Two fallen trees in local woodland exposing their roots or broken, splintered wood. They are allowed to remain and decompose, nurturing their surroundings.

#woodland #trees #nature #wilderness #ecologicalnetwork #biodiversity #naturephotography #roots

New paper out!
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

We examined how historical legacies of evolution history, environmental dynamics, and past species losses have shaped today's mammal food webs 🐅🐆🦁 🦌🦓🐗across the globe.

#MammalFoodweb #DietaryNiche #Extinction #MacroEcoEvo #EcologicalNetwork

📰New paper!

🦠🌳The structure and functioning of #soil bacterial co-occurrence networks change across #vegetation types in the Brazilian Cerrado

🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s429...

#communityecology #ecologyresearch #EcologicalNetwork #bacteria

New publication: Recovery of below-ground associations in restored Brazilian Atlantic Forest, by @luismerloti.bsky.social @ciskaveen.bsky.social and others. #biodiversity #forest #ecosystemfunctioning #Brazil #ecologicalnetwork
doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

🆓📑 A new #OpenAccess paper reveals the power of asymmetry analysis in examining causality and identifying critical interactions in #foodweb models. 💻

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#ecologicalnetwork #bioticinteraction #modeling #ecologyresearch

Xian Wu et al. quantified the relative contributions of #KeystoneTaxa and #RareTaxa in a subtropical forest to soil microbial functions and their shared or unique responses to abiotic conditions.

#EcologicalNetwork | #EcosystemFunctioning

@mapjournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1093/jpe/...

Quantifying similarity among ecological network is getting feasible to understand assembly processes from communities to species interactions. Upcoming publication using this for African mammal food webs is under revision now. Stay tuned!

#Ecology #EcologicalNetwork #Macroecology #Biogeography

Learning fun #ecologicalnetwork code in #R from @giovannistrona @Flinders @cabahCoE

We’re super-excited here at @GlobEcoFlinders to be hosting co-extinctions expert Dr @GiovanniStrona from EU_ScienceHub for the next 3 weeks. He’ll be giving an #ecoevo seminar 26 Apr & a workshop on #ecologicalnetwork models 29 April https://t.co/kOG0Ixq6wc @Flinders

#Globalwarming causes the worst kind of #extinction domino effect https://conservationbytes.com/2018/11/25/global-warming-causes-the-worst-kind-of-extinction-domino-effect/ #coextinction #extinctioncascade #ecologicalnetwork #climatechange

Figs.1B, 1C

#WIS

#PlantandEnvironmentalSciences

#PlantBirdInteraction

#Ecology

#EcologicalNetwork

#Fruit

#Frugivore

#Optimization

#Geography

Intriguing 2024 paper by Martins et al.:

“Birds optimize fruit size consumed near their geographic range limits“

tinyurl.com/3n5nbmtc

#WIS

#PlantandEnvironmentalSciences

#PlantBirdInteraction

#Ecology

#EcologicalNetwork

#Fruit

#Frugivore

Fig.1A