David Cunillera-Montcusí

Amazing output for those #UrbanPond and #Pond lovers! Specially for the rising interest of #GardenPonds! Interesting insight can come out of them for moving towards "bluer" cities 🤞🏽

Take a look at it 👇🏽👇🏽, it is freshly baked!

Amazing work by @anna-equisuany.bsky.social who successfully lead her first first-authored work, which started a while ago during my thesis and those beautiful #PleteraDays !

Seems that for coastal ponds restoration, age is not the only relevant thing, even along time ⏳

Take a deeper look at it 👇🏽👇🏽

Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas The Girona urban landscape and Natura 2000 habitats map (1:10.000) was generated with data from photointerpretation and fieldwork. We mapped 118 CORINE habitats and identified 15 Habitats of Commun...

📢 #GiroNat is out in @journalofmaps.bsky.social
📃 Habitats of Girona (Catalonia): urban landscape and Natura 2000 areas
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@epcn.bsky.social @uvic-ucc.cat @greco-udg.bsky.social #H2020 #Pomderful #MSCA #MetaHeroes

With this work we finished a journey with @matias-arim.bsky.social #AnaBorthagaray and #JordiBou that is just the beginning of many new adventures! 🤟🏽 Hoping to consolidating things soon to properly explore these exciting avenues! 🤞🏽🙌🏽

Degrading Waterscapes and Decaying Diversities: Assessing Habitat Loss and Fragmentation Consequences on Simulated Diversity Patterns Across European Freshwater Ecoregions Aim Aquatic landscapes face severe threats from human activities propelling their deterioration. Waterscape degradation represents a main driver of the current diversity crisis, but its large-scale ...

📢Amazing August news 📢
Our final work within the #Ponderful project was published in #GlobalEcology&Biogeography journal. We explore the link between waterscape degradation and diversity decay trends using satellite images and metacommunity stimulations! 👇🏽
doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Connectivity‐Driven Assembly of Trichoptera Metacommunities Across River Networks With Different Drying Patterns Spatial connectivity varies temporally due to fragmentation caused by drying and may potentially define the diversity and composition of communities. We studied spatiotemporal patterns in three dr...

Some weeks ago we published a work leaded by #Dorottya & @csabaiz.bsky.social in #FWB where we looked at the relevance of spatiotemporal connectivity across different intermittent streams 😄

A nice output from our exchanges in #Pécs around #DRYvER project @tdatry.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/fwb....

Together with our guests, all the #MetaHeroes team worked around an amazing dataset on long-term #Fragmentation and the associated #Decay in aquatic diversity! #MSCAProject #HUN-REN #ÖK-VÖI @bartabarbara.bsky.social @schneiderbea.bsky.social
@zsofiahorvath.bsky.social

Last week we had the pleasure to welcome @matias-arim.bsky.social #DamianoBaldan and #ZacharyHajian-Forooshani in #Budapest as part of the #MetaHeroes #EndGame workshop! Many nourishing discussions but the best was the burst in energy that it generated!
The #EndGame definitely became a #Beginning

Our PhD student, Anna Equisuany, is back in the lab after successfully presenting #SFS2025 results showing that different types of fragmentation impact biodiversity — both taxonomically and functionally.

Yes, fragmentation type does matter!!!
#funMETANET

@jordi-bou.bsky.social is presenting how the metacommunity perspective can be aplied on renaturing urban freshwater ecosystems #GiroNat

Publication #DRYvER out in Global Ecology and Biogeography ! 🌍💧🦟🐚🐌
we show macroinvertebrate communities in drying river networks across Europe shift based on how often—and how long—rivers dry, and how well-connected they are.

doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Locations of aquatic studies included in the dataset (n = 135 studies) classified within eight biogeographic realms. The sizes of the circles are proportional to the number of studies per country in each biogeographic realm.

📢 GLOSSAQUA is out in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social. Big collaboration w/40+ coauthors led by myself, @chaevangelista.bsky.social & @ignasiarranz.bsky.social. It compiles global size spectra parameters from aquatic ecosystems globally👉: doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #datapaper #aquaticecology 🌍🧪🧵(1/4)

An aerial shot of the Large Experimental Array of Ponds that was used to do the experiment described in this paper. We see 72 tanks of 1000 litres distributed in an experimental array. LEAP is located at McGill's Gault Reserve, Quebec.

Just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social
Pre-exposure to stress reduces loss of community & genetic diversity following severe environmental disturbance

Rapid adaptation & species sorting combine to alter diversity

Read more👇📄https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982225000673

We are excited to invite you to our Final DRYvER #Webinar, 20 March, 14 CET
-Agenda below:
-Pre-registration required: scan the QR code or use this link: tinyurl.com/5s43cfu9

Don't miss out the opportunity to find out more on how #ClimateChange is altering the eco-hydrology of #DryingRiverNetworks.

River Drying Causes Local Losses and Regional Gains in Aquatic Invertebrate Metacommunity Diversity: A Cross‐Continental Comparison Drying rivers could be becoming more common with climate change, affecting the diversity of living in these ecosystems. This study compared how aquatic invertebrates respond to drying in river networ...

Natural river drying is reducing the local biodiversity of aquatic communities and promoting the regional biodiversity by generating multiple successional stage across river networks.

Excellent work by Daniel Escobar-Camacho et al.

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

Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Why aren't more researchers publishing in society journals?

Two potential reasons:

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

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

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨

In this @globalchangebio.bsky.social study we used 1327 time series of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities across Europe to investigate whether dispersal capacity changes with the ecological quality of rivers. @sgn.one

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

📢 "We must take this news seriously."

The IUCN co-authored Global Freshwater Fauna Assessment brought experts together from across the world of freshwater conservation, including many regular SHOAL collaborators!

Keep scrolling to hear what they had to say about this watershed report 👇

Connectivity loss in pond networks threatens microbial diversity • MUSER PRESS Even the smallest ecosystems, like ponds, are feeling the pressures of global biodiversity loss, with human-driven fragmentation posing a significant threat ...

Loss of connectivity in pond networks can have a significant impact on microbial #biodiversity. A recent study shows that fragmentation disrupts vital #ecosystems, threatening microbial communities and their interdependent relationships. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #HabitatFragmentation

With @schneiderbea.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social and others, we showed how connectivity loss affects metacommunities with results from a 4-month long mesocosm experiment just published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social !

shorturl.at/9o9ak

By "we" I mean all the assembled "Meta heroes" ! @zsofiahorvath.bsky.social @bartabarbara.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social among others! ✌🏽😊

To start, let me introduce the #MetaHeroes WP1 and our preliminary results from last spring experiment!

There, we aimed to understand the interaction between network position and freshwater salinization using mesocosms #Hungary #ApajBombCraters

youtu.be/rasZbMvhJoE?...

I think it is time to officially say that I am sticking with 🦋! I have been able to find 1000 times more interesting things in 1 week than in the last months in X... Where I was spammed with Asda about "How to become a muscled tiger in 1 week" (don't ask me why)... 😅

Map of Europe showing the sampling sites (and the geographical gaps) present in our database. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176229

Map of Europe showing the sampling sites (and the geographical gaps) present in our database. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06400-1

Map of Europe showing the sampling sites (and the geographical gaps) present in our database. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03445-3

DATA CALL - DEADLINE APPROACHING

We want to add new sites to our European longtime series database of freshwater biodiversity
(see doi.org/10.1038/s415...)

To contribute check the link with all the details of the data call
www.senckenberg.de/en/call-for-...

Thank you very much!
#freshwaterecology

Amazing initiative for MC research! I just signed in and already loving this #StartinkPack idea! Could I be added please?

Hi folks! Here's a very idiosyncratic beginning of a list of people thinking with rivers, from poets to hydrologists. Far from complete, happy to add more!
go.bsky.app/EUNFWKB

It seems we have a great Bluesky momentum, so many interesting feeds and starter packs! But I feel that perhaps something is still missing... 💦🐸🦆🦠🌱🐟🐢🔵
Any pond ecologists, EPCN members out there?
You can join the starter pack by letting me know in a reply to this message!
go.bsky.app/4xGTu74