Which plants and animals are able to rewire their seed-dispersal interactions under changing conditions?🐦🌱 We don't know yet but you can help to find out! Please apply to the open #PhD position in the ANEW project led by @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social at the University of Helsinki and @sgn.one 🌎🌐

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📢 PhD opportunity at the University of Helsinki! Join the ANEW project to study ecological networks, seed dispersal and biodiversity conservation under global change. Apply by 31 Aug 2026. 🔗 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/31_8_202... #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs

Please help us spread the word about a postdoc position on population and demographic modeling in Tom Miller’s lab at Rice University. It is part of our SERDP-funded project on habitat-based conservation of threatened and endangered species in the Mariana Islands. app.box.com/s/5804wjthga...

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📢 PhD opportunity at the University of Helsinki! Join the ANEW project to study ecological networks, seed dispersal and biodiversity conservation under global change. Apply by 31 Aug 2026. 🔗 jobs.helsinki.fi/job/31_8_202... #PhD #Ecology #Conservation #AcademicJobs

Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation

Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) in Ecological Networks and Biodiversity Conservation

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Please share: Full-time PhD position on Butterfly Evolution at High Elevations 🦋⛰️ The project aims to understand the evolution and adaptation of Andean white butterflies using genomics. DEADLINE: September 11, 2026 More info: pavelmatos.wordpress.com/join-us/

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Opportunities Below are the positions currently open in our lab. Open PhD position (full time) Comparative and Population Genomics of Butterflies at High Elevations. The project aims to understand …

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Most vascular plants' distribition are in disequilibrium w/ current climates, w/ species ranges best predicted by climatic conditions 10-18 yrs before sampling, especially so for closed-canopy species 🌳🌳🌲🌲 ➡️ Lagging dynamics or microclimatic processes ? @natecoevo.nature.com shorturl.at/m2EOx

These guys were ignorant and incompetent enough on their own even before AI slop, imagine now...

Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is why blindly using generative AI is a very, very bad idea. It doesn’t *know* anything… “A Reuters analysis found the image of the map … contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Satellite-based analyses systematically underestimate carbon accumulation in mature forests. This study illustrates the importance of independent lines of evidence and suggests that terrestrial carbon budgets need to account for forest structure. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Widespread carbon accumulation in mature forests remains underestimated by satellite observations - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The authors combine satellites, repeat airborne lidar, dynamic global vegetation models and field plot monitoring across the conterminous USA to show widespread continued carbon accumulation in mature...

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2-years Postdoc in Aquatic Ecosystem Resilience and Climate Adaptation at #SLUAqua with @orjost.bsky.social and in collaboration with NRM Stockholm. #ecoevo #EvolBiol Using systematic reviews, meta-analyses & other synthesis methods to address the following questions 🧵 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Postdoctoral position in Aquatic Ecosystem Resilience and Climate Adaptation | slu.se

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Are current species conservation policies enough? New study indicates that common bird and common butterfly species across Europe are set to keep declining in the coming decades. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Predicted decline in common bird and butterfly species even under conservation policy scenarios in Europe - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Projections for 265 common bird and 144 common butterfly species across Europe under multiple sustainability scenarios, including those of existing conservation objectives, find no scenario in which t...

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Anyone else here hates that this AI companion now pops up by default every time one accesses a paper in Wiley journals? It's rather obtrusive.

Increasing nutrient diversity is expected to promote microbial diversity. This study shows that more complex environments can enhance resource uptake, intensify competition and lead to microbial biodiversity loss, challenging a central ecological assumption 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Increased nutrient diversity can induce loss of microbial diversity through enhanced resource uptake - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Increasing nutrient diversity is expected to promote microbial diversity. This study shows that more complex environments can enhance resource uptake, intensify competition and lead to microbial biodi...

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Beef has a huge climate problem. And the most effective solution -- by far -- is to simply reduce beef consumption and waste. But we don't want to hear that, so we often welcome fuzzy greenwashing stories instead. In the end, however, the math doesn't seem to work. drawdown.org/insights/gre...

Greenwashing and denial won’t solve beef’s enormous climate problems

Dive into the world of beef's environmental impact, from deforestation to climate change. Learn about the myths of "eco-friendly" beef and the industry's narratives.

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Easiest poll ever: I upvoted the options featuring birds, downvoted those featuring humans.

Rebecca Schwutke@rschwutke.bsky.social · 2w ago

For all Europeans, you can vote on the design for the new bank notes from the European Central Bank here: surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote... Some of the designs are quite vibrant and punchy

We celebrate some of the amazing achievements of our incredible colleagues. In Peru, Rodolfo Vasquez and his team have discovered *236* plant species new to science in just one reserve. A 40-year labour of love in some of Earth's most challenging forests. sway.cloud.microsoft/HvzAubjQA0iC...

A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution identifies Karenia cristata as a brevetoxin-producing species that is the dominant component of the prolonged microalgal bloom causing mass marine mortality in South Australia. go.nature.com/3RjXCaZ 🌎🌊🧪

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

I don't often single out papers in NEE as important (every paper we publish is special one way or another!), but let me say, this one should be a big deal for remote sensing ecology.

Nature Ecology & Evolution@natecoevo.nature.com · 2w ago

A satellite-derived metric is widely used as proxy for ecosystem resilience despite the lack of mechanistic validation. Is it a real ecophysiological signal? How sensitive is it to methodological choices? Find out here (open-access): www.nature.com/articles/s41... @gerslab.bsky.social

Cool new study, surprising findings! 'Increased #nutrient #diversity can induce loss of #microbial diversity through enhanced resource uptake' @natecoevo.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Increased nutrient diversity can induce loss of microbial diversity through enhanced resource uptake - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Increasing nutrient diversity is expected to promote microbial diversity. This study shows that more complex environments can enhance resource uptake, intensify competition and lead to microbial biodi...

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Every single day of this administration, I have thought of my late professor Joe Nye and his work on soft power. Every single day of this administration, Trump finds a new way to hemorrhage soft power from a country that once had more to spare than any in the world.

The study lead by Takehiro Sasaki and published in Nature Ecology and Evolution synthesize data from 75 biodiversity experiments (of classical synthetic design) across grasslands and forests worldwide. From our group, the Benesov experiment is included. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biodiversity reduces productivity losses most strongly under extreme drought – especially in drier grasslands. 🌱🌲 A new paper led by Takehiro Sasaki is out in @natecoevo.nature.com with many contributors from @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social at @idiv-research.bsky.social. www.idiv.de/biodiversity...

Biodiversity does not enhance productivity equally across all ecosystems under climate extremes

Biodiversity reduces productivity losses most effectively under extreme drought in drier grasslands.

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New collaborative paper led by Takehiro Sasaki out @natecoevo.nature.com with plenty of contributors from our group & others @idiv-research.bsky.social Biodiversity enhances productivity under drought in more arid grasslands but has limited effects in more arid forests 🌱🌲 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Biodiversity effects under climate extremes intensify with aridity in grasslands but not forests - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning under climate extremes may depend on ecosystem type and baseline aridity. Here the authors show that the effects of plant diversity on productivity are st...

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Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI rdcu.be/ftL0T Lees et al. highlight the growing problem of AI-manipulated media contaminating citizen science platforms

Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

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📢 We're hiring! I'm looking for a **Junior Researcher** to join my team at @EuracResearch (Bolzano, Italy) and work on bird monitoring, bioacoustics, Passive Acoustic Monitoring, and biodiversity research. Apply here: eurac.onboard.org/jobs/dGXQ9qe... Please share! 🙏 🐦‍⬛🎙️ #Ecology #Ornithology

Junior Researcher to conduct passive acoustic monitoring and point count of birds.

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Our July issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/... Featuring research on: ⛏️ Impacts of nickel mining 🪸 Habitat complexity on coral reefs 🦠 Evolution of osmotrophy Cover image from Guhlin et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

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BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…

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Rethinking temperate coral restoration beyond tropical paradigms www.nature.com/articles/s41... Bramanti et al caution against deploying existing tropical restoration solutions to temperate coral systems 🪸

Rethinking temperate coral restoration beyond tropical paradigms - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Rethinking temperate coral restoration beyond tropical paradigms

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Almost every European plant species is out of equilibrium. Climate change is only part of the story—disturbance greatly shapes where species actually occur. 🚨Our new paper 🌱in @natecoevo.nature.com analysed 3,047 species across >1.1M European vegetation plots. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Analysis based on over 1 million vegetation plots across Europe shows that disturbance explains range disequilibrium and whether species can occupy landscapes with suitable climate www.nature.com/articles/s41... @seh-pang.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social @econovoau.bsky.social

Disturbance regimes drive widespread plant range disequilibrium in Europe alongside climate change - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Ecological constraints may prevent species from occupying potentially suitable areas. Here the authors show that disturbance is a widespread predictor of range disequilibrium in the vascular flora of ...

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📢 We’re hiring at Aarhus University! Tenure-track or permanent on vertebrate-driven #ecosystem processes, especially large #mammals w/in @econovoau.bsky.social's strong interdisciplinary environment spanning #ecology, paleoecology, biodiversity science & global change biology 🦬🌿🌍 ➡️More info below