Federico Riva

Accounting for the Influence of Community Turnover Along Environmental Gradients on Compositional Uniqueness Compositional uniqueness is commonly quantified using the Local Contribution to Beta Diversity (LCBD), which is typically regressed against environmental predictors. However, LCBD–environment relatio...

If you’re interested in modelling community turnover and/or community uniqueness (i.e. LCBD: local contribution to beta diversity), make sure you check it out.

Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Will do my best to be there

That's awesome!

Got it. Thank you, looking forward to reading this with a bit more time and peace

Interesting. Why do you think Fig 3 found lower differences in the bottom row - maybe an interaction with habitat quality? Looking forward to reading it in depth (sorry if this is explained in the MS).

Why controlling for habitat amount is critical for resolving the fragmentation debate Click on the article title to read more.

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... resolving the fragmentation debate requires controlling for habitat loss. Biodiversity change in fragmented vs pristine landscapes is likely due to the signature of loss (deforestation), not of the spatial pattern in forest habitat (fragmentation).

The value of close replications and how to get more of them: interview with Kate Laskowski Welcome to our latest interview with the author of a recent interesting paper. Today’s interview was conducted by email with behavioral ecologist Kate Laskowski, first author ofLaskowski et a…

Stoked about the new Replication Studies section in Behavioral Ecology? Me too!

Jeremy Fox over at Dynamic Ecology interviewed me about our recent commentary on this topic and I'd love to hear the community's thoughts!

dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/t...

Our second Masterclass in identifying European butterflies is coming up next Wednesday 17th Feb. This one covers the trickier species in the Atlantic region given by renowned expert Chris van Swaay. The Webinar zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/81934375118

We have opened two positions for PhD students at GLEL: csee-scee.ca/job/two-phd-... please share widely! Note that the positions are unfortunately not open to international applicants (only Canadian students are eligible).

9 cards made by kindergartners on a bulletin board with a roly-poly photo in the middle with the words "Thank you friends, I'm happy now". The cards imply that the bug is definitely dead.

When I need cheering up I look at the cards my kid's afterschool program made for a dead bug

The making of novel ecosystems: A process‐based framework for measurement, analysis and application Ecological novelty is emerging rapidly due to global change drivers such as climate shifts, species introductions, defaunation, and land-use transformation. These changes challenge how we assess, ...

🌍 New paper! A process-based framework for measuring & analyzing novel ecosystems across biotic, abiotic & social dimensions.
Open access in @natmethods.nature.com, congrats to @mattkerr.bsky.social for leading this!!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210x.70255

Miguel's MSc thesis is now available here sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... In disturbed regions and landscapes, across ~ 1700 sites and 45 studies, we found a lower butterfly biodiversity for the same plants diversity. @ecospat-ch.bsky.social @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social @fcollart.bsky.social

Matthew House Ottawa Matthew House Ottawa is a non-profit organization that provides shelter, furnishings and community to refugees and those transitioning to permanent housing.

My councillor posted on FB about this charity in Ottawa. Seems like an wonderful idea and a great way to recycle your unneeded furniture.
www.matthewhouseottawa.org

Excited to share that I’m officially back in beautiful Ottawa! 🦋 This April I’ll rejoin @carleton.ca to launch a new lab focused on biodiversity conservation & spatial ecology. I’ll be recruiting Canadian students. Deep thanks to @ivm-vu-amsterdam.bsky.social and the EG Dept for 3 fundamental years.

📢 Join us for the INTEGRADIV ( @biodiversa.eu ) Stakeholders’ Final Event!
We’ll share key project results + an interactive prioritization tool to support biodiversity decision-making.

🗓️ Jan 29, 2026 | 10:00–12:00 CET
💻 Online
📝Register: vuamsterdam.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Integradiv members are meeting in Ioannina, Greece 🇬🇷. This is our last general meeting before the project ends late this year.

We are busy preparing the stakeholders workshop for next week. Would you like to take part in it next Thursday? Join here! vuamsterdam.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Thanks for the invitation, looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar!
Dr. Federico Riva
will give a talk about why appreciating biodiversity change across scales is essential for optimizing conservation and environmental decisions

📅 Wed 14. Jan at 10:15 AM
📩 DM for webinar link

@agrarunigoe.bsky.social

📢 Join us for the 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐈𝐕 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭!
We’ll present 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 & an 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭 supporting biodiversity decision-making across taxa & facets.

🗓️ Jan 29, 2026 | 10:00–12:00 CET
💻 Online (MS Teams)

🔗 Register: vuamsterdam.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Here is a link around the paywall for my latest commentary
in One Earth titled " A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions"
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mIX89C%7E...

Forest bird diversity increases with fragmentation per se in landscapes following forest gains Our results suggest that, at least for forest breeding birds, the benefits of habitat restoration to increase total forest area could be enhanced by distributing a given amount of restored habitat ac...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We found that (i) "the benefits of habitat restoration to increase total forest area could be enhanced by distributing a given amount of restored habitat across multiple patches" and (ii) "overarching importance of habitat amount for biodiversity"

Happy to see our paper out! 🎉
We assess the relative roles of past/present environmental & anthropogenic drivers shaping functional & phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean forests, highlighting the key role of past climate stability 🌳
➡️https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70177

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Echoes of the Past: Long‐Term Climate Stability Shapes Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity in Euro‐Mediterranean Forests Aim Understanding the relative influence of past and present environmental and anthropogenic drivers on biodiversity is crucial for predicting future biodiversity trends. We assessed how past climat...

New #INTEGRADIV paper shows #paleoclimate stability is major driver of functional & phylogenetic diversity in animals & plants across Mediterranean #forests🌿❄️ Important implications for impacts of #climatechange ♨️Thx to @cmlmagneville.bsky.social for leading!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Several small reserves hold more beetle, spider and bird species than a single large reserve of the same size in Central Europe, with habitat heterogeneity being an important driver. First PhD paper by Anne Huber (not on Bsky), w/ @sebseibold.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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How effective are perches in promoting bird-mediated seed dispersal for forest regeneration? New publication brilliantly led by Jelaine! doi.org/10.1186/s137... "We recommend...natural perches be preserved... but in areas lacking these...explore the use of artificial or semi-natural perches"

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One of our postdocs, @elywok.bsky.social from @ua.es, did an excellent job at @sibecol-aeet-25.bsky.social explaining how the skewness–kurtosis relationship can be used to understand biogeographical patterns of body mass across taxa and which drivers explain it.

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Our viewpoint made the cover of BioScience! Beautiful picture from Jean Marie Twambaze academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...