Guillermo de Mendoza

Does tidal marsh restoration lead to the recovery of trophic pathways that support estuarine fishes? Evaluation of tidal marsh restoration success is typically based on the recovery of habitat size and target species. However, food-web structure may provide valuable insight into ecosystem functionin...

Does tidal marsh #restoration "work", if the goal is bringing back key species AND the trophic interactions that support them? A thousand stable isotope samples later, we have answers! 💯 work by PhD student Megan Pagliaro:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta

Why Alaska’s salmon streams are suddenly bleeding orange Warming Arctic permafrost is unlocking toxic metals, turning Alaska’s once-clear rivers into orange, acid-laced streams. The shift, eerily similar to mine pollution but entirely natural, threatens fis...

Thawing permafrost is going to be a problem in more ways than one.
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Ecological pathways connecting riverine drought to community change across space and time Climate change is intensifying droughts via reduced snowpack and accelerated snowmelt in high mountains globally, altering community structure in snow-dependent rivers. To predict impending ecologica...

Curious about how droughts alter mountain stream biodiversity - and why space-for-time substitution is not always a good idea when studying climate change impacts in rivers? Read our latest lab paper, led by Kyle Leathers in Ecological Monographs! @esajournals.bsky.social
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Female proportion has a stronger influence on dispersal than body size in nematodes of mountain lakes Nematodes disperse passively and are amongst the smallest invertebrates on Earth. Free-living nematodes in mountain lakes are highly tolerant of environmental variations and are thus excellent model o...

Females rule!! (gentle reminder) journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Assistant Professor - Physical Climate Science - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Physical Climate Science. Apply and join a great interdisciplinary Department! @natureatcal.bsky.social @agu.org @freshwaterscience.bsky.social
#academicjobs

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05084

An R package for working with generalized additive models Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out!

Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...

Experimental parallel processing ⚡

New assemble() for building plots 🎨

Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪

Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨

👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/

#Rstats

Do ant colonies work like liquid brains? Check this great paper in @pnas.org led by @ceabcsic.bsky.social Pol Fernandez and F.Bartumeus that shows how to explain collective foraging by modelling ants as neural agents @jordipinero.bsky.social @frazambelli.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free. The removal of four dams finally made a descent of the Klamath possible. These Indigenous kayakers became the first to attempt it.

Such an inspiring story, and so symbolic - teens, all descendants of the region’s Indigenous tribes, paddling along a river that has been recently freed by the largest dam removal project in American history!

I'm giving a talk about our work modeling the potential effects of sea otter restoration to the San Francisco Estuary on Thursday in the Restoration Ecology session. Come check it out!

Stream Channels - One of the most unique features of SNARL is the experimental stream channel system. The original channels were established by US Fish and Wildlife researchers in the 1940’s and divided Convict creek into four sections up to 400 meters in length, with individual water-control structures and moveable fish barriers. An array of new experimental stream channels was built in the 1990’s, and consisted of nine identical stream sections, with identical patterns of riffles, pools, and meanders. Each channel is one meter wide and 50 meters long, with natural sediments and cobbles laid over a rigid concrete base. The new channels provide researchers with statistically meaningful replicates for controlled comparative studies. In addition to the experimental channels and divided stream sections, researchers have access to stretches of Convict Creek above and below the reserve, and to small channels flowing through the aquatic laboratory.

Fig. 1. (a) Schematic presentation of the experimental setup with the four treatment combinations and their position within the experimental channels.(b) Underwater view of a riffle during high- and low-flow conditions

Interested in climate change, invasive predators, and cross-ecosystem linkages? Check out our newest paper in @aslo.org's L&O, from a fun experiment we ran three summers ago in California's Sierra Nevada, beautifully led by postdoc @chaevangelista.bsky.social!

I did not find how this is first author only. Maybe I did not look it up well

Postdoctoral Researcher in Spatial Planning for Marine Protected Areas - Postdoctoral Researcher in Spatial Planning for Marine Protected Areas Candidate Profile: Educational and Research Expertise: Candidates should possess a PhD in ecology, marine biology, oceanography,...

New postdoctoral opportunity in my lab www.maraujolab.eu/2025/06/18/p...

So happy to see Dr. Eugènia Martí, great scientist and colleague from Catalonia, be inducted as SFS Fellow. So well deserved - an inspiration for us all! #SFS2025

Miguel B. Araújo elected to the Academia Europaea - We are pleased to announce that Professor Miguel Bastos Araújo has been elected to the Academia Europaea, an […]

With gratitude and a sense of responsibility, I share the news of my election to the Academia Europaea — an honour that reflects the collective work of the many colleagues and collaborators I've had the privilege to learn from.

www.maraujolab.eu/2025/05/13/m...

Bravo, Paco!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙂❤️

La ecología es una ciencia de escalas e interconexiones. En este estudio mostramos cómo la pérdida de especies a escala local está fuertemente asociada a la huella humana a cientos de km del lugar. 👇

Esta imagen muestra una “limpieza” de un arroyo en la Sierra de Guadarrama. Se ha retirado casi toda la vegetación de la ribera…
¿Resultado? Hemos gastado dinero en generar un problema mayor aguas abajo. (1/6)

Postdoc Employee – Quantitative ecology – ESPM: Organisms & The Environment University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

Looking for a quantitative ecology #postdoc? Check out this opening on time-series modeling of estuarine food webs - based in my group @natureatcal.bsky.social, in collaboration w/ State agency scientists. Apply ASAP - review of applications starts Apr 4. More info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04818

#eDNA job alert!!

Check out the latest lab paper on climate & phenological change in estuaries, nicely led by postdoc @robfour.bsky.social! Are food webs at risk of tropic mismatch & disassembly? Read to find out 👇🏼