BES Macro
@besmacro.bsky.social
We are the British Ecological Society Macroecology & Macroevolution Special Interest Group. We run the annual #BESMacro conference and will gladly repost papers and opportunities of interest to our members!
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Excited about this paper led by Katja Poveda & Heather Grab!
We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality.
Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality.
Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Importance of Landscape Composition for Pest Control and Crop Yield: A Global Quantitative Synthesis
In a global analysis of 116 studies, we show that landscape composition affects crop yield both directly and indirectly via traits of crops, herbivores and natural enemies. Our results suggest that w...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Excited about this paper led by Katja Poveda & Heather Grab!
We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality.
Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We use SEM to show natural habitat at large scales improves biocontrol. But, locally, it can decrease yields, perhaps due to edge effects or areas of lower agronomic quality.
Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas.
One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.
Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.
Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
PhD position - Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas.
One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.
Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
One of the new @exageo-dla.bsky.social advertised projects: www.exageo.org/phd-student-... - deadline for applications 9th January. International applications welcome.
Come and join us @lec-reefs.bsky.social
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
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Dr. Laura Pollock will be giving the last Funk Seminar of 2025! Registration and information about this talk can be found on our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/no...
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Dr. Laura Pollock will be giving the last Funk Seminar of 2025! Registration and information about this talk can be found on our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/no...
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📰Published📰Trait coordination reveals the fast-slow plant economics spectrum along the vertical canopy profile in central Amazonian forests🌳
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Trait coordination reveals the fast-slow plant economics spectrum along the vertical canopy profile in central Amazonian forests
Leonardo G. Ziccardi, Tyeen C. Taylor, Marielle N. Smith, Nathan B. Gonçalves, David Kramer, Kleber Silva Campos, Neill Prohaska, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Scott R. Saleska, Advanio Inácio Siqueira-S…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📰Published📰Trait coordination reveals the fast-slow plant economics spectrum along the vertical canopy profile in central Amazonian forests🌳
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In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
November 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed.
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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The seismic fingerprint of wind-induced tree sway @besmacro.bsky.social
lead by Umlauft @scadsai.bsky.social
w @chriswernerlab.bsky.social , Wirth @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social , Gerberding, Kattenborn
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
#forestMonitoring #ML #timeSeries
#treeSway #spectralAnalysis
lead by Umlauft @scadsai.bsky.social
w @chriswernerlab.bsky.social , Wirth @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social , Gerberding, Kattenborn
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
#forestMonitoring #ML #timeSeries
#treeSway #spectralAnalysis
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The seismic fingerprint of wind-induced tree sway @besmacro.bsky.social
lead by Umlauft @scadsai.bsky.social
w @chriswernerlab.bsky.social , Wirth @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social , Gerberding, Kattenborn
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
#forestMonitoring #ML #timeSeries
#treeSway #spectralAnalysis
lead by Umlauft @scadsai.bsky.social
w @chriswernerlab.bsky.social , Wirth @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social , Gerberding, Kattenborn
@ecosense-sfb-1537.bsky.social
#forestMonitoring #ML #timeSeries
#treeSway #spectralAnalysis
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Delighted to announce a new paper, led by Mansi Mungee, which studies insect populations over the UK using weather radar and is covered by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
more below...
#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
more below...
#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals
Study of Met Office data one of first to show how nocturnal insects affected by factors such as light pollution
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Delighted to announce a new paper, led by Mansi Mungee, which studies insect populations over the UK using weather radar and is covered by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
more below...
#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
more below...
#entomology #radar #biodiversity #insect #research #conservation #data #tech #sustainability
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We are happy to introduce the Soil Ecology SIG @britishecologicalsociety.org! Our aim is to connect soil ecology researchers across career stages, facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration. Check out www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan... and feel free to get in touch!
Soil Ecology Group - British Ecological Society
Understanding the vital ecosystem services provided by soil
www.britishecologicalsociety.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We are happy to introduce the Soil Ecology SIG @britishecologicalsociety.org! Our aim is to connect soil ecology researchers across career stages, facilitating knowledge exchange and collaboration. Check out www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/plan... and feel free to get in touch!
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Dr. Brett Scheffers will be giving his Funk lecture this week! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/oc...
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Dr. Brett Scheffers will be giving his Funk lecture this week! Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/oc...
Interested in island life and arthropods? There's a new PhD project advertised at the University of Birmingham to study the evolution of 'island syndromes' in a chosen group of island arthropods, with both museum and fieldwork-based research are expected. More details at: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
2026-B22 The island syndrome in arthropods – CENTA
centa.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Interested in island life and arthropods? There's a new PhD project advertised at the University of Birmingham to study the evolution of 'island syndromes' in a chosen group of island arthropods, with both museum and fieldwork-based research are expected. More details at: centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
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How can issues of classifications and mapping scales for defining native vegetation have significant implications for #biodiversity conservation?
This Report in the latest issue of #EnvironmentalConservation considers Mato Grosso, #Brazil
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#conservationscience🌎
This Report in the latest issue of #EnvironmentalConservation considers Mato Grosso, #Brazil
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#conservationscience🌎
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
How can issues of classifications and mapping scales for defining native vegetation have significant implications for #biodiversity conservation?
This Report in the latest issue of #EnvironmentalConservation considers Mato Grosso, #Brazil
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#conservationscience🌎
This Report in the latest issue of #EnvironmentalConservation considers Mato Grosso, #Brazil
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#conservationscience🌎
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📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
PHOREAU v1.0: a new process-based model to predict forest functioning, from tree ecophysiology to forest dynamics and biogeography
Abstract. Climate change impacts forest functioning and dynamics, but large uncertainties remain regarding the interactions between species composition, demographic processes and environmental drivers...
gmd.copernicus.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
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🦌 Deer migration, deer density, tick distribution and incidence of a tick-borne zoonosis
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October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🦌 Deer migration, deer density, tick distribution and incidence of a tick-borne zoonosis
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➡️ buff.ly/4wXYf5c
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Still some seats left for David Tilman's talk this afternoon. On line and in-person followed by a drinks reception, everyone is welcome. oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
We're really looking forward to our first talk of term. TOMORROW! In the School of Geography
Join us in person or online as David Tilman discusses:
Earth’s Biodiversity: Its Origins, Impacts & Potential Fate.
More info & to register: oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
@ecioxford.bsky.social
Join us in person or online as David Tilman discusses:
Earth’s Biodiversity: Its Origins, Impacts & Potential Fate.
More info & to register: oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
@ecioxford.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Still some seats left for David Tilman's talk this afternoon. On line and in-person followed by a drinks reception, everyone is welcome. oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
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#BiologyLetters How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny?
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
#BiologyLetters How many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny?
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics
Find out more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #palaeontology #taxonomyandsystematics
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Paper out in Ecology Letters!
We - incl. @westobymark.bsky.social @biogeokreft.bsky.social and others - show that traits are linked to species’ colonisation and extinction probabilities on #islands — with direct implications for species persistence and the Equilibrium Theory of Island #Biogeography
We - incl. @westobymark.bsky.social @biogeokreft.bsky.social and others - show that traits are linked to species’ colonisation and extinction probabilities on #islands — with direct implications for species persistence and the Equilibrium Theory of Island #Biogeography
Resurveyed Island Vegetation Reveals That Species Colonisation and Extinction Probabilities Are Linked to Traits
We show that species richness and community trait composition on 132 Australian islands remained stable over six decades, despite high species turnover. Colonisation and extinction probabilities were....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Paper out in Ecology Letters!
We - incl. @westobymark.bsky.social @biogeokreft.bsky.social and others - show that traits are linked to species’ colonisation and extinction probabilities on #islands — with direct implications for species persistence and the Equilibrium Theory of Island #Biogeography
We - incl. @westobymark.bsky.social @biogeokreft.bsky.social and others - show that traits are linked to species’ colonisation and extinction probabilities on #islands — with direct implications for species persistence and the Equilibrium Theory of Island #Biogeography
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Sweet-looking postdoc with Chris Cooney (who is awesome) on perceptual bias and animal communication signals. FWIW, Sheffield seems to be a genuinely great place to live.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB994/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB994/r...
Research Associate (Biodiversity & Evolution) at University of Sheffield
Apply now for the Research Associate (Biodiversity & Evolution) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
www.jobs.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Sweet-looking postdoc with Chris Cooney (who is awesome) on perceptual bias and animal communication signals. FWIW, Sheffield seems to be a genuinely great place to live.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB994/r...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB994/r...
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📢 Call for Abstracts!
Join us at the World Biodiversity Forum 2026 (Davos, 14–19 June) for our session “Shaping Biodiverse Futures” Explore how the Nature Futures Framework informs ##biodiversity-centric #scenarios 🌱
🗓️ Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 #WBF2026
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Join us at the World Biodiversity Forum 2026 (Davos, 14–19 June) for our session “Shaping Biodiverse Futures” Explore how the Nature Futures Framework informs ##biodiversity-centric #scenarios 🌱
🗓️ Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 #WBF2026
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
Session FUT11
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
October 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM
📢 Call for Abstracts!
Join us at the World Biodiversity Forum 2026 (Davos, 14–19 June) for our session “Shaping Biodiverse Futures” Explore how the Nature Futures Framework informs ##biodiversity-centric #scenarios 🌱
🗓️ Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 #WBF2026
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
Join us at the World Biodiversity Forum 2026 (Davos, 14–19 June) for our session “Shaping Biodiverse Futures” Explore how the Nature Futures Framework informs ##biodiversity-centric #scenarios 🌱
🗓️ Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 #WBF2026
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...
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🌱 A new study reveals the dual role of common #mammals as #dispersers of #plants and micro-invertebrates across isolated #wetlands 🦌
Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
October 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🌱 A new study reveals the dual role of common #mammals as #dispersers of #plants and micro-invertebrates across isolated #wetlands 🦌
Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
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New paper out 🥳
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity
As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...
www.science.org
October 17, 2025 at 5:15 AM
New paper out 🥳
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@stockholm-uni.bsky.social
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Interested in community-scale trait environment relationships? Check out commecometrics R package by Maria Aleja Materon Hurtado and A. Michelle Lawing! @tamueccb.bsky.social
Also at bdj.pensoft.net/article/1682...
Also at bdj.pensoft.net/article/1682...
October 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Interested in community-scale trait environment relationships? Check out commecometrics R package by Maria Aleja Materon Hurtado and A. Michelle Lawing! @tamueccb.bsky.social
Also at bdj.pensoft.net/article/1682...
Also at bdj.pensoft.net/article/1682...
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🌿 New paper by @camilledelavaux.bsky.social shows how naturalised nitrogen-fixing #plants are more likely and abundant on islands compared to mainlands, especially on remote islands.
October 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🌿 New paper by @camilledelavaux.bsky.social shows how naturalised nitrogen-fixing #plants are more likely and abundant on islands compared to mainlands, especially on remote islands.
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🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
The Crown Princess Victoria Professorship in Biodiversity
Professorship in Biodiversity.
The University of Gothenburg hereby announces a unique and prestigious position – the
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October 3, 2025 at 5:29 AM
🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday!
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling
📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines!
🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...