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Jordi Sola @jsola.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

⚠️ Adding “complexity” isn’t a free lunch. Stability hinges on: 👑 Dominant species 🦑 Consumer interactions 🌡️ Stress gradient context 🌍 For restoration & eco-engineering: design with these pathways in mind—test, don’t assume. #EcologyLetters #Conservation #EcoEngineering

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Jordi Sola @jsola.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

🔬 35 paired pitted vs smooth tiles across an emersion gradient (11 censuses, 3 yrs). Mixed models + pSEM. ✅ Stabilising: • 🛟 refugia → ↑ population stability • 🌱 richness → ↑ asynchrony ❌ Destabilising: • 🐚 ↓ dominant A. modestus • 🐌 ↓ consumer effects ➡️ Net stability ≈ 0

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Jordi Sola @jsola.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

📢 New in Ecology Letters: heterogeneity ≠ stability. 🌊🪨 3-yr rocky-shore experiment: 4 cascades canceled the classic heterogeneity–stability link. 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele.70158 With @thefairchild.bsky.social , @MatthewPerkins, @JamesBull & @jngriffy.bsky.social — thanks to @NERC & @SwanseaUniversity.

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Jordi Sola @jsola.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Key takeaways for conservation → Focus on preserving & restoring 3D structures as they offer the most biodiversity benefits → Prioritize interventions in stressful, variable environments where heterogeneity offers refugia. → Tailor actions to the traits and needs of focal species groups. 7/7

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Jordi Sola @jsola.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Finally, we produced a conceptual model to promote further hypotheses across systems ✔ Which heterogeneity facets (e.g., 3D vs. 2D) drive outcomes ✔ How species’ traits mediate their response ✔ How broader environmental stress amplifies or dampens effects 6/7

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Jordi Sola @jsola.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

✅ Effects were strongest in stressful environments (like intertidal zones) and on biogenic substrates (like mussel beds or macroalgae). We also found some interesting latitudinal effects along the way! 5/7

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Jordi Sola @jsola.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

✅ Small-bodied and mobile species (like microinvertebrates) benefited the most since they can exploit fine-scale structural variation. Heterogeneity had the clearest effects promoting recruitment and reducing grazing. 4/7

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Jordi Sola @jsola.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Using this framework, we found that ✅ 3D structures (like rugose reefs, kelp canopies) had the strongest positive effects, mainly by expanding niche space and habitat area. 3/7

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Jordi Sola @jsola.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Using previous work (McCoy & Bell, Stein, Loke et al.) we linked ‘heterogeneity facets’ with ‘heterogeneity metrics’, which allowed to synthesise information across >100 terms used for heterogeneity into six parsimonious ‘facets’. 2/7

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Jordi Sola @jsola.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

🎉 New paper out! 🪸🌊 Using rocky reefs as a model and a new organising framework, we show heterogeneity effects depend on: 1) how heterogeneity is generated and measured: 2) the traits of responding organisms; and 3) environmental stress @jngriffy.bsky.social @swanseauni.bsky.social 1/7 🧵

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Owen Harris @owenmarinebio.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

My first paper is out! We show that Fucus serratus canopy fronds buffer below-canopy fronds from thermal stress during heatwaves. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Jordi Sola @jsola.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

That's great, thanks! Some cool analysis in there too

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Jordi Sola @jsola.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Cool research! Did they happen to mention any papers? :)

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Important new preprint highlighting the paradox of spatial environmental heterogeneity: it can both enhance & inhibit stability. @jsola.bsky.social et al. use clever experimental manipulations on rocky shores to unravel this tug-of-war. #MarineEcology #MarineLife 🦑🌊

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John Griffin @jngriffy.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

New pre-print on heterogeneity- stability relationship led by @jsola.bsky.social: Using a long-term #RockyShore experiment we show substrate heterogeneity promotes stability via biodiversity and asynchrony, but simultaneously inhibits stabilising dominants. www.authorea.com/users/795647...

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Counteracting cascades challenge the heterogeneity -- stability relationship

Spatial environmental heterogeneity is widely assumed to enhance ecological stability by promoting refugia, biodiversity, and asynchrony. Yet, we lack field experiments testing this fundamental relati...

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Catalina Pimiento 🆓🇵🇸 @pimientoc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🦋 Hello, Bluesky! Excited to join this fresh, decentralised platform! Taking the opportunity to share an event I’m really excited about: the CPEG Meeting & Conservation Paleobiology Symposium, happening in Zurich in 2025. Registration & abstract submission just opened! 👇

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John Griffin @jngriffy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

*PhD opportunity*: I’ll shortly be advertising a project linking seaweed traits to blue carbon in the context of climate change. Please contact me via email (j.n.griffin at swansea. ac. uk) if potentially interested. More details to follow.

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