Roberto Rozzi
@Rozzi_Roberto
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Mammalian paleontologist @UniHalle & @mfnberlin | islands 🏝, paleoecology ⏳, conservation paleobiology, bovids 🐐🐃🐂 | member @IUCN_WildCattle | Also 🎶
Joined September 2013
Islands🏝️+ mammals🐘🐃🐭+ body size evolution⚖️+ extinctions 🦤 Excited to share our paper ‘Dwarfism and gigantism drive human-mediated extinctions on islands’, published today in @ScienceMagazine @NewsfromScience #ScienceResearch
https://t.co/XQRVWiRkzw a🧵👇
science.org
Island-dwelling dwarf and giant mammals are disproportionately susceptible to extinction, especially after human arrival.
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Late Pleistocene temperature patterns in the Western Palearctic: insights from rodent associations compared with general circulation models https://t.co/7kZGf84ysR
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📢 Funded #PhD position! 🌿Interested in studing angiosperm macroevolution linking genome size, polyploidy and trait evolution? 🍀🌻🔬🧬 Join my group @IBOTCZ 📄Apply/Details: https://t.co/EoFbUyfXfQ 💬 Questions welcome!
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Creative Minds, Younger Brains: Engaging in music, dance, painting, or even (some) gaming is linked to delayed brain aging. Article: https://t.co/rexsAc43H4. 🧵1/5 Biophysical modeling, graph theory, and Neurosynth analyses reveal plasticity-driven efficiency in regions most
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Glad to share our latest article on the "co-coordinated stasis of large mammal diversity with the environments". Long in reviews it is finally out--a work done during the post-doc of Simona Bekeraitė https://t.co/z66yjqW7HP 1/n cc @niles_eldredge @PalaeoPhilo @CoelhoPre @svalver
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Thrilled our paper “The division of food space among mammalian species on biomes” was selected as October’s Editor’s Choice in @EcographyJourna! 📰✨👇 https://t.co/RHr9PEO68Z Big thanks to @rafa_barri for the photo (Rafa’s the photographer, not the stunning monkey 🐒).
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First paper of our @dungpool_proj is out! This is also the first paper of Almudena Dueñas-Rojas PhD thesis! As expected, diversity of dung beetles is low, and includes introduced species. Will these poor communities be able to sustain the basic ecosystem services? More to come!
📢 The first paper of our project as just been published. Here we present the list and geographical records of the dung beetles 🪲💩 we collect in the Azores, in June/July 2024. The diversity is low, and includes alien species. https://t.co/xY3prKAdvS
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Thrilled to welcome @Paleobicha to the ZNS-@UniHalle! Excited for our collaboration 🦋🏝
Excited to announce that from today I’m joining the Halle (Saale) ZNS, where I’ll be working on butterfly ecology and evolution with the brilliant @Rozzi_Roberto, thanks to a @FundacionAreces fellowship! Already covered in gifts on my first day 🎁🦋
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Help us spread the word!! PhD offer #CREAF 🏝️🌴🐇🦜. Come work with us!
🚨PhD offer 👩🎓: Fascinated by island biodiversity, palaeoecology & human impacts on ecosystems? 🌴🦜🌍 Join @CREAF to explore how island life changed over the last 11,700 years. Deadline: 27 Oct 2025 Selection process: November Starting date: ~January 2026 More info below👇
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Multiple bursts of speciation in Madagascar’s endangered lemurs https://t.co/FjKq6ntchv
@NatureComms
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Nature Communications - Here, the authors characterize the tempo and mode of lemur speciation with a phylogenomic dataset that also includes lorisiforms. They find that lemurs exhibited multiple...
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Proud of @PiedStone getting his 1st PhD chapter published in #ProcB @RSocPublishing (with @IslandEvolution,@GeorgiosLyras, @mennecart_b & @gregoire_metais)! We studied brain endocasts of the iconic island ruminant Hoplitomeryx! 🏝🧠⏳️🐐🦌 Check out the🧵 below #proudadvisor
🦌🧠🏝️ So happy to share my first PhD chapter! First digital brain endocast of Hoplitomeryx matthei - a strange five-horned ruminant from Gargano paleo-island (Italy). Full study: https://t.co/OQoLkZcODW...
#Paleontology #Paleoneurology #IslandBiogeography 1/7
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Grateful for the opportunity to comment on this great study led by @sagitaninta investigating the genetic health of populations of anoa and babirusa across islands of varying sizes. Story: https://t.co/0heWFDcouv Original study: https://t.co/037LaFwInC 🏝🧬🐃🐗
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Animals living on small islands are often thought to be more susceptible to extinction compared to those distributed across mainland land masses. Small population sizes, limited habitat availability,...
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🚨 Our study investigating the relationship between evolutionary age and range size across plants and animals is out in @NatureComms! Delighted to be part of this great project led by @AAlzateVallejo
https://t.co/adk1yk5QZv 🌐📈⏳️🐐🐋🐦🦎🐸🐠🌴🏝
Older species generally have larger geographic ranges — but island dwellers break the rule! New research led by iDiv alumna @AAlzateVallejo in @NatureComms analysed over 26,000 species and found strong correlation between evolutionary age and range size: https://t.co/x3nSLsXfBQ
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Taxonomic note: the study includes the description of Eotriton weigelti, whose holotype is housed in our Geiseltal collection @UniHalle (2/2)
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Our study on the role of the #PETM on the early evolutionary success of salamandrids is out! Delighted to be part of this great project led by @LoredanaGamma, & with @andrewjhouse, Anne-Claire Fabre, & @mennecart_b #salamanders #climatechanges 🌡☀️⌛️ https://t.co/iyzy8524SN (1/2)
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Abstract. Currently, little is known about the early evolution and geographical origin of Salamandridae, the most species-rich family of Palearctic salaman
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A new ruminant confirms two biogeographic provinces in Asia 38Mya and brings weight on the scenario of eocene-oligocene fauna in central Asia (faunal turnover before 34Ma). Thank you so much colleagues, editors, and reviewers for having this paper out ! 🦌🦬🐃🦒🐐🐏
A new species of Lophiomeryx from the Eocene of northern China & its implications for the early evolution of the family Lophiomerycidae https://t.co/rTc5L3BXns
@mennecart_b @MorphoBank @wileyearthspace #PapersInPalaeontology
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In our new paper, we asked: Who eats what — and where — across the world’s biomes? How does being a specialist or a generalist affect that? And what that means for biodiversity? 🔍🦓🌍 👉
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Understanding how species' ecological partitioning functions across biomes is fundamental to macroecology and conservation biology. Here, we examine the global distribution of dietary strategies in...
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Jockheck et al. 🖼: Changes in brain size and morphology in the Late Pleistocene–Holocene insular bovid Myotragus balearicus and close relatives (16:45-17:15) 3/3
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Orgebin et al. 🎤: Virtual endocast of Hoplitomeryx matthei (Artiodactyla, Hoplitomerycidae) and brain evolution in insular ruminants (10:30) 2/3
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Excited to be @EAVPalaeo conference #EAVP2025 in Krakow with @PiedStone and @WilhelmJockheck. If you're interested in neuroanatomy 🧠, ruminants 🦌🐐 & island evolution 🏝, don’t miss our talk & poster tomorrow at Krzysztofory Palace [Rynek Główny 35]) 1/3
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Happy #FossilFriday! The fully reconstructed Toyotamaphimeia taiwanicus from the Pleistocene of Taiwan, for the very first time, is coming soon! Two more weeks - A new special exhibition in Tainan, Taiwan - please come to feel and enjoy the beauty of our crocodylian princess ~
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