New paper 🐦
Multi-trait syndromes explain dispersal among close relatives, but simple traits (e.g. body mass) better predict across species.
A case for simpler, mechanistic ecology.
doi.org/10.1038/s420...
Big shout out to @gfandos.bsky.social 🎉
#Ecology #Evolution #Traits #Dispersal #Birds
Muy interesante reflexión 👏. Evaluar ciencia no puede reducirse a un único indicador ni al factor de impacto. Difícil cambiar el sistema, pero el primer paso es asumir que la evaluación es compleja y no cabe en una sola métrica.
Happy to be at #EOU2025! 🐦🏙️
If you want to know, how does urbanization impact migratory bird seasonal distribution (and you didn't manage to come to my poster yesterday), don't hesitate to find me and ask!
@eounion.bsky.social
Que buena pinta. Ya nos veremos por
allí
Traveling tomorrow to Pontevedra to attend the SIBECOL-AEET meeting @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social
My keynote talk will be Monday evening (19:40 h). I'll present an updated overview of that elusive conundrum which links subindividual plant ecology with a set of independent epigenetic causal layers
Our latest research in California's serpentine grasslands reveals that biodiversity patterns are shaped more by dispersal than environmental conditions alone esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
NEW PAPER! Do you want to know how ocelots and agoutis interact in space AND time in #TropicalRainforests?🌳
Check our last paper led by Andrea Vallejo-Vargas and published @animalecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
New PhD position @mncn-csic.bsky.social to work on biodiversity risk assessments, together with @miguelbaraujo.bsky.social and myself. More details here:
www.anabenitezlopez.com/job-offer-ph...
🎓 Becas disponibles
✅ Título de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
✅ 100% presencial
💡 Aprende a:
✔ Aplicar programación y diferentes métodos estadísticos
✔ Analizar datos genéticos y genómicos
✔ Modelizar distribución y abundancia de especies
#Rstats #Formación #Bioinformática #stats #analytics
📢 Título de experto en Aplicaciones bioinformáticas en biodiversidad, ecología y evolución
📅 26 mayo - 4 julio | ⏰ 15:00 - 20:00
📍 Facultad de Biología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
💰 300€
🎯 Metodología 100% práctica con proyectos y tutorización experta
📌 Inscríbete ya! ucm.es/formacion-pe...
Next week (!!) we are presenting our workshop "integrating mechanisms into species distribution models" - don't miss it! Online 2-4 April www.biogeography.org/news/news/wo... @gfandos.bsky.social @biogeography.bsky.social
📝 "Useful R Packages & Resources"
👤 Steffi LaZerte
📖 Essential R packages & resources for data science, visualization, & workflows. Check it out!
🔗 https://steffilazerte.ca/posts/useful-packages/
#rladies #rstats #packages #resources #r
A new study found that U.S. butterfly populations dropped by 22% in just 20 years. Dr. Elise Zipkin and Dr. @nickhaddad.bsky.social join us to discuss what’s causing the decline and whether we can do anything about it.
In Mesoamerican cloud forests, such as this one in the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, climate change and deforestation are leading to plant species moving upslope. However, an analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with climate change.
An analysis of forest plant traits from across the tropical Americas suggests that forests are not changing fast enough to keep up with #ClimateChange.
Learn more in this week's issue of Science: scim.ag/3QLYhyc
In collaboration with my friend
@juanma-pg.bsky.social
we have just published this article about some worrying trends we have observed in the marking of animals with GPS .... 1/n link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Enhorabuena!!
El grupo de Ecoinformática de la AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social estrena página web:
ecoinfaeet.github.io
📖Published📖
Denelle et al. present bioregion, a package that includes all the steps of a bioregionalization workflow under a single architecture 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/3CHqC5p
List of PhD projects currently being (co)advertised in the McFadden Lab, with an image of the earth surrounded by emoji of animals and plants, as well as the UKRI NERC and China Scholarship Council logos.
📣 Jobs alert- please share!
4(!) PhD positions on topics including species interactions, AI, global mapping and tropical ecology 🫐🌿🌸🍄🌏
PhD 1: bit.ly/TREES-Mappin... (w/ UCL East)
PhD 2: bit.ly/TREES-CV-4-I... (w/ UCL East)
PhD 3: bit.ly/TREES-Megadi... (w/ Kew Gardens)
PhD 4: bit.ly/4i35cj5 (CSC)
Downscaling mutualistic networks from species to individuals reveals consistent interaction niches and roles within plant populations Species-level networks emerge as the combination of interactions spanning multiple individuals, and their study has received considerable attention over the past 30 y. However, less is known about the structure of interaction configurations within species, even though individuals are the actual interacting units in nature. We compiled 46 empirical, individual-based, interaction networks on plant-animal seed dispersal mutualisms, comprising 1,037 plant individuals across 29 species from various regions. We compared the structure of individual-based networks to that of species-based networks and, by extending the niche concept to interaction assemblages, we explored individual plant specialization. Using a Bayesian framework to account for uncertainty derived from sampling, we examined how plant individuals “explore” the interaction niche of their populations. Both individual-based and species-based networks exhibited high variability in network properties, lacking remarkable structural and topological differences between them. Within populations, frugivores’ interaction allocation among plant individuals was highly heterogeneous, with one to three frugivore species dominating interactions. Regardless of species or bioregion, plant individuals displayed a variety of interaction profiles across populations, with a consistently-small percentage of individuals playing a central role and exhibiting high diversity in their interaction assemblage. Plant populations showed variable mid to low levels of niche specialization; and individuals’ interaction niche “breadth” accounted for 70% of the population interaction diversity, on average. Our results highlight how downscaling from species to individual-based networks helps understanding the structuring of interactions within ecological communities.
1/ New paper @pnas.org on the structure of mutualistic #networks between individuals plants and frugivore species.
Last chapter of @elequintero.bsky.social's PhD thesis
doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #ecopubs
Exciting opportunity ahead! Join our workshop from April 2nd to 4th and discover how to calibrate both mechanistic and hybrid species distribution models. Don't miss out—register now!
@biogeography.bsky.social
@jgrubalcaba.bsky.social
Concerned about the conservation of migrant birds?
Blog from last month may be of interest.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
@amigodeaves.bsky.social paper explains how to bring ringing, colour-ring and tracking data together, to identify key migration sites.
#ConservationScience🌏
New release of the {ecmwfr} R package to query the Copernicus ECMWF data store. Most prominently fixes a dynamic file renaming issue as the API returns variable formats, depending on the requested data.
https://github.com/bluegreen-labs/ecmwfr
#rstats #climatedata #opendata #package
The cherry blossom prediction competition is on again this year. Submissions due by end of February. I am very much too busy to participate unfortunately. But a good distraction from *gestures all around* for the rest of you perhaps. competition.statistics.gmu.edu/competition-...
{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨
It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.
This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.
Check it out!
grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/
Papers like this really underscore the importance of long term monitoring datasets for understanding climate change impacts on biodiversity... And highlight the dire consequences of even modest temperature increases. 🧪🌍🦤🦜
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Totalmente de acuerdo. Es precioso
