Wie gehen Regenwaldblätter mit dem vielen Wasser um? 🌧️🍃 Im BIOME-Projekt messen wir Blattmerkmale, um die Klimaanpassung von Pflanzen zu verstehen. @haozhima.bsky.social zeigt die Funktion von Träufelspitzen mit einer Demo aus dem subtropischen Regenwald nahe Guangzhou!👇 @wsl-dme.bsky.social

Vom Waldboden bis zum Kronendach 🍃 So erfasst das #BIOMEproject Blattmerkmale! 👇 Im Video erkläre ich unsere digitale Datensammlung über alle Waldschichten hinweg. Die Auswertung liefert uns wichtige Merkmale, um diese Biome zu charakterisieren. #Macroecology #Fieldwork @wsl-dme.bsky.social

Um Biome weltweit zu definieren, messen wir ökologische Parameter. In den nächsten Tagen zeigen wir euch Einblicke direkt aus dem Feld! Den Anfang macht @yang-gengchen.bsky.social: Er zeigt, wie wir per hemisphärischer Aufnahmen Kronenstruktur und Lichtklima im Wald erfassen. 👇

Gleiches Klima, andere Arten – dieselben Merkmale? 🌿 Wir nehmen euch mit in Chinas Lorbeerwälder. Obwohl die Arten völlig andere sind als in Ecuador, erwarten wir wegen des Klimas fast identische Strukturen und Pflanzenmerkmale (sog. traits). Schaut rein für Einblicke in unsere Feldarbeit! 👇

Von Shanghai direkt ins dichte Grün: Wir sind in China angekommen! Wir sammeln fürs globale BIOME-Projekt funktionelle Pflanzentraits & dreidimensionale Strukturdaten, um Biome weltweit auf Basis standardisierter Daten präzise zu definieren. Folgt uns für Updates direkt aus dem Lorbeerwald! 🌿🛸📸

The BIOME team is on its way to Sardinia! 🚢🌳 Following campaigns in Switzerland & Ecuador, our PhD students are kicking off a new field season studying Mediterranean holm oak forests together with Alberto Tarroni. Proud to partner with FoReSTAS & colleagues from the University of Padua. 👇

Bist du interessiert, mit mir und @manupopp.bsky.social nächsten Pfingstmontag bei einem kurzen Spaziergang am Stadtrand von Zürich unsere KI-basierte Bestimmungsapp zu testen? Wenn ja, melde dich an (email genügt); wir freuen uns: festivaldernatur.ch/event?nid=90...

WSL Umweltforschung@wslresearch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Exkursion: Arnika oder Gamswurz? Die WSL-Bestimmungsapp Species-ID kann hier helfen. Auf Wanderung mit App-Entwicklern Manuel Popp und Niklaus Zimmermann können Sie den unveröffentlichten Prototypen ausprobieren: festivaldernatur.ch/event?nid=90... @nezimmermann.bsky.social l @manupopp.bsky.social

🌱 #Biodiversität in der #Schweiz: Der Zustand bleibt ungenügend. Trotz verlangsamtem Rückgang besteht grosser Handlungsbedarf. Unser neuer datenbasierter #Report zeigt #Fakten, Entwicklungen und Lösungsansätze 👉 biodiversitaet2026.ch #Wissenschaft #Forschung

⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.social🎉‼️⏪️ ❤️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❤️ biogeography.pensoft.net #tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

Interesting talk by @nezimmermann.bsky.social from our DME lab today at #TIBS2026 on a new conceptual framework on #BiomeBiogeography. This concept is at the core of our #biome project, in which several lab members are involved.

Our DME member @dirknkarger.bsky.social gave a great talk on adapting land use to climate change and how this can mitigate global biodiversity decline.

Damiano Righetti from our DME lab just presented his cool research at #TIBS2026 on trophic species distribution modelling of tuna and its pray.

@wennading.bsky.social from the DME lab presented her great work at #TIBS2026 on the origin of mountain floras in response to biotic assembly, orogeny and climate change. If you are interested, her is the latest paper on the topic: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

🗾The poster sessions at #TIBS2026 are a great opportunity to exchange results and ideas, and to meet new people. We enjoy the interaction and atmosphere. And we will leave with a rich set of new ideas and connections.🚀 #Biogeography #Macroecology #Biodiversity #CHELSA @wslresearch.bsky.social

Elena Plekhanova from @wsl-dme.bsky.social just gave a very interesting talk on how to use #AI in combination with #RemoteSensing to map global #biomes. #Macroecology #Biodiversity #Mapping @wslresearch.bsky.social

Great talk by @vboussange.bsky.social from @wsl-dme.bsky.social on "Multiscale species richness modelling". Victor developed a cool method to map species richness in a way that allows spatial scaling and to retrieve scale-relevant information.

The @wsl-dme.bsky.social lab members arrived at #TIBS2026 in Aarhus. We are excited to enjoy great talks, posters, workshops, discussions with colleagues and friends, and we look forward to contribute as well, with 7 oral and 5 poster contributions. #Biogeography #Macroecology #Biodiversity

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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🌴Since my undergraduate time, I wanted to see the tropical alpine biome with its "giant rosette" species. On our #biome project fieldtrip in #Ecuador, I finally met #Espeletia picnophylla spp. angelensis, in El Angel. So happy! Magic!

🌿 While conducting #biome research in the #Maquipucuna Reserve in #Ecuador, our lodge unexpectedly became a perfect vantage point for observing mesmerizing #hummingbirds. ✨🐦

🌧️ If your team members are patiently waiting for 1h in the rain in a tropical #cloudforest, chatting, playing, laughing and happily continue fieldwork with rain-sensitive instruments as soon as the rain stops & finish the day with a “high five”: Now you know, you have a fantastic team! 🫶

Exploring the tropical cloud forests of #Guacamayos. 🔎 Foggy, rain-soaked and mild temperatures: #cloudforests are some of the most species- and endemism-rich biomes on Earth. Despite covering only 0.4% of global land, they host 3,700 #species of birds, mammals, amphibians and tree ferns. 🌧️🌳🌿

🚁🌳 We are collecting #biome data in #Ecuador using three types of #drones: 1️⃣ #LiDAR – to analyze vertical biomass distribution 2️⃣ Multispectral – to assess canopy leaf area 3️⃣ Photo – to capture leaf imagery

🌳 Towering trees (often >50 m), massive buttress roots and woody lianas are typical plant traits of tropical rainforests. 🌧

Where do species find suitable habitats in Switzerland? And how will habitat suitabilities change under future climate scenarios? Here, we have modelled maps for more than 7500 swiss species: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

SDMapCH: a Comprehensive database of >7,500 modelled species habitat suitability maps for Switzerland - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - SDMapCH: a Comprehensive database of >7,500 modelled species habitat suitability maps for Switzerland

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🌿Fieldwork in the #Yasuni National Park, #Ecuador.🦜 Our researchers are studying the structural and functional properties of #rainforests to better understand and define #biomes.🌳🔎

What a wonderful sunrise at Paso Papallacta (4063 m a.s.l.) before dropping down from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest. We are ready to start working. More soon!

WSL Dynamic Macroecology@wsl-dme.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A breathtaking sunrise with a view of the #Antisana volcano on the road from Quito to Yasuní National Park.☀️🌋

The BIOME team explored the high-altitude city of #Quito (2,850 m) before heading deep into the Amazon rainforest for fieldwork. 🌳🌿

🌎 Our BIOME project team has just begun a 3.5-week research expedition in Ecuador! 🇪🇨 They’ll be conducting fieldwork across diverse landscapes to study how biomes have evolved and how to define them. 🔎🌿🏔️ Stay tuned for field updates! ✨ 👉BIOME project: shorturl.at/RLQPw

🔊 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/...