Human Pressures Drive Compositional Homogenization and Functional Shifts in Southeast Asian Mammal Communities 🔗 buff.ly/WyxFEw6
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New paper out in New Phytologist 🌱 After centuries of research in Europe, we have studied only ~37% of all seed-dispersal interactions. Birds of prey, ants, and rodents are among the most understudied - yet researchers rarely flag them as gaps! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Neglected seed dispersers and research compartmentalisation: how much do we know about what we don't know?
Geographic distribution of seed dispersal studies by disperser guild.
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Great Seminar with Tom Matthews organised by @islandbiology.bsky.social on: Assessing the wider implications of species extinctions: island birds and beyond May 27th, 4pm British Summer Time / 5pm CET Register (it's free) with this link: forms.gle/Cn1wUvukAp2Y...
Alfred Russel Wallace Seminar
Assessing the wider implications of species extinctions: island birds and beyond Tom Matthews University of Birmingham Wednesday, May 27th, 4:00pm BST (British Summer Time) / 5:00pm CEST (Central Eu...
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🌲A global analysis of 6,550 observations shows that mixed-species plantations increase soil carbon and water holding capacity by about 10.5%. The greatest gains occur in conifer broadleaf mixtures in warm, wet climates through better soil structure 👉️ buff.ly/U3sA2l4
Read the accompanying News & Views commentary 👇 Flexible photosynthesis at the end Permian www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free to read: rdcu.be/ff09f
Flexible photosynthesis at the end Permian - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The few plants that thrived after the Earth’s greatest mass extinction used a specialized physiology, known as crassulacean acid metabolism photosynthesis, that is adapted to extremely dry environment...
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Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · 6mo agoMorphological and stable isotope analysis of Early Triassic lycophyte leaves suggest they were similar to extant Isoetales and thus may have made use of CAM photosynthesis—a trait that may have been advantageous during the Permian–Triassic mass extinction 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ICYMI: New online! Roadmaps for addressing the biodiversity crisis
Roadmaps for addressing the biodiversity crisis
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 20 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00152-2This issue launches the Roadmap article format, with articles that chart a path forward on important topics in biodiversity science.
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🥁New paper out! doi.org/10.1111/1365... In Sumatra 🏝️ tree islands inside oil palm landscapes revealed 27,000+ phytochemicals 🧪🌴 many still unknown! Tree islands in oil palm plantations can enhance phytochemical diversity through natural regeneration 📈💚 #islands BioMonI and #EFForTS-BEE project 🤝
Phytochemical diversity of naturally regenerated plants in a biodiversity enrichment experiment
Tree islands established within an industrial oil palm plantation promoted the recovery of phytochemical diversity through natural regeneration. Ten years after planting, untargeted metabolomics of 7...
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IslandBiologyJAPAN@islandbiologyjapan.bsky.social · 8mo agoプレナリーセッションの登壇者を先行公開！ 詳細は順次お知らせいたします。 ・Anna Traveset（IMEDEA） ・上條 隆志（筑波大学） ・栗山 武夫（兵庫県立大学） ・中村 剛（北海道大学） ・亘 悠哉（森林総合研究所）
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2025 Top Downloaded Papers: Global Change Biology
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Recovering European River Invertebrate Communities Homogenize or Differentiate Depending on Anthropogenic Stress 🔗 buff.ly/f8RtOzG
New paper just out deciphering the global species–area relationship for plants with @biogeokreft.bsky.social @patrickweigelt.bsky.social and others in @pnas.org Across islands area alone explains 66% of variation in richness best described by a classic power-law model www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
👀 Global maps of 37 plant #FunctionalTraits as defined in the TRY Plant Trait Database with a resolution of 1 km and a global extent 🌐🧪 📏🧮🌮 global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-...
Citizen science-powered global trait maps
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New paper out! 🐦📊 We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources. Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Why biodiversity science needs its own model intercomparison projects 👇. Lessons from climate science, applied to biodiversity & policy. 🌍🧬 by @geobon.org #EcoCode team @mark-urban.bsky.social @gretabocedi.bsky.social @sjevelazco.bsky.social
Nature Reviews Biodiversity@natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 8mo agoNew online! Biodiversity science and policy need more model intercomparisons
Our paper on how to use niche theory (MacArthur's minimization principle) to understand eco/evo limits to diversity got a shout out from Quarterly Review of Biology: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... The paper is hard to access but a copy can be found here drive.google.com/file/d/14EGZ...
Speciation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Edited by Catherine L. Peichel, Åke Brännström, Daniel I. Bolnick, Ulf Dieckmann, and Rebecca J. Safran. Cold Spring Harbor (New York): Cold Spr...
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Exploring patterns and mechanisms that affect range shifts in the tropical mountain cloudbase zone | Courses | University of Liverpool
In this project, we will use multiple approaches (plant transplants, herbivory monitoring and remote sensing) to characterise the tropical montane forest ecotonal transition and understand the potenti...
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Belen Fadrique@belenfadrique.bsky.social · 9mo agoApply for this fully funded PhD studentship in Tropical mountain forest ecology! Join us at University of Liverpool to carry out research on plant range shifts in the cloud forests. With: @fdraper.bsky.social @funkyant.bsky.social @jhomeier.bsky.social. Applications due Jan 21. tinyurl.com/23ary845
Very happy to share this new article on Andes-Amazon tree diversity change. We found that over the last 4 decades, tree richness changed differently across the Andes-Amazon regions. Thanks to the many researchers across the world who made this possible! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Keep reading!
Very happy to share this new paper is out! 🚀 Using multitaxa trait-based data, we introduce new indicators that capture ecosystem resilience and the critical role of functionally unique species for sustaining ecosystem functioning. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Multitaxa functional diversity increases the resilience of biological natural capital in the Amazon
This study presents a trait-based framework integrating functional diversity into biological natural capital accounting, capturing both ecosystem resilience and species uniqueness across multiple tax...
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Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
