David Cunillera-Montcusí
@cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social
MSCA fellow at the HUN-REN CER Institute of aquatic ecology with the #MetaHeroes project. Metacommunity ecology, global disturbances, spatial networks & connectivity. More at www.dcm.cat
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Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions
Aim Aquatic landscapes face severe threats from human activities propelling their deterioration. Waterscape degradation represents a main driver of the current diversity crisis, but its large-scale ...
doi.org
📢Amazing August news 📢
Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Amazing output for those #UrbanPond and #Pond lovers! Specially for the rising interest of #GardenPonds! Interesting insight can come out of them for moving towards "bluer" cities 🤞🏽
Take a look at it 👇🏽👇🏽, it is freshly baked!
Take a look at it 👇🏽👇🏽, it is freshly baked!
In our new review in WIREs WATER, we synthesize knowledge on ecosystem (dis)services, multifunctionality, and trade‐offs in urban ponds and highlight garden ponds as a specific subtype that deserves more attention
🏙️🔵🏡
doi.org/10.1002/wat2...
@epcn.bsky.social
🏙️🔵🏡
doi.org/10.1002/wat2...
@epcn.bsky.social
Urban Ponds and the Emerging Role of Garden Ponds: Ecosystem Services and Disservices, Multifunctionality, and Trade‐Offs
Urban ponds and garden ponds—a specific subset of the former, usually located in private gardens—are both typical examples of ponds in the urban landscape. They deliver multiple ecosystem services bu...
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Amazing output for those #UrbanPond and #Pond lovers! Specially for the rising interest of #GardenPonds! Interesting insight can come out of them for moving towards "bluer" cities 🤞🏽
Take a look at it 👇🏽👇🏽, it is freshly baked!
Take a look at it 👇🏽👇🏽, it is freshly baked!
Amazing work by @anna-equisuany.bsky.social who successfully lead her first first-authored work, which started a while ago during my thesis and those beautiful #PleteraDays !
Seems that for coastal ponds restoration, age is not the only relevant thing, even along time ⏳
Take a deeper look at it 👇🏽👇🏽
Seems that for coastal ponds restoration, age is not the only relevant thing, even along time ⏳
Take a deeper look at it 👇🏽👇🏽
Thrilled to share our new article published in Hydrobiologia!🎉
We found that hydrological connectivity, rather than pond age, was the key driver of community assembly in coastal ponds.
Many thanks to the co-authors🙌🏻
📃: doi.org/10.1007/s107...
@iea-udg.bsky.social @greco-udg.bsky.social
We found that hydrological connectivity, rather than pond age, was the key driver of community assembly in coastal ponds.
Many thanks to the co-authors🙌🏻
📃: doi.org/10.1007/s107...
@iea-udg.bsky.social @greco-udg.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Amazing work by @anna-equisuany.bsky.social who successfully lead her first first-authored work, which started a while ago during my thesis and those beautiful #PleteraDays !
Seems that for coastal ponds restoration, age is not the only relevant thing, even along time ⏳
Take a deeper look at it 👇🏽👇🏽
Seems that for coastal ponds restoration, age is not the only relevant thing, even along time ⏳
Take a deeper look at it 👇🏽👇🏽
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📢 #GiroNat is out in @journalofmaps.bsky.social
📃 Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📃 Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas
The Girona urban landscape and Natura 2000 habitats map (1:10.000) was generated with data from photointerpretation and fieldwork. We mapped 118 CORINE habitats and identified 15 Habitats of Commun...
www.tandfonline.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
📢 #GiroNat is out in @journalofmaps.bsky.social
📃 Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📃 Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢Amazing August news 📢
Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions
Aim Aquatic landscapes face severe threats from human activities propelling their deterioration. Waterscape degradation represents a main driver of the current diversity crisis, but its large-scale ...
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
📢Amazing August news 📢
Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
Some weeks ago we published a work leaded by #Dorottya & @csabaiz.bsky.social in #FWB where we looked at the relevance of spatiotemporal connectivity across different intermittent streams 😄
A nice output from our exchanges in #Pécs around #DRYvER project @tdatry.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
A nice output from our exchanges in #Pécs around #DRYvER project @tdatry.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
Connectivity‐Driven Assembly of Trichoptera Metacommunities Across River Networks With Different Drying Patterns
Spatial connectivity varies temporally due to fragmentation caused by drying and may potentially define the diversity and composition of communities. We studied spatiotemporal patterns in three dr...
doi.org
June 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Some weeks ago we published a work leaded by #Dorottya & @csabaiz.bsky.social in #FWB where we looked at the relevance of spatiotemporal connectivity across different intermittent streams 😄
A nice output from our exchanges in #Pécs around #DRYvER project @tdatry.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
A nice output from our exchanges in #Pécs around #DRYvER project @tdatry.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/fwb....
Last week we had the pleasure to welcome @matias-arim.bsky.social #DamianoBaldan and #ZacharyHajian-Forooshani in #Budapest as part of the #MetaHeroes #EndGame workshop! Many nourishing discussions but the best was the burst in energy that it generated!
The #EndGame definitely became a #Beginning
The #EndGame definitely became a #Beginning
June 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Last week we had the pleasure to welcome @matias-arim.bsky.social #DamianoBaldan and #ZacharyHajian-Forooshani in #Budapest as part of the #MetaHeroes #EndGame workshop! Many nourishing discussions but the best was the burst in energy that it generated!
The #EndGame definitely became a #Beginning
The #EndGame definitely became a #Beginning
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Our PhD student, Anna Equisuany, is back in the lab after successfully presenting #SFS2025 results showing that different types of fragmentation impact biodiversity — both taxonomically and functionally.
Yes, fragmentation type does matter!!!
#funMETANET
Yes, fragmentation type does matter!!!
#funMETANET
May 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Our PhD student, Anna Equisuany, is back in the lab after successfully presenting #SFS2025 results showing that different types of fragmentation impact biodiversity — both taxonomically and functionally.
Yes, fragmentation type does matter!!!
#funMETANET
Yes, fragmentation type does matter!!!
#funMETANET
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@jordi-bou.bsky.social is presenting how the metacommunity perspective can be aplied on renaturing urban freshwater ecosystems #GiroNat
June 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
@jordi-bou.bsky.social is presenting how the metacommunity perspective can be aplied on renaturing urban freshwater ecosystems #GiroNat
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Publication #DRYvER out in Global Ecology and Biogeography ! 🌍💧🦟🐚🐌
we show macroinvertebrate communities in drying river networks across Europe shift based on how often—and how long—rivers dry, and how well-connected they are.
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
we show macroinvertebrate communities in drying river networks across Europe shift based on how often—and how long—rivers dry, and how well-connected they are.
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
May 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Publication #DRYvER out in Global Ecology and Biogeography ! 🌍💧🦟🐚🐌
we show macroinvertebrate communities in drying river networks across Europe shift based on how often—and how long—rivers dry, and how well-connected they are.
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
we show macroinvertebrate communities in drying river networks across Europe shift based on how often—and how long—rivers dry, and how well-connected they are.
doi.org/10.1111/geb....
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📢 GLOSSAQUA is out in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social. Big collaboration w/40+ coauthors led by myself, @chaevangelista.bsky.social & @ignasiarranz.bsky.social. It compiles global size spectra parameters from aquatic ecosystems globally👉: doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #datapaper #aquaticecology 🌍🧪🧵(1/4)
March 24, 2025 at 4:24 PM
📢 GLOSSAQUA is out in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social. Big collaboration w/40+ coauthors led by myself, @chaevangelista.bsky.social & @ignasiarranz.bsky.social. It compiles global size spectra parameters from aquatic ecosystems globally👉: doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #datapaper #aquaticecology 🌍🧪🧵(1/4)
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Just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social
Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community & genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance
Rapid adaptation & species sorting combine to alter diversity
Read more👇📄https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225000673
Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community & genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance
Rapid adaptation & species sorting combine to alter diversity
Read more👇📄https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225000673
March 18, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social
Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community & genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance
Rapid adaptation & species sorting combine to alter diversity
Read more👇📄https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225000673
Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community & genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance
Rapid adaptation & species sorting combine to alter diversity
Read more👇📄https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225000673
Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí
We are excited to invite you to our Final DRYvER #Webinar, 20 March, 14 CET
-Agenda below:
-Pre-registration required: scan the QR code or use this link: tinyurl.com/5s43cfu9
Don't miss out the opportunity to find out more on how #ClimateChange is altering the eco-hydrology of #DryingRiverNetworks.
-Agenda below:
-Pre-registration required: scan the QR code or use this link: tinyurl.com/5s43cfu9
Don't miss out the opportunity to find out more on how #ClimateChange is altering the eco-hydrology of #DryingRiverNetworks.
February 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We are excited to invite you to our Final DRYvER #Webinar, 20 March, 14 CET
-Agenda below:
-Pre-registration required: scan the QR code or use this link: tinyurl.com/5s43cfu9
Don't miss out the opportunity to find out more on how #ClimateChange is altering the eco-hydrology of #DryingRiverNetworks.
-Agenda below:
-Pre-registration required: scan the QR code or use this link: tinyurl.com/5s43cfu9
Don't miss out the opportunity to find out more on how #ClimateChange is altering the eco-hydrology of #DryingRiverNetworks.
Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí
Natural river drying is reducing the local biodiversity of aquatic communities and promoting the regional biodiversity by generating multiple successional stage across river networks.
Excellent work by Daniel Escobar-Camacho et al.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Excellent work by Daniel Escobar-Camacho et al.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
River Drying Causes Local Losses and Regional Gains in Aquatic Invertebrate Metacommunity Diversity: A Cross‐Continental Comparison
Drying rivers could be becoming more common with climate change, affecting the diversity of living in these ecosystems. This study compared how aquatic invertebrates respond to drying in river networ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Natural river drying is reducing the local biodiversity of aquatic communities and promoting the regional biodiversity by generating multiple successional stage across river networks.
Excellent work by Daniel Escobar-Camacho et al.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Excellent work by Daniel Escobar-Camacho et al.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
flowingdata.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí
Why aren't more researchers publishing in society journals?
Two potential reasons:
1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers,
and 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.
Two potential reasons:
1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers,
and 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.
January 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Why aren't more researchers publishing in society journals?
Two potential reasons:
1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers,
and 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.
Two potential reasons:
1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers,
and 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.
Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨
In this @globalchangebio.bsky.social study we used 1327 time series of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities across Europe to investigate whether dispersal capacity changes with the ecological quality of rivers. @sgn.one
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
In this @globalchangebio.bsky.social study we used 1327 time series of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities across Europe to investigate whether dispersal capacity changes with the ecological quality of rivers. @sgn.one
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Recovery and Degradation Drive Changes in the Dispersal Capacity of Stream Macroinvertebrate Communities
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨
In this @globalchangebio.bsky.social study we used 1327 time series of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities across Europe to investigate whether dispersal capacity changes with the ecological quality of rivers. @sgn.one
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
In this @globalchangebio.bsky.social study we used 1327 time series of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities across Europe to investigate whether dispersal capacity changes with the ecological quality of rivers. @sgn.one
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí
📢 "We must take this news seriously."
The IUCN co-authored Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment brought experts together from across the world of freshwater conservation, including many regular SHOAL collaborators!
Keep scrolling to hear what they had to say about this watershed report 👇
The IUCN co-authored Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment brought experts together from across the world of freshwater conservation, including many regular SHOAL collaborators!
Keep scrolling to hear what they had to say about this watershed report 👇
January 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
📢 "We must take this news seriously."
The IUCN co-authored Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment brought experts together from across the world of freshwater conservation, including many regular SHOAL collaborators!
Keep scrolling to hear what they had to say about this watershed report 👇
The IUCN co-authored Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment brought experts together from across the world of freshwater conservation, including many regular SHOAL collaborators!
Keep scrolling to hear what they had to say about this watershed report 👇
Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí
Loss of connectivity in pond networks can have a significant impact on microbial #biodiversity. A recent study shows that fragmentation disrupts vital #ecosystems, threatening microbial communities and their interdependent relationships. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #HabitatFragmentation
Connectivity loss in pond networks threatens microbial diversity • MUSER PRESS
Even the smallest ecosystems, like ponds, are feeling the pressures of global biodiversity loss, with human-driven fragmentation posing a significant threat ...
www.muser.press
December 19, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Loss of connectivity in pond networks can have a significant impact on microbial #biodiversity. A recent study shows that fragmentation disrupts vital #ecosystems, threatening microbial communities and their interdependent relationships. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #HabitatFragmentation
Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí
With @schneiderbea.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social and others, we showed how connectivity loss affects metacommunities with results from a 4-month long mesocosm experiment just published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social !
shorturl.at/9o9ak
shorturl.at/9o9ak
December 15, 2024 at 3:46 PM
With @schneiderbea.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social and others, we showed how connectivity loss affects metacommunities with results from a 4-month long mesocosm experiment just published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social !
shorturl.at/9o9ak
shorturl.at/9o9ak
To start, let me introduce the #MetaHeroes WP1 and our preliminary results from last spring experiment!
There, we aimed to understand the interaction between network position and freshwater salinization using mesocosms #Hungary #ApajBombCraters
youtu.be/rasZbMvhJoE?...
There, we aimed to understand the interaction between network position and freshwater salinization using mesocosms #Hungary #ApajBombCraters
youtu.be/rasZbMvhJoE?...
December 3, 2024 at 10:59 AM
To start, let me introduce the #MetaHeroes WP1 and our preliminary results from last spring experiment!
There, we aimed to understand the interaction between network position and freshwater salinization using mesocosms #Hungary #ApajBombCraters
youtu.be/rasZbMvhJoE?...
There, we aimed to understand the interaction between network position and freshwater salinization using mesocosms #Hungary #ApajBombCraters
youtu.be/rasZbMvhJoE?...
I think it is time to officially say that I am sticking with 🦋! I have been able to find 1000 times more interesting things in 1 week than in the last months in X... Where I was spammed with Asda about "How to become a muscled tiger in 1 week" (don't ask me why)... 😅
December 3, 2024 at 10:46 AM
I think it is time to officially say that I am sticking with 🦋! I have been able to find 1000 times more interesting things in 1 week than in the last months in X... Where I was spammed with Asda about "How to become a muscled tiger in 1 week" (don't ask me why)... 😅
Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí
DATA CALL - DEADLINE APPROACHING
We want to add new sites to our European longtime series database of freshwater biodiversity
(see doi.org/10.1038/s415...)
To contribute check the link with all the details of the data call
www.senckenberg.de/en/call-for-...
Thank you very much!
#freshwaterecology
We want to add new sites to our European longtime series database of freshwater biodiversity
(see doi.org/10.1038/s415...)
To contribute check the link with all the details of the data call
www.senckenberg.de/en/call-for-...
Thank you very much!
#freshwaterecology
November 28, 2024 at 2:40 PM
DATA CALL - DEADLINE APPROACHING
We want to add new sites to our European longtime series database of freshwater biodiversity
(see doi.org/10.1038/s415...)
To contribute check the link with all the details of the data call
www.senckenberg.de/en/call-for-...
Thank you very much!
#freshwaterecology
We want to add new sites to our European longtime series database of freshwater biodiversity
(see doi.org/10.1038/s415...)
To contribute check the link with all the details of the data call
www.senckenberg.de/en/call-for-...
Thank you very much!
#freshwaterecology
Reposted by David Cunillera-Montcusí
Hi folks! Here's a very idiosyncratic beginning of a list of people thinking with rivers, from poets to hydrologists. Far from complete, happy to add more!
go.bsky.app/EUNFWKB
go.bsky.app/EUNFWKB
November 21, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Hi folks! Here's a very idiosyncratic beginning of a list of people thinking with rivers, from poets to hydrologists. Far from complete, happy to add more!
go.bsky.app/EUNFWKB
go.bsky.app/EUNFWKB
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It seems we have a great Bluesky momentum, so many interesting feeds and starter packs! But I feel that perhaps something is still missing... 💦🐸🦆🦠🌱🐟🐢🔵
Any pond ecologists, EPCN members out there?
You can join the starter pack by letting me know in a reply to this message!
go.bsky.app/4xGTu74
Any pond ecologists, EPCN members out there?
You can join the starter pack by letting me know in a reply to this message!
go.bsky.app/4xGTu74
November 19, 2024 at 9:41 PM
It seems we have a great Bluesky momentum, so many interesting feeds and starter packs! But I feel that perhaps something is still missing... 💦🐸🦆🦠🌱🐟🐢🔵
Any pond ecologists, EPCN members out there?
You can join the starter pack by letting me know in a reply to this message!
go.bsky.app/4xGTu74
Any pond ecologists, EPCN members out there?
You can join the starter pack by letting me know in a reply to this message!
go.bsky.app/4xGTu74