Renato Morais
@renatoamorais.bsky.social
Ecologist @PSL 🇫🇷🇧🇷. Macro ecology, comparative ecosystem ecology, coral reefs, fish.
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Our new paper on the historical and scientific basis of Darwin’s ‘coral reef paradox’ is out @currentbiology.bsky.social! Summary below by @gobyone.bsky.social.
Also with @paulinenarvaez.bsky.social
@oclaripv.bsky.social
and Vale Parravicini!
Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3QW8S...
Also with @paulinenarvaez.bsky.social
@oclaripv.bsky.social
and Vale Parravicini!
Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3QW8S...
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2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
apply.refline.ch
November 4, 2025 at 3:24 PM
2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/...
In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈
Reposted by Renato Morais
Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Oxygen supersaturation has been reported to protect aquatic animals from heat waves. We tested this in a large collaborative experiment on many species of fish and crustaceans. Our new paper in @plosbiology.org shows that the effect of hyperoxia on thermal tolerance is negligible. Unfortunately.
Reposted by Renato Morais
Check this out: the global biomass of mammals since 1850
just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The global biomass of mammals since 1850 - Nature Communications
Here, the authors estimate mammalian biomass from the 1850’s to today, tracking an increase of over five-fold in human and domesticated mammal biomass and a two-fold decrease in wild mammal biomass. R...
www.nature.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Check this out: the global biomass of mammals since 1850
just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I am pleased to announce the publication of the most extensive assessment of the coral reefs of Thailand conducted to date! This took years of work, but we are now placed for conservation action to embrace the nuances and complexity of reef ecosystems!
Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑
Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑
October 28, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I am pleased to announce the publication of the most extensive assessment of the coral reefs of Thailand conducted to date! This took years of work, but we are now placed for conservation action to embrace the nuances and complexity of reef ecosystems!
Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑
Link in the comments!
#MarineEcology 🌐🌏🪸🌊🦑
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Canids seem to be the routine lovers, reusing their travel routes more than felids. This shapes hunting, encounters, and even disease spread. Insights from 1,239 GPS-tracked carnivores, including the Arctic foxes we track on Bylot Island 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦊. Read in the latest PNAS at bitly.cx/TxI2
October 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Canids seem to be the routine lovers, reusing their travel routes more than felids. This shapes hunting, encounters, and even disease spread. Insights from 1,239 GPS-tracked carnivores, including the Arctic foxes we track on Bylot Island 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦊. Read in the latest PNAS at bitly.cx/TxI2
Fantastic paper from @helenyan.bsky.social showing the importance of considering abundance in field-based biodiversity-ecosystem functioning assessments! Check it out! 👇🏽
🚨New PhD paper out today in @natcomms.nature.com with @renatoamorais.bsky.social and Dave Bellwood! 🚨
Marine fishes exhibit extraordinary patterns of diversity, but how does this diversity relate to their productivity? 🐟🐠🐡
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🔗 nature.com/articles/s41...
Marine fishes exhibit extraordinary patterns of diversity, but how does this diversity relate to their productivity? 🐟🐠🐡
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🔗 nature.com/articles/s41...
August 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Fantastic paper from @helenyan.bsky.social showing the importance of considering abundance in field-based biodiversity-ecosystem functioning assessments! Check it out! 👇🏽
Our new paper on the historical and scientific basis of Darwin’s ‘coral reef paradox’ is out @currentbiology.bsky.social! Summary below by @gobyone.bsky.social.
Also with @paulinenarvaez.bsky.social
@oclaripv.bsky.social
and Vale Parravicini!
Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3QW8S...
Also with @paulinenarvaez.bsky.social
@oclaripv.bsky.social
and Vale Parravicini!
Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3QW8S...
June 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Our new paper on the historical and scientific basis of Darwin’s ‘coral reef paradox’ is out @currentbiology.bsky.social! Summary below by @gobyone.bsky.social.
Also with @paulinenarvaez.bsky.social
@oclaripv.bsky.social
and Vale Parravicini!
Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3QW8S...
Also with @paulinenarvaez.bsky.social
@oclaripv.bsky.social
and Vale Parravicini!
Free-access link:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lDFm3QW8S...
Reposted by Renato Morais
Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...
Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
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Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
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June 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...
Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
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🦑🧪
🧵⬇️
Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...
🌐
🦑🧪
🧵⬇️
Reposted by Renato Morais
So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com 🧪🌐
Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brief thread of what we found 🧵
Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brief thread of what we found 🧵
May 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com 🧪🌐
Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brief thread of what we found 🧵
Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brief thread of what we found 🧵
Reposted by Renato Morais
May 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Reposted by Renato Morais
Are you a community/macro ecologist? Looking for more data? Sick of compiling/cleaning data?? 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐
🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :)
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk
BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series
Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Are you a community/macro ecologist? Looking for more data? Sick of compiling/cleaning data?? 🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐
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🎓 Are you a marine MSc or PhD student passionate about climate change and biodiversity? Join our Summer School in Ischia, Italy!
📅 Sept 14–20, 2025
📝 Apply by May 26 → bit.ly/42VRjfL
🔬 Explore seawater chemistry, R & GitHub, blue carbon, drone surveys, and photogrammetry — right in the field
🌊🌐🧪🦤
📅 Sept 14–20, 2025
📝 Apply by May 26 → bit.ly/42VRjfL
🔬 Explore seawater chemistry, R & GitHub, blue carbon, drone surveys, and photogrammetry — right in the field
🌊🌐🧪🦤
May 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🎓 Are you a marine MSc or PhD student passionate about climate change and biodiversity? Join our Summer School in Ischia, Italy!
📅 Sept 14–20, 2025
📝 Apply by May 26 → bit.ly/42VRjfL
🔬 Explore seawater chemistry, R & GitHub, blue carbon, drone surveys, and photogrammetry — right in the field
🌊🌐🧪🦤
📅 Sept 14–20, 2025
📝 Apply by May 26 → bit.ly/42VRjfL
🔬 Explore seawater chemistry, R & GitHub, blue carbon, drone surveys, and photogrammetry — right in the field
🌊🌐🧪🦤
When you’re cornered by your supervisor and forced to explain why that paper hasn’t been submitted…
April 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
When you’re cornered by your supervisor and forced to explain why that paper hasn’t been submitted…
Reposted by Renato Morais
Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness 🧪 🌐 #macroecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness
Aim Tropical biodiversity overshadows the number of species inhabiting other regions. Age, area, and stability constitute three classical ideas used to explain the higher richness in these warm and ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Classic Hypotheses of Area, Time, and Climatic Stability Fall Short in Explaining High Tropical Species Richness 🧪 🌐 #macroecology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Reposted by Renato Morais
New online! Biodiversity–ecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity
Biodiversity–ecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 11 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00040-1Maintaining human well-being in an era of biodiversity loss requires understanding the role of biodiversity in ecosystem function. We argue that absolute abundance can drive ecosystem function and that this measure should be considered alongside traditional measures of biodiversity.
bit.ly
April 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
New online! Biodiversity–ecosystem function research must consider abundance and not just diversity
Reposted by Renato Morais
The #CESAB open a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration
💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods
📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets
📆 deadline: september 2025
👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI
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💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods
📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets
📆 deadline: september 2025
👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI
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[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité
The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...
bit.ly
April 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The #CESAB open a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration
💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods
📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets
📆 deadline: september 2025
👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI
🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁
💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods
📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets
📆 deadline: september 2025
👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI
🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁
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Cereghetti et al: #Seasonal #dynamics of detritus flows and #decomposition across #ecosystem boundaries.
🌿🍂🦐 🌐🌍
We studied seasonal dynamics/phenology ⏱️ of 🟩terrestrial-🟦aquatic linkages across a year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Out in #CurrentBiology @currentbiology.bsky.social
1/4
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We studied seasonal dynamics/phenology ⏱️ of 🟩terrestrial-🟦aquatic linkages across a year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Out in #CurrentBiology @currentbiology.bsky.social
1/4
April 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Cereghetti et al: #Seasonal #dynamics of detritus flows and #decomposition across #ecosystem boundaries.
🌿🍂🦐 🌐🌍
We studied seasonal dynamics/phenology ⏱️ of 🟩terrestrial-🟦aquatic linkages across a year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Out in #CurrentBiology @currentbiology.bsky.social
1/4
🌿🍂🦐 🌐🌍
We studied seasonal dynamics/phenology ⏱️ of 🟩terrestrial-🟦aquatic linkages across a year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Out in #CurrentBiology @currentbiology.bsky.social
1/4
So, now Macron’s government wants to look good and attract talent pushed out of the US? Do not be fooled, this is a political stunt to capitalise on geopolitics. Phenomenal in-house resources forced to leave science but there’s always money to look good:
france2030.agencerecherche.fr/ChooseFrance...
france2030.agencerecherche.fr/ChooseFrance...
Call - « Choose France for Science »
france2030.agencerecherche.fr
April 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So, now Macron’s government wants to look good and attract talent pushed out of the US? Do not be fooled, this is a political stunt to capitalise on geopolitics. Phenomenal in-house resources forced to leave science but there’s always money to look good:
france2030.agencerecherche.fr/ChooseFrance...
france2030.agencerecherche.fr/ChooseFrance...
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More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the Royal Society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science
https://go.nature.com/41dzNUx
https://go.nature.com/41dzNUx
Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship
More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the world’s oldest science society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science.
go.nature.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the Royal Society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science
https://go.nature.com/41dzNUx
https://go.nature.com/41dzNUx
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Our last article on Vulnerability of benthic trait diversity across the Mediterranean Sea following mass mortality events is out in
@NatureComms
! 🪸🌱🐚🌡️🌊 A thread 👇🧵
nature.com/articles/s41...
@NatureComms
! 🪸🌱🐚🌡️🌊 A thread 👇🧵
nature.com/articles/s41...
February 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Reposted by Renato Morais
🚀 In 2025, #CESAB will launch a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration
💡 IdeaShare: Develop new concepts, models & methods
📊 DataShare: Assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets
📆 Opening in April
Stay tuned ! 🌈
🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁
💡 IdeaShare: Develop new concepts, models & methods
📊 DataShare: Assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets
📆 Opening in April
Stay tuned ! 🌈
🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁
February 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
🚀 In 2025, #CESAB will launch a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration
💡 IdeaShare: Develop new concepts, models & methods
📊 DataShare: Assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets
📆 Opening in April
Stay tuned ! 🌈
🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁
💡 IdeaShare: Develop new concepts, models & methods
📊 DataShare: Assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets
📆 Opening in April
Stay tuned ! 🌈
🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁
Reposted by Renato Morais
44,000 #biological #interactions extracted from 84,000 publications—in just a few hours using GPT4o
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @francoiskeck.bsky.social et al #ecology🌍🌐🐟🌳🦋🪰🌿🪲 #predation #parasitism #mutualism
🚀 Potential applications seem endless & will change how we do #ecology
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @francoiskeck.bsky.social et al #ecology🌍🌐🐟🌳🦋🪰🌿🪲 #predation #parasitism #mutualism
🚀 Potential applications seem endless & will change how we do #ecology
January 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
44,000 #biological #interactions extracted from 84,000 publications—in just a few hours using GPT4o
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @francoiskeck.bsky.social et al #ecology🌍🌐🐟🌳🦋🪰🌿🪲 #predation #parasitism #mutualism
🚀 Potential applications seem endless & will change how we do #ecology
Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by @francoiskeck.bsky.social et al #ecology🌍🌐🐟🌳🦋🪰🌿🪲 #predation #parasitism #mutualism
🚀 Potential applications seem endless & will change how we do #ecology
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Calling coral reef scientists, oceanographers, isotope ecologists: new post-doc at Lancaster Environment Centre with me @lec-reefs.bsky.social @renatoamorais.bsky.social @remotereefs.bsky.social @drmanateena.bsky.social
Deadline 28 Feb | Apply👇 | 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Deadline 28 Feb | Apply👇 | 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
January 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Calling coral reef scientists, oceanographers, isotope ecologists: new post-doc at Lancaster Environment Centre with me @lec-reefs.bsky.social @renatoamorais.bsky.social @remotereefs.bsky.social @drmanateena.bsky.social
Deadline 28 Feb | Apply👇 | 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Deadline 28 Feb | Apply👇 | 🦑 🧪 🌊 🌍
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Fantastic opportunity to push the boundaries of work on the interface of reef ecology and oceanography! Please, do apply!
You'll join LEC REEFS - a big interdisciplinary team of 7 PIs, 9 post-docs, 10 PhD. This project is also partnered with 3 superb collaborators in Bangor, Perpignan, and Brisbane:
@renatoamorais.bsky.social
@drmanateena.bsky.social
@remotereefs.bsky.social
@renatoamorais.bsky.social
@drmanateena.bsky.social
@remotereefs.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Fantastic opportunity to push the boundaries of work on the interface of reef ecology and oceanography! Please, do apply!