Federico Riva
@riva-ecology.bsky.social
Conservation scientist, assistant professor at VU Amsterdam.
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Several small reserves hold more beetle, spider and bird species than a single large reserve of the same size in Central Europe, with habitat heterogeneity being an important driver. First PhD paper by Anne Huber (not on Bsky), w/ @sebseibold.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
August 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Several small reserves hold more beetle, spider and bird species than a single large reserve of the same size in Central Europe, with habitat heterogeneity being an important driver. First PhD paper by Anne Huber (not on Bsky), w/ @sebseibold.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
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📝 Help shape the future of ecosystem restoration!
The BiodivRestore Knowledge Hub is surveying experts & practitioners to identify key gaps, barriers & solutions. Your input will guide research & action for the decade ahead.
Take the survey: ecologic.limesurvey.net/197389
The BiodivRestore Knowledge Hub is surveying experts & practitioners to identify key gaps, barriers & solutions. Your input will guide research & action for the decade ahead.
Take the survey: ecologic.limesurvey.net/197389
August 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
📝 Help shape the future of ecosystem restoration!
The BiodivRestore Knowledge Hub is surveying experts & practitioners to identify key gaps, barriers & solutions. Your input will guide research & action for the decade ahead.
Take the survey: ecologic.limesurvey.net/197389
The BiodivRestore Knowledge Hub is surveying experts & practitioners to identify key gaps, barriers & solutions. Your input will guide research & action for the decade ahead.
Take the survey: ecologic.limesurvey.net/197389
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How effective are perches in promoting bird-mediated seed dispersal for forest regeneration? New publication brilliantly led by Jelaine! doi.org/10.1186/s137... "We recommend...natural perches be preserved... but in areas lacking these...explore the use of artificial or semi-natural perches"
June 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
How effective are perches in promoting bird-mediated seed dispersal for forest regeneration? New publication brilliantly led by Jelaine! doi.org/10.1186/s137... "We recommend...natural perches be preserved... but in areas lacking these...explore the use of artificial or semi-natural perches"
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One of our postdocs, @elywok.bsky.social from @ua.es, did an excellent job at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social explaining how the skewness–kurtosis relationship can be used to understand biogeographical patterns of body mass across taxa and which drivers explain it.
@biodiversa.eu #SIBECOLAEET2025
@biodiversa.eu #SIBECOLAEET2025
June 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
One of our postdocs, @elywok.bsky.social from @ua.es, did an excellent job at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social explaining how the skewness–kurtosis relationship can be used to understand biogeographical patterns of body mass across taxa and which drivers explain it.
@biodiversa.eu #SIBECOLAEET2025
@biodiversa.eu #SIBECOLAEET2025
Our viewpoint made the cover of BioScience! Beautiful picture from Jean Marie Twambaze academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
June 3, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Our viewpoint made the cover of BioScience! Beautiful picture from Jean Marie Twambaze academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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It's exciting to see our research featured in the Monash University Science Bulletin and being featured on the UN Biodiversity Day.
Here is the full story: www.monash.edu/science/news....
Interested in joining our lab? You can find more about our research here: shawanchowdhury.com.
Here is the full story: www.monash.edu/science/news....
Interested in joining our lab? You can find more about our research here: shawanchowdhury.com.
May 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
It's exciting to see our research featured in the Monash University Science Bulletin and being featured on the UN Biodiversity Day.
Here is the full story: www.monash.edu/science/news....
Interested in joining our lab? You can find more about our research here: shawanchowdhury.com.
Here is the full story: www.monash.edu/science/news....
Interested in joining our lab? You can find more about our research here: shawanchowdhury.com.
Check our new review on niche truncation and how to avoid it with N-SDMs
🆕 New paper: Spatially nested SDMs to overcome niche truncation, by Guisan et al.!
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Spatially nested species distribution models (N‐SDM): An effective tool to overcome niche truncation for more robust inference and projections
N-SDMs are key tools to develop untruncated regional climate change forecasts of species distributions at fine resolution over restricted extents. While several N-SDM approaches were proposed, there ...
doi.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Check our new review on niche truncation and how to avoid it with N-SDMs
We finally had time for a hike this weekend. Maybe too early for Swiss butterflies, but the view was lovely!
May 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We finally had time for a hike this weekend. Maybe too early for Swiss butterflies, but the view was lovely!
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you might think N American species are getting common at their north range limit and rare at their south range limit as temps get warmer
but you would be wrong
new paper in GEB w/ @eliotmiller.bsky.social & Matt Strimas-Mackey, eBird Status & Trends ftw
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
but you would be wrong
new paper in GEB w/ @eliotmiller.bsky.social & Matt Strimas-Mackey, eBird Status & Trends ftw
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
May 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
you might think N American species are getting common at their north range limit and rare at their south range limit as temps get warmer
but you would be wrong
new paper in GEB w/ @eliotmiller.bsky.social & Matt Strimas-Mackey, eBird Status & Trends ftw
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
but you would be wrong
new paper in GEB w/ @eliotmiller.bsky.social & Matt Strimas-Mackey, eBird Status & Trends ftw
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Yesterday I could access the review history for this article ⬇️. Today, the link points somewhere else. @royalsociety.org can you pls fix? I’m curious to learn how this paper was reviewed and the decisions leading to publication.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Bioelectrical synchronization of Picea abies during a solar eclipse | Royal Society Open Science
Regular light–dark cycles greatly affect organisms, and events like eclipses induce
distinctive physiological and behavioural shifts. While well documented in animals,
plant behaviour during eclipses ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
May 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Yesterday I could access the review history for this article ⬇️. Today, the link points somewhere else. @royalsociety.org can you pls fix? I’m curious to learn how this paper was reviewed and the decisions leading to publication.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Enjoy this great short (9 min) film on the work of Constanti Stefanescu, co-ordinator of the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Such schemes are not only important for the butterfly counts, but also as a social network bringing butterflies to the people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...
CHASING BUTTERFLIES
YouTube video by KAVU
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May 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Enjoy this great short (9 min) film on the work of Constanti Stefanescu, co-ordinator of the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Such schemes are not only important for the butterfly counts, but also as a social network bringing butterflies to the people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...
Visited Bologna and met my nephew! I'm glad to welcome little Jack
May 5, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Visited Bologna and met my nephew! I'm glad to welcome little Jack
Exotic Easter snack
April 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Exotic Easter snack
These roof gardens actually sustain unexpected species!
April 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
These roof gardens actually sustain unexpected species!
Had a great time in Wageningen at the international symposium on Future for Butterflies & Moths
April 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Had a great time in Wageningen at the international symposium on Future for Butterflies & Moths
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🆕New paper: "A nature tourism and citizen science alliance" by a current PhD student, Caroline Martin, and colleagues. Check it out at doi.org/10.1093/bios... #openaccess
A nature tourism and citizen science alliance
Biodiversity conservation relies on knowing where species are and thrive. Due to major knowledge gaps in the distribution of biodiversity across the globe,
doi.org
February 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🆕New paper: "A nature tourism and citizen science alliance" by a current PhD student, Caroline Martin, and colleagues. Check it out at doi.org/10.1093/bios... #openaccess
Mythical. And one of the first pointing out that fragmentation, when controlling for habitat area, does not necessarily imply lower species richness www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#BOTD: Happy 83rd birthday, Dan Simberloff (PhD Harvard 1969; ESA Eminent Ecologist, 2006; Ramon Margalef Prize, 2012).
One of the most influential ecologists in modern history, with a research legacy spanning >50 years. Unwavering champion of invasion biology. Superb mentor, colleague & friend.
One of the most influential ecologists in modern history, with a research legacy spanning >50 years. Unwavering champion of invasion biology. Superb mentor, colleague & friend.
April 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Mythical. And one of the first pointing out that fragmentation, when controlling for habitat area, does not necessarily imply lower species richness www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I'm thrilled to share our new review paper with the world.
NEW PAPER from the GLiTRS team! 🎉
We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜
"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa
A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
We review how best to use different types of evidence to better understand global insect declines 🦗🪳🪲🦋🐛🐜
"Integrating multiple evidence streams to understand insect biodiversity change" published in @science.org
🔗 tinyurl.com/mr35bdaa
A summary 🧵 below (1/7)
www.science.org
April 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm thrilled to share our new review paper with the world.