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Squirrels reduce post‑fire regeneration potential in a serotinous pine by 66%, despite pine cone defences against squirrels!
By Guiote et al https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcag200
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🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🐿️ #plantscience #ecoevo #plantsci #predation @ecology @plants @botany @wildfirescience @plantscience @nature @biodiversity

@YoMosEco

PS, I'll present recent work from Felix Jäger, PhD student in my group. The talk is entitled "Between Friends and Foes - Evolutionary #Diversification in Mutualistic-Antagonistic Networks" and based on our joint #preprint.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.16.712075v1

#ecoevo #mutualism #antagonism #EcologicalNetworks #AdaptiveDynamics #EcologicalModelling #theoreticalEcology

Finally, Felix‘ #ecoevo paper is back from #PeerReview:

"…this manuscript is an important contribution that almost uniquely explores the evolutionary transitions between #mutualism through #commensalism and on to #antagonism, and vice versa. […] Not only are the results strong, but some of them are surprising, and in interesting ways that will be worth exploring in future years"

Thank you! 🤩
The #preprint is available here:

https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.27.615354

Big news! Felix Jäger will soon join the #ecoevo #modelling group at @unihohenheim as a doctoral researcher funded by the Studienstiftung! Hooray! He will study transitions from #mutualism to #antagonism and vice versa within #networks of interacting species.

(Btw, he received the good news just one day after I insisted on having him on the new group picture, even though he was not yet an official group member. So maybe I found the recipe for funding success?)

About using #citation impact measures to estimate the importance of scientific #publications:
"All metrics of scientific #evaluation are bound to be abused. Goodhart's law [...] states that when a feature of the economy is picked as an indicator of the economy, then it inexorably ceases to function as that indicator because people start to game it."
— Mario Biagioli in 2016: https://escholarship.org/content/qt0b05p1j6/qt0b05p1j6.pdf via @rysiek
#dataGovernance @dataGovernance #ecoEvo #genetics #ESEBFolks #SMBEFolks #dataAnalysis

#introduction

Hello #ecoevo world!! I'm a philosopher of biology who collaborates with scientists on conceptual work for interdisciplinary and public-facing projects in #evodevo & #ecoevodevo.

My project areas include #nicheconstruction, host-microbiome immunological interactions #holobionts, & the extended evolutionary synthesis #EES. I'm currently working on the proto-cognitive role of the gut complex & a #scicomm proj on inheritance #Mendel200. Also work comms for #KLIAustria :)