How reliable are model-based blacklists of invasive plant species if occurrence & environmental data are limited & under different model choices? New paper by PhD researcher Valén Holle @jappliedecology.bsky.social #SDM #invasive #plants #Pacific besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out the pretty version of our paper exploring intraspecific trait variation across the range of an endemic tree species in central Chile #UndergraduatePower #OrgulloDeSupervisor

By far my favorite paper this year. A collaboration between Mapuche elders—including Machi Patricia—and ecologists, reflecting on building trust and shared understanding in the face of environmental crisis. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧵

Rasgos-CL made the national news in Chile: www.instagram.com/stories/data...

🌿 PhD Opportunity in Biodiversity Sciences 🌿 Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network. Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB

Great talk about alpine diversity in W. North América by #HannahMarx #Botany2025

Insightful talk by @saltyecoevo.bsky.social on the ecological stoichiometry of mistletoe #Botany2025

Looking forward to Botany 2025 in Palm Springs! Reach out if you will be around

Meet the men and women who have thrown themselves into the battle against forest degradation. Seeds of Hope: Forest Guardians of Madagascar is a mini documentary about a life-changing forest restoration success story. It just dropped on Youtube, and you can watch it below ⬇️. 🌾🌍

Chile's vital underwater forests face threats from mining, warming seas reut.rs/4n02Rro

Help! I’m doing background research on the history of science funding in the US. Does anyone have specific info on how early biologists in the late 1800s and early 1900s US funded their research? I have the general picture but looking for citeable sources & details about individuals.

Join us for a fun and interesting applied seminar with @dylancraven.bsky.social!

📢 #CuttingvEdgeTools Friday, May the 30th, at 2 PM CEST, @dylancraven.bsky.social will close our cycle of webinars on databases with "Key questions in functional biogeography", leveraging regional trait databases and with examples from Rasgos-CL. Join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The best way to teach the intricacies of estimating biodiversity!

🌍🕸️ New preprint led by the brilliant Fiona Rickowski! We explore how social-ecological networks can transform our understanding & management of biological invasions. From pathways to impacts to action — it's time to connect the dots! 📄 👉 doi.org/10.32942/X2T... #InvasionScience #Ecology #SENs

Wonderful collaboration with some interesting results led by #LauraPerez with @javierlopatin.bsky.social on multi-faceted diversity-stability relationships in mountaint ecosystems: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

How does intra-specific trait diversity shift across a species' distribution? Find out in our new paper: academic.oup.com/aob/advance-...

International Women’s Day: Nathalie Pettorelli appliedecologistsblog.com/2025/03/06/i...

Twitter/X got really quiet (and weird) so I finally moved over here...are my fellow ecology/plant eco-phys folks out here?? Give me a follow to bring back that lovely #scicomm community 🙏🌱🤓

If you want researchers coming to your country to learn your language, then you should provide: 1) GOOD language courses for free 2) a paid period of time to learn the language that is not part of the time for the project 2) longer contract periods

Excited to share new preprint by PhD candidate Anna Rönnfeldt „Climatic niche conservatism in non-native plants depends on introduction history and biogeographic context“ highlighting context dependency in climate niche shifts of species introduced in multiple world regions doi.org/10.1101/2025...

thanks to coauthors Valén Holle, Laure Gallien @katschiff.bsky.social @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social @dylancraven.bsky.social Tiffany Knight @patrickweigelt.bsky.social

​🇶​​🇺​​🇪​​🇸​​🇹​​🇮​​🇴​​🇳​ Do you know of research institutes with google scholar pages? Please send me links. THANKS & cheers!🫶

Join us: 100 % Postdoctoral researcher position (2025-2026), 24 months in Palynology, Université de la Réunion. More details: biomoni.github.io/BioMonI/

How does landscape context influence recruitment dynamics in secondary forests? Find out in our new paper lead by Dr. van Breugel: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #AguaSalud

Para l@s interesad@s in biogeografía de plantas y la ecología funcional (www.dylancraven.com), ¡no esperen a ponerse en contacto conmigo!

2024 has taught me to take life a little slower, with more humility, patience, and kindness. Hopeful to continue evolving with a wonderful group of people near, far and elsewhere in 2025.

Wonderful group to work with - highly recommended!

Thanks for the invitation @biodata.bsky.social, I really enjoyed the opportunity to talk about gaps in biodiversity data

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

I'd like to encourage folks to publish their code. Not only does it make studies more transparent and reproducible, but it also increases citation rates! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Are there #Bachelor students around here interested in #sustainability challenges like #biodiversity decline, #climatechange or resource scarcity? You might be interested in the interdisciplinary MSc programme in Science for Sustainability at Radboud Uni in Nijmegen, NL: www.ru.nl/en/education...

Really happy with my recent experience of submitting to ECOSISTEMAS for the 1st time in this new era for the journal. Fast turnaround time (3 mo from submission to publication), 3 excellent reviews which helped me to improve my manuscript. Free to submit, free to read. No doubt I'll submit again.

Se viene la semana de los datos de biodiversidad en la Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas de la UdeC. Si andan cerca, los esperamos en las charlas y conversatorios!!! @dylancraven.bsky.social

🥁 Ecologist working in mountains: We still have spots in the Mountain Ecology Starter Pack for Scientists working on various aspects of Mountain Ecology ⛰️ 🏞️🌄 👇. Let me know if you would like to be included. 🌎 🧪 🌐 go.bsky.app/V5Ydank

Tremenda colaboración liderada por @lrcai.bsky.social en @natureecoevo.bsky.social, donde evaluamos el recambio filogenético a nivel global con @patrickweigelt.bsky.social @biogeokreft.bsky.social @smartenwinter.bsky.social #GEMA_UMayor #DataObsCL t.co/wVYSYDqLmZ

Environmental dissimilarity among regions has a consistent effect on turnover also at the level of phylogenetically old lineages while spatial distances that need to be overcome by dispersal only matter for younger more terminal lineages (e.g. species) 🤔

Phylogenetic turnover of seed plants 🌱 at a global 🌐 and across phylogenetic scales: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Did you know that males of some butterfly species are able to accumulate high levels of sodium from larval diets compared to females? Take a look at this study from my PhD! resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Acabo de crear un starter-pack para ecologós en América Latina - !!! favor de sugerir más gente !!!! go.bsky.app/BdhnF3f

More prospecting for study sites #ChileCentral #SanJuanPiche

New pre-print on heterogeneity- stability relationship led by @jsola.bsky.social: Using a long-term #RockyShore experiment we show substrate heterogeneity promotes stability via biodiversity and asynchrony, but simultaneously inhibits stabilising dominants. www.authorea.com/users/795647...

Only 2.5 wks until the @britishecolsoc.bsky.social meeting! Join us for cross-biome view on Tree Roots and Function chaired by @kaaze7.bsky.social and me. We invited awesome speakers: Claire Fortunel; Grace Handy; Oscar Valverde; Mateus Dantas; Meng Zhou; and @joanabergmann.bsky.social!

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.

I'm looking for Masters students to join my lab in Fall 2025! Work could focus on either field-based studies of plant community ecology and trait-based ecology and/or computational work (on any taxa with data) focusing on questions in community ecology or macroecology.

Happy to see this work by rising star #DanielaMellado on the biogeographical and evolutioanry drivers of ferns with chlorophyllous spores: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🌟 Estamos emocionados por nuestro próximo simposio: "Gestión de bases de datos de biodiversidad", dirigido a profesionales y estudiantes 📅 #Biodiversidad #BasesDeDatos #Conservación @dylancraven.bsky.social @ricardosegovia.bsky.social

If you’re a Latin American researcher in infectious disease modelling, please reach out – let’s connect and strengthen our regional network! #InfectiousDisease #LatinAmerica #DataScience #IDModelling