a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

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....

🦌 Deer migration, deer density, tick distribution and incidence of a tick-borne zoonosis ➡️ buff.ly/4wXYf5c

📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻 gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/... ➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC

Our new article in Nature Plants, led by César Leblanc, introduces Pl@ntBERT, an AI model inspired by language models like ChatGPT, but trained on > 1M vegetation plots from the EVA database. Article: doi.org/10.1038/s414... Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/Cesar... GitHub: github.com/cesar-leblan...

#FestivalCNRS c’est parti ! 🥳 3 jours d’ateliers ludiques et pédagogiques animés pas des scientifiques des Hauts de France ! Ça vous intéresse ? 🧐 Rendez vous samedi pour la journée grand public au Centre Historique Minier de Lewarde ! @cnrs.fr

Our new online application EVA-MAP provides interactive maps of vegetation plots from the European Vegetation Archive and ReSurveyEurope databases. It enables filtering the plots by various criteria. More details can be found in this new article in the IAVS Bulletin: www.sci.muni.cz/botany/chytr...

Our opinion paper on embracing #disequilibrium dynamics to model #biodiversity trends is now published in the latest issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution 🌳🌲🌴🪻🦔🦉🐜🪱 A very important work led by Étienne Lalechère ⬇️ @etiennelalechere.bsky.social @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social shorturl.at/QUWXm

October issue out now! www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... Cover article by Guan-Long Cao, Wei Wang and colleagues looking at the biodiversity on the largest continuous mountain belt on Earth.

Featured articles from Etienne Lalechère et al, Kirsty Ferraro et al and Line Cordes et al are free to read The latest in our Disability series is also free to read! Also articles from Rust and McCoy, Tian et al, Li et al, Peng et al and Kitano et al.

Fair point too. I’m minded though that we more & more will have to consider introductions as climate change takes hold See our discussion piece besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Trophic rewilding depends on the assumption that replacing lost megafauna with alternative species can generate similar benefits. This new review by Bescond-Michel et al. challenges that belief. 🌏🌐🧪

Dr. Brett Scheffers will be giving our October Funk lecture! If you are interested in how micro-scale variation in climate and habitat interact to shape biogeographic patterns, you won't want to miss this talk! Learn more here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/oc...

Plants cool the land through evapotranspiration, but green foliage can absorb more heat than lighter surfaces, causing warming. A study finds that in the northern hemisphere, cooling outweighs warming until the end of the growing season. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Changing water temperatures and human-driven introductions of fish have altered the composition of fish populations in streams and rivers across the USA over the past three decades, a study in Nature suggests. go.nature.com/47ZCcWH 🧪

Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Who said that biogeography is necessarily a correlative science? This is the way to do ecological experiments with a biogeographical perspective. Read this nice thread about a superb #functionalbiogeography work (spoiler: they find regional variations and habitat effects in antipredation traits)🧪🌐

Nativeness cannot be binary, if is to make sense and be practically applicable at the scale of countries. We propose a graduated definition, in which species native to neighbouring territories are considered "near-native" doi.org/10.1002/oik....

Interested in #alien species - check our graduated framework for #nativeness here 🌿🌐 #invasivespecies #nonnative

Yesterday, we had a webinar organised by the #PEPR #FORESTT on the use of species distribution models #SDMs with application in forestry 🌳🌲 You can watch 📹 16 talks on this topic, including one on the impacts of microclimatic processes for species (re)distribution ⬇️ tinyurl.com/4yerk68n

Sounds like a conspiration against Hedonism !!

L'asso Expertises Climat vise à faire du lien entre chercheurs et médias pour améliorer le traitement des enjeux environnementaux. Elle lance une campagne de crowdfunding pour raconter des solutions / initiatives dans les médias. Pr en savoir + et/ou participer ⬇ www.helloasso.com/associations...

Reading papers is a basic skill (and dare I say duty?) of scientists, and I include medical doctors in that group. Keeping abreast of the literature is a foundational part of our professions. There aren’t good shortcuts. In any case, reading papers regularly is fun. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/s...

Addressing the connection between animal biodiversity declines and the carbon stored in our ecosystems can help to make smarter decisions about aligning responses to the biodiversity crisis and the climate crisis. 🌐🌏 via @mongabay.com news.mongabay.com/2025/09/anim...

How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...

Fibre-optic cables (also used for internet) can be used as a novel means of continuous measurements of #forest #microclimate in space and over time, at 25-cm spatial and 1-minute temporal resolution New paper @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

🌳Habitat and land-use intensity shape moth community structure across temperate forest and grassland ➡️ buff.ly/YRXzRmV This study reveals how land-use intensity, plant diversity, weather, and artificial light interact to shape moth diversity across forests and grasslands.

Free-to-read link @natgenet.nature.com: rdcu.be/eHzSP News & Views: "The dawn of bryophyte genomics is here" rdcu.be/eHzS2

🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲 Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization. doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧵 (1/6) 🌐🧪🌱🌍

In case you feel lazy & do not want to read the whole paper, I added a bit more context on the key findings of our recent paper investigating 🌸 time shifts across 11 ⛰️ ranges in 🇨🇳🌏🌐

Happy to have contributed to this nice study just published in #GCB on plants' phenological shifts across China's subtropical mountains: we used data from herbarium specimens to generate time series of flowering time at the species level & infer phenological shifts 🌺🌸💮🏵🌎🌐🍁🍂 shorturl.at/26dwH

Happy to have contributed to this nice study just published in #GCB on plants' phenological shifts across China's subtropical mountains: we used data from herbarium specimens to generate time series of flowering time at the species level & infer phenological shifts 🌺🌸💮🏵🌎🌐🍁🍂 shorturl.at/26dwH

Moustiques tigres, frelons asiatiques, plantes exotiques… 🦟🐝🌱 Les espèces envahissantes peuvent occasionner des dégâts écologiques et sanitaires importants. L'écologue Céline Bellard les étudie pour tenter d'anticiper et limiter leurs impacts dans le futur.

New paper in @funecology.bsky.social led by @felixpleiva.bsky.social. We present ShareTrait, a community-driven platform for standardising & sharing individual-level trait data in ectotherms to improve data reuse across studies. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365... #OpenScience #FAIRdata

Thank you to everyone who presented in our #microclimate change session today @imc2025.bsky.social! @jlembrechts.bsky.social, @niittynen.bsky.social & I were very happy with the contributions & discussions. Great to see microclimate getting more attention in high-elevation ecosystems 🏔🌡❄️💧

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

A #CoolTree in Picardy 🇨🇵 What about microclimatic conditions beneath large solitary trees? 🌳 Find out here: shorturl.at/luNfI

Thank you so much!!! We need a TRE website that lets you put in your desired location!!!! @wolframresearch.bsky.social @stephenwolfram.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Merci à Natacha Triou et toute son équipe pour l'invitation à participer à l'emission de ce jour sur les dépérissements forestiers 🌳🌲🇨🇵 ainsi qu'à l'équipe d'ICI Picardie pour avoir assurer le duplex 😃🫶👍 @sciencecqfd.bsky.social @natachatriou.bsky.social @franceculture.fr shorturl.at/2eX8l

#Podcast Changement climatique : que forêt-il faire ? tinyurl.com/2bgptvnd à réécouter sur @franceculture.fr #ScienceCQFD

2024 > La forêt au défi du changement climatique tinyurl.com/2dkmjo5t via #CNRSLeJournal #ScienceCQFD

02.07 > Road sampling 2025 : retour sur l’état de + de 100 massifs de chênes tinyurl.com/2agfu6ce via #AgricultureGouv #ScienceCQFD

Retrouvez le thread de l’émission du jour > Dépérissement forestier, la mort dans l’arbre tinyurl.com/2bhp4a4x #ScienceCQFD

#Podcast Dépérissement forestier, la mort dans l’arbre tinyurl.com/24ebcjbx à (ré)écouter via @franceculture.fr ! #ScienceCQFD

First post on Bluesky! 🌿 Excited to share our new study in Ecography, led by Maxime Lenormand: combining naturalist inventories and satellite data to map plant biodiversity. Here’s a bioregionalization of the flora of France! 🔗 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I am so glad to have contributed airborne lidar scanning #ALS data from several temperate forests 🌳🌳🌳 in 🇨🇵 #IMPRINT Plenty to do w/ this global atlas on tree canopies #GCA, the 8th contient 🌐🌎🌲🌳 @agencerecherche.bsky.social @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

The best set of conferences I have been lucky to attend in 2016 & 2019 but sadly missed 2023 😢 🌐🐋🐠🦑🪸🦇🦔🐸🦎🌳🌲🌎 I highly & warmly recommend it if you are into biodiversity redistribution & range dynamics in response to global change drivers ❤️SOTM❤️

Abstracts call closes Nov 10, 2025 ⏰ We hope you’ll join us at SOTM 2026 !!! www.speciesonthemove.com #SOTM2026 #speciesonthemove