Global Ecology 🌐

The science of cuteness: where teddy bears’ beauty, comfort and care converge! 🧸✨

Check out our latest paper in The Journal of Positive Psychology, where we explore how beauty & emotional comfort shape our care motivations 🫶🌈❤️

👉 doi.org/10.1080/1743...

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #28 Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #27, July 15-21, 27 posts!

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Sharing some time with the #CESAB postdocs during our annual 3 days retreat in Montpellier. Amazing people, great science, and, above all, human kindness!

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Denying that we may be experiencing the start of the Sixth Mass Extinction paves the way for it to happen Arguing that we are not currently experiencing a Sixth Mass Extinction, or at least playing down its possibility, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen. Wiens and Saban [1], in a...

the current rate of extinction, as estimated by ourselves and others, whom we cited, and across diverse major taxa, we may well be headed in the direction of a new mass extinction event
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🌐🧪

bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #27 Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #27, July 08-15, 18posts!

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Macrosystems ecology: A new engine and frontier in contemporary ecosystem science ?

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doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #26 Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

🌐 Global Ecology Digest #26, June 30-July 08, 42 posts!

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Check out our new study by Gita Alisa et al., showing that large-scale restoration of coral reefs not only brings back ecological health but recovers aesthetic value to levels of healthy reefs in three years only !

👉 Beauty, biodiversity, and people, all connected 💙

🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #25, June 23-30, 37 posts!

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🌍 Excited to be part of the Global Ecology Starter Pack - a great way to discover and connect with people interested in ecology at large scales! go.bsky.app/F86HYqj

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🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #24, June 16-23, 32 posts!

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⚡ New version of #rgbif has just been released to CRAN!

Version 3.8.2 new features:
🔹occ_download_doi() accepts a GBIF download DOI and returns the download key. occ_download() now supports download via institutionKey.

Learn more:
🔗docs.ropensci.org/rg...

Conserving the beauty of the world’s reef fish assemblages 💙

Check out our last paper @pnas.org

We mapped what makes reef fish assemblages beautiful worldwide! 🌍

MPAs boost aesthetic, and developing countries have a chance to align conservation with local benefits

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #23 Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #23, June 09-16, 38 posts!

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🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #22, June 03-10, 32 posts!

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Our next #CESABINAR will take place on June 19th, 4:00-5:15 pm, Paris time

B. Mérigot and D. Palomares will present the work of the #FISHGLOB group:

👉 Fish biodiversity under global change: a worldwide assessment

zoom : us06web.zoom.us/j/8969028431...
key: 333782

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #21 Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #21, May 26-June 01, 42 posts!

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@nmouquet.bsky.social is curating a growing set of Global Ecology starting packs: go.bsky.app/F86HYqj. DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the Vol_3 (and beyond).

[Call for proposals IDEASHARE & DATASHARE 2025] - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité The FRB-CESAB, in partnership with the HEIRS (hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis), with the support of the PNDB, are launching a call to fund two types of complementary groups: the IdeaShare a...

Still time to apply to the #CESAB IdeaShare & DataShare call to advance BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration

💡 IdeaShare: develop new concepts, models & methods

📊 DataShare: assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets

📆 deadline: september 2025

👉 bit.ly/4loI2oI

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #20 Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

🚀 Global Ecology feed Digest #20, May 19-26, 26 posts!

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Remember the Costa Concordia? Its 2012 shipwreck devastated coralligenous reefs

👉 Our new study shows how active restoration helped revive the biodiversity & aesthetic value of these fragile ecosystems

doi.org/10.1111/rec....

Full recovery takes time, but there’s hope 💙 beneath the surface!

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #19 Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

🚀 Global Ecology feed Digest #19, May 12-19, 32 posts !

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How Natural Solutions Can Help Islands Survive Sea Level Rise Atoll islands with healthy ecosystems are less likely to disappear as oceans rise, research shows. Now, scientists are using nature-based solutions — like restoring coral reefs and native forests — to...

🏝️ Can atolls survive sea level rise?🌏 This piece shows how coral, mangroves & seagrass restoration may protect island nations better than concrete. 🌐 Nature-based solutions are gaining ground — but emissions cuts are still key.🧪
e360.yale.edu/features/ato...
#Climate #Atolls #NatureBasedSolutions

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

Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology Trait-based ecology, a prominent research field identifying traits linked to the distribution and interactions of organisms and their impact on ecosystem functioning, has flourished in the last three...

Trait-based #ecology has flourished, but key limitations still hinder progress. We identify 8 major shortfalls, from trait definitions 📏 to ecosystem scaling 🔄🌐, and propose paths forward for a more robust and integrative trait-based framework.

📄🔗 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
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Limited evidence for range shift–driven extinction in mountain biota Mountain biodiversity reorganizes rapidly as species shift upslope to track temperatures. Pervasive species redistribution poses substantial threats to mountain ecosystems, a phenomenon sometimes desc...

🏔 species redistribution

We found limited evidence, so far, for #mountaintop #extinction, lowland #biotic #attrition & #range-shifts gaps despite climate-driven upslope range shifts 🌡📈

Biotic homogenization on its way along mountain slopes 🗻🏔⛰️

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@science.org

shorturl.at/Fdrlo

Check out our new publication lead by Lucie Mahaut in @royalsocietypublishing.org

Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change

👉 Trait diversity and redundancy drive stability; human impacts reduce it.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#ReefLifeSurvey 🌐🧪🦑🌍

bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #18 Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

🚀 Global Ecology feed Digest #18, May 05-12, 33 posts !

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #17 Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

🚀 Global Ecology feed Digest #18, Apr. 28 - May 05, 31 posts !

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