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@ecography.bsky.social
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An open-access outlet for empirical/theoretical work in macroecology and biogeography. Research published in Ecography strives to understand ecological or biodiversity patterns through space and time. Ecography is owned by @nordicoikos.bsky.social

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 22h
Asymmetric species turnover underpins the latitudinal diversity gradient in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot of India vist.ly/5keip #Freshwater #Fish #Diversity #Taxonomy
Diagram showing fish distribution and traits across three biogeographical areas in Western Ghats.Graph showing beta diversity increasing with distance, correlated and uncorrelated changes, and species richness increasing with decreasing latitude.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rising, falling, stalling: complex biodiversity trajectories in English rivers vist.ly/5k4yz #Biodiversity #Macro #Invertebrates
Three charts showing cluster analysis: (a) ASPT trends from 2002 to 2022, (b) NMDS plot, (c) LDA plot with clusters.Bar graphs displaying percentage of sites by ClusterID for ASPT, Richness, and Abundance. Below, maps show geographic data points in England categorized by these metrics.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Wolves and humans both shape patterns of deer browsing in a temperate forest ecosystem of Central Europe vist.ly/5jtcg #Wolves #Browsing #Carnivores
Map of Bavarian Forest National Park with various locations marked, including management zones and plots.Graph showing estimates for forest wildlife factors with circles and lines.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A global latitudinal decline in breeding site fidelity emerges from a single biome vist.ly/5jpgq "Arctic #Shorebirds #Dispersal
Map of bird migration with biomes, charts on return rates across latitudes.Chart of return rates for Calidris alpina, Calidris pusilla, and Phalaropus lobatus in different habitats with bird silhouettes.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Community-level egg and larval trait interactions with the Amazon River plume determine its role as a dispersal barrier vist.ly/5gfcm #Marine #Biogeography #Barriers
Map showing Northern Brazil, marine ecoregions, currents, and bathymetry.Box plots showing distance traveled in km for five regions during wet and dry seasons with and without diel vertical migration.Decision tree with colored boxes showing predictor variables PLD, ecoregion, depth, DVM, and season.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dietary partitioning mediates species coexistence in the high seas area of northwest Pacific vist.ly/5g6tw #Fish #Niche #Coexistence
Graphs with fish icons showing specialization degree and niche overlap.Graphs showing species differentiation using isotopic signatures with boxplots, scatter plot, and overlap matrix.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Combining paleoecology and modeling to explore cascading disturbances in forest ecosystems vist.ly/5fw3g #ClimateChange #Landscape #Models
Radar and chord diagrams showing effects of drought, fire, wind, avalanche, and insect outbreaks.Graph showing vegetation trajectory with climate events across past, recent, and future.Three-step diagram of paleoecological vegetation simulation with events like drought and fire.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Increase in plant productivity in the tundra in Sweden is not related to increasing presence of warm-adapted vascular plant species vist.ly/5fk2e #Arctic #Vegetation #NDVI
Graphs show temperature anomalies from 1980 to 2020 and a map highlighting a region.Line graph showing predicted occurrence versus survey rounds with temperature optimum in a color gradient.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Global analysis suggests nitrogen deposition as an underestimated driver of vegetation greening vist.ly/5fcap #Anthropocence #GlobalWarming #Restoration
Map of global EVI trends with pink and green shades, plus graphs showing EVI trends related to environmental predictors.Graphical analysis and world maps showing climate and vegetation data by region.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Extrapolation strategy matters when transferring ecological niche models: new visualization tools for informed decisions vist.ly/5f8xr #Clamping #MaxEnt #SDM
Four panels with graphs showing temperature vs. density and clamping/unconstrained direction.Map with color-coded areas showing clamping alone, overlap, and unconstrained regions.Flowchart with decision-making steps for response curve tails.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
E4 award runner-up: From niche theory to demographic realities: the demographic niche concept for understanding range-wide population dynamics vist.ly/5em3r #ECR #Award #MonetaryPrize
Cover page titled 'Ecography Review' with article details and author names.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Please welcome our new Subject Editor: Billur Bektas: vist.ly/5e798
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New Editor | Billur Bektaş, subject editor for Ecography — NSO Journals
We welcome Billur Bektaş to our Ecography editorial board! She is a plant ecologist interested in understanding the effects of climate change on plants from individuals and populations to entire communities.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Age-related trends in niche position and specialization in Neotropical vertebrates vist.ly/5dwnq #Niche #ResourceUse
Map of South America highlighting biomes with an environmental axes diagram.Two sets of box plots with animal icons underneath, showing marginality and specialization scores.Four scatter plots with species age and weighted marginality axes, featuring animal icons and statistical data.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
E4 award runner-up: From niche theory to demographic realities: the demographic niche concept for understanding range-wide population dynamics vist.ly/5drz9 #ECR #Award #MonetaryPrize
Cover page titled 'Ecography Review' with article details and author names.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
‘biomod2' – extending presence–absence species distribution models to multiple data types vist.ly/5dmbb #SDM #Abundance #Habitat
Graph showing software project milestones and citations from 2013 to 2025.Flowchart showing BIOMOD workflow from data to prediction with various modules.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Maximising trait evenness promotes the recovery of plant species richness in managed grasslands vist.ly/5dcmm #EcologicalRestoration #EunctionalTraits
Graphs showing skewness versus kurtosis with distribution curves like normal, exponential, and bimodal.Scatter plots showing skewness vs kurtosis for SLA, LDMC, H, LA under four land-use intensities.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Topography constrains the climatic response of treeline migration in Taiwan's subalpine forests vist.ly/5d4pm #ClimateChange #RemoteSencing #Treeline
Flowchart showing steps from aerial photo collection to spatial analysis for forest mapping.Maps of forest expansion and treeline shift in Yushan and Central Mountain Ranges, Taiwan, 1980-2021.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
E4 award runner-up: From niche theory to demographic realities: the demographic niche concept for understanding range-wide population dynamics vist.ly/5cy6p #ECR #Award #MonetaryPrize
Cover page titled 'Ecography Review' with article details and author names.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Faster growing and more functionally diverse: global change alters functional trait composition of mountain plant communities in the European Alps vist.ly/5ctvx #Diversity #Elevation #GlobalChange
Map of the Alps showing orange dots in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Austria, and Slovenia.Four scatter plots show plant traits against elevation with colored data points.Scatter plot of functional diversity Rao Q vs elevation with historical and recent data.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Stochastic and deterministic processes influencing mountain mire diatom communities across spatial scales vist.ly/5cjem #EcologicalDrift #LandscapeScale
Map of Spain with national parks, sampling scales diagram, frequency graphs showing distances.Map of Spain with marked national parks and pie charts showing ecological data.Graphs showing community assembly processes by spatial scale with lines for different processes like ecological drift, dispersal, and selection.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Linking species distribution models with population abundance to support adaptive fisheries management vist.ly/5cbiy #SDM #FishHabitat #MaxEnt
Flowchart with steps for ecological data analysis including study area, data processing, spatial data preparation, and more.Stacked bar chart showing relative importance of variables by year from 1994 to 2021.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
E4 award winner: Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization vist.ly/5c7kv #ECR #MonetaryPrize
Journal cover titled 'Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization'.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Changing patterns of colonisation and persistence during the wolf recolonisation of the human-dominated Italian alpine region vist.ly/5b22v #Wolves #Distribution #Modelling
Four maps showing increasing wolf signs from 2014 to 2020 in purple shades.Graphs and map analyzing wolf occupancy probability based on various environmental factors.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
TreeMig framework ver. 1.0: an R package with GUI to simulate spatio-temporal forest dynamics vist.ly/5bsm6 #Rpackage #Modelling #VegetationDynamics
Diagram of TreeMig-R package workflow with input, processing, and output stages.Graphs showing biomass distribution among tree species by elevation and year.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Incorporating sampling bias into ENM/SDM permutation tests: new methods and a case study on neotropical ants vist.ly/5bijx #Niche #Models #SDM
Charts and maps analyzing geographical data in South America, showing simulations and permutation tests.Three maps of South America showing different probability models: Uniform, Density, and Modeled with a color scale.Two side-by-side histograms labeled Density and Modeled, displaying cells predicted declining and predicted change in suitability.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
E4 award winner: Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization vist.ly/5betd #ECR #MonetaryPrize
Journal cover titled 'Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization'.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Climatic drivers prevail in montane and lowland Odonata latitudinal diversity gradients, but human modification erodes lowland patterns vist.ly/5b9hh #Highland #Lowland #Odonata
Six maps of China showing biodiversity data metrics like occurrence records, species richness, MPD, MNTD, MPDses, and MNTDses.Bar charts depicting importance values of environmental variables on species metrics for mountain and lowland regions.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
N-SDM 2.0: a reengineered software with extended features for nested species distribution modelling vist.ly/5ayti #SDM #Niche #Modelling
Table showing N-SDM performance metrics with values for time in minutes, memory in GB, processes, and tasks across categories PRE, GLO, REG, and SCE.Maps comparing habitat suitability for species with different methods: covariate, multiply, weighted multiply, average, weighted average.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Scrutinizing the Wallacean shortfall: global gaps in snake occurrence data across space and environment vist.ly/5aqsx #GBIF #Inventory #Serpentes
World map showing rarity distribution with a color gradient from yellow to purple.Eight histograms showing frequency distribution of records by continent with small maps.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
E4 award winner: Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization vist.ly/5akky #ECR #MonetaryPrize
Journal cover titled 'Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization'.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Geographic biases and gaps in the sampling of plant–pollinator networks vist.ly/5afrd #Communities #Distribution #Networks
Three maps: (A) Networks per km², (B) Bee species per km², (C) Research investment in $US per km² using log scales.Three graphs showing relationships between networks, bee species per km², research per km², and country area, with continent color-coding.Line graph showing the number of reuses over years since publication by region.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
July cover: Climate in the Hills, People in the Plains vist.ly/5a6uh
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Cover | Climate in the Hills, People in the Plains — NSO Journals
The photo features an endemic damselfly (Archineura incarnata) of eastern China, and the largest species within its family in Odonata, perching at the water's edge and waiting for a mate. Photo credit: Haomiao Zhang and Ruibin Song.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Plant adaptive strategies respond to environmental change across European grassland habitats vist.ly/59xce #EnvironmentalDrivers #FuturePredictions
Two triangular charts comparing habitats with color-coded dots for Alpine, Rocky, Sandy, Saline, Dry, Mesic, and Wet habitats.Three maps of Europe showing percentages of competitors, stress-tolerators, and ruderals using color scales.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A practical guide to species trend detection with unstructured data using local frequency scaling (Frescalo) vist.ly/59nyk
Diagram showing spatial and temporal correction methods with maps, charts, and text explanations.Infographic showing species analysis in neighborhoods A and B with graphs and grids.Diagram of species occurrences and frequency model over time periods with maps and graphs.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Relationship between home range and population density in mammals: the role of sociality, territoriality and habitat dimensionality vist.ly/59eid
Diagram with four sections showing population density and home range with labels 'Overlap' and 'Spatial gaps'.Six scatter plots showing home range overlap against home range size with variables such as group size, territoriality, and habitat dimensionality.Two graphs; left shows lines of home range overlap vs body mass with different m(d) values, right shows habitat dimensionality effects.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Citizen science deepens the ecological and climatic dimensions of mosquito surveillance vist.ly/59525 #SDM #CitizenScience
Charts and maps showing predicted values over months and regions in Spain for 2020 to 2022.Graph of Spearman’s rank correlation by month from 2020 to 2022 and prediction maps for Spain.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Simulating past and future refugia for temperate trees in northern Italy vist.ly/58zet
Three graphs depicting temperature and precipitation data.Graphs showing pollen percentages and biomass changes over time with tree species labeled.Six maps showing forest species distribution with legend.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
E4 award runner-up: From niche theory to demographic realities: the demographic niche concept for understanding range-wide population dynamics. Video abstract: vist.ly/58ur2. A big congratulations to the 500 Euro prize!
Ecography article with review title and authors, runner-up badge on side.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
E4 award winner: Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization. Video abstract: vist.ly/58uru A big congratulations to the 1000 Euro prize!
Ecography review titled Integrating ecological feedbacks across scales and levels of organization.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Inverse sky islands: lowland river valleys drive microbial divergence while high elevations select for convergence in massive mountain ecosystems vist.ly/58jvx #MicrobialBiogeography #SkyIslands
Map of ecosystems and diagram explaining elevation effects with graphs.Graphs analyzing bacterial and fungal communities by ecosystem with statistical data and correlations.Nine graphs showing Bray-Curtis dissimilarity with labels for each axis.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Species traits mediate the abundant-center patterns in ground-dwelling mammal and bird species in China vist.ly/58bvh #ClimateNiche #GeographicDistribution
A map of Asia with animal distributions, charts showing data relations.Four bar charts with coefficients, frequency; icons: globe, thermometer, wolf, rooster.Phylogenetic tree of birds and mammals with colored effect size data.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Macroecological relationships of ant diversity with increasing aridity in Australian tropical savannas: contrasting responses of epigaeic and hypogaeic assemblages vist.ly/572md #Australia #Ants #Biodiversity
A detailed collection of images showcasing a variety of ant species in natural settings. Each image provides a close-up view, highlighting the diversity in color, size, and texture among different ants on various surfaces.Heatmaps show ant species abundance and richness across different sites. The charts compare epigaeic and hypogaeic genus distributions.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
From distant shores to an emerging island: the role of surface and subsurface transport in modeling seed dispersal vist.ly/56pfz #Hydrochory #SeedDispersal
This map illustrates surface and depth-averaged velocities of E. paralias for the year 2012/13 in the North Sea region. The insets show detailed data for specific areas in a circular graph format.Diagram showing plant transport routes across the Netherlands and Denmark, depicting both surface and depth-averaged transport. Includes various plant species and their sources.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Pre-industrial land-use limits contemporary shrub encroachment in the French Alps vist.ly/56ex8 #Shrubs #HistoricalLandUse
A collage of historical and modern maps showing changes in land use over time, alongside data visualizations illustrating these transitions. The tone is analytical and informative.Complex analysis of land use change and its impact on shrub density, featuring graphs and trajectory data.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
PondNet – towards a global network of experiments on the effects of climate change on aquatic ecosystems vist.ly/565km #Aquatic #Ecosystems #Mesocosms
A world map highlighting study distribution by region, with a chart showing percentages for each continent. Colored regions and circles indicate study locations.Illustration showing elevation, aridity, and isolation across different geographical regions. A globe highlights specific world areas related to these factors.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Satellite hindcasts of foliar traits reveal a subtle but consistent relaxation of conservativeness in a biodiverse mountain grassland over the last four decades vist.ly/55v5w #FunctionalTraits #LeafEconomicsSpectrum
A set of scientific graphs showing plant traits across different environments. Displays bars and triangular plots for data comparison.A series of charts displaying ecological data trends across different landscapes from 1990 to 2020. The graphs showcase SLA, LA, and LDMC metrics, visually varied by color.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Temporal shifts in kelp forest structure and distribution largely reflect recent ocean warming trends vist.ly/55kj2 #KelpForests #OceanWarming #SpeciesDistribution
A detailed map illustrating the distribution of various kelp species around the coasts of Cornwall, Isles of Scilly, and Lundy Island. Includes pie charts representing regional mean coverage of each species.A series of graphs analyzing the presence and change in marine species in relation to sea surface temperature over time. The visuals depict historical and contemporary observations along with statistical data.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Beyond birds: rethinking bird-centered pathogen models in light of insect migration vist.ly/55d6p #migration #flyways #pathogens
A sequence of four diagrams depicting molecular interactions labeled A and B, with variations in particle dispersion. The fourth diagram also includes additional particles resembling water molecules.
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Consumer diversity drives stronger predation in tropical marine communities vist.ly/54ag2 #Experimental #Macroecology #Predation
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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Harnessing the power of machine and deep learning for transferring joint species distribution models considering the structure of biotic interactions vist.ly/53zjt #AI #Niche #jSDM
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