Pavel Kratina

The School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences at QMUL YouTube video by Queen Mary SBBS

We have made some really nice videos of academics talking about the @qmulsbbs.bsky.social at @qmul.bsky.social. Well worth a couple of minutes of your time. A certain palaeontologist may appear in there too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4P-...

Full professorship in Coastal Paleoecology available as joint appointment by the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research & @icbm-uol.bsky.social

uol.de/en/job/coast...

Many chances to collaborate with the interdisciplinary marine research community in NW Germany 🧪

Videos

We’ve been collaborating with @danubelifelines.bsky.social to create a series of short videos about river ecology. These are the #FridayFacts and you can find the whole series here: danubelifelines.eu/news/videos

Braided rivers look chaotic, but their food webs tell a different story.
Using stable isotopes, we found that fish, birds, and spiders connect resources across huge spatial scales — revealing hidden structures that help stabilise these dynamic ecosystems.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I’m excited to share my first publiction as first author🎉
We examined the responses of arthropods to flooding and the role of refugia🌊🪲🕷️
A big thanks to co-authors Imenne Åhlén, Jerker Jarsjö and senior author Peter Hambäck.

You can read it on Landscape Ecology: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It was great to catch up with some old friends and colleagues at the Gordon Research Conference on predator-prey interactions in Italy last week, including a night chase of salamanders and a brief stroll through Florence. @davidboukal.bsky.social

Extended deadline! Until 15 Feb 2026, you can apply for #experimental #PhD position in our group to study species #invasions in the context of climate #warming and #eutrophication together with @kratina.bsky.social, Arnaud Sentis and Otto Seppälä. See bit.ly/4pcWMIV for details.

📢 Huge congrats to David Storch & colleagues! Their paper is featured on the cover of Trends Ecol. Evol. (@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social), proposing a unifying theory of global biodiversity dynamics – and what it means for the future!

📖 doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

🌍 #Biodiversity #Ecology #Evolution

Please repost this great #PhD and #postdoc opportunity in #ecology, #invasive spp. and #climate #warming

A global estimator of C and N isotope baselines for fresh waters Baselines are the pebbles in the shoes of isotope ecologists. The extreme variability of the isotope composition of resources at the base of food webs governs the spatial differences of consumers'...

A global estimator of C and N isotope baselines for fresh waters. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 00, 1–15. doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Hypothesised scaling relationships between body size and population density and energy use (metabolism and energy flux) for predators and secondary consumers

❗New paper alert❗
The 2nd publication from Poppy Romera's Masters is just out in @natcomms.nature.com
We find that adherence of 180 soil food webs to the energy equivalence rule strongly depends on the measure of energy use, trophic level, and food web structure. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Incorporating realistic ecological interactions changes our understanding of which traits are optimal in different environments, including the temperature-size rule.

Awesome paper by David Anderson, outstanding former postdoc with me and Mary O'Connor.

Really nice to read those 🤩

Exciting opportunity for #postdocs and #PhDs to work on the combined effects of climate #warming and #invasive species. With @davidboukal.bsky.social, our lab, and others. Please REPOST!

Nitrogen deposition reveals global patterns in plant and animal stoichiometry - Nature Communications Organisms vary in their nitrogen and phosphorus content, shaping ecological and evolutionary processes. This study shows that nitrogen deposition is a consistent global factor associated with plant an...

Thrilled to share our new #stoichiometry paper on the environmental correlates of plant and animal stoichiometry. This was a fantastic collaborative work supported by #idiv www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Locomotion Reveals Contrasting Responses in Body Mass‐Scaling of Metabolic Rates Between Winged and Wingless Arthropods We test how activity and locomotor mode affect metabolic scaling in arthropods. Only winged insects show increased scaling with activity, likely due to flight-related thermal and biomechanical factor...

Flying changes how metabolism scales with body mass –> NEW META-ANALYSIS of insects and spiders in Ecology Letters with @vojsavagjoni.bsky.social, H. Tan, A. Hirst and D. Atkinson

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We surveyed ecologists’ opinions on activism & advocacy in the biodiversity & climate crises

>100 responded; see our findings - incl this chart - in the @britishecologicalsociety.org’s Niche

We are the BES Cascade Network @bes-cascade.bsky.social. I’ll be at the BES Annual Meeting & happy to chat!

Introduction to Bayesian Statistics in R & brms - YouTube The course offers a straightforward and practical approach to applied statistics using Bayesian inference for ecologists.

You can now find a recording of my course "Introduction to Bayesian Statistics in R & brms" on youtube.

Slides & code available here: github.com/benjamin-ros...

#Rstats

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥

There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️

They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬

Thread:🧵Plz RT

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat Previously the country was one of the world's only mosquito-free zones.

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat www.bbc.com/news/article...

Evelyne Franquet – Exploring vulnerability of macroinvertebrates facing multiple stressors.

Ana Previšić – Linking aquatic and terrestrial worlds—stress at the interface!

Owen Petchey – Response balance: a key to ecological stability.

Pavel Kratina– Aquatic–terrestrial linkages in a changing climate.

Wrapped up an inspiring 2-day Community & Stress Ecology workshop at the University of South Bohemia! 🌿
Grateful to all speakers and participants for the great discussions.
💬 Let’s keep the conversation going!
📸 Highlights below!
#ClimateChange #StressEcology #Networking #EarlyCareerResearchers

Stella - exploring the effects of warming on terrestrial food webs

Thu-Huong presenting her research on the effects of fragmentation and heatwaves on planktonic metacommunities.

Workshop participants visiting the mesocosm platform—field-based ecology in action.

Final group photo—thank you all for a fantastic two days of science and connection!

More moments from the Community & Stress Ecology workshop at the University of South Bohemia! 🌿
Great energy from participants, insightful presentations, and a sunny group visit to the mesocosm platform.
#ClimateChange #StressEcology #EarlyCareerResearchers #Networking

Motivating discussions at the workshop on #community_ecolgy #multiple_stressors #climate_warming 🌞 in Budweis this week. Great to meet everyone and thanks to @stresseddaphnia.bsky.social & @davidboukal.bsky.social for the invitation and organising the event!

Apply for our cool PhD project on trophic ecology of invasive mosquitofish, based in London, with @evolecollab.bsky.social

A very small and thin Tetragnathidae, longjawed orb weaver spider, hanging onto two silk threads that are reflecting colorful sun. The spiders is a light tan color

The tiniest Tetragnathidae suspended above the stream yesterday. As it should be.

#Arachtober

Anthropocene Canceled? 🚯 @ecosocialism1.bsky.social
monthlyreview.org/articles/has...
>>> Of course NOT <<<
The evidence speaks for itself.
No geologists, epochs or hype required.
theconversation.com/the-anthropo... 🌍⚒️🌐🧪

Super cool experimental study demonstrating how warming and species richness alter mass-abundance structure of ecological communities.

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

Such a cool paper🤩 🐟Congratulations Mayara!