CMEC
@macroecology.bsky.social
Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC) Elucidating biology's laws of nature since 2010 🌎🐦🧬 📍Globe Institute | University of Copenhagen 🔗 https://macroecology.ku.dk/
Macroecological insights can support local #conservation, but temporal mismatches may misidentify threatened species locally 🌍 New paper out in Sci.Adv. by Simon D. Schowanek et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Predictors of extinction risk in large tropical forest mammals: From global to local
Studies predicting extinction risk come to different conclusions if their analyses use different temporal extents.
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New mycologist must-have 🍄🟫🔍 With +30 yrs in the making, "Fungi of Temperate Europe" covers +4,600 species with beautiful illustrations, photos, and scientific identification keys. By Læssøe et al. Out now at @princetonupress.bsky.social 👇 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #fungi #mycology
Who "pays" the extinction debt, and why? 🦎 🏝️ 🇬🇷 Thrilled to share a new paper out now in Ecology and Evolution (open access). This work from my MSc asks how sea-level rise since the last ice age has shaped reptile extinctions on Greek islands. Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1002/ece3... 🧵(1/6)
Who Is Paying the Extinction Debt? Phylogenetic and Functional Structuring on Greek Islands Is Shaped by Sea‐Level Rise Since the Last Glacial Maximum
Since the Last Glacial Maximum, sea-level rise has isolated, fragmented, and shrunk islands, supersaturating squamate communities and triggering ongoing community relaxation. Integrating a paleo-coas...
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Genetic diversity helps species survive and adapt: New study shows how to identify distinct populations and boost #conservation, extinction risk assessments, and reintroduction efforts. Out in BioScience by Geue et al., incl. @annabruniche.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
Katherine Richardson is a Professor in Biological Oceanography. She leads the Queen Margrethe and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir´s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society and is an architect of the Planetary Boundaries Framework. #WeAreAmerica250
Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq
🐋🐋 WHALE SCI-COMM ALERT 🐋🐋 Our piece on using old whaling #logbooks to understand #bowhead whale recovery is now published in @ca.theconversation.com!!! Go check it out! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
The Conversation Canada@ca.theconversation.com · 2mo agoCenturies-old logbooks reveal how bowhead whales are recovering from near-extinction
Tree death matters: fungal communities differ by how trees die. Keeping both snags and fallen trees is key to preserving forest biodiversity 🍄🍄🟫 New paper out @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Biological Conservation by Kolényová et al. #ecology #fungi www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🐋🧬 WHALE GENOMICS PAPER ALERT!!! 🧬🐋 Our new paper, co-led by @mick2474.bsky.social and myself, is now published #OpenAccess in Molecular Ecology! Our interdisciplinary approach reveals the genomic structure/diversity of #bowhead #whales across their circumpolar #Arctic range. Details below 👇 1/🐋
🐕🧬 Contributed to a new paper out in @consletters.bsky.social! Using a palaeogenomic baseline, we found domestic dog introgression is limited in free-living dingoes, and associated with human population centers and lethal control practices. 1/2
‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday
‘The greatest ambassador for life on Earth’: Tributes paid to David Attenborough on his 100th birthday
Naturalist says he has been ‘overwhelmed by greetings’ as milestone is marked with event at Royal Albert Hall David Attenborough said he had been “completely overwhelmed by birthday greetings” for his centenary on Friday and thanked wellwishers “most sincerely”. The naturalist said he had hoped to celebrate his 100th birthday quietly. Instead, the milestone will be marked with a live event at the Royal Albert Hall broadcast on BBC One, featuring music from his programmes as well as stories and reflections from public figures and leading advocates for the natural world. In a recorded audio message shared on Thursday night, Attenborough said: “I had rather thought that I would celebrate my 100th birthday quietly, but it seems that many of you have had other ideas. Continue reading...
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Can you believe that until now there were more genomes sequenced for the woolly mammoth than for living African elephants? Today, we bring you the first genomic, continent-scale analyses of 232 high-quality genomes of both species, the savanna and forest elephant. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How do we power the planet without harming nature? ♻️ Find out in the new publication out in Frontiers for Young Minds by Antonella Gorosábel & Jonas Geldmann with Young Reviewers Kai & Zuotong 💡 @frontiersin.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Powering the Planet Sustainably Without Harming Nature
Climate change and biodiversity loss are among the most pressing challenges facing our world. In response, many people are turning to renewable energy sources (e.g., sunlight, wind, and moving water),...
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Elephant genomes reveal a past of continental connectivity and a future of increasing isolation 🐘🐘 New paper out @natcomms.nature.com by @patriciachrzan.bsky.social et al. with CMEC co-author @annabruniche.bsky.social #popgen #conservation #Africa www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The genomic impact of population connectivity and decline in Africa’s elephants - Nature Communications
The two species of African elephants are facing severe declines. Here, authors assess their continent-wide genomic diversity, identifying differences in their evolutionary histories and highlighting t...
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I know #FishADay hasn't exactly been every day lately and it's not actually a fish, but while diving on vacation in Lanyu this week we saw a cuttlefish and I can't stop thinking about it,
We publish two papers on the inadequacy to introduce the European Bison in the Iberian Peninsula. Lack of evidence of previous presence, wrong habitat/climate conditions, legal aspects...and much more conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The conservation management of European bison requires strong evidence and careful risk assessment: A response to “Comment: Nores et al. (2024) fail in their attempt to demonstrate the inappropriateness of an eventual introduction of the European bison to Spain as a rewilding initiative”
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The placement of RE infrastructure matters for #biodiversity outcomes and highlights the need to understand these spatial interactions to ensure that the energy transition supports biodiversity goals. By Gorosábel et al. @cp-cellrepsustain.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Assessing the associations between renewable energy generation and other human-induced threats to terrestrial biodiversity
Renewable energy (RE) is crucial in fighting climate change but can overlap with other human-induced threats to biodiversity. We assess associations b…
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New paper 📢 Conservation evidence is biased but can support decision-making for prevalent and severe threats in tetrapods. By González-Suárez et al. in @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Conservation evidence is biased but can support decision‐making for prevalent and severe threats in tetrapods
Despite taxonomic and spatial biases, substantial conservation evidence is available to support decision-making by practitioners, particularly for the most prevalent and severe threats. Given the cur...
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Can rewilding save the planet? I gave my answer on BBC Radio's The Inquiry — and so did some of my colleagues. Tune in and see if you agree. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Inquiry - How can rewilding help combat climate change? - BBC Sounds
As rewilding initiatives grow there’s a concern some risk doing more harm than good
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New paper on Central African frog #biogeography shows that Pleistocene forest refugia best explain where frog diversity is highest 🐸 Expanding conservation to these refuges could improve amphibian protection. By Jongsma et al. incl. @hannahoish.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Pleistocene Forest Stability Predicts Patterns of Frog Diversity in Central Africa
Using high-resolution paleoclimate reconstructions, we quantified habitat stability for Central African rainforests across 257 time slices since the early Pleistocene. Stacked projections of forest-d...
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Tipping points of no return ⚖️ On this episode of Green Planet Monitor, Professor Katherine Richardson explains the risk of a #hothouse Earth following a recent publication in @cp-oneearth.bsky.social. Read or listen here: www.greenplanetmonitor.net/podcast/hoth...
Hothouse Earth | Green Planet Monitor
Hothouse Earth. A very unsafe operating space for human beings -- indeed, totally uninhabitable. As Earth warms, at an increasing pace, invisible points of no return transgressed, that’s where we may ...
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📢 Viewpoint in #ConservationLetters by J. Geldmann: Stop talking about 30x30 and ask the question that matters for #biodiversity: Are protected areas located where they matter most with real outcomes for nature & people? @society4conbio.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The World Could Reach 30% Protection by 2030, and Still Fail to Conserve Biodiversity without Effective and Well‐located Protected Areas
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New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! What factors shape genomic diversity in birds? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/w... Based on the Proceedings B paper by Anna Brüniche-Olsen, Kenneth Kellner and their colleagues | #ornithology
What factors shape genomic diversity in birds?
Both life history traits and habitat availability play a role.
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Great write up of our study showing that both extrinsic factors (e.g. habitat availability) and intrinsic traits (e.g. body mass and diet) play important roles in shaping patterns of genomic diversity in birds 🦜 🧬 🌏 #consgen #popgen
Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids@jenteo.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew story on the Avian Hybrids blog! What factors shape genomic diversity in birds? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/w... Based on the Proceedings B paper by Anna Brüniche-Olsen, Kenneth Kellner and their colleagues | #ornithology
"Det er fuldstændig naivt at tro, at vi kan klare os med teknologi. At forlade sig på teknologier, der ikke eksisterer, er galimatias", siger Katherine Richardson ovenpå nyt studie om global opvarming og tipping points 🌎 #dkvid #dkgreen @information.dk www.information.dk/udland/2026/...
Global opvarmning kan drive os mod iskoldt kollaps
Katherine Richardson og kolleger advarer i nyt studie mod de store havstrømmes kollaps. Og taler for hurtige adfærdsændringer og cirkulær økonomi
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"Ødelæggelsen af naturen vil have kæmpe konsekvenser for virksomheders finansierings- og vækstmuligheder" siger @carsten-rahbek.bsky.social oven på offentliggørelsen af ny @ipbes.net #BizBiodiversity rapport 📉 #dknatur #biodiversitet naturmonitor.dk/nyheder/biod...
Ny IPBES-rapport: Biodiversitetskrisen vil koste virksomheder dyrt
Ny rapport fra IPBES advarer om, at biodiveristetstab truer erhvervslivets fremtid. Rapporten bør være et stort »wake-up call«, lyder det fra Danmarks repræsentant i IPBES.
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The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report has been approved!👏 (8 February 2026) Congratulations to all the experts and IPBES members on this momentous science-policy milestone for people and nature!🌍🧪 Read the media release: https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media #BizBiodiversity #IPBES12
