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🌐 www.biogeography-usc.org ⚙️ A. Baselga & C. Gómez-Rodríguez Unified Models of Biological Diversity | Beta Diversity | Distance-Decay | Beetles | betapart (R) CRETUS Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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Andrés Baselga @andresbaselga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We made a video-abstract summarizing the major points of our paper on ecological uniqueness: youtu.be/Spft2aR8ZUI?...
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Ecological uniqueness: New measures to reconcile method with concept
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Andrés Baselga @andresbaselga.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New paper by Carola Gómez-Rodríguez and me on ecological uniqueness. We show that: 1. Asymmetric dissimilarity is a must for quantifying the uniqueness of biological communities. 2. Average dissimilarity is an absolute measure of uniqueness, while LCBD is a relative indicator doi.org/10.1111/geb....
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Ecological Uniqueness: New Measures to Reconcile Method With Concept
Aim Ecological uniqueness quantifies how different a community is relative to all other communities within the study. This broad-sense definition of uniqueness makes it dependent on the choice of th.....
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Journal of Systematics and Evolution @journalsysevo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
New video from our authors on beetle communities! #InvertFest #BugSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLL3...
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Thermophilization and reshuffling of montane leaf beetle communities over a two‐decade period
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Andres's latest paper on methods to quantify beta diversity 👇
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
📽️ Primer video de la serie #BeetleBits sobre métodos de muestreo de coleópteros, en ell marco del proyecto #MetaBeetle (AEI) Empezamos con unos consejos que nos da Mauro Quintanilla-Viana para evitar picaduras de garrapatas. -.- Tick bite prevention tips (in Spanish) youtu.be/kW15M_jV2cg?...
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Beetle Bits: Prevención de picaduras de garrapata en muestreos de campo
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GCiencia @gciencia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Os morcegos non son cegos: teñen ollos plenamente funcionais e unha visión adaptada á noite. Coñece máis no novo episodio de Desmontando Mitos da man de Javier Iglesias, director do Museo de Historia Natural da @usc.gal
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Son cegos os morcegos? Desmentindo un mito tan vello como o seu nome
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Huge congratulations to Andrés Baselga, who has just been promoted to Full Professor of Zoology at Univ. Santiago de Compostela @usc.gal Yesterday we enjoyed his talk - from collecting beetles as a teen to developing methods for studying biodiversity. @andresbaselga.bsky.social @cretus.usc.gal
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Erik Simon Lledó @bokamero.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Evolutionary "hills" or "islands"? Very interesting new approach to measure the uniqueness of a biological community, with great potential use as baseline to identify high-value biodiversity sites at multiple scales.
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We usually post about #Macroecology #Biogeography in English. Pero también hacemos divulgación de nuestra investigación en castellano. Abro hilo sobre distance-decay (= descenso de la similitud en las comunidades biológicas con la distancia (espacial)) 👇🏽 revistas.usc.gal/index.php/na...
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
We have developed a new methodological framework to measure biodiversity. We focus on the uniqueness (or singularity) of biological communities and apply it to the GBF 30x30 target. If you only have 4:35 min, check the visual abstract to know a little bit more about it ☺️: youtu.be/dHMBhVJ8dns?...
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Areas of high biodiversity value evidenced by the spatial scaling of phylogenetic uniqueness
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CRETUS @cretus.usc.gal · 01/09/2025
Esta semana os IPs @andresbaselga.bsky.social e #C.Gómez-Rodriguez imparten “Código para biólogos: introdución a R” Curso da #UniversidadeDeVerán no que guiarán aos asistentes na aprendizaxe de R desde as bases ata a súa aplicación no ámbito da bioloxía. @biogeography-usc.bsky.social @usc.gal
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III SIBECOL & XII AEET MEETING @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
And we’re off!
The III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting has officially begun! A day full of workshops, reunions, first connections, and an energizing welcome cocktail.
This is just the beginning of a truly special week 🌿 #SIBECOLAEET2025 #Ecology #EcologyMeeting #AnotherScienceIsPossible
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CRETUS @cretus.usc.gal · 12/05/2025
CRETUS organiza 3 cursos da #UniversidadeDeVerán: 🧫A bioloxía das pequenas e grandes cousas 10-12/06 ⚗️Química, a ciencia que envolve a nosa vida 10-12/06 🐛Código para biólogos: introdución a R 01-05/09 #JesusRomalde, #LIDSA, @biogeography-usc.bsky.social #FondosEuropeos www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...
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Un total de 40 cursos integran a oferta da Universidade de Verán da USC para os vindeiros meses | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
A USC bota a andar unha nova edición da súa Universidade de Verán, na que un total de 40 cursos, espallados por Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Ribeira, Vilagarcía de Arousa, Lalín, Meis, Oia e Ribadeo,...
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Fernando Valladares @fernadovalladares.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Un fin de semana de rabia y preocupación nos ha hecho componer una especie de himno en defensa de la naturaleza gallega, un Altri NON apelando a la emoción. Sumando narrativas, estilos y voluntades contra un proyecto que no debe ver la luz youtu.be/tzb6GbHdVzQ?... #AltriNon #fernandovalladares
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Altri non, non che deixes enganar - 210
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Hemos creado un Grupo de Innovación Docente “Biodiversidad con R” en la @usc.gal. El objetivo es facilitar la iniciación en R al alumnado de Biología Ambiental, especialmente al interesado en los estudios de diversidad biológica. Y ya tenemos un par de videos! youtube.com/watch?v=XznC...
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Introducción a R y R Studio
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The scientific community working in environmental and natural sciences has taken an unprecedented, united stand against a new macro-scale pulp mill in NW Spain. We voted against However, the regional government gave its green light last week. The scientists’ manifest: www.usc.gal/gl/investiga...
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Scientists oppose the new macro-cellulose project (ALTRI’s) in NW Spain
The project of a large pulp mill in Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) has raised serious environmental and social concerns. Notably, the scientific and academic community working in environmental and nat...
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Our article on the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity in leaf beetles has been assigned to an issue in @ecography.bsky.social Paper: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Visual abstract in YouTube (with Abril's cute narration ☺️): youtu.be/8ALxwQ2e5-E?...
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Climatic stability predicts the congruence between species abundance and genetic diversity
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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela @usc.gal · 05/03/2025
🪱 O grupo Biodiversidade, Bioxeografía e Conservación Integrativa (BiBiCI), vinculado ao @cretus.usc.gal, acaba de rematar un estudo de catro décadas sobre as lesmas do xénero Arion na Península e Baleares. O estudo contou cunha mostraxe de 5.000 exemplares. 🗞️ www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...
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CRETUS @cretus.usc.gal · 05/03/2025
Investigadores de CRETUS do grupo @biogeography-usc.bsky.social publican un exhaustivo estudo sobre as lesmas Arion da Península Ibérica e as Illas Baleares e ademais describen dúas novas especies para a ciencia! 👏 👏@andresbaselga.bsky.social #C.Gómez-Rodriguez
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Fresh off the press! 📚 Our book about Arion is finally here! With the revision of the genus in the Iberian Peninsula, the description of two new species and numerous plates with drawings and photographs. Not for a quick read (almost 400 pages) but definitely interesting! :-) @cretus.usc.gal
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Our students are great! Look what they made! The Biology building looks cool and it also shows that we are against the project of a huge paper mill in Galicia. It will be a disaster for biodiversity. #AltriNON —- Nuestra facultad viste sus mejores galas contra Altri. Obra de arte del alumnado 🙌🏽
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Very rapid #thermophilization & #xerophilisation of grassland #plant #communities 🌾🌼🍀🌸in the California Floristic Province #CFP attributed to #climate #change ⬇️ An important study relying on both field surveys & long-term experiments ⬇️ Congrats to Kai Zhu & team shorturl.at/3FsVm
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Rapid shifts in grassland communities driven by climate change - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Plant community responses to climate change tend to be lagged in forests, but could be faster in grasslands. Here, the authors integrate long-term experimental data with >1 million occurrence recor...
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Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Today, is the 216th anniversary of the birth of Charles #Darwin, a day to celebrate Darwin, natural selection and #evolution. Let's celebrate with a bit of (much needed) music www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry7N... Happy #DarwinDay!!!
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Darwin Day - Baba Brinkman
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We are very happy to be part of #CIGUSNetwork! 🪲 Biodiversity at @cretus.usc.gal cigus.gal/en/ “The CIGUS Network comprises 10 research centres. It’s a superstructure promoted by the Autonomous Government to strengthen and boost excellence in university research and drive progress in Galicia.”
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CIGUS Network
The collective force of the best science made in Galicia.
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CRETUS @cretus.usc.gal · 11/02/2025
CRETUS súmase á conmemoración do #11F Día Internacional da Muller e a Nena na Ciencia e aproveita a ocasión para destacar o talento científico feminino que ten! @usc.gal #11F #11F2025 #mujeryciencia #mullereseciencia
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy #11F everyone! 🎉👩‍🔬 To celebrate, we’ve added a transcript of Carola’s talk on Maternity & Academia to our website—for those who prefer a quick read over a video. Check it out here, along with the video of her invited talk at WISE 2020 www.biogeography-usc.org/carola_wise.... @cretus.usc.gal
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Reflections on Maternity,by Carola Gómez-Rodríguez
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Erik Simon Lledó @bokamero.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Do abyssal species that grow on polymetallic nodules have more restricted dispersal than fauna not depending on this resource? Contrasting distance-decay patterns in community similarity across the NE Pacific basin suggest they do! See our new study doi.org/10.1111/geb.... on time for #17DSBS!
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Cristina Gómez Román @crisgomezroman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
💡 Hoy comparto con ilusión una entrevista que me hicieron en El Progreso a raíz del premio RAGC-UIE para jóvenes investigadores. 💡 www.elprogreso.es/articulo/a-c... @usc.gal @cretus.usc.gal @elprogresodelugo.bsky.social
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Cristina Gómez: "Movilizarse por temas ambientales es también una acción política"
Su perfil internacional e interdisciplinar llamó la atención de la Real Academia Galega de Ciencias, que premió la trayectoria de esta joven vilalbesa, centrada en la psicología política y la acción c...
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Terra_do_Medio @altrinon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
📢📢Como non podía ser de outro xeito, comezamos recordándovos onde hai que estar o 15 de Decembro 📍12:00-Santiago de Compostela 💚✊Convocámoste xunto ca Plataforma en defensa da ría de Arousa a berrar con nós da Alameda ao Obradoiro: ALTRI NON !! !! Axudádenos a que lle chegue a todo o mundo🙏
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The project of a huge pulp mill in Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) has raised important environmental and social concerns. #AltriNon For the first time (since we can remember), there has been a united front against this type of project from many University departments and faculties. The vote is in.
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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I guess a must read for a macrecologist. The Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics: A General Framework for Scaling Species Richness and Community Abundance along Environmental Gradients www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #macroecology
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The Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics: A General Framework for Scaling Species Richness and Community Abundance along Environmental Gradients | The American Naturalist
Abstract Large-scale temporal and spatial biodiversity patterns have traditionally been explained by multitudinous particular factors and a few theories. However, these theories lack sufficient genera...
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Are you in Santiago de Compostela today? Do not miss Dr. Fernández-Palacios seminar about Island Biogeography. At 10:00 am at the Biology Building (Facultade de Bioloxía). See you there!
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Christian Rellstab @christian-rellstab.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Join the second EvolTree Online Seminar of this November! On Wednesday, 27.11.2024, 14 CET, Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social will talk about "A future-oriented, deep-time perspective on European woodlands". For more information and registration see here: www.evoltree.eu/webinars
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Bert van der Veen @vdveenb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'm giving an invited talk at the conference of the Dutch association for ordination and classification tomorrow. The slides can be found here: github.com/BertvanderVe... #GLLVM
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GitHub - BertvanderVeen/VOC-talk: This repository includes my slides for the invited presentation to the "Vereniging voor Ordinatie en Classificatie" - (Dutch) Association for Ordination and Classific...
This repository includes my slides for the invited presentation to the "Vereniging voor Ordinatie en Classificatie" - (Dutch) Association for Ordination and Classification - Jubilee confe...
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you are interested in distance-decay models for #Biogeography or Community #Ecology, we have made a quite cool whiteboard video about It. (Functions to adjust, compare and plot distance-decay models are available in betapart (R package) youtu.be/uw1SureoP3Y?...
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Distance decay of community similarity
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We usually post about #Macroecology #Biogeography in English. Pero también hacemos divulgación de nuestra investigación en castellano. Abro hilo sobre distance-decay (= descenso de la similitud en las comunidades biológicas con la distancia (espacial)) 👇🏽 revistas.usc.gal/index.php/na...
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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
I'm looking for a motivated postdoc to join my lab at Aarhus University. Details: bit.ly/3SMpLp7 The position is broad, basically statistical ecology, community ecology, macroecology, or related to animal science #PostDocJobs #Ecology
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Two-year postdoc position in statistical community ecology/macroecology or animal science - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences - ANIVET Management and Modelling (MAMO), Aarhus University
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Miguel Bastos Araújo, PhD @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I have put together this short video explaining why we do what we do in the lab. It is our vision but also our mission: youtu.be/56QvmT48uFI?...
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Miguel Araújo's Lab Vision - English
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Biogeography Lab (BiBiCI-USC) @biogeography-usc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hi BlueSky! We study large-scale biodiversity patterns, mostly of beetles 🪲. We also develop methods and maintain betapart, an R package for beta diversity partitioning and distance-decay. Here we explain why we are interested in Invertebrate Biogeography. youtu.be/eJD85pl-xlM?... #Macroecology
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Why invertebrate biogeography?
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