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Vinicius Bastazini
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Eco-evolutionary dynamics explorer | Bridging Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation | Associate Editor Functional Ecology | Eternal Judo /BJJ grasshopper.

Website: https://bastazini.github.io
Blog: https://geekcologist.wordpress.com
A summary of our recent #research, in which we map the world's last shipless #seas and show where #biodiversity and shipping collide. Many key #marine areas remain unprotected, pointing to the urgent need for both protection and mitigation. 🧪🌎🌐🦤🌊

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Navigating the Balance: Mapping Shipless, Preservation, and Mitigation Areas for Marine Biodiversity — Transport Ecology
Shipping sustains global trade but poses escalating threats to marine biodiversity, with wildlife-vessel collisions, noise, and pollution endangering species such as cetaceans (whales and dolphins), s...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Scientific Dialogues

This list focuses on (what I'm calling) scientific dialogues—in which researchers respond to each other’s work using published papers as messengers. Often, a paper sparks a reply, which may, in itself, prompt a response, creating a back-and-forth between research teams […]
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October 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Climate Change Impacts on the Biodiversity of the Brazilian Cerrado: A Synthesis

The Brazilian Cerrado is a vast tropical savanna and one of the most important biodiversity hotspots on the planet. Spanning nearly 2 million km² (Fig. 1), it encompasses a dynamic mosaic of landscapes that […]
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October 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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👀Behind the Paper!👀

🐦Author Rafael Dias explains why small places can matter in big ways, shares the logistics cross-country research efforts, and discusses balancing research, teaching and creativity🎨

Read it here👇
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Rafael Dias: The spatial scaling of multiple dimensions of functional diversity in habitat islands
In this blog post, author Rafael Dias delves into the world of avian abundance and richness, with a ‘Behind the Paper’ look at his research article “The spatial scaling of multipl…
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September 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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📰Published📰 Bigger habitats hold more variety in bird lifestyles, but small ones can still be special!🐦

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Bigger habitats hold more variety in bird lifestyles, but small ones can still be special!
Rafael Antunes Dias, Vinicius Augusto Galvão Bastazini, Andros T. Gianuca, Thomas J. Matthews This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. In s…
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September 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Scaling traits and functions: How habitat area shapes the multidimensional nature of functional diversity

For over a hundred years, the Species–Area Relationship (SAR) has served as a fundamental concept for understanding changes in species diversity across spatial scales. Often described as […]
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September 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Happy to share our new study exploring how different dimensions of functional diversity scale with area and shape community assembly.
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#Ecology #Biodiversity #Biogeography #Conservation #Birds
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The spatial scaling of multiple dimensions of functional diversity in habitat islands
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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September 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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💧Wetzel videos of the week:

Global Water Cycle:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjAP...

Heat, Layers and Mixing:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiLR...

Our channel: www.youtube.com/@silinternat...
September 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS
Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species
Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say
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September 5, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Happy to share that our book (written in 🇵🇹) #Ecology and #Conservation of #Aquatic #Ecosystems of Southern #Brazil has been reviewed in the latest issue of the @sil-limnology.bsky.social newsletter 😀. See the comments for a 🔗 with an 🇬🇧 summary and free book download. 🧪🌎🌐
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August 20, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Fraudulent science is becoming an industry.
How bad science is becoming big business
Fraudulent science is becoming an industry.
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August 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Global conflict between shipping and marine biodiversity

Humans dominate the Earth—we inhabit it, we disrupt it, and we traverse it. Ecologists have dedicated themselves to studying the impact of roads on terrestrial systems since the end of the 20th century. Road Ecology is the branch of […]
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August 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
As global #shipping expands, our #oceans' #biodiversity faces growing threats. Our new study maps the critical hotspots where #marine #life needs protection from vessels and identifies priority areas for urgent #conservation action.
#Ecology #Wildlife #Sea
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Mapping global shipless areas and conflict zones between shipping and large marine vertebrates
The growth of global maritime traffic poses increasing threats to marine biodiversity, including vessel collisions, behavioural disturbances, and poll…
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August 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
An invited commentary I wrote for @funecology.bsky.social on a new study using using spatial patterns, traits, environmental preferences, and colonization dynamics to better understand how ecological communities form and respond to change.
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From pairwise interactions to community structure: A trait‐based approach to inferring assembly mechanisms across spatial scales
Click on the article title to read more.
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August 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Reading lists in Ecology – Short Essays

Research papers are the "bricks" that build the wall we call “science.” But sometimes we need to look at this “wall” and reflect upon it. This reflection pushes us forward. This is a curated reading list of ecological essays that have stood the test of […]
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July 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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✍️⏳ Registration for the 5th Community Ecology Conference closes in one month, on August 10 ‼️ 🌐🌍
We are still accepting poster abstracts until the deadline.

🔗 akcongress.com/comec/

#ecology #ecologyconference #communityecology
July 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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We’re accepting abstracts for our annual meeting at @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ until July 7th!

Sign up below 👇🌱
🌿 Calling all friends in climate and biodiversity 🌿

We’re hosting a meeting at the @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ on 18 September 2025!

Come along to network, hear about current research and policy challenges.

Abstract submissions + sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-ch...

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Climate Change and Biodiversity: BES Climate Change SIG Annual Meeting 2025
The first in-person annual meeting of the British Ecological Society Climate Change Ecology Group.
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July 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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📰Published📰 Ecological acclimation: a framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change🌡️

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Ecological acclimation: a framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change
Michael Stemkovski, Joey R. Bernhardt, Benjamin Wong Blonder, John B. Bradford, Kyra Clark-Wolf, Laura E. Dee, Margaret E. K. Evans, Virginia Iglesias, Loretta C. Johnson, Abigail J. Lynch, Sparkle…
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June 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Join Journal of Animal Ecology's Senior Editor Darren Evans at EcoNet2025 (tickets now open!) - www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 🦋🌿
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June 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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⏰ There are 10 days until our "Energy trade-offs under changing environments" Special Feature with @animalecology.bsky.social closes to proposals!

👀 See here for more details on how to submit
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📣Call for Proposals📣

🔋Our cross-journal special feature with
@animalecology.bsky.social "Energy trade-offs under changing environments" is open to proposals!

💡This feature aims to understand essential energy processes in the context of environmental change

👉Find out more: buff.ly/gvMdp1C

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June 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM