Michael (Misha) Stemkovski

@mishastemkovski.bsky.social

Climate change, pollination, community ecology. Postdoc at Utah State University. https://www.stemkovski.com/

I'm very honored for our paper to be selected for the Haldane Prize! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... And this is actually one of two foundational papers in the "Ecological Acclimation" framework; check out another recent publication here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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British Ecological Society@britishecologicalsociety.org · 4mo ago

Well done to Michael (Misha) Stemkovski, @mishastemkovski.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Haldane Prize in @funecology.bsky.social. Misha's paper presents ecological acclimation as a framework that synthesises various ways ecosystems adjust to climate change. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change

Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

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A synthetic paper about fast vs. slow responses of ecological systems to changing climate, explaining how and why those responses can shift (even in sign) over time. Examples across scales and subdiscplines (population genetics, ecosystem ecology). besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change

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I’m very excited to share a paper from an incredible team of evolutionary biologists, community ecologists, paleoecologists, social scientists, and biogeochemists. “Ecological acclimation” unites processes that take minutes to centuries: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change

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New paper with Erica Henry & @nickhaddad.bsky.social Q: What happens when butterflies, responding to climate warming, attempt an extra generation as summers get longer? A: Long-term monitoring shows overwinter population growth increases! 🧪🦋🐛https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70018

Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies

Insects may respond to climate warming by advancing phenology and increasing the number of generations each year (voltinism). However, one concern is that earlier phenology changes cue-response relat...

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