Yesterday we shared the paper. Today I want to share the story behind it. We thought it was all about climate change. Then the models failed. That failure eventually led us to disturbances, and to a very different view of Europe’s flora. Read it @ communities.springernature.com/posts/europe...

Europe’s flora is living in a landscape out of Equilibrium

99% of plant distributions in Europe show signs of disequilibrium. The surprise? Climate change was only part of the story. Disturbance emerged as an even more pervasive force shaping where species oc...

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Sean Pang@seh-pang.bsky.social · last mo.

Almost every European plant species is out of equilibrium. Climate change is only part of the story—disturbance greatly shapes where species actually occur. 🚨Our new paper 🌱in @natecoevo.nature.com analysed 3,047 species across >1.1M European vegetation plots. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Almost every European plant species is out of equilibrium. Climate change is only part of the story—disturbance greatly shapes where species actually occur. 🚨Our new paper 🌱in @natecoevo.nature.com analysed 3,047 species across >1.1M European vegetation plots. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Når man kigger på gamle landskabsfotos bliver det klart hvor voldsomt træer og buske er gået frem i det danske landskab de sidste 200 år. Der var fx helt bart på Sepstrup Sande vest for Silkeborg i 1900 da prof. Eug. Warming kom forbi med sit kamera. Fotos fundet i SNMs arkiv.

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction - Nature Plants

This study finds that native tree extinctions and alien naturalizations are pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species. This global shift could affect carbon storage and ecosyste...

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Were it not for the all too frequent school shootings, one could easily get the impression there are no schools in the US

🐝 We used pooled whole-genome sequencing data to reconstruct demographic history for two rare and two common wild bee species 📉 The two rare species showed lower historical population sizes than the two common species 📊 The approach was validated using simulated data doi.org/10.1111/mec....

@dittemch.bsky.social has led the digitization of the historical dot maps of plant species distribution in Denmark. After a lot of harmonization and validations, the data (10 x 10 km grid) are now out with a preprint describing the procudure. #biodiversity_change #legacy_data

Så er udkast til habitatkonsekvensvurderingen af Tangeværket ude! Tak til @Altingetdk Jeg håber du læser med, @jeppebruus.bsky.social #vildgudenå legacy.altinget.dk/misc/udkast-...

"The decline in success rates is absolutely not satisfactory, because it sometimes borders on a lottery” Nature 17 October 2025 Well, an honest lottery would IMHO be far better. For the reasons outlined here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Funding competition sabotages science - Impact of Social Sciences

Research funding competitions seem fair but are often flawed. Gerald Schweiger, Adrian G. Barnett and Stijn Conix argue lotteries may support better science.

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Hommage to Sofia Corradi, who conceived the idea of academic degrees without borders - the Erasmus Program

il Post@ilpost.it · 10mo ago

È morta Sofia Corradi, che immaginò l’Erasmus

Pretty mindblowing!

Miles Silman@milessilman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

There are forces in #nature that are at work that we don't experience or aren't aware of, but that are essential parts of the lives and spectacular numbers of creatures. For example, this from Ranjiangshang Ran and colleagues @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Bumble #bee #pollination of #linden already 24.6 milllion years ago - cool new empirical illustration of the deep roots of the ecologies of modern-day species www.sci.news/paleontology... (photo 1: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bombus_hypnorum_-_Tilia_cordata_-_Keila.jpg)

New paper alert! The EU Natura 2000 network encompasses populations of most vascular plant species in the region, but with a lot of spatial variation in representativity. The results provide guidance for for better coverage after the planned network expansion. doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Representativeness of the Natura 2000 network for preserving plant biodiversity in the European Union

The Natura 2000 (N2K) network of protected areas is one of the main tools for area-based conservation in the European Union (EU), yet its role in preserving plant biodiversity requires better underst...

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The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

Random street corner in Leuven BE #stopgenocide

📢 Vacancy: I am urgently recruiting a PhD candidate to join a project on selection processes in pedunculate oak. 📅 Start date: no later than December 1st.

Nativeness cannot be binary, if is to make sense and be practically applicable at the scale of countries. We propose a graduated definition, in which species native to neighbouring territories are considered "near-native" doi.org/10.1002/oik....

A graduated nativeness definition for overcoming dilemmas and difficulties of vascular plant species

Nativeness is a concept central to biodiversity conservation and invasion biology, but there are several problems related to a classic binary nativeness definition. Dilemmas arise from the dynamic na...

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"We show that unmanaged forests are the backbone of biodiversity conservation ... We conclude that to preserve forest biodiversity in Europe, we should increase the proportion of unmanaged forests and the amount of structures supporting biodiversity in extensively managed forests.

Sabina Burrascano@sabina-burrascano.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Just out in PNAS! We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes. Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Just out in PNAS! We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes. Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sustainable forest planning: Assessing biodiversity effects of Triad zoning based on empirical data and virtual landscapes | PNAS

The Triad framework seeks to balance the economic and ecological functions in forested landscapes by combining intensively, extensively, and unmana...

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Besser kann man es nicht zusammenfassen

Sweden and Finland have increased logging levels to such a point that their forests are now a net source of emissions. Their Prime Ministers are asking to be exempt from EU #Climate target so that they keep going. Oh and they blame climate change. #NoShame #Forests

Disturbing citation In 2022, we published a study on *consumers*, i.e. animals and fungi that consume biomass produced by other organisms, e.g. plants. Now, our paper has been cited in what claims to be a metaanalysis of "Consumer Satisfaction in Live Streaming E-commerce". Far out!

New gall mite species, Fragariocoptes tridentatae Ripka & H.H.K.Bruun, which I found last summer during field work in southern Greenland. It induces really conspicuous galls on Sibbaldia tridentata doi.org/10.11158/saa... It's a 100% bycatch, but I love it anyway 😍

Minst 18 500 barn har dödats i Gaza sedan Israel inledde sitt försök att utrota den palestinska befolkningen. Washington Post har samlat och publicerat deras namn: www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.

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We followed primary succession of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on a man-made island, Peberholm, 2010-2016. AMF communities diversified through more and more deterministic processes. They remained less diverse than on nearby island Saltholm. eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

More spring flowers 🤩 # Stenshuvud Nationalpark

Springtime 😍

Names and faces of children killed in Israel's latest offensive. At least 183 Palestinian children have been killed since Tuesday morning. www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-na...

Names and faces of children killed in Israel's latest offensive on Gaza

At least 183 Palestinian children have been killed since Tuesday morning

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Danmarks strategi for bæredygtig energi bygger i høj grad på biomasse. Det er et blålys, fordi det ikke mindsker udledningen af kuldioxid. Og så har det den uheldige bivirkning, at det skaber økonomisk incitament til at ødelægge naturskove i hele verden - også i DK. Det sker med åbne øjne. #dkpol

JOB ALERT! Postdoc opening in the use of geodata to guide the transition of land-use in Denmark to sustainability. Main collaborators: Martin Rudbeck Jepsen at Geography/UCPH and Hans Henrik Bruun at Biology/UCPH candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Postdoc in area prioritization for sustainable development of land use in Denmark

We are looking for a highly motivated and dynamic postdoc for a 2-year position from 15 June 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position will be based

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