Our new study: Species Richness Gradients Vary Across Phylogenetic Scales led by Antonin Machac and David Storch now published in GEB. We show that species richness gradients in young clades differ, whereas older clades converge on similar gradients. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out our new preprint, led by @melinaleite.bsky.social “Dispersion tests in generalised linear mixed-effects models - a methods comparison and practical guide” ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...

Consider joining our session at the World Biodiversity Forum (WBF) 2026 in Davos: Spatial models for biodiversity: Exploring state-of-the-art applications Details and abstract submission are here meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess...

📣 Plenary speaker #5: Dr. Florian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social Professor for theoretical ecology at the University of Regensburg. His research concentrates on theory, simulation models, statistical methods and data science / AI in ecology, evolution and conservation. statisticalecology.org

Our new study “Human and apex predators shape lower trophic levels through top-down control”, led by Ye Htet Lwin and conducted in in Htamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, northwestern Myanmar, now out in Biological Conservation www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I will soon open up calls for a PhD student (free choice of topic as long as it fits to our group) and a scientific programmer / ecological data scientist. If you know what we are doing and would like to join our team, feel free to get in touch.

🌍 Excited to be part of the Global Ecology Starter Pack - a great way to discover and connect with people interested in ecology at large scales! go.bsky.app/F86HYqj 👉 If you’d like to join the next pack (Vol_3 is in the works), DM @global-ecology.bsky.social. 🌐

Our new article “Advancing general ecosystem models (GEMs): Towards a mechanistic understanding of the biosphere in the light of the Anthropocene” let by Joachim Paul Töpper just out at Ecological Solutions and Evidence dx.doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Spannender Artikel (Paywall) von @christianschwaegerl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy in der @faznet.bsky.social zur Diskussion über das Insektensterben & die Krefeld-Studie. U.a. mit Argumenten von @sebseibold.bsky.social @florianhartig.bsky.social & Jens Dauber vom @thuenen.de.

Looking for a simple way to do #deeplearning in #Rstats? Check out cito, available on #CRAN via cran.r-project.org/web/packages... and presented in this recent Ecography paper nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Cito is an interface to torch for R and supports building and training

In Nature, Delavaux et al., 2024 suggest that species richness on oceanic islands is reduced by mutualism rates on the mainland. In arxiv.org/abs/2411.15105, @maximilianpichler.bsky.social and I had another look at this question and conclude that this effect is likely a statistical artefact.

It may be time for a starter pack of ecology starter packs ...

Just created a starter pack for ecological forecasting community! 🦋🍃 Please let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/Qk9PfFw

Our study "Analyzing longitudinal trait trajectories using #GWAS identifies genetic variants for kidney function decline" led by Simon Wiegrebe and Iris Heid just published via www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On my way back from a short visit at Uni Birmingham! Thanks Juliano Sarmento Cabral for inviting me!

go.bsky.app/NiaWN5i I'm happy to receive suggestions for this.

Our preprint "Calibration, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of ecological models -- a review" with Anne Malchow now available at doi.org/10.22541/au.... Comments welcome!

DHARMa v0.4.7 #rstats package for #glmm residual diagnostics now available on #CRAN. Among other things, this version includes a new residual test for #phylogenetic correlation, as well as support for the #phylolm package. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

New paper on spatiotemporal population dynamics of #RedKite in Switzerland. We inversely fitted #RangeShifter to long-term monitoring data. This hugely reduced prediction #uncertainty. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 1/n

cito v1.1 #rstats package for deep neural networks (#DL #DNN) (with formula syntax) is now available on #CRAN. New features include likelihoods such as the negative binomial distribution and easy hyperparameter tuning: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Our study "Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities" now out in nature.com/articles/s41... . See also tread by first author @lisahuelsmann.bsky.social below

Our new preprint "Environmental DNA captures the internal structure of a pond metacommunity" led by Wang Cai with Maximilian Pichler, Jeremy Biggs, Pascale Nicolet, Naomi Ewald, Richard A. Griffiths, Alex Bush, Mathew A. Leibold, Florian Hartig, Douglas W. Yu www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come work with us - I am looking to fill a 3-yr position for a statistical postdoc / scientific programmer to continue the development of the DHARMa #Rstats #CRAN package for #glmm residual diagnostics. Full job advertisement is here uni-regensburg.de/assets/biolo...