Global Ecology 🌐

MPAs only partly offset decades of human impacts on tropical reefs

Protecting more while continuing business as usual will just slow the decline 🐟📉 !

Check our latest paper in @natecoevo.nature.com with @uflandrin.bsky.social on 2800+ reefs & ~1700 🐠 species

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Overlooked and overexploited: Extensive conversion of grasslands and wetlands driven by global food, feed, and bioenergy demand | PNAS Natural ecosystems are increasingly threatened by global agricultural supply chains, and a narrow policy focus on forests has fueled agricultural e...

Overlooked and overexploited: Extensive conversion of grasslands and wetlands driven by global food, feed, and bioenergy demand @pnas.org 🌐 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Volume 380 Issue 1931 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

Chance and purpose in the evolution of biospheres "Earth’s biosphere is driven by an interlinked network of biogeochemical cycles that are governed largely by microbes.... the evolutionary interplay between the organisms and their environments." 🧪🌐 royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

New R or Python interface galaxias for biodiversity data upload into ALA and GBIF, galaxias.ala.org.au at the testing stage

Congratulations and big respect to Ariane Dellavalle for publishing the first chapter of her thesis. 🎉 A detailed analysis of bird diversity across West African land-use gradients, raising some important questions about how we interpret biodiversity trends. 🪶🌐🧪

Pace of ecology drives the tempo of visual perception across the animal kingdom Nature Ecology & Evolution - Using phylogenetic comparative methods across 237 species from disparate phyla, the authors show that species with fast-paced ecologies have higher temporal...

Our new paper is now out showing how time perception in animals is linked to their ecology. Using data from 237 species we show temporal perception is faster in species that fly and pursuit predators www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌐

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@eveliendegreef.bsky.social's latest is out in the @asn-amnat.bsky.social feature exploring the challenges of genetic forecasting😀

"Identifying Areas of Potential Risk Based on Future Genetic Adaptability in Three Arctic Whale Species"
doi.org/10.1086/738889 🧪🌎🧬🌐 #consgen #popgen #evobio

Strengthening responsibilities to face global crises: A call to ecologists, environmental scientists and their societies Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

This is a publication I believe all ecologists should read and discuss.

How often have you asked yourself: Are we impactful enough in times of multiple environmental crises?

A collaborative effort of #ANdiNa

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Recovery of marine #TopPredators is achievable. Our global review identified 481 success stories. The commonest management measure was bycatch reduction (57%), followed by the establishment of #MPAs (15%) and #InvasiveSpecies management (6%)
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🌍🌐🧪 #OceanOptimism

Green sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) was one of the studied shrubs and increased in biomass in warmed plots. Stock photo.

Climate change can flip some mountain ecosystems from grasslands to woodlands, according to a study in Colorado. Artificially warmed plots transitioned from mostly herbaceous plants to mostly woody shrubs over 29 years. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/vOGH50Yl7JC

Analysis in the Mediterranean, the North Atlantic, and the Northeastern Pacific, based on 702,037 estimates of biomass change from 33,990 fish populations recorded between 1993 and 2021. www.maraujolab.eu/2026/02/25/o... @shaharchaikin.bsky.social @jdgonzalezt.bsky.social

Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas Increased conservation action to protect more habitat and species is fueling a vigorous debate about the relative effectiveness of different sorts of protected areas. Here we review the literature tha...

Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas 🌎🌐🧪 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The MicrobeAtlas database: Global trends and insights into Earth’s microbial ecosystems MicrobeAtlas (www.microbeatlas.org) is an integrated, reference-based resource for truly planet-wide microbiomics, analyzing hundreds of thousands of microbial lineages across diverse environments, co...

MicrobeAtlas is now published in Cell. 🌐🌎🦠

Explore the paper and resource to see what large-scale microbiome data reveal about global ecological patterns:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

For a concrete application, see our recent work on “Community conservatism”:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Screen print of a recent paper published in BES Journal People and Nature. Underneath there is a photo from the Conguillío NP in Chile and a QR code referred to in a text saying "Read the full paper and the open access statement"

🧵 New Perspective in People and Nature

“Strengthening responsibilities to face global crises: A call to ecologists, environmental scientists and their societies”

Excited to share our latest paper! @peopleandnature.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

The greenness of the Earth’s terrestrial vegetation changes throughout the seasons. Researchers can calculate the global “green centre” and track its movement over several decades. They have observed a gradual shift towards the north-east. By Ida Flik. https://greenwave.earth/

🌍 The earth’s green is increasing and its centre is moving north-east. Vegetational shift to the north is even stronger in the southern summer – surprising new facet of #globalgreening 🌱 Published in PNAS

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Diverging responses of taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic plant diversity to biogeographic parameters in arid habitat islands of southern Africa Habitat islands conceptually bridge true islands and habitat patches, adding new perspectives to island biogeographic principles that shape community assembly processes. Despite growing interest, empi...

Last, but not least: How do biogeography and plant diversity interact in the quartz islands of South Africa? Different types of biodiversity (taxonomic, phylogenetic, functional) may respond very differently: doi.org/10.21425/fob...

Ecological Feedbacks in the Earth System The role of our planet's diverse ecological feedbacks in Earth system processes is a major knowledge gap We review current knowledge on ecological feedbacks within ecosystems, and between ecologi...

NEW PAPER🚨Ecological Feedbacks in the Earth System🌍We present an urgent call to the scientific community for the rapid development of understanding of ecological feedbacks and integrated ecosystem—Earth system research 🌐🧪 @imperiallifesci.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

This is an important step forward in species distribution modelling, enabling researchers and policymakers to better understand marine biodiversity patterns and develop more effective conservation strategies.

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #52 Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #52, Feb 16-23, 41 posts 🌐

✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share

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Recovering European River Invertebrate Communities Homogenize or Differentiate Depending on Anthropogenic Stress

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After years of hard work and casting a wide net of collaboration, we are happy to share the first consistent spawning of this kind from the northern hemisphere. This is a huge step for our regional conservation planning as we shift toward long term goals.

Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑

All Reforestation Methods Can Support Tropical Tree Diversity Recovery, but Drivers and Species Composition Vary

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Extreme events and river biodiversity under climate change Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 19 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00131-7Extreme events — such as floods, droughts and heatwaves — are escalating in frequency, magnitude and duration. This Review discusses the implications of these global changes for biodiversity in rivers, across population, community and ecosystem scales.

New online! Extreme events and river biodiversity under climate change

Measuring the Quality of Species List Contents Abstract. Taxonomic lists, usually of species, have many functions. However, there is currently no reliable and convenient way to determine whether a list

📊 Thomas Pape et al. introduce a set of indicators to assess species list quality, a tool to improve biodiversity data and its use in research and conservation 🌍🧬 

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Degradation of fish food webs in the Anthropocene The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.

New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟

School of fish / by Toby Matthews, Ocean Image Bank

What happens when fish communities shift towards smaller species?🐟
Global study led by alumnus @juancarvq.bsky.social shows widespread changes in food webs across marine & freshwater systems. Even where species numbers stayed stable, interactions & body size changed.
🔗 www.idiv.de/smaller-fish...

Fig. 1 Tree species coverage in the Global Wood Density Database (GWDD) v.2.

Beyond species means – the intraspecific contribution to global wood density variation

A #CommunityResource by Fischer et al.
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🛖🗺️On the use of neighboring habitats as predictors of species distributions

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#Animals #EcologicalNicheModelling #FocalPredictor #MultiScaleProcess #Plants #SpatialScale

Integrating seagrass conservation into #OneHealth frameworks shows the need for proactive, multisectoral approaches. Protecting & restoring is a critical investment in resilient coastal communities, sustainable fisheries, & the overall health of human & planetary systems. doi.org/10.1093/bios...

A globally consistent scaling relationship reveals stabilizing effects of dominant species in plant communities Despite extensive research, stabilizing mechanisms in ecosystems remain uncertain. Taylor's power law (TPL) is a pervasive ecological pattern that describes how variance scales with mean abundance (σ....

All coexisting species ☘️🌿🌾 follow a single power function 📈 linking their temporal variability to their mean abundance 🤯 — 💥Taylor’s power law💥. This exceptionally strong law in community #ecology shows how dominants play a key role in stabilizing ecosystems worldwide 🌍🌐

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