Better late than never 😅

Happy to share that the final paper of my PhD was out this February in @journalofecology.bsky.social ! We asked: what drives the functional recovery of seed rain as tropical forests regnerate after disturbances? 🫘🌿

@reassemblynet.bsky.social #restoration #forestecol

Nature conservation e.g. by NGO Fundacion Jocotoco, can help to bend the curve of biodiversity decline. The graph shows how large parts of the diversity comes back due to natural regeneraion of a rainforest. It illustrates the main finding of our study published in Nature: Protection restores 90% of species diversity in 30 years.

Good news! #Biodiversity🦜🐜🐒🐸 in a tropical #rainforest 🌴🇪🇨can naturally recover quickly 📈 (if the conditions are suitable = enough surrounding forest). Our new study in #Nature
#forestecol #restoration @jocotoco.bsky.social
www.reassembly.de/posts/recove...
www.reassembly.de/news/rainfor...

Three Decades of Butterfly–Plant Interaction Turnover Explained by Climate and Species Loss Long-term biodiversity loss reshapes interaction dynamics inpollination networks. Communities become increasingly dominated bygeneralist species that are more capable of rewiring interactions thanspe...

New study on temporal interaction turnover using a unique dataset 🦋🪷

Communities adapt to climate fluctuations through rewiring. But over the long term, as species are lost, rewiring declines—reducing the capacity of communities to buffer environmental change
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

How do you design a camera-trap workflow that is field-resilient and analysis-ready? 

Join Applied Ecology Resources' free webinar as Dr Hugo Magaldi and Prof. Sabrina Krief discuss camera‑trapping in Uganda and their development of DeepForestVision for AI species labelling and quality control 📸

📢Apuntad en📆 10/03 11h
Seminario más que nunca necesario en un momento de crisis de valores #democraticos y en #igualdad #diversidad

En el #ICIFOR- INIA @csic.es hemos unido fuerzas C.Seminarios y C.Igualdad para organizar

"Ciencia y Feminismo en tiempos de Negacionismo" 👉 #LauraNuñodelaRosa
🧵

📊🌱 Hoy #8M lanzamos encuesta sobre #cuidados y carrera científica en #ecología.
¿Quién cuida en la comunidad científica?
¿Cuánto tiempo implican esos cuidados?
¿Influyen en las trayectorias investigadoras?
Si trabajas en ecología, cuéntanos 👇

aeet-comisionigualdad.limesurvey.net/485287?lang=...

Porque aún queda mucho que luchar y mucho que conseguir. ¿Aún creias que no hacia falta un 8M? ✊🏻✏️💜

How do you design a camera-trap workflow that is field-resilient and analysis-ready?

Join our webinar as Dr. Hugo Magaldi and Prof. Sabrina Krief discuss camera‑trapping in Uganda and their development of DeepForestVision for AI species labelling and quality control 📸

See here 👇
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🛰️🛸🌳🌲JFR @forestryjfr.bsky.social OA publication
Forests in a semi-arid climate die with a memory: satellite signals predict forest mortality years after drought | @springernature.com
🪢 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#TreeMortality #Forest #ClimateChange #RemoteSensing
#Drought

Keiko Minami (1911–2004)
Flores y mariposa, 1969.

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper on global change impacts on insects, out in GEB🦋🌍

Climate change and urbanisation act synergistically: butterfly declines are stronger under warming in urban environments.

Species traits help explain heterogeneous responses.

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

@ylndmc.bsky.social

Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather constrains fire suppression coordination and exacerbates air pollution.

Las condiciones meteorológicas que favorecen los incendios forestales se están produciendo cada vez más simultáneamente, tanto dentro de un mismo país como entre países a nivel internacional:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Frutos y flores mediterráneos para la portada de tesis de mi querida amiga Lucía Acevedo-Limón🎨🍒🌷

Mediterranean fruits and flowers for the thesis cover of my dear friend Lucía Acevedo-Limón🎨🍒🌷

#Mediterranean #fruits #flowers #illustration #naturalist

An arboreal camera-trap image form the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. An animal is detected by TropiCam-AI, which analyzes its features and tries to determine what species it is.

TropiCam-AI analyzes the prompted image, and classifies it at the species level as a black spider monkey. Users can decide to let the model predict at the taxonomic level that achieves the highes confidence and accuracy, or force predictions at the desired taxonomic level.

New paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!

📷We present TropiCam-AI: a machine learning model that identifies 84 taxa of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-trap images and videos. 🐒🦜

📃Paper → doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70213
🌐Project → github.com/andrewzamp/TropiCam-AI

Species introductions shift seed dispersal potential more than extinctions across 120 island plant–frugivore communities | PNAS Oceanic islands are hotspots of both species extinctions and introductions, which led to marked changes in species composition. This may disrupt ke...

Y aquí:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Trait‐mediated effects driven by an invasive herbivore alter functionally diverse plant–frugivore interactions Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Para leer el artículo científico aquí: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Semillas en nuevas manos: el giro silencioso de los ecosistemas insulares Aves, mamíferos y reptiles se desplazan escondidos entre ramas, cajas o rincones y alteran, a su llegada, el ecosistema que los acoge

¡@diariodemallorca.es se hace eco de nuestras investigaciones sobre el impacto de las especies invasoras en la dispersión de semillas en islas!👇👇👇
www.diariodemallorca.es/mallorca/202...
@annatraveset.bsky.social @imedea.bsky.social

Congrats!!

❤️El amor está a flor de pluma.

¡Viva el cariño y la afectividad! Feliz #SanValentin 

#cámarasendirecto

Animal‐mediated seed dispersal: A review of study methods By dispersing seeds, animals provide ecological functions critical for the ecology, evolution, and conservation of plants. We review quantitative and empirical approaches and emerging technologies to....

The majority of seed plants rely on animals for dispersal, but this is poorly understood for most plants

To aid further work, we have reviewed up-to-date empirical & modelling approaches & emerging technologies to quantify animal-mediated seed dispersal

doi.org/10.1002/aps3...

Absolutely thrilled to share that my SeedFire project has been awarded MSCA funding🤯🌱🔥 Looking forward to joining the Community Ecology Lab with Ruben Heleno in Coimbra next year and working with amazing collaborators! @ec.europa.eu @ucoimbra.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social @zofairon.bsky.social

📺TV en DIRECTO | Sánchez, sobre el cambio climático: "Reitero un llamamiento claro: dejar a un lado la ideología, prestar atención a lo que nos dice la ciencia y unirnos en una cuestión que no es política si no vital" shorturl.at/gW7tg

🤝Co-designed research is increasingly necessary to ensure effective conservation and management is carried out.

💡How do you integrate co-design in your work?

Check out our guide for tips!
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Great starting of my JdC fellowship at @paellalab.bsky.social between good conversations, teaching and oaks!🌳

Bonitas ilustraciones!

Although the next conference is still a way off, we’ve created this account to share updates on venue and dates, as well as news and publications on FRUGIVORES & SEED DISPERSAL

Artwork: María León Ilustración

A migratory divide in insects! 🦋 Vanessa cardui butterflies migrate in opposite directions in the Northern and Southern hemispheres 🌍, a pattern driven by a chromosomal inversion 🧬

Paper @natcomms.nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

#butterflymigration #insectmigration #migratorydivide #evolution

Work in progress🎨🌼🫐Mediterranean fruits and flowers for a thesis cover🥰 #illustration #science #Mediterranean #fruits

Prehistoric elephant footprints documented for first time in Murcia's fossil dunes An international team, involving researchers from the University of Seville, the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences in Granada and the University of Huelva, has identified the first fossilized ver...

Elephants along with red deer, horses and wolves on the Spanish coast, not so long ago 🐘🦌🐎🐺🐾🇪🇸 #megafauna #lastinterglacial phys.org/news/2025-12...