the Wildlife Trusts website. This is one of the most contentious habitat types to define, partly because so little remains in Europe, which makes it a difficult target for restoration. https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/habitats/woodland/temperate-rainforest
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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 07/12/2024
"Latin America is a leader in nonprofit open-access journals. But it struggles to give them global visibility" www.science.org/content/arti...
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Latin American journals are open-access pioneers. Now, they need an audience
SciElo, other platforms work to help journals reach readers around the world
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Starter packs
BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...
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Thiago B A Couto @thiagobacouto.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Strategic planning for hydropower siting can meet energy needs without requiring hundreds of new dams that threaten migratory fish in Brazil. www.nature.com/articles/s41... With @oldenfish.bsky.social @messamat.bsky.social #Hydropower #RenewableEnergy #Hidrelétrica #Energia
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Ana Clara S. Franco @ana-franco.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"(...)the real issue (...) was the systemic barriers—the ways the academic structure itself, with its relentless relocations, temporary contracts, and focus on individual achievement, makes planning for a family feel like an impossible luxury" www.science.org/content/arti...
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As women in academia, having children can feel impossible. Talking about it makes us feel less alone
The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Updating the #IUCN status of marine fish using AI shows that x5 more species are threatened with extinction than previously thought! see our study in Plos Biol with @nloiseau.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🔑 This silent extinction affects 12,7% of marine fishes (1337 species) ! 🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 27/11/2024
🌧️💔🐦 Climate impacts on bird relationships A new @animalecology.bsky.social study shows high & low rainfall impacts divorce rates in monogamous Seychelles warblers. Could this signal broader ecological impacts due to #ClimateChange? besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪 #SciComm
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Rainfall is associated with divorce in the socially monogamous Seychelles warbler
To the best of our knowledge, our study is the first to show that extreme rainfall increases the prevalence of divorce in a socially monogamous population. Our findings add to the growing literature ...
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
1/ Important read for anyone using, contributing, or building large databases by aggregating data sources. Discusses issues with data quality, duplication, credit attribution, etc, and includes recommendations for improvement doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ecopubs
Improper data practices erode the quality of global ecological databases and impede the progress of ecological research

The scientific community has entered an era of big data. However, with big data comes big responsibilities, and best practices for how data are contributed to databases have not kept pace with the collection, aggregation, and analysis of big data. Here, we rigorously assess the quantity of data for specific leaf area (SLA) available within the largest and most frequently used global plant trait database, the TRY Plant Trait Database, exploring how much of the data were applicable (i.e., original, representative, logical, and comparable) and traceable (i.e., published, cited, and consistent). Over three-quarters of the SLA data in TRY either lacked applicability or traceability, leaving only 22.9% of the original data usable compared with the 64.9% typically deemed usable by standard data cleaning protocols. The remaining usable data differed markedly from the original for many species, which led to altered interpretation of ecological analyses. Though the data we consider here make up only 4.5% of SLA data within TRY, similar issues of applicability and traceability likely apply to SLA data for other species as well as other commonly measured, uploaded, and downloaded plant traits. We end with suggested steps forward for global ecological databases, including suggestions for both uploaders to and curators of databases with the hope that, through addressing the issues raised here, we can increase data quality and integrity within the ecological community.
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Corrie Moreau @corriemoreau.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
📣 📣 📣 Still lots of TT jobs being advertised: The 2024-2025 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ecoevojobs.net 2024-25
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Aníbal Pauchard @anibalpauchard.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
📢 New topical collection: "Developing lists of alien taxa in the Global South: workflows, protocols, processes, and experiences." Aiming to address significant gaps in the Global South. ⏳ Submit outlines and abstracts by 17 January 2025. neobiota.pensoft.net/topical_coll...
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Developing lists of alien taxa in the Global South: workflows, protocols, processes, and experiences
The recent IPBES IAS Assessment identified significant gaps in lists of alien taxa in the Global South. The purpose of the special issue is to help address these gaps. Submissions are welcome of paper...
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Carlos Cano-Barbacil @canobarbacil.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Para el #SundayFishSketch de hoy os traigo a la perca sol (Lepomis gibbosus), un pez originario de América del Norte pero que ha sido ampliamente introducido en Europa. 🧵👇 #sciart #bioinvasions
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