JPE starts with fantastic news in 2026!

We are proud to tell you that the Journal of Pollination Ecology has been selected for inclusion in the Web of Science and will receive and impact factor!!!

📢 New paper out in @oikosjournal.bsky.social !
We investigated how climate🌡️, forest structure🌲🌳 and flower resources🌼🌷 shape fly pollinator foraging in boreal forest understories 🪰🪰🪰
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Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity The University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, who has died aged 52, was driven by a deep love of science and a desire to safeguard the planet’s future.

Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity
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An amazing week at
@ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference held on the lands of the Kaurna people.
Wonderful to catch up with colleagues and be inspired by excellent ecological research. Shout out to my Honours student Leon who presented on the big stage at his first conference!
#ESA2025

This week I had my first opportunity to present my research at the Ecological Society of Australia’s conference poster session! A great opportunity and already looking forward to next year. #esa2025 @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Toward a global repository of insect traits (GRIT) Biodiversity loss is accelerating, yet insect conservation is hindered by the absence of a centralised, comprehensive trait database. We propose the GRIT, a FAIR, open-access platform uniting datase...

#LIBresearch: A new study introduces the Global Repository of Insect Traits (GRIT) — a worldwide initiative integrating insect trait data to make insects more understandable and comparable across ecosystems. → doi.org/10.1111/icad.70035

@cscherber.bsky.social

Hard to miss this Daisy, from weird mini Daisy to this larger more classic Daisy style, this is #Olearia rudis! Widespread in southwest and found in the southeast of Australia too, it’s common in breakaways and rocky outcroppings!

It's Australian Pollinator Week!
8-16 November

Our native pollinators provide key ecosystem services, which contributes to maintaining our unique biodiversity.

I photographed this little pollinator, a male 𝘏𝘺𝘭𝘢𝘦𝘶𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘴, this week on Wangal Land.

#australianpollinatorweek
#ozpollinators

Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live‐leaf flammability in plant species of fire‐prone forests Premise The flammability of live leaves in canopies varies considerably among plant species. Identifying macroevolutionary processes that shape variation in leaf flammability contributes to an under.....

The final version is now available #AmJBot
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Check out the work by my colleague Prof Shauna Murray on the ongoing algal blooms and ecological crisis in South Australia

Determination of flower characteristics. (a) Vexillum width, (b) alae width, (c) corolla diameter, (d) channel width, (e) channel depth, (f) channel height, (g) nectar spur length, and (h) Nectar spur curvature.

🌸 New article in @aobp.bsky.social reveals how moderate climate warming affects floral traits and reproduction across the flowering season in Impatiens oxyanthera, showing that plants don’t respond to heat the same way at every stage.

Full #openaccess
👉 doi.org/qb9z

#PlantScience

Increasing temperatures affect thoracic muscle performance in Arctic bumblebees - Nature Communications Increasing temperatures threaten cold-adapted pollinators such as Arctic bumblebees by disrupting their physiology. This study found that thorax acceleration during non-flight vibrations peaks at 25 °...

Too warm to buzz? Check out our newest paper on how warming temperatures affect bee buzzes in the Arctic. Well done to Charlie and Guadalupe and other coauthors for this nice study in the Swedish Arctic! @hfspo.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches: American Journal of Botany: Vol 112, No 10 Click on the title to browse this issue

SPECIAL ISSUE: Understanding novel fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches

With an outstanding cover photo by @markooiecol.bsky.social

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Great fun working with Lyndle Hardstaff, Megan Murray, and @zoexiro.bsky.social on our latest flammability project

Toward a macroevolutionary understanding of live-leaf flammability in plant species of fire-prone forests

@botsocamerica.bsky.social

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Discover a new data paper by Barberis, Bitonto, Costantino et al. where they make "Insect-flower interactions in the Mediterranean area: a Citizen Science dataset collated within the Life4Pollinators project" available: doi.org/10.26786/192...

Congratulations to my Honours student, Leon Sims, who graduated this week! Leon achieved First Class Honours for his thesis investigating how microclimatic variation in Australian Alps influences flowering and plant-pollinator networks. An outstanding achievement. Very proud supervisor here! 🐝🌸🪰🌼🦋

🌷New Research highlight showcases Arrowsmith et al. (2025), which shows that temperature alone can shift pollinators’ floral choices in diverse plant–pollinator communities. Such thermally-driven species interaction rewiring may have important consequences. ➡️ buff.ly/i5QrFjd

@blancaac.bsky.social

🌸 Pollination syndromes are more flexible than we thought! Floral trait importance shifts with season and habitat type for different pollinator groups in Caribbean dry forest🐝
#pollinationecology
@harrisia.bsky.social

Read more:https://buff.ly/0BONQ68

A new review gives us a deeper understanding of the evolution of plant-pollinator interactions If you’ve read my book Birds & Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship, you’ll know that I spend a few pages discussing the long-standing paradigm of how interactions betw…

A new review gives us a deeper understanding of the evolution of plant-pollinator interactions!

A brilliant critical review of the Grant–Stebbins model of how plants evolve by Kathleen Kay and Bruce Anderson just published.

Read more about it here: jeffollerton.co.uk/2025/09/12/a...

From phytoplankton to the Murray cod: modelling the Murray River’s food web I recently completed work with my colleagues at CSIRO modelling the Murray Rivers food web.

I recently completed work with my colleagues at CSIRO modelling the Murray River's food web

Conservation planning for environmental water to climate refugia in the manageable Murray–Darling Basin One mechanism for improving the resilience of freshwater systems affected by climate change is to use environmental water to support refugial habitats…

Had the pleasure to contribute to a new paper just published, led by Jo Bennett (CSU), on using environmental water to maintain wetland refugia and increase ecosystem resilience to severe drought www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It was such an honour to present my research at UTS! Thank you to @zoexiro.bsky.social and @ecologybrad.bsky.social for the invitation and to everyone who came to listen to my talk 🌿

🐝🌸 With climate change, many organisms are shifting their ranges, but some are shifting in the opposite direction to what we expect.
Insightful and entertaining seminar by Inna Osmolovsky @innaosmol.bsky.social on "Climate Change and Shifting Interactions: Where Do Species Go from Here?"

Images of the chamber and active heating system. (a) Annotated detail image of the heating system, electrical components, and chambers (not to scale). Field photos from Mt. Hotham, VIC, Australia (Case study 1): (b) two polycarbonate chambers attached via black ducting to one heating system under a tarpaulin for protection from the weather; and (c) side view of a chamber with its semi-enclosed, overhanging lid with adjustable portholes, circulating fans, and Stevenson screen housing thermocouples. (d) Field photo from Perisher Valley, NSW, Australia (Case study 2). The heating system attached to three chambers showing improved insulative ducting and open tent protecting and ventilating the heating system. Note that chamber lids are transparent like the chamber sides but appear grey due to reflections of cloud cover.

📖Published📖

Arnold et al. propose a design that will allow ecologists to simulate more realistic heat events in the field by combining a controllable convection heater system with a semi-enclosed chamber with adjustable vents 🌍 🧪

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Bearded dragon spotted during field teaching. Wonderful camo!

Over 1000 images of over 1000 threatened and extinct species of plants and animals. This is only half of a project creating a banner with over 2200 of Australia's threatened and extinct species.

Today is #nationalthreatenedspecies Day. This picture represents the halfway point of a long and heartbreaking project to create a visual display of Australia's 2200+ critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable and extinct plants and animals
#redlist
#threatenedspecies

Spent threatened species day surveying for...threatened species. Perfect weather for the Bathurst Copper Paralucia spinifera. Such stunning butterflies and so very threatened. Sad to see blackberry and scotch broom untreated and expanding on important sites.

Do sun orchids mimic buzz-pollinated plants? Daniela Scaccabarozzi, Nina Sletvold This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Check out this video from the authors for more details about …

📰Published📰 Do sun orchids mimic buzz-pollinated plants?🐝
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Check out a video about this research here!📽️
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A figure from the Nexus Assessment showing interactions between nexus elements.

🌐 The @ipbes.net #NexusAssessment Report reveals critical interactions among nexus elements—biodiversity, water, food, health, and climate change. 🌏🧪

🚨 Explore how cascading effects like land-use change can reduce biodiversity⤵️

Happy Wattle Day!