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Pol Capdevila
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Ecology Lecturer at University of Barcelona.

Interested in Quantitative Ecology, Resilience, Global Change, Marine Ecology, and Macroecology.

Editor at Journal of Animal Ecology.

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Pol Capdevila @polcapdevila.bsky.social · 1d
🚨Paper alert🚨
Very happy to see our paper published in @science.org #ScienceAdv.

Very greatful to have worked with such a great team @duncanobrien.bsky.social #tomJohnson @robinfreeman.bsky.social #ValentinaMarconi #LouiseMcRae @expecocons.bsky.social

👇Check the main findings below!
Halting predicted vertebrate declines requires tackling multiple drivers of biodiversity loss
Global vertebrate populations decline faster in the presence of multiple threats compared to single threats.
www.science.org

Reposted by Pol Capdevila, Julen Astigarraga

juliagdealedo.bsky.social
Julia G. de Aledo @juliagdealedo.bsky.social · Dec 22
🎉 labeleR-paper has been published in @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social!
👪 Together with @iramosgutierrez.bsky.social @jimenamateomartin.bsky.social & @frodsan.bsky.social!
📃 We briefly explain how to use it, its advantages and possibilities... Take a look! revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

Reposted by Alex Mesoudi, Pol Capdevila

mchimento.bsky.social
michael chimento @mchimento.bsky.social · Dec 20
🎉🍾 very excited to see this out before 2025 ends doi.org/10.1111/2041... with Will Hoppitt in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. This paper is an overview of our new R package STbayes, a user-friendly toolkit for performing Bayesian NBDA analyses. @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social
STbayes: An R package for creating, fitting and understanding Bayesian models of social transmission
A critical consequence of joining social groups is the possibility of social transmission of information related to novel behaviours or resources. Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) has emerg...
doi.org

Reposted by Pol Capdevila, Virat Jolli

unep.org
UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Dec 20
From snowy owls and hammerhead sharks to bats and sea turtles 🦉🦈🐋

Countries have proposed adding 42 migratory species to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) highlighting need for stronger intl cooperation to protect wildlife on the move.

Decisions expected in 03/26: https://ow.ly/shgy50XMar0

Reposted by Fernando Pulido, Pol Capdevila, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil

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Miguel A. Gómez-Serrano @gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social · Dec 14
El 44% de los investigadores en ecología han sufrido el efecto Gollum. Ese comportamiento territorial extremo que lleva a algunos a sentir que ciertos temas o ideas les pertenecen: "mi tesoro".
44% 🤔... Poco me parece.
www.the-scientist.com/the-gollum-e...
Paper: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
a close up of a monster 's face with the words `` my precious ! ''
ALT: a close up of a monster 's face with the words `` my precious ! ''
media.tenor.com

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · Oct 5
O paramos temporalmente (de explotar la anguila) o se acaba para siempre
Qué gusto ver a @malbercocs.bsky.social siendo tan clara (merci, Maria!)
Esperemos que se sigan sumando gentes de las cocinas
Es importante y es urgente

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Joaquín Hortal, Patrick A. Jansen , and 4 more

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 27
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Pol Capdevila, Enrico Tordoni, Eleonora Beccari

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Carlos P Carmona @cpcarmona.bsky.social · Sep 18
New Tansley Insight in New Phytologist: The path toward a unified plant trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity.

Why a common trait space matters, how to build it, and what it enables.

With @e-beccari.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

#PlantTraits #FunctionalDiversity
doi.org

Reposted by Michael G. Bertram, Pol Capdevila

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · Sep 18
Thanks also to @royalsocietypublishing.org for letting me write a blog about this fantastic team effort:

royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...
From policy to practice: Progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Royal Society
Edward Ivimey-Cook tells us more about a new study that reviewed the clarity, strictness, and timing of data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals in ecology and evolution, and assessed autho...
royalsociety.org

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Pol Capdevila @polcapdevila.bsky.social · Aug 7
🚨Paper Alert🚨: Read our recent editorial led by @danigomezgras.bsky.social about novel contributions to marine heatwave ecology.

@medrecover.bsky.social @ub.edu @biologiaub.bsky.social

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Aug 6
🎙️ and listen to a podcast episode by the guest editors here: buff.ly/wMOiYiE
🤍 thank you to @cristinalinares.bsky.social,
@polcapdevila.bsky.social and @danigomezgras.bsky.social for bringing together an exceptional Special Feature!

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

animalecology.bsky.social
Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · Aug 6
🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

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Daniel Gómez-Gras @danigomezgras.bsky.social · Aug 6
You can read the editorial here 👇:

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@polcapdevila.bsky.social
@cristinalinares.bsky.social
Novel contributions to marine heatwave ecology: Identifying and addressing knowledge gaps in ecological impacts
As the climate crisis unfolds, marine heatwaves (MHWs), defined as discrete periods of anomalously high seawater temperatures, are emerging as one of the most pervasive threats to marine biodiversi...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

marinecalcifiers.bsky.social
Marine calcifiers @marinecalcifiers.bsky.social · Aug 5
Press release of our recent study: "Ocean architects at risk from the combined impact of ocean acidification and warming"

www.icm.csic.es/en/news/ocea...

#bryozoans #microbiome
@fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @bfiguerola.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

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Blanca Figuerola @bfiguerola.bsky.social · Aug 4
"Els arquitectes del mar, en risc per l’impacte combinat de l’acidificació i l’escalfament de l’oceà". #briozous

🔗 www.icm.csic.es/ca/noticia/e...

@fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social
@commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

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Blanca Figuerola @bfiguerola.bsky.social · Jul 31
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Our new paper is out today in @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🚨

🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08524-8

We studied how two Mediterranean bryozoan species respond to ocean acidification & warming using a natural underwater CO₂ vent as a climate change lab. 🌊🧫
🧵⬇️

Reposted by Craig R. McClain, Pol Capdevila

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · Jun 5
For many marine species, all we have is a name. Now, thanks to a huge effort led by @drcraigmc.bsky.social, for 85,000 species we have body size as well. Version 1 of the MOBS database is published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Enjoy! 🌐🧪
MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes
Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body-size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrat...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Pol Capdevila, Nicolas Loiseau

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · May 14
Check out our new publication lead by Lucie Mahaut in @royalsocietypublishing.org

Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change

👉 Trait diversity and redundancy drive stability; human impacts reduce it.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#ReefLifeSurvey 🌐🧪🦑🌍

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

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Max Farnworth @maxfarnworth.bsky.social · May 7
Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out!
@neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex
Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies
Neural circuits have evolved to produce cognitive processes that facilitate a species variable behavioural repertoire. Underlying this variation are evolutionary forces, such as selection, that operat...
www.biorxiv.org

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · May 1
Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect

📄 buff.ly/IUWeewq
@creaf.cat @expecocons.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @unibarcelonathe.bsky.social @uab.cat
buff.ly

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MedRecover @medrecover.bsky.social · Apr 24
Seguimos con
@cristinalinares.bsky.social, catedrática de la
@biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu, quien nos habla sobre el "state of the art" del coralígeno, su distribución, diversidad, servicios ecosistémicos y principales amenazas. #Projecto_CorFun @icmcsic.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

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MedRecover @medrecover.bsky.social · Apr 9
🪸New paper in Coral Reefs highlights that heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival — regardless of heat stress conditions.

With the participation of @cristinalinares.bsky.social (@ub.edu), member of #MedRecoverTeam.
📄 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
@irbio-ub.bsky.social

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

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Cristina Linares @cristinalinares.bsky.social · Apr 9
New paper in Coral Reefs Journal: Heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival independently of heat stress @medrecover.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
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Heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival independently of heat stress
rdcu.be

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Pol Capdevila @polcapdevila.bsky.social · Apr 8
Very proud of #MariaVives paper published today in @globalchangebio.bsky.social about the impacts of novel regimes of extreme climatic events in a common insect.

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · Apr 8
🚨 new #climatechange paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social!

Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@polcapdevila.bsky.social
Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect
We built a model that simulates the green-veined white butterfly population dynamics based on the survival and fecundity rates of the species across its life cycle and the effects of extreme heat and...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

ub.edu
Universitat de Barcelona @ub.edu · Mar 19
#RecercaUB | 🪸 Els coralls confiscats de la pesca furtiva tornen a viure a les illes Medes!

➡️ Les colònies que es van trasplantar fa una dècada al fons marí de les Medes han sobreviscut amb èxit.

Lideren l’estudi Cristina Linares i Yanis Zentner, de @biologiaub.bsky.social i @irbio-ub.bsky.social
Les colònies de corall vermell sobreviuen una dècada després de ser trasplantades a les illes Medes
web.ub.edu

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

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Cristina Linares @cristinalinares.bsky.social · Mar 19
Red coral colonies survive a decade after being transplanted in the Medes Islands - Current events - University of Barcelona web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...
Red coral colonies survive a decade after being transplanted in the Medes Islands
web.ub.edu

Reposted by Cristina Linares, Pol Capdevila

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Yanis Zentner @yzentner.bsky.social · Mar 17
🧵Can marine restoration lead to ecological recovery?

🌊Success is often assessed by short-term survival of transplants, but what about long-term changes in community (trait) composition?

We studied this for a key Mediterranean octocoral. 👇

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Active restoration of a long-lived octocoral drives rapid functional recovery in a temperate reef
After a decade, a community with restored red coral nears the functional structure of natural ones.
www.science.org

Reposted by Pol Capdevila, Alba Anadon‐Rosell

biologiaub.bsky.social
Facultat de Biologia UB @biologiaub.bsky.social · Mar 13
🌍 Demà divendres 14 de març, a les 11:30, celebrem el Dia Internacional d'Acció pels Rius amb el Sr. Davi Kopenawa a l’Aula Magna Ramon Parés. No hi falteu!

Consulta el programa complet 👉 www.ub.edu/portal/web/b...

@ub.edu @hubsg-ub.bsky.social

Reposted by Pol Capdevila

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Céline Bellard @celinebellard.bsky.social · Mar 13
A framework to assess the vulnerability of islands to global changes : ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... thanks to ...