🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Our Trends in Ecology & Evolution paper is out! We proposed a general model of mast seeding that integrates proximate and ultimate mechanisms of masting. Check out the paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jEXvcZ3X04sM

New paper: the general model of masting out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution 🔥🔥🔥jakubszymkowiak.wordpress.com/2024/06/15/new… #masting

Days are almost as long as they can be, so plenty of time to read the Quanta Magazine article on how European beech is using the summer solstice to synchronize seed production across the continent. quantamagazine.org/across-a-conti…

*Very* excited to see the last study of my PhD making the cover of Science Magazine on the macaques of Caribbean Primate Research Center. We show that ecological disturbances can alter selective pressures on social ties leading to persistent societal changes. shorturl.at/i2WIB 🧵👇

Longest day! New research found that the #SummerSolstice acts as a "starting gun" to synchronise #beech tree reproduction across Europe. Analysis, led by Valentin Journé, was part funded by Michał Bogdziewicz's ERC grant #ForestFuture UAM Poznań. Read 👉 bit.ly/3Ry1Sk0

Mast seeding drives fungal rhythms: peek seed years often see fewer mushrooms. Exciting study by Talia Michaud and colleagues! Funny thing is that years back, Michał Bogdziewicz and I heard from an elder mushroom picker... 1/2 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our new study in Journal of Ecology reveals how tree-rodent seed dispersal interactions are shaped by rodent abundance and caching benefits. What stands out are the clear, robust density-dependent effects that align well with theoretical predictions. 🧵1/3 shorturl.at/UBQzz

🔥 New paper in Ecology Letters! Synchrony of beech masting is stronger in years of seed scarcity than mast peaks. Scarcity occurs across the species range, amplifying famines triggered by seed scarcity and impacting food webs. shorturl.at/B1hw2

Beech, spruce and silver-fir benefited from masting through decreased predispersal insect predation and greater pollination efficiency. These effects were stronger for beech than conifers species. Paper of the week: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

#NotesFromTheWoods: Field season 2024 is over! jakubszymkowiak.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/fie… #WoodWarblers #FieldworkOrBust

New cuckoo paper from our lab. Winiarska et al. Common cuckoo vocalisations as an indicator for the avian diversity – A study with passive acoustic monitoring doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol…

Aleksandra Jarecka > Pan Wołodyjowski!!! 😁 #Paris2024

On the blog🔎 Mario B. Pesendorfer discusses why it makes sense for #trees to reproduce in synchrony🌲🌲🌲 jecologyblog.com/2024/07/30/why…

His Airness Mondo Duplantis! 6.26m!

A new paper by some of me friends and me :) Architectural traditions in the structures built by cooperative weaver birds | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🔥 New paper in For Ecol Man! Our 23-year study examines how weather-driven synchrony in seed production across three oaks species reduces seed predation and enhances regeneration. Led by Jakub Szymkowiak, funded by European Research Council (ERC).

Mondo!!! 🫡

New paper in Science with Joseph Welklin as a lead and with Ben Sonnenberg (he/him) Carrie Branch Lauren M. Benedict (she/her) Lauren Whitenack Virginia Heinen Angela Pitera and Eli Bridge. Chickadees with better spatial learning and memory abilities live longer lives. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…