Happy to share with you this paper just published in Plant Biology. This study is the result of one of those awesome collaborations between colleague-friends, this time with Susana RodEche from Centre for Functional Ecology and Xoaquín Moreira from Misión Biológica de Galicia - CSIC, among others :) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pl…

Last week, we had the pleasure of hosting Bea Lago from Misión Biológica de Galicia - CSIC for a short stay as part of the CSIC tech personal mobility grants 🌎 We exchanged knowledge about our research lines, and she had the chance to explore techniques for studying soil biodiversity ⛏️🪲

Convocatoria / Job Announcement Instituto de Biología de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Plaza de Investigación en Biología Integrativa con énfasisen botánica, en la Unidad de Síntesis en Sistemática y Evolución. tinyurl.com/27jwrzne

An excellent web-based resource for creating colorful phylogenetic trees for free 🆓 🔗 How to draw a phylogenetic tree? youtu.be/djfpSq26akI #bioinformatics #genomics #phylogenomics

"Spatial scaling of functional and taxonomic diversity across ecosystems on an island" - doi.org/10.32942/X2BP78

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Next week I’ll be at the III SIBECOL & XVII @AEET meeting in Pontevedra 🇪🇸 🗣️ Wed 13:00 – oral talk (Auditorium) 🏙️ Wed 12:45–14:15 – co-hosting urban ecology session (Seminario 6) 🌿 Thu 17:00 – presenting AEET’s new IGUE (Auditorium) Off X, catch me on Bsky or in person.

Signaling defenses with color: a meta-analysis of leaf color variation, palatability, and herbivore damage Cornelissen et al. Centro de Síntese Ecológica e Conservação - CSEC 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/np…

Happy to share the discovery of a new insect-plant interaction from Borneo, where one ant-plant has evolved sharp hooked trichomes to pierce and kill lycaenid caterpillars. However, one specialist can survive and has a counter-defence! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2…

🌺 New insights on island endemics! 📖 Floral Biology, Breeding System and Conservation Implications for the Azorean Endemic Azorina vidalii (Campanulaceae) ✍️ R.M. Correia Rego et al. 🔗 brnw.ch/21wTo5M #EndemicSpecies #PlantReproduction #Azores #IslandBotany

Our new study about plant chemistry on island plants Macroevolutionary Patterns of Phytochemical Diversity in a Macaronesian Archipelago - Moreira - 2025 - Global Ecology and Biogeography - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

Our new study about plant-herbivore interactions in serpentine soils The impact of serpentine soils on plant traits and plant–herbivore interactions - Moreira - 2025 - Ecology - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Serpentine soils naturally have few nutrients & lots of heavy metals—a new #OpenAccess Report considers how these rough conditions shape ecosystems from California to Sweden⬇️

🏜️ Hot & dry? Plants feel it too. We report in Annals of Botany how plants from Iberian coastal dunes shrink in height & spread as aridity rises — from single species to whole communities. This pattern occurs independently of key soil variables 👉#OA doi.org/10.1093/aob/mc…

New paper about trade-offs between defensive strategies link.springer.com/article/10.100…

El Instituto de Ecología invita a las personas interesadas en concursar por cinco plazas académicas. La fecha límite para someter los papeles es el 3 de octubre. Se pueden consultar los detalles de cada una en ecologia.unam.mx/convocatorias2…

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We are hiring a PhD student to work on the resilience of water-limited ecosystems under global change scenarios. The position is based primarily at CASUS (Görlitz), with stays at MPI-DS in Göttingen. Deadline: Oct 27th. Early app. encouraged! Info: lnkd.in/dh-KvstB

🌟Aprobada la convocatoria de tramitación anticipada de ayudas a “Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento” 2025 (#PID2025) 💵700 M€ (+25 M€ que 2024) ➡️Solicitudes 20 nov- 16 de dic 2025 📹Webinario: 18 de nov | 10:30 h. zoom.us/j/99421301250 aei.gob.es/convocatorias/…

🌿 Join us to learn about the newly published review ‘The effect of herbivory on pollinators: a revisited meta-analysis’ in Annals of Botany by Stephanie Haas-Desmarais and co-authors. 🧵(1/9) 👉 doi.org/qd2p Xoaquín Moreira #PollinationEcology #Plantscience #AoBpapers