A new #OpenAccess Concepts & Synthesis paper in "Ecological Monographs"👀...

What sustains biodiversity? 🌿🌸🐝🐦‍⬛ It’s not just about species, it’s also about individuals.
 
Our new paper in @esajournals.bsky.social Ecol. Monogr. shows how the way individuals specialize on their mutualistic partners can scale up to shape species persistence.
 
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Mañana estaremos en la casa de la ciencia con el taller:
¿En qué se parecen las abejas silvestres visitando flores y Twitter?🌼🐝
@blancaac.bsky.social @nermonper.bsky.social @curromolina.bsky.social @violetacalleja.bsky.social @juliagdealedo.bsky.social
www.ebd.csic.es/divulgacion/...

I’ll be teaching “Introduction to Network Analysis & Modelling” – covering theory, hands-on Python exercises, and applications to real systems. Starts Sept 22 to 1 Oct
@eco-aeet.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social

More info in this link → www.transmittingscience.com/courses/syst...

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.

Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Really happy to have participated in #EcoNet2025 this week. Such an inspiring symposium with amazing people, can’t wait for the next one!

🥳 Meet Dr. Blanca Arroyo-Correa (<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gipf6fozheejit5lfymqzy5v" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@blancaac.bsky.social), our new subject editor from from Seville, Spain

Get to know her and her research by reading her interview here: vist.ly/445wh

Herbicides harm more than weeds! 🐝🧪

A new study suggests that they indirectly disrupt plant-pollinator networks, potentially risking pollination services 🌼🌏 @julitavella.bsky.social

🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.70113

#EcoNet2025 Plenary speaker: Paulo Guimarães, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 'Indirect effects in ecological networks: consequences for evolution, ecology and ecosystem services'

Register now: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 3-5 September 2025, Newcastle University

#EcoNet2025 Plenary speaker: Blanca Arroyo-Correa, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC) 'Bridging scales in mutualistic networks: from individuals to community assembly'

Register now: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 3-5 September 2025, Newcastle University

#EcoNet2025 Plenary speaker: Jane Memmott @bristoluni.bsky.social 'People & pollinators in a network context'

Register now: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 3-5 September 2025, Newcastle University

So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social

📜Forum: Navigating a changing world. On the significance of rewiring for mutualistic interactions, caveats and future directions

The study explores "rewiring" in mutualistic networks, highlighting hidden drivers like trait variability and competition.

vist.ly/32h4i

#Ecology #Conservation

🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

📖 A new review concludes that understanding the functional consequences of biodiversity loss is critical but we need to be clear about what type of biodiversity change we are measuring and to focus on the loss of stably coexisting core species.🌳🌲🌼
👉 buff.ly/kqQghYU

🌿 PhD Opportunity in Biodiversity Sciences 🌿

Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network.

Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD

Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB

Our new study shows how animal biodiversity loss is a climate problem: tropical forests recover far less carbon where seed dispersers have declined.

We’re not just losing forests – we’re losing their ability to regrow.

Reversing that trend could align biodiversity recovery with climate solutions.🧵

📖Published📖

Check out our new research article 👉 Inference of ecological networks and possibilistic dynamics based on Boolean networks from observations and prior knowledge 🌍 🧪

buff.ly/5w4c7S0

📰Published📰 Phenological turnover matters when making trait-based predictions of plant-pollinator interactions🐝

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EcoNet2025: VII Symposium on Ecological Networks 3-5 September 2025

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN: ncl.ac.uk/.../events/e...
PLACES ARE LIMITED TO 150 SO BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

Call for talks and posters closes 20th June.

Global change reshuffles species communities: who could interact with whom? We introduce new ways to measure the capacity of species & communities to rewire interactions, which can be used to predict how ecological networks might adapt to changing conditions.

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

Are you interested in predator-prey interactions and movement ecology?

I am looking for a PhD student to work on the project "A mechanistic theory of functional responses: zooming into movement behaviour to understand and predict predator-prey interactions"
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/342402.

#BlogAEET
"La singularidad de las plantas y su impacto en los animales frugívoros: efectos de la variación individual en las interacciones planta-animal" por Elena Quintero @elequintero.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social

blogaeet.org/2025/05/19/l...

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...