Most vascular plants' distribition are in disequilibrium w/ current climates, w/ species ranges best predicted by climatic conditions 10-18 yrs before sampling, especially so for closed-canopy species 🌳🌳🌲🌲 ➡️ Lagging dynamics or microclimatic processes ? @natecoevo.nature.com shorturl.at/m2EOx

Postdoc position, based in Grenoble 🇨🇵, #LESSEM lab, to study forest understory plant communities acclimatation under anthropogenic climate change 🌳🌳🌲🌲☘️🍀🪻🌱 shorturl.at/Vm3Md

📢 Offre de postdoc en écologie 🌿 (LESSEM INRAE de Grenoble) Projet : acclimatation des plantes de sous‑bois à l’échelle de la France métropolitaine. Profil ciblé : jeunes docteur·es en écologie. ⬇️ Détails et lien dans le post suivant

The future of Europe’s forest disturbance regimes– a thread. Tl, dr: Disturbances from wildfire, bark beetles & wind will continue to increase in the coming decades. Under unabated climate change disturbances could more than double by 2100. New paper out in @science.org doi.org/10.1126/scie...

2 PhD & 1 postdoc available at BioM in Oslo www.uio.no/english/rese... Interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty. Re-post widely! Work with statistical ecologists Olav Skarpaas (Natural History Museum Oslo @uio.no) @t-ergon.bsky.social

Methods for knowledge-based biodiversity monitoring and management under uncertainty (BioM) - UiO:Life Science

BioM develops new interdisciplinary methods to model and govern biodiversity under uncertainty, combining ecology, statistics, and philosophy. The project delivers predictive tools, normative framewor...

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Wonderful ##TIBS2026 excursion to the Mols #rewilding site this Saturday 🐎🌿❄️🐂🌳☀️ Links to our research on the sites in the comments (more is on the way!) #restoration #ecology #megafauna ➡️

Out now! 🌿🎙️ In this month's episode of #InsideBiodiversity, Prof Marten Scheffer explains critical transitions and tipping points. Together with iDiv's Dr Volker Hahn, he explores whether local tipping points can be scaled up to a 🌍 biospheric planetary boundary. 🎧✨ insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100

Harmonized land-use and land-cover datasets that include past and future periods are key to solving sustainability issues, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However, existing harmonized pr...

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New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

Our opinion paper on embracing #disequilibrium dynamics to model #biodiversity trends is now published in the latest issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 🌳🌲🌴🪻🦔🦉🐜🪱 A very important work led by Étienne Lalechère ⬇️ @etiennelalechere.bsky.social @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social shorturl.at/QUWXm

Very proud & glad to be part of this amazing work led by Étienne on the relevance of lagging dynamics in biotic responses to environmental conditions 🦉🦇🦔🦌🌱🌾🪻🍀🌳🌲 If you interested in modeling species ranges or biodiversity patters in space & time, our paradigm shift should be of interest to you 😉

Etienne Lalechère@etiennelalechere.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Biodiversity doesn’t respond instantly to its driver, yet most assessments assume it does. 🚨 The paradigm shift we propose in considers multiple trajectories of long-term environmental changes and disturbance events that cumulate and push biodiversity into a quasi-permanent non-equilibrium state.

And another related position: BirdFuture: Research Group Leader (f/m/x) for Developing Models of Bird Diversity and Policy-relevant Applications in Europe https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/3260/Description/2 #ecologyjobs #ecoevojobs #xp

Bird Twin: Research Group Leader (f/m/x) for Developing Models of Bird Diversity and Policy-relevant Applications in Germany at UFZ, Germany https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/3259/Description/2 #ecoevojobs #ecologyjobs #xp

Do biodiversity drivers have no long-term effects?🚨Still the dominant assumption. We propose a paradigm shift in Trends in Ecol & Evol:🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... Many thanks to @jonlen.bsky.social, @ronanmarrec.bsky.social, @franzessl1.bsky.social, @ingolfkuehn.bsky.social, @t-ergon.bsky.social

Vegetation might not be able to keep up with current rates of environmental change, given data from the pollen fossil record. Fun doing this work with David Fastovich in the lead, but sobering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales

Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that...

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As the mean rate of forest disturbance is increasing, so does its temporal variance. Proof that Taylor's law also applies to disturbance ecology, and a warning of more severe future extremes. Paper led by @corneliussenf.bsky.social w/ @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change - Nature Communications

Large pulses of disturbance have been observed globally in response to climate change. Using Taylor’s Law, the authors show that those pulses were not unpredictable but expected given a strong scaling...

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BioTIME 2.0 - the largest biodiversity time-series database - now spans 12 million records from 553,000 locations, tracking ecosystem changes since 1874! 📊 www.idiv.de/major-update... @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @idiv-research.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @jon-chase03.bsky.social

Major update to BioTIME 2.0, world’s largest biodiversity time-series database

BioTIME 2.0 is the largest biodiversity time-series database on the planet and gives unprecedented insight into global biodiversity.

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Pleased to contribute some long(ish..) term data from Honduras as part of BioTIME 2.0: a terrific dataset ripe for all sorts of questions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Also another wake up call as to the massive biological data gaps across equatorial Africa (and the tropics in general)..

New study finds where birds are declining most. High trend resolution data reveals complexity of bird population changes. “This is the first time we’ve had fine-scale information on population changes across such broad spatial extents and across entire ranges of species,” said Dr. Amanda Rodewald.

Birds of the World - New study finds where birds are declining most; some locales with positive trends

“This is the first time we’ve had fine-scale information on population changes across such broad spatial extents and across entire ranges of species. And that provides us a better lens to understand t...

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Postdoctoral fellow within remote sensing of forest biodiversity www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral fellow within remote sensing of forest biodiversity (277361) | Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU)

Job title: Postdoctoral fellow within remote sensing of forest biodiversity (277361), Employer: Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Deadline: Friday, April 4, 2025

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Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change 😥 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change

Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

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📢New paper!! 📢using #BioTIME #timeseries we showed that faster rates of #turnover in community composition were associated with faster rates of #temperature #change across biomes, for both cooling & warming + microclimate availability & human impacts modulate these responses go.nature.com/3WD7cWa

Nature@nature.com · 2y ago

Nature research paper: Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity https://go.nature.com/3WD7cWa

Disequilibrium in plant distributions: Challenges and approaches for species distribution models - check our new review in @journalofecology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🍃🌦️♨️🌿 #SDM #plants #speciesdistributions #ranges

Disequilibrium in plant distributions: Challenges and approaches for species distribution models

Plant distributions are often in disequilibrium with climate, not occupying all suitable habitat and present in conditions that no longer support long-term population persistence. This proves a chall...

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Let me guide you through what we did to test time lag dynamics in species distribution models #SDMs of 🌲🌳 birds in 🇪🇺 A 🧵

Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴@jonlen.bsky.social · 2y ago

🔥 Just out 🔥 our paper featuring a method to account for disequilibrium dynamics & time lags in species distribution model #SDM is published in Ecology Letters ⬇️ It outperforms traditional SDMs for 95% of the 92 European forest 🦅 species we tested @etiennelalechere.bsky.social shorturl.at/CVYPw

🔥 Just out 🔥 our paper featuring a method to account for disequilibrium dynamics & time lags in species distribution model #SDM is published in Ecology Letters ⬇️ It outperforms traditional SDMs for 95% of the 92 European forest 🦅 species we tested @etiennelalechere.bsky.social shorturl.at/CVYPw

Interesting study in education science to understand the challenges of internship mentorship, considering students, supervisors and institutions: doi.org/10.1186/s405...

Creating better internships by understanding mentor challenges: findings from a series of focus groups - International Journal of STEM Education

Background Despite demands to make higher education more relevant beyond academia, and a growing body of work testifying to the benefits of work-relevance programs (e.g., work-placements, or internshi...

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