[Press release🌍] Could social behaviour help explain why some countries protect more land than others? That's what a new study by Cathleen Petit, @valentinjourne.bsky.social & Etienne Dagorn, published in Biological Conservation, explores 👇 bit.ly/4vBznTR 🧪🌐FRB/MTE/ @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social

Beyond economic factors: The role of social behaviour in the establishment of protected areas - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité

Collective behaviour as an explanatory factor The researchers analysed data from 71 countries by combining international surveys on human behaviour with geographic data on protected areas. Four behavi...

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Can the Human dimension contribute to explaining differences in protected area coverage? This is the question we asked in our last article here in Biological Conservation doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Intra-annual imprint of hydrogen and oxygen isotope signals in tree rings 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Diao et al. @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience #TreeRings

Despite rapid warming, seed production is not leading poleward migration in North American and European forests Clark et al. @frodsan.bsky.social @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social @rolandkays.com @valentinjourne.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/NRGUJA...

The DNA pioneer is Rosalind Franklin.

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot@bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 10mo ago

DNA pioneer James Watson dies at 97

🚨 Check out our new study! 🌳🥶 Tree rings show that high-elevation beech forests are experiencing more spring frost damage in recent years @newphyt.bsky.social @yannvit.bsky.social #Phenology #Dendrochronology doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Emerging trend of increasing spring frost damage for beech at higher elevations in the Jura Mountains: evidence from tree‐ring data

Late spring frost (LSF) severely impacts tree growth and forest productivity, with global warming potentially altering LSF risk due to asymmetric changes in vegetation onset and frost timing. Howeve.....

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PhD advert alert! Come work with me at Edinburgh. I'm advertising a PhD on: "Predicting responses of birds to climate change", competition funded through the E5 DTP. Would suit those with an interest in predicting responses to climate change, birds, or both. e5-dtp.ed.ac.uk/project?item...

À Rafah il y a deux jours : Israël continue de détruire des maisons palestiniennes bsky.app/profile/anti...

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#BREAKING | Even after the ceasefire, Israel keeps demolishing Palestinian homes across Gaza’s “red zone” an area that makes up almost half of the Strip. New footage from Rafah yesterday shows Israeli forces detonating and flattening entire neighborhoods, undermining every claim of reconstruction.

Happy to share our last study published in @natcomms.nature.com We asked Can the weather tell trees when it’ is time to reproduce? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology

Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...

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🚨 Postdoc opening 🚨 Join us at Forest Biology Center (Poznań, Poland) to study forest ecology under climate change. 2-year contract (extendable), start Jan 2026 (flexible). Apply by Sept 30, 2025. 🔗 forestbiologycenter.amu.edu.pl/our-team/joi...

Check out our latest blog post!! Xiaojie Gao gives us the story behind their paper and the newly published pnetr R package, used for forest ecosystem modelling 🌳 Read the blog post here 👇 buff.ly/oKTtoJh

🌲🖥️ #PhDAlert! MSc in a #natural #science & experience with #tree-ring analysis and statistical software (R)? Fluent in English and ready for #fieldwork? Our #forest dynamics #research unit is looking for a #PhD candidate in #dendroecology and #ecophysiology! apply.refline.ch/273855/1736/...

Excited to announce our new paper, “Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity,” out today in Nature – and it’s open access! Huge global collaboration led by Meelis Pärtel 🌐@macroecologyut.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity - Nature

A comparison of alpha diversity (number of plant species) and dark diversity (species that are currently absent from a site despite being ecologically suitable) demonstrates the negative effects of re...

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🌿 The first article of our DarkDivNet consortium, led by Meelis Pärtel, has been published in Nature. Our dataset from 5500 sites in 119 world regions, collected specially for this purpose, shows that plant diversity is negatively affected not only by direct human impact such as local disturbance.

"from 1965 to 2020, nearly half the variation in publication trends among 293 North American male passerine & near-passerine birds was explained by 3 factors subject to human bias: aesthetic salience (visual appeal), range size (familiarity) & number of universities within ranges (accessibility)"

Six-decade research bias towards fancy and familiar bird species | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Human implicit biases towards visually appealing and familiar stimuli are well documented and rooted in our brains’ reward systems. For example, humans are drawn to charismatic, familiar organisms, bu...

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Online now: Shifting, expanding, or contracting? Range movement consequences for biodiversity

Shifting, expanding, or contracting? Range movement consequences for biodiversity

Climate change is causing species ranges to shift, expand, and contract, with divergent and underappreciated consequences for local and global biodiversity. Widespread range shifts should increase local diversity in most areas but reduce it in the…

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Warmer summers are causing European beeches to produce seed more often, depleting the trees’ stored resources—an indirect effect of climate change that is threatening the sustainability of Europe’s most widespread forest tree. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change

Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...

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Papers like this really underscore the importance of long term monitoring datasets for understanding climate change impacts on biodiversity... And highlight the dire consequences of even modest temperature increases. 🧪🌍🦤🦜 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests

Climate change threatens Amazon rainforest birds, with harsher dry seasons significantly affecting their survival over 27 years.

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Our paper that showed alternations in masting patterns are leading to growth decline in European beech is now in @PNASNews, as a part of highlighted content; check out that summary! :) Funded by @NCN_PL www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Interested by tree growth, resources allocation and climate change? Have a look in our last study! We showed how tree reproduction is impacting tree growth,. AND... not only drought is responsible of a growth reduction 🤯

Andrew Hacket-Pain@andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌳🌳🌳 We have a new paper in @pnas.org showing climate warming leads to growth decline in beech because it drives trees to reproduce more frequently. Climate change can cause growth decline even when drought isn’t increasing by shifting where trees allocate resources doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423181122

Really pleased to announce the publication of my PhD paper in @ecography.bsky.social ! We demonstrate the importance of physiological tolerance traits to frost and drought in understanding the distribution limits of 35 tree species in Europe.🧵 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Living on the edge – physiological tolerance to frost and drought explains range limits of 35 European tree species

Species distribution models are key to evaluate how climate change threatens European forests and tree species distributions. However, current models struggle to integrate ecophysiological processes....

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Phylogenetic turnover of seed plants 🌱 at a global 🌐 and across phylogenetic scales: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales - Nature Ecology & Evolution

This modelling study integrates comprehensive regional plant inventories, environmental conditions and palaeogeographical reconstructions to assess the relative roles of environmental filtering and di...

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🌍📉 Climate change is driving mass extinctions A new meta-analysis in @science.org spanning 30+ years shows 1.6% of ALL species are at risk at 1.3°C warming, rising to 29.7% at 5.4°C. This is very very bad. When will we wake up? 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🍎 #ClimateCrisis #SciComm

Climate change extinctions

Climate change is expected to cause irreversible changes to biodiversity, but predicting those risks remains uncertain. I synthesized 485 studies and more than 5 million projections to produce a quant...

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As we approach winter solstice, remember that European beech uses summer solstice to coordinate its masting events all across Europe! Beech seeding is triggered by high summer temps, and all trees across the range measure that after 21st of June. MIND BOGGLING. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rye...

Nature Plants: summer solstice and mast seeding

YouTube video by Michał Bogdziewicz

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🚨 Funded PhD opportunity: forests & climate change Drought reduces growth, triggers dieback & can kill trees, but how does it affect tree reproduction? Help us answer this question! Join a great team in Liverpool & Kew, inc. @belenfadrique.bsky.social 🌳🌱🌲 Deadline = Jan Info: tinyurl.com/3z9z3ad6