Eliška, new student of Aleš, is dealing with the traits of meadow plants, intraspecific variability and its relationship to the abundance of the species in the community. With the help of other group members, she collected approximately 1,500 plants from 16 localities.

Biological Invasions: Trends, Drivers, Impacts, Management, and Governance 🌐🌎🧪 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Biological Invasions: Trends, Drivers, Impacts, Management, and Governance

Invasion science has matured rapidly into a vibrant interdisciplinary field addressing threats posed by biological invasions to people and nature. Nearly 40,000 species have established alien populati...

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Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor in Quantitative Research Methodology (302697), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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Published today in @nature.com, our study shows that the #foodweb trophic structure is critical for #ecosystemfunctioning. Read it here: rdcu.be/frxEl This has been an incredibly rewarding collaboration with many amazing scientists! 🌐🧪🦑🍁🌱 @waikatouniversity.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social

📄 New preprint! We used Arabidopsis to test whether plant–plant communication in response to insect herbivory was conserved in wild populations with dramatically different environments, genetics, and life-history traits; it is indeed! [1/2]

bioRxiv Ecology@biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Conserved herbivore-induced volatile signalling despite divergent VOC-life-history associations in two locally adapted Arabidopsis thaliana populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.17.732448v1

📄 New preprint! We used Arabidopsis to test whether plant–plant communication in response to insect herbivory was conserved in wild populations with dramatically different environments, genetics, and life-history traits; it is indeed! [1/2]

bioRxiv Ecology@biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Conserved herbivore-induced volatile signalling despite divergent VOC-life-history associations in two locally adapted Arabidopsis thaliana populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.17.732448v1

Can we use ecological principles to increase coexistence in synthetic bacterial communities? Our new paper is now out in @isme-microbes.bsky.social: "Environmental complexity shapes maintenance of bacterial diversity through context-dependent interactions among niche axes" doi.org/10.1093/isme...

Environmental complexity shapes maintenance of bacterial diversity through context-dependent interactions among niche axes

Abstract. Microbial communities are often more species-rich than predicted from classical ecological models. The high levels of coexistence observed in nat

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🌱🔥 New paper published in New Phytologist! @newphyt.bsky.social We test local adaptation to soil temperature at very small spatial scales using a geothermal system in #Iceland. 🌡️Natural gradients generate >20 °C differences over a few meters: a natural experiment of microgeographic adaptation! 👇

New paper out today in Ecology Letters! We use Modern Coexistence Theory and Metabolic Theory to get general predictions for the effect of temperature on competition. Led by brilliant postdoc @kaleighedavis.bsky.social and @joeybernhardt.bsky.social, with Po-Ju Ke, Patrick Thompson and Mary O'Connor

General Predictions for the Effects of Warming on Competition

We combined two major theories in ecology to investigate whether warming may have general effects on competition for shared resources. We found that species' niche and fitness differences both decrea...

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Ectomycorrhizal fungi and forest management timelines: do we understand what to conserve? nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Commentary by Lõhmus highlighting the recent work by Lindahl et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are launching the Biodiversity Futures Working Groups. The call supports small, focused synthesis groups addressing frontier questions in biodiversity science. We welcome proposals from researchers at any career stage. Deadline: 30 June 2026, 23:00 CET www.maraujolab.eu/2026/05/09/2...

2026 Announcement - Biodiversity Futures Working Groups -

At a glance Up to €10,000 in catalytic support per working group Two in-person meetings (3-5 days each) […]

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New paper out! How do species coexist through invasion cycles (like the classic✂️🪨📄) in nature? We introduce a general framework linking the structure of species interactions to the emergence of complex ecological cycles esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors. We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time. We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Resurrecting habitat fragmentation as a process over time

Habitat loss and fragmentation occur over time. Despite this truism, understanding the effects of habitat fragmentation has, in recent years, predominantly focused on interpreting snapshots of current...

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I wrote about why every lab should have AI use guidelines, and how to do it. open.substack.com/pub/blekhman...

You need to make AI guidelines for your lab

Here's why you should, and how to start

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My new piece "Reproducibility: how to strengthen a weak foundation" is out today @nature.com! 🎉 How reproducible is research in the social & behavioural sciences? A new study by Miske et al. assessed 600 papers across 62 journals: the results are sobering. 📄 doi.org/10.1038/d415... 📄 rdcu.be/fbcq5

Next piece of exciting news coming soon from the #ResponseDiversityNetwork ! Never been a better time to sign up: responsediversitynetwork.github.io/RDN-website/ @acekl.bsky.social @fwindsor.bsky.social @hillebr1.bsky.social @elinakaarlej.bsky.social @owpet.bsky.social @giuliaghedini.bsky.social

Mike Fowler@theorecol.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Out now! Ecological #ResponseDiversity research priorities @nordicoikos.bsky.social 🌍🧪 Key findings: Ecologists don't agree (I could stop there) on definitions (& there...) of #ResponseDiversity scales & dimensions but see conceptual value Our network must diversify. Join us! doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Happy to share the final version of @oliviamghosh.bsky.social's paper on inferring low dimensional phenotype-fitness maps from high-throughput fitness measurements across environments. Fun collaboration with @oliviamghosh.bsky.social, @grantkinsler.bsky.social, & @petrovadmitri.bsky.social

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 4mo ago

Predicting the effect of a #mutation on #fitness is hard. @oliviamghosh.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social &co use fitness effects of adaptive yeast mutants to show that underlying genotype-phenotype-fitness maps are low-dimensional but context-dependent @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dLy2Ez

Our new experimental evolution study across 30+ locations using the plant Arabidopsis thaliana —— we direct "see" adaptation and extinction to different climates at the genetic as it happens! Read it in Science dx.doi.org/10.1126/scie... @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

🦗Insect herbivores promote plant species richness in restored grasslands in a long-term experiment. 🔍 Article: buff.ly/CwvQBpn

Out now in Methods in Ecology and Evolution: Accounting for spatial interactions in the upscaling of ecosystem services. Led by Lari Boesing. A how to guide to upscaling ES, particularly those driven by the movement of matter and mobile organisms besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Today I’m excited to finally start a project I’ve been wanting to launch for a long time: Color for #Geoscience. 🎨🌍 ℹ️ to build an open, community‑driven collection of palettes 📄 Contribution: github.com/dominicroye/... 🌐 APP dominicroye.github.io/color-for-ge... #ScientificVisualization #dataviz

The "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

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Many journals require data and code sharing. Yet code is still rarely shared and datasets are often hard to reuse. Our new paper introduces the @sortee.bsky.social guidelines for data & code quality control in ecology & evolution, developed by 26 experienced data editors. 📄 doi.org/10.24072/pcj...

I have written my first R-package for feeding experiments! BayesFR allows fitting functional responses by providing dynamical prediction models for use in #brms. Includes models for classical type 2 and type 3 responses, and also prey mortality or predator interference (more to come) #Rstats (1/3)

GitHub - benjamin-rosenbaum/BayesFR: Fitting functional responses in 1 and 2-prey systems

Fitting functional responses in 1 and 2-prey systems - benjamin-rosenbaum/BayesFR

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Summer School on Stochastic Population Dynamics led by Alex Hening. A great opportunity for anyone interested in learning about stochastic methods and their applications to population dynamics. stochasticsummerschool.com www.mathprograms.org/db/programs/... Please repost.

📊🌱 Hoy #8M lanzamos encuesta sobre #cuidados y carrera científica en #ecología. ¿Quién cuida en la comunidad científica? ¿Cuánto tiempo implican esos cuidados? ¿Influyen en las trayectorias investigadoras? Si trabajas en ecología, cuéntanos 👇 aeet-comisionigualdad.limesurvey.net/485287?lang=...

Las praderas marinas sostienen la vida bajo el agua 🌊 💨 Absorben CO2 🌬️ Liberan oxígeno 🐠 Refugian y alimentan la biodiversidad marina El #DíaDeLasPraderasMarinas pone el foco en su conservación y recuperación. Protegerlas es cuidar el océano 💙 #WorldSeagrassDay

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications

Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

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📢📝 New paper out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social !!! Impact of climate change mitigation strategies in rice farming on agroecosystem multifunctionality Assessment of 20 indicators related to Biodiversity, Ecosystem services and Rice production. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Impact of climate change mitigation strategies in rice farming on agroecosystem multifunctionality

These results suggest that, from a landscape management perspective, implementing a single irrigation strategy at large spatial scales should be discouraged due to potential negative effects on parti....

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