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Olivia Bates

@okbates.bsky.social

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macroecology, distribution predictions, microclimates, invasion ecology, and climate tolerances of species 🐜🐌🦜🐝🪸 📍Lausanne-London. Postdoc @UCL

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Wei-Chung Allen Lee @darbly.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Now published - the #BANC! A full central nervous system (CNS) connectome of a limbed animal at single-synapse resolution, enabling us to follow sensory-motor arcs and understand how the CNS controls the body. rdcu.be/fncjS. #neuroscience. Video by @quorumetrix.bsky.social 1/18

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Olivia Bates @okbates.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

🚨🐜!!! Check out our new paper where we investigate the impact of a soil level (SoilTemp) dataset on niche shifts of introduced ant species globally — using soil temperatures often lessens the extent of niche shifts between native and introduced ranges! 🐜 🐜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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UCL Faculty of Life Sciences @ucllifesciences.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

A new study by @alexpigot.bsky.social and colleagues reveals the critical role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems. @uclcber.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature

Despite advances in theory and experiments, how biodiversity influences the structure and functioning of natural ecosystems remains debated. By applying new theory to data on 84,695 plant, animal, and...

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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The moment you've all been waiting for! "Ten practical guidelines for #microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems". Our #OA paper now out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social led by @pieterdefrenne.bsky.social and #SoilTemp core group besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems

Most biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem processes on land take place in microclimates that are decoupled from the climate as measured by standardised weather stations in open, unshaded locations....

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