Glad to share our new study at @natcomms.nature.com which resulted from several workshops on the early warning signs of mass extinctions and coordination of macroevolutionary vulnerability and the states of carbon cycle and temperatures. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

🏅Delighted that our paper introducing the Demographic Niche Concept has been recognised 🥈for @ecography.bsky.social's E4 Award! The niche as composed of multiple demographic niches, of survival, growth, and reproduction~ Short Video Abstract explaining the idea youtu.be/AthZF6v06ho

E4 award runner-up: the demographic niche concept for understanding range-wide population dynamics

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E4 award runner-up: From niche theory to demographic realities: the demographic niche concept for understanding range-wide population dynamics. Video abstract: vist.ly/58ur2. A big congratulations to the 500 Euro prize!

🧵 Excited to share my final PhD paper in Ecology Letters! A classic question in ecology is why some clades contain more species in local assemblages than others. We argue that part of the answer lies in the timing of speciation itself. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Megafaunal extinctions, including saber-toothed cats and ground sloths, simplified food webs in the American tropics, which now feature smaller predators and fewer prey species per predator, compared with tropical food webs in Africa and Asia. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/o1mi50YV4M3

Our recent paper on human-induced trait shifts and predator–prey interactions is on the cover of the May issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 😭😵‍💫 The paper is available open access here -> www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

New paper out! doi.org/10.1073/pnas... We examined how historical legacies of evolution history, environmental dynamics, and past species losses have shaped today's mammal food webs 🐅🐆🦁 🦌🦓🐗across the globe. #MammalFoodweb #DietaryNiche #Extinction #MacroEcoEvo #EcologicalNetwork

Giants that vanished 10,000 years ago triggered ripple effects that are still felt today, and here’s where

Between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, many of the world’s largest mammals disappeared. Picture creatures like saber-toothed cats with 7-inch fangs and elephant-sized sloths. A new study reveals h...

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📣 New paper out in @plosbiology.org What drives global patterns of species richness? 🌍 Using a unified framework across 129 tetrapod clades 🐸🦎🐦🐘, we find: 👉 Productivity-driven equilibrium dynamics largely explain biodiversity patterns ⚖️🌱 doi.org/10.1371/jour... #Macroecology #Biogeography

Excited to be part of this collaborative effort tackling a longstanding question: how does productivity shape community assembly from simple species co-occurrence to complex trophic interactions? Check out what we discover! #foodweb #communityassembly #africa #plantproductivity #macroecology

Food Web Similarity Increases With Productivity Similarity at a Continental Scale

Here, we test how plant productivity and anthropogenic fragmentation predict the pairwise similarity of food web networks within and among regions for 127 protected areas spanning deserts to rainfore...

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The "birds that don't exist" paper is out in Ecology Letters! 🍻 We found a viable body form that has never evolved in a big clade of songbirds, and tested a series of hypotheses to figure out why. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre‐Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea

We use topological data analysis to reveal a persistent morphological gap in a major group of songbirds (superfamily Passeroidea). The gap remained unoccupied for millions of years, even though nearb...

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My paper just came out! Urban parks and green spaces are widely known for their environmental benefits in mitigating climate change. However, my study reveals that managements can interrupt the natural connection between plants, soil organisms, and microbes that keep soils healthy and carbon-rich.

Management matters: homogenized plant–soil linkages constrain carbon cycling in urban green spaces - Urban Ecosystems

Urban Ecosystems - Urban green spaces (UGSs) have been promoted as nature-based solutions for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Most UGS planning and studies use vegetation...

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Now published: Landscape connectivity across Canada and the USA. A seamless, high resolution connectivity map across both countries. 🧪🌎 Open access in Facets, including open data www.facetsjournal.com/doi/full/10....

I’m excited to share the winners of the Outstanding Publication Award in EEB at MSU! I’m truly grateful to have served on the selection committee together as Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows, Becca and Nichole, and inspired by the outstanding, insightful work of our EEB graduate students.

For the first Funk lecture of 2026, @biogeography.bsky.social will be hosting @comecology.bsky.social. You do not want to miss this! Register under the link below. www.biogeography.org/news/news/ja...

January 2026 Funk Biogeography Seminar — Pedro Peres-Neto

Ecology & Evolution in Spatial Structured Environment Ecological and evolutionary dynamics occur in environments that are intrinsically spatially structured, yet spatial environmental heterogenei...

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As we get into the final parts of the amazing meeting that #TIBS2026 was, a reminder to follow and share the starter pack for ECRs in Biogeography: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK And a reminder to check it again, as we've had many new additions over the conference. See you all at the dinner!

New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

BBS Taiwan is listed! Check out handy R packages that can boost your research. #Ecology #OpenScience

rOpenSci Champions Second Cohort: Projects Wrap-Up | R-bloggers

As we welcome the third cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program, our second cohort has now completed the second phase of the program. In this article, we share each Champion’s project, their achievem...

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Join at 🌏 Species on the Move in Taiwan! A global forum where researchers, practitioners & policymakers share insights, innovations, and strategies shaping the future of biodiversity. #Ecology #ClimateChange #RangeShift #Biodiversity #Conservation

Which paleoclimate dataset do you use for your research? In my latest research, I compared temperature estimates from five well-known paleoclimate datasets to proxy data and found that inter-dataset variability can strongly affect temperature-delimited reconstructions. 🧵 ➡️ doi.org/10.21425/fob...

Global variability in LGM cooling amongst paleoclimate datasets affects biome reconstructions in mountains

Downscaled paleoclimate datasets are widely used in biogeographical research, aiding our understanding of past environmental shifts and species’ responses to climate change. Numerous datasets exist, v...

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Lab’s publication came out! Bye-bye butterflies? Insects are in 'precipitous decline' in Midwest. #ZipkinLab #Ecology #QuantitativeEcology #Conservation

Some butterfly species have declined in the Midwest; none has increased, MSU study finds

In the last three decades of data from butterfly counts in the Midwest, none of the butterfly species increased in population. More than 40% declined in number.

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First postdoc paper just dropped! Using 50 years of Breeding Bird Survey data, we found that the unexpected functional shifts of bird communities in North America do not track species-level expectations, and these unexpected shifts can be explained by just 5% of “hyper-dominant” species.

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Hyper-dominant species drive unexpected functional shifts in North American birds https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.23.666479v1

Quantifying similarity among ecological network is getting feasible to understand assembly processes from communities to species interactions. Upcoming publication using this for African mammal food webs is under revision now. Stay tuned! #Ecology #EcologicalNetwork #Macroecology #Biogeography

Quantifying functionally equivalent species and ecological network dissimilarity with optimal transport distances

Quantifying the structure and dynamics of species interactions in ecological communities is fundamental to studying ecology and evolution. While there are numerous approaches to analysing ecologic...

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