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CSEE_SCEE @csee-scee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

🎉💚The Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution turns 20 this year: As we head toward the annual meeting, we invite you to share your favourite memories, photos, and throwbacks from past CSEE meetings and events! Tag your post with hashtag #SCEECSEE20

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 12/03/2026

Addressing global biodiversity loss needs more than data collection. A new PNAS Perspective from the 2025 US–UK Scientific Forum outlines 9 changes to improve how biodiversity is measured and used for conservation. Read now: ow.ly/BH5Q50YsXUY Forum: ow.ly/U5ZV50YsUTK

PNAS – Nine changes needed to deliver a radical transformation in biodiversity measurement by William J. Sutherland, Neil D. Burgess, Scott V. Edwards, et al. Read now!

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Thank you, Anil for this excellent summary of the two @pnas.org papers on #biodiversity measurement and monitoring that came out this week. I love your rallying call to the computer science community to help build the federated system we need. This is firmly in the realm of the doable.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

We have more #biodiversity data than ever — from 🛰️, field work, citizen obs., and Indigenous knowledge. But, are we halting biodiversity loss? The answer is uncertain. Why? Because the chain of evidence needs to be stronger Our new #PNAS paper proposes a way forward www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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

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Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery. Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action. 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS

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CSBQ-QCBS @qcbs.ca · 01/10/2025

"Nature et climat, deux défis avec une solution commune : la biodiversité au cœur de la résilience climatique": Les co-directeurs du CSBQ Fanie Pelletier et Andrew Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social co-signent un article dans @climatoscope360.bsky.social climatoscope.ca/nature-et-cl... 🌳🪲🌅 1/2

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Nature et climat, deux défis avec une solution commune : la biodiversité au cœur de la résilience climatique - Climatoscope 360

Les changements climatiques et la perte de biodiversité comptent parmi les crises environnementales les plus urgentes. Jusqu’à présent, la recherche s’est

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

A must-read special issue: “Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace’s legacy” royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... I: Determinants of diversity & resilience. II: Measuring the state of biodiversity III: Biodiversity & natural capital IV: Future scenarios for nature

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1917

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Are you tracking developments in #biodiversity monitoring and its applications? We wrote a paper on addressing the challenges: Data to Decisions: the Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework (BMSF). Creating a cycle of trust from field data to policy reports 🧵 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

The Biodiversity Monitoring Standards Framework is a linked sequence of steps defined by the standards that each step adopts within a set of well-defined needs, principles and ethical guidelines (center). Every monitoring workflow would achieve an overall standard rating (potentially tiered) based on the standards adopted in each step. The monitoring workflow is implemented (right) once the necessary resources, human capacity, technologies, and data architectures have been adopted. A tiered approach allows countries to start with simpler methods and progressively adopt more sophisticated ones as capacity grows. These standards need not be costly or infeasible to adopt, but they do need to be defined a priori to create trust and confidence in the trends reported.

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National Academy of Sciences @nasonline.org · 11/09/2025

How do we measure life on Earth? 🌍🌱 The new summary report from the 2025 US-UK Forum on Measuring Biodiversity, hosted by the NAS and @royalsociety.org, explores tools, challenges, and solutions for tackling the #biodiversity crisis. Read here: bit.ly/460RB7R

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

📣 Out now: A #Biodiversity Observation Network to support conservation action and mainstream knowledge in #Canada www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/... A 🍁BON would consolidate what we know, grow our capacity to understand trends, mitigate risks, and guide policy to protect & restore nature.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The global plan for #biodiversity - the UN CBD's GBF - has a key feature, a monitoring framework to track progress. But, does it cover all the GBF's elements? We did a full gap analysis for the UN CBD. Our new open-access paper led by Flavio Affinito is out @natureecoevo.bsky.social 🧵 ⬇️

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Phew, I just gave a talk and animated a floor game about the impacts of roads on wildlife and the restoration of habitat connectivity during Eureka! Quebec’s biggest science festival #Montreal. Presenting to smart 8-12 yr olds took a different energy to my classes @mcgill.ca festivaleureka.ca/en/

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

On #BiologicalDiversityDay it’s important to remember that humanity has caused dramatic changes to the biosphere - only 6% of the combined weight of all mammals on Earth 🌏 is wild! 😳 From the fantastic research by: @liorgreenspoon.bsky.social Ron Milo and colleagues. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

What do we mean by ecologically well-connected landscapes? how do we define, monitor and manage for it? I tackled this during my keynote A Well-Connected Earth: Bridging Connectivity Science & Practice at the Canadian Ecological Connectivity Conference in Banff. site.pheedloop.com/event/CECC20...

Bow Valley, connectivity conservation is a priority. Image from: https://parks.canada.ca/nature/science/conservation/corridors-ecologiques-ecological-corridors/prioritaires-priorities

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Come join our team! We're hiring a Research Assistant for the Technical Support Unit of the @ipbes.net assessment on Monitoring #Biodiversity and NCPs. Job details & application process👇 mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill... Please apply through the website in the link above.

Expert authors of the assessment working on identifying the key messages of the Summary for Policy Makers.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Canadian Geographic has released a fantastic new website "Right of Passage" about ecological corridors and connectivity in Canada rightofpassage.canadiangeographic.ca It includes an interactive map showing national priority areas for corridors: rightofpassage.canadiangeographic.ca/23-national-...

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Leaving Hong Kong inspired by the ideation and collaboration during our 1st meeting for the Summary for Policy Makers. The SPM contains the key messages and will be a crucial output of the #biodiversity & NCP monitoring assessment bc the SPM is negotiated and adopted by the member states @ipbes.net

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

It was fantastic to meet with the executive secretary of the @unbiodiversity.bsky.social, Astrid Schomaker, and the staff at the CBD secretariat, to present GEOBON’s plan to support countries with their biodiversity monitoring data and science needs. We have so much to do together ahead of COP17.

From left to right: Jillian Campbell, Andrew Gonzalez, Astrid Schomaker.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

An interview where I reflect on a decade of work on biodiversity change and in particular the evidence for local biodiversity change - some of the most inspiring and heated debate happened at iDiv. It’s is great to be part of this podcast.

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IDIV Milano - Chemical for Leather Industry

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Oh my, I am thrilled to receive the ChangeMaker Prize awarded by @mcgill.ca for public engagement and my work to translate biodiversity science to policy and conservation in Quebec, Canada and internationally for @unbiodiversity.bsky.social and @ipbes.net . reporter.mcgill.ca/2025-preside...

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Just out: A geometric approach to beta diversity esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Led by the brilliant @clsong.bsky.social & Muyang Lu.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community & genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance Rapid adaptation & species sorting combine to alter diversity Read more👇📄https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225000673

An aerial shot of the Large Experimental Array of Ponds that was used to do the experiment described in this paper. We see 72 tanks of 1000 litres distributed in an experimental array. LEAP is located at McGill's Gault Reserve, Quebec.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

How do human drivers shape ecosystem services and their interactions? The answer impacts policy and management. We used Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN) to model ecosystem service interactions as a causal network for data from many Quebec landscapes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Using linear regression, based on data from 318 soil landscapes, if we assume that human activity intensity does not influence the relationship between livestock provisioning and bird-watching recreation (a), then we might conclude that there is no effect between these two services. However, when controlling for human activity intensity (b), a direct trade-off is found because human activity intensity positively influences both services.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

New key finding: Landscapes of fragmented habitat have lower diversity, at all scales, than do unfragmented landscapes. Habitat fragmentation does not compensate for the loss of local (alpha) diversity by increasing the diversity among fragments (beta diversity). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The figure explaining the contrasting outcomes for diversity and local and landscape scales in continuous vs. fragmented landscapes. The right column (panel d) shows the cases where increasing inter-fragment diversity (increasing beta diversity among fragments) compensates for loss of local (alpha) diversity results in an increase in regional (Gamma) diversity. Fragmentation is 'bad' for diversity when loss of alpha and beta diversity combine to cause landscape-wide declines in gamma diversity.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Rapid butterfly declines across the US during the 21st century Total butterfly abundance fell by 22% across the 554 species & species richness fell by as much as 28% across 7 regions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Breaking! Part 2 of CoP16 of UN Convention on Biological Diversity @unbiodiversity.bsky.social has just adopted the revisions of the documents on planning, monitoring, reporting, and review of progress to the goals and targets of the KM-Global Biodiversity Framework. This is fantastic news! 🥳

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

This week the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science held its annual conference. Our theme “mobilizing science in support of conservation” created a buzz among the 300 attendees from across our network of universities and partners in conservation and gov. Thank you to all who made it happen.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A must read: Harnessing artificial intelligence to fill global shortfalls in #biodiversity knowledge www.nature.com/articles/s44... Led by Laura Pollock and a brilliant team of coauthors all part of the AI and Biodiversity Change Global Center www.linkedin.com/company/abc-...

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Andrew Beckerman @beckerhopper.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Get simulating! #Biodiversity / #foodweb dynamics with #julialang. Classic bioenergetic model, consolidation of lots of add-ons & super fast. Very happy to share this, a result of amazing collaborators and a rich history of model development. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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EcologicalNetworksDynamics.jl: A Julia package to simulate the temporal dynamics of complex ecological networks

Species interactions play a crucial role in shaping biodiversity, species coexistence, population dynamics, community stability and ecosystem functioning. Our understanding of the role of the dive...

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I'm off to Rome today for #BIOSPACE2025 I can't wait to attend the first international conference exclusively dedicated to the application of Satellite Remote Sensing to #biodiversity science & monitoring. A partnership bn @esa.int @geobon.org CEOS Watch online here 👉 biospace25.esa.int

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Just out in BioScience Monitor social–ecological systems to achieve global goals for #biodiversity and nature's contributions to people academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... #openaccess perspective piece led by Ágnes Vári with @elenabennett.bsky.social

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in #biodiversity Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity - Nature

Global-scale analyses of marine, terrestrial and freshwater assemblages found that temporal rates of species replacement were faster in locations with faster temperature change, including warming and ...

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Harsher dry seasons due to climate change is linked to declining bird survival in the Amazon "...challenging the notion that pristine rainforests can fully protect their #biodiversity under increasingly severe climate conditions." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests

Climate change threatens Amazon rainforest birds, with harsher dry seasons significantly affecting their survival over 27 years.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

25 yrs ago 😳 we found by experiment that the "inflationary effect" of env. variability allows sink populations to persist In this new paper, we show its generality & applied value: Metapopulations, the Inflationary Effect, & Consequences for Public Health👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/EKIBA...

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A morning, coffee-fueled, sketch of a Downy woodpecker visiting our bird feeder

A charcoal and pencil sketch of a Downy woodpecker

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Exciting opportunity - Last minute call for nominations for experts and fellows for the #IPBES methodological assessment of integrated biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning and ecological connectivity Fellows: www.ipbes.net/spatial-plan... Experts: www.ipbes.net/spatial-plan...

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Call for nominations for fellows for the methodological assessment of integrated biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning and ecological connectivity (6 Sep 2024 - 24 Jan 2025) | IPBES secretariat

Dear IPBES members, observers and other interested stakeholders,

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I co-signed an open letter calling EU legislators and corporate leaders to work with the scientific community to build a science-based reporting framework for sustainability disclosures (e.g. for #biodiversity). 📖 Read the letter & the 5 principles we propose here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Mistra FinBio on LinkedIn: #valdisdombrovskis #europeancommission

🚨 Grounding EU Sustainability Reporting in Science: A Call for Action 🚨 The European Commission’s anticipated Omnibus Simplification Package has sparked…

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 17/12/2024

🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available! ➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate. 🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future! www.ipbes.net/node/85582

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Nexus report by #IPBES is out and making the news “governments are underestimating or ignoring the links between five key areas - biodiversity, water, food, health and climate change.” This "siloed" approach has unintended consequences… bbc.com/news/article...

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IPBES report sees climate, nature and food challenges interlinked

A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.

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Andy Gonzalez @bio-diverse.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I learned so much #IPBES11 The experts showed exceptional knowledge, patience and openness as their text is scrutinized and revised during the negotiations of the Summary for Policy Makers. All the emotions are on display - fatigue interspersed with moments of joy as each key message is approved.

The beautiful art of the Namibian San artists formed the backdrop to the negotiations.

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A starter pack for people studying how human affect biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at global scale, across terrestrial and marine realms & conservation challenges. Sounds like Global Ecology ! sure I missed many people, reply to be added, and share to spread ! go.bsky.app/V6tN4cv 🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴

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