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Pol Capdevila

@polcapdevila.bsky.social
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Ecology Lecturer at University of Barcelona. Interested in Quantitative Ecology, Resilience, Global Change, Marine Ecology, and Macroecology. Editor at Journal of Animal Ecology. Views of my own. He/him.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thrilled to announce that my department - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology - at the U of Arizona will likely be hiring for a tenure-track position in "Population and Community Ecology" this fall. Watch this space for more details and official announcements coming soon ... #Ecology #EcologyJobs 🌐🌾🧪
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Yanis Zentner @yzentner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Happy to share our new paper in Global Change Biology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Can marine protected areas buffer red gorgonian populations against recurrent marine heatwaves? 👇
Two decades of monitoring across the north-western Mediterranean reveal a 45% regional biomass loss of the foundation gorgonian Paramuricea clavata, driven by increasingly frequent marine heatwaves. Protection sustained higher biomass but could not halt decline, underscoring the urgent need to pair conservation with climate action to preserve red gorgonian forests.
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Pol Capdevila @polcapdevila.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🚨Paper Alert🚨 Very proud of @yzentner.bsky.social last paper published in @oikosjournal.bsky.social. We show that functional recovery is not attained in Mediterranean octocoral communities after 14 years, associated with increasing temperatures. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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No way back: decadal lack of functional recovery of a coralligenous community in a warming Mediterranean
Anthropogenic disturbances are degrading nature at a rate that exceeds its capacity to recover. While considerable research has focused on understanding ecosystem impacts, recovery processes remain c....
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Pol Capdevila @polcapdevila.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🚨Paper Alert🚨 Very proud of @yzentner.bsky.social last paper published in @oikosjournal.bsky.social. We show that functional recovery is not attained in Mediterranean octocoral communities after 14 years, associated with increasing temperatures. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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No way back: decadal lack of functional recovery of a coralligenous community in a warming Mediterranean
Anthropogenic disturbances are degrading nature at a rate that exceeds its capacity to recover. While considerable research has focused on understanding ecosystem impacts, recovery processes remain c....
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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 20/05/2026
I’ve just finished this in the past week, but this is easily the best online course/series of lectures I’ve done. I’d tried it in a prior year and fallen on the wayside a bit, and I found the 2026 version with the split beginner/intermediate lectures much more approachable. Would recommend!!
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Fundació Solidaritat UB @solidaritatub.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
👋 Hola, estudiants i professorat UB! 🌏 Aquest curs, heu fet o avaluat un pòster que divulgui problemàtiques subjacents a l'Agenda 2030? 🏆 Presenteu-lo al VII Premi de Pòsters de #Sostenibilitat i #DretsHumans de la @ub.edu!👉 www.solidaritat.ub.edu/premi-posters/ 📅 Fins al 10 de juliol 💶 1.500 €
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VII Premi de Pòsters de Sostenibilitat i Drets Humans - Fundació Solidaritat UB
— per a estudiants de la Universitat de Barcelona La Fundació Solidaritat UB convoca la setena edició del Premi de Pòsters de Sostenibilitat i Drets… Més info.
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🚨 just a reminder that the proposal deadline for our cross-journal Special Feature, 'Mountain Biodiversity in the Anthropocene', with @jappliedecology.bsky.social, @journalofecology.bsky.social and @funecology.bsky.social, closes to submissions on 17 May🗻 Submit your proposal here: buff.ly/iNVgR40
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Martin Philippe-Lesaffre @mphilippelesaffre.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
🌐🌴 Current global hunting threat maps treat species as equally at risk everywhere in their range. We attempted to address this by combining where hunters actually go with which species are most likely to be targeted and least able to cope, for 6k+ trop. birds and 4k+ mammals: doi.org/10.32942/X24...
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 08/03/2026
Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expected
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Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expected
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Miguel Bastos Araújo, PhD @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
In productive ecosystems, larger animals capture more energy per species biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1644...
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Body mass–abundance relationships reveal uneven global energy distribution across body size classes in vertebrates
The relationship between species body mass and abundance (MAR-SPP) is a fundamental feature of ecosystems, reflecting whether energy is accumulated in few large organisms or dispersed amongst several ...
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Living Planet Index @livingplanetindex.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
A new paper using data from the Living Planet Database (LPD) has been published in @science.org examining how threats are driving global vertebrate population declines. This work highlights the value of the LPD’s threat data for understanding biodiversity change at a global scale 🌍.
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Halting predicted vertebrate declines requires tackling multiple drivers of biodiversity loss
Global vertebrate populations decline faster in the presence of multiple threats compared to single threats.
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Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
¿Sabías que los corales también duermen por la noche? 🪸 🎧 Javier del Campo (@fonamental.bsky.social) habla de su investigación en el @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social en 📻Españoles en la mar. #DescifrandoEvolución 👉
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Los corales también duermen por la noche
Los llaman los "arquitectos de los ecosistemas marinos" porque sus arrecifes sirven de cobijo a muchísimas especies. También duermen de noche como los humanos.
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Juan Carvajal-Quintero @juancarvq.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟
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Degradation of fish food webs in the Anthropocene
The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.
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Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat @irbio-ub.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🌊🪸 Abierta la inscripción al 9º International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals, del 2 al 5 de noviembre de 2026 en Barcelona. Por primera vez en el Mediterráneo, un encuentro para impulsar la ciencia y la conservación de los corales de aguas profundas. 👉 9isdsc.csic.es @deepsea-ieocsic.bsky.social
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Rodrigo Granjel @granjel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Ecosystem stability is about local diversity! 🌏🌱 Really happy to see our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com. Thanks to @huangmj.bsky.social for beautifully leading this project and to coauthors @danimontoya.bsky.social, Yao Xiao, Xiang Liu & Yann Hautier for this great collective effort.
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Dr Christopher F Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Great to see the new paper being picked up in the press phys.org/news/2026-02...
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Protecting vertebrates from biodiversity loss: Study identifies priority threats
The most effective conservation strategies for protecting vertebrates on a global scale are those aimed at mitigating the effects of overexploitation, habitat loss and climate change, which are the mo...
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Pol Capdevila @polcapdevila.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
How can we reverse biodiversity loss? web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...
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How can we reverse biodiversity loss?
The most frequent threats are not those that cause the most rapid declines, according to a new study that represents a turning point in strategies to improve vertebrate conservation and protect biodiv...
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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat @irbio-ub.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
#NotíciaIRBio 🌿 Com podem revertir la pèrdua de biodiversitat? Les estratègies de conservació més efectives per protegir els vertebrats a escala global són les que aborden múltiples aspectes. Estudi liderat @polcapdevila.bsky.social i #DuncanO’Brien @bristoluni.bsky.social 🔗 shorturl.at/97y4c
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Dr Christopher F Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Excited this new paper is out in Science Advances 📄✨ I think the results are important: To tackle vertebrate declines which are often driven by interacting threats—🦠 disease, 🐍 invasives, 🧪 pollution, 🌡️ climate, multi-threat, systems-level conservation is key 🌍 #Ecology #conservation
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Pol Capdevila @polcapdevila.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚨Paper alert🚨 Very happy to see our paper published in @science.org #ScienceAdv. Very greatful to have worked with such a great team @duncanobrien.bsky.social #tomJohnson @robinfreeman.bsky.social #ValentinaMarconi #LouiseMcRae @expecocons.bsky.social 👇Check the main findings below!
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Halting predicted vertebrate declines requires tackling multiple drivers of biodiversity loss
Global vertebrate populations decline faster in the presence of multiple threats compared to single threats.
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michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
🎉🍾 very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
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STbayes: An R package for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission
A critical consequence of joining social groups is the possibility of social transmission of information related to novel behaviours or resources. Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) has emerg...
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Julia G. de Aledo @juliagdealedo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
🎉 labeleR-paper has been published in @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social! 👪 Together with @iramosgutierrez.bsky.social @jimenamateomartin.bsky.social & @frodsan.bsky.social! 📃 We briefly explain how to use it, its advantages and possibilities... Take a look! revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 20/12/2025
From snowy owls and hammerhead sharks to bats and sea turtles 🦉🦈🐋 Countries have proposed adding 42 migratory species to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) highlighting need for stronger intl cooperation to protect wildlife on the move. Decisions expected in 03/26: ow.ly/shgy50XMar0
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Miguel A Gómez Serrano @gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
El 44% de los investigadores en ecología han sufrido el efecto Gollum. Ese comportamiento territorial extremo que lleva a algunos a sentir que ciertos temas o ideas les pertenecen: "mi tesoro". 44% 🤔... Poco me parece. www.the-scientist.com/the-gollum-e... Paper: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
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a close up of a monster 's face with the words `` my precious ! ''
ALT: a close up of a monster 's face with the words `` my precious ! ''
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
O paramos temporalmente (de explotar la anguila) o se acaba para siempre Qué gusto ver a @malbercocs.bsky.social siendo tan clara (merci, Maria!) Esperemos que se sigan sumando gentes de las cocinas Es importante y es urgente
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Edward R. Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Thanks also to @royalsocietypublishing.org for letting me write a blog about this fantastic team effort: royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...
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From policy to practice: Progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Royal Society
Edward Ivimey-Cook tells us more about a new study that reviewed the clarity, strictness, and timing of data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals in ecology and evolution, and assessed autho...
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Carlos P Carmona @cpcarmona.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New Tansley Insight in New Phytologist: The path toward a unified plant trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity. Why a common trait space matters, how to build it, and what it enables. With @e-beccari.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph.... #PlantTraits #FunctionalDiversity
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL 🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS
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Pol Capdevila @polcapdevila.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🚨Paper Alert🚨: Read our recent editorial led by @danigomezgras.bsky.social about novel contributions to marine heatwave ecology. @medrecover.bsky.social @ub.edu @biologiaub.bsky.social
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Marine calcifiers @marinecalcifiers.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Press release of our recent study: "Ocean architects at risk from the combined impact of ocean acidification and warming" www.icm.csic.es/en/news/ocea... #bryozoans #microbiome @fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @bfiguerola.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social
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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
You can read the editorial here 👇: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @polcapdevila.bsky.social @cristinalinares.bsky.social
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Novel contributions to marine heatwave ecology: Identifying and addressing knowledge gaps in ecological impacts
As the climate crisis unfolds, marine heatwaves (MHWs), defined as discrete periods of anomalously high seawater temperatures, are emerging as one of the most pervasive threats to marine biodiversi...
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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🎙️ and listen to a podcast episode by the guest editors here: buff.ly/wMOiYiE 🤍 thank you to @cristinalinares.bsky.social, @polcapdevila.bsky.social and @danigomezgras.bsky.social for bringing together an exceptional Special Feature!
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Blanca Figuerola @bfiguerola.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
"Els arquitectes del mar, en risc per l’impacte combinat de l’acidificació i l’escalfament de l’oceà". #briozous 🔗 www.icm.csic.es/ca/noticia/e... @fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
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Blanca Figuerola @bfiguerola.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
1/ Our new paper is out today in @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🚨 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08524-8 We studied how two Mediterranean bryozoan species respond to ocean acidification & warming using a natural underwater CO₂ vent as a climate change lab. 🌊🧫 🧵⬇️
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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
For many marine species, all we have is a name. Now, thanks to a huge effort led by @drcraigmc.bsky.social, for 85,000 species we have body size as well. Version 1 of the MOBS database is published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Enjoy! 🌐🧪
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MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes
Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body-size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrat...
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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Check out our new publication lead by Lucie Mahaut in @royalsocietypublishing.org Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change 👉 Trait diversity and redundancy drive stability; human impacts reduce it. 🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #ReefLifeSurvey 🌐🧪🦑🌍
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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out! @neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex
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Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies
Neural circuits have evolved to produce cognitive processes that facilitate a species variable behavioural repertoire. Underlying this variation are evolutionary forces, such as selection, that operat...
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect 📄 buff.ly/IUWeewq @creaf.cat @expecocons.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @unibarcelonathe.bsky.social @uab.cat
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MedRecover @medrecover.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Seguimos con @cristinalinares.bsky.social, catedrática de la @biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu, quien nos habla sobre el "state of the art" del coralígeno, su distribución, diversidad, servicios ecosistémicos y principales amenazas. #Projecto_CorFun @icmcsic.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
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MedRecover @medrecover.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🪸New paper in Coral Reefs highlights that heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival — regardless of heat stress conditions. With the participation of @cristinalinares.bsky.social (@ub.edu), member of #MedRecoverTeam. 📄 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007... @irbio-ub.bsky.social
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Heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival independently of heat stress
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Cristina Linares @cristinalinares.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
New paper in Coral Reefs Journal: Heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival independently of heat stress @medrecover.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social rdcu.be/eg0KJ
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Heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival independently of heat stress
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Pol Capdevila @polcapdevila.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Very proud of #MariaVives paper published today in @globalchangebio.bsky.social about the impacts of novel regimes of extreme climatic events in a common insect.
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Cristina Linares @cristinalinares.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Red coral colonies survive a decade after being transplanted in the Medes Islands - Current events - University of Barcelona web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...
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Red coral colonies survive a decade after being transplanted in the Medes Islands
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Universitat de Barcelona @ub.edu · 19/03/2025
#RecercaUB | 🪸 Els coralls confiscats de la pesca furtiva tornen a viure a les illes Medes! ➡️ Les colònies que es van trasplantar fa una dècada al fons marí de les Medes han sobreviscut amb èxit. Lideren l’estudi Cristina Linares i Yanis Zentner, de @biologiaub.bsky.social i @irbio-ub.bsky.social
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Les colònies de corall vermell sobreviuen una dècada després de ser trasplantades a les illes Medes
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Yanis Zentner @yzentner.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🧵Can marine restoration lead to ecological recovery? 🌊Success is often assessed by short-term survival of transplants, but what about long-term changes in community (trait) composition? We studied this for a key Mediterranean octocoral. 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Active restoration of a long-lived octocoral drives rapid functional recovery in a temperate reef
After a decade, a community with restored red coral nears the functional structure of natural ones.
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MedRecover @medrecover.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🌿 The MedRecover team held its annual retreat at Mas El Collell, spending a few days together to share knowledge, present, new innovations and research in our projects. An inspiring time to connect, learn, and keep working towards marine conservation! Cold, but very happy! ❄️🌊 #MedRecoverTeam
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