Akira Terui
@mlaevis.bsky.social
Quantitative Ecologist. https://aterui.github.io/aquaecolab/
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Delighted to announce our new paper in Science. @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social, @elenalitchman.bsky.social, and I show how power-law scaling at the micro (individual) level is translated by eco-evolutionary dynamics into power-law scaling at the macro (food-web) level. 1/5
Eco-evolutionary emergence of macroecological scaling in plankton communities
Eco-evolutionary dynamics informed by allometric scaling can predict large-scale patterns across planktonic food webs.
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February 15, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Delighted to announce our new paper in Science. @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social, @elenalitchman.bsky.social, and I show how power-law scaling at the micro (individual) level is translated by eco-evolutionary dynamics into power-law scaling at the macro (food-web) level. 1/5
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How vulnerable are riparian trees to drought? Using groundwater and satellite data from a California waterhsed, our new paper found that trees by drying rivers lost up to 5 weeks of growing season, suggesting they’re nearing critical groundwater limits.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Groundwater and Remotely Sensed Phenology Reveal Vulnerability of Riparian Trees to Drought
We asked how vulnerable riparian trees are to droughts, examining their water use and growing season timing and duration via groundwater data and satellite imagery. Drought shortened the growing seas...
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
How vulnerable are riparian trees to drought? Using groundwater and satellite data from a California waterhsed, our new paper found that trees by drying rivers lost up to 5 weeks of growing season, suggesting they’re nearing critical groundwater limits.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Rにまつわる怖い話をいくつか書いてみました。lmerのデフォルト設定がREML=TRUEとなっており、モデル選択できない使用になっているのに気づかず、やらかしてしまっている論文はかなり多いのでは、、と思ってます。
ecological-stats.netlify.app/2025/10/26/r...
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Rの怖い話
モデル選択できないGLMM 複数マッチのエラーがでない “sample” surprise なんとなく使っていると痛い目にあうRのデフォルト設定。
モデル選択できないGLMM GLMMで解析する際、lme4::lmer()（あるいはlme4::glmer()）を使うことは多い。しかし、これらの関数はデフォルト設定ではモデル選択できない。なぜなら、デフォルトでREML = TRUE（制限付き最尤...
ecological-stats.netlify.app
October 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Rにまつわる怖い話をいくつか書いてみました。lmerのデフォルト設定がREML=TRUEとなっており、モデル選択できない使用になっているのに気づかず、やらかしてしまっている論文はかなり多いのでは、、と思ってます。
ecological-stats.netlify.app/2025/10/26/r...
ecological-stats.netlify.app/2025/10/26/r...
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Does tidal marsh #restoration "work", if the goal is bringing back key species AND the trophic interactions that support them? A thousand stable isotope samples later, we have answers! 💯 work by PhD student Megan Pagliaro:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta
Does tidal marsh restoration lead to the recovery of trophic pathways that support estuarine fishes?
Evaluation of tidal marsh restoration success is typically based on the recovery of habitat size and target species. However, food-web structure may provide valuable insight into ecosystem functionin...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Does tidal marsh #restoration "work", if the goal is bringing back key species AND the trophic interactions that support them? A thousand stable isotope samples later, we have answers! 💯 work by PhD student Megan Pagliaro:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta
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Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
October 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Attempted eradication of smallmouth bass promotes rapid evolution. Here's the study that is the focus of the Scientific American article: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Diversity in research. How can we take into account the extra burden of publishing in English for those who are not native speakers? With AI can we now translate and look at publications from any language? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social
Who gets to do science? A demand for English is hurting marginalised researchers
Everyone, no matter their background, should have an equal chance to work in science – but there are huge systemic barriers.
theconversation.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Diversity in research. How can we take into account the extra burden of publishing in English for those who are not native speakers? With AI can we now translate and look at publications from any language? @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social
データやコードのバージョン管理もまともにしていないプロジェクトをみるとオエッてなる。
October 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
データやコードのバージョン管理もまともにしていないプロジェクトをみるとオエッてなる。
一年近くかけてScienceにRejectされた悲しみを何にたとえよう。
September 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
一年近くかけてScienceにRejectされた悲しみを何にたとえよう。
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Curious about how droughts alter mountain stream biodiversity - and why space-for-time substitution is not always a good idea when studying climate change impacts in rivers? Read our latest lab paper, led by Kyle Leathers in Ecological Monographs! @esajournals.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
Ecological pathways connecting riverine drought to community change across space and time
Climate change is intensifying droughts via reduced snowpack and accelerated snowmelt in high mountains globally, altering community structure in snow-dependent rivers. To predict impending ecologica...
dx.doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Curious about how droughts alter mountain stream biodiversity - and why space-for-time substitution is not always a good idea when studying climate change impacts in rivers? Read our latest lab paper, led by Kyle Leathers in Ecological Monographs! @esajournals.bsky.social
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
25052 Warming threatens aquatic–terrestrial linkages: evidence from tropical geothermal streams - Lopes - Oikos - Wiley Online Library nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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September 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
25052 Warming threatens aquatic–terrestrial linkages: evidence from tropical geothermal streams - Lopes - Oikos - Wiley Online Library nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Parasites alter community structure | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Parasites alter community structure | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Parasites alter community structure | PNAS
Parasites often play an important role in modifying the physiology and behavior of
their hosts and may, consequently, mediate the influence hosts h...
www.pnas.org
September 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Parasites alter community structure | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Parasites alter community structure | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Novak et al. derive a functional response model that unifies Holling’s classical forms. The model clarifies when linearity can be a mechanistically-reasoned description of predator feeding rates and the impact it has on predator-prey dynamics.
Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
In Defense of Type I Functional Responses: The Frequency and Population Dynamic Effects of Feeding on Multiple Prey at a Time | The American Naturalist
Abstract Ecologists differ in the degree to which they consider the linear type I functional response to be an unrealistic versus sufficient representation of predator feeding rates. Empiricists tend ...
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August 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Novak et al. derive a functional response model that unifies Holling’s classical forms. The model clarifies when linearity can be a mechanistically-reasoned description of predator feeding rates and the impact it has on predator-prey dynamics.
Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Read now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
25049 Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit - Gillies - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit
The metapopulation hypothesis for species range limits posits that a range limit may be imposed by subtle variation in rates of either patch colonisation or extinction. Using a multi-year survey acro...
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August 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
25049 Evidence That Metapopulation Dynamics Maintain a Species' Range Limit - Gillies - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
2025047 This is the most interesting one among those I've read this year - novel idea, solid data, and clear writing - a lot to learn from this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Herring spawned poleward following fishery-induced collective memory loss - Nature
A critically low abundance of older herring due to age-selective fisheries resulted in an approximately 800-km poleward shift in main spawning.
www.nature.com
August 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
2025047 This is the most interesting one among those I've read this year - novel idea, solid data, and clear writing - a lot to learn from this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar:
"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales"
Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/uRJwbK1ZacZH...
"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales"
Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/uRJwbK1ZacZH...
August 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar:
"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales"
Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/uRJwbK1ZacZH...
"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales"
Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/uRJwbK1ZacZH...
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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...
August 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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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I'm looking for a graduate student (either PhD or master's) to join my lab starting Jan 2026. If you know any students in social behavior and evolution (and termites!), please let them know!
August 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I'm looking for a graduate student (either PhD or master's) to join my lab starting Jan 2026. If you know any students in social behavior and evolution (and termites!), please let them know!
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25042 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Agricultural land around river confluences could strongly suppress floods occurrences - ScienceDirect
Agricultural land around river confluences could strongly suppress floods occurrences
Flooding poses a significant threat to socioeconomic systems, with risks expected to escalate in the future due to factors such as climate change and …
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July 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
25042 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Agricultural land around river confluences could strongly suppress floods occurrences - ScienceDirect