The #bamboo genus #Guadua (#Poaceae) is an important economic and ecological species in the #neotropics. Great paper to understand a bit more about its #evolution and #biogeography: doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...

Interested in a PhD? Check out this amazing opportunity to research the biogeography and macroevolution of vertebrates with Dr. Antonin Machac at Charles University in Prague. For more details about this position, click the following link! machac.weebly.com/open-phd-pos...

My Obituary of Elisabeth Vrba—out today in Nature in read-only format: rdcu.be/ediyO

Come work with us! The New York Botanical Garden is hiring a Curator at the Assist. or Associate level. Profile: a productive and FUN Mycologist or Cryptogamic Botanist. Happy to talk to candidates about how wonderful one of the best botanical research centers is, easy. www.nybg.org/about/work-w...

We’re hiring again! Our new Leader Systematic Botany role at Botanic Gardens of Sydney is an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive team of 15 scientists working on systematics, phylogenomics, and macroevolution of the Australian flora. iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/leader-s...

📢 RDV lundi pour le prochain séminaire scientifique "CoSavez-vous?" de l'IRD 🎨🌱 Quelles approches art-science pour la biodiversité? 📆 24/02/2025 de 10h à 11h30 🔴 En ligne, ouvert à toutes et tous : ird-fr.zoom.us/s/8140535078... ℹ️ www.ird.fr/seminaires-s... @ieesparis.bsky.social

A quick visit to the Paris #Herbarium. Sampling #Annonaceae specimens, doing some good old taxonomy and using Near Infra Red Scanning NIRs on leaves to test if we can use that to ID species. Flower of #Fenerivia oligosperma, endemic to #Madagascar. @mnhn.fr @ird-fr.bsky.social

#IRDEmploi | 📣 Le concours chercheuses et chercheurs IRD 2025 est ouvert ! Cette année, l'IRD propose : 🔴 18 postes de directeurs de recherche 🔴 25 postes de chargés de recherche 🗓️ Candidatures ouvertes jusqu'au 11/03 👉 +d'infos : www.ird.fr/concours-che... #EnsemblePourDesSolutionsDurables

👩‍🔬 À l'occasion de la journée #FemmesEnScience découvrez 4️⃣ portraits inspirants. Ces 4️⃣ chercheuses participent à l'initiative Eclaireuses de #IRD permettant aux jeunes de rencontrer des femmes travaillant dans des domaines scientifiques variés : www.ird.fr/femmes-de-sc... @unesco.org #WomenInScience

I have a new article published, with 300+ coauthors! There were dozens of researchers analysing the same two datasets + dozens of researchers reviewing the analyses. Lots of variability in the results. This was the first many-analysts study in ecology. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

🚀 In 2025, #CESAB will launch a call to fund IdeaShare & DataShare projects, advancing BIODIVERSITY research & interdisciplinary collaboration 💡 IdeaShare: Develop new concepts, models & methods 📊 DataShare: Assemble, curate & share biodiversity datasets 📆 Opening in April Stay tuned ! 🌈 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁

#ActuScience 🌾 Afin d’améliorer le rendement des rizières des Hautes Terres à Madagascar et leur durabilité, les scientifiques du projet Innov’earth travaillent avec des producteurs locaux pour développer des solutions simples. ▶️ lemag.ird.fr/fr/des-vers-... #IRD #agriculture

#Podcast Rencontre avec @tlpcouvreur.bsky.social, botaniste à l'IRD qui nous emmène au cœur des forêts tropicales humides. 🔊 En écoute sur toutes les plateformes: audmns.com/qKNSwal J'attends les prochains épisodes avec impatience! Excellent format! Félicitations Thomas! @ird-fr.bsky.social

Le congrès AETFAT 2025 arrive au Ghana ! Rejoignez-nous du 3 au 8 août 2025 pour explorer la riche diversité végétale de l'Afrique tropicale Thème : Diversité, conservation et utilisation durable des plantes africaines dans un monde naturel en mutation.

Each year, we offer several #awards for undergraduate & graduate botanical #research, training and symposia. Applications are open for this winter, the deadline for submissions Feb 15, 2025! Learn more and apply here: www.torreybotanical.org/grants-awards/ #botany #grants 🧪🌎🌿🍄🌾

Cool paper on conifer evolution / diversification and fire adaptations 🤓 bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I just cancelled my Instagram account; Ouf, that felt good after that horrible monday! next up facebook.

Niche modeling / distribution modeling / ecological biogeography people, check out this starter pack and let me know if you want to be added! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Come join us! I'm looking for a PhD researcher in African environmental history, political ecology, or environmental humanities for my new project Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes in Times of Climate Change at the Centre for African Studies Basel! #envhist #envhum #hisotry shorturl.at/rtQbT

The @weforum.org 2025 report predicts that Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse is 2nd only to Extreme weather events as the biggest global long term threat followed by critical changes to earth systems (3rd) and natural resource shortages (4th) www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Introducing Methods and Techniques: Interdisciplinary methods for interdisciplinary challenges Find out more about one of our newer article types: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ppp3.10535

"Tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas matter for biodiversity protection, and the future of this planet relies on these ecosystems to the same extent it relies on forests."

Here we go! The first issue of Nature Reviews Biodiversity is now live🥳🎉🥂. Thank you to our authors, reviewers, and community for the support! We hope you enjoy the reading. www.nature.com/nrbd/volumes...

First up, in the article that inspired our cover art, Camila Ribas and colleagues review the influence of Amazonian geological history in shaping the region’s rich biodiversity. go.nature.com/3Cbru1W

Open Letter led by N. Pilon & G. Durigan, signed by 183 scientists that highlights the importance of tropical and subtropical grasslands and savannas. They matter for biodiversity protection, and the future of this planet relies on these ecosystems to the same extent it relies on forests.

Phylogenomics of the large clade of flowering plants called Magnoliids. This clade includes species like Magnolia, avocado, peper, nutmeg and of course #Annonaceae!

The first chapter of my dissertation is finally out. Thanks to all my co-authors and mentors. Gustavo Londoño, Martha Muñoz (@marthamunoz.bsky.social ), Don Miles (@lizardprof.bsky.social) and Rosario Castañeda doi.org/10.1093/evol... (1/5).

The Sierra Club is focused on supporting them and advocating for solutions to address the climate crisis. Read more at:

I’ve grown wary of using metrics of functional diversity and rarity to guide conservation planning. In this paper I explain why, and discuss three promising approaches for accounting for functionality in the identification of global conservation priorities. (1/7) 🌐

Excellent new review from @weatherwest.bsky.social @climate-guy.bsky.social @manuelaibrunner.bsky.social @climatechirper.bsky.social on one of the most useful organizing concepts I've run across for understanding climate impacts on extreme events - the "expanding atmospheric sponge" 1/🧵

In case you have a company or organization, and really wants to start making a change for biodiversity, here is a phramework how to do that: www.naturalis.nl/en/follow-ou...

Presenting my newest story for @mongabay.bsky.social on cute little puffins. These little seabirds are found in the northern Atlantic Ocean. Newfoundland is the puffin capital in North America, so I had to write about these birds, but the story is one of caution. news.mongabay.com/2025/01/atla...

NSW herbarium digitised collection is now available online www.botanicgardens.org.au/our-science/...

African nations collaborating with NGOs in the management of protected areas 👍 New study finds these collaborative management partnerships (CMPs) contribute to significant decreases in #deforestation in vulnerable protected areas #biodiversity #forests www.inrae.fr/en/news/co-m...

A reminder that we have two open PhD projects on Bayesian phylogenetics in the lab: One with the new TREE Doctoral Landscape Awards: www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/int... (deadline 20th Jan) And another with CSC: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (deadline 29th Jan)

World Flora Online December 2024 Plant List and data release is live. All made possible thanks to the 195 co-authors. (See 2 of 2) available to browse here www.wfoplantlist.org. all the data is here doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #wfo #worldfloralonline #botany 1 of 2

In 2024, Latin America continued facing chronic issues of deforestation, ecosystem contamination, violence, habitat loss and political turmoil. Read more on how the year has been for Latin America:

Merry Christmas to me! Can't wait to dig in to the definitive work on oaks by @andrewlhipp.bsky.social and Rachel! #OakOrigins

Happy Christmas!

Really lovely work from @lauramulvey.bsky.social. Check in thread for a link to the tutorial so you can adopt posterior predictive simulations in your fossil phylogenetics adventures!

This year we lost 2 great #Annonaceae specialists: Annick Le Thomas and George Schatz. Both co-authored a paper on the genera #Fenerivia & #Huberantha of #Madagascar (before under #Polylathia). PhD student Valerie Ramarosandratana (U Tana) will revise endemic #Fenerivia. Photo Schatz F. heteropetala

Did you know showy mistletoes are incredibly diverse, with host diversity varying by genus? Australia is a hotspot for mistletoes! Check out the taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of hosts for Australian showy mistletoes. 🌿 #Mistletoes #Australia bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Missouri Botanical Garden is launching a major initiative to revolutionize species identification! By combining data from our 8-million-specimen herbarium with AI tools, we aim to advance the study of plant biodiversity and provide unique insights for its conservation. 🌿 shorturl.at/tccro

"Despite harboring around one-third of the world’s fern species, less than 6% of Southeast Asian ferns have been DNA-sequenced" -- here's our response! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An important review - The ecology of plant extinctions - "Recent warm-edge extirpations demonstrate the growing impact of anthropogenic climate change & show that predictions of massive climate-driven extinctions later this century are plausible" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌾🌎🧪🌐

This is my first ever #herbarium specimen: TC1! #Uvaria kirkii #Tanzania #Africa Nov 2006! A liana sp #Annonaceae. Extra bonus: photo of my note book! I am uploading all my specimen related photos to: #iNaturalist: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #PlantNet: identify.plantnet.org/fr/k-east-tr...

🌳 New findings 🌳 Phylogenetic diversity cannot be used as a proxy for functional diversity in vascular plant communities 🌲🌳🌴🌵🌱🍀🌾🌼 We used the #sPlot database & found a pronounced decoupling between phylogenetic & functional diversity ⬇️ 🧪🌐🌏🍁 @natureecoevo.bsky.social shorturl.at/Bf5IK

African rainforests contain larger animals than those in Amazonia, but fossil evidence shows it was the other way round in the Pleistocene. The reversal can be explained by pre-historic anthropogenic extinctions. Paper by Voss in Biotropica: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌏 🧪

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Integrating datasets from herbarium specimens and images to treat a Neotropical myrtle species complex