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Raquel Muñoz Gallego

@raquelmuga.bsky.social
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JdC postdoc at Plant & Animal Ecology Lab (UPM, Madrid) | Plant-animal interactions and global change🌴🍒🌷🐝 | Amateur painter and percussionist 🎨🥁 | Murcianica🍋 #ecology #seeddispersal #herbivory #invasivespecies 🖥️raquelmuñozgallego.weebly.com

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fire-driven maternal effects! Seeds from burned plants were heavier & germinate faster than seeds from unburned ones esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... By @gegunde.bsky.social @calacastellanos.bsky.social #Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social 🧪🌍🔥🪴🌱🍁
Drimia (Urginea) maritima flowering postfireNarcissus assoanus flowering postfire
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RTVE Noticias @rtvenoticias.rtve.es · 14/09/2026
Teresa Ribera avisa de que Europa no está preparada ante el rápido avance del cambio climático dozz.es/um4c13
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Teresa Ribera avisa de que Europa no está preparada ante el rápido avance del cambio climático
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Francisco Martín León @rammeteo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
El agua fría del deshielo de Groenlandia intensifica las Olas de Calor y las Tormentas extremas sobre el Mediterraneo europeo. El estudio está dirigido por un prestigioso meteorólogo español de AEMET. www.tiempo.com/ram/agua-de-...
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El agua fría del deshielo de Groenlandia intensifica las olas de calor y las tormentas extremas sobre el Mediterráneo
Un enfriamiento local del Atlántico Norte crea ondulaciones en la corriente en chorro y dorsales sobre Europa que genera tiempo adverso.
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 07/09/2026
Columna | "Toda la memoria que llegó a convertirse en materia de mis sueños ha ardido ante mis ojos este apestoso verano", por Manuel Vicent social.elpais.com/u4e…
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Incorporating interaction structure into conservation planning can help prioritise key dispersers and plants, anticipate hidden vulnerabilities, and guide management actions that better sustain seed dispersal processes 🌱 🦇 🏝️ 🔎 Find out more: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Brandon Moore, PhD @rando.insalubrio.us · 22/08/2026
Ants were thought to eat this parasitic plant's fruit, but cameras revealed hermit crabs as the culprits! Each crab carried off 86 fruits on average, helping spread the seeds. Its ripe scent attracts crabs and the cockroaches that pollinate it! 🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A land hermit crab (Coenobita brevimanus) scrapes off the tiny (3mm) fruits of a fungus root (Balanophora fungosa). As it feeds, it picks up the plant's minuscule seeds that can travel on its claws, body, and shell!

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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 21/08/2026
COLUMNA | "En un momento en el que resurge el conservadurismo, los conservadores se equivocan con lo que deben conservar", por Margaryta Yakovenko social.elpais.com/pq0…
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 13/08/2026
One of the biggest challenges facing ecologists today is understanding ecosystems that have never existed before. England and Wales have just experienced their driest July on record, wildfires have swept across Europe and species are on the move. We are living in a novel future,
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PAISAJE lab @paisaje-lab.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
New publication in ECOLOGY @esajournals.bsky.social TENERIFE LIZARDS AS SEED PREDATORS doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 🔓 Lizards are well known as pollinators and seed dispersers, but until now their role as granivores has remained largely overlooked Play the 🎦 + ⬆️ 🔈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeKe...
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Seed predation (granivory) by Tenerife lizards
YouTube video by PAISAJE lab
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 21/07/2026
Registration and call for abstracts for the BES Annual Meeting 2026 are now open 🔥 Our sold-out and Europe's largest ecology conference is returning this year to Birmingham's ICC on 14–17 December, and we can't wait to see you there. Find out more here 👇 tinyurl.com/2s3nupvu
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 27/07/2026
25.000 personas han marchado en Palma este domingo en protesta contra la masificación turística. Al menos ocho manifestantes han resultado heridos por cargas policiales
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Multitudinaria protesta en Palma contra la masificación turística: “Está todo sobreexplotado”
25.000 personas marchan por tercer año consecutivo para denunciar la gentrificación, la saturación de los servicios y los daños ambientales. Al menos ocho manifestantes han resultado heridos por cargas policiales
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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
📰Published📰How bird extinctions reshaped pollination trait matching in Hawaiʻi🐦️ buff.ly/TmUS5zI 🧪🌍️
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How bird extinctions reshaped pollination trait matching in Hawaiʻi
Samuel B. Case, Molly Hagemann, Donald R. Drake, Katherine Postelli, Richard J. Pender, Pryce W. Millikin, Alejandro Rico-Guevara This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research a…
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Raquel Muñoz Gallego @raquelmuga.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🥁New paper is out in Integrative Zoology! The introduced tree squirrel Sciurus niger disperses high-quality acorns over longer distances and farther away from parent trees, promoting Californian woodland expansion. @paellalab.bsky.social @upm.es onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Tree Squirrels Selectively Disperse High‐Quality Acorns Away From Tree Trunks
Acorn quality and squirrel feeding behavior significantly structured spatial dispersal patterns of two Californian oak species. Non-infested acorns were preferentially selected for embryo excision an....
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The Conversation ES @es.theconversation.com · 24/07/2026
¡Ya conocemos los hallazgos de la campaña de excavación nº 48 en Atapuerca! Nos lo cuenta todo la investigadora de @iphes-cerca.bsky.social, Marina Lozano. ↘️ theconversation.com/osos-hienas-nea…
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Ferran Sayol @ferransayol.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New paper out! 🖨️ Glad to be part of this study, out in Science Advances: "Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Much of what looks natural in island biodiversity is a legacy of human impacts going back millennia. See main findings 👇🧵 (1/8)
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Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene
Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.
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Nature @nature.com · 23/07/2026
We're celebrating Nature's covers, and the human art of scientific illustration in the age of artificial intelligence. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 29/06/2026
This Special Feature from #ProcB showcases research from scientists, countries and regions underrepresented in the scientific literature, while addressing inequities in publishing and "helicopter science". Discover the collection: buff.ly/RjnbPC7 | #Ecology #GlobalSouth
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Nuevo libro de Ecología del Fuego, ¡este con mucho arte! Por Julia @gegunde.bsky.social y Pilar del Río Ideal para este verano En venta en: pilardelrio.bigcartel.com/product/ecol... jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2026/07/13/e... 🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🍁📚🎨
Portada del libroUna de las páginas, mostrando animales huyendo del fuegoOtra de las páginasLos dos libros de ecología del fuego, uno más académico (el mío, a la izquierda) y otro más artístico (derecha)
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Fernando Valladares @fernadovalladares.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Para entender esta ola de calor y para comprender lo que será 2027 hay que levantar la mirada regional y ver lo que está pasando en el Pacífico. Toca acelerar la adaptación que pasa ineludiblemente por desacelerar la economía. ctxt.es/es/20260701/... #cambioclimatico #oladecalor #fernandovalladares
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Tsunami de calor
El Ártico se está calentando entre tres y cuatro veces más rápido que el resto del planeta, lo que altera el chorro polar y hace más frecuentes y prolongados los episodios de altas temperaturas
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Airam Rodríguez @airamrodriguez.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🌍 Cat colonies reshape the abundance and body size of lizards doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
A lizard on Tenerife, Canary Islands, taking the sun ilustrates the cover of the July issue of Biology Letters journal. Photo: Beneharo Rodríguez
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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
There are still free spots for the 2nd edition of the 5-day course: "Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R", run in collaboration with the @eco-aeet.bsky.social This year we are running the event at beautiful and historic @ucoimbra.bsky.social (Portugal) Info: aeet.org/events/2026/... #rstats
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Course Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis in R, 2ed
This course provides a practical introduction to modern methods of evidence synthesis, with a focus on systematic review and meta-analysis in ecology and evolution.
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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A world full of colour is a world full of life. 🌈 This Pride Month, we're celebrating the many colours that make our world richer, both in nature and in our communities. 🐦 💫 Together, we can create a future where birds, nature and people all have the chance to thrive. 🌿
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Now in summer, we can confirm that a large part of the beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests that burned in low‑intensity understory fires have died. This constitutes a clear case of a low‑intensity, high‑severity fire (I had expected bsky.app/profile/jgpa...) 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🪴 wildfires Picos de Europa, N Spain
A mosaic of patches of beech forests that survived the fire (in green), and patches that did not (in brown).
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Raquel Muñoz Gallego @raquelmuga.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Polychromatic variation and sexual dimorphism in the weevil Derelomus chamaeropis, the lovely specialist pollinator of Chamaerops humilis🏝️ Digital #illustration🎨 Thanks to @illustraciencia.bsky.social for all the teaching and support!
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 02/06/2026
La UE avisa de una temporada de incendios “más larga y más destructiva” en países de alto riesgo como España
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La UE avisa de una temporada de incendios "más larga y más destructiva" en países de alto riesgo como España
La Comisión Europea va a financiar y coordinar el despliegue de 777 bomberos en zonas de alto riesgo de Chipre, Grecia, Italia, Francia, España y Portugal, junto a 22 aviones de extinción de incendios...
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 03/06/2026
Mayo fue el mes con más muertes por calor desde que hay registros, 101. La mayoría no se producen por golpes de calor, sino por el deterioro de las funciones del organismo cuando el termómetro sube, normalmente en personas muy vulnerables
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Mayo fue el mes con más muertes por calor desde que hay registros
El plan de prevención por altas temperaturas de Sanidad calcula que ha aumentado medio grado el umbral a partir del cual se dispara la mortalidad
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@Troposfera @troposfera.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Twentieth-century insect declines and partial recoveries driven by changes in land use and climate www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Twentieth-century insect declines and partial recoveries driven by changes in land use and climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Continuous 90-year trends of butterflies and deadwood-dependent beetles show clear mid-century declines and only partial recovery of these taxa. The declines were clearly related to agricultural inten...
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🌿 We are hiring a new 2-yr postdoc in @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuniint.bsky.social, on large-#herbivore ecology, trophic #rewilding & novel ecosystems- asking when alien & feral #ungulates enhance biodiversity & when they contribute to degradation🐪🐎🦓 Deadline: 28 June 2026. Details below 👇
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Revista Quercus @revistaquercus.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🌼 Plantar flores silvestres está bien, pero mejor si ayudan a los polinizadores 🐝 @abejassilvestres.bsky.social, la Sociedad Gaditana de Historia Natural y @ebdonana.bsky.social, han publicado una guía gratuita que reúne cerca de 200 especies autóctonas www.revistaquercus.es/noticia/9378...
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EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 29/05/2026
“Hace mucho calor, profe”, dice un docente imitando a un alumno. “No cabemos”, ironiza otro como crítica a la alta densidad en las aulas. Los profesores en huelga en Valencia parodian en la Ciudad de las Artes una de sus clases
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Los profesores en huelga en Valencia parodian en la Ciudad de las Artes una de sus clases: “Hace mucho calor, profe”
Un grupo de docentes improvisa en el icónico complejo turístico un aula para denunciar el abandono y la falta de inversiones en la educación pública
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Miguel A Gómez Serrano @gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
No os perdáis la animación de la invasión de la culebra de herradura en Ibiza en @climatica.coop, creada por Guillem Casbas, Marc Vez-Garzón y Oriol Lapiedra. La aceleración de la expansión a partir de 2013 es tremenda, y ya hay movimientos hacia los islotes. Pobre lagartija de las Pitiusas.
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RTVE Noticias @rtvenoticias.rtve.es · 09/05/2026
'Son mayoría en la universidad, pero solo una de cada cuatro alcanza los niveles científicos más altos' «La ciencia, incompleta sin perspectiva femenina» Un trabajo de Elena Santos para Informe Semanal dozz.es/o28e07
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La ciencia, incompleta sin perspectiva femenina
La ciencia, incompleta sin perspectiva femenina
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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Seeds are heavier in Portugal than in Spain! 🤔🤔 global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-... 🧪🌍🪴🌳 🧮➕📏 🌾🌐 #traits
Screenshot of the Iberian Peninsula showing the distribution of the trait seed mass, from the web of the Global Trait Map.
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Plant & Animal Ecology Lab (PAELLA) @paellalab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
El próximo jueves dia 30 de Abril habrá una charla del personal del Instituto Jane Goodall-Congo en la ETSI Montes. Asistencia gratuita 🐒🐒🌱🌍
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Anna R Landim @annarl.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Better late than never 😅 Happy to share that the final paper of my PhD was out this February in @journalofecology.bsky.social ! We asked: what drives the functional recovery of seed rain as tropical forests regnerate after disturbances? 🫘🌿 @reassemblynet.bsky.social #restoration #forestecol
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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Good news! #Biodiversity🦜🐜🐒🐸 in a tropical #rainforest 🌴🇪🇨can naturally recover quickly 📈 (if the conditions are suitable = enough surrounding forest). Our new study in #Nature #forestecol #restoration @jocotoco.bsky.social www.reassembly.de/posts/recove... www.reassembly.de/news/rainfor...
Nature conservation e.g. by NGO Fundacion Jocotoco, can help to bend the curve of biodiversity decline. The graph shows how large parts of the diversity comes back due to natural regeneraion of a rainforest. It illustrates the main finding of our study published in Nature: Protection restores 90% of species diversity in 30 years.
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Pau Colom @paucolom.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
New study on temporal interaction turnover using a unique dataset 🦋🪷 Communities adapt to climate fluctuations through rewiring. But over the long term, as species are lost, rewiring declines—reducing the capacity of communities to buffer environmental change onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Three Decades of Butterfly–Plant Interaction Turnover Explained by Climate and Species Loss
Long-term biodiversity loss reshapes interaction dynamics inpollination networks. Communities become increasingly dominated bygeneralist species that are more capable of rewiring interactions thanspe...
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 12/03/2026
How do you design a camera-trap workflow that is field-resilient and analysis-ready?  Join Applied Ecology Resources' free webinar as Dr Hugo Magaldi and Prof. Sabrina Krief discuss camera‑trapping in Uganda and their development of DeepForestVision for AI species labelling and quality control 📸
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Laura Hernández Mateo @laurahmt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
📢Apuntad en📆 10/03 11h Seminario más que nunca necesario en un momento de crisis de valores #democraticos y en #igualdad #diversidad En el #ICIFOR- INIA @csic.es hemos unido fuerzas C.Seminarios y C.Igualdad para organizar "Ciencia y Feminismo en tiempos de Negacionismo" 👉 #LauraNuñodelaRosa 🧵
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Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre - AEET @eco-aeet.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
📊🌱 Hoy #8M lanzamos encuesta sobre #cuidados y carrera científica en #ecología. ¿Quién cuida en la comunidad científica? ¿Cuánto tiempo implican esos cuidados? ¿Influyen en las trayectorias investigadoras? Si trabajas en ecología, cuéntanos 👇 aeet-comisionigualdad.limesurvey.net/485287?lang=...
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FPU Investiga @fpuinvestiga.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Porque aún queda mucho que luchar y mucho que conseguir. ¿Aún creias que no hacia falta un 8M? ✊🏻✏️💜
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Ecol. Solutions & Evidence | Applied Ecol. Resources @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
How do you design a camera-trap workflow that is field-resilient and analysis-ready? Join our webinar as Dr. Hugo Magaldi and Prof. Sabrina Krief discuss camera‑trapping in Uganda and their development of DeepForestVision for AI species labelling and quality control 📸 See here 👇 buff.ly/itLWDWw
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Lei Yu (于雷) @nefu-for-journal.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
🛰️🛸🌳🌲JFR @forestryjfr.bsky.social OA publication Forests in a semi-arid climate die with a memory: satellite signals predict forest mortality years after drought | @springernature.com 🪢 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #TreeMortality #Forest #ClimateChange #RemoteSensing #Drought
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Phoenicurus ochruros @phocrhuros.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Keiko Minami (1911–2004) Flores y mariposa, 1969.
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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications
Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...
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Pau Colom @paucolom.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New paper on global change impacts on insects, out in GEB🦋🌍 Climate change and urbanisation act synergistically: butterfly declines are stronger under warming in urban environments. Species traits help explain heterogeneous responses. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ylndmc.bsky.social
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David Salesa 🌱 @davidsalesad.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Las condiciones meteorológicas que favorecen los incendios forestales se están produciendo cada vez más simultáneamente, tanto dentro de un mismo país como entre países a nivel internacional: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather
Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather constrains fire suppression coordination and exacerbates air pollution.
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Raquel Muñoz Gallego @raquelmuga.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Frutos y flores mediterráneos para la portada de tesis de mi querida amiga Lucía Acevedo-Limón🎨🍒🌷 Mediterranean fruits and flowers for the thesis cover of my dear friend Lucía Acevedo-Limón🎨🍒🌷 #Mediterranean #fruits #flowers #illustration #naturalist
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Andrea Zampetti @andrewzampetti.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
New paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social! 📷We present TropiCam-AI: a machine learning model that identifies 84 taxa of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-trap images and videos. 🐒🦜 📃Paper → doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70213 🌐Project → github.com/andrewzamp/TropiCam-AI
An arboreal camera-trap image form the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. An animal is detected by TropiCam-AI, which analyzes its features and tries to determine what species it is.TropiCam-AI analyzes the prompted image, and classifies it at the species level as a black spider monkey. Users can decide to let the model predict at the taxonomic level that achieves the highes confidence and accuracy, or force predictions at the desired taxonomic level.
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Raquel Muñoz Gallego @raquelmuga.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
¡@diariodemallorca.es se hace eco de nuestras investigaciones sobre el impacto de las especies invasoras en la dispersión de semillas en islas!👇👇👇 www.diariodemallorca.es/mallorca/202... @annatraveset.bsky.social @imedea.bsky.social
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Semillas en nuevas manos: el giro silencioso de los ecosistemas insulares
Aves, mamíferos y reptiles se desplazan escondidos entre ramas, cajas o rincones y alteran, a su llegada, el ecosistema que los acoge
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