BES Macro
@besmacro.bsky.social
We are the British Ecological Society Macroecology & Macroevolution Special Interest Group. We run the annual #BESMacro conference and will gladly repost papers and opportunities of interest to our members!
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Study area shape matters when tracking species range shifts & we may underestimate longitudinal range shifts to the benefit of latitudinal range shifts, potentially undermining drivers other than T°C 🌡
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Global bias towards recording latitudinal range shifts - Nature Climate Change
The authors consider studies reporting species range shifts and demonstrate a geometric bias in sampling along latitudinal, rather than longitudinal, gradients. This bias may favour the corroboration ...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Study area shape matters when tracking species range shifts & we may underestimate longitudinal range shifts to the benefit of latitudinal range shifts, potentially undermining drivers other than T°C 🌡
🌐🌏🌎🌍🧪🐠🐍🦋🦉🦇🌳🌲
shorturl.at/prp63
🌐🌏🌎🌍🧪🐠🐍🦋🦉🦇🌳🌲
shorturl.at/prp63
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Funded PhD opportunity!!🧪🌎
Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected?
Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods?
This PhD could be for you!
Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH
(UK or settled status applicants)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected?
Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods?
This PhD could be for you!
Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH
(UK or settled status applicants)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
CR2026_23: Monitoring and protecting biodiversity across all its dimensions – taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - CR2026_23: Monitoring and protecting biodiversity across all its dimensions – taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Funded PhD opportunity!!🧪🌎
Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected?
Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods?
This PhD could be for you!
Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH
(UK or settled status applicants)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Wanna improve how biodiversity is monitored & protected?
Keen to work with large datasets & quantitative methods?
This PhD could be for you!
Fully-funded PhD at University of Reading with IoZ & UKCEH
(UK or settled status applicants)
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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📣 Job Opportunity: Plant Conservation Post Doctoral Associate (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)🌿
🌎 Escondido, CA
🧑💻 Using SDMs, plant collections, monitoring, & env. datasets, identify plant conservation action priorities in seed collections and translocations for CA rare plants
⌛ 3y FT
💸 $87k
🌎 Escondido, CA
🧑💻 Using SDMs, plant collections, monitoring, & env. datasets, identify plant conservation action priorities in seed collections and translocations for CA rare plants
⌛ 3y FT
💸 $87k
November 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
📣 Job Opportunity: Plant Conservation Post Doctoral Associate (San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)🌿
🌎 Escondido, CA
🧑💻 Using SDMs, plant collections, monitoring, & env. datasets, identify plant conservation action priorities in seed collections and translocations for CA rare plants
⌛ 3y FT
💸 $87k
🌎 Escondido, CA
🧑💻 Using SDMs, plant collections, monitoring, & env. datasets, identify plant conservation action priorities in seed collections and translocations for CA rare plants
⌛ 3y FT
💸 $87k
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Global Cold‐Water Coral Biodiversity Redistribution Under Projected Climate Change
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November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Global Cold‐Water Coral Biodiversity Redistribution Under Projected Climate Change
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Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 🧪🌐 "we detect consistent nonlinear interactions between ALAN and night duration, with Ecosystem respiration " www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism - Nature Climate Change
The authors combine light intensity data with eddy covariance observations from 86 sites to show that artificial light at night increases ecosystem respiration and alters carbon exchange, with impacts...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Widespread influence of artificial light at night on ecosystem metabolism 🧪🌐 "we detect consistent nonlinear interactions between ALAN and night duration, with Ecosystem respiration " www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Learn more about Methods in Ecology and Evolution's ‘Perspectives’ articles, intended to stimulate scientific debate, these articles offer conceptual advances and opinions, or identify gaps in knowledge.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/uaM450XtKVB
Find out more: https://ow.ly/uaM450XtKVB
November 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Learn more about Methods in Ecology and Evolution's ‘Perspectives’ articles, intended to stimulate scientific debate, these articles offer conceptual advances and opinions, or identify gaps in knowledge.
Find out more: https://ow.ly/uaM450XtKVB
Find out more: https://ow.ly/uaM450XtKVB
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Interested in the biogeography of lizards?🦎
We studied the historical biogeography of Sceloporus lizards and the link between their dispersal and climatic niches 🌎🌦️ @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social @ndimhypervol.bsky.social @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social
Learn more here 👇:
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We studied the historical biogeography of Sceloporus lizards and the link between their dispersal and climatic niches 🌎🌦️ @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social @ndimhypervol.bsky.social @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social
Learn more here 👇:
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Historical biogeography and climatic niche dynamics in spiny lizards of the genus Sceloporus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae)
Abstract. Although we now have extensive biogeographical datasets for tetrapods, unravelling the drivers of species’ distributions remains challenging, esp
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November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Interested in the biogeography of lizards?🦎
We studied the historical biogeography of Sceloporus lizards and the link between their dispersal and climatic niches 🌎🌦️ @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social @ndimhypervol.bsky.social @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social
Learn more here 👇:
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...
We studied the historical biogeography of Sceloporus lizards and the link between their dispersal and climatic niches 🌎🌦️ @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social @ndimhypervol.bsky.social @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social
Learn more here 👇:
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The Soil Ecology Group seeks a volunteer communications representative.
As part of the role, you will
- develop a communication strategy,
- manage social media, handle quarterly newsletters,
- and participate in monthly meetings.
As part of the role, you will
- develop a communication strategy,
- manage social media, handle quarterly newsletters,
- and participate in monthly meetings.
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The Soil Ecology Group seeks a volunteer communications representative.
As part of the role, you will
- develop a communication strategy,
- manage social media, handle quarterly newsletters,
- and participate in monthly meetings.
As part of the role, you will
- develop a communication strategy,
- manage social media, handle quarterly newsletters,
- and participate in monthly meetings.
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Excited about this paper led by Katja Poveda & Heather Grab!
We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality.
Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality.
Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Importance of Landscape Composition for Pest Control and Crop Yield: A Global Quantitative Synthesis
In a global analysis of 116 studies, we show that landscape composition affects crop yield both directly and indirectly via traits of crops, herbivores and natural enemies. Our results suggest that w...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Excited about this paper led by Katja Poveda & Heather Grab!
We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality.
Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality.
Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas.
One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.
Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.
Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas.
One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.
Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.
Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
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Dr. Laura Pollock will be giving the last Funk Seminar of 2025! Registration and information about this talk can be found on our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/no...
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Dr. Laura Pollock will be giving the last Funk Seminar of 2025! Registration and information about this talk can be found on our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/no...
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📰Published📰Trait coordination reveals the fast-slow plant economics spectrum along the vertical canopy profile in central Amazonian forests🌳
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Trait coordination reveals the fast-slow plant economics spectrum along the vertical canopy profile in central Amazonian forests
Leonardo G. Ziccardi, Tyeen C. Taylor, Marielle N. Smith, Nathan B. Gonçalves, David Kramer, Kleber Silva Campos, Neill Prohaska, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Scott R. Saleska, Advanio Inácio Siqueira-S…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📰Published📰Trait coordination reveals the fast-slow plant economics spectrum along the vertical canopy profile in central Amazonian forests🌳
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In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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November 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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The seismic fingerprint of wind-induced tree sway @besmacro.bsky.social
lead by Umlauft @scadsai.bsky.social
w @chriswernerlab.bsky.social , Wirth @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social , Gerberding, Kattenborn
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
#forestMonitoring #ML #timeSeries
#treeSway #spectralAnalysis
lead by Umlauft @scadsai.bsky.social
w @chriswernerlab.bsky.social , Wirth @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social , Gerberding, Kattenborn
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
#forestMonitoring #ML #timeSeries
#treeSway #spectralAnalysis
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The seismic fingerprint of wind-induced tree sway @besmacro.bsky.social
lead by Umlauft @scadsai.bsky.social
w @chriswernerlab.bsky.social , Wirth @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social , Gerberding, Kattenborn
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
#forestMonitoring #ML #timeSeries
#treeSway #spectralAnalysis
lead by Umlauft @scadsai.bsky.social
w @chriswernerlab.bsky.social , Wirth @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social , Gerberding, Kattenborn
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
#forestMonitoring #ML #timeSeries
#treeSway #spectralAnalysis
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Delighted to announce a new paper, led by Mansi Mungee, which studies insect populations over the UK using weather radar and is covered by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
more below...
#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
more below...
#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals
Study of Met Office data one of first to show how nocturnal insects affected by factors such as light pollution
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Delighted to announce a new paper, led by Mansi Mungee, which studies insect populations over the UK using weather radar and is covered by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
more below...
#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
more below...
#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
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We are happy to introduce the Soil Ecology SIG @britishecologicalsociety.org! Our aim is to connect soil ecology researchers across career stages, facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration. Check out www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan... and feel free to get in touch!
Soil Ecology Group - British Ecological Society
Understanding the vital ecosystem services provided by soil
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We are happy to introduce the Soil Ecology SIG @britishecologicalsociety.org! Our aim is to connect soil ecology researchers across career stages, facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration. Check out www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan... and feel free to get in touch!
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Dr. Brett Scheffers will be giving his Funk lecture this week! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/oc...
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Dr. Brett Scheffers will be giving his Funk lecture this week! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/oc...
Interested in island life and arthropods? There's a new PhD project advertised at the University of Birmingham to study the evolution of 'island syndromes' in a chosen group of island arthropods, with both museum and fieldwork-based research are expected. More details at: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
2026-B22 The island syndrome in arthropods – CENTA
centa.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Interested in island life and arthropods? There's a new PhD project advertised at the University of Birmingham to study the evolution of 'island syndromes' in a chosen group of island arthropods, with both museum and fieldwork-based research are expected. More details at: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
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How can issues of classifications and mapping scales for defining native vegetation have significant implications for #biodiversity conservation?
This Report in the latest issue of #EnvironmentalConservation considers Mato Grosso, #Brazil
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#conservationscience🌎
This Report in the latest issue of #EnvironmentalConservation considers Mato Grosso, #Brazil
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#conservationscience🌎
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
How can issues of classifications and mapping scales for defining native vegetation have significant implications for #biodiversity conservation?
This Report in the latest issue of #EnvironmentalConservation considers Mato Grosso, #Brazil
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#conservationscience🌎
This Report in the latest issue of #EnvironmentalConservation considers Mato Grosso, #Brazil
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#conservationscience🌎
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📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
PHOREAU v1.0: a new process-based model to predict forest functioning, from tree ecophysiology to forest dynamics and biogeography
Abstract. Climate change impacts forest functioning and dynamics, but large uncertainties remain regarding the interactions between species composition, demographic processes and environmental drivers...
gmd.copernicus.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
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🦌 Deer migration, deer density, tick distribution and incidence of a tick-borne zoonosis
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October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🦌 Deer migration, deer density, tick distribution and incidence of a tick-borne zoonosis
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Still some seats left for David Tilman's talk this afternoon. On line and in-person followed by a drinks reception, everyone is welcome. oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
We're really looking forward to our first talk of term. TOMORROW! In the School of Geography
Join us in person or online as David Tilman discusses:
Earth’s Biodiversity: Its Origins, Impacts & Potential Fate.
More info & to register: oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
@ecioxford.bsky.social
Join us in person or online as David Tilman discusses:
Earth’s Biodiversity: Its Origins, Impacts & Potential Fate.
More info & to register: oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
@ecioxford.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Still some seats left for David Tilman's talk this afternoon. On line and in-person followed by a drinks reception, everyone is welcome. oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
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#BiologyLetters How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny?
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
#BiologyLetters How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny?
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics