Pol Capdevila
polcapdevila.bsky.social
Pol Capdevila
@polcapdevila.bsky.social
Ecology Lecturer at University of Barcelona.

Interested in Quantitative Ecology, Resilience, Global Change, Marine Ecology, and Macroecology.

Editor at Journal of Animal Ecology.

Views of my own.
He/him.
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O paramos temporalmente (de explotar la anguila) o se acaba para siempre
Qué gusto ver a @malbercocs.bsky.social siendo tan clara (merci, Maria!)
Esperemos que se sigan sumando gentes de las cocinas
Es importante y es urgente
October 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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New Tansley Insight in New Phytologist: The path toward a unified plant trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity.

Why a common trait space matters, how to build it, and what it enables.

With @e-beccari.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

#PlantTraits #FunctionalDiversity
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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🚨 our August issue is now live! buff.ly/HzYBKQL
🪸 it includes papers from our latest cross-journal Special Feature, "Marine Heatwaves". You can read the full list of papers in the feature, including papers from @funecology.bsky.social & @journalofecology.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/qXHEMjS
August 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Press release of our recent study: "Ocean architects at risk from the combined impact of ocean acidification and warming"

www.icm.csic.es/en/news/ocea...

#bryozoans #microbiome
@fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @bfiguerola.bsky.social @icmcsic.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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🎙️ and listen to a podcast episode by the guest editors here: buff.ly/wMOiYiE
🤍 thank you to @cristinalinares.bsky.social,
@polcapdevila.bsky.social and @danigomezgras.bsky.social for bringing together an exceptional Special Feature!
August 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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"Els arquitectes del mar, en risc per l’impacte combinat de l’acidificació i l’escalfament de l’oceà". #briozous

🔗 www.icm.csic.es/ca/noticia/e...

@fonamental.bsky.social @elpiratavell.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social
@commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Our new paper is out today in @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🚨

🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08524-8

We studied how two Mediterranean bryozoan species respond to ocean acidification & warming using a natural underwater CO₂ vent as a climate change lab. 🌊🧫
🧵⬇️
July 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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For many marine species, all we have is a name. Now, thanks to a huge effort led by @drcraigmc.bsky.social, for 85,000 species we have body size as well. Version 1 of the MOBS database is published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Enjoy! 🌐🧪
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Check out our new publication lead by Lucie Mahaut in @royalsocietypublishing.org

Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change

👉 Trait diversity and redundancy drive stability; human impacts reduce it.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#ReefLifeSurvey 🌐🧪🦑🌍
May 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect

📄 buff.ly/IUWeewq
@creaf.cat @expecocons.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @unibarcelonathe.bsky.social @uab.cat
buff.ly
May 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Seguimos con
@cristinalinares.bsky.social, catedrática de la
@biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu, quien nos habla sobre el "state of the art" del coralígeno, su distribución, diversidad, servicios ecosistémicos y principales amenazas. #Projecto_CorFun @icmcsic.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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🪸New paper in Coral Reefs highlights that heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival — regardless of heat stress conditions.

With the participation of @cristinalinares.bsky.social (@ub.edu), member of #MedRecoverTeam.
📄 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
@irbio-ub.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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New paper in Coral Reefs Journal: Heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival independently of heat stress @medrecover.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
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Heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival independently of heat stress
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April 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Very proud of #MariaVives paper published today in @globalchangebio.bsky.social about the impacts of novel regimes of extreme climatic events in a common insect.
April 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Red coral colonies survive a decade after being transplanted in the Medes Islands - Current events - University of Barcelona web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...
Red coral colonies survive a decade after being transplanted in the Medes Islands
web.ub.edu
March 19, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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#RecercaUB | 🪸 Els coralls confiscats de la pesca furtiva tornen a viure a les illes Medes!

➡️ Les colònies que es van trasplantar fa una dècada al fons marí de les Medes han sobreviscut amb èxit.

Lideren l’estudi Cristina Linares i Yanis Zentner, de @biologiaub.bsky.social i @irbio-ub.bsky.social
Les colònies de corall vermell sobreviuen una dècada després de ser trasplantades a les illes Medes
web.ub.edu
March 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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🧵Can marine restoration lead to ecological recovery?

🌊Success is often assessed by short-term survival of transplants, but what about long-term changes in community (trait) composition?

We studied this for a key Mediterranean octocoral. 👇

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Active restoration of a long-lived octocoral drives rapid functional recovery in a temperate reef
After a decade, a community with restored red coral nears the functional structure of natural ones.
www.science.org
March 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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🌿 The MedRecover team held its annual retreat at Mas El Collell, spending a few days together to share knowledge, present, new innovations and research in our projects.

An inspiring time to connect, learn, and keep working towards marine conservation! Cold, but very happy! ❄️🌊 #MedRecoverTeam
March 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🌍 Demà divendres 14 de març, a les 11:30, celebrem el Dia Internacional d'Acció pels Rius amb el Sr. Davi Kopenawa a l’Aula Magna Ramon Parés. No hi falteu!

Consulta el programa complet 👉 www.ub.edu/portal/web/b...

@ub.edu @hubsg-ub.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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A framework to assess the vulnerability of islands to global changes : ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... thanks to ...
March 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM