New paper 🐦 Multi-trait syndromes explain dispersal among close relatives, but simple traits (e.g. body mass) better predict across species. A case for simpler, mechanistic ecology. doi.org/10.1038/s420... Big shout out to @gfandos.bsky.social 🎉 #Ecology #Evolution #Traits #Dispersal #Birds

Simple mechanistic traits outperform complex syndromes in predicting avian dispersal distances - Communications Biology

An analysis using European continent-wide empirical data shows that single mechanistic traits predict avian dispersal better than complex syndromes. Body mass and life history dominate median dispersa...

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Muy interesante reflexión 👏. Evaluar ciencia no puede reducirse a un único indicador ni al factor de impacto. Difícil cambiar el sistema, pero el primer paso es asumir que la evaluación es compleja y no cabe en una sola métrica.

Jesús PérezGil (birloque)@birloque.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A very qué os parece esta reflexión sobre la forma en que evaluamos y sus consecuencias. Sean los exámenes de nuestros estudiantes o los CV de los concursos de acceso, acreditaciones, etc… ¡La tiranía de Heisenberg! theconversation.com/la-ley-de-he...

Happy to be at #EOU2025! 🐦🏙️ If you want to know, how does urbanization impact migratory bird seasonal distribution (and you didn't manage to come to my poster yesterday), don't hesitate to find me and ask! @eounion.bsky.social

Traveling tomorrow to Pontevedra to attend the SIBECOL-AEET meeting @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social My keynote talk will be Monday evening (19:40 h). I'll present an updated overview of that elusive conundrum which links subindividual plant ecology with a set of independent epigenetic causal layers

Our latest research in California's serpentine grasslands reveals that biodiversity patterns are shaped more by dispersal than environmental conditions alone esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

NEW PAPER! Do you want to know how ocelots and agoutis interact in space AND time in #TropicalRainforests?🌳 Check our last paper led by Andrea Vallejo-Vargas and published @animalecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

New PhD position @mncn-csic.bsky.social to work on biodiversity risk assessments, together with @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social and myself. More details here: www.anabenitezlopez.com/job-offer-ph...

Job offer: PhD candidate in biodiversity risk assessments - Ana Benitez Lopez

Project Description Red Lists are critical tools for assessing species’ extinction risk, systematically evaluating threats based on past and ongoing environmental drivers. However, global change drive...

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Miguel Bastos Araújo, PhD@miguelbaraujo.bsky.social · last yr.

New opportunity: PhD candidate in biodiversity risk assessments. With @anabenlop.bsky.social @mncn-csic.bsky.social www.maraujolab.eu/2025/03/06/p...

📢 Título de experto en Aplicaciones bioinformáticas en biodiversidad, ecología y evolución 📅 26 mayo - 4 julio | ⏰ 15:00 - 20:00 📍 Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid 💰 300€ 🎯 Metodología 100% práctica con proyectos y tutorización experta 📌 Inscríbete ya! ucm.es/formacion-pe...

Next week (!!) we are presenting our workshop "integrating mechanisms into species distribution models" - don't miss it! Online 2-4 April www.biogeography.org/news/news/wo... @gfandos.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social

📝 "Useful R Packages & Resources" 👤 Steffi LaZerte 📖 Essential R packages & resources for data science, visualization, & workflows. Check it out! 🔗 https://steffilazerte.ca/posts/useful-packages/ #rladies #rstats #packages #resources #r

A new study found that U.S. butterfly populations dropped by 22% in just 20 years. Dr. Elise Zipkin and Dr. @nickhaddad.bsky.social join us to discuss what’s causing the decline and whether we can do anything about it.

Where Have All The Butterflies Gone?

A new study of butterfly populations in the US shows a 22% decline among over 500 species in just 20 years.

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An analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with #ClimateChange. Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3QLYhyc

In collaboration with my friend @juanma-pg.bsky.social we have just published this article about some worrying trends we have observed in the marking of animals with GPS .... 1/n link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Call for a critical review of widespread use of animal tracking devices - European Journal of Wildlife Research

Animal tracking has undergone a technological revolution, providing insight into biological details that were previously impossible to address. However, the increasing ease of access to tracking devic...

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El grupo de Ecoinformática de la AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social estrena página web: ecoinfaeet.github.io

📖Published📖 Denelle et al. present bioregion, a package that includes all the steps of a bioregionalization workflow under a single architecture 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇 https://buff.ly/3CHqC5p

📣 Jobs alert- please share! 4(!) PhD positions on topics including species interactions, AI, global mapping and tropical ecology 🫐🌿🌸🍄🌏 PhD 1: bit.ly/TREES-Mappin... (w/ UCL East) PhD 2: bit.ly/TREES-CV-4-I... (w/ UCL East) PhD 3: bit.ly/TREES-Megadi... (w/ Kew Gardens) PhD 4: bit.ly/4i35cj5 (CSC)

1/ New paper @pnas.org on the structure of mutualistic #networks between individuals plants and frugivore species. Last chapter of @elequintero.bsky.social's PhD thesis doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ecopubs

Exciting opportunity ahead! Join our workshop from April 2nd to 4th and discover how to calibrate both mechanistic and hybrid species distribution models. Don't miss out—register now! @biogeography.bsky.social @jgrubalcaba.bsky.social

Juan G. Rubalcaba@jgrubalcaba.bsky.social · 2y ago

Interested in mechanistic & hybrid species distribution models? Don't miss our workshop! Online - 2-4 April @gfandos.bsky.social REGISTER: www.biogeography.org/news/news/wo...

Concerned about the conservation of migrant birds? Blog from last month may be of interest. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... @amigodeaves.bsky.social paper explains how to bring ringing, colour-ring and tracking data together, to identify key migration sites. #ConservationScience🌏

New release of the {ecmwfr} R package to query the Copernicus ECMWF data store. Most prominently fixes a dynamic file renaming issue as the API returns variable formats, depending on the requested data. https://github.com/bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr #rstats #climatedata #opendata #package

GitHub - bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr: Interface to the public ECMWF API Web Services

Interface to the public ECMWF API Web Services. Contribute to bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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The cherry blossom prediction competition is on again this year. Submissions due by end of February. I am very much too busy to participate unfortunately. But a good distraction from *gestures all around* for the rest of you perhaps. competition.statistics.gmu.edu/competition-...

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨 It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax. This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types. Check it out! grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

Ya os dije que lo de @nortes1.bsky.social esta semana iba de leones. www.nortes.me/2025/02/01/d...

Dos leones en la Corte del Rey Felipe VI - Nortes | Centradas en la periferia

El próximo mes de marzo se cumplirán ciento sesenta y cinco años de la batalla de Wad-Ras, un formidable pitote en el que se enfrentaron tropas españolas al mando de O’donnell con las del Sultanato de...

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Papers like this really underscore the importance of long term monitoring datasets for understanding climate change impacts on biodiversity... And highlight the dire consequences of even modest temperature increases. 🧪🌍🦤🦜 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests

Climate change threatens Amazon rainforest birds, with harsher dry seasons significantly affecting their survival over 27 years.

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Caribou traverse over 1,200km 🦌, while zebras cover ca 500km 🦓. Side by side, their journeys remind us how incredible and resilient the natural world 🌍 truly is. And this is terrestrial only. #MigrationMasters #ProtectWildJourneys #OvercomingBarriers Paper from 2019: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hace más de un año escribí esto para @nortes1.bsky.social La captura y consumo de angulas continúa como si tal cosa, aunque la especie -las anguilas- sigue igual de jodida que entonces. Luego que si la ciencia.

Aldo Conway@aldocwy.bsky.social · 2y ago

La anguila está al borde de la extinción -eso he leído en el 20 minutos- y solo puedo pensar en esta maravilla que escribió @ernestodmartin.bsky.social en Nortes hace un tiempo. www.nortes.me/2023/10/21/a...

South American tapirs make a historic comeback in Patagonia, marking a major win for rewilding efforts! 🌱 Once extinct in the region, they're now roaming free thanks to persistent conservation initiatives. Proof that nature can heal with our help! 💚 #Rewilding #ConservationWins #ForestGardeners

The largest continental mammal has reappeared after 100 years, and scientists are calling it a historic event

The cameras of Rio de Janeiro's State Institute of Environment (INEA) have caught a truly wild moment for Brazilian biodiversity: the South American tapir

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