🗺️📈Spatial heterogeneity modulates dispersal effects on metapopulation abundance: insights from a graphical approach vist.ly/55nea #DispersalEffect #Metapopulations #ConsumerResourceSystems #SpatialHeterogeneity

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2-year postdoc in large-herbivore ecology, trophic rewilding, and novel ecosystems - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Biology - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University

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New research show biological invasions disrupt the relationship between size spectrum and trophic interactions in freshwater fish communities🌍 🐟️ 📈 🔎 Read more: buff.ly/9RvuSYJ

Congratulations to the PhD Veronica Pinelli! Chance, necessity, and ecosystem functioning.

Advancing the role of trait matching and species abundances on the modular organization of food webs and occurrence networks doi.org/10.1111/1365...

On traits matching and the modular organization of food web and occurrence networks

What mechanisms shape ecological networks? In Paraná River piscivores, species traits and abundance scaling promote modular structures. Our findings reveal how communities self-organize and highlight...

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The spatial paths in an early invasion of bullfrogs is determined by well-connected but intermediate abundance populations. Lessons from a long-term monitoring of a pondscape invasion. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Long‐term monitoring reveals how pondscape connectivity shapes the early spread of a biological invasion

Synthesis and applications. Our results show that invasion risk emerges from the interaction between landscape connectivity and local population demography. For invasive species with complex life cyc...

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Connectivity can propagate local impacts of pollutants to the metacommunity level by promoting pollutant-tolerant species or attenuate impacts by a rescue effect from less impacted communities when pollutant produce a general reduction in community abundance. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Metacommunity dispersal amplifies or attenuates pollutant impacts on biodiversity

The results highlight key features for the assessment of pollutants risks to biodiversity. Landscape connectivity, species dispersal capacities, trait-mediated shifts in competition, and reduction in...

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Metacommunity mechanisms in restoration ecology. Large restorations with homogeneous habitat can magnify competitive differences at the landscape level; degrading coexistence conditions. Understanding the final effects of local interventions require a landscape perspective. doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Why adding habitat can destabilize species coexistence – consequences to restoration

In the context of the looming biodiversity crisis, adding patches of habitat has been proposed as a restoration strategy in several ecosystems. However, these interventions rarely mimic the condition...

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Missed the deadline? We’ve got good news! The abstract submission deadline for this year’s NSO-GfÖ Conference has been extended until 30th April! Join us at one of Europe’s largest ecology conferences—submit your abstract by 30 April 2026 here: 👉 vist.ly/4z76b #NSO2026 #gfoe2026

We’ve loved having Dr. Matias Arim with us this week! 🙌 Super inspiring visit, great chats about what we’ve done so far #funMETANET and what’s coming next🚀... and thanks for jumping in to help with the field sampling too 😉🌿 @greco-udg.bsky.social @iea-udg.bsky.social

Young Academies give a voice to and represent the interests of young scientists in academia, helping them to be heard by national governments and wider society go.nature.com/4nr8SNh

Why we launched Denmark’s second Young Academy (and what’s different about it)

YATSI aims to represent scientists based in academia and in industry, and to build bridges between the two sectors.

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Our new study in @science.org shows that over half of forests have become more fragmented since 2000, threatening biodiversity and climate. Brilliantly led by @yibiaozou.bsky.social as part of his PhD — and a huge team effort from @crowtherlab.bsky.social 👏 doi.org/10.1126/scie...

ICYMI: AmNat Editor-in-Chief Volker Rudolf speaks out: "Best Publishing Practices and Open Access Options at The American Naturalist" Read now! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Best Publishing Practices and Open Access Options at The American Naturalist | The American Naturalist: Vol 206, No 2

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"Biologists often become alienated from mathematics at an early stage in their career under the misconception [...] that biology is not a mathematical science. The claim is also often made that mathematical theory is overly simplistic, ignoring the [...] complex nature of biological systems." 1/

In Tucson!

Botanical Society of America@botsocamerica.bsky.social · last yr.

We’re excited to announce the Call for Symposia, Colloquia, & Workshop Proposals for #Botany2026, Aug. 1–5, 2026 in Tucson, AZ. Help us explore this year’s theme: Biodiversity at the Boundaries. There is a hard deadline of October 16 for Symposia and Colloquia proposals. www.botanyconference.org

Good insight here about interdisciplinarity. It's not just getting people from the right fields in the same room; it's about getting the right people, those who are honestly open to learning about the questions and methods of other fields. (Something @sfiscience.bsky.social is so good at.)

Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · last yr.

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Welcome new colleagues!

Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · last yr.

SFI welcomes ten new External Faculty members for 2025. These distinguished researchers expand our global network and help advance the science of complex systems across disciplines and institutions. Learn more about them here: santafe.edu/news

Collaborate with researchers globally. Chart your transdisciplinary path. Apply to SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. Competitive pay, research funds, and generous benefits to become a leader in transdisciplinary research. Deadline: Oct 1, 2025 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

🚨Big news🚨 A Pocket Guide to Scientific Writing and Publishing is out🎉 This is the book I wish I’d had 20 years ago — short, practical, and designed to help researchers write & get their papers published I hope it helps many Please share with anyone who might benefit! 👉 mybook.to/ScienceGuide

E.P.A. to Stop Updating Popular Database After Lead Scientist Criticized Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/c...

E.P.A. to Stop Updating Popular Database After Lead Scientist Criticized Trump

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The Royal Society is joining a growing wave of scientific publishers that are implementing the 'subscribe to open' model go.nature.com/3UPt7b3

UK Royal Society adopts ‘subscribe to open’ publishing model

Nature - Eight of its journals will publish papers open-access each year they earn sufficient library revenue.

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Glow-in-the-dark marsupials, fashionable science, and cyborg jellyfish Check out July's best science images, chosen by Nature's photo team 📸 go.nature.com/4m5xF9j

Glow-in-the-dark marsupial shows off its luminous fur — July’s best science images

The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.

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How do human drivers shape ecosystem services and their interactions? The answer impacts policy and management. We used Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN) to model ecosystem service interactions as a causal network for data from many Quebec landscapes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join the second Evolutionary Rescue workshop at the Max Planck Institute, Plon, Germany from June 30 to July 3, 2024. Registration is free until March 15. More info: https://workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/128/. #workshop

Evolutionary Rescue - bridging the gap between theory and experiments

IMPORTANT DATES Workshop: 30 June – 3 July, 2025 The workshop starts on June 30 at 5pm and ends on July 3 in the evening. Pre-school: June 29 (afternoon) & June 30, 2025 Registration deadline: 15 March, 2025 Notification of acceptance: 22 March, 2025 OVERVIEW Evolutionary rescue is a topic of great interest, from medicine to agriculture to conservation, and from natural observations to experiments to theory. In 2023, we organised a workshop on ‘Mathematical models of evolutionary rescue’. In...

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A preview of Part 1 of my book "An Editor's Guide to Writing and Publishing Science" is now freely available on Google Books shorturl.at/0xo93 If you like this preview, consider buying the book. If you can't afford the book, then contact me and I'll send it to you for free.

An Editor's Guide to Writing and Publishing Science

A good research paper is more than just a clear, concise, scientific expose. It is a document that needs to go beyond the science to attract attention. There are both strict and less definable norms f...

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Exciting opportunity for folks to work/live in Santa Fe at SFI as resident faculty, 12 month positions, 5 year terms, open at all ranks. Applications just opened & accepted through 3/28/25: apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/SFI2025...

The HPV vaccine (Gardasil) is literally life-saving. Cervical cancer cases have dropped to zero in Scotland because of this vaccine. Men also benefit, because HPV also causes penile cancer. Protect your kids-- get them vaccinated. www.bbc.com/news/article...

No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Important for SDM’ and climate impact on ecosystems

Jens-Christian Svenning@jcsvenning.bsky.social · 2y ago

Disequilibrium in plant distributions: Challenges and approaches for species distribution models - check our new review in @journalofecology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🍃🌦️♨️🌿 #SDM #plants #speciesdistributions #ranges

"Megafauna disappeared twice, firstly during the Late Pleistocene extinctions and secondly from our collective memory. (...) Understanding the extent of the consequences of the Late Pleistocene extinctions is integral for moving community ecology forward." Timeline of when "the giants" went missing:

Eoghan Daltun 🌍@irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2y ago

Rewilding cannot ignore the massive ecological voids left by the human-driven Pleistocene extinctions of megafauna. By focusing solely on species lost since the last Ice Age (eg: lynx, wolves), we're *totally* failing to see the full picture. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...