Sandra Nogué

Plenary Speakers Announced!
Further details will be shared soon.

- Anna Traveset (IMEDEA)
- Takashi Kamijo (University of Tsukuba)
- Takeo Kuriyama (University of Hyogo)
- Koh Nakamura (Hokkaido University)
- Yuya Watari (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)

Acceleration hotspots of North American birds’ decline are associated with agriculture Human activities might have accelerated declines of population abundance, but this acceleration remains underexplored. Using 1033 North American Breeding Bird Survey routes, we analyze abundance chang...

Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am delighted that our Forum paper on using long-term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning made it to the virtual issue of the Editor's Choices of 2025 @oikosjournal.bsky.social!
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS The island species−area relationship (ISAR) is known to be near-ubiquitous, but its properties across the fullest span of island areas globally and...

The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our latest effort to understand ISARs for plants globally!

Global forest dataset incongruence creates high uncertainties for conservation, climate, and development policy A comparison of 10 global forest datasets showed that technical differences created substantial uncertainty in estimates in forest carbon, forest-poverty relationships, and forest biodiversity habitat...

How much forest is there?
🌳🌲🌎🌍🌏🌐
Scientists agree on only 26% of global mapped forest area @cp-oneearth.bsky.social www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

TIBS 2026 in Aarhus: Connecting Biogeography, Culture, and Colleagues Biogeography forms an important framework within the Temporal Ecology Lab (TEBLab), supporting research into how species distributions, environmental change, and human activities interact across long ...

📣 New TEB Lab blog post! 🚨

🏝️ Sandra Nogué @sandranogue.bsky.social tells us about the recent International Biogeography Society (TIBS) Biennial Conference @biogeography.bsky.social in Aarhus, Denmark ❄️

www.temporalecology.com/post/tibs-20...

@creaf.cat @uab.cat #TIBS

🚀 We’re excited to announce the launch of ForestDrought, the new app from the Catalan Forest Laboratory!
With ForestDrought, you can visualize and download daily estimates of water balance for mainland Spain.
Check it out !
laboratoriforestal.creaf.cat/forestdrough...

wonderful collab lead by @zurelllab.bsky.social on the context dependency of climatic niche conservatism of non-native plants: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #UniversidadMayor #DataObservatory

Congrats for this work!!! 🔝

Plants in the shadows: Bridging the gap in paleoecology and paleoart Paleoart, long considered peripheral to paleoscience, has become a powerful medium for visualizing extinct life and landscapes. Yet its historical tra…

To those that enjoy the boundary areas of your pet scientific discipline, I'd heartily recommend this well-founded, beautifully written vindication of art in the advance of scientific knowledge by Pepe Carrión @pepecarrion.bsky.social et al
Congrats, Pepe!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

'Vermut Temporal' hosted at CREAF This November CREAF celebrated an event called Vermut Temporal, co-organised by TEB Lab member Javier de la Casa. This events aim to gather different researchers from CREAF to present their work, fost...

www.temporalecology.com/post/vermut-... Latest from TEBLab @uab.cat @creaf.cat 😊👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🥼🧪🧬🔬

Developing a macroecology for human‐altered ecosystems Although anthropogenically-induced ecological disruptions are fundamentally important in defining ecosystem properties, they are largely overlooked by macroecological theory. Anthropogenic disruption...

I finally published my last dissertation chapter. In many ways, this was the most complicated one. I am very grateful to the team of scientists who went through the 10+ years of grant writing, data collection, analysis and writing with me. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Are you going to #EGU26 and you'd like to present about past human-fire-landscape interactions?🔥

Check our session below !

⏰ Abstract deadline is on the 15th of January! ⏰

🌍 Ready to take your biogeography journey to the next level? Join us at #TIBS2026 in Aarhus and experience:
✨ World-class invited speakers
🎤 Cutting-edge contributed talks
🔬 Hands-on interactive workshops
📊 TWO vibrant poster sessions
🚶 Unforgettable excursions
#TIBS2026 #Biogeography #AarhusUni

El core team de #PalaeOpen se reunió en la UAB (Barcelona) para definir la gobernanza y planificar un 2026 de ciencia abierta.
Objetivo: integrar la mejor evidencia paleoecológica para entender interacciones organismo-ambiente.
Próximamente: talleres, summer schools y reuniones científicas (1/2)

The First Horizon: How Ancient Genomes Redraw the Story of Australia’s Earliest Peoples New genetic evidence strengthens the case for a much earlier and more complex human arrival in Sahul.

New genomic evidence suggests humans reached Sahul around 60,000 years ago via two distinct routes. The findings highlight early seafaring, deep population roots, and complex migrations shaping Indigenous Australian and Papuan ancestry. #Anthropology #Archaeogenetics #Sahul #HumanOrigins

Wildcat bones found in Co Clare dated to 5,500 years ago The first directly dated wildcat bones found in Ireland have been identified, confirming that the species inhabited the island more than 5,500 years ago.

"This is the first time we can say with certainty that European wildcats lived in prehistoric Ireland"

A stunning discovery and more evidence that there's a lot left to discover about Ireland's ecology!

www.rte.ie/news/munster...

Island-confined reptiles face high extinction risk, but low research interest Reptile species found only on islands are significantly more vulnerable to extinction than their mainland counterparts, yet remain vastly overlooked by researchers, according to a recent study. “Repti...

About 30% of island-restricted reptiles are currently threatened with extinction (vs 12% of mainland reptile species). Yet, just 6.7% of the published research from 1960-2021 is devoted to island species @mongabay.com

@biology.ox.ac.uk @jesusoxford.bsky.social

news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

QRA ADM Brighton 2026 Welcome to Brighton! The Quaternary: Past Human and Environment Dynamics 5th-8th January 2026

The QRA ADM early bird registration ends on the 30th November! Register now at sites.google.com/view/qraadmb...

The Genomic Imprint of Chromosomal Inversions and Demographic History in Island Populations of Deer Mice Abstract. Populations that colonize islands experience novel selective pressures, fluctuations in size, and changes to their connectivity. Owing to their u

Howell et al. used WGS of wild-caught deer mice from two islands and one mainland location in British Columbia to investigate chromosomal inversions and non-equilibrium demographic history of this species.

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf254

#evobio #molbio #peromyscus

Humans have been reshaping Earth’s ecosystems for thousands of years — even most of the planet 11,000+ years ago. Understanding that long history helps us care for the planet today. 🌍
@sandranogue.bsky.social @jpreixach.bsky.social @csic.es @creaf.cat @iec.cat
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Congrats!!!

Seed rain and seed banks cannot supply missing diversity to the aboveground flora in reconstructed prairies Seed-based restoration is a viable method for alleviating the loss of tallgrass prairies by creating new assemblages of prairie flora. Despite using diverse inputs of native seeds, restoration effort...

More evidence dispelling the seed bank myth that falsely leads practioners to believe that it's an insurance policy against distruptive disturbances to old-growth communities--disturbances that often deliberately prescribed. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Interested in a PhD studying the evolutionary ecology of animal behavior in Barcelona?

Final days to apply for this open PhD position in our lab! 👇

For more information about the position:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

How time, climate, and storage shape DNA survival in herbarium specimens - and why plants from the tropics face tougher odds 🌿🧬
#AncientDNA
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

YouTube video by Álvaro Castilla Beltrán El registro paleoecológico de Vega de Arucas: 28,000 años de clima, vegetación e incendios

Lead by Pili Martin Ramos 😊we present a new palaeoecological record in the Canary Islands, which reveals how climate, vegetation, and fire changed on the islands over the last 28,000 years 🌍
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
@fdezpalacioslab.bsky.social @ferpalenrique.bsky.social and more 😊🏝️

Something good I would have done in a previous life when I have a friend like @sandranogue.bsky.social that tells me about a huge event happening in front of my job place I wasn’t aware. Enjoying now the Premi Ramon Margalef ceremony at the @biologiaub.bsky.social awarded to @ymalhi.bsky.social

Are you planning on coming to @biogeography.bsky.social conference in Aarhus in January, 2026? Consider signing up for one of several great workshops being offered.

In our October issue: Review led by Sandra Nogué (@sandranogue.bsky.social) summarizes biological and anthropological evidence that humans have shaped ecosystems for millennia 🧪🌎
go.nature.com/48oix2W
Readcube: rdcu.be/eHgKy

Still time to apply for the open #postdoc position in our team!
Note that the link has been updated: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...