This is figure 1, which shows representative lycophytes reconstructions from Late Permian to recent.

A paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports insights into how ancient plants lived around 252 million years ago at the time of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, the most severe loss of biodiversity in Earth’s history. go.nature.com/4cGiEY5 #PlantScience 🌍🧪

A clump of Pisaster ochraceus, a colorful sea star and textbook example of keystone species.

Visiting Vancouver for work, I got a chance to see some cool wildlife. A family of orcas, a grey whale, two species of sea lions, bald eagles, seals, an otter, etc., but the real highlight of course had to be the purple sea star. One doesn't pause being an ecologist just because it's the weekend.

Emergent aquatic insects sustain riparian birds.
Turns out freshwater restoration and conservation can help terrestrial ecosystems!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Christian Schürings and @oldenfish.bsky.social

Do you know how hard I had to fight the other editors to have that picture on the cover?? (Not at all, actually, as always many proposals looked cool but we immediately agreed that was the one)

Right on time for #GSB2026, soil fauna made it to the cover of Nat Eco Evo (great shot by frankashwood.bsky.social). Attendees who have questions on the journal or papers to pitch, feel free to chat to me at the conference. @thegsbi.bsky.social

Of you like the first one, there are three sequels. It's probably my favourite series of sci-fi novels

People who have read the excellent sci-fi novel Children of Time may not be surprised

Cross-ecosystem linkages between freshwater insects and riparian birds across the USA - Nature Ecology & Evolution Aquatic insects such as mayflies, stoneflies and caddisflies are widely used for freshwater biomonitoring and could provide resource pulses to terrestrial insectivores. Here the authors show a positiv...

Continental-scale evidence that emergent aquatic insects sustain riparian birds, thus freshwater conservation offers considerable co-benefits to terrestrial ecosystems! A fun collaboration w/ postdoc @cschuerings.bsky.social

@uwsafs.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Mi raccomando, normalizziamo anche questa cosa qua, eh

We are hiring! Interested in doing a PhD and excited about forest management, ecosystem services, simulation modeling and beta diversity? Come work with us @edfm-tum.bsky.social at @tum.de, full job ad here: cloud.edfm.ls.tum.de/index.php/s/...

NSF LTER program “archived”.

LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”.

This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings.

My heart is breaking.

It's no exaggeration to say that this US administration is waging multiple wars. Against other countries, against biodiversity, against scientific evidence, against human rights, against its own rule of law. And now they've come for the Forest Service.

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

If you're wondering what's happening with the US Forest Service and why it matters, read this:

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...

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

A comprehensive dated phylogeny of China’s vascular plants reveals a hidden global biodiversity hotspot - Nature Ecology & Evolution A dated phylogeny of 16,585 vascular plant species native to China reveals three major centres of endemism, including a potential new global biodiversity hotspot.

A dated phylogeny of 16,585 vascular plant species native to China reveals three major centres of endemism, including a potential new global biodiversity hotspot 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rapid mid-Cretaceous diversification of squid and cuttlefish preceded radiation into coastal niches - Nature Ecology & Evolution Phylogenomic analyses of newly sequenced and published decapodiform cephalopods separate open-ocean and coastal shallow-water clades, following rapid cladogenesis from the mid-Cretaceous.

Our new paper on squid and cuttlefish evolution is out in @natecoevo.nature.com : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The global geography of plant invasion risk under future climate and land-use changes - Nature Ecology & Evolution The spread of non-native species is likely to be compounded by further climate change and land-use intensification. Here the authors assess the potential distribution of 9,701 naturalized non-native p...

The spread of non-native species is likely to be compounded by climate change and land-use. Here the authors assess the potential distribution of 9,701 naturalized non-native plant species at a 10×10km resolution & project shifts under 2 Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jobs | Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart Offene Stellen

Postdoc in Macroevolution - Deadline April 12th -

Join a team of Stuttgart botanists & myself to test drivers of Angiosperm diversification! Fully open process

Submit cover letter, CV, 3 referees & publication list in a single PDF to postdoc-botany@smns-bw.de + 3 key papers (if possible) as PDF

Genetic Diversity Impacts Climate‐Induced Species Range Shifts Genetic diversity may buffer species against climate-driven range contractions and facilitate expansions, but its role at a global scale remains unclear. Using 4673 range shift estimates for 1888 spe....

Genetic diversity matters for species on the move in response to climate change ⬇️

We found that genetic diversity interacts w/ the velocity of climate change to explain the velocity at which species shift their range positions over time

shorturl.at/682E3

Consistent topsoil carbon density and driving factors in urban greenspaces and natural ecosystems - Plant and Soil Background Urban greenspaces have the potential to mitigate urban carbon footprints by storing soil organic carbon (SOC). Different management and plant communities associated with different types of ...

New lab paper on soil carbon in urban greeenspaces. The first of many from Beatriz Jiménez and the URBANCHANGE network

doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Missing planktivore functions drive global variation in reef fish productivity - Nature Ecology & Evolution This analysis of coral reef fish community structure reveals major differences in the energetic potential of planktivorous assemblages between Indo-Pacific and Caribbean coral reefs. Indo-Pacific reef...

This analysis of coral reef fish community structure reveals major differences in the energetic potential of planktivorous assemblages between Indo-Pacific and Caribbean coral reefs, with Indo-Pacific reefs support greater planktivorous fish biomass and productivity 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Due to its link with happy childhood memories, for me it will always be Lantana, despite the fact that it's a non-native species in Italy. Contenders are oleander and jasmine.

Postdoctoral scholarship (2 years) in mycorrhizal biogeography and species distribution modelling

Postdoc (2 years) in mycorrhizal fungal biogeography & species distribution modelling @umeaplantsciencecentre.se
Work with large-scale metabarcoding data and modelling.

Deadline is 30th April
www.umu.se/en/work-with...

Priority questions for the next decade of blue carbon science - Nature Ecology & Evolution This paper conducted a priority-setting exercise to identify ten questions that define the future direction of blue carbon science. It highlights key gaps, emerging challenges and opportunities for ad...

A priority-setting exercise to identify ten questions that define the future direction of blue carbon science highlights key gaps, emerging challenges and opportunities for advancing climate mitigation, ecosystem management and evidence-based policy 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Evolution in Medicine Pressing medical issues such as cancer, infectious disease and drug resistance are products of evolution.

This month we launch a Focus issue on Evolution in Medicine, including opinion, review and research pieces on how evolutionary principles and new technologies can inform the prediction and control of disease: www.nature.com/collections/...

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We are looking for a postdoc (up to five years) interested in climate-driven plant extinctions! Working with @manuelsteinbauer.bsky.social and me and a large team on various aspects of Earth system sciences.

More information here: fau-earth-system-science.github.io

EDITORS WANTED AT ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

-QUANTITATIVE ECOLOGY
-THEORETICAL ECOLOGY
-ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY
-EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
-MARINE ECOLOGY
-PLANT ECOLOGY

EDITORS FOR OTHER DISCIPLINES NEEDED TOO

Complementary causal approaches to support biodiversity change attribution Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 19 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00146-0Attributing biodiversity change to interacting human drivers requires causal frameworks that integrate observational, experimental and mechanistic approaches across scales. In this Perspective, the authors discuss an attribution framework to strengthen causal inference and guide more effective biodiversity management under rapidly changing global conditions.

New online! Complementary causal approaches to support biodiversity change attribution

Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate - Nature Ecology & Evolution Soil fauna is an important but often neglected component of terrestrial food webs. Here the authors use a large dataset of stable isotope observations to analyse how soil animal trophic diversity vari...

Greater trophic diversity of soil animal communities under agricultural land use and tropical climate. Just out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by Zheng Zhou and @antoncollembola.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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