New research article! 📰

Bona et al. synthesised 26 years of work on ants and diaspores, showing how diaspore size and lipid content shape these interactions across a threatened biome 🌱
🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s000...

#SocialInsects #BiodiversityHotspots #Tropics #RestorationPlanning #CommunityEcology

Redirecting

The 3rd chapter of my PhD is out! 🌊

Migratory species strongly affect seabird biomass in seasonal assemblages off northeast Aotearoa/New Zealand - J. Mar. Syst. - doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...

#Seabirds #Oceanography #CommunityEcology #Biomass #GLLVM

A globally consistent scaling relationship reveals stabilizing effects of dominant species in plant communities vist.ly/4tnu5 #CommunityEcology #Plants

🐠🪸Habitat characteristics and priority effects shape fish and invertebrate assemblages inhabiting the coral Pocillopora grandis in Hawaiʻi

📷 Erik G. Brush

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#CommunityEcology #PriorityEffects #Hawaiʻi #HabitatEffects #CoralReefs

Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Communities Using VEGAN (VGNR09) - PR Stats Analyse ecological community data in R using VEGAN. Learn ordination, clustering, and multivariate statistics with real datasets.

Live online course!

On community ecology analysis using vegan in R, taught by Antoine Becker-Scarpitta, a community and forest ecologist with extensive experience in applied ecological modelling

20–24 April
prstats.org/course/multi...

#PhDStudents #Ecology #RStats #CommunityEcology #Biodiversity

🐍❔To be (cryptic) or not to be? Variation in detectability by prey explains the diet of an ambush predator

📷 © Xavier Glaudas

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#AnimalBehaviour #Bothrops #Camouflage #CommunityEcology #Detection #PredatorPreyInteractions

Group Leader Conservation Biology 80% (f/m/d) The research unit Biodiversity and Conservation Biology investigates the diversity of life in its various forms, from genetic diversity to the diversity of species and ecosystems and their interaction...

⚠️ OPEN POSITIONS

The WSL Institute @wslresearch.bsky.social is looking for group leaders in:

- #CommunityEcology
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- #ConservationBiology
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Funded #PhD Position in #CommunityEcology, #Biogeography and #Evolution at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Apply today!

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#InsectEcology #SoilArthropods #NutrientCycling #CarbonStorage #QuantitativeEcology

🪱📈 Expertise in #CommunityEcology, #SoilBiodiversity, #SoilEcology and #Statistics and experience in leading teams? We are looking for a group leader for our research group Community Ecology: apply.refline.ch/273855/1817/... #ScienceJobs

📰💻🌳An #OpenAccess paper by David K. Swanson has been published on the strengths of using Ward’s method with non-Euclidean distance measures for clustering #plantcommunity data.

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#vegetationscience #vegetation #openaccessresearch #communityecology

📰🐦🌳 A new study examined #bird assemblage dynamics over 20 years in a primaeval beech-fir forest in Slovakia and found that species reordering and turnover were the main drivers of the long-term dynamics

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#birdecology #ecologyresearch #communityecology #birds

Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Communities Using VEGAN - PR Stats Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Communities Using VEGAN (VGNR08) is a five-day intensive online course that teaches participants how to analyse ecological community data using the VEGAN package in...

Learn to apply multivariate methods in R to analyse ecological community data with the vegan package

8–12 Dec | Online

Dr Antoine Becker-Scarpitta, CIRAD

prstats.org/course/multivariate-analysis-of-ecological-communities-using-vegan-vgnr08
#Ecology #Rstats #Biodiversity #CommunityEcology #VeganR

Tree dieback diseases caused by #Phytophthora (and other #Oomycetes) have impacts that extend beyond the host species, affecting for instance, insect communities: ecosystem functions at risk!
#CommunityComposition
#CommunityEcology

👋 Hello Bluesky!
I’m Claire, an ecologist studying how multiple environmental stressors affect zooplankton and freshwater communities. 🌿
#ecology #zooplankton #climatechange #communityecology

Original post on mastodon.social

Ecological effects of biodiversity (Biodiversity 🦗)

The diversity of species and genes in ecological communities affects the functioning of these communities. These ecological effects of biodiversity in turn are affected by both climate change through enhanced greenhouse gases, aerosols and […]

Release the HOGS: An unsupervised marker extraction, classification and georeferencing approach for biodiversity data Distributional data are essential for understanding species and community responses to environmental and anthropogenic change. Large biodiversity databases provide key information on distributiona...

🌍 Human activities like #habitatdegradation are reshaping #biodiversity

Establishing historical baselines helps measure change and guide #conservation efforts

Full paper ➡️ : besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

#GIS #SpatialAnalysis #Georeferencing #CommunityEcology

📰🌳🌾In a new study, plant communities were classified and indicator species were identified in relation to edaphic and topographic factors in Karak, Pakistan.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#ecology #ecologyresearch #communityecology #IndicatorSpecies #VegetationScience

📑 🦟A new study investigated how #LandUse, distance from the river and the forest, and the number of residents influence #mosquito ( #Culicidae ) composition, abundance, and species richness in western Amazonia.

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#ecology #ecologyresearch #communityecology

#Phenology #Ecology #IAmABotanist #PhD #CommunityEcology #ForestEcology 🌿🌎🌳

Climate Change in the Brazilian Cerrado: A Looming Threat to Terrestrial Biodiversity Due to climate change, the Brazilian Cerrado, a global biodiversity hotspot, is becoming hotter and drier, with longer and more intense dry seasons. This alters biodiversity by altering plant physiol....

Our new paper reviews what is known about #ClimateChange in the #Cerrado 🌿, the world’s most biodiverse #savanna, and its impacts on #Biodiversity.🌐🌎🧪🍁
#ecology #conservation #wildlife #GlobalChanges #CommunityEcology #ecosystems #Brazil

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

📑🦋 #Butterfly diversity is predominantly shaped by #seasonality rather than topographic or vegetative variables in tropical dry deciduous forests of India

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#researchpaper #ecologyresearch #tropicalforest #topography #communityecology

#Fungi #Mycorrhiza #CommunityEcology #TropicalAndBorealForests #ClimateAndBiodiversity

Allert Bijleveld (@allertbijleveld.bsky.social) Scientist | Animal behaviour | Movement ecology | Spatial Ecology | WATLAS | SIBES | Intertidal Wadden Sea | NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research

...from researchers Mark Rademaker, Paula de la Barra, Anieke van Leeuwen & allertbijleveld.bsky.social of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)

DATA: bit.ly/4mkQQfi
ARTICLE: bit.ly/3UmA1Va

#ecology #biology #tidalflats #communityecology #foodwebs #aquaticinvertebrates

Partitioning observed community selection on plant traits into direct selection and selection that is mediated by interspecific interactions - Community Ecology A one-step community trait selection model is proposed and fitted to observed changes in pin-point plant cover data from a manipulated grassland experiment, in which the level of nitrogen input was va...

📑🆓 A new #OpenAccess paper highlights the important role of interspecific interactions in community selection processes on plant #traits. 💻🌿

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#ecologyresearch #modeling #PlantTraits #communityecology

Fig. 1.Abundance of individual carabid species, ordered from most to least abundant, and colored according to transect type: on Pad (blue, bottom bar), 50 m from Pad edge (purple, middle bar), 150 m from Pad edge (white, upper bar). The 3 most abundant species are pictured across the top, and the counts for the two most abundant species can be found in the figure inset. Functional groups are indicated by the color of species names across the x-axis: Predatory (black), Seed Predator (dark gray), or Mixed (light gray). (Photo credit: ES Waite)

#LiteratureNotice West et al. Reclaimed oil pads harbor higher #Carabidae ( #Coleoptera) abundances and species richness—but fall short of reestablishing the native prairie community doi.org/10.1093/ee/n... #Beetle #Beetles #GroundBeetles #CommunityEcology

✍️⏳ Registration for the 5th Community Ecology Conference closes in one month, on August 10 ‼️ 🌐🌍
We are still accepting poster abstracts until the deadline.

🔗 akcongress.com/comec/

#ecology #ecologyconference #communityecology

Local Garden Club Launches Rain Garden to Mitigate Flooding Effects Garden club member transforms backyard with rain garden, benefiting multiple homes from flooding.

The Speedway Garden Club's innovative rain garden is not just a beautiful addition; it's a community lifesaver, preventing flooding for multiple homes!

Learn more here

#SpeedwayMarionCounty #IN #CitizenPortal #CommunityEcology #BiodiversityEnhancement

📑 🌿 NEW study about #plantdiversity and spatial structure (configuration, distribution, and connectivity) of protected #mangrove patches in eastern Africa mapped with Sentinel-2B satellite imagery

🔗 rdcu.be/envk2

#researchpaper #communityecology #MangroveEcosystem #ecologyresearch

📑🦀A new study assessed the spatio-temporal composition of coral-associated #crustaceans and its correlation with physicochemical variables, habitat structure, and human impact.

🔗 rdcu.be/emkzW

#coralreef #coral #ecologyresearch #communityecology #MarineEcology #MarineEcosystem #researchpaper

End of June. Online. Cosy. Curious minds welcome 🦎🌍📈
See you there?

#TScourses #KeepLearning #Macroecology #Biodiversity #EvolutionaryEcology #Rstats #Biogeography #CommunityEcology #Phylogenetics #Macroevolution #evolutionarybiology