A contribution to our understanding of plant invasions in islands, led by my nearly-finished PhD candidate, @louiss-jaygarcia.bsky.social, together with @yarjona.bsky.social and an international team. Can phylogenetic relatedness help explain invasion success? Don't miss new paper from #iEcoEvoLab🌿🏝️

IPNA-CSIC@ipna.csic.es · 3w ago

Jay-García, L.S., Arjona, Y., Collart, F., Vanderpoorten, A., Broennimann, O., Guisan, A., Fernández-Palacios, J.M. & Patiño, J. Moving beyond environmental filtering hypotheses: Deciphering the drivers of congeneric plant introductions in an oceanic archipelago (Ecography) doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Congrats to @yarjona.bsky.social for leading this research, to the #iEcoEvoLab members who participated, and to all collaborators on this paper! It's great to see the results of this long-term #ASTERALIEN collaborative project published. Contributing to island flora conservation from @ipna.csic.es🏝️🌿

Yurena Arjona@yarjona.bsky.social · 3w ago

🎉New paper published!🎉 Deciphering Darwin's Conundrum Through the Asteraeceae Family in an Oceanic Archipelago: A Phylogenomic-Functional Approach 🧵 @consbiog.bsky.social @ipna.csic.es @ull.es @jairopatinolab.bsky.social @javiermorente.bsky.social @ulpgc.es doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

🚀 We’re looking for a Juan de la Cierva candidate! Our #iEcoEvoLab is seeking an early-career researcher to apply with us to the Juan de la Cierva 2025 call. If you work on island plant biogeography and conservation, we’d love to hear from you! 🏝️🌿🌍

Thrilled and honored to be a keynote speaker at #FloraMac2025 🏝️🌻🌿 a fantastic conference with great colleagues in a truly unique setting! Don’t miss it! floramac2025.weebly.com

FloraMac 2025

FloraMac is an international symposium that convenes researchers specializing in various disciplines—such as taxonomy, vegetation ecology, biogeography, phylogeography, paleoecology or biodiversity...

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New Paper 🚨 Are species extinctions accelerating in the Anthropocene? And why are some species more at risk than others? Our latest research, published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social explores plant extinctions in Macaronesia, one of the world's most biodiverse island regions. A thread 🧵👇

#IPNApaper 'Geographic and Biological Drivers Shape Anthropogenic Extinctions in the Macaronesian Vascular Flora' (@globalchangebio.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Co-authors from IPNA: Raúl Orihuela, Javier Morente, @jairopatinolab.bsky.social, ‪@avalido.bsky.social

Geographic and Biological Drivers Shape Anthropogenic Extinctions in the Macaronesian Vascular Flora

The anthropogenic extinction patterns and processes of the vascular flora in the model island region of Macaronesia have been investigated in the present study. We compiled all known extinction recor...

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Exciting milestone for the #iEcoEvoLab! Our first post celebrates the first PhD paper of #RaúlOrihuela-Rivero, congratulations for great work and leadership! Stay tuned for more on the paper and other lab updates in the coming days! @ipna.csic.es

Calling all researchers!🌿 Abstract submission for #ISCB2025 is now OPEN! Share your work in mycology, lichenology, phycology, bryology and/or pteridology with fellow researchers, this July in Pontevedra (Spain) 🗓️Submit by April 15th Check our website!