Pablo García‐Díaz

Pablo Garcia-Diaz

@pablo-ecology.bsky.social

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Ecologist. Ecological modelling, ecosystem services, invasive alien species, and wildlife trade. Often found running models or marvelling at reptiles

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · May 23

Interested in modelling multiple ecosystem services and their interactions but don't know where to start? Check out our OA new paper! We combined expert knowledge and network analyses to build conceptual system maps and guide data-gathering efforts. 🌎🧪🌐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Graphical abstract of the paper 'Conceptual system maps to guide research and management of multiple ecosystem services and disservices' showing a map of the Lules river watershed (Tucuman Argentina); two photos of experts working in groups; an arrow indicating that the knowledge derived from experts was encoded into a network; and a network showing the relationships between ecosystem services and disservices and their environmental, social, and economic drivers

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 11h

Vale, Emma. This is truly gut-wrenching news. Sincere condolences for her family, friends, and countless colleagues in the scientific community. theconversation.com/emma-johnsto...

Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity

The University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, who has died aged 52, was driven by a deep love of science and a desire to safeguard the planet’s future.

theconversation.com

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 18h

I am interested in the first one, how do I apply?

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 19h

Predicting and managing the spatially asynchronous pulses of herbivorous rodent abundance cascading through ecosystems

🔗 tinyurl.com/mbsj4s7p
🏢 @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social
👥 Xavier Lambin (@lambin-ecology.bsky.social), Paul Caplat (@paulcaplat.bsky.social), Deon Roos (@deonroos.bsky.social), Me

QUARTILES DLA CASE: Predicting and managing the spatially asynchronous pulses of herbivorous rodent abundance cascading through ecosystems at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA CASE: Predicting and managing the spatially asynchronous pulses of herbivorous rodent abundance cascading through ecosystems at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD....

tinyurl.com

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Pablo García‐Díaz, Samuele Ramellini

Chris Sutherland @chrissuthy.bsky.social · 19h

We are recruiting several PhD students. If you are interested in conservation conflicts, population ecology, quantitative ecology, or biodiversity, check these projects out (links in the thread, feel free to reach out):

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 1d

Can a Mate-Finding Allee Effect Be Elicited to Help Eradicate Invasive Mammals? 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Mark Lubell, Julie L. Lockwood, Nancy Knowlton , and 3 more Mark Lubell, Julie L. Lockwood, Nancy Knowlton, Stephen D. Murphy, Iryna Dronova, Pablo García‐Díaz

Hugh Possingham @hugepossum.bsky.social · 2d

How do you know whether or not your conservation monitoring program is helping you to deliver outcomes? We have made a checklist of 15 distinct reasons - some more directly connected to outcomes than others.

Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 7d

2025 Georgina Mace Review now out in #ProcB - How monitoring matters for nature #conservation: 15 reasons framed in a theory of change #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

Erika C. Freeman @ecfreewoman.bsky.social · 2d

Limitations of chemical monitoring hinder aquatic risk evaluations on the macroscale | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Limitations of chemical monitoring hinder aquatic risk evaluations on the macroscale

Macroscale evaluations of chemical monitoring data require the integration of chemical, spatial, and temporal dimensions. Here, we linked 64 million US surface water monitoring records (1900 chemicals...

www.science.org

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · 5d

New Opinion article by Vaibhav Chaturvedi and Joy Rajbanshi:

"A strategic framework to assess causes and consequences of long-term land use change is critical for India"

🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 7d

A pair of young screech-owls/alicucu (Megascopus sp.) in a Yungas forest in NW Argentina #birds

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 8d

I wonder if the rise of LLMs explains the increasing number of weak reviews and essays that I'm seeing lately. Many read like undergrad papers for an introductory class - a very high-level description of the topic mixed with some examples but little to no general/generalisable insights and synthesis

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 10d

New in @biolinvasions.bsky.social: I argue that accelerating invasion rates threaten ecosystem stability & sustainable management. Thus there is an urgent need for progress toward Target 6 of the Kunming-Montreal GBF, which calls for a substantive reduction in global invasion rates.
-> rdcu.be/eVlNk

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Julie L. Lockwood, Ivan Jarić , and 1 more Ingolf Kühn, Julie L. Lockwood, Ivan Jarić, Pablo García‐Díaz

Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · 14d

In our new Biological Conservation paper, we show the potential of social media in improving #invasive species #distribution.

Incorporating social media data
🔍 identified new locality records,
🔍 expanded range size for 67% of species

Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
(1/6) @monashbiol.bsky.social

Reposted by Emilio Vilanova, Pablo García‐Díaz, Alicia Valdés , and 1 more Emilio Vilanova, Pablo García‐Díaz, Alicia Valdés, Julen Astigarraga

Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 18d

Comment article: Matthew Fagan, Naomi Schwartz and Ruth DeFries offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets to ensure responsible use of remote-sensing datasets in ecology and environmental science.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets - Nature Ecology & Evolution

In this age of abundant remote-sensing data, global datasets are increasingly relied upon to analyse the planet at unprecedented scale and resolution. We offer three considerations on uncertainties an...

www.nature.com

Reposted by Andy Purvis, Jesse M. Alston, Etienne Lalechère

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 19d

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100

Harmonized land-use and land-cover datasets that include past and future periods are key to solving sustainability issues, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However, existing harmonized pr...

www.cell.com

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

GBIF España/Spain @gbif.es · 19d

GBIF abre las puertas a la #biodiversidad global: más de 12.000 estudios en 180 países demuestran cómo los #datosabiertos impulsan la ciencia, la conservación y la sostenibilidad. Un artículo en PNAS (👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) destaca el papel clave de @gbif.org en la investigación mundial 🐼🌵🐧🦠🧬

GBIF ofrece información de biodiversidad con datos abiertos
GBIF integra millones de registros de biodiversidad y los hace accesibles para impulsar el conocimiento y apoyar la toma de decisiones ambientales
Foto: Ochotona princeps. Autor: Jason Headley (https://spain.inaturalist.org/people/jasonheadley). Licencia: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)

Los datos de GBIF impulsan estudios sobre cambio climático y conservación
Los datos abiertos de GBIF se combinan con variables ambientales para crear modelos que permiten evaluar los riesgos del cambio climático y las especies invasoras.
Figura: Crecimiento a lo largo del tiempo de los datos de presencias de biodiversidad accesibles a través de GBIF y de los artículos revisados por pares que utilizan estos datos.

Por qué los datos abiertos de GBIF son esenciales para la investigación científica
Miles de estudios usan GBIF para responder a preguntas sobre conservación, agricultura, salud y ecología.
Figura: Gráfico "Sankey bump" que muestra el cambio de los principales temas de investigación de las publicaciones a lo largo del tiempo

GBIF transforma la ciencia con nuevas fuentes de datos abiertos de biodiversidad
La expansión de GBIF incorpora eDNA y ecoacústica y amplía su cobertura taxonómica y metodológica.
Figura: Resultados del modelo de temas estructurales a partir de 4.301 estudios que utilizaron datos mediados por GBIF publicados entre 2020 y 2024. La red de correlaciones de temas visualiza asociaciones cuantitativas entre ellos (nodos), donde los temas próximos y conectados por una línea gris tienen mayor probabilidad de aparecer juntos en un mismo estudio. El color de los nodos indica el cambio relativo en la prevalencia de cada tema a lo largo del tiempo, comparando la prevalencia en estudios anteriores (2016–2019) con la de los publicados recientemente (2020–2024). El tamaño de los nodos es proporcional a la proporción total de cada tema.

Reposted by Fernando Pulido, Pablo García‐Díaz, Víctor Noguerales , and 2 more Fernando Pulido, Pablo García‐Díaz, Víctor Noguerales, Juan Antonio Hernández‐Agüero, Álvaro Gaytán

Parques Nacionales (OAPN) @oapngob.bsky.social · 19d

Desde que tú no me quieres
yo todos los días me muero.
Y alimento, con mi carne,
en Monfragüe buitres negros,
en Monfragüe buitres negros.

Robe Iniesta🪽

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 25d

Deuterocohnia forming structures similar to "fairy circles" in Argentina? 🌎🧪

Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 25d

Invasion impacts in terrestrial ecosystems: Global patterns and predictors #bioinvasions 🌎🌐🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Invasion impacts in terrestrial ecosystems: Global patterns and predictors

Biological invasions can alter ecosystems, yet their impacts vary across ecological contexts. Using a global meta-analysis of 775 studies (2223 effect sizes) in terrestrial systems, we show that the m...

www.science.org

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 26d

Andean Flicker / carpintero andino (Colaptes rupicola) #bird #Argentina

An Andean Flicker / carpintero andino (Colaptes rupicola) standing on top of a rock. Photographed in the mountains of NW Argentina

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 26d

Hard-To-Sample Species Are More Sensitive to Land-Use Change: Implications for Global Biodiversity Metrics 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hard‐To‐Sample Species Are More Sensitive to Land‐Use Change: Implications for Global Biodiversity Metrics

Aim Land-use change drives biodiversity loss, but some species are more vulnerable than others. Indicators of global biodiversity must attempt to summarise these impacts representatively and meaning.....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 27d

Resilience - of ecosystems, food systems, infrastructure, etc - is the word of the moment in policy

Reflecting our failure to curb climate change & the need to adapt our systems

Some of us have been writing on this for many years - eg this paper
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Resilience and food security: rethinking an ecological concept

We define resilience in the food security context as maintaining production of sufficient and nutritious food in the face of chronic and acute environmental perturbations. In agri-food systems, appro...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Nov 27

Another day, another #bioinvasions framework. I've lost track of how many #bioinvasions frameworks have been published over the last 2 years.

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Jul 5

A fairly accurate description of invasion science by xkcd #bioinvasions

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Nov 27

I'd be a bit more careful around that one - looks like it is about to lecture the poor kākā about the critical importance of propagule pressure

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Nov 26

An inquisitive burrowing parrot (Cyanolyseus patagonus) giving me the side eye and checking out my backpack #birds #Argentina

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Nov 21

Here we go again...

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

El Mundo Today @elmundotoday.com · Nov 20

🇪🇸OKTODAY

Sin su gran acto de generosidad, hoy en día España seguiría siendo una dictadura (y, de hecho, lo es por culpa de Pedro Sánchez)

Lee el artículo completo en OK Today:
www.elmundotoday.com/2025/11/50o-...

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · Nov 20

Aquí se celebran los 50 años del fin del dictador. Por todos los que vivieron sin libertades. Por mi abuelo, perdedor en la guerra, exiliado en Francia, que vio la vuelta de la democracia y que hubiera cumplido 100 la semana pasada. Por él y por los que sufrieron el horror de la dictadura franquista

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Nov 18

Climatic niche conservatism in non-native plants is largely dependent on their climatic niche breadth in the native range #bioinvasions 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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