New study led by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social shows: forest stands made up of tree species with different water-use strategies (not just many species) grow better in drought years. #iDivResearch #Biodiversity www.idiv.de/diverse-fore...

please share with your networks. A great opportunity for a postdoc interested in working on synthesizing exotic tree benefits and risks into an integrated framework to address conflict-generating alien taxa. In beautiful Stellenbosch, South Africa. Apply by November 28 at: https://bit.ly/4p9K8dn

So many nonsense ad hoc pipelines could be prevented by requiring that they work on synthetic data. I tend to think of experiments as special cases of inference, since most of the problems I work on cannot be studied in experiments. But I get that many researchers see experiments as base analogy.

When fire digs deeper 🔥🌹🌱 A new on our blog ▶️ 1url.cz/oJSXO Even in fire-adapted grasslands, too much fire can erode resilience! by @alinebombo.bsky.social #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #Brazil #CamposRupestres #Resilience #buds #regeneration #rhizome #root @ibotcz.bsky.social @czechacademy.bsky.social

The Tumber-Dávila Lab and Michael Cox are looking for a postdoctoral Fellow to join the Environmental Studies Department at Dartmouth through the Society of Fellows Program 🌎🧪🌳🍁 apply.interfolio.com/176741

Damn - this is really good. Modeling plant communities with Dirichlet regression. I use beta and ordered beta (thanks, @rmkubinec.bsky.social!) a lot, but this is very cool. Something I'd normally use gllvm for, but maybe... ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/plant-c...

When researchers bring up confounders without ever having declared the actual analysis goal

🧊 Did your model freeze in time? Let’s bring it back to life! Join our hands-on workshop “Building Near-Term Iterative Forecasting Workflows” at #TIBS2026 – Aarhus, 6 Jan 2026 🌍 We’ll explore how to turn static predictions into dynamic, self-updating forecasts. @paniw.bsky.social

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

Open Letter by scientists to the Council: "Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”. Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025, 2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets. zenodo.org/records/1739...

The latest DroughtNet paper is out in Science today! Using coordinated experiments across six continents and 74 sites, the International Drought Experiment found differences between the effects of extreme droughts and more typical droughts... (1/3) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#roots, #alpineecosystem, #climatechange, #acclimation, #plasticity

This came as a beautiful surprise! What an amazing feeling reading a commentary on your paper, especially if you put soooo much work on it! Thank you @karlandraczek.bsky.social and @newphyt.bsky.social !

Predicting how climate warming reshapes plant communities and their functioning is crucial. But how can we unearth its effects — especially in rapidly warming alpine systems? ⛰️🥵 👉 @billurbektas.bsky.social et al. shed light on this in an inspiring study: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our first paper from the Bug-Network (BugNet) is out! 🎉 BugNet is a global network studying how invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens shape plant diversity & ecosystem functioning worldwide. The paper reports on the methods of the experimental part: 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor: Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire. plant-traits.net/lab-openings/

Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...

And if you want to learn hands on about some of the new things, come to our ggplot2 workshop at posit::conf(2025) next week

We're recruiting!! Myself along with Nathan Gill, Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org, and Katharine Suding are recruiting people for Master's, PhD, and postdoc positions in GrassFire, an NSF funded project examining fuels and fire risk in grassland ecosystems across the Southern Great Plains! 🔥🌿🐮

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

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...

Biology, what are you doing? Follow the rules. www.science.org/content/arti...

Biodiversity doesn’t respond instantly to its driver, yet most assessments assume it does. 🚨 The paradigm shift we propose in considers multiple trajectories of long-term environmental changes and disturbance events that cumulate and push biodiversity into a quasi-permanent non-equilibrium state.

Very proud & glad to be part of this amazing work led by Étienne on the relevance of lagging dynamics in biotic responses to environmental conditions 🦉🦇🦔🦌🌱🌾🪻🍀🌳🌲 If you interested in modeling species ranges or biodiversity patters in space & time, our paradigm shift should be of interest to you 😉

interested in causal inference and ecology? join our Slack to exchange ideas, papers, get feedback, ask and answer questions - let's start a community #causalsky

Artenfinder #citizenscience data set published 🦋🌼🦎 thanks to many volunteers, the #Artenfinder team and #NFDI4Biodiversity Living Atlas - Nature Germany team www.land.gbif.de @gbif.org @idiv-research.bsky.social @ufz.de

Now on CRAN, ggdiagram is a #ggplot2 extension that draws diagrams programmatically in #Rstats. Allows for precise control in how objects, labels, and equations are placed in relation to each other. wjschne.github.io/ggdiagram/ar...

Ot now in @natcomms.nature.com: 'Temporal complexity of terrestrial ecosystem functioning and its drivers'. Led by Marcos Fernandez- rdcu.be/eBqev

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Very excited this is out! Also potentially useful for researchers thinking about biodiversity change attribution @jon-chase03.bsky.social @bio-diverse.bsky.social @nmouquet.bsky.social @frbiodiv.bsky.social

Please help us spread the word! Please amplify! We are searching for an associate or full professor (Canada Excellence Research Chair) in Biodiversity Genomics at the University of Guelph! 🐟🌿🦠🐜🐸🐝 Applications are due October 6 2025. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-C... #AcademicJobs #EvoBio

Larry Richardson appeared to be an early-career mathematician with potential, racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years. It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And if Larry wasn’t a cat. #InternationalCatDay scim.ag/4lg3wTp

So happy this illustration was accepted into GNSI's annual exhibit! Learn about how trees lock away carbon for centuries—and competing economic interests—in these @seattletimes.com stories: bit.ly/4mwCOqV, bit.ly/4lUk9Fq Exhibit: www.gnsi.org/2025-gnsi-ju... #evergreen #photosynthesis #sciart

We should broaden models, not narrow them. Models are tools to explore uncertainty, communicate scenarios, and test policy. Managers seek robust strategies, not perfect forecasts. What a great paper from @cboettig.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Forecasting #Ecology 🌐

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

Two (!) ongoing Academic (Research and Teaching) positions in Ecology, here at Monash University in Melbourne. Closing in a little over a week! Please share widely! Both at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level (similar to Assistant Professor) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

It Takes Digging to See the Whole plantlifebelowground.wordpress.com/2025/07/23/i...

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Come work with us! We are looking to fill a PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc position (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social). We'd be happy to have you as part of our dynamic team! PhD: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0... PostDoc: www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

Statistics/Causal Inference folks, what are your favorite papers on why VIF is bad?

4 year fixed term postdoc position in Tasmania, Australia. Drones, camera traps, population monitoring. careers.utas.edu.au/en/job/50114...

Root shrinkage measurements of 40 #tree species at #ARBOfun completed! We've measured root #shrinkage, to understand #root-soil contact under #drought. The campaign was led by Dr. Anvar Sanaei with great support of our technician Nicole Nabel. Excited to see the results! #RootTraits #PlantScience

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Attending #AGU25 and want to talk Roots?! Consider submitting an abstract to our session by July 30th ⏲️ 🧪🌳🌎

New pub led by @jitkaklimesova.bsky.social 1st of *many* sUnderfoot @idiv-research.bsky.social efforts Here we propose a novel and SIMPLE classification of plants that is focused on belowground strategies "persistence types relevant to severe disturbance" 🧪🌳🌎 www.cell.com/trends/plant...

📢Klimešová et al. (2025) in Trends Plant Sci: Belowground persistence types relevant to severe disturbance - a new classification! ▶️ 1url.cz/FJExZ #GoBelowground #ExFuMo #Clonality #BudBank #Resprouting #Disturbance #Storage

I am very proud to share this conceptual work of the #sUnderfoot working group, supported by @idiv-research.bsky.social. We propose a new plant classification based on belowground persistence.

This is growing; let me know which journals we're missing. Add this to your browser's bookmarks for easy access to explore their publications (see posts of each journal in the pack) or to discover potential outlets for your research: go.bsky.app/TivtkJn

There will be a seminar by Lucrecia tomorrow at the lecture room in the Department of Botany, České Budějovice. You can reach it online: teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...