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Our new study in NatureEcoEvo looks at how assemblages of birds, butterflies and plants have changed across Great Britain in the last 50 or so years. 🔗nature.com/articles/s4155… 🧵Some key results

We already have some interesting papers in the pipeline of this call, but since some of you missed the past deadline, we decided to extend it until 31 May 2024. Submit! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

Are there REALLY more insects out at night?🌞🌘🦋 Our global study Nature Communications empirically tackles this "simple question a child may ask, the answer to which is important, unknown, and subject to various ecological hypotheses"–Reviewer 1😆 Open Access: nature.com/articles/s4146…

🚨🏝️🐦 Check out our new #openaccess paper in Royal Society Publishing, in which we investigate the importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

New paper led by Paul Dufour where we quantify how often island endemic bird species originate from migratory drop-off 🏝️🦆🐦🪿🐦‍⬛

Really moving stories about how quiet nature has become #silentspring I would love to hear nature at full volume once again theguardian.com/environment/20…

Decoupling floral resource dynamics from plant density dynamics, key to fostering multiscale selection explaining partial specialisation of plant-pollinator networks. GLiTRS NITheCS Low floral resource constrains network specialisation - Oikos nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oi…

We're hiring! Birds of the World seeks a postdoc interested in avian life history traits. The chosen candidate will explore how avian life history data can best expand the utility of the BOW from a research and conservation perspective. Please share! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/were-…

We are delighted to announce Wallingford Beach will become the second bathing water site on the River Thames! Congratulations to all involved, and to Wallingford for its new official bathing water!🧵⬇️ Image - ©Jo Robb

Applications are flying in! British Ecological Society Make sure not to miss this unique event working at the interface of human-nature interactions e.g. wildlife trade, behaviour change, mental health benefits of nature !!! RT Please!!! britishecologicalsociety.org/event/next-gen…

JOB OPPORTUNITY: We are advertising an 18-month research assistant position to investigate the drivers of insect biodiversity change, working on the fabulous GLITRS Project (glitrs.ceh.ac.uk). DM to discuss further details, or apply here: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Do you have a passion for dragonflies and damselflies, & share observations in any way?  We are conducting a survey about dragonfly recording in the UK.  Whether you are a beginner or expert, specialist or generalist, we would really welcome your input: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online-s…

New research on the Global Impacts of Bird Extinctions 🌍🦜🦤 "The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions" led by Tom Mathews and published in Science Magazine. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… A summary of our findings below 🧵(1/9)

Yet another paper showing how we humans are destroying biodiversity on our planet When are we going to wake up and act? And I mean really act - this should be our number one priority science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

When species die out, the important role they play (their functional diversity) dies with them. A Uni of Birmingham-led study coauthored by Rob Cooke reveals the true impact of species loss caused by humans is far greater than expected 🧵 Excellent summary by Ferran Sayol⤵️

Dufour et al. 2024: Niche filling predicts evolutionary trajectories in insular bird communities Functional Ecology doi.org/10.1111/1365-2… | #ornithology | Paul Dufour Ferran Sayol Rob Cooke | @cefemontpellier CREAF BayCEER_is_leaving_X UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre

A small step outside my usual field of study on bird migration during my postdoc at Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre. In this paper Functional Ecology, we explored the evolutionary trajectories of >350 endemic (extant&extinct) species from diverse island bird communities. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

We are working in partnership with governments and research partners internationally to develop solutions for nature restoration and reverse #biodiversity loss. Meet the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology team at #COP16Colombia: drnickisaac.bsky.social Tom August Lindsay Banin Rob Cooke #PeaceWithNature

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro Urrego opens the #COP16 high level political segment emphasising the value of life over money, the need for global democracy over domination, new relationships between people & production and establishing Colombia as a “global power of life”

AVOTREX: A global dataset of extinct birds and their traits. 🦤🌍 The dataset includes 610 extinct birds from last 130k years. This dataset includes details on species traits, mirroring the morphological data available for extant species in AVONET (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…