Presenting over six years of research was a highlight, but what truly moved me was being at a conference where presentations were delivered in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and even French. ¡Que viva la diversidad cultural de #ATBC2025! 🌎🗣️✨
At the beginning of the month, we had six incredible RaMP-UPs present at #ATBC2025. These presentations and posters represent over 10 months of their independent research at #STRIPanamá. We are so proud of how our fellows continue to represent GSS around the world.
There was the fantastic #atbc2025 in #oaxaca and then there was the botanical garden in Oaxaca city! Here’s the wild maize (#teosinte), #burseraceae (highest endemicity and diversity in Oaxaca!! Me for reference, look at those peeling barks!), and #ceiba
#iAmABotanist
cypress tree with 30 foot diameter trunk
Following the fantastic #ATBC2025 meeting in Oaxaca I visited the Tree of Tule, a Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) with the world's stoutest trunk. It's highly buttressed but even after smoothing it is thicker than the largest sequoia with a smoothed diameter of 30.8 feet. #bigtrees
EB with Lucha Libre fighter Wafle
Lucha Libre fighter salutes crowd from top rope
Despondent Luchador leaves ring
Ended #ATBC2025 on a high note.
#ATBC2025 was about (re)connecting and diving into tree growth, drought and heat! Great to see so many friends and colleagues from all over the world together in Oaxaca.
A view of the interior courtyard at the Centro Cultural y de Convenciones de Oaxaca
Slide about Santiago Sinaca Colín, awardee of the inaugural ATBC parabiologist award
Anat holding up the frog next to a stitched leopard frog on the green hat she is wearing. The background shows clouds in a blue sky and some people swimming
Had an amazing time connecting with friends old and new at #ATBC2025. So many wonderful presentations on ecological and social dimensions of conservation, and incredible awardees who truly inspire 🌟
And to top it off I had a pretty special leopard frog encounter in Oaxaca
PARABIOLOGISTS: KEY PARTNERS IN TROPICAL CONSERVATION Addressing the challenges of conserving tropical eosystems requires not only soientific expertise, but also meaningful collaboration with looal communities. Tropical parabiologists-often local residents and frequently from Indigenous communities have played a critical yet frequently under-recognized role in advancing tropical biology and conservation science. Intimately connected to the ecosystems they help study, parabiologists build trust, promote culturally respeotful research, and root soientific studies in socio-ecological contexts. They strengthen local conservation capacity and improve the quality, continuity, and relevance of field data.
HONORING SANTIAGO SINACA COLÍN A life dedleated to science and forest knowledge Born in the Nahua community of Tilapan (Veracruz, Mexico)s-Santiago Sinaca has dedicated over 45 years to advancing tropical biology. As a parabiologist at the Los Tuxtlas Tropical Biology Station (UNAM), he has supported hundreds of projects across Mexico's biodiversity hotspots. Key Contributions • Support in long-term ecological research, floristia Inventories, and vertebrate surveys • Co-author or acknowledged in 50+ scientific publications • Two species named in his honor: Inga sinacue & Magnolia sinacacolinil • Mentorto generations of students, 60+
At #ATBC2025, the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation announces a new award honoring the contributions of ParaBiologists. The inaugural recipient is Santiago Sinaca Colín from México!
@laura-paltrinieri.bsky.social explaining her poster on spatiotemporal niche partitioning in arboreal primates for almost 3 hours! Great attendance! #atbc2025
A lively debate on whether agroecology can help us achieve social wellbeing and conservation in the tropics, the short answer is yes, but it is also a socially, culturally, and politically complex question #ATBC2025 #tropicalbiology #Oaxaca
Two more presentations from our group at #ATBC2025 are done and dusted! 🐸🧪🌍Paul Kesseler presented a poster on Hg contamination in phytotelmata and their inhabitants at Nouragues (French Guiana), which he investigated during his Master’s (1/2)
Talking about the potential impacts of a SRM intervention on the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient and Protected Areas in the Americas at #ATBC2025
Ahora con poesía ecfrástica. La palabra ecfrástica proviene del griego y significa declaración. #ATBC2025
Another great day at #ATBC2025! Dr Sruthi Krishna Moorthy showed how to harness large language models for ecology and conservation and Dr David Bauman @davbauman.bsky.social presented environmental drivers of spatial patterns in tree mortality across the tropics and Sruthi. Fascinating talks!
Red de ecología funcional de bosques secos #latam Gracias a Roy González por organizar esta lluvia de ideas. #ATBC2025
Are you attending #ATBC2025 in Oaxaca? Join the "GtÖ (European Society for Tropical Ecology) Members and Fans Lunch" on July 3rd, 2025, during the lunch break at the tables just behind the welcome gate. Come to connect and meet the President and former President of GtÖ!
I propose carrying capacity (and deviations from) as gold standard biodiversity metric. It can be expressed as a power law which is beautifully ubiquitous and an emergent property of systems. #ATBC2025 #tropicalbiology #biodiversityCredits
Language diversity mirrors biodiversity.
Most of the world's languages are spoken in the tropics.
Let's use this at the next ATBC conference.
#ATBC2025
Symposium 64 Evidence-based policy and actions to reduce climate change impacts in Amazonia: A transboundary approach 1:10 PM - 2:50 PM, July 2, 2025 Fire as driver of socio-ecological vulnerability in protected areas of the Amazon (Dr. Ane Alencar) Risks from criminal governance in the Amazon (Dr. Liliana Davalos) Impact of different conservation and extractive governance mechanisms on forest in the Amazon (Dr. Pablo Negret) Taking action to improve climate literacy in an extractive reserve in southwestern Amazonia (Dr. Sabina Ribeiro)
Are you at #ATBC2025? Come to our symposium! at B1-Mazateco! Check out this star roster!@wyssacademy.bsky.social @sabinaribeiro.bsky.social @anealencar.bsky.social @ecoconexao.bsky.social
Thought provoking address by Juan Posada on biodiversity credits, an emerging tool for improving, maintaining, or preventing loss of biodiversity #ATBC2025 #tropicalbiology #Oaxaca
What good is great science if no one sees it?
At #ATBC2025, we led a @mongabay.com workshop on Communicating Conservation Science.
4 tips to help researchers connect with journalists + increase their impact:
🎯 Target the right journalist
✉️ Pitch clearly
🧾 Make it easy to cover
⚡ Respond fast
And we talked a lot about seeds at the #ATBC2025! Thanks @caordonezparra.bsky.social for organizing this amazing symposium and delivering this great talk! @heloizazirondi.bsky.social summed up 10 years of our research about fire and seed ecology in the Cerrado! You guys rock!
Hoje apresento um pequeno compilado dos nossos projetos com Ecologia de Fogo e Anfíbios no Pantanal no #ATBC2025 em Oaxaca
Se está na área, bora lá ver!
Find out what the ECI team are doing at #ATBC2025 - the 61ˢᵗ Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation taking place in Oaxaca, Mexico.
@jeaggu.bsky.social
@iagoferreiro.bsky.social gave a fantastic talk about the work we are doing in the Amazon on the characterization of ecological networks along a defaunation gradient. Great collab with the Instituto Jurua from Brazil and scientists from Norway, UK, and Brazil. #ATBC2025
🇲🇽 📣 #CoberturaEspecial #ATBC2025
Estamos en la 61ª Reunión Anual de la Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation en Oaxaca, #México. Si estás aquí, asiste a nuestro panel sobre problemas de seguridad para científicos y periodistas al investigar. ⬇️
Happy to share our results on vertical stratification of plant-nectarivore interactions during the symposium on "Studying rainforest canopies with camera traps" at #ATBC2025
Fantastic opportunity to catch up with my fellow committee members at the #ATBC2025 conference - we usually only see each other over zoom!
