To the #Evol2026 folks, I am recruiting MSc/PhD students (with or without their own funding) - please send people my way if you know of anyone interested in blending ecology & evolution!
Jean-Philippe Lessard
@bugecology.bsky.social
(he/him/his) Ecologist working on biodiversity-related questions | Climate change and range dynamics | Anything related to bugs | Editor-in-Chief @ESAMonographs https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-philippe-lessard-41a534109/
Some army ants are extremely polymorphic. This photo shows a large soldier and a small regular worker of Eciton hamatum. If you saw them separately, you wouldn’t even think they belong to the same species. You might also notice the light color of the ants - both are callows / newly eclosed.
Current Conservation (an Indian magazine) is inviting submissions to their annual CC Kids issue, with a special theme: BUGS! This includes anything six-legged, eight-legged, flying, wriggly, slimy, and formally known as an invertebrate. They publish great #sciart too! forms.gle/MsvYh368wUAh...
Un nouveau poste CDI technicien·ne en écologie des interactions @cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social, pour une personne motivée par l’entomologie appliquée, le biocontrôle et le travail expérimental en équipe. Plus d'informations ici: recrutement.cirad.fr/offre-de-emp...
Cirad - Technicien·ne en écologie des interactions et gestion des populations d'insectes nuisibles
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Excited to share our new paper on how tree community resource economics shape soil food web multifunctionality across European forests! 🌲🌍 We quantified how energy flows through microbes, fungi, detritivores, herbivores and predators beneath the forest floor. rdcu.be/fhmF2
Tree community resource economics control soil food web multifunctionality
Nature - Plant community properties affect ecosystem functioning via energy fluxes in food webs, with the leaf and root resource economics of dominant tree species controlling soil food web...
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Very excited to give a talk at Misión Biolóxica de Galicia (MBG-CSIC) in Pontevedra, Spain next week! Thanks to @marsobral.bsky.social and @cpcarmona.bsky.social for the invitation and organization!
Mar Sobral@marsobral.bsky.social · 3mo ago📣 Coming Seminar at MBG-CSIC 🌍 Living on the Edge: What Determines Species Range Limits? 🗣️ Prof. Jean-Philippe Lessard (Concordia Univ. & Editor-in-Chief Ecological Monographs) @bugecology.bsky.social 📅 Tue May 12 🕛 12:00 📍 MBG-CSIC (Pontevedra) @mbgcsic.bsky.social
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May cover reveal for "Ecological Monographs"! Meet the wasp spider—bold stripes and a big climate story. New research shows its rapid northward spread is fueled by genetic change + plasticity, helping offspring thrive in colder temps Browse the May issue: tinyurl.com/4spjk7cn
Check out the #OpenAccess study here, in our journal "Ecological Monographs": doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
Universität Greifswald@unigreifswald.bsky.social · 3mo ago🕷️ Die Wespenspinne hat ihr Verbreitungsgebiet in wenigen Jahrzehnten bis nach Nordeuropa erweitert. Eine Studie aus Greifswald zeigt: Dabei kam es zu schneller genetischer Differenzierung. Ergebnisse liefern wichtige Hinweise darauf, wie Arten auf den Klimawandel reagieren und sich anpassen können🔬
As we pump more CO2 into the atmosphere our food supply becomes more impoverished. This Nutrient Dilution is a global problem for every organism that eats plants, or eats things that eats plants. IOW pretty much all life on Earth. bsky.app/profile/mike... s2.washingtonpost.com/4741705/69f3...
The invisible force making food less nutritious
Surging concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere have produced potent changes in the way plants grow, draining the nutrients from food.
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Mike Kaspari@mikekaspari.bsky.social · 2y agoNutrient Dilution and the Future of Herbivores: a short thread The fossil fuel folks claimed that all the extra CO2 is great for plants. Indeed, plant mass has increased globally by about 30% in the past century. But when you load a plant up the carbs, what happens to all its other nutrients?
OPEN CALL FOR EDITORS @ESAMonographs !!! STILL ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS !!! PLEASE SHARE !!!
ESA Journals@esajournals.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe "Ecological Monographs" editorial board is growing! We're now accepting applications from ecologists interested in serving as subject-matter editors🙋 Visit our website for more information: esa.org/publications... And fill out this form to apply: www.surveymonkey.com/r/P8R8CTX
Continental-scale evidence that emergent aquatic insects sustain riparian birds, thus freshwater conservation offers considerable co-benefits to terrestrial ecosystems! A fun collaboration w/ postdoc @cschuerings.bsky.social @uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Aquatic insects such as mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies are widely used for freshwater biomonitoring and could provide resource pulses to terrestrial insectivores. Here the authors show a positiv...
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🆕 and #OpenAccess in "Ecological Monographs"⤵️
Katharina Hoff@katharinahoff.bsky.social · 4mo agoThrilled to see this work published: Rapid ecological and evolutionary divergence during a poleward range expansion doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... with @uhl-lab.bsky.social , Monica Sheffer & other wonderful colleagues
Dr. Damaris Zurell (University of Potsdam) will be giving April's Funk Biogeography Seminar! What does forward-looking biodiversity modeling look like? What can it tell us, and what needs more work? Learn more and register at: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ap...
Check out media coverage on polar bear climate change adaptations paper published in Ecological Monographs by @colingarroway.bsky.social and colleagues!!
Ecological Society of America@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 4mo agoOur new media tip sheet is out! Explore fresh research from our journals on: 🐦a new metric for migratory birds 🦊mid-sized carnivore scavenging 🐻❄️polar bear adaption 🌲European forestry for birds 🦫& beavers reshaping the Arctic Read it here: https://ow.ly/O5eU50YAEwh
Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
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Paul Ehrlich finding Heliconius butterflies; from our book Lives of Lepidopterists, 2015. You can read his chapter, which is a nice account of his life as a lepidopterist, here: drive.google.com/file/d/1vC9F...
EDITORS WANTED AT ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS -QUANTITATIVE ECOLOGY -THEORETICAL ECOLOGY -ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY -EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY -MARINE ECOLOGY -PLANT ECOLOGY EDITORS FOR OTHER DISCIPLINES NEEDED TOO
ESA Journals@esajournals.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe "Ecological Monographs" editorial board is growing! We're now accepting applications from ecologists interested in serving as subject-matter editors🙋 Visit our website for more information: esa.org/publications... And fill out this form to apply: www.surveymonkey.com/r/P8R8CTX
📣 New publication by Adam Ruka and colleagues in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social: Year-round rhythms: Alpine plant species modulate soil and microbial dynamics during the growing season and under the snow. @ibotcz.bsky.social, bc cas, @czechacademy.bsky.social
Year‐round rhythms: Alpine plant species modulate soil and microbial dynamics during the growing season and under the snow
Soil–plant–microbe interactions are integral throughout most terrestrial ecosystems, yet the importance of plant phenology and seasonal dynamism upon these relationships remains unknown. Given the pr...
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New paper alert! Along with members of @bugecology.bsky.social 's lab and other collaborators we found that immune defenses vary with the local environment across large spatial scales, as well as evidence for local adapation to parasite pressure nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The macroecology of immunity: predominant influence of climate on invertebrate immune response
The immune system is the primary defense against parasites. With the ever-increasing rate of disease, epidemiologic models considering geographic variation in immune responses could prove useful. Des...
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Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate. Just out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Zheng Zhou and @antoncollembola.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐
Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Soil fauna is an important but often neglected component of terrestrial food webs. Here the authors use a large dataset of stable isotope observations to analyse how soil animal trophic diversity vari...
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Don't miss today's Dynamic Ecology interview with @clsong.com. Jeremy wasn't lying when he wrote "Reading this is going to be way more entertaining and thought-provoking than whatever you were planning to spend the next 15 minutes doing." dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/i...
“If you keep your mind too open, your brain falls out”: interview with theoretical ecologist Chuliang Song
Welcome to our latest interview with the author of a recent(ish) interesting paper. Today’s interview is with theoretical ecologist Chuliang Song. I asked Chuliang about Song & Levine 202…
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Some of my favorite ants for sure. Saw them years ago on a trip to Brunei, Borneo. 🤩
Daniel Kronauer@danielkronauer.bsky.social · 5mo agoWith about 100 species, the spiny ants of the genus Polyrhachis form the most diverse group of ants on Borneo. Here are two beautiful examples, the golden P. bihamata (look at those fishing hooks!) and the especially armed P. armata. Danum Valley, Sabah.
If you need a break from bad news, our little unpolished hexapodcast about insects is an ok 25 minute listen. youtu.be/0KKGcgw75gQ?...
Hexapodcast3 Diversity With Matt Forister (with images)
YouTube video by Lee Dyer
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Check out this cool paper lead by @hasikadam.bsky.social and including important contributions from undergraduate students in our lab. Melanization response to parasitism in odonates could be the by-product of dessication resistance adaptation
Ecography@ecography.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe macroecology of immunity: predominant influence of climate on invertebrate immune response vist.ly/4u8bt #Macroecology #Odonates #Parasites
There is also an amazing news article in @nature.com on our recent paper in the same journal. Rising temperatures pose a threat to tropical insects www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Rising temperatures pose a threat to tropical insects
An assessment of sensitivity to increasing temperature for thousands of insect species in mountainous terrain reveals a risk of insect biodiversity loss in tropical lowlands.
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Looks like a fundamental study and approach ... Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature. Insects at high elevations utilize plasticity to cope with rising temperatures, whereas lowland species have limited plastic abilities. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌐
Limited thermal tolerance in tropical insects and its genomic signature - Nature
A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal tolerance is limite...
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