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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 8d

Transformative change for a just and sustainable world often seems overwhelming. @annelarigauderie.bsky.social and the @ipbes.net Transformative Change Assessment co-chairs highlight the roles we can each have in achieving #transformativechange.

🧪 #biodiversity #sustainability

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Transformative change to address biodiversity loss is urgent and possible

Transformative change for a just and sustainable world often appears overwhelming. This Perspective highlights the key messages from the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment and how everyone can be ...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Sep 8

Why are some species widespread while others are found only in small, isolated areas? A study in Nature Communications shows that species with narrow ranges, and thus higher extinction risk, are often island-restricted, poor dispersers, and have evolved relatively recently. #evosky 🧪

Evolutionary age correlates with range size across plants and animals - Nature Communications

Why are some species widespread while others are found only in small, isolated areas? This study shows that species with narrow ranges, and thus higher extinction risk, are often island-restricted, poor dispersers, and have evolved relatively recently.

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Sep 8

Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Sep 9

Our September issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

🧪 Featuring research on:

🦅 evolution of avian powered flight
🦷 Paranthropus teeth
🌴 tropical biodiversity loss

Cover shows a sunflower sea star, from Prentice et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Cover image for the September issue of Nature Ecology & Evolution. The image shows a sunflower sea star, and the headline reads "Sea star mystery solved"

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Laetitia Navarro @laenavarro.bsky.social · Sep 5

Fresh off the press! Our perspective in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com discusses the wealth of information on biodiversity contained in historical sources, and its integration for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. A thread on the paper and what led to it:
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · Sep 5

Incorporating responses of traits to changing climates into species distribution models: a path forward

A Viewpoint by Peng, et al. 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience

Conceptual diagram illustrating how trait–environment interactions drive species distributions.

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NeoBiota @neobiota.pensoft.net · Aug 27

Researchers provide a national list of established non-native species in the Philippines, along with an update on the Southeast Asian region, to aid national and regional efforts in addressing the threats posed by biological invasions.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neob...

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Amanda Taylor 🇳🇿 🇳🇱 @amandataylor.bsky.social · Aug 26

Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace webinar "Diversity in island plant functional strategies" by Kasey Barton and the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social
Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/546VrpYBbccb...

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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · Aug 25

Just one more week to submit an abstract for our biennial conference! More info found here: conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-...

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Henricus Peters @learnfromnature.bsky.social · Aug 23

You cannot just change one into the other #ratites
~ emu
~ moa
#ecology #zoology
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Fernando Villanea @fervillanea.bsky.social · Jul 9

This is a good time to remember that Moas, Emus, and the other ratites diverged so long ago, they FLEW to different continents, and then lost the ability to fly and became giants independently. You can't just sprinkle a few variants to make one into the other.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Maps of continents breaking apart does not match the order in which flightless birds speciate, which indicates they flew over water rather than walk across a mega continent.

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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · Aug 23

The @ec.europa.eu launches the Global Biodiversity Data Viewer (GBDV) - an #informationsystem providing simple means to assess, monitor and report the state of #biodiversity and associated pressures 🌍

#BiodiversityData #BioInfo #GlobalData

knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/biodiversity...

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Aug 23

Different Mechanisms Explain Decoupled Co‐Occurrence Patterns of Native and Non‐Native Macroinvertebrates

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · Aug 22

See also the excellent @theconversation.com article by University of Melbourne colleagues, Raphael Trouve, Craig Nitschke & Patrick Baker—decades of data provide evidence of reduced forest carrying capacity as trees are subject to a range of stressors from a warming climate

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Henricus Peters @learnfromnature.bsky.social · Aug 3

New checklist of #birds @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @stubutchart.bsky.social

Stu Butchart @stubutchart.bsky.social · Jun 11

We've just launched AviList! - the new unified global taxonomic checklist for the world's birds, developed through the Working Group on Avian Classification, including BirdLife, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, IOC and others @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.avilist.org

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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Jul 24

Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected - Nature

Machine-learning algorithms trained on 25,000 geolocated soil samples are used to create high-resolution global maps of mycorrhizal fungi, revealing that less than 10% of their biodiversity hotspots a...

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Dr. Sara L Middleton @saralilplants.bsky.social · Jul 28

Hello plant functional trait peeps 👋🏽 🧪 🌱

See this opportunity to submit to special feature in Journal of Ecology

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IPBES @ipbes.net · Jul 24

🚨 Study by Keck, F., Peller, T., Alther, R. et al. reveals the negative impact of human activity on Earth's biodiversity across all species and ecosystems.📉🧪

Human activities drive biodiversity loss both directly and indirectly.🌍

More via @nature.com:

The global human impact on biodiversity - Nature

Key measures of biodiversity were quantified and found to be affected by human pressures that shifted community composition and decreased local diversity across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems.

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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · Jul 24

New research by @celiamcmichael.bsky.social and colleagues:

"Adaptive capacity in Pacific Islands: Responding to coastal and climatic change in Nagigi village, Fiji"

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Adaptive capacity in Pacific Islands: Responding to coastal and climatic change in Nagigi village, Fiji

Coastal communities across the Pacific are increasingly recognized as places of priority for climate adaptation. Pacific Island communities are developing and using strategies to adapt their lives and...

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Pensoft @pensoft.net · Jul 4

🤔 Ever used the #SIBiLS database (a.k.a. #BiodiversityPMC) to browse #scientific literature in search of e.g. #species traits or #biotic interactions?

📝Help us improve it by filling out this 5-min survey: heg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

ℹ️About BiodiversityPMC: blog.pensoft.net/2024/02/14/t...

Towards the “Biodiversity PMC”: a literature database supporting advanced content queries

The indexing is one of the major outcomes from the partnerships within the Horizon 2020-funded project Biodiversity Community Integrated Knowledge Library (BiCIKL)

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Journal of Vegetation Science @jvegsci.bsky.social · Jul 21

Special Issue on Island Plant Communities: Revisiting a small Mediterranean island: How vegetation has changes in the last 15 years. Check out a case study set in Pianosa, Tuscan archipelago, by Siccardi et al.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Alessandro Chiarenza @macroecoevoale.bsky.social · Jun 19

New day, new paper! 🦣🌍 Led by @mapaslab.bsky.social ab.bsky.social PhD student Sofía Galván and out now in Global Ecology and Biogeography in which we asked:

"Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?"

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American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · Jul 19

Are specializations evolutionary dead ends? Morrison et al. reveal that in bird carotenoid evolution, continuity and stability are two sides of the same coin.

Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

This is a photo of a brown and red bird to the left of a flowering cactus, it is set against a blue sky.

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Henricus Peters @learnfromnature.bsky.social · Jul 19

Happy birthday to Elizabeth Gould #wildlife #art
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BHL Australia @bhl-au.bsky.social · Jul 18

Happy Birthday to Elizabeth Gould! Wife of naturalist John Gould, Elizabeth Gould is now recognised as the main artist for her husband’s early publications.

The rainbow finch, or “Gouldian finch” is named in her honour.

v.3 (1848) - The birds of Australia - Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Jul 18

📖Published📖

Our recent review article synthesizes the current state of knowledge on soil fauna cryptic species identification, emphasizing specific molecular techniques as the most reliable and precise method currently available for detecting and unravelling cryptic diversity 🐛

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jul 18

How can magellanic #penguins navigate tidal currents while balancing #EnergyEfficiency & foraging opportunities? This study reveals how they adaptively make S-shaped return paths to their colony, optimizing travel in complex oceanic flows @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/40nKyD4

Top left: A magellanic penguin in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Image credit: Unsplash user William Warby. Top right: The GPS-corrected dead-reckoned tracks of 27 penguins at sea, colored to distinguish between the outbound (red) and inbound (blue) phases of their foraging trips. Bottom: A ‘snapshot’ of the current conditions within the grid area, showing peak tidal strength during a single day as a function of the tidal cycle, including the outgoing (‘ebb’ – left panel) and incoming (‘flood’ – right panel) tides. Penguins are often subjected to strong cross-currents during these phases. The colony location is marked by a small black filled circle with a white outline.

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