Starting the paperwork to hire my ✨first ever postdoc✨ to work with me on any of several quantitative marine ecology / biogeography projects. I'll advertise it widely when it goes up, but if you're interested or know someone who is, it's a good time to reach out! #postdocjobs

Trophic interactions are often deduced from body size, assuming that predators prefer prey smaller than themselves. In this study, Arthropod food webs predicted from body size ratios are improved by incorporating prey defensive properties. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 our mini review article 'Empirical evidence of type III functional responses and why it remains rare' is out now in @FrontEcolEvol Thanks to my fantastic coauthors Björn Rall, Woijciech Uszko & @suiterwaal frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #OpenAccess #ecology

This is a great opportunity to work @idiv, among the world leading #biodiversity research centres & a super friendly & highly international place to work +++ W3 (full) professorship for 'Biodiversity in the Anthropocene +++ Happy to answer questions. Pls spread twitter.com/idiv/status/16…

What are the largest #gaps in #thermal #tolerance studies in #climate #change scenarios? 🔥🐟🐌🦞 #SalvadorHerrandoPérez #DavidVieites & @Araujo_lab discuss it in "Novel physiological data needed for progress in global change ecology" ⬇️⬇️⬇️ doi.org/10.1016/j.baae… @GfoeSoc

iDiv and @UniJena are recruiting a new W3 (full) professorship for 'Biodiversity in the Anthropocene'! The professorship will be one of iDiv's 9 'core' professorships and based at the core centre in Leipzig. Application deadline: 30 April; more info: idiv.de/en/about_idiv/…

📄Published In a community of generalist predators, trophic levels are higher in areas of low prey diversity, suggesting that foragers are driven to intraguild predation when resource niches are limited. @suiterwaal @SoraLKim @DeLongLab1 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

Investigating the role of dispersal syndromes associated with body size, adult flying ability and voltinism, to predict phylogenetic distance decay relationships of aquatic insect assemblages in dendritic stream networks doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14…

Come be our colleague @idiv! We're recruiting a new W3 (full) professorship on 'Biodiversity in the Anthropocene' to be based at the Core iDiv centre in Leipzig (the professorship is @UniJena). idiv.de/en/about_idiv/…

Does habitat connectivity matter for populations? YES! Are there indicators we can use to restore/retain habitat connectivity to protect populations in fragmented habitats? YES! Our paper in #PNAS has a new take👇#OpenAccess

Plant roots fuel tropical soil animal communities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

📑New paper out in our group @EcoNetLab Congrats to PhD candidate @Jylllli for her work on a probabilistic allometric feeding-niche model! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New paper published: a method for comparing the slopes (and intercepts) of distance-decay models. This new statistic accounts for the pairwise dependence that biases standard tests (e.g., t-test, ANCOVA). sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

In 1971 W.D. Hamilton suggested that prey could reduce their risk of predation by moving closer to conspecifics (the selfish herd hypothesis). In our paper now out in @RSocPublishing we found evidence to suggest that Selfish herd effects depend on prey #crypsis. #colsci

we have a postdoc position here in Leipzig, at iDiv + UFZ, to work on integrating ecological and sensor/image data for ecosystem processes and diversity change questions: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/2557… @NutNetGlobal @idiv @UFZ_de

Please RT! Full Professorship (W3) for Zoology / Evolution at ⁦@UniKonstanz⁩ - social behavior of particular interest. DM or email me for further info. Come join our amazing community! nature.com/naturecareers/…

Predicting #extinctions: Ulrich Brose @EcoNetLab recommends a @DanaMorton et al. @Trends_Ecol_Evo thought-provoking review that synthesizes theory and experiments to predict potential coextinctions of vulnerable species. #ecology #biodiversity bit.ly/3dunAF3

Great paper by @Chuliang_Song et al who use coexistence theory & species interaction networks (nodes=species, links=biotic interactions) to show that community persistence can be monitored efficiently w/ only a small subset of interactions. bit.ly/3LJwGKz 🗞️#178-2022

Human disturbances affect the topology of food webs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Matthews et al. find large body mass, flightlessness, marine habitat affinity and higher dispersal ability are among the #traits driving #extinction risk of #island endemic #birds. Threatened endemics represent unique functional space @JBiogeography doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14…

Last day to apply. Weare looking forward to discussing science with you. twitter.com/EcoNetLab/stat…

Please spread the word: We're launching a new postdoc program, and the @BernhardtLab & @McCannlab are searching for a cohort of postdocs to join us at the University of Guelph! Salary $70k + benefits + $5k for travel for 2yrs Apply by November 1 2022: tinyurl.com/5bezhvrm

A general framework for species‐abundance distributions: Linking traits and dispersal to explain commonness and rarity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

We are still happy to receive applications and discuss science on interactions and networks. New postdoc position @idiv and @TreeDi1. PRT twitter.com/EcoNetLab/stat…

How does predator biomass change with prey availability? Our new paper finds consistent predator-prey biomass scaling in freshwater, marine and terrestrial food webs. Read it here: rdcu.be/cUp5R. Or see thread for a summary @UoR_LifeScience @EcoNetLab @BarnesEcoDiv

Meta‐analysis of elevational changes in the intensity of trophic interactions: Similarities and dissimilarities with latitudinal patterns onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

A common temperature dependence of nutritional demands in ectotherms onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

When the going gets tough, the tough get going: Effect of extreme climate on an Antarctic seabird's life history onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Does dispersal correlate with range size? Although the majority of reported dispersal-range size relationships are neutral, our meta-analysis shows that the overall effect of dispersal on range size is actually positive. Thus, the answer is yes! Great work with @RenskeOnstein twitter.com/Ecology_Letter…

New paper in @Ecology_Letters with Mark Wilber and Nina Fefferman. We take a look at what higher-order network approaches can bring to disease ecology: doi.org/10.1111/ele.14…