🔥🥵 This weekend we finished mowing semi-dry grasslands near Freiburg, Germany — work we’ve done every year since the late 1980s. Back then, many sites faced scrub encroachment. Today, conservation management & protected-area status have improved conditions. 📈 #Conservation #Grasslands #Biodiversity

A few days ago, we completed the first 2026 camera survey, building on our 2021 baseline, to track distribution dynamics of native and non-native plant species along Swiss national roads using AI. Stay tuned! #Biodiversity #Monitoring #InvasiveSpecies #AI GPS tracks from first 2026 camera survey👇

After a great time at #TIBS2026 in Aarhus - where I gave a talk on our genetically-informed dynamic SDM and after many exciting discussions - today was the perfect day to visit #ARoS with colleagues from Amsterdam.

How have mountain building and climate change shaped alpine biodiversity over millions of years? Check out our new study in Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The asynchronous rise of Northern Hemisphere alpine floras reveals general responses of biotic assembly to orogeny and climate change

The asynchronous rise of Northern Hemisphere alpine floras was shaped by general responses to orogeny and climate change.

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🌴 #MigratingPalm is a young Chinese windmill palm transported from Ticino to the Rhone Glacier by the architecture collective dorsa just before a ban by the Swiss Federal Council. Inspiring 📽️ #clip and architects' perspective on #invasivespecies and #regulations. 👉 vimeo.com/1007969700/a...

🔉Version 2.0-1 of our #KISSMig #Rstats package for #SpeciesMigration modeling is now live on #CRAN. This #bugfix addresses overprediction in version 2.0-0 that may arise when using time series of binary suitability maps. More Information about #KISSMig → www.wsl.ch/en/services-...

🔊 New paper: first integration of population genetics🧬 and dynamic species distribution modeling🌐 using #KISSMig to reconstruct postglacial dynamics of wild black pepper, endemic to India’s Western Ghats. #macroecology #popgen #phylogeography #biogeography 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How does the eastern distribution limit of #plants in the European #Alps look like? The #Schneeberg 🏔️ (2076 m) in #Austria near #Vienna is a great place to find out! The often isolated occurrences must have been better connected to the other populations in the past. #biogeography #flowers #hiking

🔉Happy to share our new publication and global data compilation #GenDivRange covering population genetic diversity of 19,173 geo-referenced populations and 1,109 species. A big thank to Katalin Csilléry, who initiated and led this project, and to all colleagues. (1/2) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GenDivRange: A global dataset of geo-referenced population genetic diversity across species ranges - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - GenDivRange: A global dataset of geo-referenced population genetic diversity across species ranges

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#Pulsatilla #vernalis, lady of the snows❄️, last weekend in the 🇨🇭Alps above treeline at c. 2250m🏔️. Early flowering in alpine spring with overwintering leaves next to Crocus albiflorus and #Ranunculus #kuepferi, and phenologically variable from early flowering to #postfloral #elongation.

80 years after #WW2 I stumbled across #Parietaria #pensylvanica in #Berlin. Thought to be escaped from botanical garden after bombings (or brought by 🇺🇸🪖?) it’s now well established on this #urbanbiodiversity #island 🏝️ but hasn't spread much further! #bioinvasions floraweb.de/php/artenhom...

🔉Version 2.0 of our #KISSMig #Rstats package for #SpeciesMigration modeling is now live on #CRAN. 🎉 Together with Dominik Landolt we boosted performance by implementing parallel computing—making this simple dynamic #SDM faster than ever. Learn more about KISSMig here 👉 purl.oclc.org/wsl/kissmig