Consider ecological overshoot.

Have you ever seen the ring-tailed vontsira? Found in the forests of Madagascar, this carnivore weighs ~2 lbs (900 g) and feeds on insects, eggs, fish, small mammals, and more. The ring-tailed vontsira is an agile critter, an excellent climber, and is known to be playful.

I was just thinking someone needs to write a paper saying it is not biodiversity per se, but *species interactions*, that underpin ecosystem services This new paper makes that point, although I think there is much more to say on the subject besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

UU hires: PhD project: Island biogeography through the lens of a geologist 🏝️🧑‍🎓🌏

Professor Sarah Otto FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for her contributions to the solution of fundamental problems in evolutionary biology, including a mathematical foundation for explaining the evolution of sexual reproduction. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/people/sarah-o…

Dit is Geertruida van der Berg uit Geertruidenberg, de eerste Nederlandse vrouw die zonder begeleiding van haar vader of echtgenoot over straat mocht fietsen. De vrouwenfietswet van 1 juli 1910 wordt beschouwd als een mijlpaal binnen de feministische geschiedenis van Nederland.

📢What would happen if threatened mammals became extinct on 🏝️islands? We looked into the consequences of species extinctions on the functional space of islands worldwide. More details below, but you can read the full paper published today Global Change Biology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

The skull of the small ruminant Hoplitomeryx (Pleistocene of Italy) has such a Sauron vibe ! #fossilfriday

Had a great week CT scanning insular artiodactyls at @Naturalis_Sci with Pierre Orgebin & Alexandra van der Geer! Always a joy to visit these amazing collections #island #dwarfism 🏝️🐐🦌 #brain #evolution 🧠 #fossils🦴 #CTscanning 🩻 #Dubois

well-said: "the final populations of all moa species persisted in suboptimal habitats in cold, mountainous areas that were generally last and least impacted by people". This applies to all remaining insular endemic species, not only flightless birds 😢#vulnerable #extinction_risk

Great article by Kaifu and colleagues on early Homo floresiensis: dwarfism evolved in about 300 thousand years. Reminds me of dwarf elephants, where we found similar rates of dwarfism 🏝️⌛️#islands #rapid_evolution nature.com/articles/s4146…

Zeldzaam fossiel onthult hoe de ‘hobbitmens’ in razend tempo kromp parool.nl/ts-b5f7e022/

Very happy with our new book Marvels and Perils of Island Life, Evolution, Ecology and Extinction in Splendid Isolation, by Mark Lomolino and me, now available at Amazon - Kindle Direct Publishing: ISBN-13 979-8879215922 at a.co/d/hw4nr7v

excavations at Liang Bua continue... #Homo_floresiensis #dwarf_megafauna #giant_rats

Afgezonderde madeliefjes: de verbazingwekkende biodiversiteit van Asteraceae op oceanische eilanden naturetoday.com/intl/nl/nature…

The End of an Era: Jared Diamond's ecological collapse story of Rapa Nui inhabitants nailed. Read this population genomics paper nature.com/articles/s4158… #Rapanui #resilience #sustainable #Polynesians

Proud with our newest manuscript on Irish Megaloceros giganteus: Increased incidences of cervical ribs in deer indicate extinction risk | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New article by George Lyras and Dionysia Liakopoulou: The brain of Myotragus balearicus, an insular bovid from the Balearics tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Data-rich article by Julian Schrader and team on 'Islands are key for protecting the world’s plant endemism' 🏝️🎍🌿(paywall, unfortunately) nature.com/articles/s4158…

🦌🧠🏝️ So happy to share my first PhD chapter! First digital brain endocast of Hoplitomeryx matthei - a strange five-horned ruminant from Gargano paleo-island (Italy). Full study: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #Paleontology #Paleoneurology #IslandBiogeography 1/7