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Mónica Gómez-Vadillo

@biomolic.bsky.social

Environmental Data Scientist | PhD Researcher in Ecology & Data Science | R, Python & Geospatial Modeling https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicagomezvadillo/

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Joaquín Hortal@jhortal.bsky.social · last yr.

Habitat has also a significant influence on the diversity of European Carabus ground beetles. The species richness gradients of this speciose genus are the result of the interplay of current and past climate, but also with the influence of the geographical distribution of deciduous forests. 🧪🌐

Glaciations, deciduous forests, water availability and current geographical patterns in the diversity of European Carabus species

Aim Current climate, biotic habitat provision and historical events are known drivers of diversity patterns. However, these three factors are seldom evaluated together. Here, we study the influence ...

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Joaquín Hortal@jhortal.bsky.social · last yr.

Habitat availability also plays an important role. There are more dragonfly lotic species (which prefer running waters) in areas with more rivers and streams, albeit the relationship of lentic species with standing water habitats is more complex. 🧪🌐 👇

Joaquín Hortal@jhortal.bsky.social · last yr.

These results resemble those found for European dung beetles, where we also showed that the influence of past climate was also higher in northern Europe. 🧪🌐 👇

Ice age climate, evolutionary constraints and diversity patterns of European dung beetles

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 741–748 Abstract Current climate and Pleistocene climatic changes are both known to be associated with geographical patterns of diversity. We assess their associations ...

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Joaquín Hortal@jhortal.bsky.social · last yr.

Temperature determines the northward decrease in species richness, and precipitation does so for the southward decrease. But the last ice age climate had a greater influence than current climate in northern Europe, particularly for species related to standing water habitats. 🧪🌐 👇

Deviance partitioning results expressed as percentages of explained deviance of each independent and joint fraction of the predictors for each study group (all odonates, lotic species, lentic species) in the two study areas (Northern and Southern Europe). White is for the influence of past climate, grey for current climate, and blue for habitat availability.
Joaquín Hortal@jhortal.bsky.social · last yr.

The species richness of European dragonflies and damselflies is influenced by current climate, following the known balance between water and energy, and the availability of freshwater habitats, but also by climatic conditions during the last ice age. #NICED @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social 🧪🌐 👇

Mónica Gómez-Vadillo@biomolic.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉New paper out! We show how ice age legacy + current climate + habitat shape diversity of European #dragonflies & #damselflies (Odonata) ➡️ biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1369... #Biogeography #Ecology #Odonata Open access article in Frontiers of Biogeography @biogeography.bsky.social

Mónica Gómez-Vadillo@biomolic.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉New paper out! We show how ice age legacy + current climate + habitat shape diversity of European #dragonflies & #damselflies (Odonata) ➡️ biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1369... #Biogeography #Ecology #Odonata Open access article in Frontiers of Biogeography @biogeography.bsky.social

Ice age, current climate, habitat availability, and the diversity of European dragonflies and damselflies

Several studies show that species richness patterns are determined by current climate and Pleistocene climatic oscillations. Additionally, habitat availability is an important driver of current specie...

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Instituto de Investigación en Cambio Global@iicg-urjc.bsky.social · last yr.

👨‍🔬Joaquín Calatayud, #IICG researcher, is co-authors of the new article ‘ Ice age, current climate, habitat availability, and the diversity of European dragonflies and damselflies’, published in Frontiers of Biogeography. 👀You can read it here👇

Ice age, current climate, habitat availability, and the diversity of European dragonflies and damselflies

Several studies show that species richness patterns are determined by current climate and Pleistocene climatic oscillations. Additionally, habitat availability is an important driver of current species diversity, especially in aquatic ecosystems where lentic (standing water) and lotic (running water) habitats play distinct roles in species composition and richness. Odonates, an order of aquatic insects, exhibit distinct adaptive traits in response to climate and to lentic and lotic habitats. In this work, we study the species richness patterns of European odonates and the influence of past and current climate, and habitat availability. The study covers 124 species distributed across Europe (excluding Russia and all European islands except Great Britain and Ireland), divided into three groups: all odonates, lentic species, and lotic species. Notably, lentic species total 70% of the studied Odonata species, thus influencing overall species richness patterns. We analyzed their diversity in Northern and Southern Europe, divided according to the 0 °C Isotherm of the Last Glacial Maximum (21,000 years ago), using data on current and Last Glacial Maximum climate (temperature and precipitation), as well as on habitat data from land cover and hydrology GIS maps. Our results suggest that the species richness patterns of dragonflies and damselflies are largely determined by the water-energy balance, with temperature influencing the decline in richness towards the north and precipitation determining the decline towards the south. Past climate oscillations affect species richness in southern and northern Europe. Habitat availability also influences odonate diversity to a lesser extent, with a positive correlation between lotic species richness and their habitat availability. In contrast, lentic species richness showed a negative correlation with the availability of lentic habitats. Highlights We evaluate whether the variation of dragonfly species richness across Europe is determined by current climate, the climatic conditions during the last ice age, and the availability of freshwater habitats. Dragonfly species richness is higher in Central Europe and decreases both northwards and southwards from there. These variations are primarily determined by current and past climate, and to a lesser extent by habitat availability. Temperature determines the northward decrease in species richness, while the southward decrease is so by precipitation. The last ice age climate had a greater influence than current climate in northern Europe, while in southern Europe current climate has a greater influence, particularly for species related to standing water habitats. Species richness is higher in areas with more rivers and water courses, while the relationship with the availability of standing water habitats is more nuanced.

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Mónica Gómez-Vadillo@biomolic.bsky.social · last yr.

Today starts the III SIBECOL & XVII AEET Meeting from 2 to 6 June. On Thursday I will give a talk on the relationship between spatial co-occurrence of species and their niche similarity in European dragonflies and damselflie (Odonata). ✨🌍🔎🔗

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Joaquín Hortal@jhortal.bsky.social · last yr.

Este paper de la tesis de Fernando Hurtado muestra que la mayoría de especies coocurren o son neutrales a distintas escalas. La exclusión competitiva es menos común, y hasta el 7% de las especies analizadas ocurren juntas más en cojines de musgo que a escala regional @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social 🧪👇#NICED

Macroclimatic niche similarity and species relatedness shift their influence on species co‐occurrence in bryophyte forest communities across scales

The relationship between epiphytic bryophyte species associations changes with scale. Macroclimatic niche similarity strongly influences co-occurrence globally but less so at smaller scales. Most spe...

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