Nicolas Mouquet

Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt.

Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 Harmonized land-use and land-cover datasets that include past and future periods are key to solving sustainability issues, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However, existing harmonized pr...

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Biodiversity conservation requires integration of species-centric and process-based strategies | PNAS Conservation science and policy are geared primarily toward the preservation of species and habitats, with priority often given to the rarest, most...

By focussing on charismatic large fauna rather than restoring ecosystem functions, there is the danger that some rewilding projects

are less about radical processed-based conservation

and instead are a reinvention of species-centric approaches
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Lottery before peer review is associated with increased female representation and reduced estimated economic cost in a German funding line - Nature Communications The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among fund...

🔥 A lottery-first system 🎲 makes research grants allocation cheaper, faster, and boosts funding for women, while "traditional" (patriarcal?) peer review drags everyone down.

🤔 Maybe randomness is fairer than the experts.

🔄 Time to rethink the whole game! 💣

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The past and future of known biodiversity: Rates, patterns, and projections of new species over time The number of known species on Earth is increasing rapidly, suggesting unexpectedly large numbers of many groups.

Fascinated to learn that we are still discovering new species at the highest rate ever. Mapping Earth's biodiversity is far from over, and while we learn more and more about it, let's protect what we do know as well as we can!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our next #CESABINAR will take place on Dec 11th, 3 pm, Paris time

Lise Conte and Jonathan Lenoir will present the work of the #BIOSHIFT group:

👉 Global redistribution of biodiversity

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #42 Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

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Networks are #complex and their dynamics often look chaotic. But we can reconstruct latent spaces where their behavior becomes strikingly regular, revealing functional organization across biology, society and technology.

How? 👉 rdcu.be/eSsqn 🧪🧠🦠🧬🌐

Kudos to Andrea, @dzanc.bsky.social & Sebastiano!

Powerful flowers: Public perception of grassland aesthetics is strongly related to management and biodiversity Temperate grasslands provide various cultural ecosystem services that are appreciated in diverse ways. Capturing these diverse appreciations requires …

🟥 New paper out 🟥
Powerful flowers: Public perception of grassland aesthetics is strongly related to management and biodiversity.

With an amazing team: @valentinecology.bsky.social @davide-andreatta.bsky.social @foxnat.bsky.social & Franzi

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

Out now! 🌿🎙️ In this month's episode of #InsideBiodiversity, Prof Marten Scheffer explains critical transitions and tipping points.

Together with iDiv's Dr Volker Hahn, he explores whether local tipping points can be scaled up to a 🌍 biospheric planetary boundary.

🎧✨ insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions out in EcoLett Nov issue
Communities can disproportionately insure (functional sources) or depend on (functional sinks) neighbour communities, a dual relationship not captured by metrics of functional beta diversity

doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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A place-based assessment of biodiversity intactness in sub-Saharan Africa - Nature Regional, place-based biodiversity information is used to comprehensively map and quantify biodiversity intactness of sub-Saharan Africa to inform national and global sustainability policies and plann...

A place-based assessment of biodiversity intactness in sub-Saharan Africa
Clements+
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

based on "place-based knowledge of 200 African biodiversity experts"

approach can be used "to integrate contextual, place-based knowledge into multiscale" biodiversity assessments

Image shows a large white bird with a long, curved beak and red face (a crested ibis) standing in an area of vegetation. Image credit: Siqi Wang, Yangxian County, Shaanxi, China. CC-BY 4.0

Is all wildlife #conservation good? In this Perspective, Tien Ming Lee &co discuss whether it is possible to over-conserve charismatic species and call for greater focus on whole ecosystems in conservation measures of success.
#wildlife #WorldWildlifeConservationDay 🧪
plos.io/4nQ0Ygo

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bluesky Global Ecology Feed Digest #41 Curated digest of the bluesky Global Ecology feed on biodiversity, ecosystems & conservation at large scales. Terrestrial, freswater & marine realms.

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Coral Bleaching: The Equatorial‐Refugia Hypothesis

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🚨 New R package! 🚨

balancR provides tools for data balancing + robust scaling analysis, based on our recent Global Ecology & Biogeography paper: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Co-developed with my PhD advisor @seanmichaletz.bsky.social

Check it out 👉 michaletzlab.github.io/balancR/

Bravo !!

I am so proud to receive the #Foulon price from the French Academy of Sciences 🤩 This is a huge recognition & it means a lot to me 🙏 I dedicate this price to all my close colleagues & collabortors in 🇨🇵, 🇪🇺 & 🌐🌏🌎🌍 without whom it would not have been possible

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Check out our latest publication from the #FREE group at #CESAB taking a functional and trait perspective on classic metapopulation ecology led by @nmouquet.bsky.social 🧪🌐

with among others : @bjenquist.bsky.social @pierregauz.bsky.social @nloiseau.bsky.social & @sebvilleger.bsky.social

Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions

Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds

Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett

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This is figure 1. The global extent of natural forests in 2020 (according to the model, and based on the probability threshold of 0.52) with zoom-in examples (from left to right: Amazon Basin in Brazil, deforestation frontier in Indonesia, and boreal forest in Western Canada).

A paper in Scientific Data presents a novel global natural forest map for 2020 at 10 m resolution. This map can support forest monitoring or conservation efforts that require a comprehensive baseline for monitoring deforestation and degradation. go.nature.com/4remVIQ ⚒️ 🧪

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Temperate deciduous forests are found in three global regions. We compared taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of forest plant communities among these regions in a new Ecography article led by Javier Loidi and Josep Padullés Cubino:
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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The Yangtze River estuary exporting terrestrial material to the ocean. CREDIT: Yuanbi Yi

Rivers transport significantly more dissolved organic matter to the ocean than previously thought, with up to 25% of marine dissolved organic matter originating from land—1.7 to 2.5 times higher than prior estimates. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/5gcG50Xq2MJ

What is the origin of diversity in allometric laws scaling across species? Check our new paper led by Andrea Tabi where
we propose a new theory of metabolic scaling grounded in thermodynamics and stochastic fluctuations at the cellular level.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...