New for all microclimate enthusiasts! A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach. Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...

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🌳 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞́𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞́ 𝐝𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞́𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞̂𝐭𝐬 ? Une étude menée par 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐮 𝐂𝐄𝐅𝐄 montre que la plantation de forêts riches en espèces d’arbres variées est un enjeu majeur face au changement climatique. Article 👉 www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

⚖️↔️Resource inequality limits transfer of nutrients from soils to plants in experimental grassland vist.ly/3y5kj #EcosystemFunctioning #Ecotron #GiniCoefficient #Grassland #NutrientDynamics #ResourceInequality

INVITED OPINION A Framework for Modelling Thermal Load Sensitivity Across Life 🔗 buff.ly/B4hyNmX

🌳 One of my dearest projects—with brilliant friends and colleagues—is out in @NatureComms We show that how you plant tree species (not just which) can significantly boost forest functioning. 🔗 rdcu.be/evtXs 👇 A short thread

🌳 Tree placement matters! A new study shows forests with diverse, non-clustered species boost biomass (+11%), nutrient cycling and decomposition. 🛠️ Line planting = sweet spot between ecology and management. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.idiv.de/the-right-mi...

📄 @remybeugnon.bsky.social @bgauzens.bsky.social @georghaehn.bsky.social @benrosenbaum.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social + @uni-jena.de @unileipzig.bsky.social @cnrs.fr

🚨 To all #microclimate aficionados, this is a major update of the #SoilTemp initiative which has just metamorphosed into the beautiful #MEB network for #microclimate #ecology & #biogeography #network The #SoilTemp initiative 🐛 turns to #MEB network 🦋 ⬇️ Check it out ⬇️

Really important resource!

we prepared detail manual for working with #microclimate time-series and microclimatic maps in #Rstats covers a lot - from #TMS_loggers installation and calibration to advanced data analyses with #myClim originally in czech, but #AI translated to english: labgis.ibot.cas.cz/metodika-ppz...

The word is out officially, now: SoilTemp has finished its transformation into 'The MEB-network' - a fully-fledged research network that goes far beyond just being a database. And boy, does that make me proud! Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here: the3dlab.org/2025/05/31/s...

Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress 📄 buff.ly/rzl7iTM @remybeugnon.bsky.social @msoil.bsky.social @stpdms.bsky.social @lisethouvenot.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social

🚨 Stat tips 🚨 Are you aware of the regression to the mean #RTM effect? This artefact is often overlooked in #ecology & especially in biodiversity resurveys 🌳🍄🦔🦅🦎🦋🐝🐞 It basically shows up each time you investigate changes between 2 time events: t2 vs t1 Let me unfold it for you 🧵

Call for workshops for the #MEB2026!

Single- vs mixed-species plantations: A systematic review on the effects on biodiversity 🌳🌲https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320725002198

📣 New paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 📣 We are delighted to share our latest piece 🚜Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress ♨️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A few people have responded to this paper by saying "well people freaked out about calculators too". It's a funny comparison because people *are* using chatbots as calculators - and they suck. This tested the accuracy of an LLM to perform simple multiplication xcancel.com/yuntiandeng/...

Climate mitigation potential for targeted forestation after considering climate change, fires, and albedo | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨🎉 New paper "Ten quick tips to get you started with Bayesian statistics", hope you'll like it 😇🤗 ✍🏽 w/ Andy Royle, Marc Kéry and Chloé Nater 🔗 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

REVIEW Monitoring Terrestrial Ecosystem Resilience Using Earth Observation Data: Identifying Consensus and Limitations Across Metrics 📄 buff.ly/PIfR7It

Delighted that our @oikosjournal.bsky.social Forum paper is the Editor's choice for the April issue! 🌳🌲 #TreeDivNet nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#Biodiversity has many facets - some might be less apparent, such as the absence of species in locations that would normally be suitable for them. Important reminder that human activity impacts the biosphere in many ways! Happy to have contributed to the 2nd northernmost dataset in this study :) 🌐🌿☘️

🚂 Next stop for #microclimate scientists #Montpellier (France)! 🌊⛰️Between sea and mountains, Montpellier will hold the next MEB conference "MEB2026: Bridging Land and Water Through Microclimate Science" Spread the word 📣 Follow the updates here: @mebconf.bsky.social

📢| Our latest preprint (and my last PhD chapter) is now peer-reviewed !! We studied how variations in understory temperature change community composition and diversity. Aspect and topographic position promoted cold-adapted species diversity ! 🌿⛰️ You can already read it with the link below

Are you interested in #forest microclimate, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning? 🌲🌳🌡️ 🗞️In our new study we show: Tree diversity increases #forest temperature buffering🗞️ doi.org/10.1111/ele.... /w @remybeugnon.bsky.social, @uni-freiburg.de, @unileipzig.bsky.social, @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social

We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️ meb-network.com/meb-2026/ Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!

Setting forests aside doesn’t stir up more trouble—in fact, it calms the chaos 🌳 Happy to see my first PhD chapter out! 📝 Setting aside forests for biodiversity conservation does NOT amplify disturbances in temperate forests of Central Europe. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5

🌴🌳 Tree species richness increases climate buffering 🌡️🥵 I am so happy to share our latest piece, now published in Ecology Letters! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Paper is out in Ecological Monographs @esajournals.bsky.social Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... Research in @jena-experiment.bsky.social

Creating a Finder Smart Folder of your RStudio Project files to enable super fast project launching "Introduction When I’m switching projects I naturally star..." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/creating-a-finder-smart-folder-of-your-rstudio-project-files-to-enable-super-fast-project-launching/

📖Published📖 In their new research article, Carpenter et al. provide a brief introduction to empirical dynamic modelling (EDM) and use this to develop multiview cross-mapping (MVCM), a novel and robust method for gap filling 🌎 🧪 Read the article here 👇 https://buff.ly/4i28emQ

‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved. More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today, we launch MicroFracNet, a global network exploring how biodiversity varies across SCALES - big and small. 🌍 If you love vegetation and want to be part of something both larger - and smaller - than yourself, join us! Learn more & sign up: the3dlab.org/2025/02/10/m... 📢 Please share widely!

if you work with #microclimate and use our #myClim R package (doi.org/10.1111/2041...) you should try our #myClimGUI - a graphical user interface for #myClim, which allows you to quickly visualize, interact with, and edit microclimate data directly from #Rstats labgis.ibot.cas.cz/myclim/gui/a...

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Here’s what happens to regression 📈 when sample sizes are low… even with a strong underlying correlation, sampling error will erode everything! 🧪 ‼️ #rstats simulation viz via the switchboard package for R

🔥 Just out 🔥 our paper featuring a method to account for disequilibrium dynamics & time lags in species distribution model #SDM is published in Ecology Letters ⬇️ It outperforms traditional SDMs for 95% of the 92 European forest 🦅 species we tested @etiennelalechere.bsky.social shorturl.at/CVYPw

Check out our new blog post to find out more about the article 'Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems' by @pieterdefrenne.bsky.social and team! 🌎 🧪 Read the blog here 👉 https://buff.ly/4h32ybX

Third and final week of practicum with @unileipzig.bsky.social students. Using the GCEF facilities and our soil respiration lab, we are testing how land use and future climate affect soil microbial activity response to heat waves! 🥵 /w @msoil.bsky.social & @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social

💫 New Paper Out! 🚀 Hi folks, have a look at our paper just published in Geoscientific Model Development (GMD) [open access]: doi.org/10.5194/gmd-... In this study, we explore advanced mapping models for forest attributes, leveraging remote sensing data and machine/deep learning methods. 🧵 (1/5)

📣 Our paper on soil carbon response to tree planting is out in J. of Env. Management: 🌲 Temperate grassland conversion to conifer forest destabilises mineral soil carbon stocks Open access ➡️ tinyurl.com/3krerb92 A short thread ⤵️

New paper out! 🌳 🌲 (and this one is very special to me) ➡️ Diversity boosts forest productivity also (and especially?) through its effect on the number of trees within forests besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @journalofecology.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social More ⬇️ 1/7

#SoilTemp related end-of-year present: we are currently finalizing the tiny details of a beautiful manuscript about our equally beautiful database! All those 1000+ who ever submitted data to the database should expect an email in their mailbox in the first weeks of the new year! #majormilestone

OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)

🚨 We are hiring one engineer for 2 yrs to set up a #long-term #forest #microclimate monitoring network at the national extent of 🇨🇵 We look for a person fluent in 🇨🇵 to interact with local site managers 🌲🌳 This position is part of #PC #MONITOR in the #PEPR #FORESTT 🌲🌳 Please share widely 😊 🌐🍁🧪

New Paper Alert! 🚨 📄 "Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems" is out now in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social @mebnetwork.bsky.social 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/2041... A 🧵 with key takeaways (1/5)