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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 18h

Drying halves decomposition rates in river networks by disrupting structure-function linkages https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.07.680619v1

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Rubén del Campo @rubendelcampo.bsky.social · 15h

Very grateful to the #DRYVER project & all collaborators for making this piece of work possible!
Real #interdisciplinary research combining hydrological modelling + biodiversity + ecosystem functioning.

🔊Stay tuned for coming updates!

Rubén del Campo @rubendelcampo.bsky.social · 15h

It took a long way, but FINALLY!

Happy to share our efforts to investigate how #drying alters the #biodiversity control of 🍂decomposition in #RiverNetworks.

We found that JUST 6 days of drying⚠️ halves decomposition rates due to structural community shifts🪲➡️🦠

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Drying halves decomposition rates in river networks by disrupting structure-function linkages

River drying is intensifying worldwide due to climate change and water abstraction, with major consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. In river networks, drying not only alters local ...

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 13d

Curious about how droughts alter mountain stream biodiversity - and why space-for-time substitution is not always a good idea when studying climate change impacts in rivers? Read our latest lab paper, led by Kyle Leathers in Ecological Monographs! @esajournals.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Ecological pathways connecting riverine drought to community change across space and time

Climate change is intensifying droughts via reduced snowpack and accelerated snowmelt in high mountains globally, altering community structure in snow-dependent rivers. To predict impending ecologica...

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Li Li 李黎 @lireactivewater.bsky.social · 13d

Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people

doi.org/10.64628/AAI...

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Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people

River heat waves are rising faster than the pace of air heat waves. That’s a problem for fish, drinking water quality, and food and energy production.

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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · 19d

Women, non-native English speakers & those form low-income countries are disadvantaged in science but by how much? We found that women with non-English first languages from low-income countries publish up to 70% fewer in English than their counterparts. 1/5
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#languagebarriers

Scientific productivity gap based on English-language peer-reviewed papers. Shown are the maximum % differences in the number of peer-reviewed papers published by female native English speakers from a high-income country (-45%), female non-native English speakers from a high-income country (-60%), and female non-native English speakers from a lower-middle income country (-70%), compared to male native English speakers from a high-income country (red flag).

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Ecosistemas AEET @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · Sep 7

Our editors @ibartomeus.bsky.social and @marsobral.bsky.social have published an article rethinking the scientific publishing in PEEER. We can help reshape scientific publishing into a system that prioritizes integrity, inclusion, and sustainability.
peeer.net/2025/08/18/r...

Rethinking Scientific Publishing: A Call for Change

Scientific publishing lies at the core of academic life. It is the main mechanism through which knowledge is shared, careers are built, and progress is evaluated. However, this system has evolved i…

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Gerard Rocher-Ros @grocherros.bsky.social · Sep 5

My latest paper is now out in Limnology and Ocenography Letters @aslo.org, titled "Emerging patterns of CO2 : O2 dynamics in rivers and their link to ecosystem carbon processing". It is open access, so go read! I am mostly proud of this figure, which I spent a lot of hours figuring out how to do it

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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · Aug 7

Happy to share new work from the lab and a wonderful group of co-authors:

We argue that conservation biology needs to move beyond the current focus on species richness metrics.

While this has been argued before, we highlight the unappreciated impacts of using richness for a variety of problems:

Beyond Species Richness for Biological Conservation

Recent global policy developments have highlighted the need for straightforward, robust, and meaningful biodiversity metrics. However, much of conservation science is dominated by the use of a single....

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DrZP @zarahpattison.bsky.social · Sep 4

🏞️𝐅𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡?
Our new study looked at fieldwork policies and risk assessments from 90 UK universities offering environmental science courses.
The results are eye-opening:
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Improving university policies and risk assessment to support inclusive fieldwork in environmental sciences

Among 90 UK higher education institutions, there was patchy mention of protected and other identity-related characteristics in fieldwork policy and risk assessments, and very limited consideration of....

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Rubén del Campo @rubendelcampo.bsky.social · Sep 3

How much #CO2 do #UrbanFreshwaters emit?🌆
In this paper in @aslo.org led by Clara Romero
we measured fluxes across lentic & lotic waters of Berlin, showing:
-Strong differences among ecosystems
-Drivers linked to DOM & land cover
~8.8 Gg C-CO₂ emitted annually🤯
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/lno....
check it out

Carbon dioxide emissions across contrasting urban freshwater ecosystems

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from freshwaters represent a globally important carbon flux. However, CO2 fluxes from urban waters remain poorly constrained, and challenges remain for reliable upscali...

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Ecosystems and Global Change Group @ecochangegroup.bsky.social · Aug 29

We are so excited our newest paper led by @ecfreewoman.bsky.social @camplantsci.bsky.social is now out @pnas.org 🤩
Read it here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🌲 We followed a forest as it was logged to understand what happens to soil carbon at a molecular-scale. Here's what we learned. 1/n

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David Cunillera-Montcusí @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢Amazing August news 📢
Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions

Aim Aquatic landscapes face severe threats from human activities propelling their deterioration. Waterscape degradation represents a main driver of the current diversity crisis, but its large-scale ...

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Confederación Hidrográfica del Cantábrico @chcantabrico.es · Aug 20

❌ Los obstáculos en nuestros ríos 👉 No Son Río

Son una de las principales amenazas para nuestros ecosistemas fluviales:
🐟 Impiden el movimiento de organismos acuáticos
🏞️ Afectan a la dinámica de sedimentos
🚫 Fragmentan hábitats fluviales

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · Aug 7

Smarter planning to bring rivers back to life 💭🧪

In this blog post, Virgilio Hermoso explains how to plan the recovery of longitudinal and lateral connectivity to restore free-flowing rivers 🌊🌏

👇
appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/08/07/p...

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Rubén del Campo @rubendelcampo.bsky.social · Jul 30

Really excited to say that my #FirstPI project got funded!🤩
My PI-adventure starts with #STARDRY, an #interdisciplinary project w/ an amazing team where we will test how spatiotemporal #variability of the environment🍂 & communities🪲 affect #FunctionalStability in #drying river networks. Stay tuned!

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Rubén del Campo @rubendelcampo.bsky.social · Jul 30

Really excited to say that my #FirstPI project got funded!🤩
My PI-adventure starts with #STARDRY, an #interdisciplinary project w/ an amazing team where we will test how spatiotemporal #variability of the environment🍂 & communities🪲 affect #FunctionalStability in #drying river networks. Stay tuned!

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Rubén del Campo @rubendelcampo.bsky.social · Jul 18

🍂Leaves don’t just fall into rivers—they go on a journey!
The #drying of rivers & shifts in #land-use alter in which conditions leaves can enter streams & thus affect their decomposition.
Amazing study led by Margot Jans. Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Changes in Leaf‐Litter Chemistry and Microbial Communities Drive Leaf‐Litter Decomposition Across River Terrestrial–Aquatic Habitats

River networks are meta-ecosystems in which resources, such as leaf-litter, and their consumers are exchanged across riparian and instream ecosystems. Consumers and leaf-litter quality and decompo...

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Miguel A. Gómez-Serrano @gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social · Jul 19

Europa dice adiós al exitoso programa LIFE, desmantelando un pilar básico para la financiación de proyectos de conservación de la naturaleza. La decisión afecta especialmente a las ONG, limitando sus posibilidades de participación en los programas de conservación.
climatica.coop/bruselas-bor...

Bruselas borra del nuevo presupuesto el programa LIFE para la naturaleza y el clima - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad

Los proyectos para la recuperación del lince ibérico son el ejemplo más tangible de este programa comunitario en España.

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Rubén del Campo @rubendelcampo.bsky.social · Jul 18

Amazing collaboration within the #DRYvER project with @rsarremejane.bsky.social and @tdatry.bsky.social among others!

Rubén del Campo @rubendelcampo.bsky.social · Jul 18

🍂Leaves don’t just fall into rivers—they go on a journey!
The #drying of rivers & shifts in #land-use alter in which conditions leaves can enter streams & thus affect their decomposition.
Amazing study led by Margot Jans. Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Changes in Leaf‐Litter Chemistry and Microbial Communities Drive Leaf‐Litter Decomposition Across River Terrestrial–Aquatic Habitats

River networks are meta-ecosystems in which resources, such as leaf-litter, and their consumers are exchanged across riparian and instream ecosystems. Consumers and leaf-litter quality and decompo...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Li Li 李黎 @lireactivewater.bsky.social · Jul 8

Streams have become drier in a warming climate.

7/17, #WARR talks on
intermittent streams + collaborative science teams,
Dr. Margaret Zimmer @margaretzimmer.bsky.social
Dr. Amy Burgin @burginam.bsky.social

Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@waterbarnes.bsky.social @devonkerins.bsky.social

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Teresa Silverthorn @tksilver.bsky.social · Jul 1

Our article about the local and longitudinal effects of small water impoundments on riverine carbon cycling is out now in River Research and Applications @tdatry.bsky.social @rsarremejane.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Small Water Impoundments Have Local and Longitudinal Impacts on Carbon Cycling Along a River Network

Damming may be one of the most significant anthropogenic modifications fragmenting river networks. Damming alters the transport and processing of coarse particulate organic matter (OM), hence influen...

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Xiomara Cantera @xiomaracantera.bsky.social · Jul 9

Desarrollan la mayor base de datos de la distribución de artrópodos de la península ibérica y Baleares.
IberArthro, puede consultarse en abierto a través de la plataforma @gbif.org

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Desarrollan IberArthro, la mayor base de datos de la distribución de artrópodos de la península ibérica y Baleares | Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales

El grupo de los artrópodos representa al 80% de las especies descritas

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Ecosistemas AEET @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · Jul 8

¿Es necesario conectar la ecología a la política? Desde la Comisión de Ecología y Política de la @eco-aeet.bsky.social lo tienen claro: sí. En este post se explica el por qué. Quienes tienen el privilegio de saber, tienen el deber de actuar.
blogaeet.org/2025/07/07/e...

Es necesario conectar la ecología al ámbito político

En el XVII congreso de la AEET y III de SIBECOL celebrado en Pontevedra este mes de junio de 2025, tuvimos la oportunidad de participar en un encuentro verdaderamente inspirador, en el que reflexio…

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