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Fernando P. Gaona

@fpgaona1.bsky.social

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Postdoc at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & UCLouvain, Belgium Community Ecology | Insects | Global Change

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RES Publications @respublications.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

New research in #RESInsectConsDiv Urban warming alters body size in Neotropical geometrid #moths: Divergent patterns at community and intraspecific scales doi.org/10.1111/icad.70094 #UrbanInsects #Geometridae #UrbanHeatIslandEffect @manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🦋🌴Butterfly and moth habitat specialisation changes along an elevational gradient of tropical forests on Mount Cameroon 📷 Jan Mertens (CC BY 4.0) vist.ly/4qcau #Afrotropics #ElevationalGradient #ForestStructure #Habitat #Insects #Lepidoptera #NicheBreadth

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

New study! We just published the first test of the elevational niche-breadth hypothesis using habitat niches of fruit-feeding butterflies and moths on Mount Cameroon in @oikosjournal.bsky.social! It is another chapter from defended PhD thesis of @fpgaona1.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/oik....

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Butterfly and moth habitat specialisation changes along an elevational gradient of tropical forests on Mount Cameroon

Niche breadth, reflecting the range of environmental conditions or resources a species can exploit, influences its distribution, persistence, vulnerability to environmental change, and interspecific ...

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Robert Tropek @robtrop.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Chapter from a recently defended PhD thesis of @fpgaona1.bsky.social has just been published in the African Journal of Ecology! Elevational patterns in two groups of micromoths (#Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae, Alucitidae) in tropical forests of Mount Cameroon onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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