Pavel Kratina
Assoc Prof / Senior Lecturer in Ecology @Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability, QMUL | #ecologicaltheory, #biodiversity, #climatewarming, #foodwebs, #globalchange, #freshwaters, #tropics.
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- 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
- Reposted by Pavel KratinaExtended 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.
- Reposted by Pavel Kratina📢 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
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- Reposted by Pavel Kratina❗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...
- Reposted by Pavel KratinaIncorporating 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.
- Trophic Interactions Influence Thermal Adaptation of Phytoplankton Size and Stoichiometry by Anderson et al. Available now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- 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!
- Reposted by Pavel KratinaThrilled 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...
- 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....
- Reposted by Pavel KratinaWe 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!
- Reposted by Pavel KratinaYou 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
- Reposted by Pavel KratinaI'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 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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- 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
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- Super cool experimental study demonstrating how warming and species richness alter mass-abundance structure of ecological communities.
- Does body size predict abundance the same way in all environments, as predicted by the Metabolic theory of Ecology? Our new study challenges this assumption. Read it here: 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ele....
- Reposted by Pavel Kratina🌍📢 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!
- Reposted by Pavel KratinaLooking for openly available: - before-after data in space - with a restoration measure inbetween (e.g. dam/invasive spec. removal, urban green space creation...) - min. 10 sites (quadrats / random places along a stream / ponds...) - species data, env. data of some sort, GPS coordinates
- Job Alert @qmulsbbs.bsky.social is advertising a position: Environmental Analytical Facility Technician. Join our team #ecology, #stable #isotopes, #Mass-spectrometer
- Reposted by Pavel Kratina🌿 We’re celebrating our first round of BES Fellows! 20 ecologists recognised for excellence in research, teaching & the application of ecology. 👇 Meet them:
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- Reposted by Pavel KratinaPlease help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio
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- Plasticity in climate change responses - just published in Biological Reviews What in the role of phenotypic plasticity as an adaptive response to climate change? Looking at mechanisms from the subcellular to the community and ecosystem levels. With Stollewerk, @davidboukal.bsky.social, et al.
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- Reposted by Pavel KratinaReally disappointing new policy from NERC banning resubmissions of grant applications Many of us, including me, have won grants on resubmission, using the reviews to improve the application This is is neither fair nor productive www.ukri.org/councils/ner...
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- I saw these in Pantanal, they have amazing yellow flowers - very beautiful
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- Great discussion at our regular @qmulsbbs.bsky.social Ecology Club meeting today about species on the move in a warming world. With @ian-mcfadden.bsky.social, our visitors from Brazil, Papua New Guinea and others 🤩
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- Job alert - We are looking for an Environmental Facility Technician @qmulsbbs.bsky.social to help support file work, experiments, isotope ratio mass spectrometry, gas chromatography etc. Please apply here: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
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- Our colleagues made a nice summary graphics for this study of fish community size structure altered by human land use and non-native species
- Check out our latest study, in @natureecoevo.bsky.social, where we applied size spectra to show community-level responses to human land-use & invasive fishes. Led by brilliant D. Moi, w/ @vssaito.bsky.social @drdanperkins.bsky.social @gqromero.bsky.social, et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Big congrats to @emmadeeks.bsky.social, who has successfully passed her viva, becoming the 13th PhD from our PavLab. Thanks to the examiners and collaborators over the years, incl. Terry Dawson, @drraymarine.bsky.social, Iran Normande, @treesdla.bsky.social, @qmulsbbs.bsky.social, … #manatees
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- Celebrating posdoc research at our 4th @qmulsbbs.bsky.social PDRA Symposium, the last two days. Learning about some really cool findings 🤩
- Great podcast, worth listening 👂
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- Check out our latest study, in @natureecoevo.bsky.social, where we applied size spectra to show community-level responses to human land-use & invasive fishes. Led by brilliant D. Moi, w/ @vssaito.bsky.social @drdanperkins.bsky.social @gqromero.bsky.social, et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Some highlights from our Croatian field course, day #4: Balkan Whip Snake, Hyla arborea, Emys orbicularis, Lacerta viridis
- Skradinski Buk, the longest waterfall on the Krka River, created by tufa barriers, islands and lakes- excellent location for our @qmulsbbs.bsky.social UG field course 💦🐟, with @claraandthebees.bsky.social and others
- @qmulsbbs.bsky.social students sampling plankton from Visovac lake in Krka National Park today
- Great day sampling Glavaš spring of Cetina - the longest Mediterranean river in Croatia (105 km), with our @qmulsbbs.bsky.social students 🌞🦟🐟 #Dinaric_carst, #Foodwebs
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- New study, where we experimentally tested the independent & combined impacts of microplastics & different temperature regimes on aquatic invertebrates, under the leadership of PhD Danielle Marchant, with @drdanperkins.bsky.social & @qmulrivercomms.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Well-deserved recognition, congratulations @jlittlefair.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Pavel KratinaA postdoc job at Umeå University Global Change Impacts on Northern Lakes umustipendie.varbi.com/what:job/job...
- This very much needed and enormous global data set of animal 🦟 and plant 🌱 stoichiometry is finally published/available. Thanks to @ecolgonzalez.bsky.social and Olivier for the lead. I’m happy and honoured I could also contribute. I’m sure it’ll be greatly used 🤩
- I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Engaging discussions at our Ecology Club @qmulsbbs.bsky.social - today diving into the @ian-mcfadden.bsky.social ‘s ELE paper about different community ecology processes in terrestrial 🐗 and freshwater 🐟 ecosystems in response to climate change 🌞 and other human impacts
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- Reposted by Pavel KratinaOSU is hiring! Come work at CEOAS - Open rank faculty position and director of the Oregon State Stable Isotope Laboratory. My network is small on Bluesky, please share widely! Reach out if you have questions about living in Corvallis or about CEOAS specifically. jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/165...
- Reposted by Pavel KratinaDiscover the Anthropocene from a transdisciplinary perspective! 🌍 Join our new microcredential course at Charles University—seminars, field trips, and hands-on workshops led by top experts. Prague, Czech Republic | www.anthropocene.cz/en/micro-cre... | Program: www.anthropocene.cz/en/programme...
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- Reposted by Pavel KratinaThis meta-analysis is evidence against the argument that habitat fragmentation tends to increase diversity and that the negative effects fragmentation are a “zombie idea”. This paper led by @fletcherecology.bsky.social summarizes the issues. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Pavel KratinaOur paper led by Thiago Gonçalves-Souza is out. Habitat fragmentation and habitat loss reduce biodiversity. @natejsanders.bsky.social Results from 37 studies distributed worldwide, on plants and animals, comparing continuous and fragmented landscapes. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
