As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.

Fantastic summary on offsetting - still pervasive in application across many regions of the world and all too easily subject to manipulation www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades - Nature Ecology & Evolution The interplay between speciation and extinction rates shapes clade diversity dynamics. Using a novel phylogenetic model that includes living and fossil lineages, the authors estimate speciation and ex...

Check out this amazing paper by @ignacioq.bsky.social et al. on the rise and fall of clades using a new fossilized birth-death model and inegrating phylogenetic and fossil occurence data.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌿 CSR strategies reflect species' habitat preferences for stress and disturbance, as well as whole-plant traits, offering support for Grime’s hypothesis and highlighting its significance to understanding plant adaptation in the Anthropocene🌲

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Understanding Social-Ecological Island Systems

Island community we need you!
Help us complete two short surveys on island socioecological systems and biodiversity monitoring, shaping island biodiversity research!
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Our new online application EVA-MAP provides interactive maps of vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive and ReSurveyEurope databases. It enables filtering the plots by various criteria. More details can be found in this new article in the IAVS Bulletin:
www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytr...

Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection Highlights the Intersection Between Art and Science The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbari...

#plants #botany #seaweed #oceanography

'The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection. '

today.ucsd.edu/story/ellen-...

Just published in @journal-evo.bsky.social: Different diets, different speciation rates in the most ecologically diverse family of mammals, the amazing Phyllostomidae 🦇

tinyurl.com/5xd3p3mz

Para un pequeño resumen, ve las figuras 👇

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tableau récapitulant les sujets d'inquiétude des doctorant(e)s issus de 107 pays dans le monde

Le suivi de ~4 000 doctorants issus de 107 pays différent montre les sujets d'inquiétudes de ces jeunes scientifiques

Les préoccupations financières viennent en 1er
(les ♂️ plus que les ♀️)
Puis vient la santé mentale & le syndrome de l'imposteur
(les ♀️ plus que les ♂️)

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

Leveraging long‐term data to improve biodiversity monitoring with species distribution models To our knowledge, this is the first empirical study to demonstrate the benefits of long-term dynamic SDMs with spatially matched predictor variables. If predicting the future of biodiversity under la...

Long-term data result in more reliable species distribution models. Perhaps expected, but nice to see it quantified formally! Thanks @nico-anselmetto.bsky.social for leading this effort at the HJ Andrews LTER. @uslter.bsky.social 🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Transformative change to address biodiversity loss is urgent and possible Transformative change for a just and sustainable world often appears overwhelming. This Perspective highlights the key messages from the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment and how everyone can be ...

Transformative change for a just and sustainable world often seems overwhelming. @annelarigauderie.bsky.social and the @ipbes.net Transformative Change Assessment co-chairs highlight the roles we can each have in achieving #transformativechange.

🧪 #biodiversity #sustainability

plos.io/3VGKknN

From South America to Asia, seahorses vanish into trafficking pipeline In June 2025, Ecuadorian police were summoned to the municipal bus terminal in Tulcán, in the northern province of Carchi, to investigate a suspicious package. Someone had reported a strong odor…

In June 2025, Ecuadorian police seized a package containing almost 3,000 seahorses that were likely destined for Colombia.

Most seahorses are caught in industrial and artisanal trawl nets as bycatch, but they are then funneled into a lucrative illegal trade.

Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends - Nature Geoscience An analysis fusing satellite data with a process-based model of plant growth attributes changes in vegetation activity across terrestrial ecosystems to climatic changes.

Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Fig. 3. Estimated mitigation potential from forestation varies with land availability assumptions. (A) Global and regional ecosystem carbon sequestration. BA19 (10), GR17 (8), and Qin24 (24) refer to respective assumptions of land potentially available for forestation. The “committed” assumption considers only national commitments, and “achievable” shows currently achievable land limited by availability defined in Qin24 (see materials and methods section M3). (B) The currently achievable mitigation potential varies among countries and income groups. Country-specific data are available in data S3 (24). Country codes and corresponding income groups can be found in table S6.

The achievable carbon uptake from planting trees is much lower than previous estimates, and even lower than many nations have committed to. New paper by Wang et al. in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌏🌳🌲🌐

Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find

Deforestation kills

Forest clearance has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found.

This is a local effect in addition to global heating.

Article by me.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Come join us at the next Alfred Russel Wallace webinar "Diversity in island plant functional strategies" by Kasey Barton and the Society of Island Biology @islandbiology.bsky.social
Everyone is welcome, please register (free) here: forms.gle/546VrpYBbccb...

Von der Wiese ins Wissen: Das Universitätsherbarium - Forum Wissen Das Universitätsherbarium Göttingen beherbergt archivierte Pflanzen, darunter Typusbelege und historische Sammlungen.

800.000 Pflanzen aus aller Welt sind in unserem #Herbarium archiviert – darunter 15.000 Typusbelege, anhand derer Arten das erste Mal beschrieben wurden. Manche Exemplare sind jahrhundertealt. Eindrucksvoll, oder? Im Blog von @forumwissen.bsky.social steht mehr:

🔥 Mujeres del Fuego Sudamérica | Mulheres do Fogo da América do Sul 🔥

Una red de mujeres unidas por la ecología del fuego y su valor cultural.

Uma rede de mulheres unidas pela ecologia do fogo e seu valor cultural.

💫 Únete/Participe: shre.ink/t8I0

Biological invasions: a global assessment of geographic distributions, long‐term trends, and data gaps Biological invasions are one of the major drivers of biodiversity decline and have been shown to have far-reaching consequences for society and the economy. Preventing the introduction and spread of ....

📣 A global assessment of the status, trends and gaps of #non-native (alien, partly #invasive) #species

A new #publication with 65 authors from all continents (except Antarctica), 42 article pages and >500 references.

doi.org/10.1111/brv....

🌐 #ecology #globalchange

A figure showing that light pollution prolongs avian vocal activity by nearly an hour. (A) Most diurnal bird species show bimodal vocalization patterns with peaks in the morning and evening; in light-polluted landscapes (yellow shading), the first vocalizations occur earlier in the morning and the last vocalizations occur later in the evening. (B) Globally—averaged across species, space, and season—onset of morning vocalization shifted 18 min earlier in the brightest landscapes versus the darkest landscapes. (C) Similarly, evening cessation was delayed by an average of 32 min. In (B) and (C), lines are means and shaded regions are 95% confidence intervals (CI) of model predictions.

Light pollution is causing birds around the world to sing for longer each day, prolonging their vocalizations on average by 50 minutes, according to a new study in Science.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Uz7vzP

Aphrodite Fritillary in Michigan, a rapidly declining species of butterfly in the midwestern United States. CREDIT: Ronda Spink

Some 4.3 million observations of butterflies show that 59 of 136 species have declined in abundance over the past three decades, while no species has increased in abundance. Butterfly declines undoubtedly have large ecological consequences. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Humans have depleted global terrestrial carbon stocks by a quarter Land use has diminished global vegetation and soil carbon stocks, contributing substantially to global warming. Our research provides a consistent and unprecedentedly detailed global estimate of the t...

www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Cocoa boom fuels new wave of deforestation in Cameroon Once threatened by palm oil and loggers, Cameroon’s forests now face a new driver of deforestation: booming cacao production to supply the European market. A new report by the environmental advocacy…

Once threatened by palm oil and loggers, Cameroon’s forests now face a new driver of deforestation: booming cacao production to supply the European market.

A new report by the environmental advocacy group Mighty Earth finds deforestation in Cameroon has accelerated.

Soil carbon as a blind spot in tropical rainforest restoration Keller et al. discuss the potential effects of active restoration on soil organic carbon storage in the topsoil in tropical rainforests.

Into tropical forest restoration? Check out our new review led by @nadike.bsky.social discussing pathways of SOC gain and loss during active restoration | out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social

Let's get more C back into these soils!

www.cell.com/current-biol...

OPINION
Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions

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Climate-driven patterns of global tree longevity - Communications Earth & Environment Trees in harsh environments exhibit higher longevity globally, particularly arid-adaptive gymnosperms whose extended longevity is linked to slow growth rates and high drought resilience, as revealed b...

Slow-growing trees in arid environments live longer 🧪🌱

I finished my 1st draft!!

Pro tip for writers:

A very bad first draft is not a failure—it’s a great start, Congratulations!

You can’t revise a blank page, but you can shape a bad one into something really great

🌟Editing is easier than Creating🌟

Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected - Nature Machine-learning algorithms trained on 25,000 geolocated soil samples are used to create high-resolution global maps of mycorrhizal fungi, revealing that less than 10% of their biodiversity hotspots a...

Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs