Andrew Barnes

Harms of introduced large herbivores outweigh benefits to native biodiversity - Nature Communications Using impact assessment frameworks, this study shows that the introduction of large mammalian herbivores outside their native range has predominantly caused negative impacts on native biodiversity globally. The authors advise caution regarding their further intentional introduction for conservation purposes.

Trophic rewilding depends on the assumption that replacing lost megafauna with alternative species can generate similar benefits. This new review by Bescond-Michel et al. challenges that belief. 🌏🌐🧪

@derekhennen.bsky.social can you please add me? Thanks!

Haha OK fine, yes I am actually pretty damn excited to see this list 🤭

A screenshot of a webpage making a call for papers announcement for a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, focussed on soil and litter invertebrates. The page has a banner image photograph of a globular springtail facing towards the camera, with its head down, feeding on fungi on a decaying log.

Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates?

Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social!

More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...

#SoilBiodiversity 🧪

See also the excellent @theconversation.com article by University of Melbourne colleagues, Raphael Trouve, Craig Nitschke & Patrick Baker—decades of data provide evidence of reduced forest carrying capacity as trees are subject to a range of stressors from a warming climate

Quantifying functionally equivalent species and ecological network dissimilarity with optimal transport distances Quantifying the structure and dynamics of species interactions in ecological communities is fundamental to studying ecology and evolution. While there are numerous approaches to analysing ecologic...

Quantifying similarity among ecological network is getting feasible to understand assembly processes from communities to species interactions. Upcoming publication using this for African mammal food webs is under revision now. Stay tuned!

#Ecology #EcologicalNetwork #Macroecology #Biogeography

Both of those things are allready worth the trip! 😆

Would love to visit! Unfortunately we're on a tight schedule with family visits, but will try to work this in next time we're back 😊

Leonore Hafermann getting inspiration for her PhD experiments from the DroughtNet site at Bad Lauchstädt

Nico Eisenhauer talking us on a tour I'd the EcoTron facility at Bad Lauchstädt

Standing under the canopy of the MyDiv experimental forest

It was a short visit, but wonderful to catch up with @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social again and to see some inspirational experimental sites at Bad Lauchstädt!

TECHNICAL ADVANCE
If You're Rare, Should I Care? How Imperfect Detection Changes Relationships Between Biodiversity and Global Change Drivers

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In our new perspective in PNAS we call for a move away from conservation focused on saving individual species to focusing on ecological processes, which underpin ecosystem resilience and the capacity to adapt to environmental change. Led by @josephtobias.bsky.social 🌍🌐🧪

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sources of uncertainty in DNA metabarcoding of whole communities: Implications for its use in biomonitoring 🌎🧪🌐 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌀Turnover vs. Loss — local biodiversity isn't declining as expected. 🔄 Some species disappear, others appear — so does overall richness change? 🧐 In this #InsideBiodiversity episode, @jon-chase03.bsky.social explains why reality is challenging assumptions. 🔗https://insidebiodiversity.podigee.io/

Scientist’s guide to developing explanatory statistical models using causal analysis principles Recent discussions of model selection and multimodel inference highlight a general challenge for researchers: how to convey the explanatory content of a hypothesized model or set of competing models ...

Scientist’s guide to developing explanatory statistical models using causal analysis principles 🌎🌐🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I wouldn't get up at 5am to watch my talk 😆 They do also get recorded and can be found on YouTube. I think you get the link when you register

Interested in #ecological #theory & live on this side of the world (Asia-Pacific)? Tune in to the @pop-bio.bsky.social seminar series! I'm speaking next on #biodiversity change, #food-web energetics and #ecosystem function. Register here: forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL... 🌐🌏🍁🧪 @newzealandecology.bsky.social

This is HUGE!
40% yield drop expected for Europe.
And we are still discussing if a single DNA base change has to be considered as a GMO. And that just because the organic sector is complaining?
Decadence? madness? or both?

Heard of "Darwin's paradox"? It refers to Charles Darwin's observation that coral reefs are wildly productive despite occurring in nutrient-poor tropical oceans. Reefs are, so the story goes, oases in marine deserts 🏝️...

Turns out that 2/3 of these assertions are very wrong...

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Vote for NZ's Fungus of the Year 2025 - Manaaki Whenua Interactives

Like Bird of the Year? LOVE Bug of the Year? Vote for NZ's Fungus of the Year 2025! interactives.landcareresearch.co.nz/foty/

‘Not a free-for-all’: Indigenous communities want limits on how their data are shared Push for “data sovereignty” could reshape how scientists share information

Indigenous researchers and communities are reshaping how Western science thinks about data ownership. #AANHPIHeritageMonth scim.ag/4m5VBJZ

Sounds like you are keen to organise your own special issue on questionable geographic labels? Not sure this would be the appropriate journal target though...

I suppose the editors are thinking more "biogeographic" global South ;-)

NZJZ call for papers: Challenging traditional theory: Unexpected findings from the biodiversity of the Global South This special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology invites submissions focusing on studies developed in the Global South that present results not fitting within current theory.

Call for papers for a NZJZ special issue! Challenging traditional theory: Unexpected findings from the #biodiversity of the Global South.🌐🌏
More info here: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Integrating food webs in species distribution models can improve ecological niche estimation and predictions https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.07546 #Biodiversisty #Modelling #Metanetworks #SDM

Belowground energy fluxes determine tree diversity effects on above- and belowground food webs Worldwide tree diversity loss raises concerns about functional and energetic declines across trophic levels. In this study, we coupled 160 above- and …

Cool study just out linking above and belowground compartments of ecosystems via trophic energy fluxes @currentbiology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

StoichLife conceptual figure.

Global distribution of StoichLife data points.

Just out in scientific data: StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content - 28,049 records from 5,876 species from terrestrial, freshwater, and marine realms.
Led by Angelica Gonzalez and Olivier Dezerald.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@idiv-research.bsky.social #sBIOMAPS

2024 Haldane Prize shortlist: early career research award The Haldane Prize is awarded annually by the British Ecological Society for the best paper in Functional Ecology by an early career author. We are pleased to present the shortlisted papers for the …

So excited to see past masters student Poppy Joaquina Romera's paper is shortlisted for the @funecology.bsky.social early career Haldane Prize! functionalecologists.com/2025/03/24/2.... Read the paper here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Come join us in the Biodiversity, Ecology and Behaviour team at University of Waikato @waikatouniversity.bsky.social! We are advertising a 3-4 year Lecturer position in Animal Behaviour. Especially ideal for anyone specialising in vertebrates! 🌏🌐 www.seek.co.nz/job/83279795...

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet.
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