Landscape anthropization drives composition and diversity of butterfly communities at a regional scale doi.org/10.32942/X2NS73

🌿The architecture of plant trait networks was more interconnected & complex in communities with higher functional richness under less arid climates Camila Medeiros Santiago Trueba Christian Henry Leila Fletcher @nathanjbkraft Lawren Sack Lab UCLA EEB👇 buff.ly/iok0dnU

New research on potential for bird–insect phenological mismatch in a tri-trophic system 🐦 🪰 buff.ly/rBa7mOE Michael Belitz

Urban planning for wildlife connectivity: A multispecies assessment of urban sprawl & SLOSS renaturalization strategies Smaller but widely distributed natural areas may balance trade-offs among 👉economic costs 👉urban expansion 👉habitat conservation 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

🆕 in our Method section: Inspired by work showing "a community is more than the sum of its parts," a new geometry-based measure of beta diversity captures changes in species interactions 📄A geometric approach to beta diversity esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

I’m thrilled to share our diversity-stability study on Science Magazine Unifying spatial scaling laws of biodiversity and ecosystem stability | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

A novel method to estimate actual infrastructure-induced mortality by integrating sampling biases doi.org/10.32942/X2W62H

Online now: Deriving meaning from acoustic data in hyper-diverse ecosystems dlvr.it/TK8Hww

Commun. Phys.: Ranking nodes in bipartite systems with a non-linear iterative map nature.com/articles/s4200…

Happy to share our tiny yet intriguing report on the predation of Taiwanese macaques on flying bees. rdcu.be/eh4Dh

🚨Abstract submission for #EcoNet2025 papers and posters is open! 🚨 The VII Symposium on Ecological Networks, will be held Sciences at Newcastle 3-5 September 2025. This year our broad theme is ‘Network Ecology in the Anthropocene’ tinyurl.com/yazf7tk2 Deadline: Friday 30th June

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out nature nature.com/articles/s4158… 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 🫎🦋🐝🪲 Unprecedented #synthesis of >2000 studies shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/4

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Happy to share our latest perspective on behavioural plasticity in animal foraging! The link to the full article can be found in the plain language summary.

The scaling of seed-dispersal specialization in interaction networks across levels of organization vist.ly/3n7nvsz #Macroecology #MetaNetwork

Findings from a recent study "highlight the importance of incorporating life-history strategies & biotic interactions into ecological niche models and species distribution predictions."🐠 buff.ly/2KkguEt

I am searching for 1-2 postdocs to join our research team at the Vegetation Ecology Lab, IEEB, National Taiwan University, from August 2025 for one to three years. Details: davidzeleny.net/veglab/lib/exe… davidzeleny.net/veglab #postdocjobs #vegetation #TaiwanIsaCountry

"okaapi: an R package for generating social networks based on trait preferences" doi.org/10.32942/X2CK8X

Happy to announce that our study just came out in #GlobalChangeBiology! 🎉A global assessment of how land-cover changes influence freshwater #biodiversity and food-web dyamics!💧🍂A call for global freshwater protection! 🌍 Thanks to all the co-authors!  doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70…

Combined effects of temperature change and natural habitat on the abundance of arthropod trait syndromes in agroecosystems vist.ly/326g2 #DietBreadth #HabitatBreadth #Insects #Pollinators