Precisely the question that we discussed with @tdatry.bsky.social, @messamat.bsky.social and the team in Lyon, where I presented this work, where we went beyond by exploring "When?" we should start to use new indicators. Thanks for the energy and exchanges! Excited to keep building together!

Zeynep Ersoy@zzeynepersoy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Why do we need new monitoring tools in drying rivers? Find the plain language summary of our article with @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social @jappliedecology.bsky.social @iicg-urjc.bsky.social #dryingrivers #biomonitoring 🧪 see the full article here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Great to present #funMETANET at #ASLOSIL26! 👏 Some results from @anna-equisuany.bsky.social’s PhD (co-supervised by @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social & Dani Boix). Huge thanks to all co-authors! 🙌

Today we presented our work on #TraitNetworks and how regional gradients drive their changes from local to regional scales at #ASLOSIL26. One of @anna-equisuany.bsky.social thesis chapters and an exciting work from the #FunMetanet project leaded by @stephi-gascon.bsky.social ! An amazing adventure!

So happy to lead this paper with @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social where we used metacommunity simulations to assess how biological index performance declines across different drying and pollution scenarios. Such simulation-based tools can improve the conservation and #biomonitoring of #DryingRivers

David Cunillera-Montcusí@cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Perfect timing to start the @aslo.org & @sil-limnology.bsky.social meeting in #Montreal with @jappliedecology.bsky.social publishing our work with @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social and #FEHMlab about #DryingRivers and their impact on biological index ! 📢👇🏽 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Perfect timing to start the @aslo.org & @sil-limnology.bsky.social meeting in #Montreal with @jappliedecology.bsky.social publishing our work with @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social and #FEHMlab about #DryingRivers and their impact on biological index ! 📢👇🏽 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Simulating drying and human impacts on river networks to evaluate biological quality indices performance through the lens of metacommunity theory

This work constitutes a first step towards developing simulation-based assessments that incorporate catchment drying patterns to support biomonitoring of drying river networks. Our approach can infor...

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New chapter 📢 How does #salinization affect aquatic #foodwebs? With @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social, @mphebert.bsky.social, @zadereev.bsky.social, BKefford and MCañedo-Argüelles, we summarize effects across trophic levels and how they can propagate through the food web Read here: shorturl.at/0YfLL

Effects of salinization on aquatic food webs

Salinization is a global environmental threat to inland and coastal aquatic ecosystems. It is defined as an increased concentration of ions in water (…

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A new, different ⭐ was born!🤩 Today we started #STARDRY, an interdisciplinary project to study how #drying controls #functioning #stability in river networks through spatio-temporal changes of #communities🪲🦠 Thanks to my #EcologistDreamTeam for an amazing kickoff meeting🔝 Stay tuned!

📢 Exciting NEWS We just published a new work amazingly leaded by Damiano Baldan at @ogsit.bsky.social where we combined niche and neutral models to understand the future rearrangement of #Mediterranean #Seagrasses and their associated diversity consequences 🐚 Take look here 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1111/jbi....

Landscape‐Mediated Effects of Climate Change on Metacommunities Inhabiting Mediterranean Seagrass

Aim Climate change affects dramatically biogenic habitats by altering the geographic distribution of the foundational species and the structure of landscapes they form. As a consequence, the associa...

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📢 First step of the PhD! 📄 Waterscape dataset of the municipality of Girona 🔍 With @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social, #LMartín, #DBoix and @jordi-bou.bsky.social 💧 A work of @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.di...

Amazing output for those #UrbanPond and #Pond lovers! Specially for the rising interest of #GardenPonds! Interesting insight can come out of them for moving towards "bluer" cities 🤞🏽 Take a look at it 👇🏽👇🏽, it is freshly baked!

Zsófia Horváth@zsofiahorvath.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In our new review in WIREs WATER, we synthesize knowledge on ecosystem (dis)services, multifunctionality, and trade‐offs in urban ponds and highlight garden ponds as a specific subtype that deserves more attention 🏙️🔵🏡 doi.org/10.1002/wat2... @epcn.bsky.social

Amazing work by @anna-equisuany.bsky.social who successfully lead her first first-authored work, which started a while ago during my thesis and those beautiful #PleteraDays ! Seems that for coastal ponds restoration, age is not the only relevant thing, even along time ⏳ Take a deeper look at it 👇🏽👇🏽

Anna Equisuany@anna-equisuany.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Thrilled to share our new article published in Hydrobiologia!🎉 We found that hydrological connectivity, rather than pond age, was the key driver of community assembly in coastal ponds. Many thanks to the co-authors🙌🏻 📃: doi.org/10.1007/s107... @iea-udg.bsky.social @greco-udg.bsky.social

📢 #GiroNat is out in @journalofmaps.bsky.social 📃 Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas

The Girona urban landscape and Natura 2000 habitats map (1:10.000) was generated with data from photointerpretation and fieldwork. We mapped 118 CORINE habitats and identified 15 Habitats of Commun...

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📢Amazing August news 📢 Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽 doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions

Aim Aquatic landscapes face severe threats from human activities propelling their deterioration. Waterscape degradation represents a main driver of the current diversity crisis, but its large-scale ...

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Some weeks ago we published a work leaded by #Dorottya & @csabaiz.bsky.social in #FWB where we looked at the relevance of spatiotemporal connectivity across different intermittent streams 😄 A nice output from our exchanges in #Pécs around #DRYvER project @tdatry.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/fwb....

Connectivity‐Driven Assembly of Trichoptera Metacommunities Across River Networks With Different Drying Patterns

Spatial connectivity varies temporally due to fragmentation caused by drying and may potentially define the diversity and composition of communities. We studied spatiotemporal patterns in three dr...

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Last week we had the pleasure to welcome @matias-arim.bsky.social #DamianoBaldan and #ZacharyHajian-Forooshani in #Budapest as part of the #MetaHeroes #EndGame workshop! Many nourishing discussions but the best was the burst in energy that it generated! The #EndGame definitely became a #Beginning

Our PhD student, Anna Equisuany, is back in the lab after successfully presenting #SFS2025 results showing that different types of fragmentation impact biodiversity — both taxonomically and functionally. Yes, fragmentation type does matter!!! #funMETANET

@jordi-bou.bsky.social is presenting how the metacommunity perspective can be aplied on renaturing urban freshwater ecosystems #GiroNat

Publication #DRYvER out in Global Ecology and Biogeography ! 🌍💧🦟🐚🐌 we show macroinvertebrate communities in drying river networks across Europe shift based on how often—and how long—rivers dry, and how well-connected they are. doi.org/10.1111/geb....

📢 GLOSSAQUA is out in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social. Big collaboration w/40+ coauthors led by myself, @chaevangelista.bsky.social & @ignasiarranz.bsky.social. It compiles global size spectra parameters from aquatic ecosystems globally👉: doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #datapaper #aquaticecology 🌍🧪🧵(1/4)

Just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community & genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance Rapid adaptation & species sorting combine to alter diversity Read more👇📄https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225000673

We are excited to invite you to our Final DRYvER #Webinar, 20 March, 14 CET -Agenda below: -Pre-registration required: scan the QR code or use this link: tinyurl.com/5s43cfu9 Don't miss out the opportunity to find out more on how #ClimateChange is altering the eco-hydrology of #DryingRiverNetworks.

Natural river drying is reducing the local biodiversity of aquatic communities and promoting the regional biodiversity by generating multiple successional stage across river networks. Excellent work by Daniel Escobar-Camacho et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

River Drying Causes Local Losses and Regional Gains in Aquatic Invertebrate Metacommunity Diversity: A Cross‐Continental Comparison

Drying rivers could be becoming more common with climate change, affecting the diversity of living in these ecosystems. This study compared how aquatic invertebrates respond to drying in river networ...

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Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Defense Against Dishonest Charts

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

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Why aren't more researchers publishing in society journals? Two potential reasons: 1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers, and 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 In this @globalchangebio.bsky.social study we used 1327 time series of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities across Europe to investigate whether dispersal capacity changes with the ecological quality of rivers. @sgn.one onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

📢 "We must take this news seriously." The IUCN co-authored Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment brought experts together from across the world of freshwater conservation, including many regular SHOAL collaborators! Keep scrolling to hear what they had to say about this watershed report 👇

Loss of connectivity in pond networks can have a significant impact on microbial #biodiversity. A recent study shows that fragmentation disrupts vital #ecosystems, threatening microbial communities and their interdependent relationships. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #HabitatFragmentation

Connectivity loss in pond networks threatens microbial diversity • MUSER PRESS

Even the smallest ecosystems, like ponds, are feeling the pressures of global biodiversity loss, with human-driven fragmentation posing a significant threat ...

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With @schneiderbea.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social and others, we showed how connectivity loss affects metacommunities with results from a 4-month long mesocosm experiment just published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! shorturl.at/9o9ak

To start, let me introduce the #MetaHeroes WP1 and our preliminary results from last spring experiment! There, we aimed to understand the interaction between network position and freshwater salinization using mesocosms #Hungary #ApajBombCraters youtu.be/rasZbMvhJoE?...

WP1 MH - Experiment - EPCN/Ponderful

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David Cunillera-Montcusí@cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · 2y ago

I think it is time to officially say that I am sticking with 🦋! I have been able to find 1000 times more interesting things in 1 week than in the last months in X... Where I was spammed with Asda about "How to become a muscled tiger in 1 week" (don't ask me why)... 😅

I think it is time to officially say that I am sticking with 🦋! I have been able to find 1000 times more interesting things in 1 week than in the last months in X... Where I was spammed with Asda about "How to become a muscled tiger in 1 week" (don't ask me why)... 😅