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Manuela Gonzalez Suarez

@mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social

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Quantitative ecologist, conservation & population dynamics. EcCo lab PI. Assoc Prof at Uni. of Reading, UK. She/her. https://sites.google.com/site/manuelagonzalezsuarez/Home

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Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · Aug 9

And kudos to the whole cosupervisory team
@cpcarmona.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social
@expecocons.bsky.social
& Chris Venditti

It was great to work with you all!

Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · Aug 9

Super happy that @kerrys189.bsky.social passed her viva with no corrections!! 🥳🥳🥳

Congratulations, Dr. Stewart!!

The EcCo lab will miss you, but we know you are off to do amazing things

Thanks to the excellent examiners @alexpigot.bsky.social & @vlboult.bsky.social

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Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · Jun 24

New paper out on how human activities impact taxonomic vs functional biodiversity, led by @kerrys189.bsky.social

Kerry Stewart @kerrys189.bsky.social · Jun 24

New paper!
"Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Great working with @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, @cpcarmona.bsky.social, @expecocons.bsky.social, Chris Venditti and Jo Baker.

Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Projections of extinctions of bird species and losses of functional diversity over the next 100 years suggest that even immediate and widespread threat abatement would be insufficient to prevent losse...

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Reposted by Manuela Gonzalez Suarez

Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · Jun 5

🧵New paper + open database drop!
The Marine Organismal Body Size ( #MOBS ) Database is now live—85,000+ marine species, from plankton to whales, with standardized size data.
A huge leap for biodiversity, conservation, and climate science. #science #marinelife onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes

Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body-size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrat...

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Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · Jun 4

Studying thousands of species from plants to birds we find life is organised similarly.
The rule is simple: in every region on Earth, most species cluster together in small 'hotspot' areas, then gradually spread outward with fewer and fewer species able to survive farther away from these hotspots.

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Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · Jun 4

New paper! led by Ruben Bernardo-Madrid "A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions" in NEE @natureportfolio.nature.com

Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Ecological assemblages may be spatially organized by both context dependency and general processes. Here the authors find general patterns in the organization of regional biodiversity in biogeographic...

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Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · May 25

What a pleasure to examine PhDs like this one, great science and people

Also a return to my first academic institution, I finished my studies in UAM in June 2000, leaving to start an adventure in graduate school in the USA.

Ana (Guida) Santos @guidasantos.bsky.social · May 24

Sonia Llorente defended her thesis brilliantly. Congratulations Dr Sonia!
Thanks to @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social @fmazcarate.bsky.social & Fernanda Alves Martins fir being part of the committee, and for the great discussion you raised!
#proudsupervisor

Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · Apr 9

Our School of Biological Sciences is hiring.
Lecturer in Invertebrate Zoology
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lecturer in Invertebrate Zoology:Whiteknights Reading UK

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Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · Apr 9

Our School of Biological Sciences is hiring.
Lecturer in Field Ecology
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lecturer in Field Ecology:Whiteknights Reading UK

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