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Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social · Sep 7

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Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social · Aug 25

Fantastic paper from @helenyan.bsky.social showing the importance of considering abundance in field-based biodiversity-ecosystem functioning assessments! Check it out! 👇🏽

Helen Yan @helenyan.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚨New PhD paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com with @renatoamorais.bsky.social and Dave Bellwood! 🚨

Marine fishes exhibit extraordinary patterns of diversity, but how does this diversity relate to their productivity? 🐟🐠🐡

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🔗 nature.com/articles/s41...

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Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social · Jun 7

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Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social · Jun 7

Our new paper on the historical and scientific basis of Darwin’s ‘coral reef paradox’ is out @currentbiology.bsky.social! Summary below by @gobyone.bsky.social.

Also with @paulinenarvaez.bsky.social
@oclaripv.bsky.social
and Vale Parravicini!

Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3QW8S...

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Simon J. Brandl @gobyone.bsky.social · Jun 6

Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...

Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · May 27

So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐

Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brief thread of what we found 🧵

Schematic diagram showing the major axes of tree crown architecture

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · May 17

Nice.

arxiv.org/abs/2402.04607

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Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · May 15

Are you a community/macro ecologist? Looking for more data? Sick of compiling/cleaning data?? 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐

Cher Chow 周馥溢 @cherfychow.bsky.social · May 15

🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :)

Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series

Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Jérémy Carlot @jerem-carlot.bsky.social · May 2

🎓 Are you a marine MSc or PhD student passionate about climate change and biodiversity? Join our Summer School in Ischia, Italy!

📅 Sept 14–20, 2025
📝 Apply by May 26 → bit.ly/42VRjfL

🔬 Explore seawater chemistry, R & GitHub, blue carbon, drone surveys, and photogrammetry — right in the field

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Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social · Apr 26

When you’re cornered by your supervisor and forced to explain why that paper hasn’t been submitted…

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Apr 23

Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness 🧪 🌐 #macroecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness

Aim Tropical biodiversity overshadows the number of species inhabiting other regions. Age, area, and stability constitute three classical ideas used to explain the higher richness in these warm and ...

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · Apr 12

New online! Biodiversity–ecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity

Biodiversity–ecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00040-1Maintaining human well-being in an era of biodiversity loss requires understanding the role of biodiversity in ecosystem function. We argue that absolute abundance can drive ecosystem function and that this measure should be considered alongside traditional measures of biodiversity.

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · Apr 9

‪The #CESAB open a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration

💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods

📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets

📆 deadline: september 2025

👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI

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[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité

The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...

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Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social · Apr 19

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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · Apr 12

Cereghetti et al: #Seasonal #dynamics of detritus flows and #decomposition across #ecosystem boundaries.

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We studied seasonal dynamics/phenology ⏱️ of 🟩terrestrial-🟦aquatic linkages across a year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Out in #CurrentBiology @currentbiology.bsky.social

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Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social · Apr 19

So, now Macron’s government wants to look good and attract talent pushed out of the US? Do not be fooled, this is a political stunt to capitalise on geopolitics. Phenomenal in-house resources forced to leave science but there’s always money to look good:
france2030.agencerecherche.fr/ChooseFrance...

Call - « Choose France for Science »

france2030.agencerecherche.fr

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Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social · Mar 9

Just check the merina people of Madagascar’s highlands

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Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social · Feb 26

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Nature @nature.com · Feb 16

More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the Royal Society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science

https://go.nature.com/41dzNUx

Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship

More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the world’s oldest science society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science.

go.nature.com

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Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social · Feb 15

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Jérémy Carlot @jerem-carlot.bsky.social · Feb 13

Our last article on Vulnerability of benthic trait diversity across the Mediterranean Sea following mass mortality events is out in
@NatureComms
! 🪸🌱🐚🌡️🌊 A thread 👇🧵

nature.com/articles/s41...

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · Feb 6

🚀 In 2025, #CESAB will launch a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration

💡 IdeaShare: Develop new concepts, models & methods

📊 DataShare: Assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets

📆 Opening in April

Stay tuned ! 🌈

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A picturesque landscape showcasing a vibrant field adorned with trees and birds in flight. Reminder to save the date for the CESAB Call 2025 Idea & Data Share call.

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Renato Morais @renatoamorais.bsky.social · Feb 7

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