Global Ecology and Biogeography Call for Papers: Scaling Up Individual-Based Ecology: Macroecological Insights Gained from the Biologging Revolution 31 DECEMBER 2026

Calling all macroecologists! 📡

Tracked any broad-scale patterns lately?

Submit to the new Global Ecology & Biogeography special issue on insights gained from the biologging revolution.

⏰ Deadline: 31 Dec 2026
🔗 Read the CFP & submit today: https://ow.ly/MPoG50YAJxI

Looking for a post-doc in macroecology or paleobiology? Work with the fabulous Erin Saupe in @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social
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PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology :
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Food Web Similarity Increases With Productivity Similarity at a Continental Scale Here, we test how plant productivity and anthropogenic fragmentation predict the pairwise similarity of food web networks within and among regions for 127 protected areas spanning deserts to rainfore...

Excited to be part of this collaborative effort tackling a longstanding question: how does productivity shape community assembly from simple species co-occurrence to complex trophic interactions? Check out what we discover!

#foodweb #communityassembly #africa #plantproductivity #macroecology

📣 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 ⚖️🌱

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#Macroecology #Biogeography

Trait‐Dependent Time Lags Amid Global Change in Marine Observed and Dark Diversity on the Dogger Bank (North Sea) Marine ecosystems can appear stable despite facing delayed changes. Using a probabilistic species pool approach, we estimated the suitability of species in observed and dark diversity—set of suitable...

Just published! Using suitability estimates from observed and dark diversity - set of suitable but absent species - we show that despite no net change in species number, species respond with delays, with distinct trait profiles linked to extinction debt and immigration credit.

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Join Our Everglades Wading Bird Research as a Postdoc Join our Everglades Wading Bird project as a postdoc researcher! Explore wading bird breeding, nest success, and drone monitoring opportunities.

Weecology is hiring a postdoc to work with my long-term, large-scale Everglades wading bird project. We have data on nest effort at multiple spatial scales over 30+ years for multiple species. We also do fun stuff w/ drones. Sound interesting? See our ad! jabberwocky.weecology.org/2026/04/15/p...

Know any distinguished senior ecologists with global impact on the field? Or maybe you're one yourself?! The BES Fellows programme is now open for applications (closes on 23 April).

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BES Macro 2026 A British Ecological Society special interest group conference for researchers in macroecology and/or macroevolution at any academic career

The deadline for #BESMacro2026 registration (if you'd like to present) is rapidly approaching! Come hang out with us in Reading in July! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

LCAB Postdoctoral recruitment The Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (LCAB) is a major research centre funded by the Leverhulme Trust to increase knowledge of how the relationship between humanity and the natural worl...

Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Local and Landscape‐Level Environmental Conditions Drive Habitat Selection Across Terrestrial Mammal Species Aim Animal movements are a fundamental process affecting communities and ecosystems. Quantifying habitat selection across species and habitats is key for understanding how animals respond to environ...

Very happy to announce that my paper on cross-species patterns in habitat selection of terrestrial mammals is finally published in Global Ecology & Biogeography!
doi.org/10.1111/geb....

The highlights:
- Strong road avoidance!
- Lots of variation
- Selection driven by environment rather than traits

📣 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

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

QUARTILES DLA CASE: Trait-based drivers of the ornamental plant trade at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA CASE: Trait-based drivers of the ornamental plant trade at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

Are you (or something you know) looking for a PhD? Like trait macroevolution but also yearn for an applied topic? Think plants are neat?

Want to live in beautiful northeast Scotland?! 🌊🐬⛰️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I'm advertising a PhD in my lab! Deadline April 22, email me any questions. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Diversification rate shifts are everywhere. Analyses of phylogenies covering >300k species reveal widespread changes in speciation dynamics across the Tree of Life.
@bjorntko.bsky.social @hoehna.bsky.social @acapomorphic.bsky.social ‬ academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

Evolutionary adaptation to global change reduces sustainable fisheries yields Global warming is altering the fisheries that underpin food security, but projections of these impacts generally exclude evolutionary processes. We describe a model that forecasts how fish will adapt ...

Fish will have to adapt to a warming world, what will that adaptation do to fisheries yields? We answer that question today in Science. I’ll summarise our findings very briefly in this thread
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Environmental and geomorphological drivers of frog diversity on islands worldwide vist.ly/4us4d #Anurans #IslandBiogeography

Community trajectories towards a restoration target (increase in zooplankton community diversity and abundance to regain ecosystem function, facilitated by invasive fish removal), where functional and taxonomic composition recover at different rates: In the disturbance phase, non-native fish introductions reduce the functional diversity of zooplankton communities; during active restoration, fish are removed from lakes, allowing communities to recover functions associated with naturally fishless systems; the assisted or unassisted recovery phase is characterized by the initial reassembly of functional structure via plasticity and dispersal followed by taxonomic recovery through additional dispersal. Traits are shown as univariate for illustrative purposes but can encompass multiple traits in practice.

Our review of #trait - based approaches to ecological restoration is finally out in @esajournals.bsky.social *Ecological Applications*, highlighting the value of functional traits for creating system-general restoration strategies. 🌐 🧮➕📏 urldefense.com/v3/__http://

Blue Whale and a Freediver by Darin Sakdatorn/AdobeStock

Ben JJ Walker / UNSW Sydney, CC BY-NC-ND

Super excited to share that the first article from my PhD has been published!

Taking 60 years of research, we looked at how long distance vocal communication in aquatic and land mammals has evolved and why.

Read here: tinyurl.com/3eydkwwc

The Conversation article: tinyurl.com/mryr7sme

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research
🧪 #Macroecology

PhD opportunity in Marine Macroecology 🌍

Global mangrove biodiversity: drivers, patterns, and resilience under climate change. Strong mentorship and support for a competitive FCT PhD fellowship application.

Send a brief CV: www.biodiversitydatascience.com/contact/

Degradation of fish food webs in the Anthropocene The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.

New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟

Thousands of jute sticks float in the river, creating natural patterns in Bangladesh. Jute is soaked in water for 20-25 days to separate the jute fibre from the plant stem. The fibres are then sold for use in textiles such as yarn, sacks, carpets, and curtains – a vital part of Bangladesh’s economy.

Shifting baselines increase the risk of misinterpreting biodiversity trends Ecological studies quantifying the impact of land-use change on biodiversity may be sensitive to the choice of reference points – or baselines – particularly when sampling across human land-use gradi...

Space-for-time studies of land-use change rely on a baseline.
But what if that baseline has already changed?
In our new Ecography paper we show this can underestimate biodiversity loss. 🐦📉🧵(1/9)
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Rapid and repeated evolution of pigmentation patterns in reef fishes - BMC Biology Background Pigmentation patterns are central to animal biology—shaping camouflage, signaling, and mate selection—and uncovering the mechanisms driving their diversification is key to understanding the...

Rapid and repeated evolution of pigmentation patterns in reef fishes

#ichthyology

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BES Macro 2026 A British Ecological Society special interest group conference for researchers in macroecology and/or macroevolution at any academic career

Registration is open for #BESMacro2026 ! 15-17 July, in Reading, deadline of April 17 if you'd like to present!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

A flyer for the next instalment of the Palaeoverse Lecture Series. The flyer features a cartoon laptop with a sticker of the Palaeoverse logo on the lid, alongside a picture of Natalie, wearing glasses and a white and green shirt.

🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️26th February 2026, 15:00 UTC🗓️

Join us next week for our next instalment, given by Dr Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social from Natural History Museum, London, on “Hack-a-thons: what, why and how to run them” 💻

Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...

Measuring the Quality of Species List Contents Abstract. Taxonomic lists, usually of species, have many functions. However, there is currently no reliable and convenient way to determine whether a list

📊 Thomas Pape et al. introduce a set of indicators to assess species list quality, a tool to improve biodiversity data and its use in research and conservation 🌍🧬 

👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios...

🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

Extreme events and river biodiversity under climate change Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 19 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00131-7Extreme events — such as floods, droughts and heatwaves — are escalating in frequency, magnitude and duration. This Review discusses the implications of these global changes for biodiversity in rivers, across population, community and ecosystem scales.

New online! Extreme events and river biodiversity under climate change

Fig. 1 Tree species coverage in the Global Wood Density Database (GWDD) v.2.

Beyond species means – the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation

A #CommunityResource by Fischer et al.
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BES Macro 2026 A British Ecological Society special interest group conference for researchers in macroecology and/or macroevolution at any academic career

Registration for BES Macro 2026 is now OPEN. This year will be 15-17 July, University of Reading, with a great series of plenaries/workshops lined up.

Register by April 17 if you'd like to present!

#BESMacro2026

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...

Shared and Divergent Processes Linked to Monocot Diversity Across the Mediterranean Climate Regions Aim The five Mediterranean regions of the globe are plant biodiversity hotspots, and there has not been a comparative analytical framework examining correlates of diversity across these regions. Of .....

Monocots. 🌴
Geophytes. 🪻
Mediterranean biome. 🔥
Phylogenetic diversity. 🤓
Check. It. Out. 🥳

(This project took 5+ years for various reasons. Science takes time sometimes and that’s ok!)

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