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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

J. Alroy's (johnalroy.bsky.social) article on the unreliability of the coverage-based rarefaction; also known in paleontology as the SQS subsampling, in estimating species richness. Use other techniques folks... nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

Violin plots (Adler et al. 2025) showing diversity estimates yielded by seven estimators when applied to data simulated under three distributions.

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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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Lenka Kuglerová @kuglerovastripe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I am looking for a postdoc to join my group at SLU in Umeå. The project is about synthesising existing knowledge on climate change effects on streams and riparian zone, and how riparian buffers can help to mitigate those effects. Feel free to share in your circles! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

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Postdoctoral position in freshwater ecology and climate change | slu.se

SLU - Science and Education for Sustainable Life

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Suitch @suitch-co.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Two-year postdoc in freshwater biogeography at the University of Oulu. A clean fit for researchers analyzing spatial distributions in aquatic ecosystems. #AquaticScience #MarineJobs

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Macro- and microclimate interactively shape species diversity of multiple taxa in mountain landscapes vist.ly/4esms #Macroclimate #Microclimate #Biodiversity

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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In the Anthropocene, ecosystems are changing rapidly. But why species responses to vary so drastically? In this interview, Tom Matthews discusses how we can predict species extinction and why some species are better able to cope with environmental change than others 🎙️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrbH...

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Can We Predict Extinction? with Dr. Tom Matthews | EcolClips

YouTube video by EcolClips

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Carl Sayer @carlsayer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Proud to present this book with Hilary Birks & @informed-enviro.bsky.social focused on the use & importantly identification of aquatic plant seeds & fruits. 10 yrs of work! Major uses in palaeoecology, archaeobotany, seed bank & diet studies @bsbibotany.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Seeds and Fruits of Aquatic Plants of Northern Europe - A Handbook

This book offers essential insights for identifying aquatic plant remains, enhancing research in palaeoecology and freshwater biology.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

👀 what a first PhD paper! - looks like a major breakthrough discovery

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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In the Rocky Mountains, spring-fed streams and ponds have vanished, leaving patches of cracked mud. This year has been so extremely warm and arid that the mountains have remained largely snowless. The source of the Colorado River is drying up. @rgauth999.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

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'This is terrifying': The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source

The source of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains is drying up, threatening a critical water lifeline for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland across the Southwest.

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Looking forward to speaking at #ECCB2026 in Leiden! My talk: Trophic rewilding as a key restoration approach Symposium: Ecosystem recovery, #restoration and rewilding 🐎🌿🌼🐗🦬 ➡️ Wed 8 July, 16:30–18:00, Room C1 #Rewilding #RestorationEcology

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The International Association for Vegetation Science @iavs5.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Got a great idea for a continental or global study on plant biodiversity? 🌍🌿 #sPlot is welcoming new research proposals that are global or continental in scope and complementary to ongoing projects. Meet the sPlot coordinator Gabriella Damasceno at #IAVS2026. Find more details below ⬇️

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The Anthropocene is being mentioned a lot at the World Biodiversity Forum (#WBF2026) - read why it clearly deserves to be recognized as a geological epoch, read our paper: Defining the #Anthropocene as a geological #epoch captures human impacts’ triphasic nature to empower science and action ♨️🌍👣

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🌍 At #WBF2026, “ecosystem integrity” is frequently mentioned. Important: we need to redefine it for an Anthropocene biosphere; not as resemblance to static states but wrt biodiversity-maintaining processes & persistence of long-resident lineages: Integrity should anchor biodiverse futures 🌿➡️

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Cell Bio News @cellbionews.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Postdoc freshwater ecohydrology & eDNA - Texas St Uni hydrological variability and stream macroinvert community structure/biodiversity, integrates field-based aquatic ecology, eDNA metabarcoding, molecular ecology, and ecohydrological analysis. More info, contact: schattop@txstate.edu

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Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org · 14/05/2026

Exciting opportunity for early career scientists to publish open access at no cost in #ASLO journals! Read more here: www.aslo.org/2026-james-e... #ASLOSIL26 #ASLO_LO #ASLO_Methods #ASLO_Letters

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Horses on the Menu: "Free-ranging mountain ponies can comprise most of the Iberian #wolf diet - #horse consumption is ... often surpassing wild and domestic ungulates and potentially serving as a buffer for livestock predation" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ulv #hest

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Horses on the Menu: Patterns and Drivers of Free‐Ranging Horse Consumption by Iberian Wolves

Free-ranging mountain ponies can comprise most of the Iberian wolf diet. Through a meta-analysis of 137 studies, we show that horse consumption is shaped by prey availability, topography and human de...

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

New Science Advances paper: 60 years of change across European plant communities reveals a widespread shift toward denser vegetation, with increasing shade tolerance across habitats. Proud to co-author this important work🍃 #ecology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Sixty years of plant community change in Europe indicate a shift toward nutrient-richer and denser vegetation

Bioindication reveals a 60-year shift toward denser, more productive vegetation, but a weak thermophilization signal.

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Dr John Clarke @jclarkepaleo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th - Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to postdoc-botany@smns-bw.de + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

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Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart

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Dezene Huber 🍁 🌻 @dezene.me · 27/03/2026

A long time ago (even before I was born), some insects were huge – we're talking 2 foot wingspans. The dogma has always been that this was due to high oxygen levels then compared to now. But there's some new evidence that this isn't the case. 🧪🪲🪳 www.iflscience.com/300-million-...

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300 Million Years Ago, Insects Were Enormous. That Stopped – And We’re Probably Wrong About Why

Dragonflies could probably still be huge if they believed in themselves enough.

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

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Phylogenetic Comparative Methods

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Name That Plant is an amazing #WildFlowerID resource created by @milneorchid.bsky.social! The website namethatplant.org is built on a photo library of >2,700 plant taxa. We were delighted when Richard very kindly agreed to let us use those fabulous images on the new BSBI website: bsbi.org/plants!

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Plants

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Frank Burdon @fburdon.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The landscape theory of food web architecture (LTFWA) describes relationships between body size, trophic position, mobility, and energy channels that couple habitats, which in turn promotes stability. This study in Lake Michigan explores evidence for the LTFWA doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... Image: NASA

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Our review of #trait - based approaches to ecological restoration is finally out in @esajournals.bsky.social *Ecological Applications*, highlighting the value of functional traits for creating system-general restoration strategies. 🌐 🧮➕📏 urldefense.com/v3/__http://...

Community trajectories towards a restoration target (increase in zooplankton community diversity and abundance to regain ecosystem function, facilitated by invasive fish removal), where functional and taxonomic composition recover at different rates: In the disturbance phase, non-native fish introductions reduce the functional diversity of zooplankton communities; during active restoration, fish are removed from lakes, allowing communities to recover functions associated with naturally fishless systems; the assisted or unassisted recovery phase is characterized by the initial reassembly of functional structure via plasticity and dispersal followed by taxonomic recovery through additional dispersal. Traits are shown as univariate for illustrative purposes but can encompass multiple traits in practice.

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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🗓️Next Tuesday our seminar speaker is Jonathan Levine (Princeton) speaking on: ⭐Rapid evolution and species coexistence: from theory to empirical evidence in an orchard fly system⭐ Times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f... (NB Europe time shift⏰🌍) Open Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/ See you there!

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Bruce Webber @drbrucewebber.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The interplay between climatic niche and spatial distribution can inform the management of non-native invasive species. Our findings reveal that the invasion risk for species with small geographic ranges may be greater than assumed. Read more (OA): doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... #bioinvasions 🌐🌏🧪

CLIMEX Match Climate Composite Match Index (CMI) overlaid with Tipuana tipu distribution location records, projected globally. Insets show the native range, part of South America, part of southern Africa, southwest Australia, and an area of eastern Australia with high levels of cultivation and/or naturalisation. Areas with an orange-red colour (CMI 0.8–1) had high CMI values. Areas with a blue colour (CMI 0.6–0.8) had a climate with moderate CMI values. Records of T. tipu are shown as open circles. Pink circles represent records of plants within the native range. All other colours represent plant records in the non-native range, with purple representing cultivated plant records, yellow representing non-cultivated plant records, green representing records with both cultivated and non-cultivated plants and brown representing plant records where the cultivation status was indeterminate.

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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

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What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers

Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

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Nicholas Wu @nicholaswu.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Want to join a global 🌎 initiative to test the thermal limits of 🐟 using standardised approach? Led by @patricepottier.bsky.social, we are planning a globally distributed experiment to collect data on fish embryonic heat tolerance 🌡️. Make this experiment global! 🔗: www.thermalecologyalliance.org

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Kim L. Holzmann @kimholzmann.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · 12/01/2026

The winner of our special prize at @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social is Saijing Liu for her poster, “Do mountains have a common diversification history?” 🎉She won a free publication in the open-access journal Frontiers of #Biogeography! biogeography.pensoft.net/news/1074 @biogeography.bsky.social

The winner of the special pensoft prize, Saijing Liu at TIBS 2026 with the editor in chief of the open access journal Frontiers of Biogeography - Robert J. Whittaker

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I just released the 10th episode of my YouTube series on how AI is used to help the planet. These first 10 papers cover a range of topics (conservation, energy, forecasting...) & methods (multi-modal, time series, uncertainty...) So in <1 hr you can get a wide overview of the field! #ccai #mlsky 🤖 📈

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5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet

Learn about how AI can be used to protect biodiversity, fight climate change, and just better understand our planet through 5-minute explainers covering academic papers on AI for the Planet. AI is not...

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MERLIN project @merlin-project.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

In case you are looking for a leading role in a fieldwork campaign to sample 240 perialpine and alpine lakes in Switzerland over multiple years... @eawag.bsky.social's Department of Aquatic Ecology is offering a postdoctoral position in Aquatic Ecology (m/f/d) 80-100%. More info in the link below.

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Postdoctoral position in Aquatic Ecology (m/f/d) 80-100%

The Department of Aquatic Ecology (Eco) is offering a

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

A postdoc position in Biogeography and Macroecology is available at Palacky University, Czech Republic, with an application deadline of March 15, 2026. For details, contact prof. Vladimir Remes at vladimir.remes@upol.cz. More info: vladremes.github.io #postdoc

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Vladimír Remeš -

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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.2024.176229

Map of Europe showing the sampling sites (and the geographical gaps) present in our database. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06400-1

Map 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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Halley E. Froehlich @dochfroehlich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Cool paper alert. Was trying to model the thermal performance curves of several farmed seaweed species and ran across this awesome, theoretical unifying paper: “A universal thermal performance curve arises in biology and ecology” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

When extreme events happen together or in sequence, their impacts can be catastrophic for people and river biodiversity. Whether that’s a flood following a drought, a drought and heatwave operating in unison, or a flood falling on saturated ground, the impacts of these compound events can multiply.

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Extreme weather is transforming the world’s rivers. We need new ways to protect them

Rivers support billions of people but are among the least protected parts of nature. A major review shows what needs to be done as climate change accelerates.

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Terrestrial Ecology Research Group - TUM @terrecolgroup.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A few more days left to apply for our postdoc position on insect community ecology.

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Jonathan Tonkin @jdtonkin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I had the chance to join @jessedamiani.bsky.social for a Substack Live conversation last week. We covered a lot of ground — from ecological rhythms to extreme events. We talked rivers, a bit about my back story, and even the importance of finding joy. YouTube link: youtu.be/sTv7L4xfeVY?...

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Biodiversity on the Brink: Ecological Rhythms & Human Urgency - Jonathan Tonkin | Rapid Response #20

Biodiversity underpins life on Earth as we know it—ecologist Jonthan Tonkin lays it all out, including his research on freshwater biodiversity and climate extremes.

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Matt Kerr @mattkerr.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Super honoured to have contributed to this epic piece of work, lead masterfully by @szymon-czyzewski.bsky.social. We review multiple lines of palaeoecological evidence to reassess vegetation structure over the last 23 million years: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome

Understanding the pre-Homo sapiens baseline of the temperate forest biome is crucial for interpreting present-day biodiversity patterns, ecosystem fun…

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martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

Front cover of the European Butterfly Red List, showing Polyommatus humedasae. The report can be downloaded at https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=red-list-butterflies-2025

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Fabricio Villalobos @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

What do we know about mammal biodiversity patterns in the American tropics? Find out in the new book chapter by @liomys.mx and yours truly 👇 link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/... The whole book is a gem for those interested in the study of mammals of one of the world's most diverse regions!

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Advances in the Biogeography of Neotropical Mammals

Recent computational and methodological advances in phylogenetics and bioinformatics, along with the increasing availability of evolutionary and ecological data, have produced deeper insights into the...

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