Wrapping up the Easter holidays with a new paper in #EcologyLetters. Our latest study shows how ocean acidification reshapes temperate marine communities and their ecosystem functioning 🌐🌊🦑🧪👇🧵



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Our last paper of 2025 and I’m so excited about this one! We show that rocky intertidal foundation species are important to benthic-pelagic coupling by fueling pelagic bacteria production #EcologyLetters. 🦠 🌊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

#EcologyLetters doesn't publish facilitation papers. On average, Ecology Letters publishes FOUR (4) papers that include the word facilitation in any indexed field in the paper per year. This is a helpful tip for anyone in the field, it's not usually worth sending work there, they won't review it.

Biological modeling is organized inquiry, but how should we think about the process?

My new paper in #EcologyLetters argues that we should model like experimentalists: define treatments, measure responses, validate, perturb, repeat.

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Do you agree?

The foundation of this work was laid in our earlier work published at #EcologyLetters. We showed that functional traits explain AIV infection outcomes. #EcologyLetters #TraitBasedEcology

New study overturns long-held assumptions about how plants spread to islands A new study from Iceland’s Surtsey island shows that birds carried most of the plants that colonised the island, overturning long-held assumptions in biology that seed or fruit shape and so-call...

Great to see our #ecologyletters paper on seed dispersal to a new island out @ebdonana.bsky.social www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Putative ‘Dispersal Adaptations’ Do Not Explain the Colonisation of a Volcanic Island by Vascular Plants, but Birds Can It is widely assumed that adaptations for long-distance dispersal are identifiable from seed and fruit traits used to define ‘dispersal syndromes’. Sixty years of monitoring a new island allowed us t...

Our new study with @drandygreen.bsky.social
overturns the idea that seed or fruit traits determine plant spread. #botany #SeedDispersal #IslandEcology #Surtsey #Iceland #PlantScience #BirdEcology #EcologyLetters doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Illustration of a branch of Betula glandulosa (Resin birch). Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social).

🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲

Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization.

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From policy to practice: Progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Royal Society Edward Ivimey-Cook tells us more about a new study that reviewed the clarity, strictness, and timing of data- and code-sharing policies across 275 journals in ecology and evolution, and assessed autho...

Read the paper 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Read the blog 👉 royalsociety.org/blog/2025/09...

Good work led by @eivimeycook.bsky.social @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social, myself, and huge team of dedicated @sortee.bsky.social researchers.
Plus invaluable collaboration from #ProcB & #EcologyLetters. 👏👏

From policy to practice: progress towards data- and code-sharing in ecology and evolution | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Data and code are essential for ensuring the credibility of scientific results and facilitating reproducibility, areas in which journal sharing policies play a crucial role. However, in ecology and evolution, we still do not know how widespread data- and ...

Our latest #SORTEE-led paper is out now in #ProcB!

We reviewed data/code-sharing policy clarity, strictness & timing across 275 EcoEvo journals

We also worked with #ProcB & #EcologyLetters to assess initial compliance with sharing mandates. Huge team effort! 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

⚠️ Adding “complexity” isn’t a free lunch.

Stability hinges on:
👑 Dominant species
🦑 Consumer interactions
🌡️ Stress gradient context

🌍 For restoration & eco-engineering: design with these pathways in mind—test, don’t assume.

#EcologyLetters #Conservation #EcoEngineering

A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today!

Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!

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Scaling of Extinction Time With Habitat Size in Experimental Populations Theory predicts that extinction time scales with carrying capacity as either an exponential or power law. Extinction time in 35 laboratory populations was more consistent with a power law than expone....

New in #EcologyLetters: How does extinction time scale with habitat size? An experiment with #Daphnia found strong support for power law—not exponential—scaling. A rare test of a big theoretical question.

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#Ecology #Extinction #Scaling #Microcosms

Two Hypotheses About Climate Change and Species Distributions You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.

New paper (OA in #EcologyLetters) with Jill Anderson, Jeb Byers & @johnwares.bsky.social! We introduce two hypotheses—variability damping & variability adaptation—to explore how past climate variability might shape species’ futures on a more dynamic planet.

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We’re Releasing Millions Of Birds. The Ticks Are Thriving. Each year, millions of pheasants are released into woods and fields in the UK for recreational shooting. As a result the bacteria that cause Lyme disease are increasing.

Fascinating new work by Emile Michels and colleagues in #EcologyLetters showing game bird releases increase Borrelia, the bacterium that causes #Lyme disease by more than 2x.

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My thoughts in the #Science section at Forbes.com

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Emergence of a Resource Acquisition Trade‐off at the Community Scale during Environmental Change A four-decadal cycle of eutrophication and subsequent re-oligotrophication in Lake Constance led to the emergence of a strong trade-off between phosphate and light affinity. We derive an explanation ...

Anton Pranger et al. discovered how resource acquisition trade-offs emerge at the community scale, challenging existing ecological paradigms. Implications for ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation! #Ecologyletters doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Reproductive Interference Alters Species Coexistence in Nematodes due to Asymmetric Sperm‐Induced Harm We test how reproductive interference from inter-species mating between sympatric Caenorhabditis nematodes can influence species coexistence and exclusion. We demonstrate that females from the specie...

New research officially out #EcologyLetters! Exciting compendium of experiments links 2 species community coexistence to reproductive interference from sperm cells by recent grad Rebecca Schalkowski + @katjakasimatis.bsky.social + Megan Greischar #celegans #science 🧪 dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Lots! Recently, our @uslter.bsky.social Synthesis Working Group published a synthesis paper in an #EcologyLetters Very Long-Term Data special issue! We explored a new area of research, looking at Community-Level synchrony in woody plant reproduction. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New study by @mahtabyazdanian.bsky.social, @bugwebs.bsky.social, @aksulehikoinen.bsky.social & others in #EcologyLetters presents evidence for bottom-up trophic connection between moth and forest bird populations in N Finland.

🔍 In this study, we explored bottom-up trophic dynamics between functional groups of moths and birds in Finland’s boreal region 🦋➡️🐦 Our findings highlight critical dynamics in food webs shaped by species traits. (2/6)

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#TrophicInteractions
#BorealEcosystems
#Ecology

Reproductive interference alters species coexistence in nematodes due to asymmetric sperm-induced harm Species coexistence is shaped by a range of biotic and abiotic factors. Beyond predation, parasitism, and competition, one species may interfere with another's reproduction to induce sexual exclusion ...

Just accepted #EcologyLetters! Exciting work by recent grad Rebecca Schalkowski with @katjakasimatis.bsky.social and Megan Greischar linking 2 species community coexistence to sperm cell mediated reproductive interference! Preprint here www.authorea.com/users/804447...

Differences in Tri‐Trophic Community Responses to Temperature‐Dependent Vital Rates, Thermal Niche Mismatches and Temperature‐Size Rule Our study investigates how tri-trophic community respond differently to the direct effects of warming and resource productivity. Our model covers the main processes driving the dynamics and structure....

For a fresh flight in this blue sky, I'm excited to share you the last piece from my #PhD thesis published in #EcologyLetters, with @davidboukal.bsky.social, Aslak Smalas and Raul Primicerio.
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