Why biodiversity science needs its own model intercomparison projects 👇. Lessons from climate science, applied to biodiversity & policy. 🌍🧬 by @geobon.org #EcoCode team @mark-urban.bsky.social @gretabocedi.bsky.social @sjevelazco.bsky.social

New online! Biodiversity science and policy need more model intercomparisons

Thrilled to see the first #PhD chapter by @annaroennfeldt.bsky.social published in @natcomms.nature.com. This multi-region comparison shows that lack of #niche conservatism in #non-native #plants might be transient and potentially linked to dispersal limitations. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Amazing talk at #TIBS2026 by @katschiff.bsky.social from @zurelllab.bsky.social on the drivers of bird occupancy trends in North America. Climate change appears to be more important than land-use change, at least for the last 30years.

Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery. Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action. 👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS

Biodiversity policy needs to look forward, not just backward. 🌍 Our new PNAS piece argues that predictive models - like those used in climate science - are key to guiding effective conservation decisions. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #Biodiversity #Conservation #PNAS (1/2)

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/...

Truly fascinating combination: the wonderful shots by @jan-haft.bsky.social beautifully accompanied by live music of "Orchester des Wandels" 🎶 - what a highlight at the #gfoe2025 Ice Breaker tonight! 🧊🥂 @gfoesoc.bsky.social

🌟 We are beyond excited to present the GFÖ 2025 Honorary Medal to Prof. Dr. Volker Grimm! 🎉 His outstanding and future-oriented research in ecological modelling has paved the way for deeper insights into how ecological systems work 🌍✨ @ufz.de www.ufz.de/index.php?de... #gfoe2025

Congratulations to Volker Grimm on receiving the @gfoesoc.bsky.social Honorary Medal for his outstanding contributions to ecology! So well deserved! #gfoe2025

Got inspired by all the fantastic research at #gfoe2025? Save the date for an even larger gathering of excellence in #ecology and #evolution at the joint #NSO2026 and #gfoe2026 meeting with @gfoesoc.bsky.social! See you on 14-17 Sep 2026 in Denmark! nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic...

A truly amazing highlight of #gfoe2025 at @uni-wuerzburg.de yesterday evening: Jan Haft and members of the Orchestras of Change with their „Climate and Wilderness show“

Thanks to the organisers of #GfOe2025 for a wonderful conference! Very proud of the team for the fantastic science they presented!

🚨 New SDM-methods paper fresh out of the science oven! 🍞📊 We developed super simple data thinning methods to tackle an oversimplified and superficially addressed issue in SDMs --- environmental sampling bias! doi.org/10.1002/ecog... @zurelllab.bsky.social @bleroyecology.bsky.social 🧵(1/8)

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career. predirections.substack.com/p/what-i-wis...

So happy to share our Review paper A well-connected Earth: The science and conservation of organismal movement @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity discusses the benefits provided by urban biodiversity, the challenges it faces, and approaches to its promotion and conservation. https://go.nature.com/4i0Uh8d 🧪

Understanding the biogeography of bats across the Eastern Mediterranean, Caucasus and Central Asian biodiversity hotspots – new paper led by Julian Oeser out in the Journal of Biogeography! doi.org/10.1111/jbi.... @humboldtuni.bsky.social @biogeoberlin.bsky.social

Understanding the macroecology of #bats. #Newpaper out now in the Journal of Biogeography: Led by @julianoeser.bsky.social, with @zurelllab.bsky.social and many others. We show how innovative SDMs can shed new light on relationships between niches, distributions, competition, and richness.

🦬European #bison are Europe’s largest surviving herbivore – but would there be space for large bison populations in Central Europe? New paper addressing this question led by Hendrik Bluhm 👉 just out in Biological Conservation! doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... @humboldtuni.bsky.social #megafauna #rewilding

#Klimakatastrophe www.stern.de/geo/klimakri...

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...

Must read out in @science.org "Climate change extinctions" by @MarkCUrban (on X) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Big take home: "extinctions will accelerate rapidly if global temperatures exceed 1.5°C. The highest-emission scenario would threaten approximately one-third of species, globally."

Did you miss #BES2024 and are you interested in #BiodiversityFutures? check the recording of this great session led by @drnickisaac.bsky.social, featuring talks by Damaris Zurell, Anita Lazurko, Andy Purvis, James Bullock, Greta Bocedi, Jennifer Border and myself. youtu.be/FkbS6Klzbdg?...

Our dog will never understand why Germany allows private fireworks for New Year. All the noise and dust and garbage 🙈🙉 Stay safe for the new year 🎊🤩

Big shout-out to PhD candidate Valén Holle for her new #preprint doi.org/10.1101/2024... assessing #uncertainty in SDM-based #blacklists of #invasive species related to #species & environmental data & #SDM algorithm. #Pacific #plants 1/2

Had an exciting week at #BES2024 in Liverpool. Among my highlights: workshop on #scenario development by @drnickisaac.bsky.social @alazurko.bsky.social and thematic session on #biodiversity futures. And of course crazy Xmas jumper day - thanks to my team who made sure I have a Xmas jumper with me 🎄

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... 🌾🌎🧪🌐

Author-pays model: Check out our recent post at peeer.net/news/ to better understand the growing inequities in global science associated with high Article Processing Charges in Open Access publications. #BetterPublishing #APC #OA

PEEER - Publishing for an Ethical and Equitable Environment in Research, embeds authors, editors, reviewers, journal managers, and other society members around the world working to make scientific publishing more accessible, affordable, and equitable. peeer.net #BetterPublishing #OpenAccess

Led by Stefan Fallert, our metabolismus-based metapopulation range for simulating species range dynamics is online at MEE. It is a framework in which you can build your own model structure or use our functions, including biotic interactions: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Big thanks to @chloology.bsky.social for an amazing talk today at our Ecological Colloquium on "Linking microevolutionary processes to biogeographic patterns". #Macroegenetics as new field to explore intraspecific genetic variation across space and environment. cwschmidt.home.blog/448-2/

Listen to AI podcast on Kass et al. „Achieving higher standards in SDM“ earthskysea.org/ecocast-podc... by @earthskysea.bsky.social

Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

If you want to learn about our research, check our lab's website here: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/ibb-macro... We study biodiversity dynamics under global change, mostly terrestrial, and aim to improve modelling tools to forecast range & community shifts, and invasive species & disease spread.

As you are all here now, I finally deactivated the lab account on the other dead bird platform. Long overdue, and feels good!

We #postdoc or #sabbatical funding available for three fellows in #macroecology, global change ecology & biodiversity modelling - in Potsdam/Germany. 1st fellow got to be a female researcher but fellows can overlap. Funded stipend for 6-24months can be split into several shorter stays. more info 👇

35 years today without a wall around my country. 35 years of entirely new opportunities. #grateful

Using range maps to improve species distribution models: new method using stacked generalization just published in Global Ecology & Biogeography (@GEB_macro). Paper led by Julian Oeser --> doi.org/10.1111/geb.... @biogeoberlin.bsky.social #SDM #biodiversity #models

The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/t... via @DynamicEcology

Absolutely amazing how nature is taking its place back if left alone: here is a literal forest on top of a WW2 ruin in #Beelitz Germany - #BeelitzHeilstädten

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

In our new paper out in Phil Trans B @RSocPublishing we study range shifts and climatic niche shifts of European and North American birds over past 30 years. doi.org/10.1098/rstb... niche shifts can be indicate of transient dynamics during range shifting 1/n

new #preprint by Guillermo Fandos studying #dispersal syndromes in European #birds. Complex #trait syndromes explain differences in dispersal between closely related species, but simple traits like body mass and life history better predict dispersal across orders: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Are Easter bonfires also a thing outside Germany?

just out in @ESAMonographs: doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... expertly led by Chris Jones and Karo Wiesner. Better understand properties of ecological networks and predict secondary predictions based on analytical framework. 🌎

Excited to kick off the EU project ZOE on „Zoonosis emergence across degraded and restored forest ecosystems“ under the fantastic leadership of Felix Drechsler from Charité and Nadja Kabisch from Leibniz Univ. Hannover

Very productive spring retreat of DFG funded research unit DynaCom in Göttingen. Exciting external input by @jon-chase03.bsky.social, @zurelllab.bsky.social and @jonnorberg.bsky.social, multifaceted discussions about meta-foodwebs at the land-sea interface. Cool venue at the historical observatory!