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Environmental variations can (and do) promote coexistence between species, populations and individuals with ecological niches that are strikingly similar in many dimensions #NICED
Check this superb thread by @kokkonut.bsky.social about a nice example of phenological adjust to tides along moon phases

How taxonomic change influences forecasts of the Linnean shortfall (and what we can do about it)? The gap between the number of described species and the number of species that actually exist is known as the Linnean shortfall and is of fundamental importance for biogeography and conservation. Uns....

Taxonomic revisions are crucial for understanding biodiversity, and their effect should be considered in macroecological estimates. We need systematic efforts across less-studied lineages and territories to advance taxonomy and strengthen ecological analyses and conservation assessments. #NICED 🧪🌐

The impact of taxonomic change on the Amazonian palm flora | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Although taxonomy is an evolving discipline, taxonomic change is rarely accounted for in macroecological studies. By tracking the history of species descriptions and synonymizations of Amazonian palms...

Taxonomy is under constant change; species classification is revised continuously, and changes accumulate affecting biodiversity metrics & generating uncertainty that is rarely assessed. Juliana Stropp review how taxonomic changes have changed the observed Amazonian palm richness patterns 👇🧪🌐 #NICED

The species richness of European dragonflies and damselflies is influenced by current climate, following the known balance between water and energy, and the availability of freshwater habitats, but also by climatic conditions during the last ice age. #NICED
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Coastal dune vegetation faces many threats. @zumodelaranxa.bsky.social, @sergio-chozas.bsky.social, Sara Lobo Dias et al study shows that aridity & temperature significantly impact the bryophyte communities in these vital ecosystems. @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social #NICED 🌐🧪👇

OCCUR app

OCCUR data curation guidance can be applied to any research question, biodiversity group and geographical extent, and is available for free. Stay tuned at #NICED and @cristinaronquillo.bsky.social for applications to niche representativeness of data of all vascular plants and other works. 🌐🧪

Rather than writng a long and tedious technical review, she used the Shiny library to transform them into OCCUR, an interactive app that guides the researcher through all choices needed to curate species occurrence data: ecoinformatic.shinyapps.io/OCCUR/
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Superb PhD defence by @cristinaronquillo.bsky.social yesterday. Thanks to Julia Chacón, @carlos-lara0.bsky.social, and Alberto Jiménez Valverde for a great discussion on handling and using biodiversity data, and their limitations. Congratulations Dra. Ronquillo! #NICED @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social 🧪👇

Dynamics of post fire plant community assembly in Doñana coastal dunes - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Dynamics of post fire plant community assembly in Doñana coastal dunes

Most Mediterranean plant communities are well adapted to fire. Although the 2017 fire in Doñana burned many critical areas, at least the coastal dune shrubs studied by
@sergio-chozas.bsky.social, Mari Cruz Díaz-Barradas et al are recovering their former structure #NICED @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social 🌐🧪👇

Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara Ecological communities under extreme environments are shaped by a balance of environmental filtering and coexistence mechanisms that result in a series of assembly rules. Although there is abundant e...

Also, seasonal shifts mirror spatial patterns, showing how phenology buffers extreme environmental changes along the year, so that communities with species adapted to extremes can respond quickly to rapid ecosystem shifts.
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Spatial and seasonal trait selection in dung beetle assemblages along an aridity gradient in the Sahara Ecological communities under extreme environments are shaped by a balance of environmental filtering and coexistence mechanisms that result in a series of assembly rules. Although there is abundant e...

A new paper from Indra deCastro-Arrazola shows that aridity filters dung beetles both in space & time along the Sahara’s edge. Their traits & lineages shift continuously in a similar way in a transect towards the desert and between the wet and dry seasons. @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social
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Rodrigo Castro-Souza visits us for three months - Joaquín Hortal Rodrigo Antônio Castro-Souza (a.k.a. Pirilo), a PhD student from the Federal University of Mato Grosso (Cuiabá, Brazil) has joined the group for a three-month exchange, until June 2024, during the las...

This paper from Rodrigo (Pirilo) Castro-Souza's PhD was developed during the "sanduiche" secondment he spent @mncn-csic.bsky.social funded by Brazilian #CAPES, in a collaboration between @ageinves.bsky.social-funded project #NICED and a working group from @cnpq.bsky.social INCT-EECBio eecbio.ufg.br

Mapping the status of global taxonomic knowledge of Orthoptera (Arthropoda, Insecta) The status of taxonomic knowledge varies across the Globe. Quantifying and mapping the geographic patterns of taxonomic status is essential to prioritise regions that require greater attention from th...

Addressing the uneven coverage of taxonomic effort is key for modelling biodiversity trends and identifyings regions in need of surveys or revisions. Rodrigo Castro-Souza maps the level of development of the taxonomic process on Orthoptera across the globe. @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social #NICED 🌐🧪👇

Así que las interacciones positivas podrían importar más que la competición para la coexistencia de briófitos en todas las escalas, desafiando la idea de que la competencia domina el ensamblaje de comunidades de especies ecológicamente similares. Más en @journalofecology.bsky.social #NICED #eBryo 🧪

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So as it turns out, positive interactions might matter more than competition for bryophyte coexistence across scales, challenging the old idea that competition rules community assembly between species of the same guild. More at @journalofecology.bsky.social. Check #NICED & eBryo for updates 🌐🧪