Iago Ferreiro

An arboreal camera-trap image form the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. An animal is detected by TropiCam-AI, which analyzes its features and tries to determine what species it is.

TropiCam-AI analyzes the prompted image, and classifies it at the species level as a black spider monkey. Users can decide to let the model predict at the taxonomic level that achieves the highes confidence and accuracy, or force predictions at the desired taxonomic level.

New paper out in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social!

📷We present TropiCam-AI: a machine learning model that identifies 84 taxa of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-trap images and videos. 🐒🦜

📃Paper → doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70213
🌐Project → github.com/andrewzamp/TropiCam-AI

📖 Published!

Introducing TropiCam-AI: A taxonomically flexible automated classifier of Neotropical arboreal mammals and birds from camera-trap data 🐦️ 🌍 📸

🔎 Read more buff.ly/WVOYQ7p.

🧵(HILO) Un equipo de investigación del MNCN-@CSIC
ha desarrollado TropiCam-AI, el primer algoritmo de IA que identifica automáticamente, a partir de imágenes de cámaras trampa, las especies animales que habitan en el dosel de bosques húmedos neotropicales. www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac...

➡️ Ya está disponible la convocatoria #Empleo Joven 2026 del #CSIC, con 176 contratos formativos en diferentes CCAA

👩‍🔬 Dirigida a menores de 30 años con un título de formación profesional de grado superior

📅 Solicitudes hasta el 6 de febrero

👉 http://tiny.cc/0nby001

Hi Gabby, could you add me? ☺️🤓

#AI is transforming #ecology — but at what cost? A new #Nature piece warns that as models, drones & remote sensing boom, many scientists are spending less time outdoors (“I rarely get outside”). Are we losing essential natural-history insight? 🌿🤖
🧪🌍🌐
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We've got ISSUES. Literally.

We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?

arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563

A 🧵 1/n

New paper out! 🐦📊

We realease AVONICHE, a global dataset with detailed information on the proportional use of 32 foraging niches, combining dietary categories with the behaviours and substrates used to access resources.

Openly access the paper and data in GEB: doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Cascading Effects of Overhunting on the Functional Tree Composition of Amazonian Forests We examined how overhunting-induced defaunation affects the functional composition of tropical tree communities in western Brazilian Amazonia. Using a robust, spatially replicated dataset from 30 for...

New paper out in collab with amazing Brazilian researchers! By sampling 30 vegetation plots along a hunting pressure gradient, we show that sapling recruitment of large-seeded animal-dispersed species is consistently lower in overhunted forests.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Legacy of the Lost and Pressure of the Present: Malagasy Plant Seeds Retain Megafauna Dispersal Signatures but Downsize Under Human Pressure Using structural equation models, we show that Malagasy assemblages with higher human pressure have smaller maximum seed sizes, especially through downsizing of extant frugivores. Furthermore, among ...

First PhD paper out!🎉
Dive in here to see how past frugivores and present human pressure jointly shape seed size distributions on Madagascar: doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Huge thanks to Alexander Zizka and my supervisor Renske Onstein @renskeonstein.bsky.social
. Excited to keep going on this journey!

Intraspecific and intraindividual trait variability decrease with tree richness in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment - Nature Communications In forests, trait expression is influenced by tree-tree interactions. Castro Sánchez-Bermejo et al. show how phenotypic variability of tree species decreases with tree diversity and contributes import...

In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands,
Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Want to know more about it? 🧵

HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN!

harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in...

You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats

PhD position opening in community and biogeography PhD Position in Community Ecology & Biogeography, Montreal, Canada Our research group at Concordia University investigates the forces enabling the maintenance, and governing the distribution, of biol...

Our research group has an open PhD position! Please share widely!

Possible topics include:

Determinants of range limits

Assembly of ecological networks (eg,
plant-pollinator)

The role of soil arthropods (eg, ants) in carbon storage

Details:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🍐🦊Frugivory-mediated trophic cascades: how apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy-fruited tree

📷 © Tamara Burgos

vist.ly/4ge6u

#Defaunation #Mesopredators #MultiTrophicInteractions #PostDispersalSeedPredation #PredationRisk #SeedDispersalEffectiveness

Zorzal común (Turdus philomelos) equipado con uno de los dispositivos GPS satelitales utilizados para seguir su migración (autor: Sascha Rösner)

🧵 1/n Nuevo artículo publicado en Proceedings B! @royalsocietypublishing.org

A qué distancia pueden dispersar semillas las aves frugívoras durante su migración? 🍒🐦

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

🧵 1/n Paper out in Proceedings B! @royalsocietypublishing.org

How far can frugivorous birds disperse seeds during migration?

📸 Song thrush (Turdus philomelos) equipped with one of the satellite GPS tags used to track its migratory movements (credit: Sascha Rösner)

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Postdoc position in ecological forecasting 📈 as part of the Horizon Europe OSCARS call. The postdoc will be based in lovely Sevilla (fantastic place to live) and will include working closely with several European forecasting projects. Apply by Dec 11! 🌎🧪 globalchangeeco.com/jobs

Conserving and assessing ecosystem processes through species traits at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Conserving and assessing ecosystem processes through species traits at UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology - Wallingford, listed on FindAPhD.com

Competition funded PhD opportunity at the cutting edge of #conservation, using species traits to measure & conserve ecosystem processes. Working with @jmbecologist.bsky.social, @josephtobias.bsky.social, Ben Woodcock and me.

Application deadline 8 Jan 2026 ⚠️⚠️⚠️🌍🌐🧪

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We are glad to share our recent article pulbished in @pnas.org, where we we demonstrate that plant species that occupy larger geographic ranges tend to have broader climatic niches and are more likely to achieve high local abundances.

🌳🦊 Nuestro nuevo artículo en @oikosjournal.bsky.social muestra cómo la recuperación del lince está reconfigurando las interacciones ecológicas.

📄 Frugivory-mediated trophic cascades: How apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy-fruited tree
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Beatriz Rumeu junto a un grupo de investigadores especialistas publican un artículo sobre extinción e introducción de especies en ecosistemas insulares Beatriz Rumeu junto a un grupo de investigadores especialistas publican un artículo sobre extinción e introducción de especies en ecosistemas insulares

inmar.uca.es/noticia/beat...

Rigorous validation of ecological models against empirical time series - Nature Ecology & Evolution Validating theoretical models against empirical data presents challenges. Here the authors present an assumption-light method to validate ecological models against time series data, along with a dedic...

Ecology faces an accumulation of models but not an accumulation of confidence. Our new paper w/ Jonathan Levine www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @natecoevo.nature.com introduces a rigorous test rooted in queueing theory to falsify inadequate models and build confidence in useful ones.

Our new @nature.com shows that energy flows mediated by mammals and birds across sub-Saharan Africa have declined by >30% unevenly across functional groups, with major consequences ecosystem functions
shorturl.at/AD0Yb

[1/5] Elephants shape forests by moving seeds, and carbon, across landscapes. 🌳🐘

But how consistent are their impacts across sites?

📸 : Liam Jasperse-Sjolander

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We have an open PhD student position in evolutionary ecology in our lab @creaf.cat in Barcelona! 🦎 🌳 🦆 🐍

Applications open until Nov. 10th, 2025. Please help us spread the word!

Link to position description and requirements:
creaf.factorialhr.com/job_posting/...

Lab website:
oriollapiedralab.com

Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!

The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems

📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

🚨PhD offer 👩‍🎓:
Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @creaf.cat to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years.
Deadline: 27 Oct 2025
Selection: ~November
Starting: ~January 2026
Supervision: @sandranogue.bsky.social & me
More info👇

Fig. 1: Extreme regional fire years across forested areas during 2002–2023.

The results of a study in Nature Communications show that climate change is raising the odds of extreme fire years and the number of large forest fires, necessitating proactive measures to mitigate risks and adapt to extreme fire years. go.nature.com/4m8fTSA 🧪

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York!
I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene.

Deadline: 10th August 2025.

All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst

@anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

Unlocking historical plant interactions in herbarium collections Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 06 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00071-8Herbarium specimens have typically been used in plant taxonomy and systematics but are increasingly utilized to investigate aspects of plant ecology. This Review explores how herbarium collections can serve as historical data sources for studying plant interactions across space and time.

New online! Unlocking historical plant interactions in herbarium collections