Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

🚨 📣 Happy to share this new paper on World Seagrass Day 🌱🌊🌱🌊 Community trajectory analyses sheds light on regional and local dynamics of 2️⃣ seagrass species along the 🇫🇷 coast #MarineEcology 🧪 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10.... @aurelien-boye.bsky.social @ofbiodiversite.bsky.social

🌍 Understanding habitat states & transitions is key for conservation! 🏝️ Helps track ecosystem shifts from climate change 🛑 Detects early warning signs of degradation (e.g., kelp loss → urchin barrens).

🌍 With our data-driven standardized way to classify & monitor marine habitats, what did we find? 🏝️ 17 distinct habitat states, including kelp forests, coral reefs & transitional zones 📉 Our pipeline captures fine-scale ecological changes over time

This study wouldn’t be possible without citizen scientists! 🌍🌊 👩‍🔬 Reef Life Survey divers collected 6554 transects worldwide 📸 Standardized photoquadrat sampling ensured consistency 📊 It enabled us to track habitat transitions over time

Machine learning models like UMAP & HDBSCAN are powerful, but they’re often hard to interpret. So, we used SHAP to: 📌 Identify which features drive cluster formation 📌 Uncover non-linear interactions in benthic ecosystems 📌 Improve ecological interpretability of results

We used better methods: UMAP (for dimension reduction) & HDBSCAN (for clustering). ✅ Captures complex ecological structures ✅ Finds clusters of varying shapes & sizes ✅ Filters noise instead of forcing data into clusters

Clustering is widely used in ecology to define community types, habitat states & biodiversity patterns. But common methods used in ecology have major drawbacks. (See this excellent video of @JohnDataHealy youtu.be/dGsxd67IFiU?...)

🚀 New paper alert! We used a UMAP-HDBSCAN pipeline to classify & track benthic habitat states at a global scale using citizen science data from Reef Life Survey ! 🌍🏝️ 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... #MarineScience #Ecology #CitizenScience #MachineLearning

Check this out ! It's all about seagrass, trajectory analysis and trait variability ! Well done Elise and co 🌱 @aec13.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social

Well done Elise! 🙌 🧪 🌱🇫🇷 a great #broadscale seagrass study & happy memories of lockdown winter 🤿 diving in the Morbihan gulf for sample collecting. Under the snow in 5 degree 💦 🥶 @aurelien-boye.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social #CTAanalysis

### NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ### Global Joint Synthesis Call "𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲" Funding of: ➡️ Working groups ➡️ Postdocs @several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍 PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX! www.idiv.de/research/sdi...

I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.

A starter pack for people studying biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at the mesoscale. #metapopulations #metacommunities #metaecosystems Reply to be added, and SHARE to spread ! I missed many people, please help me hunting the metacommunists on bluesky ! go.bsky.app/3v5o8nf 🧪🌍🦤🦑🪴

The Faculty of Science at Stockholm University is recruiting up to three Assistant Professors in Biodiversity to tackle the critical global issue of biodiversity loss caused by human-driven factors such as climate change, habitat alteration and pollution. www.su.se/department-o...

📢Fully-funded PhD scholarship available for underrepresented ethnic groups within UCL Earth Sciences. Please get in touch if you are interested in: - Corals🪸 - Marine biodiversity📈 - Macroecology 🌏 - Conservation Palaeobiology🐚 More info (inc. eligibility): www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc...

Reposting for weekend readers: 🧪 🧪 We are hiring a new limnology professor at UQAM! Come join us in the GRIL in Montreal. Posting is below / Nous embauchons un nouveau prof en limnologie à l'UQAM! Rejoignez-vous à nous dans le GRIL 🧪 🧪 --> bio.uqam.ca/wp-content/u... Please re-post.

If you are looking for a post doc fellowship in France, holding PhD less than 5 yrs, and interested in climate change, ecology, you should apply campusfrance.org/en/mopga-2025

Registration is now OPEN! #ITRS2025 here we go! 🐌🪼🐟🦀🦑🐙🌱🌱🐚💦🌊🌊🌍 #MarineLife #RockyShores

🙌 thrilled to announce that registration for #ITRS2025 is now open! 👉https://itrs-home.org/register.html 🦀🪸🐚🦦🪨🌱🍯🪱🦪🌊 Please signup to our newsletter and share this post 🙏🏼 @nessocon.bsky.social @dansmale1.bsky.social @rubygeorge.bsky.social @amcquatters-gollop.bsky.social @trinebekkby.bsky.social