New paper out! 🦏💩🌿 Stop thinking the carbon cycle is just a plant thing. Megaherbivores actively reshape C-N-P, by eating, pooping, and trampling. So why are they stil invisible in most vegetation models? 🤔 We reviewed the evidence and propose a way to bring animals into DGVM👇

Functional Ecology@funecology.bsky.social · 3w ago

📰Published📰Why animals matter for Earth system models: Including large mammalian herbivores🌍️ buff.ly/JBlh0Rj 🧪

An exhilarating first day at #TIBS2026 ❄️🌍 Alfred Russell Wallace Awards for Michael Donoghue & Mark Lomolino, the launch of our symposium on Quantitative Paleoecology, and outstanding talks throughout — all set in snowy Aarhus. Inspiring energy from the biogeography & macroecology community!

Second round of parallel sessions at #TIBS2026 ✔️Island Biogeography ✔️Faunal Paleontology ✔️Human impacts and conservation ✔️Macroecological Drivers of Avian Community Assembly and Change ✔️Impacts of Hunting

Join us in the afternoon as we kick off #TIBS2026 with five exciting parallel sessions: ✔️Species-Area Relationships ✔️ Paleoecology and Change Through Time ✔️ Niches and Co-occurrence ✔️ Bird Abundance Change ✔️ Geodiversity

Are you coming to #TIBS2026? Let us introduce our Conversation Starter cards! They are made to spark informal, curious, sometimes nerdy discussions: no right answers, only good stories. Pick a card, ask a neighbour, and see where it leads 💬 One card is revealed below👀⬇️

Preparing your trip to Aarhus for #TIBS2026? 🇩🇰 👀 Our program is online, do check it to learn about the talks of the parallel sessions, the two poster sessions and the four symposia happening in the mornings! ⬇️ share.google/HxSB12qaWtuK...