BES Macro

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We are the British Ecological Society Macroecology & Macroevolution Special Interest Group. We run the annual #BESMacro conference and will gladly repost papers and opportunities of interest to our members!

A vaguely rainbow chameleon, which the BES website uses for their pride posts. Is it a Panther Chameleon? It might be. It also might not be. Photographer unknown, apologies. (The photo probably predates genAI, though, so at least it might be a real animal?)
figure 2 from the linked paper, showing model performance in successfully predicting language ranges in North America
a screenshot of a flyer about the BES Macro SIG -- there's a meandering river, pink 'British Ecological Society' branding, and the title 'BES Macro Group Volunteer Opportunities'
A male greater bird-of-paradise (brownish crow-like thing with a fluffy golden tail, yellow head, and green face) on a tree branch, for attention. Photo by Tim Laman via the Cornell Lab of O.
an artsy image of the University of Reading library lit with lights, with a purple-pink sunset in the background
an emperor penguin with snow in the background, for attention
a picture of Edinburgh old town, with colourful store fronts and old stone buildings against a cobblestone street (it's one of the side-streets between Waverley and the Royal Mile, a fairly iconic shot)
it's an array from the linked paper; not clear what it means without the caption, so the point here is just "pretty colours!"
a figure from the linked paper, showing substantial (and continent-mediated) latitudinal diversity gradients in trees
three panels of scatter plots, showing no relationship between urbanisation and (morphological) PC1 but significant relationships between urbanisation and PC3/PC3
a figure from the linked paper, describing geological bias, biological bias, and sampling bias and its effects on the mammalian latitudinal diversity gradient
a figure from the linked paper, showing size global maps and lots of strong geographic gradients
an image from the linked paper, showing the latitudinal gradient of latitudinal range for trees and non-trees
a figure from the linked paper, showing when to impute trait values and when not to
a figure from the linked paper, showing how flowers might expand their niche (increased niche volume) or pack their niche (increased niche overlap)
a headshot of Margaret Bolton, smiling
Figure 1 from the linked paper, showing a medium-positive correlation between adult and nymph functional diversity, as well as the spatial distribution of the residuals of that adult-nymph relationship.
Figure 1 from the linked paper, showing regional species pools, dispersal over time, and range dynamics (in the US state of Florida)
Fig 1 from the paper, showing colourful pie charts of different dietary guilds, arranged in a circle around a cartoon of marine life
a figure from the paper, with panels labelled "framework", "replication", "spatial extent", and "temporal extent". The third shows a strong partial bias towards Europe, the NE US, and SE Australia. The fourth shows a strong bias to post-2020 and terrestrial
Central Hall, University of York (a kinda space-ship-like building next to a lake)
image of the earth (Africa most prominently) from space