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Emilie Ellis

@e-ellis1.bsky.social

Community ecologist (especially interested in Lepidoptera). Postdoc at the University of Helsinki.

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Emilie Ellis@e-ellis1.bsky.social · 12h ago

New paper out today in Global Ecology and Biogeography! 🦋🌡️ Using 3-decades of moth monitoring across Finland, we found that climate warming is reshaping communities towards smaller species—especially in the colder north—while wing pigmentation shows no consistent change. doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Climate Warming Is Causing an Increasing Dominance of Smaller Moth Species

Aim To test whether spatial trait–temperature relationships predicted by ecogeographic rules (Bergmann's rule and the thermal melanism hypothesis) can be used as space-for-time substitutions to anti...

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PLOS One@plosone.org · 3w ago

A new study by Jordan Twombly Ellis, @e-ellis1.bsky.social and colleagues found that DNA from honey, hive bees and individual foraging bees each reveals different plant–bee–microbe associations, showing these sampling methods are complementary rather than interchangeable. plos.io/4wvLmUt

Inferring plant-bee-microbe associations: Foragers, hive workers, and honey tell complementary stories

Pollinators, both wild and managed, form diverse associations with plants and microbes which affect the wellbeing of the plants and the pollinators. The method by which these associations are sampled…

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Emilie Ellis@e-ellis1.bsky.social · 4w ago

Nice to see our field sampling in the Finnish countryside in summer 2023 has been published, led excellently by Jordan at Umeå University. Check it out! @plosone.org journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Inferring plant-bee-microbe associations: Foragers, hive workers, and honey tell complementary stories

Pollinators, both wild and managed, form diverse associations with plants and microbes which affect the wellbeing of the plants and the pollinators. The method by which these associations are sampled ...

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Emilie Ellis@e-ellis1.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New paper out today (my final PhD chapter)! Increasing impervious surfaces strongly reduces cavity-nesting bee and wasp communities, and flower patches alone showed no detectable impact. @aer-ese-bes.bsky.social #openaccess besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Effects of flower patch additions and urbanisation on cavity‐nesting bees and wasps

Urbanisation can negatively affect cavity-nesting bees and wasps, yet common conservation interventions such as flower patches and artificial nests lack strong empirical support. In a 2-year experime...

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Emilie Ellis@e-ellis1.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Our new paper is out! We show that assessing the effects of adding flower patches in cities is complex and their direct benefits for pollinator communities and pollination aren’t always straightforward. @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social #openaccess doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

The effects of flower supplementation on pollinators and pollination along an urbanisation gradient

Enhancing urban greenspaces for pollinator communities by planting flower patches is increasingly common, but their efficacy for different groups of insects (bees, hoverflies and moths) is unclear. O....

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Juha Pöyry@poyryjuha.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A new paper demonstrates a clear latitudinal gradient in responses of the Finnish moth communities to warming climate. This work is based on the Finnish #mothmonitoring dataset gathered @syke.fi.

Emilie Ellis@e-ellis1.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨 Just out in Nature Communications from my current work with fantastic collaborators @rececochange.bsky.social ! We show that moth communities are experiencing an overall “warming,” with a clear latitudinal pattern: extinction in the north and colonisation in the south. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Emilie Ellis@e-ellis1.bsky.social · 12mo ago

🚨 Just out in Nature Communications from my current work with fantastic collaborators @rececochange.bsky.social ! We show that moth communities are experiencing an overall “warming,” with a clear latitudinal pattern: extinction in the north and colonisation in the south. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Recent community warming of moths in Finland is driven by extinction in the north and colonisation in the south - Nature Communications

As Finland’s climate warms, cold-adapted moths are disappearing in the north while warm-loving species move in from the south. This shift in insect communities highlights the threat climate change pos...

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Emilie Ellis@e-ellis1.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨New research in Proc B! We show hoverflies & moths are more sensitive to urbanisation compared to bees, but tree canopies & semi-natural greenspaces help boost urban pollinator diversity. doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Drivers of nocturnal and diurnal pollinating insect declines in urban landscapes | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Insect pollinators are essential for terrestrial ecosystems, delivering key ecosystem functions in the face of anthropogenic disturbance. Urbanization may be a key threat to pollinator communities. Ho...

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