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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jul 5

Dryad dataset: Local climatic effects on colonisation and extinction drive changes in mountain butterfly communities datadryad.org/dataset/doi:...

Dryad | Data -- Local climatic effects on colonisation and extinction drive changes in mountain butterfly communities

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Rob Wilson @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social · Apr 6

Delighted to join the European butterfly community in NL this week for #FutureofButterflies with @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social well represented by three talks and two posters - @guim091.bsky.social @adsalbert.bsky.social and @jpcancela.bsky.social also sharing our work on #insect responses to global change

MNCN butterfly global change participants at FutureofButterflies symposium

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Nick Haddad @nickhaddad.bsky.social · Mar 6

Our paper is out, and it is distressing.

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st century

Numerous declines have been documented across insect groups, and the potential consequences of insect losses are dire. Butterflies are the most surveyed insect taxa, yet analyses have been limited in ...

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Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales @mncn-csic.bsky.social · Mar 6

La Red Natura 2000 contribuye a reducir la degradación del suelo en la península ibérica, así lo confirma esta investigación del MNCN y la Estación experimental de zonas áridas que ha evaluado el estado de conservación de la cubierta terrestre. 📷 @minglop.bsky.social www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

La Red Natura 2000 contribuye a reducir la degradación del suelo en la península ibérica | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

La metodología utilizada es válida para otras áreas del planeta

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Antonio Martínez Ron @aberron.bsky.social · Mar 1

Para el turno de tarde:
Tres años y medio después de la erupción de La Palma, los científicos están encontrando microorganismos extremófilos en los tubos por los que en 2021 emergieron grandes masas de lava: entramos en las cuevas y caminamos por la zona de exclusión en busca de vida

Descenso al ‘tubo rojo’ en el interior del volcán de La Palma: la vida se abre paso en la boca del infierno

Tres años y medio después de la erupción, los científicos están encontrando microorganismos extremófilos en los tubos aún calientes por los que en 2021 emergieron grandes masas de lava: entramos en la...

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Alpine Environment - Eurac Research @euracalpenv.bsky.social · Feb 28

Our researchers @msteinwandter.bsky.social, @chiarapaniccia.bsky.social & @eliaguariento.bsky.social have found three specimens of the Eurasian pygmy shrew in South Tyrol at over 3,000 meters a.s.l.. This #discovery marks a European #record! 🏆
📰:
eurac.edu/de/press/eur...
Foto: Giacomo Gaudenzi

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Antonio Martínez Ron @aberron.bsky.social · Feb 19

📌 Michel André, el hombre que escucha los océanos: “Será una gran revolución entender lo que dicen los cachalotes”

Michel André, el hombre que escucha los océanos: “Será una gran revolución entender lo que dicen los cachalotes”

Los sonidos recogidos por el experto en bioacústica mediante micrófonos submarinos sirven para recrear el mundo sensorial de los cachalotes en la exposición 'Ecos del océano': "El mar no es nada silen...

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Diversity and Distributions @consbiog.bsky.social · Jan 23

How does local climate influence ecological communities? Answer: #Thermophilisation caused by #colonisation and local #extinction. Check out the new paper by
@guim091.bsky.social on #mountain #butterflies in Central Spain. #ClimateChange #Refugia
doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 20

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Antonio Martínez Ron @aberron.bsky.social · Dec 31

La historia de las hormigas invasoras que cambian ecosistemas completos también me parece una de las mejores del año

De cómo una pequeña hormiga invasora cambió el paisaje y la dieta de los leones en una reserva de Kenia

Un equipo de investigadores documenta la cascada de cambios desencadenada por la irrupción de un grupo de hormigas en una zona de la sabana, que ha dado un giro a la vida de elefantes, cebras y búfalo...

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Sara Mendes @sarammendes.bsky.social · Dec 16

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Once plantas de Tenerife 'conquistan' las alturas de la isla para escapar del cambio climático, ¿podrán seguirlas el resto?

Animales están dispersando las semillas de algunas especies vegetales en zonas más elevadas, ayudándolas a colonizar nuevos territorios y sobrevivir a las altas temperaturas asociadas a la crisis clim...

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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · Jan 16

❗ 2024 was the warmest year on record for Europe.

❗ With an average temperature of 10.69°C, 2024 was 1.47°C above the 1991-2020 average, and 0.28°C warmer than the previous record set in 2020.

▶️ More info in the Global Climate Highlights 2024 report: bit.ly/40kQpcz

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

Thanks Joe!! 😉😉

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

Thanks to all co-authors and collaborators! @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @jpcancela.bsky.social Sara Castro-Cobo, Mario Mingarro and Helena Romo @mncn-csic.bsky.social

Check the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Local Climatic Effects on Colonisation and Extinction Drive Changes in Mountain Butterfly Communities

Aim The capacity of cool refugia to protect cold-adapted species against climate change may depend on both their initial climatic conditions and how quickly these change. We test how local climatic ...

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

So, mountain butterfly communities in central Spain became more dominated by species with warm thermal affinities and broader thermal niches. To adapt conservation to climate change, a regional perspective is needed to provide a wide range of local climates and rates of change.

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

Has CTI changed equally across the mountain regions and study sites? No, communities occupying sites with cold conditions historically increased their CTI most, especially in Sierra de Gredos and Javalambre. Community changes differed between the four regions.

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

We also found that species tolerating a wider range of temperatures across their range (thermal niche breadth) increased the number of sites they occupied, especially if they preferred warm conditions. Species with narrow thermal preferences or cold affinities decreased most.

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

Comparing thermal affinities for colonising versus extinct species across sites confirmed that species favouring warm conditions were colonising, and species preferring cool conditions were experiencing local extinctions. As a result, CTI increased.

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

We deduced that colonisation and extinction took place at similar rates, as species richness and average variation in thermal affinities per site did not change. If colonisations were more important we expected both values to rise, if extinctions were more important we expected both to decline.

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

We found CTI to be greater in hotter sites in both periods. CTI also increased in many sites over time – known as community thermophilisation. But this could result from colonisations by species favouring hot conditions, or extinctions of species that do not tolerate warming.

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

The geographic ranges of species reflect their climatic tolerance or “thermal affinity”. To summarise this for butterfly species in each community we used the average temperature across their Iberian Peninsula distributions – known as the Community Temperature Index or CTI. More info about it ⬇️

Butterfly communities track climatic variation over space but not time in the Iberian Peninsula

We tested indices of community environmental associations based on occurrence records to infer how butterflies responded to climatic and land cover changes in the Iberian Peninsula from 1901 ...

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

We revisited 74 field sites where we were lucky to have butterfly data from historical surveys. To estimate changes to the climates that butterflies experienced near the ground we used the mechanistic Microclima model. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

How does the ability of localized refugia to protect species against global warming depend on their climatic conditions? To find out, we looked at changes to butterfly communities in four mountain ranges in central Spain between 1984-2005 and 2017-2022.
📷 Parnassius apollo (Sara Castro-Cobo)

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Guim Ursul @guim091.bsky.social · Jan 16

So happy to see my 2n thesis chapter published in Diversity and Distributions 🥳🥳 How does local climate influence ecological communities? Answer: #Thermophilisation caused by #colonisation and local #extinction of mountain butterflies 🦋 #ClimateChange #Refugia Small thread below⬇️

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Joseph Williamson @josephwilliamson.bsky.social · Jan 9

🚨New paper 🚨We argue that abrupt biodiversity losses can be driven by populations sharing similar tolerances to warming 🦋🌎🥵. Out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org. Summary thread below 🧵
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

screenshot of the article in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B titled 'Clustered warming tolerances and the nonlinear risks of biodiversity loss on a warming planet'

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