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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Proud of this paper just published in 𝙀𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙚, 𝘾𝙤𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 with Andres Lucas Fernandez Vilar, @irene-gil-luna.bsky.social and Lluís Zamora @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Connection to the sea and flooding mediate the abundance of a threatened cyprinodontiform and invasive mosquitofish in a Mediterranean saltmarsh

The fish assemblages of small Mediterranean coastal lagoons remain understudied, despite their importance for biodiversity and ecological functioning.…

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Emili García-Berthou @garciaberthou.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Lamentable: hay info suficiente lo que falta es voluntad para afrontar problemas difíciles pero importantes. Por desgracia, los intereses económicos de unos pocos siempre pasan por los problemas ambientales de tod@s 🥲 www.elperiodico.com/es/politica/...

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Las autonomías frenan la declaración de la anguila como especie en peligro

Los gobiernos de las comunidades han reclamado realizar más seguimientos y tener más datos científicos antes de prohibir su pesca y consumo

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Michael Butler Margalef @michaelmargalef.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Metabolism–behaviour link: in toothcarp, movement was more related to baseline metabolism (SMR), with individuals with higher SMR moving less. In mosquitofish, metabolism explained little of the behavioural variation.

Figure 3. Redundancy analysis of the seven behavioural variables (black arrows) with metabolic traits (blue arrows) as constraints in
toothcarp (see Suppl. material 3: fig. S6 for the plot for mosquitofish). Each red dot represents an individual.

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Michael Butler Margalef @michaelmargalef.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Mosquitofish spent more time moving and used space more uniformly, whereas toothcarp showed more restricted, stop–go movement, shedding light on differences in ecological strategy and invasion success.

Figure 2. Box-plots of movement behavioural variables of mosquitofish (purple) and toothcarp from both sexes (yellow) pooled across
salinity treatments. Metrics include the proportion of time near edges, median speed, proportion of time stationary, median turning speed,
proportion of time sharply turning (> 45 °/s), proportion of arena visited, and the coefficient of variation (CV) of arena use.

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Michael Butler Margalef @michaelmargalef.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Toothcarp maintained metabolic performance across salinities, while mosquitofish showed lower aerobic performance at elevated salinity.

Figure 1. Box-plots of metabolic responses (SMR, MMR, FAS, and AAS) for female mosquitofish (purple), female toothcarp (green),
and male toothcarp (yellow) across salinity treatments.

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Michael Butler Margalef @michaelmargalef.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Check out our new paper on salinity effects on metabolism and movement in #invasive mosquitofish and the threatened Spanish toothcarp! Huge thanks to all the co-authors: @garciaberthou.bsky.social, @jollewjolles.bsky.social, Cesc, and Anna.🐟🔝 @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social

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Shaun Killen @shaunkillen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.

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ShoalBase offers a global database on fish social behaviour, supporting research, conservation, and ecology through community contributions and visual data mapping.

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Pau Carazo @paucarazo.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

We’re offering a fully funded 4 yr PhD position to work on Sexual selection in complex environments at the @uv.es. Co-supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social. Find details below 👇

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IEA-UdG @iea-udg.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

📢 Us convidem a la lectura de la tesi doctoral Integrating Ecological Complexity and Physiological Traits into Environmental Risk Assessments Per Amina Khalid 🗓️ 5 de setembre de 2025 · 11.00 h 📍 Aula Magna, Facultat de Ciències 👉 També on-line: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

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Anna Doménech-Pascual @annadomenech.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

How is soil functioning shaped by aridity? 🌲🌵 We studied this along a natural aridity gradient. 📌 Microbial structure shifted with aridity, but soil functions were mainly driven by local soil properties. 📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... Huge thanks to all coauthors 🫶

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