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Nicolas Mouquet
@nmouquet.bsky.social
Researcher in Ecology, @cnrs.fr, France | Scientific director of the Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity (CESAB) | Human by Nature ! 💚🌈🌍
http://nicolasmouquet.free.fr/
Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions

Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds

Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett

👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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November 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Our Bioscience paper on teddy bears 🐻 (Too cute to be wild, doi.org/10.1093/bios...) was featured in Libération, a French national newspaper! 😊

Plushology is getting some attention, maybe it’s time for a @wikipedia.org page? 🧸💚 😉
November 8, 2025 at 8:25 AM
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Very proud of this paper in BioScience :

« Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature »

🧸 are more than toys, they shape among our first emotional connections to nature. But their design may also distort how we see wildlife !

👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios...

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September 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The science of cuteness: where teddy bears’ beauty, comfort and care converge! 🧸✨

Check out our latest paper in The Journal of Positive Psychology, where we explore how beauty & emotional comfort shape our care motivations 🫶🌈❤️

👉 doi.org/10.1080/1743...

#TeddyBears #PositivePsychology 🧪
July 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Sharing some time with the #CESAB postdocs during our annual 3 days retreat in Montpellier. Amazing people, great science, and, above all, human kindness!

Love you all 🫶

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July 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Check out our new study by Gita Alisa et al., showing that large-scale restoration of coral reefs not only brings back ecological health but recovers aesthetic value to levels of healthy reefs in three years only !

👉 Beauty, biodiversity, and people, all connected 💙

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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July 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Conserving the beauty of the world’s reef fish assemblages 💙

Check out our last paper @pnas.org

We mapped what makes reef fish assemblages beautiful worldwide! 🌍

MPAs boost aesthetic, and developing countries have a chance to align conservation with local benefits

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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June 19, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Our next #CESABINAR will take place on June 19th, 4:00-5:15 pm, Paris time

B. Mérigot and D. Palomares will present the work of the #FISHGLOB group:

👉 Fish biodiversity under global change: a worldwide assessment

zoom : us06web.zoom.us/j/8969028431...
key: 333782

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June 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Remember the Costa Concordia? Its 2012 shipwreck devastated coralligenous reefs

👉 Our new study shows how active restoration helped revive the biodiversity & aesthetic value of these fragile ecosystems

doi.org/10.1111/rec....

Full recovery takes time, but there’s hope 💙 beneath the surface!

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May 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Check out our new publication lead by Lucie Mahaut in @royalsocietypublishing.org

Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change

👉 Trait diversity and redundancy drive stability; human impacts reduce it.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#ReefLifeSurvey 🌐🧪🦑🌍
May 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Why do we fear some animals more than others? 🕷️🐍🐊

Check out our study in @peopleandnature.bsky.social with @karlzlr.bsky.social on danger and fear in shaping human biophobia. Fear isn’t just danger—social & cultural factors matter!

🔗 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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March 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Our next #CESABINAR will take place on March 7th, 2:00-3:15pm, Paris time

A. Jeliazkov, J.N. Beisel and A. Sexton will present the work of the #NAVIDIV group:

👉 Inland navigation infrastructures and biodiversity: impacts and opportunities

zoom : bit.ly/41wCEZ1
key: 599485

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February 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🚀 In 2025, #CESAB will launch a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration

💡 IdeaShare: Develop new concepts, models & methods

📊 DataShare: Assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets

📆 Opening in April

Stay tuned ! 🌈

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February 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Science under threats !

A call to action addressing global threats to academic research. From public mistrust to barriers in collaboration, this paper outlines solutions to safeguard science and advance progress.

👉 G. Piret et al. in @theinnovation.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1016/j.xi...

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January 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our next #CESABINAR will take place on Jan 23rd, 2:00-3:15pm, Paris time

Mehdi Adjeroud and Valeriano Parravicini will present the work of the SCORE-REEF group :

Spatio-temporal variability of coral reefs at the global scale

zoom : bit.ly/40zwwi6
key: 388280

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January 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Want to download spatial shapefiles of protected areas for world countries using the World Database on Protected Areas API (WDPA) ?

👉 Here is the #CESAB worldpa #R pkg : frbcesab.github.io/worldpa/

👉 vignette : frbcesab.github.io/worldpa/arti...

Thx Nico Casajus for sharing this 🧙 !

🧪🌐 🌍🦤#rstat
January 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Want to list all packages used in you R project ?

👉 Here is the #CESAB rdeps #R pkg frbcesab.github.io/rdeps/

🔑 Principles:
1️⃣ Identify all external pkg used in a project (package, compendium, website, etc.)
2️⃣ List them in the DESCRIPTION file

Thx Nico Casajus for sharing this 🧙 !

🧪🌐 #rstat
December 18, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Our fifth online CESABINAR will take place on Thurs Dec 12th, 3pm, Paris time

@soniachaabane.bsky.social and @tdegaridel.bsky.social, from @cerege.bsky.social, will present the work of the #CESAB FORCIS group :

Foraminifera Response to Climatic Stress

zoom : bit.ly/49CsXdW
key: 941365

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December 10, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Fish can simultaneously contribute to nature and people across the world’s tropical reefs

See our ms in One Earth :

👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.on...

🔑 Measuring 29 fish contributions to nature and people, we found that trade-offs aren’t the rule and bright-spots can be in any country

🧪🌐🌍🦤🦑 #addOcean
December 9, 2024 at 8:55 AM
🪱 Putting Earthworm conservation on the map!

Check out the last publication of our #CESAB LANDWORM and IMPACT groups by @sylvaingrd.bsky.social et al.

👉 bit.ly/4ij7sTg

🔑 They are soil keystones & face global threats, demanding broad-scale, multifaceted diversity indicators for conservation.

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December 5, 2024 at 8:38 AM
The socioeconomic and environmental niches of world terrestrial and marine #ProtectedAreas

see our last study in Nat. Commun.

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🔑 We highlight ‘potential’ versus ‘unrealistic’ conservation gains on land and sea to meet global conservation targets.

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December 4, 2024 at 11:42 AM
🐟 #CESAB ONLINE conference 🐟

Fish biodiversity facing global change

📅 Dec 5
⏰ 2 to 6 pm Paris time
🔗 umontpellier-fr.zoom.us/j/95406319308

👉 Topics will cover imputation of missing fish traits, Red list assessments, heat waves, homogenization, fish stocks and fishery management

🧪🌐🌍🦤 #addOcean
December 2, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Updating the #IUCN status of marine fish using AI shows that x5 more species are threatened with extinction than previously thought!

see our study in Plos Biol with @nloiseau.bsky.social

👉 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🔑 This silent extinction affects 12,7% of marine fishes (1337 species) !

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November 29, 2024 at 8:59 AM
I wish my notebooks were as beautiful and insightful as Ricard Solè’s… Here’s how mines look 😂. Thanks for sharing, @ricardsole.bsky.social – truly inspiring! ✨
November 28, 2024 at 8:30 AM