Fabio Mologni
@fabio-mol.bsky.social
Plant invasions, islands, and humans.
BioInvasions lab (University of Vienna)
(he/him/his)
https://fabiomol.github.io
BioInvasions lab (University of Vienna)
(he/him/his)
https://fabiomol.github.io
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🚀 We’re looking for a Juan de la Cierva candidate!
Our #iEcoEvoLab is seeking an early-career researcher to apply with us to the Juan de la Cierva 2025 call. If you work on island plant biogeography and conservation, we’d love to hear from you! 🏝️🌿🌍
Our #iEcoEvoLab is seeking an early-career researcher to apply with us to the Juan de la Cierva 2025 call. If you work on island plant biogeography and conservation, we’d love to hear from you! 🏝️🌿🌍
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🚀 We’re looking for a Juan de la Cierva candidate!
Our #iEcoEvoLab is seeking an early-career researcher to apply with us to the Juan de la Cierva 2025 call. If you work on island plant biogeography and conservation, we’d love to hear from you! 🏝️🌿🌍
Our #iEcoEvoLab is seeking an early-career researcher to apply with us to the Juan de la Cierva 2025 call. If you work on island plant biogeography and conservation, we’d love to hear from you! 🏝️🌿🌍
Pleased that Jason Pither and I had our paper published in NeoBiota’s 100th issue and highlighted in their blog post celebrating this milestone in invasion science! 🎉🎉
After more than fourteen years of advancing research on biological invasions, we have published our 100th issue! 🌎
🔗 blog.pensoft.net/2025/09/29/a...
🔗 blog.pensoft.net/2025/09/29/a...
Advancing invasion science: NeoBiota publishes its 100th issue
The open-access journal NeoBiota has published its milestone 100th issue, celebrating more than fourteen years of advancing research in invasion science.
blog.pensoft.net
November 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Pleased that Jason Pither and I had our paper published in NeoBiota’s 100th issue and highlighted in their blog post celebrating this milestone in invasion science! 🎉🎉
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
The surging price tag of wildfires, in one chart
Wildfires are getting worse — and a lot more expensive for the rest of us.
Umair Irfan for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4635...
Wildfires are getting worse — and a lot more expensive for the rest of us.
Umair Irfan for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4635...
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The surging price tag of wildfires, in one chart
Wildfires are getting worse — and a lot more expensive for the rest of us.
Umair Irfan for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4635...
Wildfires are getting worse — and a lot more expensive for the rest of us.
Umair Irfan for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4635...
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
🏵️ Today's #InvasiveAlienSpecies is Broussonetia papyrifera, the Paper Mulberry.
🌲 This plant is a swift coloniser of disturbed areas, including forests.
🍂 It can form extensive, dense stands through spreading root systems, and its pollen is highly allergenic.
#SpeciesofUnionConcern #IASinEurope
🌲 This plant is a swift coloniser of disturbed areas, including forests.
🍂 It can form extensive, dense stands through spreading root systems, and its pollen is highly allergenic.
#SpeciesofUnionConcern #IASinEurope
August 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🏵️ Today's #InvasiveAlienSpecies is Broussonetia papyrifera, the Paper Mulberry.
🌲 This plant is a swift coloniser of disturbed areas, including forests.
🍂 It can form extensive, dense stands through spreading root systems, and its pollen is highly allergenic.
#SpeciesofUnionConcern #IASinEurope
🌲 This plant is a swift coloniser of disturbed areas, including forests.
🍂 It can form extensive, dense stands through spreading root systems, and its pollen is highly allergenic.
#SpeciesofUnionConcern #IASinEurope
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
The 6th FloraMac International Symposium – FloraMac 2025 will take place in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Island, Azores, between the 22nd and 26th of September 2025. More info: floramac2025.weebly.com
FloraMac 2025
FloraMac is an international symposium that convenes researchers specializing in various disciplines—such as taxonomy, vegetation ecology, biogeography, phylogeography, paleoecology or biodiversity...
floramac2025.weebly.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The 6th FloraMac International Symposium – FloraMac 2025 will take place in Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira Island, Azores, between the 22nd and 26th of September 2025. More info: floramac2025.weebly.com
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social
On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion
Most plant species world-wide depend on one or more mutualisms – beneficial associations with other species. Evidence is emerging that these biotic mutualisms shape plant biogeography (i.e. distribut....
doi.org
August 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social
🚨 New paper out!
Invasion science needs a reproducibility shake-up.
Our assessment reveals major gaps in transparency, power, and access to data/code.
We lay out concrete steps for researchers, journals, and policymakers.
Read more: neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1437...
Invasion science needs a reproducibility shake-up.
Our assessment reveals major gaps in transparency, power, and access to data/code.
We lay out concrete steps for researchers, journals, and policymakers.
Read more: neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1437...
August 7, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🚨 New paper out!
Invasion science needs a reproducibility shake-up.
Our assessment reveals major gaps in transparency, power, and access to data/code.
We lay out concrete steps for researchers, journals, and policymakers.
Read more: neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1437...
Invasion science needs a reproducibility shake-up.
Our assessment reveals major gaps in transparency, power, and access to data/code.
We lay out concrete steps for researchers, journals, and policymakers.
Read more: neobiota.pensoft.net/article/1437...
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
Butterflies- not just beautiful, but essential! 🦋
Sadly, they are declining in many areas of the world...🌍
Protecting pollinators safeguards #biodiversity.
Learn more: @ipbes.net #PollinationAssessment
www.ipbes.net/assessment-r...
Design by Eleanor Lutz🧪
Sadly, they are declining in many areas of the world...🌍
Protecting pollinators safeguards #biodiversity.
Learn more: @ipbes.net #PollinationAssessment
www.ipbes.net/assessment-r...
Design by Eleanor Lutz🧪
June 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Butterflies- not just beautiful, but essential! 🦋
Sadly, they are declining in many areas of the world...🌍
Protecting pollinators safeguards #biodiversity.
Learn more: @ipbes.net #PollinationAssessment
www.ipbes.net/assessment-r...
Design by Eleanor Lutz🧪
Sadly, they are declining in many areas of the world...🌍
Protecting pollinators safeguards #biodiversity.
Learn more: @ipbes.net #PollinationAssessment
www.ipbes.net/assessment-r...
Design by Eleanor Lutz🧪
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
Australia’s smallest state, Tazmania, is marketed as “clean and green”, despite allowing the destruction of remaining rainforests and a whole raft of other environmentally devastating activities.
Why does this sound so familiar?
#Ireland
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why does this sound so familiar?
#Ireland
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Tasmanian leaders struggle with a basic fact: environment laws should protect the environment | Clear Air
Nature in Australia’s smallest state is in poor health, but this has been largely ignored by both major parties in the lead-up to the early state election
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Australia’s smallest state, Tazmania, is marketed as “clean and green”, despite allowing the destruction of remaining rainforests and a whole raft of other environmentally devastating activities.
Why does this sound so familiar?
#Ireland
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why does this sound so familiar?
#Ireland
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“Best 2025 paper to fall asleep to” – NY Times⭐⭐⭐
“I would have accepted it, if only they had a detailed limitations section, an 11-month-long analysis, and the receipt of that Sponge cake I ate in 1997 in Tokyo” – Rev.2⛔
“At least it’s not on my desk anymore” – PhD advisors📚
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
“I would have accepted it, if only they had a detailed limitations section, an 11-month-long analysis, and the receipt of that Sponge cake I ate in 1997 in Tokyo” – Rev.2⛔
“At least it’s not on my desk anymore” – PhD advisors📚
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
Patterns and drivers of range filling of alien mammals in Europe
Biological invasions are major drivers of biodiversity change. Alien mammals are particularly concerning in Europe, where their expansion remains unabated, though the driving factors are still unclea...
doi.org
June 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
“Best 2025 paper to fall asleep to” – NY Times⭐⭐⭐
“I would have accepted it, if only they had a detailed limitations section, an 11-month-long analysis, and the receipt of that Sponge cake I ate in 1997 in Tokyo” – Rev.2⛔
“At least it’s not on my desk anymore” – PhD advisors📚
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
“I would have accepted it, if only they had a detailed limitations section, an 11-month-long analysis, and the receipt of that Sponge cake I ate in 1997 in Tokyo” – Rev.2⛔
“At least it’s not on my desk anymore” – PhD advisors📚
doi.org/10.1002/oik....
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
The Italian government celebrates Biodiversity Day in its own way, with a bill on hunting:
It could be practiced during the months of reproduction and nesting of birds (when it is now prohibited), in state-owned areas (including beaches), with decoy birds, and much more:
www.wwf.it/pandanews/an...
It could be practiced during the months of reproduction and nesting of birds (when it is now prohibited), in state-owned areas (including beaches), with decoy birds, and much more:
www.wwf.it/pandanews/an...
Giornata Mondiale Biodiversità, il Governo la celebra regalando la fauna ai cacciatori | WWF Italia
Il disegno di legge del governo modificherà nel peggiore dei modi tutta la normativa nazionale che regolamenta il prelievo venatorio.
www.wwf.it
May 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The Italian government celebrates Biodiversity Day in its own way, with a bill on hunting:
It could be practiced during the months of reproduction and nesting of birds (when it is now prohibited), in state-owned areas (including beaches), with decoy birds, and much more:
www.wwf.it/pandanews/an...
It could be practiced during the months of reproduction and nesting of birds (when it is now prohibited), in state-owned areas (including beaches), with decoy birds, and much more:
www.wwf.it/pandanews/an...
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
Idea of the day: data sovereignty
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Not a free-for-all’: Indigenous communities want limits on how their data are shared
Push for “data sovereignty” could reshape how scientists share information
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Idea of the day: data sovereignty
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
🌿 May the force of nature be with you 🌿
Let's protect our planet's biodiversity—our true force. 🌍💫🧪
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
Let's protect our planet's biodiversity—our true force. 🌍💫🧪
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
May 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🌿 May the force of nature be with you 🌿
Let's protect our planet's biodiversity—our true force. 🌍💫🧪
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
Let's protect our planet's biodiversity—our true force. 🌍💫🧪
#MayThe4thBeWithYou
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🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸
Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 (1/7) 🌐🧪🌱🌍
Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 (1/7) 🌐🧪🌱🌍
April 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🌸Plant diversity dynamics over space and time in a warming Arctic 🌸
Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 (1/7) 🌐🧪🌱🌍
Our new study @nature.com analysed plant diversity change in >2000 tundra plots over 4 decades. We found that plants changed unevenly, mostly driven by warming and biotic interactions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧵 (1/7) 🌐🧪🌱🌍
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
Globally, #Indigenous & #local knowledge (ILK) is increasingly being included in environmental #decision-making processes. ILK scholars, Huambachano et al. describe their experience in participating in the @ipbes.net #values assessment in terms of challenges and benefits doi.org/10.5751/ES-1...
April 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Globally, #Indigenous & #local knowledge (ILK) is increasingly being included in environmental #decision-making processes. ILK scholars, Huambachano et al. describe their experience in participating in the @ipbes.net #values assessment in terms of challenges and benefits doi.org/10.5751/ES-1...
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
Bigger #cities, bigger #wealth gaps? New research suggests #inequality isn’t just historical or cultural, but inherent to urban growth itself - & that understanding these long-term dynamics could help us chart a course toward a fairer #urban future. nature.com/articles/s44... @nature.com
Parallel scaling of elite wealth in ancient Roman and modern cities with implications for understanding urban inequality - Nature Cities
This study carries out a scaling analysis comparing the elite wealth concentration of ancient Roman cities with modern urban centers. It found that increased wealth concentration corresponds with incr...
nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Bigger #cities, bigger #wealth gaps? New research suggests #inequality isn’t just historical or cultural, but inherent to urban growth itself - & that understanding these long-term dynamics could help us chart a course toward a fairer #urban future. nature.com/articles/s44... @nature.com
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#IPNApaper 'Geographic and Biological Drivers Shape Anthropogenic Extinctions in the Macaronesian Vascular Flora' (@globalchangebio.bsky.social)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Co-authors from IPNA: Raúl Orihuela, Javier Morente, @jairopatinolab.bsky.social, @avalido.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Co-authors from IPNA: Raúl Orihuela, Javier Morente, @jairopatinolab.bsky.social, @avalido.bsky.social
Geographic and Biological Drivers Shape Anthropogenic Extinctions in the Macaronesian Vascular Flora
The anthropogenic extinction patterns and processes of the vascular flora in the model island region of Macaronesia have been investigated in the present study. We compiled all known extinction recor...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#IPNApaper 'Geographic and Biological Drivers Shape Anthropogenic Extinctions in the Macaronesian Vascular Flora' (@globalchangebio.bsky.social)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Co-authors from IPNA: Raúl Orihuela, Javier Morente, @jairopatinolab.bsky.social, @avalido.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Co-authors from IPNA: Raúl Orihuela, Javier Morente, @jairopatinolab.bsky.social, @avalido.bsky.social
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
Climate myths are everywhere.
In this 🧵, we bust 8 of the most common ones. 👇
In this 🧵, we bust 8 of the most common ones. 👇
March 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Climate myths are everywhere.
In this 🧵, we bust 8 of the most common ones. 👇
In this 🧵, we bust 8 of the most common ones. 👇
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
Invasive alien species are a threat to #nature, nature’s contributions to people, and good quality of life.
Read the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report at: www.ipbes.net/ias
🧪🌍
Read the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report at: www.ipbes.net/ias
🧪🌍
November 18, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Invasive alien species are a threat to #nature, nature’s contributions to people, and good quality of life.
Read the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report at: www.ipbes.net/ias
🧪🌍
Read the @ipbes.bsky.social #InvasiveAlienSpecies Report at: www.ipbes.net/ias
🧪🌍
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
Phylogenetic turnover of seed plants 🌱 at a global 🌐 and across phylogenetic scales: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This modelling study integrates comprehensive regional plant inventories, environmental conditions and palaeogeographical reconstructions to assess the relative roles of environmental filtering and di...
www.nature.com
December 1, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Phylogenetic turnover of seed plants 🌱 at a global 🌐 and across phylogenetic scales: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
Our newest research in @nature.com
We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social
We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social
February 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Our newest research in @nature.com
We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social
We built a robot (!) to track plant-fungal trade networks. By following half a million fungal highways & nutrient flows within them, we discovered how plants & fungi build hyper-efficient supply chains
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📹 @sasaspacal.bsky.social
What a hit!!
📢Our new paper on alien vertebrates in the world's mountains is now out @naturecomms.bsky.social. Using data on 700+ spp across ~3,000 mountains we explore their distribution patterns,flows across realms, presence in protected areas, and the factors driving these trends.
🐟🐸🦎🦜🦝⛰️
👉 rdcu.be/ebidu
🐟🐸🦎🦜🦝⛰️
👉 rdcu.be/ebidu
The global distribution patterns of alien vertebrate richness in mountains
Nature Communications - Among contemporary threats to mountain biodiversity, biological invasions have been understudied. This large-scale synthesis on alien vertebrates in global mountains delves...
rdcu.be
February 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
What a hit!!
Reposted by Fabio Mologni
Join us: 100 % Postdoctoral researcher position (2025-2026), 24 months in Palynology, Université de la Réunion. More details: biomoni.github.io/BioMonI/
BioMonI
biomoni.github.io
February 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Join us: 100 % Postdoctoral researcher position (2025-2026), 24 months in Palynology, Université de la Réunion. More details: biomoni.github.io/BioMonI/