Federico Riva

@riva-ecology.bsky.social

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Conservation scientist, assistant professor at Carleton University.

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Suzanne Kettley @suzannekettley.bsky.social · 1d

My councillor posted on FB about this charity in Ottawa. Seems like an wonderful idea and a great way to recycle your unneeded furniture.
www.matthewhouseottawa.org

Matthew House Ottawa

Matthew House Ottawa is a non-profit organization that provides shelter, furnishings and community to refugees and those transitioning to permanent housing.

www.matthewhouseottawa.org

Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to share that I’m officially back in beautiful Ottawa! 🦋 This April I’ll rejoin @carleton.ca to launch a new lab focused on biodiversity conservation & spatial ecology. I’ll be recruiting Canadian students. Deep thanks to @ivm-vu-amsterdam.bsky.social and the EG Dept for 3 fundamental years.

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INTEGRADIV Biodiversa + @integradiv.bsky.social · 17d

📢 Join us for the INTEGRADIV ( @biodiversa.eu ) Stakeholders’ Final Event!
We’ll share key project results + an interactive prioritization tool to support biodiversity decision-making.

🗓️ Jan 29, 2026 | 10:00–12:00 CET
💻 Online
📝Register: vuamsterdam.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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INTEGRADIV Biodiversa + @integradiv.bsky.social · 21d

Integradiv members are meeting in Ioannina, Greece 🇬🇷. This is our last general meeting before the project ends late this year.

We are busy preparing the stakeholders workshop for next week. Would you like to take part in it next Thursday? Join here! vuamsterdam.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · 27d

Thanks for the invitation, looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!

Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology @funcagroeco.bsky.social · 28d

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar!
Dr. Federico Riva
will give a talk about why appreciating biodiversity change across scales is essential for optimizing conservation and environmental decisions

📅 Wed 14. Jan at 10:15 AM
📩 DM for webinar link

@agrarunigoe.bsky.social

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Functional Agrobiodiversity & Agroecology @funcagroeco.bsky.social · 28d

Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Dec 23

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We found that (i) "the benefits of habitat restoration to increase total forest area could be enhanced by distributing a given amount of restored habitat across multiple patches" and (ii) "overarching importance of habitat amount for biodiversity"

Forest bird diversity increases with fragmentation per se in landscapes following forest gains

Our results suggest that, at least for forest breeding birds, the benefits of habitat restoration to increase total forest area could be enhanced by distributing a given amount of restored habitat ac...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Federico Riva, Juan Antonio Hernández‐Agüero

Camille Magneville @cmlmagneville.bsky.social · Dec 22

Happy to see our paper out! 🎉
We assess the relative roles of past/present environmental & anthropogenic drivers shaping functional & phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean forests, highlighting the key role of past climate stability 🌳
➡️https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70177

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Reposted by Christina C. Hicks, Richard D. Gregory, Gareth J. Williams , and 2 more Christina C. Hicks, Richard D. Gregory, Gareth J. Williams, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Federico Riva

Josh Cinner @joshuacinner.bsky.social · Dec 22

Here is a link around the paywall for my latest commentary
in One Earth titled " A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions"
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mIX89C%7E...

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Dec 19

New #INTEGRADIV paper shows #paleoclimate stability is major driver of functional & phylogenetic diversity in animals & plants across Mediterranean #forests🌿❄️ Important implications for impacts of #climatechange ♨️Thx to @cmlmagneville.bsky.social for leading!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Echoes of the Past: Long‐Term Climate Stability Shapes Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity in Euro‐Mediterranean Forests

Aim Understanding the relative influence of past and present environmental and anthropogenic drivers on biodiversity is crucial for predicting future biodiversity trends. We assessed how past climat...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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INTEGRADIV Biodiversa + @integradiv.bsky.social · Dec 18

📢 Join us for the 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐕 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭!
We’ll present 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 & an 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭 supporting biodiversity decision-making across taxa & facets.

🗓️ Jan 29, 2026 | 10:00–12:00 CET
💻 Online (MS Teams)

🔗 Register: vuamsterdam.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Reposted by Monica G. Turner, Akira Mori, Federico Riva , and 2 more Monica G. Turner, Akira Mori, Federico Riva, Joan Dudney, Juan Antonio Hernández‐Agüero

Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Aug 18

Several small reserves hold more beetle, spider and bird species than a single large reserve of the same size in Central Europe, with habitat heterogeneity being an important driver. First PhD paper by Anne Huber (not on Bsky), w/ @sebseibold.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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Biodiversa+ (European Biodiversity Partnership) @biodiversa.eu · Aug 8

📝 Help shape the future of ecosystem restoration!
The BiodivRestore Knowledge Hub is surveying experts & practitioners to identify key gaps, barriers & solutions. Your input will guide research & action for the decade ahead.
Take the survey: ecologic.limesurvey.net/197389

Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Jun 16

Congratulations Martin!

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · Jun 16

How effective are perches in promoting bird-mediated seed dispersal for forest regeneration? New publication brilliantly led by Jelaine! doi.org/10.1186/s137... "We recommend...natural perches be preserved... but in areas lacking these...explore the use of artificial or semi-natural perches"

Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Jun 12

Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · Jun 3

Our viewpoint made the cover of BioScience! Beautiful picture from Jean Marie Twambaze academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

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INTEGRADIV Biodiversa + @integradiv.bsky.social · Jun 3

One of our postdocs, @elywok.bsky.social from @ua.es, did an excellent job at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social explaining how the skewness–kurtosis relationship can be used to understand biogeographical patterns of body mass across taxa and which drivers explain it.

@biodiversa.eu #SIBECOLAEET2025

Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · May 22

Congrats Shawan, nice spotlight 🐛

Reposted by Rubén G. Mateo

Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · May 22

Check our new review on niche truncation and how to avoid it with N-SDMs

Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · May 21

🆕 New paper: Spatially nested SDMs to overcome niche truncation, by Guisan et al.!

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Spatially nested species distribution models (N‐SDM): An effective tool to overcome niche truncation for more robust inference and projections

N-SDMs are key tools to develop untruncated regional climate change forecasts of species distributions at fine resolution over restricted extents. While several N-SDM approaches were proposed, there ...

doi.org

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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · May 22

It's exciting to see our research featured in the Monash University Science Bulletin and being featured on the UN Biodiversity Day.

Here is the full story: www.monash.edu/science/news....

Interested in joining our lab? You can find more about our research here: shawanchowdhury.com.

Reposted by Joaquín Hortal, Federico Riva, Alejandra Zarzo‐Arias

Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · May 21

🆕 New paper: Spatially nested SDMs to overcome niche truncation, by Guisan et al.!

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Spatially nested species distribution models (N‐SDM): An effective tool to overcome niche truncation for more robust inference and projections

doi.org

Federico Riva @riva-ecology.bsky.social · May 20

We finally had time for a hike this weekend. Maybe too early for Swiss butterflies, but the view was lovely!

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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · May 12

you might think N American species are getting common at their north range limit and rare at their south range limit as temps get warmer

but you would be wrong

new paper in GEB w/ @eliotmiller.bsky.social & Matt Strimas-Mackey, eBird Status & Trends ftw

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Justine Karst 🇨🇦 @j-karst.bsky.social · May 10

Yesterday I could access the review history for this article ⬇️. Today, the link points somewhere else. @royalsociety.org can you pls fix? I’m curious to learn how this paper was reviewed and the decisions leading to publication.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Bioelectrical synchronization of Picea abies during a solar eclipse | Royal Society Open Science

Regular light–dark cycles greatly affect organisms, and events like eclipses induce distinctive physiological and behavioural shifts. While well documented in animals, plant behaviour during eclipses ...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Chris van Swaay @chrisvanswaay.bsky.social · May 6

Enjoy this great short (9 min) film on the work of Constanti Stefanescu, co-ordinator of the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Such schemes are not only important for the butterfly counts, but also as a social network bringing butterflies to the people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...