How much are Greece’s beaches really worth? 🇬🇷🏖️ Our new study integrates #tourism expenditures, public willingness to pay for beach #conservation, and geotagged social media data to map the cultural #EcosystemServices of ~2,100 beaches. A tool for smarter coastal #planning and conservation. 🌐🌍🧪

What happens after a forest dies, a coral reef bleaches, or an oyster bed collapses? A study of 10 ecosystems reveals that they carry memory. The material remains of foundation species can shape resilience, recovery, or collapse for decades in a changing climate. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Legacies of foundation species shape life after death

The dead remains of habitat-forming organisms can have powerful influences on the resilience of the ecosystems they inhabit.

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The potential of marine species for drug discovery, just posted to the Value in nature blog: mscaterino.pika.page/posts/fishin... #biodiversity #nature 🌐

Fishing for novel drugs - Value in nature

Being a land-oriented species whose ancestors crawled out of the sea hundreds of millions of years ago, most of our ecological needs are met with other terrestrial species. Our foods,...

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Sad to hear of the passing of Robert Ricklefs - a giant of Ecology who simultaneously pushed forward big ideas at multiple biological levels yet took time for detailed natural history .. McGill does a nice job summarizing his impressive contributions 🌐🧪 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

Robert Ricklefs – in memoriam

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

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Many biotic interactions occur via chemical compounds released in the environment. Here the authors review the field of chemical ecology & discuss the importance of investigating landscape-scale chemodiversity as an emergent, dynamic property of biological communities www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ecological role of emergent properties in the chemodiversity landscape - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Many biotic interactions occur via chemical compounds released in the environment. Here the authors review the field of chemical ecology and discuss the importance of investigating landscape-scale che...

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📖 Published📖 SOUPE: An R package to test and optimise the phylogenetic and ecological representativeness of a taxonomic sample 🧪 🌍 🖥️ 🔎 Read more:

As deforestation in the Amazon falls, fresh evidence shows that the rainforest can withstand global warming, but only if there is a worldwide effort to stop cutting it down. go.nature.com/4edMYKy

The Amazon can be saved — with concerted action inside and outside Brazil

As deforestation in the Amazon falls, fresh evidence shows that the rainforest can withstand global warming, but only if there is a worldwide effort to stop cutting it down.

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[🌐 Webinar] The next #CESABINAR will be on the 25th of June on the results of the #MAESTRO group, with Arnaud Auber (@ifremer.bsky.social). ❗Due to a technical issue, the last Cesabinar on #INTRACO has been rescheduled to the 11th of June 🔎All info: bit.ly/40zrT7v 🧪🌐

Climate determines the plant characteristics that favor naturalization. In cold or dry regions, successful newcomers must be similar to native plants to survive. In hot and humid regions, distinctiveness makes new plants more competitive. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Lnla50Z8VyU

Check out our new paper on integrating experimental and observational approaches to facilitate the scaling of species interactions to biodiversity patterns @funecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Integrating experimental and observational approaches facilitates scaling species interactions to biodiversity patterns

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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🪱How much do we know about soil diversity in Latin America? A new review by @laumoreno.bsky.social found major knowledge gaps: research is concentrated in Brazil & tropical forests, while mesofauna, microfauna, & other ecosystem functions receive less attention. We need more regional collaborations!

Soil fauna and ecosystem functions: Current knowledge and future perspectives in Latin America

Soil supports a large number of organisms that regulate multiple ecosystem functions globally. Nevertheless, research addressing soil fauna and ecosys…

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How do social networks become adaptive? From self-organisation and phase transitions to cultural learning, social networks are shaped by feedback between individual interactions and collective dynamics. Check my new @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A new global map of phytoplankton nutrient stress reveals that ocean productivity is tightly linked to the supply of nutrients from the deep ocean. As surface waters warm and stratify, nutrient stress is increasing, providing a physiological link to climate change. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Genomic-to-space measurements reveal large-scale ocean nutrient stress

Satellite, genomic, and hydrographic analyses reveal climate-driven shifts in phytoplankton nutrient stress across the ocean.

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A 2021 #ScienceReview showed how the rapidly changing soundscape of modern oceans impacts marine life globally—and how mitigating these impacts is key to achieving a healthier ocean. Learn more on #WorldOceansDay: https://scim.ag/4ueX7ML

We've reimagined Data Papers in "Ecology"! For over 20 years, we've been the home for peer-reviewed datasets. Our Data Paper Editors have refreshed the guidelines to fit current data standards. Learn more on the Data Papers hub! esa.org/publications...

A proposal for the standardization of units and symbols in ecology 🧪🌐 " I suggest that the Ecological Society establish a study group ... to formulate a system of standards .. to facilitate communications ... in an era when parochial isolation impedes understanding." www.jstor.org/stable/20166...

We are in the Age of Humans - the Anthropocene. Our new article (open access) shows how even with a moderate future emissions scenario, global temperature will still be elevated by 3-4°C in the year 3000! Lifetime of our CO2 in the air is that long. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

We Are in the Anthropocene—Now What?

The Anthropocene's enormous consequences are of long-term nature, the slow pace of recovery currently under-appreciated among the public The smallest unavoidable residual emissions (e.g., from fo...

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Want to think about ecology differently this summer? Still some spots at the 2026 Unifying Ecology Across Scales GRC. www.grc.org/unifying-eco...

Biodiversity loss will decrease the future creditworthiness of nations Agarwala+ doi.org/10.1038/s415... "financial markets are systematically underpricing nature related risks, with consequences for public finances, nature and financial stability."

Biodiversity loss will decrease the future creditworthiness of nations - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Scenario modelling reveals how sovereign credit ratings and the cost of borrowing across 23 nations would change under partial collapses in timber production, wild pollination services and marine fish...

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Infrastructure for African mines destroying forests at 34 times the rate of the mines themselves phys.org/news/2026-06...

Infrastructure for African mines destroying forests at 34 times the rate of the mines themselves

Industrial-scale mining in Africa to support global supply chains is leading to unprecedented deforestation across the continent, with 34 hectares of forest removed for every single hectare of active ...

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Niche Differentiation of Native Species Promotes Biotic Resistance to Invasion in Freshwater Fishes Worldwide 🔗 buff.ly/oy4zCGU

I’m really excited about this paper, which links #seaweed species’ nitrate uptake & photosynthesis rates w/ functional #traits, providing a predictive framework for understanding roles in nutrient cycling & productivity. 🌊🦑🧪📏🌐 @jngriffy.bsky.social @intertidaleco.bsky.social @mle425.bsky.social

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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Seaweed functional traits predict species’ roles in nutrient cycling and primary productivity doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Dr. Julie Aleman will be giving this month's Funk Biogeography Seminar! Join us on June 24th to learn more about the dynamics and mechanisms of tropical ecosystem stability through time. Learn more about the seminar and and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ju...

📰Published📰Leaf C:P ratio as a universal indicator of photosynthesis in subtropical woody species: Stoichiometric thresholds and metabolic trade-offs🍃 buff.ly/wnjANvP 🧪🌍️

Leaf C:P ratio as a universal indicator of photosynthesis in subtropical woody species: Stoichiometric thresholds and metabolic trade-offs

Minghao Chen, Yahong Zheng, Minling Cai, Songbo Tang, Lingling Zhang, Xianzhen Luo, Xiaoqian Zhang, Enqing Hou, Yuanwen Kuang, Dazhi Wen This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology res…

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Climatic Legacies Drive Spatial Aggregation of Plants in Drylands 🔗 buff.ly/kFi89at

A new #InsideBiodiversity episode is out now — a deep look at global mammal trends with Prof. Carlo Rondinini.
 🐹 He explains why a quarter of mammals are threatened, why Europe is seeing wildlife return, and why tropical regions face accelerating declines.
 🎧Listen: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

It is increasingly urgent to understand and minimize trade-offs between renewable energy expansion and biodiversity conservation. Here, Zhou et al. identify conflicts between conservation priorities and renewables in China in the coming decades. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Comparing potential biodiversity conflicts from renewable energy expansion in China at different centralization levels - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Modelling of wind and solar energy expansion in China through to 2060 identifies different conflicts between conservation priorities and renewables sitings under national (centralized) versus provinci...

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Hot off the press, the latest issue of The Eco Update is live! 🌐 The Energy-Agriculture-Biodiversity Nexus 🌎 Unsustainable Lies of the Ruling Class 📷 Nature Photo of the Month ✊ In Defense of Action 🌲 Ecofiction Review: Boreal www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

May 2026 — Brief Ecology

The Sustainability Question

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🌿 BE20 Keynote Speaker Line-up 🌍🎤 We are thrilled to welcome an outstanding group of international scientists and researchers to the BE20 Conference as our keynote speakers. ✨ #BE20conference

What have we actually learned from empirical applications of Modern Coexistence Theory? We reviewed 84 studies from the last two decades to find out. Read our new synthesis in Ecology Letters here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...