We are honoured to celebrate @jcsvenning.bsky.social who received the Alexander von Humboldt medal for Excellence in Vegetation Science at the #IAVS2026! He is subject editor at NJB and Deputy Editor-in-Chief at @ecography.bsky.social. @nordicoikos.bsky.social @iavs5.bsky.social

BIEN 4.2: A Reproducible Standard for Global Plant Biodiversity Data 🧪🌐 #Traits #ObservationRecords #PlotData #CitizenScience @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social methodsblog.com/2026/03/30/b...

Building the Infrastructure for Reproducible Biodiversity Science

BIEN 4.2: A Reproducible Standard for Global Plant Biodiversity Data Post provided by the BIEN Working Group For hundreds of years, biologists have carefully collected information on plants, animal…

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Landscape changes across Europe are reshaping vegetation structure and light conditions. At the next wildE Green Shoots webinar, @econovoau.bsky.social, me, and @Robert will share results from our pan-European assessment of light–diversity mismatches. Looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Changes to landscapes across Europe, including farmland abandonment and forest management methods, are reshaping the amount of light different plants receive. However, this important driver of… | wild...

Changes to landscapes across Europe, including farmland abandonment and forest management methods, are reshaping the amount of light different plants receive. However, this important driver of biodive...

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Seeds are heavier in Portugal than in Spain! 🤔🤔 global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-... 🧪🌍🪴🌳 🧮➕📏 🌾🌐 #traits

📜New Paper📜@ecography.bsky.social Species distributions aren’t just about where species occur, but how survival, reproduction and development vary across environments. We formalise the Demographic Niche Concept to link niche theory and demography. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Trees are tougher than experts once thought. Trees that sustain crown damage in hurricanes typically resume growing at the same rate they grew before the storm, according to LiDAR data of forest in Puerto Rico hit by Hurricane María in 2017. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Ktxb50YLeVt

New Science Advances paper: 60 years of change across European plant communities reveals a widespread shift toward denser vegetation, with increasing shade tolerance across habitats. Proud to co-author this important work🍃 #ecology www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sixty years of plant community change in Europe indicate a shift toward nutrient-richer and denser vegetation

Bioindication reveals a 60-year shift toward denser, more productive vegetation, but a weak thermophilization signal.

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I am so proud of this paper ⬇️ recently published in PNAS 🤩 Four years in the making and countless computing hours to get bioclimatic velocities from species distribution models #SDMs that were tailored to each species and study from which we extracted empirical estimates of species range shift rates

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Climate niche models underestimate the speed with which species move in response to climate change, according to comparisons between the models and observed shifts for more than 3,500 species. Median rates were four times faster than predicted. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/Mokn50YCqty

👀 Global maps of 37 plant #FunctionalTraits as defined in the TRY Plant Trait Database with a resolution of 1 km and a global extent 🌐🧪 📏🧮🌮 global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-...

New interactive global maps of 31 plant traits were prepared by Daniel Lusk, based on plant distribution data from GBIF and sPlot, plant trait data from TRY, and various satellite-based products. Map viewer: global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-... Article: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

📖Published! Different drivers shape multiple dimensions of forest ecosystem stability Protecting old-growth forests and enhancing alpha and beta diversity are crucial for maintaining forest functions and buffering climate and human disturbances🌳 🌍 🔎 buff.ly/Qj98aBM

Citizen science data are increasingly used in biodiversity monitoring. This study applies a digital twin approach to biodiversity monitoring using a large citizen science dataset on birds from Finland, demonstrating its potential for ecological forecasting 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A digital twin for real-time biodiversity forecasting with citizen science data - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Citizen science data are increasingly used in biodiversity monitoring. This study applies a digital twin approach to biodiversity monitoring using a large citizen science dataset on birds from Finland...

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Thrilled to share our new paper on restoring tree diversity in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest!🌳 Our findings are encouraging: restoration shows high diversity, though old-growth-like composition needs more time. Amazing team effort from the Newfor team @ USP & @w-u-r.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

All Reforestation Methods Can Support Tropical Tree Diversity Recovery, but Drivers and Species Composition Vary

We assessed tree diversity recovery across five reforestation methods (white background) and compared them to three reference systems (grey background). In the rainforest, none of the restoration met...

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In our new article in Nature Cities, led by Susanne Tautenhahn, we used our recently published European datasets of plant indicator values, linked them to citizen science data, and mapped environmental conditions for Europe and, at a finer resolution, for 326 cities. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s442...

Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource! 🧪🍁🌐 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We paired #microclimate with #LiDAR to create 5m resolution temperature grids for the #BohemianForestEcosystem (NP Šumava and NP Bavarian Forest)🍁 Beside large microclimatic variability, our data reveals also systematic differences from #SoilTemp, #ForestTemp and #ERA5-Land doi.org/10.1038/s415...

1/🧵 Paper out! 🎉🌿🔒 VegVault is now published in Nature Scientific Data: a global database linking palaeo + modern vegetation with traits + climate/soil drivers. 🌐website: bit.ly/VegVault 📜paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits

Had a great experience at my first #TIBS conference, hosted at my own university, beautifully framed by snow ❄️ So many inspiring talks and thoughtful discussions with wonderful scientists. I also presented my ongoing work on how #light regimes organize #plant diversity across spatial scales.

New @econovoau.bsky.social paper in Global #Ecology & #Biogeography - on #ungulates in North American ecosystems. Key point: alien ungulates can enhance herbivore diversity & partially restore lost #ecosystem functions 🦌🌿🐂 🐎Link in comment #Rewilding #Megafauna #Macroecology #TIBS2026

New #INTEGRADIV paper shows #paleoclimate stability is major driver of functional & phylogenetic diversity in animals & plants across Mediterranean #forests🌿❄️ Important implications for impacts of #climatechange ♨️Thx to @cmlmagneville.bsky.social for leading! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Echoes of the Past: Long‐Term Climate Stability Shapes Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity in Euro‐Mediterranean Forests

Aim Understanding the relative influence of past and present environmental and anthropogenic drivers on biodiversity is crucial for predicting future biodiversity trends. We assessed how past climat...

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Had a really great time at the BES 2025 conference in Edinburgh, well organized, full of informative talks, great discussion, wonderful people, and an amazing city. #BES #Ecology #Edinburg

Humans have driven biodiversity gains in Europe for eight millennia. Are we simply the latest megafaunal species to generate the complex, diversity-boosting habitat mosaics Europe's ecosystems need? 🌏🧪🌐 Read OA here: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23... #Biodiversity #ScienceSky #SciComm

Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪

The Amazon Rainforest was shaped by people. Analysis of 262 trees species across 1,521 forest plots reveals that both pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples and European colonists enduringly influenced the forest’s relative abundance of trees. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/VAqY50XuP38

Canopy reflectance as a predictor of soil microbial composition and diversity Harris and Bardgett nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In our new article led by Gabriele Midolo, published in Ecology Letters, we show that plant species richness in European plant communities generally decreased between the 1960s and 1980s. However, since the 1990s, this trend seems to have stopped or even reversed. dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele....

New TED Talk from Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery Director @ymalhi.bsky.social: How to Measure the Planet’s Heartbeat. 🌍 He explores the flows of energy that sustain life on Earth — and why understanding them is vital for our planet’s future.

How to measure the planet’s heartbeat

Ecosystem scientist Yadvinder Malhi takes us on a jaw-dropping journey through the hidden flows of energy that make life on Earth tick. From sun-soaked forests to tropical islands, he shows how his te...

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Were recent waves of large-scale forest dieback predictable? We say yes! A simple approach to describe temporal disturbance dynamics based on Taylor's Law. Now out in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/euG1A Thanks @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social for this great project!

New in @pnas.org we assess future #climate exposure for 32,089 species of #trees🌳 🔹69% face unprecedented climates in ≥10% of range 🔹In taiga & Amazonia >50% of local tree diversity exposed 🔹 31% of species retain >90% of range in stable climates -> important climate refugia♨️ doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

New PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe | Conservation Biogeography Lab

We are excited to invite applications for a new PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe. Join us at the Conservation and Biogeography Lab at Humboldt University Berlin!

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