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Island Biology 2026 Important Notice

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Deadlines:
Symposium Proposal: April 15, 2026
Early Registration: April 9, 2026
General Presentation Proposal: May 7, 2026
Regular Registration: September 20, 2026

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Plenary Speakers Announced!
Further details will be shared soon.

- Anna Traveset (IMEDEA)
- Takashi Kamijo (University of Tsukuba)
- Takeo Kuriyama (University of Hyogo)
- Koh Nakamura (Hokkaido University)
- Yuya Watari (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)

2025 Top Downloaded Papers: Global Change Biology Global Change Biology is an environmental change journal tackling issues such as sustainability, climate change and environmental protection.

Global Change Biology's top cited and top downloaded articles of 2025:

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Recovering European River Invertebrate Communities Homogenize or Differentiate Depending on Anthropogenic Stress

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New paper just out deciphering the global species–area relationship for plants with @biogeokreft.bsky.social @patrickweigelt.bsky.social and others in @pnas.org

Across islands area alone explains 66% of variation in richness best described by a classic power-law model

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

👀 Global maps of 37 plant #FunctionalTraits as defined in the TRY Plant Trait Database with a resolution of 1 km and a global extent 🌐🧪 📏🧮🌮 global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-...

New paper out! 🐦📊

We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources.

Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Why biodiversity science needs its own model intercomparison projects 👇.
Lessons from climate science, applied to biodiversity & policy. 🌍🧬
by @geobon.org #EcoCode team @mark-urban.bsky.social @gretabocedi.bsky.social @sjevelazco.bsky.social

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Nuestra Comunidad: The Role of Latin American Networks in Supporting Ecologists Throughout Their Careers Click on the article title to read more.

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@esalatamcarib.bsky.social

Speciation. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. Edited by Catherine L. Peichel, Åke Brännström, Daniel I. Bolnick, Ulf Dieckmann, and Rebecca J. Safran. Cold Spring Harbor (New York): Cold Spr...

Our paper on how to use niche theory (MacArthur's minimization principle) to understand eco/evo limits to diversity got a shout out from Quarterly Review of Biology: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The paper is hard to access but a copy can be found here drive.google.com/file/d/14EGZ...

The countdown is on 📢

New deadline: February 4th
Still time to apply!
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Very happy to share this new article on Andes-Amazon tree diversity change. We found that over the last 4 decades, tree richness changed differently across the Andes-Amazon regions. Thanks to the many researchers across the world who made this possible!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Keep reading!

Multitaxa functional diversity increases the resilience of biological natural capital in the Amazon This study presents a trait-based framework integrating functional diversity into biological natural capital accounting, capturing both ecosystem resilience and species uniqueness across multiple tax...

Very happy to share this new paper is out! 🚀

Using multitaxa trait-based data, we introduce new indicators that capture ecosystem resilience and the critical role of functionally unique species for sustaining ecosystem functioning.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource!
🧪🍁🌐

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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We’ve launched the Island Biology 2026 Conference website!
2–6 Nov. 2026
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The key deadlines and registration fees have been added to our website!
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We appreciate the scientific clarity from @markuseichhorn.bsky.social 🌳
Evidence matters when scaling forest restoration approaches, this review is a valuable contribution.
Read more forestry science in the Journal of Forestry Research: link.springer.com/journal/11676

#Forestryresearch #JFR 🍁🌺🌱🌿

Holger Kreft @biogeokreft.bsky.social (replacing @nathalygr.bsky.social) presents their great work on plant functional island biogeography. Check out their gift database gift.uni-goettingen.de #TIBS2026

Wonderful collection of articles exploring what the concept of anthromes - human-modified biomes - means for our understanding of the global carbon cycle
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The website for the 68th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science has been launched:
2026gijon.iavs-meetings.org
Many thanks to Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and his colleagues for this invitation.
See you in June in Gijón, on the northern coast of Spain.

This is the second time I have photographed one of my favorite Mycena species - this one is found on leaves and has regular water droplets along the stem for a reason which remains a mystery to me.

From the Chocó Andino region of Ecuador.

#mycology #fungi #mycena #fungifriends

Hot and Hungry - High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbon dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprints - npj Science of Plants npj Science of Plants - Hot and Hungry - High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbon dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprints

We found that when temps hit 30°C+, C3 plants start struggling - their carbon metabolism gets disrupted, they burn through sugar stores faster, and even their isotope signatures change.
Meanwhile C4 plants? They're basically chilling like "this is fine" 😎

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Today is the last day of November — before I know it, it’ll be less than a year until IB2026!
Island Biology 2026 Conference
2-6 Nov, 2026 In Atami city, Japan🗾
#IB2026

Loss of tropical moist broadleaf forest has turned Africa’s forests from a carbon sink into a source - Scientific Reports Africa’s forests and woody savannas have historically acted as a carbon sink, removing atmospheric carbon and storing it as biomass. However, our novel analysis reveals a critical transition from a ca...

Africa’s forests have joined the Brazilian Amazon and Australian forests in becoming carbon sources rather than sinks. Around 2010 the previous storage of our carbon emissions flipped, mainly through deforestation and degradation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa