Pablo García‐Díaz

Pablo Garcia-Diaz

@pablo-ecology.bsky.social

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Ecologist. Ecological modelling, ecosystem services, invasive alien species, and wildlife trade. Often found running models or marvelling at reptiles

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · May 23

Interested in modelling multiple ecosystem services and their interactions but don't know where to start? Check out our OA new paper! We combined expert knowledge and network analyses to build conceptual system maps and guide data-gathering efforts. 🌎🧪🌐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Graphical abstract of the paper 'Conceptual system maps to guide research and management of multiple ecosystem services and disservices' showing a map of the Lules river watershed (Tucuman Argentina); two photos of experts working in groups; an arrow indicating that the knowledge derived from experts was encoded into a network; and a network showing the relationships between ecosystem services and disservices and their environmental, social, and economic drivers

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · 2d

New Opinion article by Vaibhav Chaturvedi and Joy Rajbanshi:

"A strategic framework to assess causes and consequences of long-term land use change is critical for India"

🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 4d

A pair of young screech-owls/alicucu (Megascopus sp.) in a Yungas forest in NW Argentina #birds

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder if the rise of LLMs explains the increasing number of weak reviews and essays that I'm seeing lately. Many read like undergrad papers for an introductory class - a very high-level description of the topic mixed with some examples but little to no general/generalisable insights and synthesis

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 7d

New in @biolinvasions.bsky.social: I argue that accelerating invasion rates threaten ecosystem stability & sustainable management. Thus there is an urgent need for progress toward Target 6 of the Kunming-Montreal GBF, which calls for a substantive reduction in global invasion rates.
-> rdcu.be/eVlNk

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Julie L. Lockwood, Ivan Jarić , and 1 more Ingolf Kühn, Julie L. Lockwood, Ivan Jarić, Pablo García‐Díaz

Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · 11d

In our new Biological Conservation paper, we show the potential of social media in improving #invasive species #distribution.

Incorporating social media data
🔍 identified new locality records,
🔍 expanded range size for 67% of species

Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
(1/6) @monashbiol.bsky.social

Reposted by Emilio Vilanova, Pablo García‐Díaz, Alicia Valdés , and 1 more Emilio Vilanova, Pablo García‐Díaz, Alicia Valdés, Julen Astigarraga

Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 15d

Comment article: Matthew Fagan, Naomi Schwartz and Ruth DeFries offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets to ensure responsible use of remote-sensing datasets in ecology and environmental science.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets - Nature Ecology & Evolution

In this age of abundant remote-sensing data, global datasets are increasingly relied upon to analyse the planet at unprecedented scale and resolution. We offer three considerations on uncertainties an...

www.nature.com

Reposted by Andy Purvis, Jesse M. Alston, Etienne Lalechère

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 16d

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100

Harmonized land-use and land-cover datasets that include past and future periods are key to solving sustainability issues, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However, existing harmonized pr...

www.cell.com

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

GBIF España/Spain @gbif.es · 16d

GBIF abre las puertas a la #biodiversidad global: más de 12.000 estudios en 180 países demuestran cómo los #datosabiertos impulsan la ciencia, la conservación y la sostenibilidad. Un artículo en PNAS (👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) destaca el papel clave de @gbif.org en la investigación mundial 🐼🌵🐧🦠🧬

GBIF ofrece información de biodiversidad con datos abiertos
GBIF integra millones de registros de biodiversidad y los hace accesibles para impulsar el conocimiento y apoyar la toma de decisiones ambientales
Foto: Ochotona princeps. Autor: Jason Headley (https://spain.inaturalist.org/people/jasonheadley). Licencia: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)

Los datos de GBIF impulsan estudios sobre cambio climático y conservación
Los datos abiertos de GBIF se combinan con variables ambientales para crear modelos que permiten evaluar los riesgos del cambio climático y las especies invasoras.
Figura: Crecimiento a lo largo del tiempo de los datos de presencias de biodiversidad accesibles a través de GBIF y de los artículos revisados por pares que utilizan estos datos.

Por qué los datos abiertos de GBIF son esenciales para la investigación científica
Miles de estudios usan GBIF para responder a preguntas sobre conservación, agricultura, salud y ecología.
Figura: Gráfico "Sankey bump" que muestra el cambio de los principales temas de investigación de las publicaciones a lo largo del tiempo

GBIF transforma la ciencia con nuevas fuentes de datos abiertos de biodiversidad
La expansión de GBIF incorpora eDNA y ecoacústica y amplía su cobertura taxonómica y metodológica.
Figura: Resultados del modelo de temas estructurales a partir de 4.301 estudios que utilizaron datos mediados por GBIF publicados entre 2020 y 2024. La red de correlaciones de temas visualiza asociaciones cuantitativas entre ellos (nodos), donde los temas próximos y conectados por una línea gris tienen mayor probabilidad de aparecer juntos en un mismo estudio. El color de los nodos indica el cambio relativo en la prevalencia de cada tema a lo largo del tiempo, comparando la prevalencia en estudios anteriores (2016–2019) con la de los publicados recientemente (2020–2024). El tamaño de los nodos es proporcional a la proporción total de cada tema.

Reposted by Fernando Pulido, Pablo García‐Díaz, Víctor Noguerales , and 2 more Fernando Pulido, Pablo García‐Díaz, Víctor Noguerales, Juan Antonio Hernández‐Agüero, Álvaro Gaytán

Parques Nacionales (OAPN) @oapngob.bsky.social · 16d

Desde que tú no me quieres
yo todos los días me muero.
Y alimento, con mi carne,
en Monfragüe buitres negros,
en Monfragüe buitres negros.

Robe Iniesta🪽

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 22d

Deuterocohnia forming structures similar to "fairy circles" in Argentina? 🌎🧪

Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 22d

Invasion impacts in terrestrial ecosystems: Global patterns and predictors #bioinvasions 🌎🌐🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Invasion impacts in terrestrial ecosystems: Global patterns and predictors

Biological invasions can alter ecosystems, yet their impacts vary across ecological contexts. Using a global meta-analysis of 775 studies (2223 effect sizes) in terrestrial systems, we show that the m...

www.science.org

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 23d

Andean Flicker / carpintero andino (Colaptes rupicola) #bird #Argentina

An Andean Flicker / carpintero andino (Colaptes rupicola) standing on top of a rock. Photographed in the mountains of NW Argentina

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 23d

Hard-To-Sample Species Are More Sensitive to Land-Use Change: Implications for Global Biodiversity Metrics 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hard‐To‐Sample Species Are More Sensitive to Land‐Use Change: Implications for Global Biodiversity Metrics

Aim Land-use change drives biodiversity loss, but some species are more vulnerable than others. Indicators of global biodiversity must attempt to summarise these impacts representatively and meaning.....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 24d

Resilience - of ecosystems, food systems, infrastructure, etc - is the word of the moment in policy

Reflecting our failure to curb climate change & the need to adapt our systems

Some of us have been writing on this for many years - eg this paper
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Resilience and food security: rethinking an ecological concept

We define resilience in the food security context as maintaining production of sufficient and nutritious food in the face of chronic and acute environmental perturbations. In agri-food systems, appro...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 29d

Another day, another #bioinvasions framework. I've lost track of how many #bioinvasions frameworks have been published over the last 2 years.

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Jul 5

A fairly accurate description of invasion science by xkcd #bioinvasions

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 29d

I'd be a bit more careful around that one - looks like it is about to lecture the poor kākā about the critical importance of propagule pressure

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 29d

An inquisitive burrowing parrot (Cyanolyseus patagonus) giving me the side eye and checking out my backpack #birds #Argentina

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Nov 21

Here we go again...

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

El Mundo Today @elmundotoday.com · Nov 20

🇪🇸OKTODAY

Sin su gran acto de generosidad, hoy en día España seguiría siendo una dictadura (y, de hecho, lo es por culpa de Pedro Sánchez)

Lee el artículo completo en OK Today:
www.elmundotoday.com/2025/11/50o-...

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

Germán Orizaola @gorizaola.bsky.social · Nov 20

Aquí se celebran los 50 años del fin del dictador. Por todos los que vivieron sin libertades. Por mi abuelo, perdedor en la guerra, exiliado en Francia, que vio la vuelta de la democracia y que hubiera cumplido 100 la semana pasada. Por él y por los que sufrieron el horror de la dictadura franquista

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Nov 18

Climatic niche conservatism in non-native plants is largely dependent on their climatic niche breadth in the native range #bioinvasions 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz, Julen Astigarraga, Xavier Serra‐Maluquer

Florian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social · Nov 18

Check out our new preprint, led by @melinaleite.bsky.social “Dispersion tests in generalised linear mixed-effects models - a methods comparison and practical guide” ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Reposted by Juli G. Pausas

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Nov 17

Rewilding in Europe: A Systematic Characterization and Classification of 89 Rewilding Projects 🌎🌐🧪 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Rewilding in Europe: A Systematic Characterization and Classification of 89 Rewilding Projects

Rewilding is increasingly adopted as a novel, process-oriented restoration approach worldwide, yet little knowledge exists on commonalities and differences in rewilding practice. This study systemati...

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Nov 13

Practical considerations for trace DNA recovery and detection of an invasive reptile across different deposition scenarios #bioinvasions link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Practical considerations for trace DNA recovery and detection of an invasive reptile across different deposition scenarios - Conservation Genetics Resources

Trace DNA detection methods are increasingly applied to biomonitoring, in conservation, biosecurity, and wildlife forensic sciences. Reptiles are high risk invasive alien species that can cause damagi...

link.springer.com

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Nov 11

Great project & supervisory team. I can personally vouch for the lead supervisor - I have published several papers with Miguel Lurgi

Mike Fowler @theorecol.bsky.social · Nov 11

#PhD on the Metapopulation dynamics of pollinating bees under joint pesticide & habitat fragmentation pressure. Starts Sept 2026 based at Swansea and Bristol Unis.

More project details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo...

BBSRC SWBio Doctoral Training Programme: www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz, Rubén Tarifa

Raquel Muñoz Gallego @raquelmuga.bsky.social · Nov 11

Very happy to see the last and my favourite article of the PhD out in @funecology.bsky.social! We show how an invasive moth can alter plant-frugivore interactions in the Mediterranean dwarf palm🦋🏝️🍒🐐
@imedea.bsky.social @annatraveset.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Trait‐mediated effects driven by an invasive herbivore alter functionally diverse plant–frugivore interactions

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

Manuel Ansede @manuelansede.bsky.social · Nov 11

Ha muerto Antonio García-Bellido, uno de los mejores científicos de la historia de España tras descubrir las fronteras invisibles dentro de los seres vivos: elpais.com/ciencia/2025...

Muere Antonio García-Bellido, descubridor de las fronteras invisibles dentro de los seres vivos

El biólogo, fallecido a los 89 años, deja un legado científico que roza las alturas de los nobeles Santiago Ramón y Cajal y Severo Ochoa

elpais.com

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz, Benjamin Wildermuth

Mike Fowler @theorecol.bsky.social · Nov 11

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