Congrats @xaalii.bsky.social and team! New data (with lots of mosses!) from a subantarctic island⬇️🧬
xᴀᴀʟɪ ᴏ'ʀᴇɪʟʟʏ ʙᴇʀᴋᴇʟᴇʏ, ᴘʜᴅ@xaalii.bsky.social · 3w ago🚨 New paper! "Holocene vegetation dynamics of Grande Terre (Kerguelen Islands) inferred from sedimentary ancient DNA" Thanks to all the coauthors who made this possible 🧬 @sandranogue.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
CINEMA I CIÈNCIA 🍿 Prepareu una tarda per veure 🎬 The Dig Una peli per conèixer l'arqueologia dels anys trenta del segle XX. Però abans, llegiu la ressenya de l'Eduard J. Chifré 👇 🔗https://f.mtr.cool/fxrrmawxhy #cinemaiciència #biòlegscat
Fab collaboration! 🏝️
Ferran Sayol@ferransayol.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew paper out! 🖨️ Glad to be part of this study, out in Science Advances: "Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Much of what looks natural in island biodiversity is a legacy of human impacts going back millennia. See main findings 👇🧵 (1/8)
Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene
Human impacts substantially affect our ability to detect and understand natural biodiversity patterns.
science.org
🌱This study reveals a dual response in grasslands to repeated drought, where community fine root traits maintain high resistance through species turnover, suggesting that community functional responses to climate extremes cannot be inferred from species trait shifts alone 👉️ buff.ly/gmDusXy
🚨New paper🚨 For decades, it was widely assumed tropical species would be hit hardest by #ClimateChange. Turns out climate-related local #extinctions are already more frequent among temperate species. Read our new study 🧵 @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415... #BiodiversityLoss #SciSky
Temperate local extinctions from climate change are outpacing tropical extinctions - Nature Climate Change
The authors analyse global-scale resurvey data for 5,151 species to reveal the sensitivity of tropical versus temperate species to climate change. They show significantly higher frequencies of local e...
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New paper out on island sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) by Xaali O'Reilly-Berkeley, @patrickweigelt.bsky.social, @biogeokreft.bsky.social, @sandranogue.bsky.social and others! We show how sedaDNA can unlock past island ecosystem dynamics and open new opportunities for island palaeoecology.
The potential of sedimentary ancient DNA to increase our understanding of island ecosystem dynamics
Recent advances in sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) are transforming palaeoecological research and offer new opportunities to study biodiversity change on islands. We assess the potential of sedaDNA ...
biogeography.pensoft.net
The potential of sedimentary ancient DNA to increase our understanding of island ecosystem dynamics biogeography.pensoft.net/articles.php... @biogeography.bsky.social thanks @xaalii.bsky.social for leading it and all co-authors 😀🤩🎶🏝️🧬 @uab.cat @creaf.cat
The potential of sedimentary ancient DNA to increase our understanding of island ecosystem dynamics
Recent advances in sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) are transforming palaeoecological research and offer new opportunities to study biodiversity change on islands. We assess the potential of sedaDNA ...
biogeography.pensoft.net
❄️ Adventures in Antarctica (and a bit of science) ❄️ Here's a summary of our expedition to King George Island this February, featuring penguins, lichens, mosses, and of course, the pink hula hoop! Thanks to funders @ec.europa.eu via POLARIN, #MSCActions and NERC @ukri.org for making it possible.
xᴀᴀʟɪ ᴏ'ʀᴇɪʟʟʏ ʙᴇʀᴋᴇʟᴇʏ, ᴘʜᴅ@xaalii.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨 New TEB Lab blog post alert! 📣 Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social tells us about her recent field work in Antarctica! ❄️🐧 www.temporalecology.com/post/adventu...
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
🌳 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 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
Plenary Speakers Announced! Further details will be shared soon. - Anna Traveset (IMEDEA) - Takashi Kamijo (University of Tsukuba) - Takeo Kuriyama (University of Hyogo) - Koh Nakamura (Hokkaido University) - Yuya Watari (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)
IslandBiologyJAPAN@islandbiologyjapan.bsky.social · 7mo 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）
Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture
Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...
science.org
I am delighted that our Forum paper on using long-term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning made it to the virtual issue of the Editor's Choices of 2025 @oikosjournal.bsky.social! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Using long‐term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning
Plant diversity is known to influence ecosystem functioning, but the strength and direction of this relationship vary considerably among studies, most of which have a short duration. In communities w...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Oikos@oikosjournal.bsky.social · 8mo agoOur Virtual Issue compiling the Editor's Choices of 2025 has been published! Editor's choices are papers that engage ecologists across general ecology while advancing understanding of ecological mechanisms, processes, and patterns — precisely Oikos goals. Find it here: vist.ly/4r2kq
The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Our latest effort to understand ISARs for plants globally!
The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS
The island species−area relationship (ISAR) is known to be near-ubiquitous, but its properties across the fullest span of island areas globally and...
pnas.org
How much forest is there? 🌳🌲🌎🌍🌏🌐 Scientists agree on only 26% of global mapped forest area @cp-oneearth.bsky.social www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
Global forest dataset incongruence creates high uncertainties for conservation, climate, and development policy
A comparison of 10 global forest datasets showed that technical differences created substantial uncertainty in estimates in forest carbon, forest-poverty relationships, and forest biodiversity habitat...
cell.com
📣 New TEB Lab blog post! 🚨 🏝️ Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social tells us about the recent International Biogeography Society (TIBS) Biennial Conference @biogeography.bsky.social in Aarhus, Denmark ❄️ www.temporalecology.com/post/tibs-20... @creaf.cat @uab.cat #TIBS
TIBS 2026 in Aarhus: Connecting Biogeography, Culture, and Colleagues
Biogeography forms an important framework within the Temporal Ecology Lab (TEBLab), supporting research into how species distributions, environmental change, and human activities interact across long ...
temporalecology.com
🚀 We’re excited to announce the launch of ForestDrought, the new app from the Catalan Forest Laboratory! With ForestDrought, you can visualize and download daily estimates of water balance for mainland Spain. Check it out ! laboratoriforestal.creaf.cat/forestdrough...
Laboratori Forestal Català
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wonderful collab lead by @zurelllab.bsky.social on the context dependency of climatic niche conservatism of non-native plants: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #UniversidadMayor #DataObservatory
To those that enjoy the boundary areas of your pet scientific discipline, I'd heartily recommend this well-founded, beautifully written vindication of art in the advance of scientific knowledge by Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social et al Congrats, Pepe! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Plants in the shadows: Bridging the gap in paleoecology and paleoart
Paleoart, long considered peripheral to paleoscience, has become a powerful medium for visualizing extinct life and landscapes. Yet its historical tra…
sciencedirect.com
www.temporalecology.com/post/vermut-... Latest from TEBLab @uab.cat @creaf.cat 😊👩🔬👨🔬🥼🧪🧬🔬
'Vermut Temporal' hosted at CREAF
This November CREAF celebrated an event called Vermut Temporal, co-organised by TEB Lab member Javier de la Casa. This events aim to gather different researchers from CREAF to present their work, fost...
temporalecology.com
I finally published my last dissertation chapter. In many ways, this was the most complicated one. I am very grateful to the team of scientists who went through the 10+ years of grant writing, data collection, analysis and writing with me. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Developing a macroecology for human‐altered ecosystems
Although anthropogenically-induced ecological disruptions are fundamentally important in defining ecosystem properties, they are largely overlooked by macroecological theory. Anthropogenic disruption...
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Are you going to #EGU26 and you'd like to present about past human-fire-landscape interactions?🔥 Check our session below ! ⏰ Abstract deadline is on the 15th of January! ⏰
Dr. Michela Mariani@michela-mariani.bsky.social · 11mo ago🔥 Call for Abstracts – #EGU26 Interdisciplinary Session: Cultural Pyroscapes Through Time ITS3.5/BG5.6 🔥 📅 Deadline 15/01/2026. @gilromera.bsky.social @hcadd.bsky.social @thatpollenguy.bsky.social 👉[https://lnkd.in/eWYtRsge] #Wildfire #Palaeoecology #Archaeology #ClimateChange #FireEcology
🌍 Ready to take your biogeography journey to the next level? Join us at #TIBS2026 in Aarhus and experience: ✨ World-class invited speakers 🎤 Cutting-edge contributed talks 🔬 Hands-on interactive workshops 📊 TWO vibrant poster sessions 🚶 Unforgettable excursions #TIBS2026 #Biogeography #AarhusUni
The International Biogeography Society - TIBS Aarhus – 12th Biennial Conference
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El core team de #PalaeOpen se reunió en la UAB (Barcelona) para definir la gobernanza y planificar un 2026 de ciencia abierta. Objetivo: integrar la mejor evidencia paleoecológica para entender interacciones organismo-ambiente. Próximamente: talleres, summer schools y reuniones científicas (1/2)
New genomic evidence suggests humans reached Sahul around 60,000 years ago via two distinct routes. The findings highlight early seafaring, deep population roots, and complex migrations shaping Indigenous Australian and Papuan ancestry. #Anthropology #Archaeogenetics #Sahul #HumanOrigins
The First Horizon: How Ancient Genomes Redraw the Story of Australia’s Earliest Peoples
New genetic evidence strengthens the case for a much earlier and more complex human arrival in Sahul.
anthropology.net
"This is the first time we can say with certainty that European wildcats lived in prehistoric Ireland" A stunning discovery and more evidence that there's a lot left to discover about Ireland's ecology! www.rte.ie/news/munster...
Wildcat bones found in Co Clare dated to 5,500 years ago
The first directly dated wildcat bones found in Ireland have been identified, confirming that the species inhabited the island more than 5,500 years ago.
rte.ie
About 30% of island-restricted reptiles are currently threatened with extinction (vs 12% of mainland reptile species). Yet, just 6.7% of the published research from 1960-2021 is devoted to island species @mongabay.com @biology.ox.ac.uk @jesusoxford.bsky.social news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Island-confined reptiles face high extinction risk, but low research interest
Reptile species found only on islands are significantly more vulnerable to extinction than their mainland counterparts, yet remain vastly overlooked by researchers, according to a recent study. “Repti...
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