rjwhittaker.bsky.social
Biogeographer, based in Oxford, UK, with particular interest in Island Biogeography, teaches on JICAS MSc island biodiversity and conservation.
👤 Joined on 13 January 2026
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@rjwhittaker.bsky.socialNew in Frontiers of Biogeography: patterns in South American seed plant diversity don't follow simple latitudinal gradients (in fact, phylogenetic diversity is greatest in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert!?). Check it out: doi.org/10.21425/fob...
Show PostOur new paper on the environmental, biogeographic and human drivers of plant diversity across the 'lomas costeras' (coastal hills) of Perú and Chile, which are small vegetation parches maintained largely by marine fog. biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1425...
Show PostOnline now: The paradox of persistence: island species as models for conservation
Show PostGlaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.
Show PostObituary: Robert Ricklefs (1943–2026) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Polymath ecologist whose research and textbooks integrating ecology and evolution have inspired generations of students. Free to read: rdcu.be/D33fLgYcv4Ba
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