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....

[vegetation responded at timescales from hundreds to tens of thousands of years, but not at timescales shorter than about 150 years] Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Also just out: Our new review in @ecography.bsky.social on how ecological models tend to incorporate land use. Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

New paper! led by Ruben Bernardo-Madrid "A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions" in NEE @natureportfolio.nature.com Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought ..."After elevated tree mortality during the first 15 years, ecosystem-level structural changes resulted in the remaining trees no longer experiencing drought stress." 🧪🌐🌾 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌲🌳🌐 New study reminds us that forests act globally as a #carbon sink Between 2001 and 2023, the world's #forests have absorbed 5.5 gigatonnes more #CO2 than they have emitted on average each year. 👉 Gibbs et al. dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd... 🧪

Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚 Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈 Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Vol2 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in ! 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾

📝 How Amazon Trees Marched to the Atlantic Forest 🧵 https://doi.org/n3rb Ancient rainforest trees found hidden highways through Brazil's drylands, making more than a dozen epic journeys from the Amazon to the Atlantic coast over twelve million years. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief

A great starter pack to connect with people working on #ecology at a large scale 🌍🧪 Global Ecology Vol. 2 👉 go.bsky.app/L37W5uH DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the pack, there’s still room for more ! 😊

Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How will biodiversity respond to efforts to mitigate C emissions? Smith et al. in @science.org document that vert. biodiv. benefits from (natural) reforestation. BUT, planting biocrops, while it reduces climate change, hurts most species bc they lose habitat. 🧪🌎 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

geog.umd.edu/featured-con... Annual data from 2015 to 2023 provides detailed insights into tree canopy cover and height. 🍁🍁🌳 #forestecol

My final PhD chapter published in FEE (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment): re-mapping Köppen-Geiger climate zones, but now using microclimate! Very excited to have this one out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱 How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐 Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... 🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits

What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱 How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐 Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... 🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits

Rapid rise in atmospheric #CO2 marked the end of the Late #Palaeozoic Ice Age Jurikova et al. 👉 rdcu.be/d7fQJ "About 294 million years ago, atmospheric CO2 rose abruptly (4-fold), releasing the Earth from its penultimate ice age and transforming the Early Permian into a warmer world."

Our records of the world’s biodiversity are patchy—but that's not because lots of places are "unexplored." That story and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

CO2 fertilization can be a disturbance leading to worldwide #forest degradation 🌳🌲 "even the most remote forests in the world have been altered by human action via CO2 fertilization, and the responsibility for their integrity must be shared globally" 🌐 Lapola et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

🌍 Projected future climatic forcing on the global distribution of #vegetation types 🌲🌳🌿🍃🌱 Allen et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rstb... #Biogeography #ecology #biomes

Post your most popular #art from Twitter🍁 I've never had anything actually go viral or get many likes, but this Ginkgoales leaf montage ended up being my most popular piece of art: so YAY for paleobotany!!! #paleoart #paleobotany #ginkgo

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... 🌾🌎🧪🌐

🌍 Crowd-sourced trait data can be used to delimit global #biomes 🌳🌲🌱🌿🍃 Scheiter et al. 👉 bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/... #Biogeography #vegetation #FunctionalTraits #ecology 🌐

🌳 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

Congratulations to T. Durieux who just got his second lead author paper from his PhD project accepted. The paper describes a new species of woody tree that was growing about 360 million years ago in what is now Ireland 🌲⛏️ doi.org/10.1016/j.re... #paleobotany #botany

Global burned area increasingly explained by climate change Burton et al. 👉 rdcu.be/d2yat "The simulations show that climate change increased global burned area by 15.8% [...] for 2003–2019 and increased the probability of experiencing months with above-average global burned area by 22% [...]"

Biogeography starter pack! 🌐🌎🌏🌍

I have just created a starter pack on #biodiversity 🦠🌳🌲🦋🐸🐠🦅🦔 #redistribution aka #species #range #shifts or species on the #move #SOTM and community composition changes in response to global change drivers 🌐🌍🌎🌏 Let me know if you are interested to join the list go.bsky.app/6KqEpb9

🌐 Did you know? “Desert” “rainforest” “tundra” “grassland” or “savanna” are widely used terms in common language, but each have multiple definitions and no universally accepted spatial distribution. Find out more in our recent paper 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... #biome #ecology #biogeography

Weaker Atlantic overturning circulation increases the vulnerability of northern Amazon forests by T. K. Akabane et al. rdcu.be/d1FTy "During a past AMOC slowdown (...), pollen data evidence a decline in cold- and moist-affinity elements, coupled with a rise in seasonal tropical vegetation."

Hi everyone! This is my first post here: I am an ecologist focusing on vegetation 🌱🌲🌳 I just completed my PhD in #paleoecology, combining the fossil record and computer simulations to study the effects of #ClimateChange on ecosystems after the last #IceAge. #biogeography #paleobotany #megafauna