Victor Saito

The #phenology of leaf litter decomposition in #aquatic & #terrestrial compartments of #headwater streams
@asn-amnat.bsky.social:
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We studied how blue-green 🟦🟩 systems are connected by resource flows and how ecosystem processes vary seasonally.
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Restoration of aquatic habitat complex extends the foraging window of terrestrial consumers Cross-ecosystem linkages benefit generalist consumers by providing prey fluxes from donor habitats, but these trophic connections are highly vulnerabl…

Restoration ecology that considers biotic interactions is essential if goals include restoring species. Constructed wetlands complement adjacent streams by supplying emergent aquatic insect subsidies asynchronously, extending the foraging window for terrestrial consumers #foodweb #landscapediversity

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

📣Post-doc opportunity in thermal ecology & species interactions with Arnaud Sentis at INRAE Aix-en-Provence, France.
🌡️Explore how antagonistic interactions shape thermal tolerance in freshwater organisms.
📆 Start: Nov. 2025 | Duration: 2 years
📩 Sept. 8, 2025
Info 👉 www.inrae.fr/en/news/erc-...
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Estudo detecta perda de potencial pesqueiro na bacia do Paraná

"A biodiversidade aquática brasileira está encolhendo - em tamanho e valor."

Texto que traduz muito bem os achados do nosso estudo liderado por Dieison Moi:
www.ufscar.br/noticia?codi...

We are back with the “What do @sibecol ecologist do?” series! 🔎
A recent article by @zzeynepersoy.bsky.social, @chaevangelista.bsky.social, @ignasiarranz.bsky.social et al. presents a global dataset for assessing body size patterns across ecosystems!🏞️

Read it here: sibecol.org/es/review_er...

Don't know where to start? Don't worry!

We have developed an R package to get you started. #BioTIMEr now provides tools to interact with the database and some useful tips and examples.

Our website is also getting an uplift in the upcoming days, so stay tuned!

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

BioTime v2 is out!!🚨 - Explore the largest #database of #biodiversity time-series studies in the world.

Now with more studies🗄️🔍👩‍💻, more species 🌱🦎🦇🐟🌳🐜🐚🪸🐀, more locations 🌐…just more!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Free to download, free to use!
#BioTime #Macroecology #GlobalChange

👇 #BioTIME 🌐🌍 #database #biodiversity #timeseries #opendata

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

Really happy to announce that the updated version of BioTIME is out!!🚨 This is the largest #database of #biodiversity #timeseries - now with 708 studies and >56 thousand species from across the planet!🦊🐀🐦🐊🐟🐙🦋🐞🌲🍀
& over 400 co-authors sharing their data🤩🤩
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our latest study out in PNAS reveals trophic convergence in marine vertebrate communities worldwide. Across oceans, similar environments host functionally analogous trophic structures - regardless of species identity.

👉🏼 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#Biogeography #Biodiversity #PNAS @ccmar.bsky.social

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...

From the front garden to the continent, here's why biodiversity does not increase evenly from small to large The number of species does not increase evenly when going from local ecosystems to continental scales—a phenomenon ecologists have recognized for decades. Now, an international team of scientists, inc...

🌍 Why doesn’t biodiversity increase evenly from garden to continent?
🐸 A new theory explains the 3-phase pattern of species growth with scale — key to predicting loss of biodiversity
700M records, global scope.
Study in Nature Communications.🧪
#Ecology #Biodiversity
phys.org/news/2025-04...

Simple, Universal Rules Predict Trophic Interaction Strengths Two simple, universal rules derived from energetic arguments predict the parameters of predator functional responses that underlie the strengths of trophic interactions. Furthermore, theory developed....

New paper 'Simple, universal rules predict trophic interaction strengths' out in Ecology Letters with Mark Novak and John DeLong: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Human land use and non-native fish species erode ecosystem services by changing community size structure - Nature Ecology & Evolution Human-induced pressure may alter the size structure of animal communities. Here, the authors investigate the impact of land use, non-native species and climatic variables on the body size structure of...

Check out our latest study, in @natureecoevo.bsky.social, where we applied size spectra to show community-level responses to human land-use & invasive fishes. Led by brilliant D. Moi, w/ @vssaito.bsky.social @drdanperkins.bsky.social @gqromero.bsky.social, et al.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New study out! 🌐🧪
Human pressures are boosting invaders, cutting fishery value by over 50%.
A 21-year study led by Dieison Moi shows how invasions reshape ecosystems and threaten vital services.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Ecology #EcosystemServices

Microplastics discovered in caddisfly casings from the 1970s suggest long-term contamination A team of biologists working at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, a research museum in the Netherlands, has found evidence of caddisfly larvae using microplastics to build their casings as far back a...

Microplastics are everywhere.

And have been for some time.

Caddisfly larvae have rocked them since the 70ties.

Microplastics have been in the food chain longer than many of us have been alive.

And we’re still acting like it’s news.

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phys.org/news/2025-04...

We are recruiting a first stage researcher to model connectivity and map corridors between biodiversity-rich forests in Europe.

The selected research will be part of our @upm.es team in the @safenet-eu.bsky.social project (Horizon Europe).

Applications until 25/4.

ℹ️ web.upm.es/hrs4r/es/hrs...

Conceptual figure depicting the analyzed mechanisms for change in community trait composition across the study area. Tree individuals that are alive and have a DBH ≥10 cm are part of the full community assemblage. Across time, there can be changes in the community trait composition due to growth of the surviving tree individuals (survivor assemblage) given their increase in basal area (top right). Other mechanisms for changing community trait composition across time are the recruitment (recruit assemblage) of new individuals (middle right) and the death (fatality assemblage) of individuals in the community (bottom right).

Imagine this: the Amazon and other tropical forests are like nature’s lungs 🌎
But those lungs? They’re wheezing
A new study shows these forests aren’t adapting fast enough to climate change. They're struggling to keep up
It’s not just trees at risk - it’s all of us
🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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...

StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content - Scientific Data Scientific Data - StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content

I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 04 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00038-9Insect biodiversity in tropical forests is poorly understood but is probably facing declines, with serious consequences for ecosystem functions and services. This Review describes the major threats to insect biodiversity, which include the effects of a burgeoning human population and of climate change. The authors further highlight the urgent need for greater efforts to measure and monitor insect biodiversity in the tropics and discuss emerging approaches to facilitate such studies.

New online! Causes and consequences of insect decline in tropical forests

OIKOS @oikosjournal.bsky.social

CALL FOR PAPERS - BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

www.oikosjournal.org/blog/call-pa...

#MarineEcology #FreshwaterEcology #IntegratedAssessments #WFD #MSFD #SynthesisResearch #BigData

Why aren't more researchers publishing in society journals?

Two potential reasons:

1) They're often unfamiliar to early-career researchers,

and/or 2) they need better promotion, a task for all of us.

@eawag.bsky.social 2-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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Highly attractive #independent #postdoc position to to conduct relevant and innovative research in aquatic sciences.

Apply here: apply.refline.ch/673277/1246/...

Complexity and interpretability in global change ecology

New Opinion article by @danimontoya.bsky.social and colleagues: "Complexity and interpretability in global change ecology"

journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

@granjel.bsky.social @huangmj.bsky.social

As much as 35% of the human population lives on river floodplains 🧵🧪

Two studies in the same issue of Science examine macroecological biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships, showing that they fit broader scale sampling processes. Interesting, but with most things in ecology, the deviations are intriguing.
https://bit.ly/4iGN0eQ
https://bit.ly/4iWWUsv

Hypothesized biogeographic scenarios for the colonization of Fiji by Brachylophus, occurrences of fossil iguanids (i.e., Pumilia, Armandisaurus, and Queironius), and distribution of modern iguanids. The world map is set at 34 Ma on a Robinson projection. The paleogeographic map data were assembled using the R package rgplates using the plate model from Müller et al. (52, 53).

And now for some good news: Iguanas rafted more than 8,000 km from North America to Fiji doi.org/10.1073/pnas...