Vinicius Bastazini

Navigating the Balance: Mapping Shipless, Preservation, and Mitigation Areas for Marine Biodiversity — Transport Ecology Shipping sustains global trade but poses escalating threats to marine biodiversity, with wildlife-vessel collisions, noise, and pollution endangering species such as cetaceans (whales and dolphins), s...

A summary of our recent #research, in which we map the world's last shipless #seas and show where #biodiversity and shipping collide. Many key #marine areas remain unprotected, pointing to the urgent need for both protection and mitigation. 🧪🌎🌐🦤🌊

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Scientific Dialogues

This list focuses on (what I'm calling) scientific dialogues—in which researchers respond to each other’s work using published papers as messengers. Often, a paper sparks a reply, which may, in itself, prompt a response, creating a back-and-forth between research teams […]

Cientistas alertam que alterações climáticas ameaçam biodiversidade no Cerrado brasileiro Uma equipa internacional de investigadores alerta que os efeitos das alterações climáticas, como secas mais intensas e duradouras, estão a pôr em risco da biodiversidade do Cerrado, no Brasil, um dos ...

Matéria sobre o nosso estudo sobre as #MudançasClimáticas no #Cerrado do #Brasil e seus efeitos na #biodiversidade.

#CiênciaBrasileira #ecologia #notícias #ecossistemas #MeioAmbiente

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Climate Change Impacts on the Biodiversity of the Brazilian Cerrado: A Synthesis

The Brazilian Cerrado is a vast tropical savanna and one of the most important biodiversity hotspots on the planet. Spanning nearly 2 million km² (Fig. 1), it encompasses a dynamic mosaic of landscapes that […]

Climate Change in the Brazilian Cerrado: A Looming Threat to Terrestrial Biodiversity Due to climate change, the Brazilian Cerrado, a global biodiversity hotspot, is becoming hotter and drier, with longer and more intense dry seasons. This alters biodiversity by altering plant physiol....

Our new paper reviews what is known about #ClimateChange in the #Cerrado 🌿, the world’s most biodiverse #savanna, and its impacts on #Biodiversity.🌐🌎🧪🍁
#ecology #conservation #wildlife #GlobalChanges #CommunityEcology #ecosystems #Brazil

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Rafael Dias: The spatial scaling of multiple dimensions of functional diversity in habitat islands In this blog post, author Rafael Dias delves into the world of avian abundance and richness, with a ‘Behind the Paper’ look at his research article “The spatial scaling of multipl…

👀Behind the Paper!👀

🐦Author Rafael Dias explains why small places can matter in big ways, shares the logistics cross-country research efforts, and discusses balancing research, teaching and creativity🎨

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Bigger habitats hold more variety in bird lifestyles, but small ones can still be special! Rafael Antunes Dias, Vinicius Augusto Galvão Bastazini, Andros T. Gianuca, Thomas J. Matthews This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. In s…

📰Published📰 Bigger habitats hold more variety in bird lifestyles, but small ones can still be special!🐦

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Scaling traits and functions: How habitat area shapes the multidimensional nature of functional diversity

For over a hundred years, the Species–Area Relationship (SAR) has served as a fundamental concept for understanding changes in species diversity across spatial scales. Often described as […]

The spatial scaling of multiple dimensions of functional diversity in habitat islands Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Happy to share our new study exploring how different dimensions of functional diversity scale with area and shape community assembly.
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#Ecology #Biodiversity #Biogeography #Conservation #Birds
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💧Wetzel videos of the week:

Global Water Cycle:
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Heat, Layers and Mixing:
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Ant queen lays eggs that hatch into two species Bizarre discovery of interspecies cloning “almost impossible to believe,” biologists say

“Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.” https://scim.ag/47sVFyS

English summary and free book download: geekcologist.wordpress.com/2024/11/02/e... . You can also download it directly from RG: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Happy to share that our book (written in 🇵🇹) #Ecology and #Conservation of #Aquatic #Ecosystems of Southern #Brazil has been reviewed in the latest issue of the @sil-limnology.bsky.social newsletter 😀. See the comments for a 🔗 with an 🇬🇧 summary and free book download. 🧪🌎🌐
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How bad science is becoming big business Fraudulent science is becoming an industry.

Fraudulent science is becoming an industry.

Global conflict between shipping and #marine #biodiversity
#MarineEcology #Ecology #Conservation #Wildlife #sea #ocean #EnvironmentalImpacts #TransportEcology

Mapping global shipless areas and conflict zones between shipping and large marine vertebrates The growth of global maritime traffic poses increasing threats to marine biodiversity, including vessel collisions, behavioural disturbances, and poll…

As global #shipping expands, our #oceans' #biodiversity faces growing threats. Our new study maps the critical hotspots where #marine #life needs protection from vessels and identifies priority areas for urgent #conservation action.
#Ecology #Wildlife #Sea
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From pairwise interactions to community structure: A trait‐based approach to inferring assembly mechanisms across spatial scales Click on the article title to read more.

An invited commentary I wrote for @funecology.bsky.social on a new study using using spatial patterns, traits, environmental preferences, and colonization dynamics to better understand how ecological communities form and respond to change.
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Reading lists in Ecology – Short Essays

Research papers are the "bricks" that build the wall we call “science.” But sometimes we need to look at this “wall” and reflect upon it. This reflection pushes us forward. This is a curated reading list of ecological essays that have stood the test of […]

Another piece from our study on how vehicle- #wildlife collisions ripple through #foodwebs, affecting entire #ecosystems. 🌐🌍🧪
#NetSci #biodiversity #ecology #conservation #RoadEcology

Effects of road density on regional food webs Roads stand as major threats to biodiversity because they affect the functioning of ecosystems and the provision of ecosystem services. Understanding how the effects of roads affect the dynamics of e...

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The domino effect of roads on biodiversity: How the impacts of wildlife-vehicle collisions propagate through food webs — Transport Ecology Our study reveals that roads and traffic not only cause direct wildlife mortality but also destabilise entire ecological networks by altering predator-prey interactions. By mapping high-risk areas for...

Our new piece shows how the effects of #roads on #biodiversity can extend far beyond the loss of individual #animals or populations, propagating through entire #FoodWebs. 🌐🌎🧪
#RoadEcology #NetSci #biodiversity #ecology #wildlife #conservation #ecology

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✍️⏳ Registration for the 5th Community Ecology Conference closes in one month, on August 10 ‼️ 🌐🌍
We are still accepting poster abstracts until the deadline.

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#ecology #ecologyconference #communityecology

We’re accepting abstracts for our annual meeting at @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ until July 7th!

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Ecological acclimation: a framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change Michael Stemkovski, Joey R. Bernhardt, Benjamin Wong Blonder, John B. Bradford, Kyra Clark-Wolf, Laura E. Dee, Margaret E. K. Evans, Virginia Iglesias, Loretta C. Johnson, Abigail J. Lynch, Sparkle…

📰Published📰 Ecological acclimation: a framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change🌡️

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Spatial Planning for Marine Protected Areas - Postdoctoral Researcher in Spatial Planning for Marine Protected Areas Candidate Profile: Educational and Research Expertise: Candidates should possess a PhD in ecology, marine biology, oceanography,...

New postdoctoral opportunity in my lab www.maraujolab.eu/2025/06/18/p...

Join Journal of Animal Ecology's Senior Editor Darren Evans at EcoNet2025 (tickets now open!) - www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 🦋🌿
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⏰ There are 10 days until our "Energy trade-offs under changing environments" Special Feature with @animalecology.bsky.social closes to proposals!

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It’s been a long time in the making, but I’m finally bringing together two cherished interests of mine: #Judo and #ComplexNetworks!
#RStats #NetSci

Gaps in public trust between scientists and climate scientists: a 68 country study - IOPscienceSearch Gaps in public trust between scientists and climate scientists: a 68 country study, Ghasemi, Omid, Cologna, Viktoria, Mede, Niels G, Stanley, Samantha K, Strahm, Noel, Ross, Robert, Alfano, Mark, Kerr, John R, Marques, Mathew D, Berger, Sebastian, Besley, John C, Brick, Cameron, Joubert, Marina, Maibach, Edward, Mihelj, Sabina, Newell, Ben R, Oreskes, Naomi, Schäfer, Mike S

Proud to be a part of this important work.

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