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BES ALDER Network @besaldernetwork.bsky.social · 17h

Hi everyone, we're the BES ALDER Network 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌳 Follow us for information about upcoming events, opportunities, community stories, & resources

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Who are we? ALDER (Advancing LGBTQIA+ Diversity, Equality & Representation) is a Network for the LGBTQIA+ ecologist community to interact, share and support each other.

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 7d

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

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Giacomo Puglielli @gpuglielli.bsky.social · 7d

Working with individual trait data and functional trait spaces and bored about means?

With @cpcarmona.bsky.social, Agnese Bissi and @etordoni.bsky.social, we put together a perspective to test the effect of individual observations on trait space properties 👇👇

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces - npj Biodiversity

npj Biodiversity - Quantifying the influence of intraspecific variability in trait spaces

www.nature.com

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 7d

Classic macroecological laws-long held as signatures of biological systems-also emerge in economic and geological systems. The real signal lies not in the static universal patterns, but in how those patterns shift with scale 🌐🧪 #scaling #macroecology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Separating Macroecological Pattern and Process: Comparing Ecological, Economic, and Geological Systems

Theories of biodiversity rest on several macroecological patterns describing the relationship between species abundance and diversity. A central problem is that all theories make similar predictions f...

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tomjwebb @tomjwebb.bsky.social · 7d

Useful overview of R packages / functions for modelling different kinds of response variables (continuous, proportional, counts, bounded, zero-inflated, etc.) in a regression framework, with mixed models and Bayesian options too: strengejacke.github.io/regressionmo...

Overview of R Modelling Packages

Overview of modelling strategies and packages. Which model do I need for my data?

strengejacke.github.io

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 8d

Great two days of BES data/code hack-a-thon. 111 people (in person + online) collating data and chatting about open science. Big take homes so far: people ❤️ open science; data/code archiving means different things to different people; we can make some simple improvements with big impacts!

A room full of people working on laptops

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 27d

Evaluating macroecological fire impacts on bird populations | doi.org/10.1002/fee.... | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 8d

🌿Liana diversity, abundance and basal area were influenced mainly by tree species richness, precipitation and soil nutrients. Liana diversity and density were positively associated with precipitation 🧪🌎
🔍Article: buff.ly/6N7Vhq6
📰Blog: buff.ly/TKRw6UU

Patterns and drivers of liana community structure across five forest ecosystem types in Ghana

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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 13d

🦋 Butterflies are booming across England, thanks to nature friendly farming

New research shows that agri-environment schemes (AES) are significantly boosting biodiversity by paying farmers to adopt nature-friendly practices like wildflower strips and hedgerows.

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 12d

Generalised bumblebee–flower interactions demonstrate weak floral niche partitioning despite a high bee diversity vist.ly/488q8 #NicheOverlap #NicheWidth

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Will Allen @wlallen.bsky.social · 13d

📢🦋 Our paper ‘Global selection on insect antipredator coloration’ is out and featured on the cover of @science.org

We ran a huge experiment to find out how ecological context favours camouflage and warning colouration as antipredator strategies. 1/6

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

A white-fronted bee-eater (Merops bullockoides) decides whether to consume a warningly colored white-barred acraea butterfly (Telchinia encedon). Photo (c) Mike Rowe

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 12d

"differences in squamate fossil record completeness stem from ...anatomy/body size and affinities of different ...groups to specific lithologies and depositional environments."
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
Toxiferans: snakes and mosasaurs the kings of the squamate fossil record 👇

Squamate species abundance through time. Occurrences and abundances of major squamate lineages, mapped onto the time-calibrated combined-evidence hypothesis of squamate relationships from Simões et al. (2018).

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Alessandro Chiarenza @macroecoevoale.bsky.social · 12d

What are the biggest questions in #paleontology? New paper out today in Paleobiology led by Smith & Kiessling with ~200 coauthors on the relevance of our field, methods, & museum collections to climate & biodiversity research🦖 #FossilFriday @paleosoc.bsky.social 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Alessio Capobianco @acapomorphic.bsky.social · 13d

I am extremely happy to see that our review on fossil tip-dating is out in early view in Systematic Biology! A huge thanks to all the authors of this massive project (@heckeberg.bsky.social, @basantakhakurel.bsky.social, Gustavo Darlim, and @hoehna.bsky.social)! academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

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Timo Conradi @timoconradi.bsky.social · 13d

Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends - Nature Geoscience

An analysis fusing satellite data with a process-based model of plant growth attributes changes in vegetation activity across terrestrial ecosystems to climatic changes.

www.nature.com

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 15d

Yesterday, we had a webinar organised by the #PEPR #FORESTT on the use of species distribution models #SDMs with application in forestry 🌳🌲 You can watch 📹 16 talks on this topic, including one on the impacts of microclimatic processes for species (re)distribution ⬇️

tinyurl.com/4yerk68n

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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BES Macro @besmacro.bsky.social · 16d

Hi 👋 a bit about me- I’m finishing up my PhD on tundra plant (especially root) traits and relating data across scales at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. I am working with the Wild lab in ACES @stockholm-uni.bsky.social researching below ground processes and priming in the permafrost. I like 🎶,🏒and🏕️!

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BES Macro @besmacro.bsky.social · 19d

We have a new SIG social media secretary! Please welcome @lauraloubio.bsky.social to this account; she'll be taking over from a very grateful @sheardcat.bsky.social .

As always, if you have anything you'd like us to repost that's of plausible interest to the SIG members, please do tag us!

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BES Macro @besmacro.bsky.social · 19d

The spatial scaling of multiple dimensions of functional diversity in habitat islands | Dias et al. | Functional Ecology

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

it's an array from the linked paper; not clear what it means without the caption, so the point here is just "pretty colours!"

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Ed Ivimey-Cook @eivimeycook.bsky.social · 20d

Our latest #SORTEE-led paper is out now in #ProcB!

We reviewed data/code-sharing policy clarity, strictness & timing across 275 EcoEvo journals

We also worked with #ProcB & #EcologyLetters to assess initial compliance with sharing mandates. Huge team effort! 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and evolution, we still do not know how widespread data- and ...

doi.org

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Functional Ecology @funecology.bsky.social · 22d

📰Published📰ShareTrait: Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait‐based data in ectotherms💻

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ShareTrait: Towards interoperable and reusable individual trait‐based data in ectotherms

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Ecology Group Basel - Sabine Rumpf @ecologybasel.bsky.social · Sep 8

*Job alert*

We have a 5-year postdoc position on #mountain non-native species & #macroecology in our group @unibas.ch. Great opportunity to join us!

Details here: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-position-in-mountain-macroecology/6c5a8906-354f-43c6-bc9b-1156d21725a5

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Universität Basel: Postdoc position in mountain macroecology

The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a postdoc position within the ERC project 'Global status, tren...

jobs.unibas.ch

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Santiago Claramunt @sclaramunt.bsky.social · 28d

Excited to share our new paper on flight morphology and migration in North American wood warblers. Surprisingly, ground-dwelling warblers may be better adapted for migration than aerial ones!!!

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Morphological adaptations for migration in North American wood-warblers (Aves: Parulidae) - Journal of Ornithology

Migration exerts a selective pressure for increased flight efficiency and reduced energy expenditure in long-distance migratory birds. In North America, eastern migratory flyways are longer and requir...

link.springer.com

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 28d

Glad to share our latest article on the "co-coordinated stasis of large mammal diversity with the environments". Long in reviews it is finally out--a work done during the post-doc of Simona Bekeraitė
app.pan.pl/article/item...
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🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #Macroecology

Species richness histories of three large mammal clades: Artiodactyla (A), Carnivora (B), and Perissodactyla (C).

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 27d

Super awesome new paper in #MEE describing #causal #detection of shifts in #biodiversity! So many great insights here—a must read for those interested in #causalinference

And love Fig 3! Congrats team! @lsantinieco.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/2041...

DAGs showing confounding, mediator and collider variables

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