Excited to share part 2 in our work on scale and the habitat fragmentation debate: We hope that this perspective helps move the field forward in productive ways @MattBetts11 @FortinMJ @nickmhaddad @edamschen @thomasAHsmith @HightowerJn @NSF 1/4 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

One of the clearest discussions that I’ve read of the multiple dimensions of scale and its effect on biodiversity’s response to fragmentation. Thanks @FletcherEcology, @nickmhaddad, @HightowerJn, @edamschen, @FortinMJ, et al. I look forward to citing it! doi.org/10.1111/geb.13…

in the midst of #global_change, turnover in species composition is likely to often be adaptive, a new paper led by @Tigie_t and Mark Vellend discussing the concept of adaptive community dynamics 👇 twitter.com/GlobalChangeBi…

@arildodias_eco I believe so, but I’m not certain. @LM_Navarro is the organizer, so she can say more.

But more to the point. Using this really cool dataset of surveys across villages from the 16th and 19th centuries (and today) can give a much clearer picture of species’ past, present and possible future niches (here for freshwater eels).

Starting the morning of day 2 of talks at the SOURCES workshop in Seville. First up is Duarte Viana former @idiv superstar and current @ebdonana postdoc. Did you know there was a (now extinct) species of zebra in Iberia?! Up until the 16th century. Cool!

Please. Cite. R. Packages. ... and report the version you used! twitter.com/AndrewBarnas/s…

@sMarten_Winter Yes, someone asked this question. But apparently perspective on body sizes doesn’t work in paintings.

Is trohic rewilding the ‘magic bullet’ to make future ecosystems more like the past? Perhaps, says @JCSvenning at the SOURCES workshop in Seville.

@NMoruetaHolme at the SOURCES workshop in Seville doing some cool work revisiting historical vegetation surveys in Greenland and elsewhere across drivers and scales!

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Thomas Changeux and Anne-Sophie Tribot using European art history from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries to describe biodiversity change in freshwater and marine species 🤯. At the SOURCES workshop in Seville.

@NMoruetaHolme at the SOURCES workshop in Seville doing some cool work revisiting historical vegetation surveys in Greenland and elsewhere across drivers and scales!

Ever wonder why the ways dispersal shaping biodiversity are different among metacommunities? With @volker_rudolf, I add a temporal twist to the traditional dispersal-diversity relationship by incorporating priority effects: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… (1/5)

In Seville for the ‘SOURCES’ workshop at the Casa de la Ciencia! Looking forward to a week of historical ecology and biodiversity! Thanks @LM_Navarro, @Chikichanka for the invitation!

For reference, this refers to the paper in @NatureComms here: nature.com/articles/s4146…

Thanks @idiv for the nice write-up of our paper led by @WubingX using data from @bioTIMEdb, @GBIF and many other open access sources showing opposite directional change in occupancy of narrow vs large-ranged species (but less change in protected areas). twitter.com/idiv/status/16…

We're hiring a graduate Research Assistant to study ecological and evolutionary effects of heatwaves on insect communities. 2-year contract with field and lab work split between @OxfordBiology and @jcu Queensland, Australia. Pls share and retweet! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

Last days to apply. Fully funded PhD in metacommunity ecology with me. Exciting, friendly research atmosphere; beautiful, safe city. twitter.com/TadSiqueira/st…

Apply! Come work with me, @e_seabloom & hundreds of awesome @NutNetGlobal & @DragnetGlobal scientists! twitter.com/e_seabloom/sta…

Amazing opportunity here to get involved in some of the coolest ecology going today with superb mentors and a phenomenal team of scientists from across the world! twitter.com/e_seabloom/sta…

Range could impact species’ decline in the current biodiversity crisis. Xu et al. use replicated metacommunity data to identify global patterns in the relationship between species' range size & changes in occupancy through time @WubingX @Jon_Chase03 @idiv nature.com/articles/s4146…

Which species 'win' or 'lose' through time? Using data from 238 metacommunities monitored from 10-90 years, we found smaller-ranged species ⬇️occupancy, while larger-ranged species⬆️ occupancy. But not in (terrestrial) protected areas. Led by @WubingX! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Exciting opportunity to join the @GLiTRS_Data project and @NHM_London as a programmer and database developer working with a great team @drnickisaac @AndyPurvisNHM careers.nhm.ac.uk/templates/CIPH…

@adam_t_clark Yup, that’s it. But after review, Shane’s done a ton more analyses. Stay tuned…

@KathyCottingham @bugEcology @ElenaLitchman @ESAMonographs @ESAEcology Oh, you know what I'm gonna say---sorry JP and Kathy, and I absolutely love ESA journals and think you publish amazing stuff--but if it's got a 'synthesis' component, I'd be delighted to consider it for @Ecology_Letters.

Absolutely freaking cool paper on relationships between range size and changes in occupancy over time (at a more or less global scale). Seems strongly indicative of global homogenisation - i.e. common species becoming more common, rarer species becoming rarer. twitter.com/Jon_Chase03/st…

@adam_t_clark Thanks Adam! Indeed, sounds like homogenization, but actually ‘yes and no’ when you do the math (our next paper, led by Shane does this—it’s on biorxiv). Problem is homogenization is a community-level calculation (the dreaded beta), this one is a species-level analysis (kinda 🤯)

Winners & losers + range size + biodiversity time series Check out our new paper “Regional occupancy increases for widespread species but decreases for narrowly distributed species in metacommunity time series” published in @NatureComms doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

There are 'winners' and there are 'losers' in #biodiversity change. When it comes to occupancy through time, smaller-ranged species are the ones systematically decreasing, but check what's happening in protected areas! 👇 - Latest paper led by @WubingX! twitter.com/Jon_Chase03/st…