What makes some plant populations more resilient than others to year-to-year environmental change? Not reproduction or growth, but simply surviving: and it depends most on aridity, not temperature. New from @robsalgo.bsky.social @salgoteam.bsky.social @ecosantos.bsky.social 👇

For plants facing climate change, staying alive beats reproducing

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Our paper on transient dynamics and nonlinear fitness it out in Ecology! We present a matrix framework that links pulse (one-time) and press (sustained) perturbations, showing how transient nonlinearities and demography shape fitness. (1/3) esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Transient dynamics and nonlinear fitness: A matrix approach to pulse and press perturbation

Disturbances can occur as short-lived pulses (e.g., storms) or sustained presses (e.g., chronic drought). Much work in ecology has developed methods to help predict how natural populations respond to...

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Just out! Beyond the + link b/w hunting & body mass in non-human primates 🐒, closely related species share similar hunting risk with important regional diffs (e.g. American tropics vs Asia) suggesting diff cultural practices. Thanks @liomys.mx for the lead and the intl team for the collab 👇

Luis D. Verde Arregoitia@liomys.mx · 3mo ago

🐵 New paper out today 📄 How is hunting distributed across the primate phylogeny and how is this influencing extinction risk? International collaboration w/ @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social and many others doi.org/10.1111/acv....

Hiring 3 postdocs in ecological resilience @biology.ox.ac.uk for my @erc.europa.eu CoG ResIntegrate project. Deadline May 29th. Details below. Pls share @salgoteam.bsky.social @evoldir.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology at University of Oxford

An academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ecology is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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The R package mpmaggregate (v0.2.5) is now available on CRAN. The package aggregates matrix population models into lower-dimensional models. Thanks to my coauthors, Roberto Salguero-Gómez and Hiroyuki Yokomizo. @robsalgo.bsky.social #rstats #ecology #demography

Delighted to announce that I have received an @erc.europa.eu ERC Consolidator Grant to examine the drivers of and forecast outcomes from ecological resilience against interacting disturbances. Stay tuned in this space for postdoc posts coming live soon @biology.ox.ac.uk @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social

New article out in Ecology Letters! Developing a general math model, we show how cross-stage interactions modify the stability predicted by classic unstructured models. 📄 Population Structure Plays a Key Role in Community Stability. @ox.ac.uk @ifisc.uib-csic.es @ceabcsic.bsky.social @csic.es

Population Structure Plays a Key Role in Community Stability

Population structure is a widespread yet underappreciated feature of ecological communities. Here, we develop a general theoretical framework integrating life-stage structure into community matrix mo...

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🗃 A new study brings together evolution, complexity, and life history theory, proposing that teleonomic complexity—measured through life history strategies—offers a way to understand how organisms evolve and adapt over time. bit.ly/4nIPV8F #EvoSky #AcademicSky @robsalgo.bsky.social

Our very own @biolliegist.bsky.social and @erolafenollosa.bsky.social will be will be part of this event next week. It’s always timely and important to discuss gender biases in quantitative ecology 🌈📊 @biology.ox.ac.uk #GenderBiasInScience #QuantitativeEcology

Erola Fenollosa@erolafenollosa.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Next tuesday I’ll be contributing to the Gender and Quantitative Ecology Panel Discussion! hosted by @bes-quantitative.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org with the beautiful minds: @vinitagowda.bsky.social @nhcooper123.bsky.social @trishg.bsky.social @biolliegist.bsky.social 💚💜🌈

"Males and females rarely live the same length of time. In humans, women nearly always outlive men, with an average advantage of about five years worldwide today. This pattern holds across history" @robsalgo.bsky.social for @uk.theconversation.com 👇 theconversation.com/why-do-so-ma...

Why do so many female animals live longer than males? New research

The fascinating exceptions in the animal kingdom to patterns of longevity.

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We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the @valor-project.eu Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators bartomeuslab.com/joining-the-...

Joining the lab

2-year Postdoctoral position on VALOR EU-project: We are offering a 2-year postdoctoral position to join the Horizon EU project: Values and dependence of society on pollinators (VALOR; The candidat…

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Britain remains a vital stronghold for the protected great crested newt—but habitat assessments need updating. Research by @emilyseccombe.bsky.social and @robsalgo.bsky.social introduces refined methods to evaluate pond suitability and safeguard these amphibians. Read more ⬇️ bit.ly/46jLnQt

New publication by @cassiespeakman.bsky.social and colleagues incl. @oaggimenez.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social @robsalgo.bsky.social on approaches to investigate wildlife response to human activities #ecology 🌍🧪 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Understanding and Predicting Population Response to Anthropogenic Disturbance: Current Approaches and Novel Opportunities

Here, we provide a cross-taxa overview of key methodological approaches and model elements that are used to model the effects of human disturbance on wildlife populations. We discuss how these modell...

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I’ve been promoted to Full Professor of Ecology. This milestone reflects the vast support, excellent mentorship, many collaborations, and inspiration I’ve received from so many people over the years: family, mentors, students, colleagues, and friends. Looking forward to the next chapter. Thx all

The Journal of Animal Ecology's 5th Sidnie Manton award is now open to proposals!🚨 Read more about the award here: buff.ly/BV6OT1P ...and submit your proposal here: buff.ly/YsnYe29 The deadline for proposals will be 1 September 2025.

🎙️ new podcast episode! 👨‍🔬 as part of our editor expertise series, we spoke with Dr Roberto Salguero-Gómez (@robsalgo.bsky.social), Commissioning Editor for our journal. 👂listen to the full episode here: buff.ly/krNWt8z

Deadline to register & submit abstracts to the Evolutionary Demography Soc conference TODAY @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social evodemo2025.weebly.com Pls share @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @biology.ox.ac.uk @britishecologicalsociety.org @evoldir.bsky.social @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

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Human-induced pressures threaten many species – & the combination of multiple can be even worse 🐢🐊 Invasive species & global trade can cause even worse impact when combined with other threats like habitat disturbance & climate change 👇 bit.ly/4e8Lpgd @robsalgo.bsky.social @mcem-oxford.bsky.social

Threats working in synergy could eradicate distinctive, irreplaceable species

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Exciting work done by @erolafenollosa.bsky.social as part of her #MSCA with @robsalgo.bsky.social @salgoteam.bsky.social, also with Natalie Briscoe and Antoine Guisan @ecospat-ch.bsky.social! It was a pleasure to have worked on this piece with everyone!

Deadline for the EvoDemoS conference 2 wks away! Join us at @PembrokeOxford @UniofOxford to discuss the breath and depth of demographic theory and applications in Sept evodemo2025.weebly.com Please retweet @biology.ox.ac.uk @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

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Also @klvoje.bsky.social @jjemerson.bsky.social @efronhofer.bsky.social @bobohara.bsky.social @jgsaulsbury.bsky.social @robsalgo.bsky.social @eesaupe.bsky.social @devapriya-chat.bsky.social @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social and others not here. And thank you reviewers, whoever you might be!

Lee Hsiang Liow （廖珕庠）@lhliow.bsky.social · last yr.

I am thrilled to be granted a CAS year (Centre for Advanced Studies 2026/2027) in Oslo to work on population dynamics using the fossil record. Looking forward to hosting Steve Ellner, @tomezard.bsky.social Tiago Quental, Stephen De Lisle and others cas-nor.no/news/announc...

Assessing limits of sustainable seed harvest in wild plant populations. How many seeds can we harvest in a wild population without causing damage? A massive modeling effort, with @robsalgo.bsky.social @bossdorf.bsky.social @plantevoeco.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Still a few days left to apply for this position in phenology/climate change ecology. Spread the word! The deadline is 31 May.

Owen Jones@jonesor.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨We’re hiring a postdoc in Woodland Phenology & Climate Change at Uni Southern Denmark!🚨 Combines fieldwork (Sweden & Denmark), remote sensing (drone/camera) & genetics to study phenological response to climate. Link: fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com.mcas.ms/hcmUI/Candid... Pls share!

1/7 🔥🦎 Why now? Due to social media restrictions in Brazil last year (BSKY > X 👀), we couldn’t share this earlier. Thrilled to finally present our findings: Severe fire regimes DECREASE resilience in ectothermic populations. Resistance ≠ recovery. #FireEcology #Conservation 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Severe fire regimes decrease resilience of ectothermic populations

With a long-term, individual-level data, researchers provide evidence for how disturbance regimes shape the life-history strategies and resilience of three lizard species. As predicted by theory, pop...

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REPOST #jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social 👨‍💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor 👩‍💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health 📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness 👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography 🤖 Programmer AI See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs #Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population

Only 11 days left to the early-bird registration deadline for the 10th annual Evolutionary Demography Society @PembrokeOxford 22-24 Sept 2025. evodemo2025.weebly.com. @biology.ox.ac.uk @mpidr.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

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"Increases in Arctic Extreme Climatic Events Are Linked to Negative Fitness Effects on the Local Biota", now out at @globalchangebio.bsky.social, last @salgoteam.bsky.social publication, led by our @biology.ox.ac.uk MBiol student Maya Lemaire

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