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Leandro Duarte

@duarteldas.bsky.social

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Associate Professor at http://ufrgs.br. Brasileiro 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷. Sharing ideas on ecology and evolution. Mate, café brasileiro, IPA and democracy make days better. My opinions (PT/EN).

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Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Aug 29

One more step towards more insightful analyses in Evolutionary Macroecology. Thanks @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social and all coauthors still not blueskylized for the collaborative endeavor!

SBEARS - A site-based method to estimate ancestral ranges of species url: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...

SBEARS - A site-based method to estimate ancestral ranges of species

Abstract. Assessing the geographic dimension of diversification is paramount to integrate macroecology and macroevolution. Estimating ancestral ranges of s

academic.oup.com

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Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · 27d

Que dia!!!

Camarote da República @camarotedacpi.bsky.social · 27d

⚖️ Proclamação da sentença de Bolsonaro ao final do Julgamento

Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · 27d

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Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · 27d

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · 29d

This is so amazing!

Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Sep 5

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Aug 29

By the way: vão cuidar do quintal de vocês seus arrombado puxa-saco de laranjão.

Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Aug 29

That’s easy. Someone call it Constitution.

Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Aug 29

SBEARS - A site-based method to estimate ancestral ranges of species

Abstract. Assessing the geographic dimension of diversification is paramount to integrate macroecology and macroevolution. Estimating ancestral ranges of s

academic.oup.com

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Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Jul 23

How much effort you must do to end your ability to do something? Strange times.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 23

Breaking News: The EPA is said to have drafted a plan that would end its ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.

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Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Camarote da República @camarotedacpi.bsky.social · Jul 16

🔀 O PIX É NOSSO

Governo do Brasil começa campanha pra avisar ao Trump que nosso sistema de pagamento é só do nosso interesse, e não dos EUA

Reposted by Leandro Duarte

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jul 16

the current rate of extinction, as estimated by ourselves and others, whom we cited, and across diverse major taxa, we may well be headed in the direction of a new mass extinction event
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🌐🧪

Denying that we may be experiencing the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction paves the way for it to happen

Arguing that we are not currently experiencing a Sixth Mass Extinction, or at least playing down its possibility, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen. Wiens and Saban [1], in a...

www.cell.com

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Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Jul 16

Nice!!!

Alex Skeels @alexskeels.bsky.social · Jul 15

We use this phylogenetic framework to test how deep-time biome change ☀️📉 has shaped the group's diversification history, with a focus on Sahul 🌏 - where most extant diversity is found today.

Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Jul 11

Esses gringos não sabem das coisas. Gostei. Fod#-se laranjão.

Governo do Brasil @brasil.gov.br · Jul 11

O S é uma letra linda, tá? Cheio de curva e de SOBERANIA! 🇧🇷

#AquiÉoBrasil #OrgulhoDeSerBrasileiro #GovBR #UniãoEReconexão

Reposted by Leandro Duarte

Fay-Wei Li @fernway.bsky.social · May 30

Shameless self-promotion continues...🙃 You might find this #fern book in your local bookstores! mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

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Giacomo Puglielli @gpuglielli.bsky.social · May 28

New data paper out! Insect feeding guilds information (> 4000 insect species!) in relation to host plants for Northern Hemisphere woody species (>600 species!)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

InsectGUILD: feeding guilds of lepidopteran and hymenopteran larvae consuming Northern Hemisphere woody plants - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - InsectGUILD: feeding guilds of lepidopteran and hymenopteran larvae consuming Northern Hemisphere woody plants

www.nature.com

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Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · May 28

Hey Ecofolks, Global Ecology Starter Pack Vol. 3 is out! Those interested must send a DM to @global-ecology.bsky.social to join it. Thanks @nmouquet.bsky.social for this initiative!

go.bsky.app/F86HYqj

Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · May 26

One more tool available to analyze the spatial structure of clade distribution. Always welcome!

Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · May 26

📖Published📖

Matthew Kling presents phylospatial, a new R package that fully supports probability, abundance, and binary community data across a range of spatial phylogenetic diversity (PD) analyses 🌎 🧪 Check the article out here 👇

buff.ly/onf4BV6

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Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · May 4

Lots of ideas coming from this paper!

Emergence and Dynamics of Regional Species Pools

The Importance of the Regional Species Pool The regional species pool—the set of species capable of entering a local community—is a foundational concept for understanding ecological processes that o.....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · Apr 22

The Global Ecology feed is growing — 20-30 posts/week on large-scale biodiversity science — 390 contributors! 🌍🧪🦤🦑🪴🍁

DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join and tag 🌐 in your posts to see them on the feed

Let’s build a engaged community together ✨🌈💚

Pls share to spread!

👉 bsky.app/profile/nmou...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Apr 13

Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore.

This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/

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Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Apr 10

And this.

Darren Incorvaia @megadarren.bsky.social · Apr 8

“De-extinction” is to biodiversity loss what “Mars colonization” is to climate change—wishful thinking that is at its core impossible but nevertheless sucks up attention and resources from actual solutions to these crises (which, ultimately, might be the whole point)

Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Apr 9

This.

Andy McKay @korimakoecology.bsky.social · Apr 9

The IUCN Red List has 47,187 living species that are currently threatened with extinction, but here is a genetically engineered big dumb wolf thing that serves absolutely no functional ecological purpose and isn't even close to being the thing that we pretend it is. 🧪🌏

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Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Mar 30

Em tempos de macartismo às avessas no Brasil, a coragem d’O Eco precisa ser aplaudida. Há solução, claro que há, mas demandaria mais racionalidade ao admitir a importância da conservação da biodiversidade brasileira. Não parece ser o caso.

((o))eco | jornalismo ambiental @oeco.org.br · Mar 28

Entidades criticam pessoas morando e caçando em parques e outras unidades de conservação ⬇️

Manifesto reuniu mais de 100 assinaturas. Reservas naturais como os Parnas Guaricana e da Serra do Itajaí também serão alvos de acordos entre autarquias federais
oeco.org.br/noticias/ent...

Entidades criticam pessoas morando e caçando em parques e outras unidades de conservação - ((o))eco

Manifesto reuniu mais de 100 assinaturas. Reservas naturais como os Parnas Guaricana e da Serra do Itajaí também serão alvos de acordos entre autarquias federais

oeco.org.br

Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Mar 28

Unitedstatian academics are living now what we in global south have been somehow facing since ever: chaos, instability, lack of long term expectations, etc. I hope when this sad reality passes it can at least put some perspective on the meritocrat speech.

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Jess Rickenback @jess-rickenback.bsky.social · Mar 26

The Global Ecology starter pack has been so successful there's a third iteration (and it includes me!)
I'm told there's still space if you're a global ecologist and want to be added:
DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join.
go.bsky.app/MkLHiKU
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Leandro Duarte @duarteldas.bsky.social · Mar 20

Happy to see a nice application of the phylogenetic fuzzy weighting method.

A time-calibrated ‘Tree of Life’ of aquatic insects for knitting historical patterns of evolution and measuring extant phylogenetic biodiversity across the world

The extent to which the sequence and timing of important events on Earth have influenced biological evolution through geological time is a matter of o…