Putative trophic structure of the Chaohu Fauna (Spathian, Early Triassic), briefly compared with that of the latest Smithian fish faunas

Summary of coprolite morphotypes identified from the Chaohu Fauna, Majiashan, Chaohu, China.

When fossil shite speaks up:
"The coprolite record reveals a multi-tiered trophic structure in which marine reptiles had already occupied meso- and apex consumer roles by the Early Triassic."
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

Paleogeographic maps of the European and African coastlines along the western Tethys Ocean during the late Early Cretaceous

Biological mechanisms of geodispersal in dinosaurs:
"hadrosaurs and titanosaurs could..complete the journey, particularly under favorable conditions such as low sea levels, stepping-stone islands, and higher fat reserves"
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #Macroecology

Box and-whisker plot showing length of all individual scolecodonts (μm, logarithmic scale) over time in the Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous; with Devonian data separated by stage, including the Kellwasser Events (KWE) (n = 797). KWE.

The Lilliput Effect in benthic worms during the Kellwasser Event. The next question, what this systemic decrease in size across taxa means for the evolution and the generation of diversity?
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

Comparison of species richness curves and environmental proxies.

High-resolution quantitative stratigraphical study shows the heterogenous extinction responses of foraminifera, with benthics being struck hard and collapsing fast.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

Spatial Autocorrelation of Species Diversity and Distributions in Time and Across Spatial Scales Aim Spatial autocorrelation (SAC), also known as aggregation or clumping, reflects species niche and dispersal, has conservation significance, and affects ecological models. Yet, we know little abou.....

Recently out of our MOBI Lab, led by Carmen Soria 🧪🌎 #macroecology
doi.org/10.1111/geb....

@britishecologicalsociety.org @sse-evolution.bsky.social @linneansociety.bsky.social @lifesciencenet.bsky.social @leec-uspn.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social @asab.org

#evolution #animalcommunication #newresearch #ecology #biology #conservation #animalsounds #macroecology #acoustics

The macroecology of immunity: predominant influence of climate on invertebrate immune response vist.ly/4u8bt #Macroecology #Odonates #Parasites

Cross-scale interactions mediate local drivers of nonnative species richness vist.ly/4txq6 #Macroecology #Fish #Disturbance

Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome Understanding the pre-Homo sapiens baseline of the temperate forest biome is crucial for interpreting present-day biodiversity patterns, ecosystem fun…

Dynamic balance of plants and megafauna on the geological time scales and not a succession👇
"Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #Macroecology

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research
🧪 #Macroecology

Species-specific estimated effective migration surfaces (EEMS) for 14 species of Malacoctenus, including a summary (average across species) estimate of reduced migration.

A very interesting article on the Bretskyan hierarchy mechanisms of the divergence in fishes:
"...gaps, such as the Sinaloan, Central American, and Galápagos breaks, consistently restricted gene flow"
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

Phylogenetic distributions of minimum bathymetries for Mytilidae (A) and Lucinidae (B).

Contrasting diversification and invasion histories of bivalves to the deep sea:
"...evolutionary pathways to deep-sea endemicity are more often shaped by multiple, independent events than by in situ diversification"
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

Are you interested in the species-time-area relationship (STAR)? Please take a look at this work led by Dani
#Macroecology

Poster: Quantitative and Hierarchical Methods in Biogeosciences

Please save the dates and register for the online workshops on the quantitative and hierarchical methods in biogeosciences:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

Mean occupancy in the second to the last substages of genera that were sampled in the first substages of their first three stage-level time bins, and in the first to the penultimate substages of genera that were sampled in the last substages of their last three stage-level time bins.

More on the rise and fall of taxa and the biases in the estimation of their dynamics:
"...the occupancy trajectories of marine animal genera look to be a relatively gradual rise post-origination with a sudden decline before extinction."
doi.org/10.1017/pab....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

Our findings challenge assumptions of stable equilibria common to #fisheries management and #ecology more broadly. The results suggest that variability from climate change as well as fishing-induced age truncation may lead to larger and/or more frequent boom-and-busts.
#macroecology @utoronto.ca

Schematic representation of physical processes shaping evolution of river drainage geometry and freshwater biotic lineages.

A synthesis of relationships between geological time [logscale; million years ago (Ma)] and mitochondrial DNA sequencedivergence among freshwater lineages

A Bretskyan hierarchy perspective on the role of geology and rivers in the diversification of freshwater fishes by James Albert and co.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #EvoBio #Macroecology

Visualization of the Lessepsian invasion as a human-induced partial reversal to the west (right panel) of the formerly eastward shift in species ranges and diversity hotspots that occurred in ostracod descendants of Tethys taxa (left panel). Symbols indicate climate cooling/warming, tectonic continent–continent collision and evolutionary diversification.

Interesting case of recent human-modulated geodispersal which was enabled by the building and functioning of the Suez Canal. Interesting to think about this case as an analogue of ancient tectonic restructuring of seaways 👇
t.co/k6Qdu82nti
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #Macroecology #Biogeography

Vegetation composition across savanna ecosystems and fire regimes.

Interesting perspective on the interaction of pyrodiversity and the biodiversity. One more case showing the importance of the creative destruction and abiotic (here more of a blurred interactive 'bio-abiotic') factors in keeping biotic structure.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
🧪 ⚒️ #Macroecology

Mapping the use of macroecological variables in the context of One Health applications, to improve the integration of environmental science into zoonotic risk prediction.

📢 New in @natsustain.nature.com

Macroecological approaches for the prediction of zoonotic disease risk doi.org/10.1038/s418...

We identify gaps and opportunities for using #Macroecology variables to improve modelling of #zoonotic #disease risk within a #OneHealth framework

OA 👉 rdcu.be/e0ZgR

Meme making joke of physicists simplifying complex things to the simplest possible abstractions (e.g. nuanced body modelled as a particle).

Photo of the Thomas J. M. Schopf (1939-1984) from his obituary.

Excerpt from the T. J. M. Schopf article on the comparison of deterministic and stochastic approaches in paleontology, one of the first uses of the term "species as particles".

Thomas J. M. Schopf (1939-1984) was this kind of person. He was orthodox in some areas and a visionary in others (established "Paleobiology). The stochastic paleontology is the way in understanding the evolution of life.
doi.org/10.1017/S009...
🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #PhilSci #EvoBio #Macroecology

Great to see this hierarchical (Bretskyan hierarchy) approach to the scaling of marine biodiversity through seascapes. But why limit systemic dissection and set the outer scale to the 1 km (where the fun stuff begins)?
🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology

News | Ecography News | Ecography

Please welcome our new subject editor: Marco Túlio Pacheco Coelho vist.ly/4mrvh #Macroecology #Macroevolution #Biogeography

Frontiers of Biogeography  Launched to support biogeographic researchFrontiers of Biogeography (FoB) is the scientific journal of The International Biogeography Society (TIBS, biogeography.org), a not-for-profit orga...

⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.social🎉‼️⏪️

❤️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❤️

biogeography.pensoft.net

#tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

🗾The poster sessions at #TIBS2026 are a great opportunity to exchange results and ideas, and to meet new people. We enjoy the interaction and atmosphere. And we will leave with a rich set of new ideas and connections.🚀

#Biogeography #Macroecology #Biodiversity #CHELSA
@wslresearch.bsky.social

Elena Plekhanova from @wsl-dme.bsky.social just gave a very interesting talk on how to use #AI in combination with #RemoteSensing to map global #biomes.

#Macroecology #Biodiversity #Mapping
@wslresearch.bsky.social

This database was initiated by @josephtobias.bsky.social @alexpigot.bsky.social @mhcneateclegg.bsky.social @sheardcat.bsky.social whom I am grateful to have invited me to join the project and lead the paper.

#Birds #Macroecology #FunctionalTraits #Niche #OpenData

Day One of #TIBS2026 ends with a big poster session!
Four poster rooms, loads of posters, buzzing discussions, and outstanding science — don’t miss one of the most interactive sessions of the conference.
#biogeography #macroecology

The feeds Macroecology and Biogeography will start receiving posts about TIBS2026 from today. I forgot to modify them earlier. If there is an old post you want to show up here, please comment it with #macroecology or #biogeography

The @wsl-dme.bsky.social lab members arrived at #TIBS2026 in Aarhus. We are excited to enjoy great talks, posters, workshops, discussions with colleagues and friends, and we look forward to contribute as well, with 7 oral and 5 poster contributions.
#Biogeography #Macroecology #Biodiversity