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Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) @biodiversa.eu · Aug 8

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Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Jun 16

Congratulations Martin!

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · Jun 16

How effective are perches in promoting bird-mediated seed dispersal for forest regeneration? New publication brilliantly led by Jelaine! doi.org/10.1186/s137... "We recommend...natural perches be preserved... but in areas lacking these...explore the use of artificial or semi-natural perches"

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Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Jun 12

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INTEGRADIV Biodiversa + @integradiv.bsky.social · Jun 3

One of our postdocs, @elywok.bsky.social from @ua.es, did an excellent job at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social explaining how the skewness–kurtosis relationship can be used to understand biogeographical patterns of body mass across taxa and which drivers explain it.

@biodiversa.eu #SIBECOLAEET2025

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Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Jun 3

Our viewpoint made the cover of BioScience! Beautiful picture from Jean Marie Twambaze academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · May 22

It's exciting to see our research featured in the Monash University Science Bulletin and being featured on the UN Biodiversity Day.

Here is the full story: www.monash.edu/science/news....

Interested in joining our lab? You can find more about our research here: shawanchowdhury.com.

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Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · May 22

Congrats Shawan, nice spotlight 🐛

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Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · May 22

Check our new review on niche truncation and how to avoid it with N-SDMs

Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · May 21

🆕 New paper: Spatially nested SDMs to overcome niche truncation, by Guisan et al.!

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Spatially nested species distribution models (N‐SDM): An effective tool to overcome niche truncation for more robust inference and projections

N-SDMs are key tools to develop untruncated regional climate change forecasts of species distributions at fine resolution over restricted extents. While several N-SDM approaches were proposed, there ...

doi.org

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Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · May 20

We finally had time for a hike this weekend. Maybe too early for Swiss butterflies, but the view was lovely!

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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · May 12

you might think N American species are getting common at their north range limit and rare at their south range limit as temps get warmer

but you would be wrong

new paper in GEB w/ @eliotmiller.bsky.social & Matt Strimas-Mackey, eBird Status & Trends ftw

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · May 10

Yesterday I could access the review history for this article ⬇️. Today, the link points somewhere else. @royalsociety.org can you pls fix? I’m curious to learn how this paper was reviewed and the decisions leading to publication.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Bioelectrical synchronization of Picea abies during a solar eclipse | Royal Society Open Science

Regular light–dark cycles greatly affect organisms, and events like eclipses induce distinctive physiological and behavioural shifts. While well documented in animals, plant behaviour during eclipses ...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Chris van Swaay @chrisvanswaay.bsky.social · May 6

Enjoy this great short (9 min) film on the work of Constanti Stefanescu, co-ordinator of the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Such schemes are not only important for the butterfly counts, but also as a social network bringing butterflies to the people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...

CHASING BUTTERFLIES

YouTube video by KAVU

www.youtube.com

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Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · May 5

Visited Bologna and met my nephew! I'm glad to welcome little Jack

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Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Apr 21

Exotic Easter snack

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Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Apr 14

These roof gardens actually sustain unexpected species!

Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Apr 9

Had a great time in Wageningen at the international symposium on Future for Butterflies & Moths

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Feb 6

🆕New paper: "A nature tourism and citizen science alliance" by a current PhD student, Caroline Martin, and colleagues. Check it out at doi.org/10.1093/bios... #openaccess

A nature tourism and citizen science alliance

Biodiversity conservation relies on knowing where species are and thrive. Due to major knowledge gaps in the distribution of biodiversity across the globe,

doi.org

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Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Apr 8

Congrats Nick. No doubt you will continue producing cutting-edge, high-quality research

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Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Apr 7

Mythical. And one of the first pointing out that fragmentation, when controlling for habitat area, does not necessarily imply lower species richness www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · Apr 7

#BOTD: Happy 83rd birthday, Dan Simberloff (PhD Harvard 1969; ESA Eminent Ecologist, 2006; Ramon Margalef Prize, 2012).

One of the most influential ecologists in modern history, with a research legacy spanning >50 years. Unwavering champion of invasion biology. Superb mentor, colleague & friend.

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Nick Isaac @drnickisaac.bsky.social · Apr 4

I'm thrilled to share our new review paper with the world.

GLiTRS @glitrs.bsky.social · Apr 4

NEW PAPER from the GLiTRS team! 🎉

We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜

"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org

🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa

A summary 🧵 below (1/7)

www.science.org

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Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Apr 6

Hello, world!

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