Spent a wonderful time in Shiretoko National Park conducting fieldwork alongside great people.
Akira S Mori
@akkym.bsky.social
Professor, the University of Tokyo Senior Editor, Ecology Letters / Editor, Journal of Applied Ecology; Ecosystems; Environmental Management / Advisory Board, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
I'm looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our group in Okinawa, Japan later this year/early next year. Area of research is wide open, and creative/unconventional projects are encouraged. Together, let's make ecology less of a mess! 📈📈📈 www.oist.jp/careers/okin... DM/email any questions!
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Postdoctoral Scholar, Integrative Community Ecology (Armitage) Unit
A postdoctoral position in ecology is available in David Armitage’s research group at OIST (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) in Okinawa, Japan, with a flexible start date, ideally in early...
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Paper published, led by Forest Isbell. We developed a new theoretical framework to predict how temporal stability and resilience emerge from the combined effects of resistance and recovery. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Predicting temporal stability and resilience from resistance and recovery - Nature
New predictions for how temporal stability and resilience depend on their resistance and recovery components are explored.
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New paper on metacommunity dynamics out! 📃🍁 Led by Oliver Mitesser we show that habitat heterogeneity shifts communities from patch-dynamics toward mass effects and species sorting using beetles as focal taxon. 🐞😍 @betafor.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Forest Heterogeneity by Chain Saw: How Between‐Patch Variation in Old Growth Attributes Changes the Metacommunities of Beetles
Metacommunity theory has expanded our understanding of how spatial dynamics and local interactions influence species communities, but we lack empirical studies specifically in terrestrial habitats te...
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Many thanks to Drs. Akira Mori (@akkym.bsky.social), Shinichi Tatsumi and Xinyu Xu for the invitation to present at their Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Symposium at the Ecological Society of Japan Annual Meeting in Kyoto. Wonderful to be part of such a great lineup of speakers! #ESJ73 #BEF
🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪
Bridging in situ experiments, metacommunity theory, and landscape-scale implementation to understand how spatial heterogeneity shapes biodiversity. doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Forest Heterogeneity by Chain Saw: How Between‐Patch Variation in Old Growth Attributes Changes the Metacommunities of Beetles
Metacommunity theory has expanded our understanding of how spatial dynamics and local interactions influence species communities, but we lack empirical studies specifically in terrestrial habitats te...
doi.org
As climate and disturbance regimes change, forest reorganization is key to maintain the forest carbon sink. Great new work led by @christinadollinger.bsky.social w/ @monicagturner.bsky.social, @akkym.bsky.social and many others. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...
#PostDoc Alert! PhD in #Biology or #EnvironmentalSciences? Strong background in #ForestEcology, DNA-based biodiversity assessments, #Bioinformatics, and experimental planning? Our #ForestEntomology Group offers a 2-year #PostDoc position 🌳🧬💻: apply.refline.ch/273855/1798/... #ScienceJobs #eDNA
I was in #Shiretoko NP for discussing science-driven ecosystem restoration. Many ECRs have contributed by collecting data and supporting the project. Nurturing both trees and people is essential for forest restoration, which can only be achieved through sustained long-term efforts.
It was a wonderful opportunity to explore such a beautiful protected area and to discuss our ongoing collaborations. Thanks, @sebseibold.bsky.social. This is the beauty of academia—being able to keep meeting friends through our work while contributing to science and society.
Sebastian Seibold@sebseibold.bsky.social · 10mo agoThank you, Akira Mori @akkym.bsky.social, for visiting us with part of you team! It was a pleasure to discuss our ongoing joint work and plan for more.
Great talk by @rupertseidl.bsky.social today at BC3 on the past, present, and future of forest disturbances in Europe and what this means for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Especially interesting to see how forest recovery is rapid in most of Europe, but not in Central and Southern Iberia.
Yippie, my paper is now out in Global Ecology and Biogeography! Basically, we tried to destroy (simulated!) forest landscapes And despite increasing disturbances 100-fold and decreasing regeneration by 99% - we didn't manage to! (in most cases anyways) Find out more at doi.org/10.1111/geb....
The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity
As droughts become longer and more intense, impacts on terrestrial primary productivity are expected to increase progressively. Yet, some ecosystems appear to acclimate to multiyear drought, with cons...
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Such an excellent paper. Climate change is indeed reshaping forests in ways that threaten the forestry sector, biodiversity, carbon storage, and ecosystem resilience. For many stakeholders, it is critically important to strengthen the quantification of these impacts and to ensure accountability.
Johannes S. Mohr@johannesmohr.bsky.social · 12mo agoHow expensive are 🪲💨🔥?! I can‘t believe it, but my 2nd PhD paper is finally published @natclimate.nature.com! Disturbances lower the economic value of Europes 🌲 by 29%... Climate change will increase it to up to 42%! (Now imagine a company looses 42% of its value…) doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02408-9
自然と経済を動かす起業家型人材「ネイチャープレナー」を支援する団体・基金を立ち上げました。主体的な参加者から賛同者まで、広く募っています。 for-good.net/project/1002... naturepreneur.jp
「次世代ネイチャープレナー200名を日本全国で育む」”自然を守る”が経済の原動力
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All set! ✨ Würzburg is ready to welcome you to #Gfoe2025 next week! 🎉 Thanks to our amazing helper team for all their work in preparing the venue 💚🌍 @gfoesoc.bsky.social @cofeuniwue.bsky.social @globalchangeeco.bsky.social @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social
Several small reserves hold more beetle, spider and bird species than a single large reserve of the same size in Central Europe, with habitat heterogeneity being an important driver. First PhD paper by Anne Huber (not on Bsky), w/ @sebseibold.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team! PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0... PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
Having a great time for our continues collaborations and more. I am so fortunate to be here for visiting different study sites and meeting people. Such a beautiful place to be… for many reasons.
Rupert Seidl@rupertseidl.bsky.social · last yr.Wonderful to have the great @akkym.bsky.social visiting the lab at the moment! Great fun to show Akira our ongoing research in Berchtesgaden National Park, and really cool to discuss ideas for continuing our fruitful collaboration!
Learned a lot about the challenges and progress in national park management, and I admire many aspects of the approach here.
Visit to the experimental site in Berchtesgaden National Park. I am now deeply impressed by how science and practice are effectively integrated here. For sure, three must be lots of difficulties but also opportunities.
I have learned about Bavarian silvicultural systems and the challenges they are facing. Then I have realized how our systems in Japanese forests are conservative and hesitant to change/adapt…
Experimental research @betafor.bsky.social finds that canopy gaps with deadwood boost insect diversity by supporting rare phylogenetic lineages 🧪 Natural dynamics and targeted management can help conserve them and their ecosystem functions 🌳 🌏 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Looking forward to great collaborations and beautiful summer days here.
I came to a European town famous for bears the day after encountering a bear in Japan.
In a primary forest in Shiretoko National Park
Sebastian Seibold@sebseibold.bsky.social · last yr.Bluesky account of the BIOCOMP project launched! We study diversity patterns of arthropods and microbes related to deadwood and soil as well as wood decomposition rates in managed and natural forests across the globe. Involving a large group of awesome collaborators! @biocomp-erc.bsky.social
