Iñigo Rubio López
@inirubio.bsky.social
PhD Student @czechacademy.bsky.social @sciencecharles.bsky.social | Interested in understanding biodiversity patterns and their drivers across spatial, temporal and phylogenetic scales.
El verano que se salió de la campana de Gauss. Es una locura lo que estamos viendo este año comparado con años anteriores… Ya no hablamos de un año más cálido de lo normal. El clima se ha movido a un rango que la vieja estadística decía que no debía ocurrir.
🐦 Is local species richness regulated, and if so, how? In our new paper in 🌍 Global Ecology and Biogeography, David Storch and I show that diversity-dependent colonization regulates local richness, while variation in extinction rates drives differences among communities. doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Where is the evidence for biodiversity equilibria? Follow the debate in the following publications. Our original paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... The response: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... Our reply: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
Happy to share that one of my PhD chapters is out now! In this study, we investigated how geographic range size and body size influence abundance in reef fishes 🐠 doi.org/10.1111/jbi....
Geographic Range and Body Size Influence Abundance Patterns in Reef Fishes
Aim Understanding how body size and geographic range size influence species abundance is central to macroecology. Here, we characterized these relationships for reef fishes, the world's most diverse.....
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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
New PLoS Biol paper led by @cerezer.bsky.social & David Storch (CTS): across tetrapods, species richness patterns are mainly shaped by equilibrium dynamics modulated by environmental productivity, rather than by speciation rates or time for species accumulation. 🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Diversity patterns in terrestrial tetrapod clades are governed by equilibrium dynamics
Why do some groups contain far more species than others? By testing competing explanations across terrestrial vertebrates, this study shows that biodiversity patterns are most often shaped by long-ter...
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Recién publicado (descarga libre): especies crípticas en el tritón alpino: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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!
It was great to meet so many other Early Career Researchers at our #TIBS2026 mixer last night - both catching up with old friends and meeting new ones. To celebrate all the ECR Biogeographers, we have created a starter pack so you can follow all the exciting work being done: go.bsky.app/KvnmdnK
Our new study: Species Richness Gradients Vary Across Phylogenetic Scales led by Antonin Machac and David Storch now published in GEB. We show that species richness gradients in young clades differ, whereas older clades converge on similar gradients. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Huge thanks to everyone who joined our first QESIG meeting yesterday! 💫 Such a warm and friendly start to this new community. 🔗 Special thanks to @ondrejmottl.bsky.social for the idea and to Bryan Novio for co-organizing. 👥 Can’t wait for the next meetup! 🌱✨
[Please RT] Our collaborative project #BDBORS exploring the link between nesting phenology and substrate property, is still ongoing, with collected data in Asia and America. You monitor ground-nesting birds in tropics? Then consider joining us! Contact me :) #ornithology #birds #tropicalecology
¿Y si te dijera que hay un mundo "invisible" bajos tus pies, lleno de animales que nadie ve pero que lo sostienen todo?🔍 Mi tesis va de ellos: la meiofauna. 🪱🦂 ¡Te lo cuento en este hilo!🧵 #HiloTesis @crueuniversidades.bsky.social @filarramendi.bsky.social
🐸🦎 Eskoletako urmaelen Sareko V. topaketak urmaeletako erabilera didaktikoak jarri du azpimarra https://www.aranzadi.eus/eu/eskoletako-urmaelen-sareko-topaketak-urmaeletako-erabilera-didaktikoak
Sobering... fish and crustaceans that live deeper are ingesting more #microplastics than those closer to the surface 🌐🧪https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/lno.12370
Microplastic ingestion by deep‐pelagic crustaceans and fishes
A size-selective loss of smaller microplastics (< 1 mm) from surface pelagic waters has been reported, yet few surveys have studied biological ingestion by deep-pelagic organisms as a sink for the “m....
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An ant biting my insect specimen?! 🐜 ⚠️ We recently reported an unusual sighting: a fire ant biting a giant hawkmoth that was collected 38 years ago! 🤯 doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.... Here's a thread on this hidden ecological relationship and where to find it in NHCs! 🏛️ Let's take a look! 🔍 1/6
However, many of these cases remain undescribed and are still hidden away in cabinets, drawers and literature. Unknown field observations 📷, papers 📄, books 📖, museum specimens... Everything helps! Spread the word of these ant(agonistic) interactions! 🐜💥
The wonderfully talented post-doc Sven Iburg, who was working with me in the last two years is seeking a new positon, pref BENELUX area. Let me know if you have any openings or suggestions! He is a true alrounder, really good both in the lab and with bioinformatics. meg.irsa.cnr.it/index.php/pe...
Sven Iburg
meg.irsa.cnr.it
If you're looking for a high-quality workshop on quantitative #ecology, I highly recommend #SSoQE which I attended last year. Insightful, 🆓, well-structured, and practical—and definitely worth your time!
Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳@ondrejmottl.bsky.social · last yr.1/4🧵 Are you a Master's or #PhD student in #ecology based in #Europe? 🌍 Join us at the Science School of Quantitative Ecology 2025 (SSoQE2025)! 🧑💻🌿📈 📝 Registration is open until 6 May—don’t miss your chance! 🔗 bit.ly/SSoQE #SSoQE #SSoQE2025 #Science #School
It's official - I'm organizing a field taxonomy workshop on freshwater and limno-terrestrial meiofauna! 27 August-11 Sept, in the Lake District. We have 13 experts covering all major taxa, advanced microscopy, DNA taxonomy, sci-com, publishing. RT! Send your best! www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
Field workshop on the taxonomy and natural history of freshwater and limno-terrestrial meiofauna | Natural History Museum
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THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11
Handy link to check out APC for different journals: apc.simon.net.nz Pulgar_Panda h/t @simongreenhill.bsky.social & El Pulgar del Panda #OpenAccess #openscience
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[New paper] Fundamental questions in meiofauna research. Stimulating to see growing interest in macroecological questions in the meiofaunal field, especially in strategies to improve data quality for large-scale studies. Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Fundamental questions in meiofauna research highlight how small but ubiquitous animals can improve our understanding of Nature - Communications Biology
This paper identifies the top-50 priority questions for meiofaunal research, highlighting their critical roles in biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity. It calls for a balanced research agenda, inter...
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Interested in a PhD? Check out this amazing opportunity to research the biogeography and macroevolution of vertebrates with Dr. Antonin Machac at Charles University in Prague. For more details about this position, click the following link! machac.weebly.com/open-phd-pos...
Open PhD Positions
PhD positions Biogeography. Macroevolution. Vertebrates. Department of Ecology, Charles University, Prague Deadline: April 10, 2025 How did the diversity of life on Earth emerge? The successful...
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Adi❗️Hona hemen orain arte #erratza -n jaso ditugun datuak. Bagoaz aurrera pixkanaka, jarrai dezagun!
1/🧵Introducing VegVault🌿🔒🏛️ A global database linking paleo- & neo-vegetation data with functional traits & abiotic drivers! 🚀A powerful tool for researchers exploring biodiversity dynamics across time & space 🔗 Website: bit.ly/VegVault #VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits
Aquí se juntan 3 fenómenos muy actuales (y reflejo de los tiempos que vivimos a nivel intelectual e informativo) que afectan al ecologismo: 1) la conversión o reducción del animalismo en peluchismo (incluso en gatolicismo). El nombre de la sección ubica aquí la pseudonoticia.
🌿Este domingo celebramos el Día Mundial de los Humedales. 💧Aunque parecen simples charcas, son mucho más, un refugio para la #biodiversidad 🌍En el marco del proyecto #MIKROKLIMA trabajamos para establecer una Red de microhumedales que hagan frente a la crisis climática. ℹ️https://bit.ly/4gqCeYn
