Pol Capdevila
@polcapdevila.bsky.social
Ecology Lecturer at University of Barcelona.
Interested in Quantitative Ecology, Resilience, Global Change, Marine Ecology, and Macroecology.
Editor at Journal of Animal Ecology.
Views of my own.
He/him.
Interested in Quantitative Ecology, Resilience, Global Change, Marine Ecology, and Macroecology.
Editor at Journal of Animal Ecology.
Views of my own.
He/him.
Pinned
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
🚨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!
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!
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Ecosystem stability is about local diversity! 🌏🌱
Really happy to see our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com.
Thanks to @huangmj.bsky.social for beautifully leading this project and to coauthors @danimontoya.bsky.social, Yao Xiao, Xiang Liu & Yann Hautier for this great collective effort.
Really happy to see our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com.
Thanks to @huangmj.bsky.social for beautifully leading this project and to coauthors @danimontoya.bsky.social, Yao Xiao, Xiang Liu & Yann Hautier for this great collective effort.
Functional plant traits help explain ecosystem stability. The authors show that it is only at local scales that species richness stabilizes productivity, and functional diversity destabilizes productivity, with neither effect evident at larger spatial scales.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plant diversity within communities, not among them, stabilizes grassland productivity across spatial scales - Nature Communications
Functional plant traits help explain ecosystem stability. The authors show that it is only at local scales that species richness stabilizes productivity, and functional diversity destabilizes It, with...
www.nature.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Ecosystem stability is about local diversity! 🌏🌱
Really happy to see our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com.
Thanks to @huangmj.bsky.social for beautifully leading this project and to coauthors @danimontoya.bsky.social, Yao Xiao, Xiang Liu & Yann Hautier for this great collective effort.
Really happy to see our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com.
Thanks to @huangmj.bsky.social for beautifully leading this project and to coauthors @danimontoya.bsky.social, Yao Xiao, Xiang Liu & Yann Hautier for this great collective effort.
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February 13, 2026 at 12:15 PM
How can we reverse biodiversity loss? web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...
How can we reverse biodiversity loss?
The most frequent threats are not those that cause the most rapid declines, according to a new study that represents a turning point in strategies to improve vertebrate conservation and protect biodiv...
web.ub.edu
February 13, 2026 at 7:59 AM
How can we reverse biodiversity loss? web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...
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Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource!
🧪🍁🌐
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🍁🌐
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource!
🧪🍁🌐
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🍁🌐
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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#NotíciaIRBio
🌿 Com podem revertir la pèrdua de biodiversitat?
Les estratègies de conservació més efectives per protegir els vertebrats a escala global són les que aborden múltiples aspectes.
Estudi liderat @polcapdevila.bsky.social i #DuncanO’Brien @bristoluni.bsky.social
🔗 shorturl.at/97y4c
🌿 Com podem revertir la pèrdua de biodiversitat?
Les estratègies de conservació més efectives per protegir els vertebrats a escala global són les que aborden múltiples aspectes.
Estudi liderat @polcapdevila.bsky.social i #DuncanO’Brien @bristoluni.bsky.social
🔗 shorturl.at/97y4c
February 12, 2026 at 2:04 PM
#NotíciaIRBio
🌿 Com podem revertir la pèrdua de biodiversitat?
Les estratègies de conservació més efectives per protegir els vertebrats a escala global són les que aborden múltiples aspectes.
Estudi liderat @polcapdevila.bsky.social i #DuncanO’Brien @bristoluni.bsky.social
🔗 shorturl.at/97y4c
🌿 Com podem revertir la pèrdua de biodiversitat?
Les estratègies de conservació més efectives per protegir els vertebrats a escala global són les que aborden múltiples aspectes.
Estudi liderat @polcapdevila.bsky.social i #DuncanO’Brien @bristoluni.bsky.social
🔗 shorturl.at/97y4c
Reposted by Pol Capdevila
Excited this new paper is out in Science Advances 📄✨ I think the results are important:
To tackle vertebrate declines which are often driven by interacting threats—🦠 disease, 🐍 invasives, 🧪 pollution, 🌡️ climate, multi-threat, systems-level conservation is key 🌍
#Ecology #conservation
To tackle vertebrate declines which are often driven by interacting threats—🦠 disease, 🐍 invasives, 🧪 pollution, 🌡️ climate, multi-threat, systems-level conservation is key 🌍
#Ecology #conservation
🚨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!
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
February 12, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Excited this new paper is out in Science Advances 📄✨ I think the results are important:
To tackle vertebrate declines which are often driven by interacting threats—🦠 disease, 🐍 invasives, 🧪 pollution, 🌡️ climate, multi-threat, systems-level conservation is key 🌍
#Ecology #conservation
To tackle vertebrate declines which are often driven by interacting threats—🦠 disease, 🐍 invasives, 🧪 pollution, 🌡️ climate, multi-threat, systems-level conservation is key 🌍
#Ecology #conservation
This study was carried at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @ub.edu
@biologiaub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social
#ZoologicalSocietyofLondon
@biologiaub.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social
#ZoologicalSocietyofLondon
February 12, 2026 at 10:11 AM
thanks, solved!
February 12, 2026 at 10:10 AM
thanks, solved!
The bottom line is global biodiversity loss isn’t driven by one dominant threat. It’s the combined, cumulative pressure of multiple drivers. To halt vertebrate declines, conservation must tackle them together. 🌍
#Biodiversity #ConservationScience
#Biodiversity #ConservationScience
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 AM
The bottom line is global biodiversity loss isn’t driven by one dominant threat. It’s the combined, cumulative pressure of multiple drivers. To halt vertebrate declines, conservation must tackle them together. 🌍
#Biodiversity #ConservationScience
#Biodiversity #ConservationScience
Vertebrate declines are a due to “death by a thousand cuts”, so removing any single threat slows decline but does NOT reverse it.
ONLY simultaneous mitigation of multiple threats produces non-negative trends.
#BiodiversityPolicy
ONLY simultaneous mitigation of multiple threats produces non-negative trends.
#BiodiversityPolicy
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Vertebrate declines are a due to “death by a thousand cuts”, so removing any single threat slows decline but does NOT reverse it.
ONLY simultaneous mitigation of multiple threats produces non-negative trends.
#BiodiversityPolicy
ONLY simultaneous mitigation of multiple threats produces non-negative trends.
#BiodiversityPolicy
Contrary to our initial expectations, most threat interactions are additive (~80–90%), and synergistic effects are rare at the global scale.
#Multiplestressors
#Multiplestressors
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Contrary to our initial expectations, most threat interactions are additive (~80–90%), and synergistic effects are rare at the global scale.
#Multiplestressors
#Multiplestressors
Threat interactions explain more variation in population declines than spatial or temporal effects.
It’s not just where or when populations are monitored,
it’s how multiple pressures act together.
#MultipleStressors
It’s not just where or when populations are monitored,
it’s how multiple pressures act together.
#MultipleStressors
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Threat interactions explain more variation in population declines than spatial or temporal effects.
It’s not just where or when populations are monitored,
it’s how multiple pressures act together.
#MultipleStressors
It’s not just where or when populations are monitored,
it’s how multiple pressures act together.
#MultipleStressors
The steepest annual declines are associated with:
• Invasive species (~ −6%/yr)
• Disease (~ −4.6%/yr)
• Climate change (~ −3.1%/yr)
• Pollution (~ −1.8%/yr)
Impact ranking ≠ prevalence ranking.
#GlobalChange
• Invasive species (~ −6%/yr)
• Disease (~ −4.6%/yr)
• Climate change (~ −3.1%/yr)
• Pollution (~ −1.8%/yr)
Impact ranking ≠ prevalence ranking.
#GlobalChange
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 AM
The steepest annual declines are associated with:
• Invasive species (~ −6%/yr)
• Disease (~ −4.6%/yr)
• Climate change (~ −3.1%/yr)
• Pollution (~ −1.8%/yr)
Impact ranking ≠ prevalence ranking.
#GlobalChange
• Invasive species (~ −6%/yr)
• Disease (~ −4.6%/yr)
• Climate change (~ −3.1%/yr)
• Pollution (~ −1.8%/yr)
Impact ranking ≠ prevalence ranking.
#GlobalChange
Habitat loss (27%) and exploitation (31%) are the most common threats.
But they are NOT linked to the fastest declines.
Rarity of a threat does not mean low impact.
#Conservation
But they are NOT linked to the fastest declines.
Rarity of a threat does not mean low impact.
#Conservation
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Habitat loss (27%) and exploitation (31%) are the most common threats.
But they are NOT linked to the fastest declines.
Rarity of a threat does not mean low impact.
#Conservation
But they are NOT linked to the fastest declines.
Rarity of a threat does not mean low impact.
#Conservation
Vertebrate populations are declining worldwide.
But which threats are actually driving the steepest declines?
A global analysis of 3,129 vertebrate population time series reveals a surprising pattern 🧵👇
#Biodiversity #Ecology
But which threats are actually driving the steepest declines?
A global analysis of 3,129 vertebrate population time series reveals a surprising pattern 🧵👇
#Biodiversity #Ecology
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Vertebrate populations are declining worldwide.
But which threats are actually driving the steepest declines?
A global analysis of 3,129 vertebrate population time series reveals a surprising pattern 🧵👇
#Biodiversity #Ecology
But which threats are actually driving the steepest declines?
A global analysis of 3,129 vertebrate population time series reveals a surprising pattern 🧵👇
#Biodiversity #Ecology
🚨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!
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
February 12, 2026 at 8:17 AM
🚨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!
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!
Reposted by Pol Capdevila
🎉🍾 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
December 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🎉🍾 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
Reposted by Pol Capdevila
🎉 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...
👪 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...
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
🎉 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...
👪 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 Pol Capdevila
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
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
December 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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
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 Pol Capdevila
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...
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
December 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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...
44% 🤔... Poco me parece.
www.the-scientist.com/the-gollum-e...
Paper: www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
Reposted by Pol Capdevila
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
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
October 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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
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 Pol Capdevila
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...
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
September 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Pol Capdevila
Thanks also to @royalsocietypublishing.org for letting me write a blog about this fantastic team effort:
royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...
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
September 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Thanks also to @royalsocietypublishing.org for letting me write a blog about this fantastic team effort:
royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...
royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...
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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
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
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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
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
Reposted by Pol Capdevila
🚨 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
🪸 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
August 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
🚨 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
🪸 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