BES Macro

ICYMI: New online! Island biogeography in deep time

Does the shape of the inner ear really make a difference to flight? It doesn't seem so! Congrats to the authors on this super cool work. Another example of ecomorphological relationships not being straightforward to understand👂 🐦 🦢 🦤 #oxipotangos

Antonin Machac's group (IMIC Czech Academy of Sciences) is advertising a postdoc position in vertebrate biogeography macroevolution: machac.weebly.com/open-postdoc...

Nowak et al., new paper in GEB, "Impacts of Species Introductions on the Trait Diversity of Interacting Avian Frugivores and Fleshy-Fruited Plants Depend on Native Trait Diversity" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Granville et al., NE&E, "Temperature mediates variation in avian sensitivity to forest cover" (Natasha was our 2026 student plenary speaker and discussed this study among others -- exciting to see it in print!) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ever wondered how to combine biodiversity analyses in geographic space with those in environmental space, while also considering species' traits in an attribute space? Wonder no more! shorturl.at/Qsbdk

Happy to share that the last chapter of my dissertation is finally out in Evolution! 🦎⛰️ I'll share a longer thread soon about what we did and found. Huge thanks to all my coauthors: @jblosos.bsky.social, @juvelas.bsky.social, Steven Poe and Adam Algar doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Our global analysis of ecosystem functions and services is online now! This is probably the paper I'm most proud of - a quantitative, global map of every one of the IPBES ecosystem service categories, all tracked back to the original data! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Post-doctoral fellow in global forest dynamics! TreeChange combines life history traits from field observations with demographic modelling to understand the future of forests and the carbon sink. Based at Lund in Sweden you will work with researchers across the world lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Climate change is reshaping butterfly ranges worldwide. A global study found that 80% of 1,758 species in its dataset had expanded their ranges. @larspett.bsky.social and colleagues combined 6,182 reports from 105 countries. doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Biodiversity #ClimateChange #Ecology

JUST OUT: Global Patterns in Body Size and Colour Lightness Diversity of Swallowtail Butterflies Highlight Biogeographical Legacy Over Common Environmental Explanations - Krampe et al. 2026 - @unimarburg.bsky.social @consecol.bsky.social - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Shan et al.'s work on medicinal floras across #China's ethnic groups reveals how #environmental barriers and cultural exchange interact to shape the #biogeographic structure of traditional #medicine. doi.org/10.1111/jipb... @wileylifesci.bsky.social #JIPB #PlantScience #phylogenetics

1/4 🐢 What should fossil turtle systematics look like ten years from now? Walter Joyce & I offer our personal answer in a new review paper: "Transforming Turtle Systematics: Challenges, Opportunities, and the Path Ahead" Out now in @journalsystpal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨🚨 1. New preprint! We examine whether the diversity of transcontinental freshwater fish radiations, such as killifishes and cichlids, might be driven by marine ancestry in the aftermath of an asteroid impact! Retained salinity tolerance explains their biogeography and diversity!

New research in #RESSystematicEnt New insights into the tribal-level #phylogeny and historical #biogeography of #Iassinae (Hemiptera: #Cicadellidae) revealed by #phylogenomics doi.org/10.1111/syen... #Leafhoppers @gkergoat.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social

‘envar’: An R package to retrieve and process environmental variables for macroecology and biogeography www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌍 iDiv and the @uni-jena.de are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Macroevolution & Macroecology. 🕒 Full-time (40h/week) or part-time (minimum 75%) 📅 Start: 1 Dec 2026 💼 Fixed-term: 3 years 💶 Salary: up to E13 (TV‑L) ⏳ Deadline: 30 Sept 2026 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...

New #ornithology paper out in @ecography.bsky.social! The tendency of birds to return to the same breeding area in different years varies wildly among species. We show that breeding site fidelity is much lower in #shorebirds nesting in the #Arctic tundra than in those nesting in other habitats. 1/n

Obituary: Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students. Free to read: rdcu.be/D33fLgYcv4Ba

Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena (@uni-jena.de) is hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Macroevolution and Macroecology #postdoc #biology #macroevolution

The Landscape Ecology Group at the University of Potsdam is seeking applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position! See the full solicitation on our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/po...

The timescale of #nematode #evolution reveals late and convergent radiations of #parasitism: dx.doi.org/10.1038/s415... You should be able to access it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... #Fossils #Evolution #Parasites #Genomics #Nematodes

2 #postdoc positions now live! 🐠🐡🐟 (1) #AI for #Ecology, (2) #Marine Field Ecology for AI-Enabled Behavioural Monitoring, & v soon (3) AI-Enabled #BehaviouralEcology for #Conservation Join our team, unlock #AnimalBehaviour as an early warning system. #Jobs @lec-reefs.bsky.social Links 👇

Peng et al.'s analysis of Androsace #macroevolutionary dynamics provides a spatiotemporal framework for understanding the #evolution of #alpine plants in the Northern Hemisphere. Read all about it here! doi.org/10.1111/jse.... @wileyecology.bsky.social #PlantSci #systematics #DNA

Two-year postdoc in freshwater biogeography at the University of Oulu. A clean fit for researchers analyzing spatial distributions in aquatic ecosystems. #AquaticScience #MarineJobs

Thinking big: The case for experimental macroecology nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🧵1/6 New paper from #NearLab dropped! Wood et al. (2026) tackle a long-standing mystery: how did freshwater perches, walleyes, and darters (Percidae) end up on BOTH sides of the Atlantic? Spoiler: they may have swum there. 🐟🌊 #Ichthyology #Evolution #Systematics

The complex interaction between mammalian herbivores, climate, soil and fire has shaped the evolution and distribution of plant spinescence across biogeographical realms - Souza Ferreira - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‼️ new article ‼️ Happy to collaborate with incredible Dr. Fernanda Souza!!! “Climate Predicts Tree Dispersal Strategies Across Brazil’s Ecosystems,” Global Ecology and Biogeography, doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Super excited to share the first preprint from my PhD! In this, we couple species range maps with daily-scale climate records over the last 80 years to produce the ClimLimits database, a record of 44 realized climate limits for ~55,000 terrestrial and freshwater species. (1/4)

In addition to temporal patterns, we investigated macroecological patterns across space and discovered a strong statistical signal of an inverse latitudinal gradient in mean rates of phenotypic evolution (after accounting for many potential covariates). Figure 3 (and supp info section 3 and 4).

Macroecological insights can support local #conservation, but temporal mismatches may misidentify threatened species locally 🌍 New paper out in Sci.Adv. by Simon D. Schowanek et al. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A 10-million-year biogeographic holding pen primed the Great American Biotic Interchange | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

There is ample evidence that climate change is altering ecosystems into novel configurations. Chuffed to have been part of this new paper on how climate change induces ecological novelty, and how we can possibly adapt and mitigate the impacts. www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02697-8

New @econovoau.bsky.social study led by @jonastrepel.bsky.social: Global analysis shows that #vegetation in semi-natural areas greened (densified) faster w/ higher #Ndeposition - #nitrogen pollution may be an underestimated driver of global vegetation change🌿 doi.org/10.1002/ecog... #globalgreening

Stoked to see our paper out as a pre-print! Check it out if you're interested in how we can expand comparative methods to better accommodate the many-to-one mapping of evolutionary process to pattern... (or if you think frogs are cool) @gjslater.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Spatially‐Uneven Observations Cause Overestimation of Global Soil Respiration 🔗 buff.ly/hJT4Snt

How many languages have existed over the Holocene—and what does that reveal about the design space of languages and cultures? Now out in @science.org www.science.org/eprint/QDZNY....

Our newest paper on mammalian dental evolution, out today as the cover article in @science.org, lead by @narimanechatar.bsky.social with a team of fantastic early career scientists!!! 🎉🥳 “Performance trade-offs define a fundamental dental dichotomy in mammals” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨Out today in @society4conbio.bsky.social, in my new paper with @birdmapper.bsky.social, we show a positive relationship between exinction risk and colourfulness across the world's passerine birds! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper out! 🖨️ Glad to be part of this study, out in Science Advances: "Emergent patterns of island biodiversity in the Anthropocene" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Much of what looks natural in island biodiversity is a legacy of human impacts going back millennia. See main findings 👇🧵 (1/8)

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

🚨 #MUSEUMJOBS KLAXON🚨 We're looking for a Senior Digitiser and two Digitisers to work across @zoologymuseum.bsky.social & @camplantsci.bsky.social to help create biodiversity data for the researchers who need it, through #DiSSCoUK. 1. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/senior-... 2. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/digitis...

Registration is OPEN for the main BES meeting in December. The past two years they've had to close registration early, so sign up while you still can! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/bes-...

New paper from @jakeberv.bsky.social harnesses a massive skeletal measurement dataset for passerines to show nested bursts in phenotypic evolution, many of which appear coincident with intervals of climate instability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dancers in fine feathers: the evolution of gestural display organization in lekking birds doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour #Ecology #Evolution