Bouwe Reijenga
@BReijenga
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(Macro)evolutionary biologist • postdoc @OxUniEarthSci • from fossils, phylogenies and theory to community assembly and diversification trends
Joined May 2021
New pre-print on the presence of negative scaling between diversification rates and the duration of clades! Various explanations, such as incongruence between micro- and macroevolution, have been put forward based on molecular phylogenies, but the fossil record has been ignored
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Now published in @CurrentBiology
https://t.co/qtLkEdrp5K
cell.com
Negative scaling relationships between diversification rates and the duration of organismal groups occur in molecular phylogenetic and fossil data. This causes a disconnect between micro- and...
New pre-print on the presence of negative scaling between diversification rates and the duration of clades! Various explanations, such as incongruence between micro- and macroevolution, have been put forward based on molecular phylogenies, but the fossil record has been ignored
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New paper! Exploring the interaction between two convergent lizards who evolved separately on different Caribbean islands and were introduced to south Florida. Read all about how character displacement could play out in real time in the wild! 🦎🦎🦎 https://t.co/2zhALSna3O
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Nature Communications - When similar species coexist, they often evolve differences to reduce competition, a process called character displacement. This study provides rare evidence of character...
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Paper accepted 🥳🙌 in #philtransb (@RSocPublishing) is a nice way to start a grey Monday. Watch this space to learn more about how clustered warming tolerances drive non-linear risks of biodiversity loss on a warming planet! 🥵🌎🌿
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Professor Alex Pigot explains the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. Learn more about UCL's biodiversity research ➡️ https://t.co/zgsyF18sQO
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Book your time. On November 6th I will present an online talk at the Ma(th)ssX (Mathematics of Mass Extinctions) seminar series. "The Scaling of Earth Systems and Macroevolution" https://t.co/LNU9F7pFkt
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🎶🏝️Exciting news! Our new study in @Ecology_Letters extends the well-known principle of Species-Area Relationship into the world of ecoacoustics. Discover how habitat fragmentation influences the richness of natural soundscapes in the Amazon: a thread🧵 https://t.co/mqCwPS7e5g
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In this study, we expanded the principles of island biogeography to the field of ecoacoustics. We examined the relative importance of island size and isolation in predicting the spectro-temporal...
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Super excited to announce that our paper is out in Palaeontology! Check it out if you’re interested in expanding coverage standardisation techniques beyond taxonomic diversity…📈📉
Standardising fossil disparity metrics using sample coverage https://t.co/v6iqQt96z9
@Menna_Jones_ @datadryad @PaleoDB @wileyearthspace #FossilFriday
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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 @ScienceMagazine. https://t.co/iPZms4JbvH A summary of our findings below 🧵(1/9)
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Humans have been driving a global erosion of species richness for millennia, but the consequences of past extinctions for other dimensions of biodiversity—functional and phylogenetic diversity—are...
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Excited that this pre-print about the evolution of reproductive isolation in experimental evolution studies is now out! This research was led by former postdoc @bjmjarrett in #SvenssonLab @Biology_LU @lunduniversity, now at @BangorUni (UK). https://t.co/5hquUpnmal
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Reproductive isolation is a key process during speciation, but the factors that shape its evolution during the early stages of speciation remain largely unknown. Using a meta-analysis of 34 experim...
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We further explore additional artefacts, and ask if this result is at all surprising, especially when considering that if evolution would be hierarchical, why would that result in the same pattern in molecular (species) and fossil (genus) data? https://t.co/noKmKgqLK6
biorxiv.org
Negative scaling relationships between both speciation and extinction rates on the one hand, and the age or duration of organismal groups on the other, are pervasive and recovered in both molecular...
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We back up our empirical analysis with simple simulations that show that even with uniform, moderate but incomplete sampling, rate scaling is introduced when not accounted for
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The fossil record is far from complete, and ignoring this could lead to several sampling artefacts. We show that if uneven sampling is corrected for, rate-scaling largely disappears in the Phanerozoic marine fossil record (bottom row)
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The life strategies of #parasitoids are stunningly diverse, but no wasps that attack and develop inside adult flies have ever been described. Our article describes the first one. Its hosts: Drosophila melanogaster and other species of #Drosophila
#Entomology #Braconidae
Nature research paper: Drosophila are hosts to the first described parasitoid wasp of adult flies
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Apparent timescaling of fossil diversification rates is caused by sampling bias https://t.co/BKrpqgaYxe
#biorxiv_evobio
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Paper out in @CurrentBiology today shows fruit in the guts of a fossilized Mesozoic bird with a toothed beak previously assumed to be a predator. On the one hand this is very cool but I have some thoughts on the spin applied by the authors. 1/7 https://t.co/Uvn5H5Nvxz
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Our paper is published today in @Nature journal! If you want to know more about how communities interact across habitats and interaction types, and their effects on ecosystem functioning and stability, the paper is here🔽 https://t.co/7bpBC6yqhO
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Nature - Species interaction data, a field experiment and modelling of plant–insect communities show that landscapes with more habitat types support more even species, more complementary...
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Colonisation lags predict sympatric diversity in birds https://t.co/21edBSLvN8
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cool paper alert reminds me of when I visited Sulawesi cloud forests full of flycatchers/whistlers/fantails/mixed flocks. Then went downhill to beautiful lowland forests and saw, like, no insectivores I was so puzzled - maybe it's the weaver ants!!! https://t.co/eoW7yI6KlN
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Using data on bird species elevational distributions from the world's mountain ranges, bird diets, and the distribution of the ant genus Oecophylla, we show that global patterns in bird elevational...
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New research proposes that groups of birds with early origins associated with the end-Cretaceous mass extinction experienced rapid evolutionary changes across their genomes and physiology. Learn more in this week’s issue of Science Advances: https://t.co/1hXdXU6dT0
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