NEW FORUM PAPER: Incorporating human behaviors into theories of urban community assembly and species coexistence doi.org/10.1111/oik.08… Wiley Ecology & Evolution Nordic Society Oikos @MeghanAvolio @GreeningScience #ecology #dispersal #management #urbanization #selection #wildlife #biodiversity

A new outcome from the #SHOWCAVE project🎉 Our new paper Italian Spiders describing the effect of lighting duration on the #lampenflora proliferation in Grotte di Toirano and Grotte BorgioVerezzi show caves has just been published online by J Nat Cons sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The paper presenting the World #spider #trait #database is now out with participation of many of our members. If you work with #spiders consider contributing. More #opendata leads to more knowledge. academic.oup.com/database/artic… Luomus Zoology Life Sciences University of Helsinki

Many years after our workshop iDiv Biodiversity Research trying to develop a 2.0 version of metacommunity theory, we finally present a first step: A new way to think about and analyze metacommunities by explicitly focusing on the internal variation among species or sites. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

A stark warning on how important #caves in #Brazil are open to exploration and destruction under #Bolsonaro presidency. Almost 100 researchers across the world sign Science Magazine, including Stefano Mammola Pedro Cardoso cardosopmb.bsky.social science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Please join me urgently and contact the Commission to tell them... restorenature.eu/en?utm_source=…

Conserving the #subterranean biome is a herculean challenge. What is the available evidence for effecting conservation across different interventions and threats? The answer here (#OA): doi.org/10.1111/brv.12… Led by @batgirlhoff myself Pedro Cardoso cardosopmb.bsky.social /w several coauthors --->

🌎Protect 30% of the planet by 2030. 🌊Conserve the oceans for nature & society. 🦍Scale up species conservation. 🌳Restore more degraded ecosystems globally. 💲Ensure sufficient funding goes to nature. Five things the #Post2020 framework must do bit.ly/3oUr079

⭐️Nicole Kinlock has been shortlisted for the 2021 Harper Prize! 📖Read more about Nicole's research on the blog: Uncovering structural features that underlie coexistence in an invaded woody plant community with interaction networks at multiple life stages jecologyblog.com/2022/04/06/nic…

If you have #kids and want them to know about #cave life, probably will want to show them this paper Frontiers for Young Minds. Or maybe you feel like a kid yourself. By Stefano Mammola Irene Frigo (illustrations) and Pedro Cardoso cardosopmb.bsky.social kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Which non-scientific features of articles (e.g., writing style, author list, IF) significantly affect citation counts? And it is good or bad? The answers in an #openaccess meta-analysis in Scientometrics Research Journal: rdcu.be/cPbn1 /w Dan Chamberlain Enrico Caprio Elena Piano A. Doretto

A study we just published says we don't know enough on the impact of #cave tourism on #subterranean ecosystems. It also offers a dataset on 265 show caves from across the world, as a first step towards more #sustainabledevelopment. eurekalert.org/news-releases/…

Everyone has its COVID paper! During the closing period due to pandemic #lampenflora in #showcaves did not decrease. Just published on #Geoheritage journal: link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

How dispersal capacity determines local and regional species richness declines under human disturbance. With Elena Piano @BonteDries and Luc De Meester. doi.org/10.1002/ecy.39….

NEW PAPER: Pervasive effects of land use on the butterflies of Italy across spatial scales, #OpenAccess in Global Change Biology; a thread 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

How does tourism affect microbial assemblages in show caves? Discover it in our new research published on STOTEN with Italian Spiders Giuseppe Nicolosi Federico Biagioli Claudia Coleine Laura Selbmann Giovanna Cristina Varese Rosangela Addesso doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…

New Reviewed preprint in eLife - the journal! We studied how humans amass knowledge of biodiversity across >3000 species sampled from the Tree of Life. We asked: which species-level traits explain human interest in biodiversity? The answer here: shorturl.at/frGKL /w @rahcorreia85 ..

New global meta-analysis in One Earth quantifying the magnitude of different climate change impacts in subterranean ecosystems. Read #OA here: cell.com/one-earth/full… /w David Sánchez Tiziana Di Lorenzo Elena Piano and many others! Illustration by @jago_MO