Andrew Barnes
@barnesecodiv.bsky.social
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Researcher in functional ecology & biodiversity, EcoDiv research lab leader @University of Waikato, Aotearoa - interested in all things ecology and beyond! he/him More about our lab here: www.ecodivlab.com
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barnesecodiv.bsky.social
Haha OK fine, yes I am actually pretty damn excited to see this list 🤭
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frankashwood.bsky.social
Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates?

Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social!

More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...

#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
A screenshot of a webpage making a call for papers announcement for a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, focussed on soil and litter invertebrates. The page has a banner image photograph of a globular springtail facing towards the camera, with its head down, feeding on fungi on a decaying log.
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yungenchee.bsky.social
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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chiahsieh.bsky.social
Quantifying similarity among ecological network is getting feasible to understand assembly processes from communities to species interactions. Upcoming publication using this for African mammal food webs is under revision now. Stay tuned!

#Ecology #EcologicalNetwork #Macroecology #Biogeography
Quantifying functionally equivalent species and ecological network dissimilarity with optimal transport distances
Quantifying the structure and dynamics of species interactions in ecological communities is fundamental to studying ecology and evolution. While there are numerous approaches to analysing ecologic...
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barnesecodiv.bsky.social
Both of those things are allready worth the trip! 😆
barnesecodiv.bsky.social
Would love to visit! Unfortunately we're on a tight schedule with family visits, but will try to work this in next time we're back 😊
barnesecodiv.bsky.social
It was a short visit, but wonderful to catch up with @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social again and to see some inspirational experimental sites at Bad Lauchstädt!
Leonore Hafermann getting inspiration for her PhD experiments from the DroughtNet site at Bad Lauchstädt Nico Eisenhauer talking us on a tour I'd the EcoTron facility at Bad Lauchstädt Standing under the canopy of the MyDiv experimental forest
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globalchangebio.bsky.social
TECHNICAL ADVANCE
If You're Rare, Should I Care? How Imperfect Detection Changes Relationships Between Biodiversity and Global Change Drivers

🔗 buff.ly/FvZGYmA
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orlyrazgour.bsky.social
In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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pablo-ecology.bsky.social
Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🌎🧪🌐 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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idiv-research.bsky.social
🌀Turnover vs. Loss — local biodiversity isn't declining as expected. 🔄 Some species disappear, others appear — so does overall richness change? 🧐 In this #InsideBiodiversity episode, @jon-chase03.bsky.social explains why reality is challenging assumptions. 🔗https://insidebiodiversity.podigee.io/
barnesecodiv.bsky.social
I wouldn't get up at 5am to watch my talk 😆 They do also get recorded and can be found on YouTube. I think you get the link when you register
barnesecodiv.bsky.social
Interested in #ecological #theory & live on this side of the world (Asia-Pacific)? Tune in to the @pop-bio.bsky.social seminar series! I'm speaking next on #biodiversity change, #food-web energetics and #ecosystem function. Register here: forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL... 🌐🌏🍁🧪 @newzealandecology.bsky.social
pop-bio.bsky.social
Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar:

"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"

Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!

Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...
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plantepigenetics.ch
This is HUGE!
40% yield drop expected for Europe.
And we are still discussing if a single DNA base change has to be considered as a GMO. And that just because the organic sector is complaining?
Decadence? madness? or both?
davidrvetter.bsky.social
🚨NEW from me: the U.S. and Europe could experience a 40% drop in food production this century as temperatures rise, a major new study has found. "It's almost like in this context, those with the most to lose, lose the most," said Prof Andrew Hultgren, a lead author of the study.
U.S. And Europe Face 40% Drop In Food Production, Scientists Warn
Major study finds world's most productive farming regions are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures, and face steep declines in agricultural output this century.
www.forbes.com
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gobyone.bsky.social
Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...

Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...

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barnesecodiv.bsky.social
Sounds like you are keen to organise your own special issue on questionable geographic labels? Not sure this would be the appropriate journal target though...
barnesecodiv.bsky.social
I suppose the editors are thinking more "biogeographic" global South ;-)
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ecography.bsky.social
Integrating food webs in species distribution models can improve ecological niche estimation and predictions https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07546 #Biodiversisty #Modelling #Metanetworks #SDM