🦡🐁🔥🐉This new paper by #Velo-Antón and colleagues using #cameratrapping reveals that, contrary to previous assumptions, the European badger does not seem to be as interested in #firesalamanders as the wood mouse is.

This little buddy really enjoys its salamander meals!

¡Acabamos de publicar el último número! 📢

Incluimos el monográfico "Ecología del despoblamiento rural", coordinado por Francisco Lloret y Adrián Escudero. Os dejamos la editorial invitada en este enlace. Y no solo, en este número hay mucho más contenido...

revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

Ya está publicado nuestro artículo sobre cómo la endogamia y la edad de las hembras afectan a la eficacia biológica en grillos salvajes.

Clinal Variation in Reproductive Modes and Offspring Body Condition Across a Contact Zone of a Bimodal Viviparous Salamander We examined clinal gradients in reproductive modes and associated offspring body condition across a hybrid zone between two bimodal viviparous subspecies of Salamandra salamandra. We found a clear cl...

🐉🔥 Did you know that #firesalamanders have two different reproductive strategies, and that in some regions they freely interbreed?

Find out more in this great new study leaded by Clara #Figueiredo-Vázquez, published on @ecol-evol.bsky.social as part of her PhD!!

doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Las reinas de la especie ibérica Messor ibericus pueden dar a luz a ejemplares de su propia especie (izquierda) y, mediante un mecanismo de clonación, a descendencia de una especie distinta (Messor structor, derecha). Créditos de la imagen: Jonathan Romiguier, Yannick Juvé, Laurent Soldati

"Una madre da a luz a hijos de dos especies distintas".

Parece imposible, ¿verdad? ¡Pues agarraos!

Un estudio publicado en Nature sugiere que las reinas de Messor ibericus 🐜 son capaces de producir descendencia de una especie completamente distinta 😱.

Pero... ¿Para qué? 🧵👇

New paper out in the BAHE!
In this Cluedo match 🎲🐉🔥.... the culprit wasn't Proffesor Plum, but the wood mouse! 🐭
Cameras caught it consuming on #firesalamander carcasses on #Tambo island.
📃 here:
herpetologica.es/bahe-361-2025/
📹 the culprit in action:
youtu.be/HozKqjLRjDE?...

My letter ‘‘Awkward wording. Rephrase’’: linguistic injustice in ecological journals, published in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social, has 100 citations in GS
I received dozens of messages from all over the world sharing linguistic injustice experiences. Nice sense of group
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

La batalla entre sexos se libra en el ring de la placenta Los genes maternos y paternos compiten por influir en el crecimiento fetal a través de la placenta, órgano que interpreta sus intereses para salvaguardar el bienestar del feto.

Imagina un combate silencioso entre genes maternos y paternos. El árbitro es la placenta, y el resultado marca toda una vida...

Photos demonstrating differences in colouration and colour patterns between fire salamanders inhabiting a forest (left column) and a city (right column).

Read the latest post on the Journal of Zoology #blog jzoblog.wordpress.com, written by Lucía Alarcón Ríos, David Álvarez and Guillermo Velo-Antón, to find out about a methodological workflow for quantitative #colouration and colour pattern comparison in the #polymorphic fire #salamander

Quantitative colouration and colour pattern comparison reveals taxonomic and habitat-level differences in the polymorphic fire salamander Alarcón-Ríos, L., Álvarez, D. and Velo-Antón, G. (2024). A methodological workflow for quantitative colouration and colour pattern comparison reveals taxonomic and habitat-level differences in the …

An easy to read teaser from our article on coloration in urban salamanders and the methodology to analyze the wild patterns they show!
@natcantabrica.bsky.social @jzoology.bsky.social

jzoblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/q...

Very detailed piece of work on the Rensch's rule...

🎉Closing with emotion🎉
Our final full day was filled with powerful sessions, reflections, and a moving closing ceremony. We wrapped it all up with music, smiles, and the joy of having been part of something big.
Thank you for being here 💚
#SIBECOLAEET2025 #EcologyMeeting #AnotherScienceIsPossible

Are you ready for next week at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social ? We are! 🌱🏙️

And so are the 37 amazing contributors to Urban Ecology:
🔹 26 talks (across 3 sessions + a few beyond Brown, Green & Blue Urban Ecology)
🔹 10 posters!

Follow this thread to explore them all! 🧵👇

Spring.
Nuevos comienzos

Noncanonical inheritance of phenotypic information by protein amyloids - Nature Cell Biology Eroglu et al. describe protein amyloid structures that are stably inherited across generations and transmit epigenetic memory in Caenorhabditis elegans. MSTR protein loss results in a transgenerationa...

Amazing!!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Understanding the importance of surprise in antipredator defence Olivier Penacchio, Liisa Hämäläinen, Bibiana Rojas, Kyle Summers, Justin Yeager, Thomas N. Sherratt, Alice Exnerova This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology review article which can…

📰Published📰 Understanding the importance of surprise in antipredator defence

https://buff.ly/3EnXbpb

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Sobre los pequeños dragones carbayones 🐉🔥

Cartoon: Soil microbiota says to the scientist, please, do not mess around with forest soil.

Healthy #soil is full of life!
Better not mess around with it.
#WorldSoilDay #forestsoil #HoliSoils #fertilizers #herbicides #pesticides #ClearCut

Pero enhorabuena Tino!! Cuanto me alegro!!

Carolina Reyes-Puig: species coexistence and niche segregation in Mediterranean green lizards. In our latest post, author Carolina Reyes-Puig asks us if it’s all about size (in this case, it is…kinda!). In their latest paper: “Is it all about size? Dismantling the integrated phenotype to und…

👀 Behind the Paper!👀

🦎Carolina Reyes-Puig explores how different phenotypic traits contribute to niche segregation in Mediterranean green lizards, and highlights the need for ecophysiology research and the importance of forward planning💪

https://buff.ly/3DaQ3Mh

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Mil gracias al Club de Remo de #Marin por facilitarnos el transporte!

Amazing and productive trip to #Tambo island to continue the study of this fascinating #FireSalamander population

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La universidad española, en modo supervivencia La asfixia financiera de los campus públicos de Madrid no tiene parangón en resto de España, que aún así invierte mucho menos que la media europea. La comunidad educativa teme que el ejemplo de Ayuso ...

"La universidad española en modo supervivencia", por Elisa Silió @elpais.com

La #universidad (y su infrafinanciación) como ejemplo de la batalla contra los servicios públicos, el conocimiento y el pensamiento crítico.
elpais.com/educacion/20...

Variabilidad intraespecífica en #Salamandra común.
A la derecha, hembra de la subespecie S.s. bernardezi (Asturias), a la izquierda, hembra de la subespecie S.s. bejarae (Zamora).

Fotos de cuando los cangrejos de herradura se capturaban a millones para hacer de ellos fertilizante para los campos de maíz. Las montañas de animales se enviaban a fábricas para triturarlos y vender el fertilizante bajo el nombre de "cancerine".

To debut in Bluesky, our latest article published in Herpetology Notes! www.biotaxa.org/hn/article/v...

Small, rich in history, ecologically transformed, and full of #FireSalamanders!! Tambo Island in #Galicia is the true #Dragonstone #HouseOfTheDragon 🔥🐉🔥