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Benjamin Rosenbaum @benrosenbaum.bsky.social · 3d

A brief delve into the recent science history of network theory (including food webs)

Veritasium @veritasium.bsky.social · 7d

Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are

Watch our latest video, in full, on YouTube - youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA

Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are

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Frank Pennekamp @pennekampster.bsky.social · 3d

Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Biodiversity modulates the cross‐community scaling relationship in changing environments

Organismal abundance typically declines with increasing body size, with metabolic theory predicting a universal size–abundance slope of –0.75. Using protist microcosms across gradients of species ric...

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 8d

🌍📢 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🌿🧭📈

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#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 27d

One in six species on Earth experienced extraordinarily high temperatures across more than 25% of their range in 2024--the hottest year on record. For most, this was the second year of extreme heat, likely compounding risks. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The number of terrestrial vertebrate species highly thermally exposed (>25% range) over time versus the mean global terrestrial temperature anomaly (denoted by color scale of points).

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 28d

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

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DAGs showing confounding, mediator and collider variables

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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · 29d

🔥Ignite - Warming threatens aquatic–terrestrial linkages: evidence from tropical geothermal streams

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#BayesianMixingModels #EffectsOfWarming #FluxAcrossEcosystems #FoodWebStructure #IsotopicAnalyses #TropicalRiparianForest #WaterLandInterfaces

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Justin Yeakel 🦣🐆 @jdyeakel.bsky.social · Sep 2

Mark Novak, @kecoblentz.bsky.social, John DeLong FTW - a very cool paper I need to dig carefully through!

American Naturaliﬆ / ASN 🐌 @asn-amnat.bsky.social · Aug 30

Novak et al. derive a functional response model that unifies Holling’s classical forms. The model clarifies when linearity can be a mechanistically-reasoned description of predator feeding rates and the impact it has on predator-prey dynamics.

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In Defense of Type I Functional Responses: The Frequency and Population Dynamic Effects of Feeding on Multiple Prey at a Time | The American Naturalist

Abstract Ecologists differ in the degree to which they consider the linear type I functional response to be an unrealistic versus sufficient representation of predator feeding rates. Empiricists tend ...

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Eawag Aquatic Research @eawag.bsky.social · Aug 4

Researchers from #Eawag have conducted an extensive meta-analysis of field studies worldwide to better understand how land-cover changes in the watershed influence freshwater food webs.

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@florianaltermatt.bsky.social #foodwebs #landuse

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · Jul 16

July issue: Perspective led by Benoit Gauzens on the application of interaction networks to different ecological questions, and that provides guidance on selecting the appropriate type of interaction network. 🧪🌎
Web link: go.nature.com/3GLdOwN
Readcube: rdcu.be/ewqXc

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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · Jul 9

🌳 One of my dearest projects—with brilliant friends and colleagues—is out in @NatureComms

We show that how you plant tree species (not just which) can significantly boost forest functioning.

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👇 A short thread

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Jul 4

By combining theory, modelling and empirical work, Luo et al. show that species synchrony decreases with time series length and its relationship with diversity switches from positive to negative www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Short time series obscure compensatory dynamics in ecological communities - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Species synchrony is considered a major mechanism of biodiversity–ecosystem stability relationships. Here, by combining theory, modelling and empirical work, the authors show that with time series len...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jul 4

In ectotherms, temperature-species richness relationships matched predictions of metabolic theory 🧪🌐 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Consistent energy-diversity relationships in terrestrial vertebrates

Ecologists have long proposed that environments providing more energy can support more species, yet empirical evidence frequently contradicts this expectation. We argue that such inconsistencies resul...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jul 4

“Planktonic C:N and N:P ratios rose markedly in the late twentieth century, followed by a decline, suggesting a progressive alleviation of P limitation, probably driven by increased anthropogenic P inputs” 🌐🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global-scale shifts in marine ecological stoichiometry over the past 50 years - Nature Geoscience

Fifty years of plankton and water samples show that the proportion of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in the ocean now substantially differs from the Redfield ratio, probably reflecting a reduction in...

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Cara A Gallagher @caragallagher.bsky.social · Jun 23

Excited to share our new paper on how empirical research can better support mechanistic models—through realistic, interdisciplinary data and by embracing complex, individual-level mechanisms. Born from a @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social symposium!
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Graphical abstract illustrating four recommendations for ecological modeling with aquatic animals.

Be interdisciplinary and across levels: Includes icons for population biology (a bar chart of age structure) and behavioral ecology (a pie chart showing habitat use), plus a zoomed-in illustration of individual porpoises within a group.

Use mechanistic modeling instead of statistics as a conceptual framework: A curved line plot shows respiration increasing with temperature, with data points color-coded by temperature and a shaded area indicating stressful conditions.

Emphasize realism over precision: Shows a fish in a naturalistic habitat with plants and conspecifics, contrasted with a lone fish in a bare tank.

Include stressful conditions: Reiterated through both the curved plot and a separate graph with three treatments, where respiration increases across treatments and with temperature, with the highest temperature range shaded in red.

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Anika Happe @anikahappe.bsky.social · Jun 19

In a synthesis of over 3000 population trends in the Wadden Sea, we show a substantial reorganization of biodiversity with over 38% of populations undergoing significant change (i.e., increases or decreases), identify winners and losers and critical time points of change! dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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Benoit Gauzens @bgauzens.bsky.social · Jun 16

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · Jun 13

New online! Tailoring interaction network types to answer different ecological questions

Tailoring interaction network types to answer different ecological questions

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 13 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00056-7This Perspective provides guidance about how to select the most appropriate type of interaction network for different research questions in ecology. Networks can vary according to the extent of node aggregation and the information that links represent; each kind of network formulation has advantages in different contexts.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Jun 9

Ecological assemblages may be spatially organized by both context dependency and general processes. A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution finds general patterns in the organization of regional biodiversity in biogeographical regions. go.nature.com/3FILzhN 🧪

This is figure 1, which shows seven general and spatially structured biogeographical sectors characterized from four biodiversity aspects across taxa.

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 10

Nature research paper: Old carbon routed from land to the atmosphere by global river systems

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Old carbon routed from land to the atmosphere by global river systems - Nature

Using a global database of the radiocarbon content of rivers combining new and published measurements, isotopic mass balance suggests that about 60% of river CO2 emissions are derived from millennial or older carbon sources.

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Paul Savary @psavary.bsky.social · Oct 6

Less known than keystone species, keystone communities! Check out the last preprint of Gabriel Khattar and Pedro Peres-Neto about this important property for biodiversity responses to disturbance. doi.org/10.22541/au....

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Victor Saito @vssaito.bsky.social · Apr 29

New study out! 🌐🧪
Human pressures are boosting invaders, cutting fishery value by over 50%.
A 21-year study led by Dieison Moi shows how invasions reshape ecosystems and threaten vital services.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Ecology #EcosystemServices

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Angélica L. González @ecolgonzalez.bsky.social · Apr 3

I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support www.nature.com/articles/s41...

StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content

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Pedro Peres-Neto @comecology.bsky.social · Mar 31

OIKOS @oikosjournal.bsky.social

CALL FOR PAPERS - BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

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Call for papers - Biological Invasions in The Context of Global Environmental Change | Oikos Journal

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Ismaël Lajaaiti @ismael-lajaaiti.bsky.social · Mar 28

Our preprint "Revealing the organization of species stability in ecological communities" now available at doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Comments welcome!

Revealing the organization of species stability in ecological communities

Ecological communities are often composed of many species, each interacting in complex ways. This complexity makes predictions of species responses to disturbances challenging. Here, we analyze dynami...

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Laura Dee @lauradee.bsky.social · Mar 5

This paper - Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate - was motivated by the need to anticipate and quantify how extreme events, which are accelerating with climate change, impact nature;s contributions to people, YET ... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Quantifying disturbance effects on ecosystem services in a changing climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A generalizable, functional-trait-based approach for quantifying the effects of disturbances to ecosystem services and economic outcomes, including under climate change, highlights the need for incorp...

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Volker Rudolf @volkerrudolf.bsky.social · Mar 5

Warming can affect many physiological processes. But any attempt to scale up individual-level processes to population-level consequences must assume a relationship between temperature & the strength of density dependence. But what does it look like? In our new paper, we tried to find out.

Strengthening of negative density dependence mediates population decline at high temperatures

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