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David Cunillera-Montcusí

@cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social
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Bienvenue fellow at the Ifremer #CBD project. Metacommunity ecology, global disturbances, spatial networks & connectivity. More at www.dcm.cat

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Stéphanie Gascón @stephi-gascon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Estos son algunos de los principales logros alcanzados hasta el momento
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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is an amazing contribution by @juliecrabot.bsky.social !🙌🏽 It advances our knowledge on freshwater salinization spatial distribution, essential to identify major EU hotspots! It has been an honour to have had the chance to work with this great #JRC team @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu 📢
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Julie Crabot @juliecrabot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Very happy to share this article on the extent of river salinization in Europe published in @natcomms.nature.com, in collaboration with the #JRC @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social 🧂🏞
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Simulating drying and human impacts on river networks to evaluate biological quality indices performance through the lens of metacommunity theory🐟️ 🌊 Find out more 👇️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Precisely the question that we discussed with @tdatry.bsky.social, @messamat.bsky.social and the team in Lyon, where I presented this work, where we went beyond by exploring "When?" we should start to use new indicators. Thanks for the energy and exchanges! Excited to keep building together!
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Stéphanie Gascón @stephi-gascon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Great to present #funMETANET at #ASLOSIL26! 👏 Some results from @anna-equisuany.bsky.social’s PhD (co-supervised by @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social & Dani Boix). Huge thanks to all co-authors! 🙌
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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Today we presented our work on #TraitNetworks and how regional gradients drive their changes from local to regional scales at #ASLOSIL26. One of @anna-equisuany.bsky.social thesis chapters and an exciting work from the #FunMetanet project leaded by @stephi-gascon.bsky.social ! An amazing adventure!
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Zeynep Ersoy @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
So happy to lead this paper with @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social where we used metacommunity simulations to assess how biological index performance declines across different drying and pollution scenarios. Such simulation-based tools can improve the conservation and #biomonitoring of #DryingRivers
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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Perfect timing to start the @aslo.org & @sil-limnology.bsky.social meeting in #Montreal with @jappliedecology.bsky.social publishing our work with @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social and #FEHMlab about #DryingRivers and their impact on biological index ! 📢👇🏽 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Simulating drying and human impacts on river networks to evaluate biological quality indices performance through the lens of metacommunity theory
This work constitutes a first step towards developing simulation-based assessments that incorporate catchment drying patterns to support biomonitoring of drying river networks. Our approach can infor...
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Zeynep Ersoy @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
New chapter 📢 How does #salinization affect aquatic #foodwebs? With @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social, @mphebert.bsky.social, @zadereev.bsky.social, BKefford and MCañedo-Argüelles, we summarize effects across trophic levels and how they can propagate through the food web Read here: shorturl.at/0YfLL
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Effects of salinization on aquatic food webs
Salinization is a global environmental threat to inland and coastal aquatic ecosystems. It is defined as an increased concentration of ions in water (…
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Rubén del Campo @rubendelcampo.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
A new, different ⭐ was born!🤩 Today we started #STARDRY, an interdisciplinary project to study how #drying controls #functioning #stability in river networks through spatio-temporal changes of #communities🪲🦠 Thanks to my #EcologistDreamTeam for an amazing kickoff meeting🔝 Stay tuned!
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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
📢 Exciting NEWS We just published a new work amazingly leaded by Damiano Baldan at @ogsit.bsky.social where we combined niche and neutral models to understand the future rearrangement of #Mediterranean #Seagrasses and their associated diversity consequences 🐚 Take look here 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
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Landscape‐Mediated Effects of Climate Change on Metacommunities Inhabiting Mediterranean Seagrass
Aim Climate change affects dramatically biogenic habitats by altering the geographic distribution of the foundational species and the structure of landscapes they form. As a consequence, the associa...
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Fiona Corominas @fiona-corominas.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📢 First step of the PhD! 📄 Waterscape dataset of the municipality of Girona 🔍 With @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social, #LMartín, #DBoix and @jordi-bou.bsky.social 💧 A work of @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.di...
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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Amazing output for those #UrbanPond and #Pond lovers! Specially for the rising interest of #GardenPonds! Interesting insight can come out of them for moving towards "bluer" cities 🤞🏽 Take a look at it 👇🏽👇🏽, it is freshly baked!
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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Amazing work by @anna-equisuany.bsky.social who successfully lead her first first-authored work, which started a while ago during my thesis and those beautiful #PleteraDays ! Seems that for coastal ponds restoration, age is not the only relevant thing, even along time ⏳ Take a deeper look at it 👇🏽👇🏽
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Jordi Bou @jordi-bou.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
📢 #GiroNat is out in @journalofmaps.bsky.social 📃 Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas
The Girona urban landscape and Natura 2000 habitats map (1:10.000) was generated with data from photointerpretation and fieldwork. We mapped 118 CORINE habitats and identified 15 Habitats of Commun...
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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
📢Amazing August news 📢 Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1111/geb....
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Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions
Aim Aquatic landscapes face severe threats from human activities propelling their deterioration. Waterscape degradation represents a main driver of the current diversity crisis, but its large-scale ...
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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Some weeks ago we published a work leaded by #Dorottya & @csabaiz.bsky.social in #FWB where we looked at the relevance of spatiotemporal connectivity across different intermittent streams 😄 A nice output from our exchanges in #Pécs around #DRYvER project @tdatry.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
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Connectivity‐Driven Assembly of Trichoptera Metacommunities Across River Networks With Different Drying Patterns
Spatial connectivity varies temporally due to fragmentation caused by drying and may potentially define the diversity and composition of communities. We studied spatiotemporal patterns in three dr...
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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Last week we had the pleasure to welcome @matias-arim.bsky.social #DamianoBaldan and #ZacharyHajian-Forooshani in #Budapest as part of the #MetaHeroes #EndGame workshop! Many nourishing discussions but the best was the burst in energy that it generated! The #EndGame definitely became a #Beginning
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Stéphanie Gascón @stephi-gascon.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Our PhD student, Anna Equisuany, is back in the lab after successfully presenting #SFS2025 results showing that different types of fragmentation impact biodiversity — both taxonomically and functionally. Yes, fragmentation type does matter!!! #funMETANET
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IEA-UdG @iea-udg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
@jordi-bou.bsky.social is presenting how the metacommunity perspective can be aplied on renaturing urban freshwater ecosystems #GiroNat
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Loïc Chalmandrier @chalmandrierl.eurosky.social · 12/05/2025
Publication #DRYvER out in Global Ecology and Biogeography ! 🌍💧🦟🐚🐌 we show macroinvertebrate communities in drying river networks across Europe shift based on how often—and how long—rivers dry, and how well-connected they are. doi.org/10.1111/geb....
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Zeynep Ersoy @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
📢 GLOSSAQUA is out in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social. Big collaboration w/40+ coauthors led by myself, @chaevangelista.bsky.social & @ignasiarranz.bsky.social. It compiles global size spectra parameters from aquatic ecosystems globally👉: doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #datapaper #aquaticecology 🌍🧪🧵(1/4)
Locations of aquatic studies included in the dataset (n = 135 studies) classified within eight biogeographic realms. The sizes of the circles are proportional to the number of studies per country in each biogeographic realm.
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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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Thibault Datry @tdatry.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We are excited to invite you to our Final DRYvER #Webinar, 20 March, 14 CET -Agenda below: -Pre-registration required: scan the QR code or use this link: tinyurl.com/5s43cfu9 Don't miss out the opportunity to find out more on how #ClimateChange is altering the eco-hydrology of #DryingRiverNetworks.
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Thibault Datry @tdatry.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Natural river drying is reducing the local biodiversity of aquatic communities and promoting the regional biodiversity by generating multiple successional stage across river networks. Excellent work by Daniel Escobar-Camacho et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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River Drying Causes Local Losses and Regional Gains in Aquatic Invertebrate Metacommunity Diversity: A Cross‐Continental Comparison
Drying rivers could be becoming more common with climate change, affecting the diversity of living in these ecosystems. This study compared how aquatic invertebrates respond to drying in river networ...
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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · 13/02/2025
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
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Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Why aren't more researchers publishing in society journals? Two potential reasons: 1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers, and 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.
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Carlos Cano-Barbacil @canobarbacil.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 In this @globalchangebio.bsky.social study we used 1327 time series of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities across Europe to investigate whether dispersal capacity changes with the ecological quality of rivers. @sgn.one onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Recovery and Degradation Drive Changes in the Dispersal Capacity of Stream Macroinvertebrate Communities
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SHOAL @shoalorg.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
📢 "We must take this news seriously." The IUCN co-authored Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment brought experts together from across the world of freshwater conservation, including many regular SHOAL collaborators! Keep scrolling to hear what they had to say about this watershed report 👇
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MUSER PRESS @muser.press · 19/12/2024
Loss of connectivity in pond networks can have a significant impact on microbial #biodiversity. A recent study shows that fragmentation disrupts vital #ecosystems, threatening microbial communities and their interdependent relationships. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #HabitatFragmentation
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Connectivity loss in pond networks threatens microbial diversity • MUSER PRESS
Even the smallest ecosystems, like ponds, are feeling the pressures of global biodiversity loss, with human-driven fragmentation posing a significant threat ...
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Zsófia Horváth @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
With @schneiderbea.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social and others, we showed how connectivity loss affects metacommunities with results from a 4-month long mesocosm experiment just published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! shorturl.at/9o9ak
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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
To start, let me introduce the #MetaHeroes WP1 and our preliminary results from last spring experiment! There, we aimed to understand the interaction between network position and freshwater salinization using mesocosms #Hungary #ApajBombCraters youtu.be/rasZbMvhJoE?...
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WP1 MH - Experiment - EPCN/Ponderful
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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I think it is time to officially say that I am sticking with 🦋! I have been able to find 1000 times more interesting things in 1 week than in the last months in X... Where I was spammed with Asda about "How to become a muscled tiger in 1 week" (don't ask me why)... 😅
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Dr. Andrés Peredo Arce @miluelbarbaro.eurosky.social · 28/11/2024
DATA CALL - DEADLINE APPROACHING We want to add new sites to our European longtime series database of freshwater biodiversity (see doi.org/10.1038/s415...) To contribute check the link with all the details of the data call www.senckenberg.de/en/call-for-... Thank you very much! #freshwaterecology
Map of Europe showing the sampling sites (and the geographical gaps) present in our database. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176229Map of Europe showing the sampling sites (and the geographical gaps) present in our database. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06400-1Map of Europe showing the sampling sites (and the geographical gaps) present in our database. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03445-3
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hi folks! Here's a very idiosyncratic beginning of a list of people thinking with rivers, from poets to hydrologists. Far from complete, happy to add more! go.bsky.app/EUNFWKB
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Zsófia Horváth @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It seems we have a great Bluesky momentum, so many interesting feeds and starter packs! But I feel that perhaps something is still missing... 💦🐸🦆🦠🌱🐟🐢🔵 Any pond ecologists, EPCN members out there? You can join the starter pack by letting me know in a reply to this message! go.bsky.app/4xGTu74
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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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michael catchen @mdcatchen.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Made a starter pack on network science and complex systems. go.bsky.app/JMKsfk4 (post below to be added)
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Carlos Cano-Barbacil @canobarbacil.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I made a #Bluesky #FreshwaterEcology and #BiodiversityConservation starter pack. If you'd like to be included, please comment bellow 👇🏼 go.bsky.app/ShC6bp7
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Rachel Stubbington @rstubbington.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Deadline looming! Submit a special session or workshop proposal for SEFS14 in Bolu, Türkiye by this Saturday 30 November. @messamat.bsky.social and I have stuck in one about... guess what?! Temporary streams 🦐🐞😁! www.sefs14.com/workshops-sp... @louiselavictoire.bsky.social
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Workshops / Special Sessions | SEFS14
Workshops / Special Sessions - 14th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences, Bolu, Türkiye
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