Landscape and Environmental Heterogeneity Support Coexistence in Competitive Metacommunities, out in PNAS - we show that habitat heterogeneity is essential for species coexistence in models of dispersing metacommunities, fostering the emergence of ecological niches
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Landscape and environmental heterogeneity support coexistence in competitive metacommunities | PNAS
Metapopulation models have been instrumental in quantifying the ecological impact
of landscape structure on the survival of a focal species. Howeve...
www.pnas.org
November 14, 2024 at 11:22 AM
Landscape and Environmental Heterogeneity Support Coexistence in Competitive Metacommunities, out in PNAS - we show that habitat heterogeneity is essential for species coexistence in models of dispersing metacommunities, fostering the emergence of ecological niches
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Pre-exposure of abundant species to disturbance improves resilience in microbial metacommunities
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pre-exposure of abundant species to disturbance improves resilience in microbial metacommunities
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Community resilience to stress is affected by factors such as pre-exposure to the same stress and intercommunity dispersal. The authors show that pre-exposing the...
www.nature.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Pre-exposure of abundant species to disturbance improves resilience in microbial metacommunities
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A starter pack for people studying biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at the mesoscale.
#metapopulations #metacommunities #metaecosystems
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I missed many people, please help me hunting the metacommunists on bluesky !
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#metapopulations #metacommunities #metaecosystems
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November 19, 2024 at 8:48 AM
A starter pack for people studying biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at the mesoscale.
#metapopulations #metacommunities #metaecosystems
Reply to be added, and SHARE to spread !
I missed many people, please help me hunting the metacommunists on bluesky !
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#metapopulations #metacommunities #metaecosystems
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I missed many people, please help me hunting the metacommunists on bluesky !
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@anna-equisuany.bsky.social is expaining its PhD mesocosm experiment to study fragmenation effects over metacommunities #funMETANET
June 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
@anna-equisuany.bsky.social is expaining its PhD mesocosm experiment to study fragmenation effects over metacommunities #funMETANET
Relative strength of drivers might differ for the structure of metacommunities and metapopulations within the same landscape 🔵🪁🔵
We have provided the first empirical evidence for this with Daphnia magna and Cladocera metacommunities! 🧬🧪🔬
We have provided the first empirical evidence for this with Daphnia magna and Cladocera metacommunities! 🧬🧪🔬
Parallels and divergences in landscape genetic and metacommunity patterns in zooplankton inhabiting soda pans
https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10887
📷 © Zsófia Horváth
https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10887
📷 © Zsófia Horváth
December 11, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Relative strength of drivers might differ for the structure of metacommunities and metapopulations within the same landscape 🔵🪁🔵
We have provided the first empirical evidence for this with Daphnia magna and Cladocera metacommunities! 🧬🧪🔬
We have provided the first empirical evidence for this with Daphnia magna and Cladocera metacommunities! 🧬🧪🔬
Seminar: "Fungi and Bacteria in Agricultural Systems: From endosymbionts to metacommunities"
Dr. Greg Bonito is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University.
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4pm, Thursday February 20th
In person: ALS 4001
On Zoom: beav.es/cs2
Dr. Greg Bonito is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University.
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4pm, Thursday February 20th
In person: ALS 4001
On Zoom: beav.es/cs2
February 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Seminar: "Fungi and Bacteria in Agricultural Systems: From endosymbionts to metacommunities"
Dr. Greg Bonito is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University.
🍄 🌳
4pm, Thursday February 20th
In person: ALS 4001
On Zoom: beav.es/cs2
Dr. Greg Bonito is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University.
🍄 🌳
4pm, Thursday February 20th
In person: ALS 4001
On Zoom: beav.es/cs2
With @schneiderbea.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social and others, we showed how connectivity loss affects metacommunities with results from a 4-month long mesocosm experiment just published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social !
shorturl.at/9o9ak
shorturl.at/9o9ak
December 15, 2024 at 3:46 PM
With @schneiderbea.bsky.social @csabavad.bsky.social @zsuzsimrton.bsky.social @hhuong152.bsky.social and others, we showed how connectivity loss affects metacommunities with results from a 4-month long mesocosm experiment just published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social !
shorturl.at/9o9ak
shorturl.at/9o9ak
Glad to see that modelling coexitence in competitive #metacommunities is still generating new ideas; here the authors show how spatial disorder and topological features improve species coexistence ✨ ! great job ! @ Prajwal Padmanabha & giorgionicoletti.bsky.social
Landscape and Environmental Heterogeneity Support Coexistence in Competitive Metacommunities, out in PNAS - we show that habitat heterogeneity is essential for species coexistence in models of dispersing metacommunities, fostering the emergence of ecological niches
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Landscape and environmental heterogeneity support coexistence in competitive metacommunities | PNAS
Metapopulation models have been instrumental in quantifying the ecological impact
of landscape structure on the survival of a focal species. Howeve...
www.pnas.org
November 23, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Glad to see that modelling coexitence in competitive #metacommunities is still generating new ideas; here the authors show how spatial disorder and topological features improve species coexistence ✨ ! great job ! @ Prajwal Padmanabha & giorgionicoletti.bsky.social
Bird metacommunities of urban parks in the pampean region, Argentina | www.sciencedirect.co... | Landscape and Urban Planning | #ornithology
September 17, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Bird metacommunities of urban parks in the pampean region, Argentina | www.sciencedirect.co... | Landscape and Urban Planning | #ornithology
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Scale‐Dependent Biodiversity Responses to Drying and Land Use in River Metacommunities Facing Global Change
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Scale‐Dependent Biodiversity Responses to Drying and Land Use in River Metacommunities Facing Global Change
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October 1, 2026 at 1:46 PM
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Scale‐Dependent Biodiversity Responses to Drying and Land Use in River Metacommunities Facing Global Change
🔗 buff.ly/xUb4uhb
Scale‐Dependent Biodiversity Responses to Drying and Land Use in River Metacommunities Facing Global Change
🔗 buff.ly/xUb4uhb
Reading in journal club
Pre-exposure of abundant species to disturbance improves resilience in microbial metacommunities - Nature Ecology & Evolution
@natureecoevo.bsky.social @teppo-h.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pre-exposure of abundant species to disturbance improves resilience in microbial metacommunities - Nature Ecology & Evolution
@natureecoevo.bsky.social @teppo-h.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pre-exposure of abundant species to disturbance improves resilience in microbial metacommunities - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Community resilience to stress is affected by factors such as pre-exposure to the same stress and intercommunity dispersal. The authors show that pre-exposing the most dominant members of a 23-species...
www.nature.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Reading in journal club
Pre-exposure of abundant species to disturbance improves resilience in microbial metacommunities - Nature Ecology & Evolution
@natureecoevo.bsky.social @teppo-h.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Pre-exposure of abundant species to disturbance improves resilience in microbial metacommunities - Nature Ecology & Evolution
@natureecoevo.bsky.social @teppo-h.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The "organisms to populations to communities to ecological networks to interacting metacommunities to oops we're now pondering the theory of everything" pipeline.
December 3, 2024 at 10:41 PM
The "organisms to populations to communities to ecological networks to interacting metacommunities to oops we're now pondering the theory of everything" pipeline.
So excited to finally read this paper on parametrizing metacommunities! It's a true breakthrough. I've been looking forward to it since the fantastic talk at APS March Meeting.
Modeling and Inferring Metacommunity Dynamics with Maximum Caliber https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.20.660802v1
June 27, 2025 at 6:02 AM
So excited to finally read this paper on parametrizing metacommunities! It's a true breakthrough. I've been looking forward to it since the fantastic talk at APS March Meeting.
OUT NOW
Connectivity Loss in Experimental Pond Networks Leads to Biodiversity Loss in Microbial Metacommunities
📄 https://buff.ly/3BMrnJR
#biodiversityloss #dispersal #aquatic
Connectivity Loss in Experimental Pond Networks Leads to Biodiversity Loss in Microbial Metacommunities
📄 https://buff.ly/3BMrnJR
#biodiversityloss #dispersal #aquatic
January 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
OUT NOW
Connectivity Loss in Experimental Pond Networks Leads to Biodiversity Loss in Microbial Metacommunities
📄 https://buff.ly/3BMrnJR
#biodiversityloss #dispersal #aquatic
Connectivity Loss in Experimental Pond Networks Leads to Biodiversity Loss in Microbial Metacommunities
📄 https://buff.ly/3BMrnJR
#biodiversityloss #dispersal #aquatic
Interested in #MolecularEcology, #IntermittentRivers, #MetacommunityTheory? We are looking for #MSCA applicants to analyse a unique dataset of hundreds of samples from www.dryver.eu. How metacommunities are organised in space/time in #DryingRiverNetworks ?
Interested? email me!
Interested? email me!
May 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Interested in #MolecularEcology, #IntermittentRivers, #MetacommunityTheory? We are looking for #MSCA applicants to analyse a unique dataset of hundreds of samples from www.dryver.eu. How metacommunities are organised in space/time in #DryingRiverNetworks ?
Interested? email me!
Interested? email me!
Nothing less than legends at the @oikosfinland.bsky.social conference in Jyväskylä! Here is Matthew Leibold explaining the back-and-forth in our understanding of species metacommunities.
March 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Nothing less than legends at the @oikosfinland.bsky.social conference in Jyväskylä! Here is Matthew Leibold explaining the back-and-forth in our understanding of species metacommunities.
Thrilled to see this article out! 🎉 It's a roadmap for starting microbial ecologists with key concepts in community ecology, their history and application to microbiomes #NicheTheory #TrophicLevels #KeystoneSpecies #Succession #Metacommunities 🤩 What I wish I'd had when I got into microbial ecology
Delighted to see this out in its final form! doi.org/10.1093/isme...
We established a discussion group focussed on the history of community ecology and how it informs our understanding of microbiota. This review distils those discussions to provide a guide for microbiologists entering the field
We established a discussion group focussed on the history of community ecology and how it informs our understanding of microbiota. This review distils those discussions to provide a guide for microbiologists entering the field
A microbiologist’s field guide to community ecology
Abstract. Many microbiological outcomes are shaped by the determinants of community composition, including the factors that allow pathogens to invade healt
doi.org
May 26, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Thrilled to see this article out! 🎉 It's a roadmap for starting microbial ecologists with key concepts in community ecology, their history and application to microbiomes #NicheTheory #TrophicLevels #KeystoneSpecies #Succession #Metacommunities 🤩 What I wish I'd had when I got into microbial ecology
Attending the #PalAss24 Meeting in Erlangen soon? Interested in #Antarctica? Mass extinctions? Dark data from #museums? Integrating #modern ecological theories with the #fossil record? Come along on Thursday, 14:30 - 14:45 at the Kleiner Saal, to watch my talk on Antarctic metacommunities.
November 27, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Attending the #PalAss24 Meeting in Erlangen soon? Interested in #Antarctica? Mass extinctions? Dark data from #museums? Integrating #modern ecological theories with the #fossil record? Come along on Thursday, 14:30 - 14:45 at the Kleiner Saal, to watch my talk on Antarctic metacommunities.
Now available ahead of print! "The Geography of Metacommunities: Landscape Characteristics Drive Geographic Variation in the Assembly Process through Selecting Species Pool Attributes" by Khattar & Peres-Neto www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
March 22, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Now available ahead of print! "The Geography of Metacommunities: Landscape Characteristics Drive Geographic Variation in the Assembly Process through Selecting Species Pool Attributes" by Khattar & Peres-Neto www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Conceptualizing heterogenous landscapes - spatial properties like landscape topology and dendritic aggregation provide substrates for ecological interactions. These substrates influence multispecies coexistence and foster spatial ecological patterns #metacommunities
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Landscape and environmental heterogeneity support coexistence in competitive metacommunities | PNAS
Metapopulation models have been instrumental in quantifying the ecological impact
of landscape structure on the survival of a focal species. Howeve...
www.pnas.org
November 24, 2024 at 1:06 AM
Conceptualizing heterogenous landscapes - spatial properties like landscape topology and dendritic aggregation provide substrates for ecological interactions. These substrates influence multispecies coexistence and foster spatial ecological patterns #metacommunities
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Better late than never: it's time to tell you about my main project at EPFL 🇨🇭! What happens in competitive metacommunities when you take into account spatial structure and habitat heterogeneity? Once more, a great collaboration with @lambdapp and the people at @liphlab!
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Landscape and environmental heterogeneity support coexistence in competitive metacommunities | PNAS
Metapopulation models have been instrumental in quantifying the ecological impact
of landscape structure on the survival of a focal species. Howeve...
www.pnas.org
March 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Better late than never: it's time to tell you about my main project at EPFL 🇨🇭! What happens in competitive metacommunities when you take into account spatial structure and habitat heterogeneity? Once more, a great collaboration with @lambdapp and the people at @liphlab!
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Exciting news for 2026!
New paper out: River–floodplain metacommunities as complex networks 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
Connectivity matters: A Bayesian multilayer analysis shows how movement, interactions, and environment shape biodiversity, incl. top predators and invasive species 🌍💧
New paper out: River–floodplain metacommunities as complex networks 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
Connectivity matters: A Bayesian multilayer analysis shows how movement, interactions, and environment shape biodiversity, incl. top predators and invasive species 🌍💧
River‐Floodplain Metacommunities as Complex Networks: The Interplay of Species Interactions, Dispersal, and Environment
A network-based framework reveals how species interactions, environmental conditions, and dispersal shape heterogeneous river-floodplain metacommunities. Using spatiotemporal eDNA data, Bayesian netw...
doi.org
January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Exciting news for 2026!
New paper out: River–floodplain metacommunities as complex networks 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
Connectivity matters: A Bayesian multilayer analysis shows how movement, interactions, and environment shape biodiversity, incl. top predators and invasive species 🌍💧
New paper out: River–floodplain metacommunities as complex networks 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/edn3...
Connectivity matters: A Bayesian multilayer analysis shows how movement, interactions, and environment shape biodiversity, incl. top predators and invasive species 🌍💧
Cissell & McCoy reveal that spatially heterogeneous predation may contribute to asynchronous community extinction, stabilizing cyanobacterial mat metacommunities despite extensive community-scale instability.
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
July 15, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Cissell & McCoy reveal that spatially heterogeneous predation may contribute to asynchronous community extinction, stabilizing cyanobacterial mat metacommunities despite extensive community-scale instability.
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Bridging in situ experiments, metacommunity theory, and landscape-scale implementation to understand how spatial heterogeneity shapes biodiversity.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Forest Heterogeneity by Chain Saw: How Between‐Patch Variation in Old Growth Attributes Changes the Metacommunities of Beetles
Metacommunity theory has expanded our understanding of how spatial dynamics and local interactions influence species communities, but we lack empirical studies specifically in terrestrial habitats te...
doi.org
March 8, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Bridging in situ experiments, metacommunity theory, and landscape-scale implementation to understand how spatial heterogeneity shapes biodiversity.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Mathew has conducted important work in ecology on the concept of metacommunities.
Dominique is a specialist of northern #biodiversity conducting research on #climate #change and #arctic #mammals.
Émilie works on #conservation of biodiversity in the Canadian arctic in a context of global warming.
Dominique is a specialist of northern #biodiversity conducting research on #climate #change and #arctic #mammals.
Émilie works on #conservation of biodiversity in the Canadian arctic in a context of global warming.
May 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Mathew has conducted important work in ecology on the concept of metacommunities.
Dominique is a specialist of northern #biodiversity conducting research on #climate #change and #arctic #mammals.
Émilie works on #conservation of biodiversity in the Canadian arctic in a context of global warming.
Dominique is a specialist of northern #biodiversity conducting research on #climate #change and #arctic #mammals.
Émilie works on #conservation of biodiversity in the Canadian arctic in a context of global warming.