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Rob Wilson
@robwilsonmncn.bsky.social
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Insects, especially butterflies; conservation, global change, mountains; working at natural sciences museum in Madrid; Ecological Entomology editor; gone birdwatching with my dog.
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incstep.bsky.social
Hey! How are you coping with the post-holiday blues? We're ready for anything! 🏁

Take a look at @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social contribution to #Ento25 in Glasgow. It's another chance to show off our progress on the #INCSTEP reference collection!

#NameItToSaveIt 🐝🪰🦋
Robert J. Wilson stands with a hot cup of tea in front of his poster, 'Developing a National Reference Collection for Pollinating Insects in Spain'. Source: R. J. Wilson A general view of the Congress's poster room. Source: R. J. Wilson
September 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
robwilsonmncn.bsky.social
Delighted to join the European butterfly community in NL this week for #FutureofButterflies with @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social well represented by three talks and two posters - @guim091.bsky.social @adsalbert.bsky.social and @jpcancela.bsky.social also sharing our work on #insect responses to global change
MNCN butterfly global change participants at FutureofButterflies symposium
April 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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respublications.bsky.social
Our latest article in #RESEcolEnt reports on changes in a #bumblebee #alpine #pollinator network over 40 years 🐝🌼

Read the article now🔽
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@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @mattgreenwell.bsky.social @wiley.com
Graphical abstract of: Changes in a bumblebee alpine pollinator network over 40 years
March 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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respublications.bsky.social
A new article in #RESEcolEnt explores #soil conditions & the emergence #phenology & survival of a ground-nesting #SolitaryBee in a coastal dune environment 🐝

#OpenAccess 🔽
doi.org/10.1111/een.13422

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Graphical abstract for: Soil conditions and the emergence phenology and survival of a solitary, ground-nesting bee in a coastal dune environment
March 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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respublications.bsky.social
A new article in #RESEcolEnt reveals #wildfires induce a reduction in body size and #morphological variation of an insular endemic #insect 🦗🔥

Read the #OpenAccess paper now🔽
doi.org/10.1111/een.13418

@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com
Graphical abstract of: Wildfires induce a reduction in body size and morphological variation of an insular endemic insect
March 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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tettris.eu
@robwilsonmncn.bsky.social (@mncn-csic.bsky.social @csic.es) explains why #TETTRIsEU Satellite
@incstep.bsky.social pushes for a #pollinators 🐝 Reference Collection in Spain 🇪🇸

By the way, we are out with a #policybrief on Reference Collections 👉 tettris.eu/Publications/
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How can the INC-STEP satellite project help us study pollinators?
YouTube video by TETTRIsEU
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February 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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incstep.bsky.social
Entomological collections are sustained by all those involved in their study and management. From #INCSTEP @tettris.eu we want to give them voice 🗣️, so we will publish a series of short interviews to introduce some of these people linked to the project.

Today, let's meet Antonio Ricarte! 🪰🌼
Photo of Antonio Ricarte sitting in front of an open entomological box containing hoverflies (Syrphidae) during his visit to the Arthropod collection of the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona (MCNB). Photo credit: Berta Caballero (MCNB)
February 5, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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tettris.eu
A #training course about #bees organised by @incstep.bsky.social 🤩 under the #TETTRIsEU project!

📅 March
📍 Barcelona
🐝 Bees
🇪🇸 Spanish
⌛ Deadline 31.01

Get all the info here 👇
tettris.eu/2024/10/25/i...

#Taxonomy
January 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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consbiog.bsky.social
How does local climate influence ecological communities? Answer: #Thermophilisation caused by #colonisation and local #extinction. Check out the new paper by
@guim091.bsky.social on #mountain #butterflies in Central Spain. #ClimateChange #Refugia
doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
January 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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guim091.bsky.social
So happy to see my 2n thesis chapter published in Diversity and Distributions 🥳🥳 How does local climate influence ecological communities? Answer: #Thermophilisation caused by #colonisation and local #extinction of mountain butterflies 🦋 #ClimateChange #Refugia Small thread below⬇️
January 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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josephwilliamson.bsky.social
🚨New paper 🚨We argue that abrupt biodiversity losses can be driven by populations sharing similar tolerances to warming 🦋🌎🥵. Out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org. Summary thread below 🧵
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
screenshot of the article in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B titled 'Clustered warming tolerances and the nonlinear risks of biodiversity loss on a warming planet'
January 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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rachjo23.bsky.social
If you'd like to read more, you can find the full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... or a short blog here: butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...
Habitat management interventions for a specialist mid- successional grassland butterfly, the Lulworth Skipper - Journal of Insect Conservation
Evidence-based management is needed to reverse declines in insect abundance. The Lulworth Skipper Thymelicus acteon is a range-restricted and declining species in the UK and northern Europe associated...
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January 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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ilyamaclean.bsky.social
Our OA paper in led by former PhD student James Stewart, with @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social et al shows how varying phenology can influence range shifts via effects on population dynamics and mediated by biotic interactions, #BrownArgus (not Sparrow:-)
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Phenological variation in biotic interactions shapes population dynamics and distribution in a range-shifting insect herbivore | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Phenological responses to climate change vary across trophic levels. However, how trophic phenological synchrony determines species’ distributions through its effects on population dynamics has rarely been addressed. Here, we show that phenological ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
December 5, 2024 at 9:16 PM