Leandro Duarte
@duarteldas.bsky.social
Associate Professor at http://ufrgs.br. Brasileiro 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷. Sharing ideas on ecology and evolution. Mate, café brasileiro, IPA and democracy make days better. My opinions (PT/EN).
Sad to see researchers that I truly respect(ed) to publish a paper about something I published ten years ago and simply ignore it. Fuzzy sets in phylogenetic analysis is not a novelty thanks to hard work done in Brasil, and that history cannot be simply erased by you, colonizers.
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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New online! Evolution, genomics and conservation of butterflies and moths
Evolution, genomics and conservation of butterflies and moths
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 16 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00128-8Butterflies and moths are key indicators of functioning and healthy ecosystems around the world. This Review describes the evolutionary history of the order Lepidoptera and tracks shifts in researchers’ understanding of the clade in the genomic era; it also explores biogeographic patterns and conservation efforts for threatened species.
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The last paper of my PhD is out! Together with @duarteldas.bsky.social and Gabriel Nakamura, we investigated how in situ diversification and lineage dispersal have shaped assemblage level diversity in the Atlantic Forest. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The relative roles of in situ diversification and lineage dispersal underlying diversity patterns at the assemblage level
Speciation, extinction, and dispersal are the historical processes influencing the spatial distribution of lineages and strongly influence diversity patterns. Here, we apply a recently developed meth...
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In situ diversification and immigration are the main sources of species diversity at the assemblage level. Find here how to quantify their importance. Brilliantly led by @avrodrigues.bsky.social, and co-authored by Gabriel Nakamura and me. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The relative roles of in situ diversification and lineage dispersal underlying diversity patterns at the assemblage level
Speciation, extinction, and dispersal are the historical processes influencing the spatial distribution of lineages and strongly influence diversity patterns. Here, we apply a recently developed meth...
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For those interested in exploring Site-Based Estimation of Ancestral Range of Species (SBEARS), this material can be very helpful. gabrielnakamura.github.io/Herodotools/...
Introduction to SBEARS - Site Based Estimation of Ancestral Range of Species
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Happy to see this article. To me it is a great mistery how functional ecology can thrive without an evolutionary background. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
An evolutionary perspective on the response‐effect framework
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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In this paper we introduce a novel way to use phylogenetic eigenvectors (PCPS) to assess temporal trends at the assemblage scale. Hope you enjoy it! Congrats @guiseger.bsky.social! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Contrasting Phylogenetic Signals in Flowering and Fruiting Phenology at Species and Assemblage Scales in a Climbing Plant Community
This study examined the phylogenetic conservatism of flowering and fruiting in 78 climbing plant species relative to environmental gradients in a South Brazilian forest. Although species-level analys...
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🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Tracing the evolution of Dicksoniaceae and Thyrsopteridaceae (Cyatheales) in South America: new records from the Cretaceous doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
The preprint version of a nice piece of research from our lab. Congrats Priscila Lopes! www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Land use around protected areas affects functional diversity, but not species richness in anuran assemblages
Human-made habitat modifications drive biodiversity loss, especially through land use changes. These modifications impact the structure and diversity of local assemblages, primarily through habitat lo...
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Thomas Lin Pedersen@thomasp85.com · last yr.I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
This is so amazing!
Tommaso Jucker@tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · last yr.Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
One more step towards more insightful analyses in Evolutionary Macroecology. Thanks @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social and all coauthors still not blueskylized for the collaborative endeavor! SBEARS - A site-based method to estimate ancestral ranges of species url: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
SBEARS - A site-based method to estimate ancestral ranges of species
Abstract. Assessing the geographic dimension of diversification is paramount to integrate macroecology and macroevolution. Estimating ancestral ranges of s
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How much effort you must do to end your ability to do something? Strange times.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.Breaking News: The EPA is said to have drafted a plan that would end its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
the current rate of extinction, as estimated by ourselves and others, whom we cited, and across diverse major taxa, we may well be headed in the direction of a new mass extinction event www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🌐🧪
Denying that we may be experiencing the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction paves the way for it to happen
Arguing that we are not currently experiencing a Sixth Mass Extinction, or at least playing down its possibility, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen. Wiens and Saban [1], in a...
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Esses gringos não sabem das coisas. Gostei. Fod#-se laranjão.
Shameless self-promotion continues...🙃 You might find this #fern book in your local bookstores! mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...
New data paper out! Insect feeding guilds information (> 4000 insect species!) in relation to host plants for Northern Hemisphere woody species (>600 species!) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
InsectGUILD: feeding guilds of lepidopteran and hymenopteran larvae consuming Northern Hemisphere woody plants - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - InsectGUILD: feeding guilds of lepidopteran and hymenopteran larvae consuming Northern Hemisphere woody plants
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Hey Ecofolks, Global Ecology Starter Pack Vol. 3 is out! Those interested must send a DM to @global-ecology.bsky.social to join it. Thanks @nmouquet.bsky.social for this initiative! go.bsky.app/F86HYqj
One more tool available to analyze the spatial structure of clade distribution. Always welcome!
Methods in Ecology and Evolution@methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · last yr.📖Published📖 Matthew Kling presents phylospatial, a new R package that fully supports probability, abundance, and binary community data across a range of spatial phylogenetic diversity (PD) analyses 🌎 🧪 Check the article out here 👇 buff.ly/onf4BV6
Lots of ideas coming from this paper!
Emergence and Dynamics of Regional Species Pools
The Importance of the Regional Species Pool The regional species pool—the set of species capable of entering a local community—is a foundational concept for understanding ecological processes that o.....
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The Global Ecology feed is growing — 20-30 posts/week on large-scale biodiversity science — 390 contributors! 🌍🧪🦤🦑🪴🍁 DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join and tag 🌐 in your posts to see them on the feed Let’s build a engaged community together ✨🌈💚 Pls share to spread! 👉 bsky.app/profile/nmou...
Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore. This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
Em tempos de macartismo às avessas no Brasil, a coragem d’O Eco precisa ser aplaudida. Há solução, claro que há, mas demandaria mais racionalidade ao admitir a importância da conservação da biodiversidade brasileira. Não parece ser o caso.
((o))eco | jornalismo ambiental@oeco.org.br · 2y agoEntidades criticam pessoas morando e caçando em parques e outras unidades de conservação ⬇️ Manifesto reuniu mais de 100 assinaturas. Reservas naturais como os Parnas Guaricana e da Serra do Itajaí também serão alvos de acordos entre autarquias federais oeco.org.br/noticias/ent...
