📣 New paper out in @plosbiology.org

What drives global patterns of species richness? 🌍 Using a unified framework across 129 tetrapod clades 🐸🦎🐦🐘, we find:

👉 Productivity-driven equilibrium dynamics largely explain biodiversity patterns ⚖️🌱

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

#Macroecology #Biogeography

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🔊 New paper: first integration of population genetics🧬 and dynamic species distribution modeling🌐 using #KISSMig to reconstruct postglacial dynamics of wild black pepper, endemic to India’s Western Ghats. #macroecology #popgen #phylogeography #biogeography

👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Antonin Machac My research integrates phylogenies, maps and functional traits to uncover the processes that generated the diversity of life.

PhD in Biogeography and Evolution of Vertebrates at Charles University, Prague. Analyze biodiversity across 30,000 species; funding available. Apply by April 10, 2025. More info: https://machac.weebly.com #phd

Rare frog rediscovered after 130 years A team of researchers has rediscovered a frog species which has not been seen in more than 130 years. First described in 1902, Alsodes vittatus had evaded detection since then, despite multiple search...

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a cute little frog not seen since it was first collected in 1893 has been rediscovered alive and well in a couple of populations in central Chile! 🐸🧪
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Open PhD Positions PhD positions Biogeography. Macroevolution. Vertebrates. Department of Ecology, Charles University, Prague Deadline: April 10, 2025 How did the diversity of life on Earth emerge? The successful...

Interested in a PhD? Check out this amazing opportunity to research the biogeography and macroevolution of vertebrates with Dr. Antonin Machac at Charles University in Prague. For more details about this position, click the following link! machac.weebly.com/open-phd-pos...

Museum ‘dark data’ show variable impacts on deep-time biogeographic and evolutionary history | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The age of digitally accessible datasets has transformed palaeontology, enabling previously impossible macroevolutionary insights. However, a substantial reservoir of generally inaccessible ‘dark data...

Very excited to use my first @bsky.app post to announce @echinerd.bsky.social and I's new paper in Proc B! 🎉

We used a dataset of Palaeozoic echinoids from 33 museums worldwide to see the impact museum ‘dark data’ has on biogeographic and evolutionary patterns in deep time!

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Phylogeny of mammals #phylogenetics #evolution #treeoflife #mammals

Effects of the extinction of dinosaurs on the evolution of seed sizes and terrestrial mammal body sizes.

Interesting model combining mass extinction of giant dinosaurs and their effects on the seed sizes and later diversification of giant mammals which were dependent on the emergence of large seeded plants 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
🧪 #Paleobio #EvoBio ⚒️ #Macroecology #Complexity

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Well just received this email regarding a paper under review:

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X

https://go.nature.com/42tH8Ai

Broad geographic dispersal is not a diversification driver for Emberizoidea | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences The movement of species to new geographical areas has been proposed to be crucial for speciation. As such, dispersal has been regarded as a likely explanation for the variation in species richness amo...

Just opened my Bluesky account, and what better way to kick things off than with big news? Our paper, “Broad geographic dispersal is not a diversification driver for Emberizoidea,” is now out in PRSB!

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#Macroevolution #Macroecology #Biogeography

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Potential plant extinctions with the loss of the Pleistocene mammoth steppe - Nature Communications Plant extinctions during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition are poorly documented in the fossil record. Here, the authors present a method to detect plant taxa loss from sedaDNA and demonstrate that ...

An extinction event in plants in the aftermath of the Quaternary megafaunal extinction?
"Major potential plant extinction events were detected around 17,000 and 9000 years ago which lag maximum vegetation turnover."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio #Macroecology #Extinction

Systematics of minute strabomantid frogs allocated to the genus Noblella (Amphibia: Anura) with description of a new genus, seven new species, and insights into historical biogeography Abstract. Noblella is a genus of 17 recognized nominal species of ground-dwelling, direct-developing frogs. It consists of two clades that do not form a mo

#Andes + #biogeography + #frogs = cool paper

doi.org/10.1093/zool...

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A closeup view of a gray snake facing to the left with its tongue out.

Rhombic Egg-Eater (Dasypeltis scabra), harmless.

#snakesofsa #snakesofza #snakesofsouthafrica #herpingsa #herpingza #reptiles #snakes #wildlifephotography #africa #animalphotography #herps #snaketheworldsmarter #herpingtheglobe
#africawildlife #africanwildlife #southafrica

en 2023 publicamos 2 nuevos registros de una rana poco común en la cuenca alta del Amazonas, la "Hyalinobatrachium iaspidiense". Ahora hemos podido volver a encontrar varios ejemplares. Aquí muestro un par de fotillos recientes.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

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Sure ! I'm in my second year of PhD, working on the macroevolution and biogeography of tetrapod vertebrates. So I'm not a pure statistician but I obviously have to deal with statistical tests like PGLS, GAM, Spearman, etc. Keeping updated of the latest news in Statistical Ecology would help me a lot

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