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Conservation Biology @conbiology.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hurtado et al share that landscape connectivity significantly influences #carnivore communities, highlighting the need for its inclusion in #conservationplanning.🐾🌳 Learn more about their findings at doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

#conservation #science #carnivores #carnivoreconservation

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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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Matt Betts @mattbetts42.bsky.social · Jun 25

Clearcutting doesn't mimic fire when it comes to biodiversity conservation - in the early stages of forest development at least. Congrats to Graham Frank on the publication of his PhD chapter! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Trevor Caughlin @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social · Jun 11

🚨 New paper, led by Cristina Barber. We used high-resolution aerial imagery to study tree mortality in a tropical landscape. Large, isolated trees were most likely to die--alarming finding! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A map of tree crowns in southwestern Panama, showing satellite imagery of a tropical landscape

A scientist surveying trees in a pastoral landscape with a GPS unit

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Dr Jess Fisher @jessjessfisher.bsky.social · Jun 25

New paper out today in
@natecoevo.nature.com on biodiversity & human wellbeing in UK forests, both seasonally and along a gradient of socioeconomic deprivation

Funded by @erc.europa.eu and Woodland Trust 🌳, with lovely @dice-kent.bsky.social team

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Spatio-temporal variability in forest biodiversity associated with human well-being across socio-economic deprivation gradients - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Applying a combined social science and trait-based ecology approach, the authors identify ecological traits in forests eliciting positive or negative well-being among human participants in England and...

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Nature Sustainability @natsustain.nature.com · Jun 13

New online! Biodiversity change under human depopulation in Japan

Biodiversity change under human depopulation in Japan

Nature Sustainability, Published online: 12 June 2025; doi:10.1038/s41893-025-01578-wHuman population growth over the past few decades has had detrimental impacts on biodiversity; however, several countries, such as Japan, are experiencing below-replacement human fertility leading to depopulation. This study examines the impact of human depopulation on biodiversity levels across Japan.

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · Apr 10

🆕 & #OpenAccess in Ecological Monographs: Despite stiff competition for limited resources, countless plants can coexist if they face a trade-off in how they compete for water vs light

📄Trait diversity in plant communities maintained by competition for water and light
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Model schematic. The top panel shows individuals’ physiological response to water limitation. When soil water exceeds the critical content, individuals are active, transpiring water and accumulating carbon. When soil water drops below this threshold, they shut down, no longer transpiring, & lose carbon accumulated previously. Soil water is replenished by rainstorms at constant intervals. Panel B illustrates the dynamics of a single species starting at low density. Initially, the population is too small to deplete soil water to its critical level, so it remains active. After the next storm, the individual uses accumulated carbon for growth and reproduction, but eventually transpires enough water to shut down. The species consumes water faster & shuts down earlier in each subsequent interval, reaching equilibrium at its break-even time. Panel C shows the same dynamic with 2 species, where the less drought-tolerant species (1) shuts down earlier than the more drought-tolerant species (2)

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Carly Ziter @carlyziter.bsky.social · Mar 18

A nice write up on former MSc student Serena Sinno's work on urban pollinator conservation (that I missed - since Concordia is still over there tweeting on X 🤦). www.concordia.ca/news/stories.... Dedicated students measured hundreds of flowers to show the importance of floral trait diversity!

Wild bees thrive among diverse flower communities, Concordia study shows - Concordia University

A mix of corolla sizes offers strong opportunities to promote urban biodiversity, according to Carly Ziter.

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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · Mar 20

🆕 in Ecological Monographs' "Method" section: Inspired by work showing "a community is more than the sum of its parts," a new geometry-based measure of beta diversity captures changes in species interactions

📄A geometric approach to beta diversity
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Illustration of the geometric approach to beta diversity. Panel (A) shows 2 hypothetical metacommunities; the 2 communities of metacommunity 1 consist of species A only and species B only. The 3 communities of metacommunity 2 consist of species A only, species B only, and species A,B together, respectively. Panel (B) shows that classic measures of beta diversity assert that metacommunity 1 has a higher beta diversity than metacommunity 2. Panel (C) illustrates the key steps of our geometric measure: turning the metacommunities into matrix representations, a geometric embedding of the metacommunity, and measuring the beta diversity as the normalized hypervolume of the geometric object. Within this measure, metacommunity 2 has a lower beta diversity than metacommunity 2, opposite to the classic measures.

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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · Mar 18

Our department (@EEBUofT) is searching for a Post-Doc! Post-docs funded by this fellowship are independently supported, with research funds available. We invite applications from innovative, collaborative candidates. See the job ad here:

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Tiziana A. Gelmi Candusso @urbanzoochory.bsky.social · Feb 14

Just published today! We analyzed the SLOS dilemma for maintaining connectivity through urban sprawl besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Urban planning for wildlife connectivity: A multispecies assessment of urban sprawl and SLOSS renaturalization strategies

Notably, smaller but widely distributed natural areas can serve as a practical and effective management strategy for balancing the trade-offs among economic costs, urban expansion and habitat conserv...

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Junlong Huang @huang-landeco.bsky.social · Mar 11

Our new open access paper out in Earth's Future👉
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In the paper, we demonstrate how assisted natural regeneration can act as a cost-effective NbS to be beneficial for both biodiversity and climate mitigation, and identified priority areas as per 30×30

Junlong Huang @huang-landeco.bsky.social · Mar 4

A good opinion piece from the EiC of FEE: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
I find society-owned journals more rigorous, and more supportive to the scientific community. Whenever possible, let's give society journals more support as well @esajournals.bsky.social.

Thank you for choosing…

Click on the article title to read more.

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Junlong Huang @huang-landeco.bsky.social · Feb 27

A really cool piece! We also have a paper about urban weeds out in this issue, and it might be interesting to examine different roles that weeds and cultivated vegetation play in supporting pollinator diversity among different habitat types (say, natural vs. managed vs. riparian greenspace)

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Junlong Huang @huang-landeco.bsky.social · Feb 23

Check our latest paper out in @esajournals.bsky.social 👉
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10...., in which we suggest changing the views towards urban weeds as they may provide significant eocsystem services, and revealed their functional responses to urbanization processes.

Spatiotemporal land use dynamics filter life history strategies to shape urban spontaneous plant assemblages

Spontaneous plants, such as weeds, are a key component of urban flora that can provide significant ecological benefits like nutrient cycling and soil pollutant removal. Our ability to fully harness t...

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