10/
If you're into biogeography, macroecology, or the deep-time stories hidden in forest communities, check out the full study:
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
If you're into biogeography, macroecology, or the deep-time stories hidden in forest communities, check out the full study:
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
Biogeography and evolutionary patterns of temperate deciduous forests in the Northern Hemisphere
Temperate deciduous forests of North America, west Eurasia, and east Eurasia share a common origin but were later separated by major geographic barriers. Here, we examine their diverging biodiversity...
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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If you're into biogeography, macroecology, or the deep-time stories hidden in forest communities, check out the full study:
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
If you're into biogeography, macroecology, or the deep-time stories hidden in forest communities, check out the full study:
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
GCERetreat2025: Congrats to our @ekengelhardt.bsky.social on her new project bAImo (Bavarian AI for insect monitoring), funded by bayklif2.0. Cool research at the interface of modelling, macroecology & conservation science coming up! With @maximilianpichler.bsky.social & @cofeuniwue.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
GCERetreat2025: Congrats to our @ekengelhardt.bsky.social on her new project bAImo (Bavarian AI for insect monitoring), funded by bayklif2.0. Cool research at the interface of modelling, macroecology & conservation science coming up! With @maximilianpichler.bsky.social & @cofeuniwue.bsky.social
New paper in Biological Reviews using @gbif.org mediated data:
The macroecology of spines on woody plants
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70051
The macroecology of spines on woody plants
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70051
The macroecology of spines on woody plants
Spines are a major ecological innovation supporting plant defence and diversification. Spine anatomy is diverse, having arisen in multiple plant lineages from many different plant organs and parts, w...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
New paper in Biological Reviews using @gbif.org mediated data:
The macroecology of spines on woody plants
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70051
The macroecology of spines on woody plants
#CiteTheDOI: ❌
https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70051
#macroecology #invasionecology #invasivespecies
@invasionecology.bsky.social @bes-invasiongroup.bsky.social @maitner.bsky.social
@invasionecology.bsky.social @bes-invasiongroup.bsky.social @maitner.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
👀 will be watching the Byrnes lab repo closely. We're migrating the Evolutionary Macroecology lab's website to quarto (w/ babelquarto for multiple languages) and I'm interested in using bibtex too 🧐
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
👀 will be watching the Byrnes lab repo closely. We're migrating the Evolutionary Macroecology lab's website to quarto (w/ babelquarto for multiple languages) and I'm interested in using bibtex too 🧐
10,000 years of partnership — humans and Ovis aries.
From ancient pastures to modern fields, sheep have given us more than warmth: their wool breathes, insulates even when wet, and renews itself with every shear.
#wool #sheep #ovisaries #pasturelife #macroecology #botanynerdwanders
From ancient pastures to modern fields, sheep have given us more than warmth: their wool breathes, insulates even when wet, and renews itself with every shear.
#wool #sheep #ovisaries #pasturelife #macroecology #botanynerdwanders
October 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
10,000 years of partnership — humans and Ovis aries.
From ancient pastures to modern fields, sheep have given us more than warmth: their wool breathes, insulates even when wet, and renews itself with every shear.
#wool #sheep #ovisaries #pasturelife #macroecology #botanynerdwanders
From ancient pastures to modern fields, sheep have given us more than warmth: their wool breathes, insulates even when wet, and renews itself with every shear.
#wool #sheep #ovisaries #pasturelife #macroecology #botanynerdwanders
The story of extinctions and population depletions in the late Quaternary is a complex one. Climate and humans interference in shaping diversity is always convoluted. Here is the story from the Australian lizards' point of view 👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology
October 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The story of extinctions and population depletions in the late Quaternary is a complex one. Climate and humans interference in shaping diversity is always convoluted. Here is the story from the Australian lizards' point of view 👇
www.cell.com/current-biol...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology
I love scaling laws, I love macroecology, I love Campari
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I love scaling laws, I love macroecology, I love Campari
Thanks to the organisers of #LivingData2025 for such a stimulating conference - it’s rare that my marine biodiversity data communities and macroecology/biodiversity modelling communities overlap so much. And special thanks for getting lunch out today just before I had to leave!
October 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Thanks to the organisers of #LivingData2025 for such a stimulating conference - it’s rare that my marine biodiversity data communities and macroecology/biodiversity modelling communities overlap so much. And special thanks for getting lunch out today just before I had to leave!
Heading back to Trieste after a fine week at the University of Maribor visiting the lab of Dr. Maja Rupnik, expertly organized by PhD candidate Urša Miklavčič. Plenty of microbial macroecology, sporulation, and žlikrofi 🇸🇮
October 24, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Heading back to Trieste after a fine week at the University of Maribor visiting the lab of Dr. Maja Rupnik, expertly organized by PhD candidate Urša Miklavčič. Plenty of microbial macroecology, sporulation, and žlikrofi 🇸🇮
Join us for our first #LapworthLecture of the autumn next Mon 27th Oct!
With Dr Daniel Villar on the importance of fieldwork for macroecology and macroevolution.
🕠 17:30
📌 WG12, Aston Webb A-Block, University of Birmingham or Zoom
For more info and Zoom registration: www.birmingham.ac.uk...
With Dr Daniel Villar on the importance of fieldwork for macroecology and macroevolution.
🕠 17:30
📌 WG12, Aston Webb A-Block, University of Birmingham or Zoom
For more info and Zoom registration: www.birmingham.ac.uk...
October 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Join us for our first #LapworthLecture of the autumn next Mon 27th Oct!
With Dr Daniel Villar on the importance of fieldwork for macroecology and macroevolution.
🕠 17:30
📌 WG12, Aston Webb A-Block, University of Birmingham or Zoom
For more info and Zoom registration: www.birmingham.ac.uk...
With Dr Daniel Villar on the importance of fieldwork for macroecology and macroevolution.
🕠 17:30
📌 WG12, Aston Webb A-Block, University of Birmingham or Zoom
For more info and Zoom registration: www.birmingham.ac.uk...
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
#PhD opportunity with amazing supervisors at @westsyduhie.bsky.social and the Botanic Gardens Sydney, focusing on restoration success, genomic diversity and macroecology. Please share widely 🌿
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
#PhD opportunity with amazing supervisors at @westsyduhie.bsky.social and the Botanic Gardens Sydney, focusing on restoration success, genomic diversity and macroecology. Please share widely 🌿
Congratulations with the publication Ignacio! I need to read it asap.
"We call this hypotheses the 'Zarathustran hypothesis', following Nietzsche’s idea that the maintenance of life does not merely follow from conservation..."
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #Macroecology
"We call this hypotheses the 'Zarathustran hypothesis', following Nietzsche’s idea that the maintenance of life does not merely follow from conservation..."
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #Macroecology
Excited to share our new paper where we find that the rise, decline and fall of clades is not explained by the usual suspects (diversity-dependence, ecological opportunities) but rather by species' insidious loss of macroevolutionary fitness: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution
The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...
www.nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Congratulations with the publication Ignacio! I need to read it asap.
"We call this hypotheses the 'Zarathustran hypothesis', following Nietzsche’s idea that the maintenance of life does not merely follow from conservation..."
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #Macroecology
"We call this hypotheses the 'Zarathustran hypothesis', following Nietzsche’s idea that the maintenance of life does not merely follow from conservation..."
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Geology #Macroecology
🎉 Welcome, @axelita.bsky.social!
As a PhD 🧑🎓 @szndohrn.bsky.social & @openuniversity.bsky.social, she studies #evolution in the Anthropocene, using #genetics & #macroecology to design powerful #conservation initiatives that stand the test of time 🔬💪🌱🪸
Incredibly excited to have her on board! ⛵️
As a PhD 🧑🎓 @szndohrn.bsky.social & @openuniversity.bsky.social, she studies #evolution in the Anthropocene, using #genetics & #macroecology to design powerful #conservation initiatives that stand the test of time 🔬💪🌱🪸
Incredibly excited to have her on board! ⛵️
October 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
🎉 Welcome, @axelita.bsky.social!
As a PhD 🧑🎓 @szndohrn.bsky.social & @openuniversity.bsky.social, she studies #evolution in the Anthropocene, using #genetics & #macroecology to design powerful #conservation initiatives that stand the test of time 🔬💪🌱🪸
Incredibly excited to have her on board! ⛵️
As a PhD 🧑🎓 @szndohrn.bsky.social & @openuniversity.bsky.social, she studies #evolution in the Anthropocene, using #genetics & #macroecology to design powerful #conservation initiatives that stand the test of time 🔬💪🌱🪸
Incredibly excited to have her on board! ⛵️
It's crazy to think that while heading toward 9 billion people on Earth, we ere still undescribed (and know nothing about) hundreds to maybe thousand mammalian species
academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...
"projections of ∼7,079 species by 2030 and ∼8,376 by 2050 if these trends continue"
🧪 #Macroecology
academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...
"projections of ∼7,079 species by 2030 and ∼8,376 by 2050 if these trends continue"
🧪 #Macroecology
October 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It's crazy to think that while heading toward 9 billion people on Earth, we ere still undescribed (and know nothing about) hundreds to maybe thousand mammalian species
academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...
"projections of ∼7,079 species by 2030 and ∼8,376 by 2050 if these trends continue"
🧪 #Macroecology
academic.oup.com/jmammal/adva...
"projections of ∼7,079 species by 2030 and ∼8,376 by 2050 if these trends continue"
🧪 #Macroecology
Looking forward to this! I will be helping @josephtobias.bsky.social lead discussions on what preregistration could look like for macroecology - join us on Wednesday 📝🌍
🚨 SORTEE’s conference #SORTEE2025 is fast approaching
This year, we have opted once again for a format that facilitates lively exchanges of ideas & which has led to wonderful outcomes. Some examples: www.sortee.org/past/
There is still time to join us - register at sortee.org/upcoming/
This year, we have opted once again for a format that facilitates lively exchanges of ideas & which has led to wonderful outcomes. Some examples: www.sortee.org/past/
There is still time to join us - register at sortee.org/upcoming/
Past events
Past events by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)
www.sortee.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Looking forward to this! I will be helping @josephtobias.bsky.social lead discussions on what preregistration could look like for macroecology - join us on Wednesday 📝🌍
This macroecology Perspective is taking over my life
October 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This macroecology Perspective is taking over my life
A very interesting and clever study which explores how change is distributed between anagenesis and cladogenesis (gradual vs punctuational change) in the light of brain-body size allometry in modern primates.
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
October 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A very interesting and clever study which explores how change is distributed between anagenesis and cladogenesis (gradual vs punctuational change) in the light of brain-body size allometry in modern primates.
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...
Extinct Pleistocene carnivores were diurnal and had high metabolic rates:
"Only basal metabolic rate and diurnality are robust predictors of extinction, even after accounting for phylogenetic and trait uncertainty"
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology
"Only basal metabolic rate and diurnality are robust predictors of extinction, even after accounting for phylogenetic and trait uncertainty"
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology
October 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Extinct Pleistocene carnivores were diurnal and had high metabolic rates:
"Only basal metabolic rate and diurnality are robust predictors of extinction, even after accounting for phylogenetic and trait uncertainty"
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology
"Only basal metabolic rate and diurnality are robust predictors of extinction, even after accounting for phylogenetic and trait uncertainty"
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Macroecology
Interesting study analyzing paleobiogeographical patterns of the P-Tr extinction and recovery
"ammonoid biogeography was primarily dispersal-constrained during the Griesbachian and Spathian, and niche-constrained during the Smithian"
www.scup.com/doi/full/10....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
"ammonoid biogeography was primarily dispersal-constrained during the Griesbachian and Spathian, and niche-constrained during the Smithian"
www.scup.com/doi/full/10....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
October 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Interesting study analyzing paleobiogeographical patterns of the P-Tr extinction and recovery
"ammonoid biogeography was primarily dispersal-constrained during the Griesbachian and Spathian, and niche-constrained during the Smithian"
www.scup.com/doi/full/10....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
"ammonoid biogeography was primarily dispersal-constrained during the Griesbachian and Spathian, and niche-constrained during the Smithian"
www.scup.com/doi/full/10....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
hi, it's me, Erica. stop hanging out with people who are mad at you and join me in macroecology land.
October 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
hi, it's me, Erica. stop hanging out with people who are mad at you and join me in macroecology land.
very interesting reading about #macroecology patterns emerging...just everywhere :) and what biological mechanisms we can (or rather can not) infer from such patterns
Classic macroecological laws-long held as signatures of biological systems-also emerge in economic and geological systems. The real signal lies not in the static universal patterns, but in how those patterns shift with scale 🌐🧪 #scaling #macroecology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Separating Macroecological Pattern and Process: Comparing Ecological, Economic, and Geological Systems
Theories of biodiversity rest on several macroecological patterns describing the relationship between species abundance and diversity. A central problem is that all theories make similar predictions f...
journals.plos.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
very interesting reading about #macroecology patterns emerging...just everywhere :) and what biological mechanisms we can (or rather can not) infer from such patterns
Classic macroecological laws-long held as signatures of biological systems-also emerge in economic and geological systems. The real signal lies not in the static universal patterns, but in how those patterns shift with scale 🌐🧪 #scaling #macroecology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Separating Macroecological Pattern and Process: Comparing Ecological, Economic, and Geological Systems
Theories of biodiversity rest on several macroecological patterns describing the relationship between species abundance and diversity. A central problem is that all theories make similar predictions f...
journals.plos.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Classic macroecological laws-long held as signatures of biological systems-also emerge in economic and geological systems. The real signal lies not in the static universal patterns, but in how those patterns shift with scale 🌐🧪 #scaling #macroecology journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
One more conceptual layer of the Bretskyan hierarchy: how organisms map on their range and environments or what is the geometry of their movement (as exemplified by dogs and cats).
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
October 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
One more conceptual layer of the Bretskyan hierarchy: how organisms map on their range and environments or what is the geometry of their movement (as exemplified by dogs and cats).
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....