How do we know the magnitude of a biological invasion? How do we compare invasions of tiny organisms like ants with that of larger ones like deer? Simple. Compare their total biomasses. In our new paper in Bioscience, we do just this.
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Excited to share a new article from the lab & wonderful co-authors.
We argue that habitat fragmentation research needs to be recalibrated to focus on changes over time.
We hope that doing so will advance understanding, isolate attribution, and diminish heated debate.
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A new issue of #ConservationScienceandPractice is hot off the (digital) press! 🐆You can pounce on Volume 8, Number 4 of #CSP at doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
#conservation #science #scientificjournal #newrelease #stem
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em?
Really?
Our new opinion piece in @pnas.org defends that the so-called invasivorism is not an effective management strategy. In most cases, it is not even a strategy
Great team, led by @oficialdegui.bsky.social
@ebdonana.bsky.social
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The dos and don’ts for predicting invasion dynamics with species distribution models 🌎🌐🧪 #bioinvasions link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I wish to share our package monitoraSom which is now published in Bioacoustics, and provides a flexible workflow for detecting, validating, and analyzing acoustic events in sound recordings.
#PAM #Ecoacoustics #OpenScience
After 4yr of hard work to compare empirical species range positions' shifts from the #BioShifts DB against predictions from niche-based models trained on climate & tailored to methodological attributes of each species & study, we found species shift ahead of models' predictions! 🦋
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¡Acabamos de publicar el último número! 📢
Incluimos el monográfico "Ecología del despoblamiento rural", coordinado por Francisco Lloret y Adrián Escudero. Os dejamos la editorial invitada en este enlace. Y no solo, en este número hay mucho más contenido...
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There are no shortcuts in biodiversity monitoring. Acoustic sensors for individual species: great. Acoustic indices as biodiversity indicators: trash. New paper by Sugai et al. 🧪🌍🌐
A large-scale analysis of U.S. water quality data published last year in Science revealed that most toxic chemicals remain poorly characterized or undetected in routine monitoring. https://scim.ag/4alqHdl #WorldWaterDay
Wildlife traffickers selling protected animals on Facebook use coded language to evade moderation. Research by Bellingcat and @mongabay.com has identified nine groups, with more than 70,000 members combined, leading back to six profiles and one broker in Indonesia. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Accounting for functionality in the identification of global conservation priorities: promises and pitfalls 🌎🌐🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Trait-based approaches to restoration ecology: Synthesizing insights from diverse systems 🌎🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Unless they are actually creating habitat, organic farming & regenerative agriculture projects are not actively benefiting biodiversity
They are just farming less harmfully
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A short article on the iconic cardonales (Trichocereus forests) of NW Argentina, including some results of our ongoing research on the demography and conservation status of T. atacamensis 🌐🧪 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
An invasive species cost review for New South Wales, Australia, highlights key drivers and limitations of economic cost estimates #bioinvasions 🌎🌐🧪 neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1574...htt
If you consider 'hiring’ AI instead of a graduate student, you're saying the quiet part out loud: PhDs are viewed as a PI's labor force not academics studying for an advanced degree... www.science.org/content/arti...
The evidence is crystal clear:
"Human Carrying Capacity" is a myth and a fallacy.
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In a sea of opinions about the role of LLMs in academics I offer my own.
Apart from being harmful, exploitive plagiarism machines, LLMs rob us of the opportunity to experience the gift of friction in writing, which changes how we think.
We must not give away that gift.
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🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲
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This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!
Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚
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Global biodiversity assessments need to consider mixed multifunctional land-use systems 🌎🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Neocolonial Tightening of CITES: How Northern Narratives Marginalize Southern Conservation 🌎🌐🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Robot pen pals: a multidisciplinary analysis of recent trends in scientific correspondence www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
Ancient Peruvians transported live parrots across the Andes Pre-Inca elites wore headdresses made of feathers from Amazonian macaws
On Peru’s arid coast, some ancient elites signaled their power and standing by wearing headdresses festooned with brilliantly colored feathers from birds found in distant rainforests.
A new study reveals how they acquired these showy ornaments more than 800 years ago. https://scim.ag/4sJOOZf
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://
I have written my first R-package for feeding experiments! BayesFR allows fitting functional responses by providing dynamical prediction models for use in #brms. Includes models for classical type 2 and type 3 responses, and also prey mortality or predator interference (more to come) #Rstats (1/3)
Reminds me of a passage from Jost (2009:18, 2088-2091): the null hypothesis of zero differentiation is virtually always false, and if sample size is large enough, this can be demonstrated with any desired statistical significance.
Good to find @ecoevoevoeco.bsky.social here!
The 'Invasive Species' Collection at #EnvironmentalConservation
Follow the link to leading research and perspectives on the management and ecological and socio-economic impacts of invasive species.
#conservation #environment #biodiversity #species #ecosystems 🌎 🌐
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