Rob Wilson

Rob Wilson

@robwilsonmncn.bsky.social

Insects, especially butterflies; conservation, global change, mountains; working at natural sciences museum in Madrid; Ecological Entomology editor; gone birdwatching with my dog.

441 Followers 393 Following 2 Posts Joined Nov 2024
3 months ago
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the SBS seminar from @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social , looking at over 20 years of butterfly data. In Spanish mountain ranges, cold specialised species are going locally extinct and are being replaced by warmer habitat species

#UniofAberdeen #Biology #SciArt

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6 months ago
Robert J. Wilson stands with a hot cup of tea in front of his poster, 'Developing a National Reference Collection for Pollinating Insects in Spain'.

Source: R. J. Wilson A general view of the Congress's poster room.

Source: R. J. Wilson

Hey! How are you coping with the post-holiday blues? We're ready for anything! 🏁

Take a look at @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social contribution to #Ento25 in Glasgow. It's another chance to show off our progress on the #INCSTEP reference collection!

#NameItToSaveIt 🐝πŸͺ°πŸ¦‹

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11 months ago

Delighted to join the European butterfly community in NL this week for #FutureofButterflies with @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social well represented by three talks and two posters - @guim091.bsky.social @adsalbert.bsky.social and @jpcancela.bsky.social also sharing our work on #insect responses to global change

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1 year ago
Graphical abstract of: Changes in a bumblebee alpine pollinator network over 40 years

Our latest article in #RESEcolEnt reports on changes in a #bumblebee #alpine #pollinator network over 40 years 🐝🌼

Read the article nowπŸ”½
buff.ly/srBYHrM

@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @mattgreenwell.bsky.social @wiley.com

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11 months ago
Graphical abstract for: Soil conditions and the emergence phenology and survival of a solitary, ground-nesting bee in a coastal dune environment

A new article in #RESEcolEnt explores #soil conditions & the emergence #phenology & survival of a ground-nesting #SolitaryBee in a coastal dune environment 🐝

#OpenAccess πŸ”½
doi.org/10.1111/een.13422

@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com

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11 months ago
Graphical abstract of: Wildfires induce a reduction in body size and morphological variation of an insular endemic insect

A new article in #RESEcolEnt reveals #wildfires induce a reduction in body size and #morphological variation of an insular endemic #insect πŸ¦—πŸ”₯

Read the #OpenAccess paper nowπŸ”½
doi.org/10.1111/een.13418

@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com

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1 year ago
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How can the INC-STEP satellite project help us study pollinators? YouTube video by TETTRIsEU

@robwilsonmncn.bsky.social (@mncn-csic.bsky.social @csic.es) explains why #TETTRIsEU Satellite
@incstep.bsky.social pushes for a #pollinators 🐝 Reference Collection in Spain πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ

By the way, we are out with a #policybrief on Reference Collections πŸ‘‰ tettris.eu/Publications/
shorturl.at/cfrQL

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1 year ago
Photo of Antonio Ricarte sitting in front of an open entomological box containing hoverflies (Syrphidae) during his visit to the Arthropod collection of the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona (MCNB).

Photo credit: Berta Caballero (MCNB)

Entomological collections are sustained by all those involved in their study and management. From #INCSTEP @tettris.eu we want to give them voice πŸ—£οΈ, so we will publish a series of short interviews to introduce some of these people linked to the project.

Today, let's meet Antonio Ricarte! πŸͺ°πŸŒΌ

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1 year ago
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A #training course about #bees organised by @incstep.bsky.social 🀩 under the #TETTRIsEU project!

πŸ“… March
πŸ“ Barcelona
🐝 Bees
πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Έ Spanish
βŒ› Deadline 31.01

Get all the info here πŸ‘‡
tettris.eu/2024/10/25/i...

#Taxonomy

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1 year ago

How does local climate influence ecological communities? Answer: #Thermophilisation caused by #colonisation and local #extinction. Check out the new paper by
@guim091.bsky.social on #mountain #butterflies in Central Spain. #ClimateChange #Refugia
doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

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1 year ago
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So happy to see my 2n thesis chapter published in Diversity and Distributions πŸ₯³πŸ₯³ How does local climate influence ecological communities? Answer: #Thermophilisation caused by #colonisation and local #extinction of mountain butterflies πŸ¦‹ #ClimateChange #Refugia Small thread below⬇️

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1 year ago
screenshot of the article in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B titled 'Clustered warming tolerances and the nonlinear risks of biodiversity loss on a warming planet'

🚨New paper 🚨We argue that abrupt biodiversity losses can be driven by populations sharing similar tolerances to warming πŸ¦‹πŸŒŽπŸ₯΅. Out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org. Summary thread below 🧡
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

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1 year ago
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Habitat management interventions for a specialist mid- successional grassland butterfly, the Lulworth Skipper - Journal of Insect Conservation Evidence-based management is needed to reverse declines in insect abundance. The Lulworth Skipper Thymelicus acteon is a range-restricted and declining species in the UK and northern Europe associated...

If you'd like to read more, you can find the full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... or a short blog here: butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...

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1 year ago

Well done @armandrm.bsky.social
I have heard it was a great class!

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1 year ago
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Phenological variation in biotic interactions shapes population dynamics and distribution in a range-shifting insect herbivore | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Phenological responses to climate change vary across trophic levels. However, how trophic phenological synchrony determines species’ distributions through its effects on population dynamics has rarely been addressed. Here, we show that phenological ...

Our OA paper in led by former PhD student James Stewart, with @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social et al shows how varying phenology can influence range shifts via effects on population dynamics and mediated by biotic interactions, #BrownArgus (not Sparrow:-)
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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