Matheus Moroti

Matheus Moroti

@mmoroti.bsky.social

Post doc at UNICAMP/Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. PhD Ecology and Conservation. My interests are frogs, data science, macroevolution and macroecology.

236 Followers 615 Following 17 Posts Joined Sep 2025
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The relative roles of in situ diversification and lineage dispersal underlying diversity patterns at the assemblage level Speciation, extinction, and dispersal are the historical processes influencing the spatial distribution of lineages and strongly influence diversity patterns. Here, we apply a recently developed meth...

The last paper of my PhD is out! Together with @duarteldas.bsky.social and Gabriel Nakamura, we investigated how in situ diversification and lineage dispersal have shaped assemblage level diversity in the Atlantic Forest.

nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Why do some islands have more biodiversity than others? In our new paper, published in @ecography.bsky.social , we sought to answer this question for amphibians! 🌐🏝️🐸

@provete.bsky.social @agenciafapesp.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

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Just published in Peer Community Journal: A perspective on Global North–South inequalities in science and how language and funding barriers shape who gets to participate in global knowledge production. 🌍📚
👉 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

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Ever wondered what comes first in evolution: changes in climatic niche or changes in morphology? Does climate pull species, or do organisms evolve first and then shift their niches? This is one of macroevolution’s most persistent open questions.

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Check out our latest study on how biological, geographic, and historical factors influence the robustness of mammal species descriptions, published in
@journalsysevo.bsky.social
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@mmoroti.bsky.social @agenciafapesp.bsky.social

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TIBS 2026 conference was a great opportunity to keep disseminating the @peeer.bsky.social initiative and to present the field's New, Diamond 💎 Open Access journal @biogeographyjfab.bsky.social

Grateful to Michael N. Dawson for the leadership and trust to co-lead this new endeavour

#TIBS2026

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It was an honor to participate and present my work at the @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social. Thank you to the organizing committee for an excellent event and for the opportunity to exchange ideas with so many inspiring researchers. Until next time!

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Congratulations, Hadeel!

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It's great to be here for the first time! The international Biogeography Society - 12th Biennial Conference

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Divergent pathways shape climatic niches and body size evolution across terrestrial vertebrates Understanding how phenotypic and niche evolution interact is central to macroevolution, yet their causal direction remains uncertain. We contrasted predictions from Adaptive Landscape Theory, where ph...

In our new preprint, we test ALT vs. NCT using evolutionary rates of climate niche and morphology, multiple phylogenies, and comparative models.
Curious about when phenotype drives niche — or the opposite?
👇 Preprint link
www.authorea.com/users/100245...

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Despite their differences, all major vertebrate groups show signatures of change around the Cretaceous–Paleogene transition, one of Earth’s most dramatic climatic reorganizations.
Understanding niche–trait evolution means understanding how lineages navigated these deep-time shifts.

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What do we find? It depends. Across vertebrates, there’s no universal rule.
Niche–trait coupling varies with dispersal, ecological plasticity, evolutionary history, and environmental change.
So the real question is: which groups, under which conditions, and why?

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Two frameworks offer opposite views: Adaptive Landscape Theory treats species as passive, with phenotypes adjusting to shifts in the environment. Niche Construction Theory sees organisms as active agents, evolving traits that reshape how they interact with and use environments.

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Ever wondered what comes first in evolution: changes in climatic niche or changes in morphology? Does climate pull species, or do organisms evolve first and then shift their niches? This is one of macroevolution’s most persistent open questions.

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» Processo Seletivo Unificado 2026/1

Aberto o processo seletivo para mestrado e doutorado na UFMS

propp.ufms.br/publicacao/o...

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Today, I had the opportunity to present a little about myself and my career at the annual meet of the Biogeography and Climate Change department at @mncn-csic.bsky.social , where I will be doing a postdoctoral fellowship for a year with @jhortal.bsky.social

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