📖 Mutualistic networks emerge from the interplay of abundance, behaviour and spatial constraints 📖 Read more: buff.ly/ze3d0iO

1/9 Why do some pollinators visit dozens of plants while others visit almost none? Our new study in the Journal of Animal Ecology explains how plant-pollinator networks emerge from what individuals do, not just what species they belong to.🧵

🌿 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 👇

The role of response diversity in promoting community stability depends on disturbance regimes and is shaped by species interactions. Stability following pulse disturbances was highest when multiple interacting species uniformly exhibited strong resistance or fast recovery

Species Interactions Determine the Importance of Response Diversity for Community Stability to Pulse Disturbances

Caculations of response diversity can be based on species fundamental responses in isolation or their realised responses in the community using metrics of response dissimilarity and response divergen...

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Are interacting species showing more similar responses to environmental predictors than expected by chance? Is this similarity protecting species pairs from interaction disruption under climate change? If you want to find out, join us for a fully funded Ph.D. with @epic-biodiversity.org 🌎🧪

ÉPICBiodiversity@epic-biodiversity.org · 3mo ago

Join us! We are looking for a Ph.D. student to work on the response of ecological network structure to environmental drivers; this line of research can be adapted to questions on climate change, phylogenetic conservatism, and more! 🧪🌎 epic-biodiversity.org/opportunities/

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

I am pleased to announce a new postdoctoral position in Theoretical Ecology. More info here: info.bc3research.org/2025/11/06/p...

Postdoctoral position in agroecology for TRANSFORM Project

The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) is offering a full-time postdoctoral research position to support activities within a Horizon Europe project. The project focuses on developing innovative cr...

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Our work was featured in the latest tip sheet by @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social ✨ Check it out!

Ecological Society of America@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 10mo ago

October research highlights from our journals! From Arctic food webs to beaver-powered fire resilience, biodiversity maintenance & sea star recovery — explore the latest ecological science in our new tip sheet📰 Find it here: esa.org/blog/2025/10... 📷 by Sean Johnson-Bice

🌼🌡️ 🐝 Thermal conditions can directly reshape species interaction networks under climate change. ⬇️ In this invited short piece, I discuss how temperature-driven shifts in pollinators’ foraging choices, revealed by a new study, can cascade through entire plant–pollinator networks.

Journal of Animal Ecology@animalecology.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd @blancaac.bsky.social

PhD opportunity - Listening to Food Webs: Ecoacoustic insights into Bird Predator–Prey Networks in Changing Landscapes, with @btobirds.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk and @sciencesncl.bsky.social iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Floral scent chemodiversity 🌸🧪 increases generalization in interactions with pollinators 🪰 – but reduces diversity of bacteria 🧫🦠 associated with flowers. New publication led by @mhanusch.bsky.social. @chemodiversity.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....

PhD applications are now open @treesdla.bsky.social for 2026 intake. Have a look at a project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators that we advertise with @philstevenson.bsky.social. Do apply/get in touch if you are interested! www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

A new #OpenAccess Concepts & Synthesis paper in "Ecological Monographs"👀...

Blanca Arroyo-Correa@blancaac.bsky.social · 11mo ago

What sustains biodiversity? 🌿🌸🐝🐦‍⬛ It’s not just about species, it’s also about individuals.   Our new paper in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecol. Monogr. shows how the way individuals specialize on their mutualistic partners can scale up to shape species persistence.   🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

What sustains biodiversity? 🌿🌸🐝🐦‍⬛ It’s not just about species, it’s also about individuals.   Our new paper in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecol. Monogr. shows how the way individuals specialize on their mutualistic partners can scale up to shape species persistence.   🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Bridging the gap between individual specialization and species persistence in mutualistic communities

Mutualistic interactions among organisms are fundamental to the origin and maintenance of biodiversity. Yet, the study of community dynamics often relies on values averaged at the species level, igno...

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Mañana estaremos en la casa de la ciencia con el taller: ¿En qué se parecen las abejas silvestres visitando flores y Twitter?🌼🐝 @blancaac.bsky.social @nermonper.bsky.social @curromolina.bsky.social @violetacalleja.bsky.social @juliagdealedo.bsky.social www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...

I’ll be teaching “Introduction to Network Analysis & Modelling” – covering theory, hands-on Python exercises, and applications to real systems. Starts Sept 22 to 1 Oct @eco-aeet.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social More info in this link → www.transmittingscience.com/courses/syst...

Network Analysis Course for Diverse Disciplines

Join our Live Online Course to explore Network Analysis and gain insights into understanding complex systems through networks.

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Novak et al. derive a functional response model that unifies Holling’s classical forms. The model clarifies when linearity can be a mechanistically-reasoned description of predator feeding rates and the impact it has on predator-prey dynamics. Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In Defense of Type I Functional Responses: The Frequency and Population Dynamic Effects of Feeding on Multiple Prey at a Time | The American Naturalist

Abstract Ecologists differ in the degree to which they consider the linear type I functional response to be an unrealistic versus sufficient representation of predator feeding rates. Empiricists tend ...

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Really happy to have participated in #EcoNet2025 this week. Such an inspiring symposium with amazing people, can’t wait for the next one!

Darren Evans@dmevans.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Fine new frameworks presented by @blancaac.bsky.social that bridge scales in mutualistic networks, and hopefully beyond

🥳 Meet Dr. Blanca Arroyo-Correa (@blancaac.bsky.social), our new subject editor from from Seville, Spain Get to know her and her research by reading her interview here: vist.ly/445wh

Welcome Blanca Arroyo-Correa - New SE | Oikos Journal

Welcome Blanca Arroyo-Correa - New SE | Oikos Journal

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Herbicides harm more than weeds! 🐝🧪 A new study suggests that they indirectly disrupt plant-pollinator networks, potentially risking pollination services 🌼🌏 @julitavella.bsky.social 🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70113

#EcoNet2025 Plenary speaker: Paulo Guimarães, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 'Indirect effects in ecological networks: consequences for evolution, ecology and ecosystem services' Register now: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 3-5 September 2025, Newcastle University

#EcoNet2025 Plenary speaker: Blanca Arroyo-Correa, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC) 'Bridging scales in mutualistic networks: from individuals to community assembly' Register now: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 3-5 September 2025, Newcastle University

#EcoNet2025 Plenary speaker: Jane Memmott @bristoluni.bsky.social 'People & pollinators in a network context' Register now: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 3-5 September 2025, Newcastle University

So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social

On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion

Most plant species world-wide depend on one or more mutualisms – beneficial associations with other species. Evidence is emerging that these biotic mutualisms shape plant biogeography (i.e. distribut....

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📜Forum: Navigating a changing world. On the significance of rewiring for mutualistic interactions, caveats and future directions The study explores "rewiring" in mutualistic networks, highlighting hidden drivers like trait variability and competition. vist.ly/32h4i #Ecology #Conservation

🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals. 📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

📖 A new review concludes that understanding the functional consequences of biodiversity loss is critical but we need to be clear about what type of biodiversity change we are measuring and to focus on the loss of stably coexisting core species.🌳🌲🌼 👉 buff.ly/kqQghYU

🌿 PhD Opportunity in Biodiversity Sciences 🌿 Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network. Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB

Our new study shows how animal biodiversity loss is a climate problem: tropical forests recover far less carbon where seed dispersers have declined. We’re not just losing forests – we’re losing their ability to regrow. Reversing that trend could align biodiversity recovery with climate solutions.🧵

Seed dispersal disruption limits tropical forest regrowth | PNAS

Identifying linkages between biodiversity loss and climate change is required for understanding the scope of these interconnected challenges and de...

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