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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 Jens‐Christian Svenning, Julie L. Lockwood

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 18h
Observed and Dark Diversity of Alien Plants Across the World #bioinvasions 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Observed and Dark Diversity of Alien Plants Across the World
Aim Biological invasions are one of the major threats to ecosystems worldwide and are expected to increase further in the future. Prevention and swift responses are crucial to mitigate this threat. .....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 1d
Resisting the carbonization of animals as climate solutions 🌐🌎🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 1d
Resisting the carbonization of animals as climate solutions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Resisting the carbonization of animals as climate solutions - Nature Climate Change
Large animal conservation and rewilding are increasingly considered to be viable climate mitigation strategies. We argue that overstating animal roles in carbon capture may hinder, rather than facilit...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · 1d
IUCN passes resolution to do more for #WildAnimal #climate allies like elephants 🐘 , otters, tigers 🐅 and cetaceans 🐬 and whales 🐳 🌍

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IUCN Resolution Recognizes Wild Animals as Climate Allies
On October 10, the IUCN adopted a resolution to mobilize the role of wild animals in ecosystems as a climate solution.
earth.org

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

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People and Nature @peopleandnature.bsky.social · 3d
🗺️ A #meta-analysis showing that poorer societies do not have the economic resources to confront the #EnvironmentalInjustice represented by the #LuxuryEffect.
@IreneRegaiolo @arjundevamar @MTALACE @ChevReynolds @Dom__Henry @migrans @DanC_eco

➡️ buff.ly/LseuyOs

Reposted by Tim M. Blackburn, Wayne Dawson, Pablo García‐Díaz

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · 4d
▶️‼️𝐀 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐍𝐀𝐅, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰‼️◀️
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

1️⃣ it now contains 16,429 plant taxa
2️⃣ removal of outdated data & errors
3️⃣ 117,229 new records
4️⃣ 31% increase in the number of geographic regions
The updated Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF 2.0) database
GloNAF is a continuously updated, curated compilation of alien naturalized vascular plant inventories for geographic regions worldwide. Building on its predecessor, GloNAF 2.0 now contains 16,429 tax...
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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 4d
Monitoring ecosystem services with essential ecosystem service variables 🌐🌎 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Reposted by Tim M. Blackburn, Pablo García‐Díaz

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 5d
A comprehensive global assessment of the status & trends of alien species for major taxonomic groups. This is an outstanding product of the 2023 IPBES assessment on invasive species.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reposted by Neil Pederson, Pablo García‐Díaz, Martin Ehbrecht , and 1 more

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Keila Stark (she/her) @keila-stark.bsky.social · 6d
Most major theories in ecology assume some sort of equilibrium, but only ~half of empirical tests acknowledge it & even fewer observed it in their system. Does this matter? How did the idea become so pervasive in ecology anyway? Find out in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Equilibrium Conundrum
Although an assumption of equilibrium dynamics underlies most ecological theory, the evidence for this dynamic in nature and in empirical studies is scarce. This creates an unfortunate disconnect bet...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Pablo García‐Díaz

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Dan MacNulty @danmacnulty.bsky.social · 7d
🧪Now that the flaws in Ripple et al. (2025) are on record, it’ll be an interesting test of scientific integrity to see if and how that paper is used. This Science letter, for instance, cites Ripple et al. (2025) in calling for strict wolf protection across Europe. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 7d
The importance of separating the ‘transport’ and ‘introduction’ stages when studying #bioinvasions. The alien agave plants on the left in the photos are contained within the boundaries of the smallholding and have not spread to the nearby ravine – I wouldn’t consider them introduced in the wild

Reposted by Benjamin Larue

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 10d
Using the criminal law to protect the environment: Possibilities and problems 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Using the criminal law to protect the environment: Possibilities and problems
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 10d
Editors & reviewers -

an ecological model can never be a complete representation of a system

they are simplifications, useful for exploring specific questions

Please do not expect models to do the impossible

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 15d
Sources of confusion in global biodiversity trends 🌎🌐🧪 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Sources of confusion in global biodiversity trends
Populations and ecological communities are changing worldwide, and empirical studies exhibit a mixture of either declining or mixed trends. Confusion in global biodiversity trends thus remains, while....
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 16d
"Ecosystems are not economic markets for us to optimise; open biotic borders will lead to extinctions; the extinction of a species now is not counterweighted by species gained in millions of years. Nature does not solely exist for our economic needs." #bioinvasions
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Open border ecosystems: Against globalised laissez-faire conservation | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge Core
Open border ecosystems: Against globalised laissez-faire conservation - Volume 3
www.cambridge.org

Reposted by Benjamin Larue

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 17d
Disproportionate regulation of wildlife trade 🌎🧪🌐
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Disproportionate regulation of wildlife trade
An increasing number of countries in the Global North have enacted, or are considering, import bans on hunting trophies to protect wildlife. We interrogate arguments used to characterize trophy huntin...
www.biorxiv.org

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 20d
Unifying occupancy-detection and local frequency scaling (Frescalo) models 🌎🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unifying occupancy-detection and local frequency scaling (Frescalo) models
Frescalo’s “local frequency scaling” and classical occupancy-detection models both seek to recover true species-occurrence signals from imperfect data…
www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Dustin Mulvaney, Pablo García‐Díaz

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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 25d
CCI’s newest report analyzes the limits and possibilities of CBAs to uphold Indigenous sovereignty, deliver environmental justice, and build labor power across the supply chain in the energy transition. climateandcommunity.org/research/cbas/
Community Benefits Agreements
In the face of energy transition projects, communities can deploy community benefits agreements to exert control over their futures.
climateandcommunity.org

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz

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Steve Carver @landethics.bsky.social · 26d
Nice write up on the new IUCN Guidelines for Rewilding by Rewilding Europe... rewildingeurope.com/news/new-iuc...
New IUCN rewilding guidelines: a blueprint for global nature recovery | Rewilding Europe
Marking a major milestone for the global rewilding movement, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has released a comprehensive set of rewilding guidelines.
rewildingeurope.com

Reposted by Samuele Ramellini

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 26d
The effects of climate change on Australia’s only endemic Pokémon: Measuring bias in species distribution models 🌎🌐🧪 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The effects of climate change on Australia’s only endemic Pokémon: Measuring bias in species distribution models
Species distribution models (SDMs) are frequently used to predict the effects of climate change on species of conservation concern. Biases inherent in the process of constructing SDMs and transfer...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz, Julen Astigarraga, Connor Morozumi

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 27d
Still want to make cleaning biodiversity data shrimp-ler? 🦐

Good news: We just updated our Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book, so you still can! We've updated data for 2025, added new content & fixed lots of silly typos 😀

Live the shrimp-le life:
cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au

#rstats #ecology 🧪🌏
The cover of the Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book. It has an illustration of an Pacific Cleaner Shrimp in the middle of a navy background. The shrimp has a bright red-orange shell, pale-yellow body and white whiskers.

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 27d
Toward a relational biodiversity economics: Embedding plural values for sustainability transformation 🌎🌐🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 28d
Small exclosures to protect strawberry trees (Arbutus unedo) from wild boars at Parque Natural Las Batuecas - Sierra de Francia

Reposted by Håvard Kauserud, Pablo García‐Díaz, Pieter Vantieghem

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 29d
Quote: "It is very hard to interpret big data in ecology in meaningful ways if you do not know anything about who the organisms are and what they do in the environment."
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A place for natural history in the 21st century
Natural history provides an important basis for observing interactions between organisms in their environments. Biotropica recently inaugurated a new paper category called “Natural History Field Note....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Graeme S. Cumming, Stelios Katsanevakis , and 2 more

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Anthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · Oct 11
1/🧵 Over the past decade, misinformation in the popular media & the opinion pages of some journals has promoted the claim that concern over species invasions is overblown, because "most invasions do not cause extinctions".

Here is a brief reminder of what scientific evidence shows...
#bioinvasions

Reposted by Aníbal Pauchard, Pablo García‐Díaz

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International Biodiversity @ibioconsultants.com · Oct 11
“Remote-control science” keeps power in the #GlobalNorth while local experts do the work without credit. Time to #decolonize research with fair authorship, funding & respect for local knowledge 🌍

#DecolonizeScience #ResearchEquity #GlobalSouth #FairScience

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Remote‐Control Science in Ecology: A Hidden Face of Scientific Neocolonialism
We introduce the concept of “remote-control science” as a modern form of scientific neocolonialism in ecology, where researchers, preferably from the Global North, control projects in the Global Sout....
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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Oct 6
In this case, I guess the methods are just not directly comparable.

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Oct 6
Nice comparison of multiple survey methods. However, I am a tad sceptical of results showing major discrepancies btw remote and in-person survey, how do you get a bird richness 1.7 times higher using passive acoustics than in-person surveys (115 vs 67)? 🌎🌐 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Biodiversity monitoring for biocredits: a case study comparing acoustic, eDNA, and traditional methods - Biodiversity and Conservation
New environmental policy reforms and a growing demand for nature repair products such as biodiversity credits (biocredits) have increased the need for low-cost, scalable and reliable biodiversity monitoring techniques. We compare the financial costs, time commitments, and data outputs of various biodiversity survey methods using a case study in a temperate agricultural landscape in southeast Australia. We conducted in-person aural and visual surveys, camera trapping, eDNA sampling, and automated species detection from passive acoustic monitoring (PAM). All techniques exhibited relative strengths and weaknesses. PAM was limited to vocalising taxa with developed detection models (i.e., birds and amphibians), yet they recorded ~ 70 times more detections than other techniques, detecting over ten more species per site on average than any other method. It also had the lowest cost per species over five or more repeat campaigns. In-person surveys produced intermediate detection levels across most taxa, but they were the most time-consuming method. eDNA sampling was the quickest method and was the only one to account for invertebrate species, yet the costs grew rapidly with multiple campaigns. We provide a decision-support tool to help conservation managers select the most suitable techniques for biodiversity monitoring. Our data shows that modern methods such as eDNA and PAM can provide cost- and time-effective solutions to monitor most taxa. To support a growing market and promote high-quality biocredit schemes, future efforts must prioritize reducing monitoring costs and improving the detection efficiency of technological solutions across a broader range of taxa.
link.springer.com

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Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · Oct 6
Today at the RAE in Mendoza #Argentina! #bioinvasions

Reposted by Julie L. Lockwood, Pablo García‐Díaz

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ProfColinBean @profcolinbean.bsky.social · Oct 3
A systematic review evaluating the performance of eDNA methods relative to conventional methods for biodiversity monitoring. Ecography e07952. doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
A systematic review evaluating the performance of eDNA methods relative to conventional methods for biodiversity monitoring
The rapid adoption of environmental DNA (eDNA) methods has drastically changed biodiversity monitoring efforts. It is often claimed that eDNA methods are more sensitive and efficient than conventiona...
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