Pol Capdevila

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Our new paper is out today in @commsbio.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com 🚨

🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-08524-8

We studied how two Mediterranean bryozoan species respond to ocean acidification & warming using a natural underwater CO₂ vent as a climate change lab. 🌊🧫
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MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes Motivation Body size is a fundamental trait influencing an organism's life history, ecology, physiology and evolutionary dynamics. While extensive body-size databases exist for terrestrial vertebrat...

For many marine species, all we have is a name. Now, thanks to a huge effort led by @drcraigmc.bsky.social, for 85,000 species we have body size as well. Version 1 of the MOBS database is published today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Enjoy! 🌐🧪

Check out our new publication lead by Lucie Mahaut in @royalsocietypublishing.org

Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change

👉 Trait diversity and redundancy drive stability; human impacts reduce it.

🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

#ReefLifeSurvey 🌐🧪🦑🌍

Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies Neural circuits have evolved to produce cognitive processes that facilitate a species variable behavioural repertoire. Underlying this variation are evolutionary forces, such as selection, that operat...

Really happy to share our new preprint on the central complex of Heliconiini butterflies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... Check it out!
@neuroethology.org @brainevolutionnews.bsky.social @prelights.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social #brainevolution #heliconius #centralcomplex

Novel Regimes of Extreme Climatic Events Trigger Negative Population Rates in a Common Insect

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@creaf.cat @expecocons.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social @unibarcelonathe.bsky.social @uab.cat

Seguimos con
@cristinalinares.bsky.social, catedrática de la
@biologiaub.bsky.social @ub.edu, quien nos habla sobre el "state of the art" del coralígeno, su distribución, diversidad, servicios ecosistémicos y principales amenazas. #Projecto_CorFun @icmcsic.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social

🪸New paper in Coral Reefs highlights that heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival — regardless of heat stress conditions.

With the participation of @cristinalinares.bsky.social (@ub.edu), member of #MedRecoverTeam.
📄 link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
@irbio-ub.bsky.social

New paper in Coral Reefs Journal: Heterotrophy in parental coral colonies enhances larval survival independently of heat stress @medrecover.bsky.social @irbio-ub.bsky.social
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Very proud of #MariaVives paper published today in @globalchangebio.bsky.social about the impacts of novel regimes of extreme climatic events in a common insect.

Red coral colonies survive a decade after being transplanted in the Medes Islands

Red coral colonies survive a decade after being transplanted in the Medes Islands - Current events - University of Barcelona web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...

Les colònies de corall vermell sobreviuen una dècada després de ser trasplantades a les illes Medes

#RecercaUB | 🪸 Els coralls confiscats de la pesca furtiva tornen a viure a les illes Medes!

➡️ Les colònies que es van trasplantar fa una dècada al fons marí de les Medes han sobreviscut amb èxit.

Lideren l’estudi Cristina Linares i Yanis Zentner, de @biologiaub.bsky.social i @irbio-ub.bsky.social

Active restoration of a long-lived octocoral drives rapid functional recovery in a temperate reef After a decade, a community with restored red coral nears the functional structure of natural ones.

🧵Can marine restoration lead to ecological recovery?

🌊Success is often assessed by short-term survival of transplants, but what about long-term changes in community (trait) composition?

We studied this for a key Mediterranean octocoral. 👇

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌿 The MedRecover team held its annual retreat at Mas El Collell, spending a few days together to share knowledge, present, new innovations and research in our projects.

An inspiring time to connect, learn, and keep working towards marine conservation! Cold, but very happy! ❄️🌊 #MedRecoverTeam

🌍 Demà divendres 14 de març, a les 11:30, celebrem el Dia Internacional d'Acció pels Rius amb el Sr. Davi Kopenawa a l’Aula Magna Ramon Parés. No hi falteu!

Consulta el programa complet 👉 www.ub.edu/portal/web/b...

@ub.edu @hubsg-ub.bsky.social

A framework to assess the vulnerability of islands to global changes : ecology.peercommunityin.org/articles/rec... thanks to ...

very well deserved @dansmale1.bsky.social !!!

Study finds population crash for critically endangered European eel in Spain’s Ebro Delta The critically endangered European eel population is facing collapse in Spain’s Ebro Delta, where populations have plummeted by more than 80% in recent years, according to a new study. The study’s aut...

Our work on eel decline @mongabay.bsky.social, by Shanna Hanbury
@nfranchv.bsky.social @polcapdevila.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

YouTube video by Nicholas Clark Time series in R and Stan using the mvgam package: hierarchical GAMs

Another video in my series on applied time series and forecasting with the {mvgam} #rstats 📦. This one introduces State Space hierarchical GAMs and GPs for tackling multivariate series youtu.be/2POK_FVwCHk?...

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies...
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

El derrumbe de la anguila en el Delta del Ebro, quitándoles las unidades para poder comparar pesquerías y seguimiento científico.
80% de declive tomando 2008-2010 como referencia
Con el seguimiento, más fiable, la cifra es más bien 90%
@saraaagesen.bsky.social @miteco.gob.es, hay que hacer cosas

RECENT EEL DECLINE In A LARGE MEDITERRANEAN WETLAND
The European eel is a Critically Endangered species since 2008, but its status is worsening fast
New OA paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Main, terrible findings, below
@ebdonana.bsky.social @csic.es @nfranchv.bsky.social

4-year grants to work in Spain🇪🇸
Ayudas Beatriz Galindo para la atracción del talento investigador
- Periodo mínimo de contratación 4 años
- Experiencia docente e investigadora en el extranjero
- 2 Modalidades: profesor/a o investigador/a distinguido/a.
- Plazo: Hasta 8/2/2025
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We are recruiting two postdocs to join our Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Lab at the University of Tokyo. The topics are biodiversity monitoring and carbon dynamics in northern forests.

Hoy en libros para unas comilonas gastronómicamente salubres y ecológicamente viables.

We particularly welcome contributions on topics such as:

Are you working on evidence use in biodiversity conservation? Then you might be interested in submitting an abstract to our cross journal @britishecolsoc.bsky.social special feature marking 20 years of evidence-based conservation #bes2024 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/evidence-bas...

Read our new paper in EcologicalMonographs esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We introduce a framework on how to partition species contributions to ecological stability in disturbed communities based on species absolute change in biomass and relative change in proportion.