Chromosome‐Level Reference Genome of an Endemic, Endangered Long‐Armed Scarab (Cheirotonus formosanus): Discovery of a Putative Y‐Linked Scaffold and Demographic History Male and female Cheirotonus formosanus. Adults have metallic dark-brown elytra with scattered light-brown spots and golden hairs covering the ventral thorax and abdomen. Body length ranges from ~50 t....

From @seanchien.bsky.social & colleagues in @ecol-evol.bsky.social | Chromosome-Level #ReferenceGenome of an Endemic, Endangered Long-Armed #Scarab (Cheirotonus formosanus): Discovery of a Putative Y-Linked Scaffold and Demographic History | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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🌻🌼My study on pollination in the face of climate change is now out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social

🐝We found that range shifting plants lose their pollinators, but might compensate for the loss by self pollinating.

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#ClimateChange #RangeShifts

New paper led by Ph.D. student Idan @sheizaf.bsky.social Combining citizen science, behavioral ecology, taxonomy of rare species and anthropogenic disturbance. Something for everyone.

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Super proud of @stancaf.bsky.social and @shubhamsoni.bsky.social for having led this important Natural History study. Surely you have heard about arboreal 🐍, but did you ever imagine them to dive to hunt for tadpoles in treeholes?! You're welcome! 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
@klivvvienna.bsky.social

For Ants, a ‘Cleaning Station’ in the Desert

Occasionally as an editor you get something different and fun. This is both - with a nice write up in NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/s...

Ecotypic Identity and Manipulated Rainfall Modulate Diversity‐Productivity Relationships Across a Precipitation Gradient Understanding how diversity-productivity relationships vary across environmental contexts is critical for predicting grassland responses to climate change and guiding restoration. Using a reciprocal ...

We find that diversity-productivity relationships are not as simple as a unimodal relationship.

Ren et al. Ecotypic Identity and Manipulated Rainfall Modulate Diversity-Productivity Relationships Across a Precipitation Gradient. @ecol-evol.bsky.social

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Leaf Damage is Not the Answer! Reduced Herbivore Pressure Does Not Underpin Either Downhill or Uphill Range Shifts While many plant species are shifting their ranges uphill in response to climate change, a substantial portion of species have exhibited a downhill shift, opposite to the expected response under clim....

🌿 New paper out!

Leaf damage is not the Answer! Downhill-shifting species don't experience reduced herbivore pressure at the expanding edge.

📖 Open access in @ecol-evol.bsky.social
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#Ecology #Evolution #ClimateChange #RangeShifts

Where We Go From Here: Harnessing Queer Perspectives to Advance Practice in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Science and society continuously shape one another; this relationship determines what science is funded, which inquiries are pursued, and whose voices are included in the production and dissemination...

📣 A perspective with @allydefduf.bsky.social @madeline-eppley.bsky.social and others out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social 📣

Drawing from queer lived experiences, we offer new perspectives to confront existing biases in #ecology and #evolution.

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Nest failure in threatened #shorebirds has many reasons. Replacing eggs of vulnerable clutches with dummy eggs boosts nest survival of #Ruffs in grazed coastal meadows. New paper out 🎉 dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3... in @ecol-evol.bsky.social #conservation #ornithology

📣 paper alert 😀

Our study on the evolutionary history of true #ladybirds 🐞 #Coccinellini is out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! #OA

Another great collab with @isyeb.mnhn.fr and other colleagues!

@cbgpmontpellier.bsky.social / @inrae-dpt-spe.bsky.social

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The Effect of Social Rank on Reproductive Traits Depends on Rank Metric: Evidence From a Group‐Living Carnivore In animal societies, one's social rank determines access to resources like food, mates, and allies. Using longitudinal data on 481 spotted hyenas, we tested two common social rank metrics with differ...

New #hyena study out @ecol-evol.bsky.social ! 📢🧪

What does it mean to be “high-ranking”?
And does it always predict reproductive success? 🤔

Turns out: how you *measure* rank can change the answer.

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Duckling season has begun, and DucklingWatch is back for another year! Please submit your mallard brood sightings in GB to citsci.org/projects/ducklingwatch and share this post to spread the word 🦆

A grey and white herring gull stood on a car roof.

Can we stop gulls from pinching food by sticking eyes 👀 on takeaway boxes? New paper in @ecol-evol.bsky.social suggests it is an effective solution for deterring some gulls from food sources, but not all! tinyurl.com/gulleyes
Read a summary in @uk.theconversation.com tinyurl.com/gulleyes2

A Multi‐Taxa Approach to Estuarine Biomonitoring: Assessing Vertebrate Biodiversity and Ecological Continuity Using Environmental DNA Metabarcoding in the Rance River (Brittany, France) We applied eDNA metabarcoding to assess vertebrate diversity in the Rance Estuary, France, across five stations spanning marine to freshwater environments, including areas upstream and downstream of ...

In @ecol-evol.bsky.social 16(3) #OpenAccess
"A Multi‐Taxa Approach to Estuarine Biomonitoring: Assessing Vertebrate Biodiversity and Ecological Continuity Using Environmental DNA Metabarcoding in...."
Haderlé, R., Ung, V., @megafaunmardna.bsky.social @isyeb.mnhn.fr et al.
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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!!

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Evidence for Environment‐Specific Pace‐of‐Life Syndromes The correlation between behaviour and life-history depends on environmental conditions. We show this is true when considering the quality of the food in the environment.

Pace-of-life syndromes fascinate me as they offer an intuitive way to understand striking individual variation across levels, yet evidence remains mixed. Our study at @ecol-evol.bsky.social shows that POLS are environment-dependent, in line with recent theory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

(1/2) My new paper is out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social!
This work was conducted as a part of my PhD together with my supervisors and an incredible team of researchers from @fgcz-en.bsky.social, and funded by the EPIC-XS consortium!

Nesting kittiwakes on coastal cliffs in Scotland

New SUPER DTP PhD research now OA in @ecol-evol.bsky.social. Kittiwakes and past colony connectivity #ornithology #seabirds. Many thanks to collaborators & supervisors, funders, reviewers. Follow the link 👇🏻
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Why do advances in timing of breeding occur more in short-distance migrants? Latest wadertales blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/m...
on our new @ecol-evol.bsky.social paper about Icelandic waders: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#ornithology

On the Limits of Alpine Plants: A Systematic Review of the Factors Behind Species' Elevational Range Limits This systematic review of 107 studies on the factors behind the elevational range limits of alpine vascular plants shows a persistent emphasis on upper limits and abiotic factors, especially temperat...

Our new review is finally out! 🌿 I’m especially excited because this is the first chapter of my PhD!
Have a read to see what shapes the range limits of alpine plants besides freezing temperatures ❄️

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Foraging Observations: Novel Trophic Interactions Between the Andean Gull (Chroicocephalus serrranus) and Endangered Vertebrates of Lake Titicaca We show that the Andean gull predates on both the Titicaca Grebe and the Titicaca Giant Frog. Both these species are critically endangered, and it was unknown that they had natural predators before t...

Always nice to published some natural history observations in @ecol-evol.bsky.social

Turns out the Andean Gull engages in kleptoparasitism and predates on Titicaca Grebe chicks and on the Titicaca Giant Frog

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#ecosky #ornithology

I had the privilege of attending #BES2025 this past December and writing about the wonderful work being done by just three of MANY ecologists to form equitable collaborations! You can read about Amanda, Karla, and Niru's work in the blog:

In a new paper, we found that provisioning rate and biomass in Little Owls increased with the area of high-quality habitats, and that such habitats also acted as a buffer against adverse weather. doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @ecol-evol.bsky.social @matthiastschumi.bsky.social

First Confirmed Record of a Bull #Shark in the Panama Canal: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Male Copulatory Structures in Reproductively Functional Female Live‐Bearing Fish Pseudopoecilia fria We recently discovered a population of the live-bearing fish Pseudopoecilia fria (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae), in which females were found to possess gonopodia, reproductive organs normally excl...

One of the coolest ichthyology discoveries I’ve heard about in a while. Large pregnant female livebearers with male reproductive organs found in the wild. Goes to show how fluid sex and sexual traits can be.

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Living in the Dark: Exploring the Factors Driving Nocturnal Activity in Three Lemur Species. From @onja-razafi.bsky.social et al: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Oil Things Bright and Beautiful? How Hydrocarbon Pollution Impacts Guppy Ornamentation Spatial variation in crude oil pollution in Trinidad leads to differing levels of pollutant exposure in connected guppy populations. Male guppy ornamentation is an important sexually selected trait a...

I am excited to share that @hannahmcgx.bsky.social's first PhD chapter (with @amydeacon.bsky.social and Francesco Santi) on how oil pollution influences male guppy ornamentation just got published in @ecol-evol.bsky.social
@rhulbiology.bsky.social
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The Geographical Variation of Colour Change in the Arabian Killifish (Aphaniops dispar Sensu Lato) From Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems Animals that live in a wide range of environments possess plastic traits such as colour change, but most research has only looked at this within single populations. In this study, we tested four popu...

Happy to share my second paper from my PhD. This study explores a fascinating aspect of the evolutionary and behavioural ecology of the Arabian killifish (Aphaniops dispar): colour change and camouflage.

Enjoy reading it as an open access on @ecol-evol.bsky.social

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#colsci

European Lepidoptera–Plant Associations: A Species‐Level Interaction Matrix A continental-scale interaction matrix encompassing 5152 Lepidoptera species and 3275 vascular plant species across Europe.

🌱🐛| Now we can easily check which lepidopteran species eats which plant in Europe. A beautiful resource ready to be exploited! @ecol-evol.bsky.social

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Call for papers! New special issue: Teaching with Intelligence: Critical, Ethical, and Inclusive Approaches to AI in Ecology and Evolution: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal... Guest editors @stephlshep.bsky.social & Breanna Harris