A new paper using data from the Living Planet Database (LPD) has been published in @science.org examining how threats are driving global vertebrate population declines.
This work highlights the value of the LPD’s threat data for understanding biodiversity change at a global scale 🌍.
🌐🌴 Current global hunting threat maps treat species as equally at risk everywhere in their range. We attempted to address this by combining where hunters actually go with which species are most likely to be targeted and least able to cope, for 6k+ trop. birds and 4k+ mammals: doi.org/10.32942/X24...
www.science.org
Global vertebrate populations decline faster in the presence of multiple threats compared to single threats.
I’ve just finished this in the past week, but this is easily the best online course/series of lectures I’ve done. I’d tried it in a prior year and fallen on the wayside a bit, and I found the 2026 version with the split beginner/intermediate lectures much more approachable. Would recommend!!
¿Sabías que los corales también duermen por la noche? 🪸
🎧 Javier del Campo (@fonamental.bsky.social) habla de su investigación en el @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social en 📻Españoles en la mar.
#DescifrandoEvolución
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New paper out examining fish food web degradation in the Anthropocene. We show the structure of aquatic food webs are changing-- even when species richness doesn’t. These signals are strongly associated with decreases in body size within fish communities. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🐠🐡🦈🐟
Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expected
🚨 just a reminder that the proposal deadline for our cross-journal Special Feature, 'Mountain Biodiversity in the Anthropocene', with @jappliedecology.bsky.social, @journalofecology.bsky.social and @funecology.bsky.social, closes to submissions on 17 May🗻
Submit your proposal here: buff.ly/iNVgR40
Los llaman los "arquitectos de los ecosistemas marinos" porque sus arrecifes sirven de cobijo a muchísimas especies. También duermen de noche como los humanos.
Since 2014, the planet has been warming by about 0.36°C per decade, according to an analysis of five temperature datasets, raising fears that climate tipping points could be crossed earlier than expected
www.newscientist.com
The decrease in body size driven by the selective species turnover is widely altering fish food web topology and function.
— per a estudiants de la Universitat de Barcelona La Fundació Solidaritat UB convoca la setena edició del Premi de Pòsters de Sostenibilitat i Drets… Més info.
In productive ecosystems, larger animals capture more energy per species biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1644...
Juan Carvajal-Quintero
The relationship between species body mass and abundance (MAR-SPP) is a fundamental feature of ecosystems, reflecting whether energy is accumulated in few large organisms or dispersed amongst several ...
Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
