PLEASE SHARE & DONATE! ❤️ In short, our NGO is raising money to buy a field for (biologically-informed) and community-based ecological restoration. donio.cz/zanechte-sto... A bit more of the context in a 🧵↓↓↓

Zanechte stopu v pálavské krajině

Mezi Kočičí skálou a mandloňovým sadem leží 1,5 ha pole – bariéra pro lidi i přírodu. Chceme ho koupit a proměnit v živý krajinný koridor: sad, květnatou louku a bezpečnou pěší trasu, která propojí Pá...

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Stal jsem se občasným přispěvatelem Deníku N. Tento článek je o v České republice mizícím fenoménu štěrkonosných řek. Konkrétně teda o vzácné biotě, která je na ně vázaná, a pokud se něco nezmění, tak z české přírody zmizí spolu s ním. Odemčeno: denikn.cz/2011191/kdyz...

Když řekám nedovolíme divočit, přispíváme k větším povodním i ke ztrátě nenahraditelných živých druhů

Přirozená dynamika některých řek, zejména horských, udržuje krajinu živou a povodně v přiměřeném rozsahu. Člověk do spontánního divočení řek často zasahuje tak, že škody jsou větší než užitek.

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1/2 Tůně mohou překypovat životem. Ale také nemusí. Jejich budování může mít na rostlinná společenstva a ohrožené druhy rostlin neblahé následky. Více ve stanovisku ČBS, které nově naleznete na našich stránkách.

Yesterday, I defended my PhD thesis at @univie.ac.at. Thanks @vvandvik.bsky.social and Bente Graae for reviewing it and Stefan Dullinger for supervising. I tasted quite a bit of science during my Master's by leading 5 papers and doing lots of field research. But this was different. Extraordinary.

This paper was the most frustrating journey I've ever gone through... Nevertheless, after nearly two years, the paper is finally published.

Thanks @jlembrechts.bsky.social for this blog post about our new Oikos paper! Love your blog. :-)

Jonas Lembrechts@jlembrechts.bsky.social · 9mo ago

How to not be swamped by your microclimate data? The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries. A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social: 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...

How to not be swamped by your microclimate data? The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries. A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social: 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...

How to not be swamped by your microclimate data

Microclimate data are finally finding their way more routineously into ecological models – and rightly so. Hooray for that! The growing availability of in-situ measurements is helping us brid…

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This year we’re, in addition to the regular business, using our fine-scale temperature maps to explore isolated cold spots in lower elevations to see if nival species survive there. Quite dangerous sites these cold spots…

Fieldwork in the Alps. 5th year on the same mountain. Even this calf wonders why are we still doing that.

John Rodwell became an Honorary Member of the European Vegetation Survey. John is one of the most prominent vegetation ecologists in Europe.

I suspect a badger. Someone was repeatedly pulling off our EMS water potential logger (whole buried) while leaving TMS-4 standing right next to it... So now the EMS WP's got a fancy 2-sided + top cage that enables readout from a side. Let's see if that works.

In past, Daniel Kokotajlo made future projections on the development of AI that, over time, turned out as quite accurate. This is his vision of what might happen over the coming years. The projection are worrying, especially in the light of the recent disbalance of political order ai-2027.com/race

AI 2027

A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

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Every year, fewer #WhiteStorks cross the Straits of Gibraltar on their annual migratory journey. In this paper, we unveil the mechanisms driving the recent and rapid loss of their migratory behaviour. 👉https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.70035

When you're already out of wood for this heating season (yes, my case) but you need to heat the room a bit... 🫠

@charlesuni.cuni.cz and several of its faculties moved from X/Twitter to @bsky.app recently.

Charles University@charlesuni.cuni.cz · last yr.

📢 We are leaving X Freedom of speech, critical thinking, and open discussion are core values of the university community. In recent months, these principles have become less and less compatible with the algorithms and policies of X.

Hi R users, do you have experience with R functions that use non-native languages (specifically C++ and Fortran) in parallel processing (foreach with %dopar%)? To me, this produces error: "NULL value passed as symbol address" and I can't figure the way out. Thanks ❤️

Until tomorrow noon (CET) there is a last chance to contribute to a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology. It takes a maximum of two minutes! Great thanks to all who contributed. 💚

Kryštof Chytrý@krystofchytry.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

And if you are interested which packages are most popular among young ecologists and which among professors, just stay tuned. 😅

Kryštof Chytrý@krystofchytry.bsky.social · last yr.

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Exploring R Package Usage in Academia

I am running a quick survey to find out which R packages academics use the most in their research and teaching. The goal is to see which tools are essential, spot any gaps, and maybe even discover som...

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Over the last few days, I've prepared an "initial distribution" of our target species for simulation models. I used 1 m2 resolution topography, interpolated microclimatic variables, soil properties and snow from permanent cameras. We also gathered multispectral data with a helicopter.

Shrubification, increases of nutrient demanding species and decrease of habitats specialists. But also overall increase of community level species richness. Klara Klinkovska from @milanchytry.bsky.social's lab analyzed the changes in species composition across habitats in the 🇨🇿.

Milan Chytrý@milanchytry.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌿 Half a Century of Plant Community Changes in Non-Forest Habitats 🌿 Our new article in Global Change Biology, led by Klára Klinkovská, reveals how the plant species composition in treeless vegetation has changed over the last 50 years.

Working with red wine is always so satisfying. Bottling a batch feels almost like getting a paper published after all the waiting and reviewing. Anyway, these still have a long way ahead. 2024 was very special vintage with an extreme drought shortly before harvest. Tricky for natural winemakers.

I don't usually do these games, but I also like bridges. -> If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery. Georgia, vegetation sampling in 2017. I'd been listening to the Goodbye Blu Sky by Pink Floyd while driving over. Remember this very well. 😅

Niche modeling / distribution modeling / ecological biogeography people, check out this starter pack and let me know if you want to be added! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Paper alert. You might have heard about some trials of using hemi-parasitic plants to enhance biological restoration of grasslands. Yet it has been documented only from a few small experiment. However, a few years ago, Jakub Tesitel carried out an experiment to test this in different macroclimates.

Thanks @jvonoppen.bsky.social for initiating and leading this section! International Mountain Conference, this September 2025 in Innsbruck.

Jonathan von Oppen@jvonoppen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wondering how #alpine organisms have been experiencing #microclimate change? So are we! Join our focus session at the International #Mountain conference #IMC25 in Innsbruck - now open for abstracts! tinyurl.com/36ky587t w/ @niittynen.bsky.social @jlembrechts.bsky.social @krystofchytry.bsky.social

I'm a regular R user, but I don't like R Studio for various reasons. I'd been using PyCharm instead for a long time, but since mid-2024, the R plugin is no longer maintained. I'm therefore searching for an alternative. Is anyone using something else than R Studio for R coding? #R #rstats #RStudio

3️⃣1️⃣ The last day of 2024 and of our calendar. Juncus jacquinii grows only in the Alps and northern Apennines. It prefers rather moist grassy sites within the alpine, usually not above 3'000 m. Named after N. J. von Jacquin, a professor of botany and dir. of the botanical garden at @univie.ac.at

3️⃣0️⃣ Astragalus alopecurus. Occurs in W Alps, Corsica, Balkans, Caucasus, and Asia Minor to Central Asia, extending to Siberia. It grows in dry grasslands, steppes, shrubs, and open forests at 1000–1600 m a.s.l. This specimen grew on a river gravel bars among Hippophae rhamnoides shrubs.

2️⃣9️⃣ Ranunculus alpestris. Restricted only to European mountains (Pyrenees, Alps & Carpathians). Not as tough as R. glacialis, usually not getting above 2.5k m (as far as I know at least). Slightly prefers calcareous bedrock and sites with long lying snow cover.