Gerard Martínez-De León

@granjel.bsky.social yes you're right! We are manipulating the degree of connectivity of the metacommunity to see how dispersal could modulate ecological responses to heat extremes

Inoculating fungi and bacteria in our microcosms 🦠 today it's the turn of springtails ✌🏻

Massive week starting our new soil microcosm experiment 🤘🏻 still lots of work to do, but looks pretty cool so far, right? 😉

Such a great time at #OikosFin2025! Amazing program, super nice people and beautiful location 🙌🏻
I even received a very enthuastic award! 🤪

‼️Now published in @esajournals.bsky.social

A 40-year demographic assessment of the decline and recovery of the flagship Catalan Bonelli's eagle population. Also, exciting insights about its interaction with nearby populations! #ornithology #ecology #raptors
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Getting ready for the Oikos conference here in Jyväskylä 👌🏻 found some well-spent time for outdoor activities

Preprint out!! 🌡️🌐

This has been a huge project, and I'm extremely happy to finally share it!

If you are into climate extremes, soil biodiversity, elevational gradients and seasonality, take a look and feel free to reach out 😉

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An illustration of the 11 tips for tabular data.

Eleven quick tips for properly handling tabular data doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Just received a rejected manuscript, but glad that we got very constructive and thorough reviews.
Unfortunately this is not always the case, so kudos to the reviewers for the great work!!

Me during today's bird transect: how many starlings should I count? 😵‍💫

Avui durant SOCC de la falda del Port, a comptar estornells 🤪

@icornitologia.bsky.social

As a present to myself for my 30th birthday, I finally managed to finish the biggest paper I've written so far! So excited to share this, preprint coming soon 😊

Fourth winter season counting birds in my hometown to finish off the year ✌🏻 Here one of the highlights, just spotted the peregrine falcon along with a group of griffon vultures. @elisendaperis.bsky.social

Awesome this will surely come in handy!! 👌🏻

A remark from a referee ~40 yr back prompted this study. I launched it under the (later seen) wrong premise that it would last ~15 yr. But my marked plants lived much longer than anticipated, and it took me 38 yr to complete it. Here are the results. I defeated my plants in the race for survival.

Frozen shoots of Solidago canadensis in our experimental mesocoms 🥶
Any reason why this species is particularly impacted by frost? Any fitness consequences? (more vulnerable to pathogen infection? 🤔)

Designing experiments has to be one of the best tasks ever 👌🏻
Although this one is getting a bit out of hands 😬

What is a species "shadow distribution"?

This infographic helps communicate "shadow distributions" with stakeholders and environmental managers.

We used species distribution models to quantify this conservation concept for Swiss fishes.

🌐🌎 #macroecology

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Group leaders! The uptake of this paper suggests to me that folk aren’t talking enough about experimental design with their students? Has experimental design fallen off the syllabus? Is a sense of experimental design like a sense of humour? Everyone thinks they have a good one but….?

We suggest that warming 🌡️ and drought will likely induce shifts in the foraging habits of Collembola, mainly by increasing their reliance on mycorrhizal fungi as a result of climate-induced declines in their preferred saprotrophic diets 🍄

Some of our recent research, this time focusing on interactions among soil organisms 😉

How will climate change affect the feeding biology of Collembola?

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Here is a starter pack for #ExperimentalEcology ! I am surprised that my list is very short. Let’s grow it 🕸️

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Hi Billur, thanks for making this list! Could you please add me in it? 🙌🏻

Want to learn more about the wonderful world of soil biodiversity? Well then here's the starter pack for you!

If I've accidentally missed anyone off the list then please let me know in the comments.

Also check out @msteinwandter.bsky.social who has been working on one too!

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Hi Frank, thanks a lot for putting this list together! Could you please add me? I work on climate change effects on soil invertebrates and microbes 😉

Thanks for putting this together! Could you add me please? 🙌🏻

A starter pack for people studying how human affect biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at global scale, across terrestrial and marine realms & conservation challenges.

Sounds like Global Ecology !

sure I missed many people, reply to be added, and share to spread !

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Ecological debts induced by heat extremes Heat extremes have become the new norm in the Anthropocene. Their potential to trigger major ecological responses is widely acknowledged, but their unprecedented severity hinders our ability to predic...

Our review paper on heat-induced ecological debts is published in this month's issue of TREE.

It was a real achievement to put this together, I hope you enjoy it, and hopefully this inspires more research on heat extremes and ecological stability! 💪

www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Panorama view onto the old town of Bern and the alps behind it on a sunny day.

The Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social is looking for two tenure-track assistant professors (APTT):

APTT Mathematical or Computational Ecology 👩‍💻

APTT #Conservation #Biology 👨🏾‍🔬

More info: tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

Application deadline: 1 March 2025