Butterfly Daily Commutes: Coping with Habitat Disturbance in Tropical Forests animalecologyinfocus.com/2025/05/19/but… via Journal of Animal Ecology

🆕The new issue of the #HKUBulletin is now available online! 💻👀#HKU researchers explore the vast possibilities of computer vision – from steering cars to disease diagnosis – but also caution against biases in computer-based decision-making. 📖Read now at

Important perspective: Jonkers et al Community guidelines to increase the reusability of marine microfossil assemblage data jm.copernicus.org/articles/44/14…

中央研究院の生物多様性研究センターで海洋の生態学・生物多様性の公募１名。離島でサンゴの研究者が必要っぽい。のざわさんの後任でしょう。研究環境も抜群なのでお勧め。 biodiv.tw/zh_joinus-2025… ＃台湾の公募

The fossil research by Professor Moriaki Yasuhara (Moriaki Yasuhara) shows 🌊deep-sea ecosystems are impacted by 🌡️temperature and food changes, raising concerns about climate interventions. 📖Read and 🎧listen now at the #HKUBulletin: bulletin.hku.hk/research/lesso…

New DOSI Climate collaboration just out! Gallo et al. Illuminating deep-sea considerations and experimental approaches for mCDR proposals iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Diatoms are tiny but ecologically important eukaryotes. After over a million years of relative stasis, the lineage of diatoms exploded into diversity, with innovations in ecology, morphology, and life history still seen today. In PNAS: ow.ly/T3ja50W5xBq

Taxonomic Review of the Sea Catfish Family Ariidae in Taiwan Conclusion: Three species in three genera only: Arius maculatus, Netuma bilineata, and Plicofollis nella marres.namr.gov.tw/vol_file.aspx?… #otolith #sea_tawinan

The ocean sustains billions of lives, but overexploitation and resource depletion pose significant threats to marine biodiversity. The theme of this year’s World Oceans Day is "Wonder: Sustaining what sustains us". Let's unite in safeguarding our marine ecosystems.

First record of Late Pleistocene heteropods and pteropods from northern Taiwan, led by my PhD student Diana doi.org/10.26879/1535 #海洋古生物實驗室 #中研院生物多樣性研究中心 #台灣化石 #otolith #taiwanfossil #fossil #marinefossil

New day, new paper! 🦣🌍 Led by Mapas Lab PhD student Sofía Galván and out now in GEB Journal: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge… "Could future palaeontologists detect today’s biodiversity patterns from fossils alone?"

A very nice study -- how modern biological patterns can be seen through the eyes of a paleontologist (in the far future) 👇

Mammal dispersal during Paleocene-Eocene transition as a multi-stage process "...fluctuating latest Paleocene warming, although less intense than the PETM, was a major driver of an unexpected mammalian turnover in Europe." pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

💡New Paper: Micro(nano)plastics in Fish Gut. How is it a One Health Issue?🐟We’re excited to share our latest work, focusing on the ingestion of micro(nano)plastics (MNPs) by fish and the broader implications for environmental and human health. doi.org/10.1016/j.coes…

New phylogenomic tree revises Pliocardiinae (chemosymbiotic bivalves) genus-level taxonomy, synonymising "gigas-group" species w/ Archivesica, Originated >41 Ma in Eocene & diversified during cooling, 2 abyssal invasions + symbiont shift revealed! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cl…

Led by David Fastovich! Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

Forests Can’t Keep Up: Adaptation Will Lag Behind Climate Change scifac.hku.hk/news/forests-c… The University of Hong Kong HKU_Science David Fastovich

"We Are All Ocean Connected" Press release for our new #historicalecology paper on human-ocean connections! Read in #philtransb! Smithsonian Panama stri.si.edu/story/we-are-a…

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Stronger El Niños reduce tropical forest arthropod diversity and function - in nature - nature.com/articles/s4158…