Sasha Vasconcelos
@sashavasconcelos.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Mountain Research Center (CIMO-IPB) modelling ecosystem service supply in forests under conventional and closer-to-nature management. 🌲🌳🌲🌳
I've mostly worked with impacts of different forms of land use change on arthropod communities. 🦋🦗🪲🕷️
I've mostly worked with impacts of different forms of land use change on arthropod communities. 🦋🦗🪲🕷️
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Really excited to share this paper on the intersecting stressors of land use and weather extremes on predators. Omnivores have wiggle room! Thanks @sashavasconcelos.bsky.social + the rest fo the team for helping me push this one over the finish line. 🪲🦂🐞🌱🚜🧪👩🔬🌐🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Diet breadth and microhabitat mediate predator community resilience to agricultural intensification and extreme weather
Land-use intensification and climate change have strong filtering effects on arthropod communities. Intensification increases landscape homogeneity an…
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November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Really excited to share this paper on the intersecting stressors of land use and weather extremes on predators. Omnivores have wiggle room! Thanks @sashavasconcelos.bsky.social + the rest fo the team for helping me push this one over the finish line. 🪲🦂🐞🌱🚜🧪👩🔬🌐🌍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The 🇵🇹 government just imploded science in Portugal by extinguishing several scientific entities including the FCT (Foundation for science and technology, the main funder in PT). Imagine DFG was extinguished in Germany, the CNRS in France, or the NIH in the USA 🧪
cnnportugal.iol.pt/fct/governo/...
cnnportugal.iol.pt/fct/governo/...
"É uma tragédia" que "caiu que nem uma bomba". Cientistas chocados com extinção da FCT sem aviso prévio
Decisão anunciada esta tarde pelo Governo apanhou de surpresa a comunidade cientifica, que questiona o futuro da ciência em Portugal
cnnportugal.iol.pt
August 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The 🇵🇹 government just imploded science in Portugal by extinguishing several scientific entities including the FCT (Foundation for science and technology, the main funder in PT). Imagine DFG was extinguished in Germany, the CNRS in France, or the NIH in the USA 🧪
cnnportugal.iol.pt/fct/governo/...
cnnportugal.iol.pt/fct/governo/...
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🌍🪲 New research shows that citizen scientists are shaping stag beetle conservation in Portugal!
📖 Full study here: doi.org/10.1007/s105...
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social @cjrego.bsky.social
#StagBeetles #Biodiversity #ConservationScience #CitizenScience
📖 Full study here: doi.org/10.1007/s105...
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social @cjrego.bsky.social
#StagBeetles #Biodiversity #ConservationScience #CitizenScience
January 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
🌍🪲 New research shows that citizen scientists are shaping stag beetle conservation in Portugal!
📖 Full study here: doi.org/10.1007/s105...
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social @cjrego.bsky.social
#StagBeetles #Biodiversity #ConservationScience #CitizenScience
📖 Full study here: doi.org/10.1007/s105...
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social @cjrego.bsky.social
#StagBeetles #Biodiversity #ConservationScience #CitizenScience
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Our Agricultural and Forest Entomology special issue on advances in insect biomonitoring was published today!
🌾🪲🔍🪰🌲
Explore new and upcoming advances in our ability to detect, identify and characterise insects in production systems!
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563...
🌾🪲🔍🪰🌲
Explore new and upcoming advances in our ability to detect, identify and characterise insects in production systems!
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563...
January 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Our Agricultural and Forest Entomology special issue on advances in insect biomonitoring was published today!
🌾🪲🔍🪰🌲
Explore new and upcoming advances in our ability to detect, identify and characterise insects in production systems!
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563...
🌾🪲🔍🪰🌲
Explore new and upcoming advances in our ability to detect, identify and characterise insects in production systems!
resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14619563...
Reposted by Sasha Vasconcelos
⚠️ Hot off the press!
The BASS project in Portugal is studying how tiny changes in sunlight and soil impact plants, insects, and ecosystems. 🐞🌱
👉https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e138341
#Ecology #Biodiversity #Science
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
The BASS project in Portugal is studying how tiny changes in sunlight and soil impact plants, insects, and ecosystems. 🐞🌱
👉https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e138341
#Ecology #Biodiversity #Science
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 2:55 PM
⚠️ Hot off the press!
The BASS project in Portugal is studying how tiny changes in sunlight and soil impact plants, insects, and ecosystems. 🐞🌱
👉https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e138341
#Ecology #Biodiversity #Science
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
The BASS project in Portugal is studying how tiny changes in sunlight and soil impact plants, insects, and ecosystems. 🐞🌱
👉https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e138341
#Ecology #Biodiversity #Science
@cienciasulisboa.bsky.social
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If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
September 19, 2024 at 10:56 AM
If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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I'm a bit late to the blsky party but I thought I would also share it here - our newest paper on ant diversity in a West African forest-savannah mosaic! 🐜
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Functional traits mediate ant community assembly in a West African savannah-forest mosaic (Côte d'Ivoire)
African forest-savannah mosaics are complex landscapes holding mixtures of woody grasslands (savannah) and different forest systems (gallery forests a…
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November 20, 2024 at 9:45 AM
I'm a bit late to the blsky party but I thought I would also share it here - our newest paper on ant diversity in a West African forest-savannah mosaic! 🐜
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...