"Beneath shifting canopies" - a beautiful poem on our work on how past #climatechange shapes current diversity patterns in #trees Science Advances (led by Wubing Xu & Alejo Ordonez), building on our long-term research effort on paleoclimate legacies 🌿🌦️🌍 thepoetryofscience.scienceblog.com/3676/beneath-s…

rtrees: an R package to assemble phylogenetic trees from megatrees for multiple taxonomic groups. Please try it out and report any problems. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…

A new version of the GlobalTreeSearch species list is now available, containing 57,922 accepted tree species. Download the complete list here: tools.bgci.org/global_tree_se…

The oldest continuous thermometer-based temperature record is Central England Temperature. It began in 1678 ... when Charles II was King of England! It shows how unusual today's warming is compared to the last four centuries of temperature variability. metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadcet/

📢Deadline extended until Oct 22!!!

Wish to pursue a PhD in #conservation #genomics & #ecology? Check our open position on #climatechange adaptability in wild #megafauna in Danmarks Grundforskningsfond Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere ECONOVO - DNRF Center of Excellence phd.nat.au.dk/for-applicants…🐎🧬> Deadline Nov 1 - start Feb 1

🌳🍃 Exciting news from our latest research on the global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit! Dive in to understand why this matters for our planet. nature.com/articles/s4147… Haozhi Ma Thomas Crowther Crowther Lab LidongMo Yibiao Zou

Interested in #macroecology, #remotesensing & #rewilding - check our open 2-year postdoc position ECONOVO - DNRF Center of Excellence in Aarhus, Denmark 🌿🛰️🦬🦓international.au.dk/about/profile/… - application deadline Nov 1🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🏃🏾‍♀️

Still time to apply for the postdoc position in our group in Prague: petrkeil.github.io/news/2023/10/0… Vegetation science, GIS, landscape ecology. International Czech-Austrian project with Adam Clark, Hana Skokanová, and Franz Essl. Tell your friends!

🌎I am recruiting postdoc and student to join us in 2024 at UNC Biology. Contact us if you are interested in or have any questions. 🌏lab.fengxiao.info/research

Climate change & land use threaten global hotspots of phylogenetic #endemism for #trees - check our new TREECHANGE study in Nature Communications, led by Wenyong Guo nature.com/articles/s4146… 🌳🌲🌴🌿🍁🌦️🌐 #climatechange #macroecology #conservation #biodiversity #plantsci

Another great collaboration inspired by Anne Magurran, Maria Dornelas and the BioTIME team, together with the Measurements of Biodiversity (MoB) working group iDiv Biodiversity Research with Dan McGlinn https://mastodon.social/@danmcglinn, Wubing Xu, Roel van Klink , Gotelli, McGill, et al. Expertly led by Shane Blowes!

🔖KEY CONCEPTS IN ECOLOGY: Check out our curated series of reading lists & introductions from our journals to help you learn the key topics in #ecology 🧵1/17

How important is coming first? Dr. Benjamin Delory 🌍🌳🌱🍄 and Tadashi Fukami assembled a diverse group of scientists at iDiv Biodiversity Research to see what we all know about priority effects. Our first paper from this #sPriority working group is now out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵

My piece on experimental design and causal inference in ecology & evolution is out in Ecology Letters to day. I'll provide some context on why I think inadequate experimental design in our field is limiting inferences & causing papers to be rejected 🧵onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

nature.com/nature/volumes… Our paper on insect declines is coming out today in an issue with 4 other papers on the topic! (and yes, I'm very happy that there's a leafhopper on the cover)

Congrats to Zhonghan Wang for leading this great study Ecology looking at habitat fragmentation effects on the Thousand Island Lake islands across multiple trophic levels. Was great having him visit iDiv Biodiversity Research on a CAS scholarship from China. Wubing Xu doi.org/10.1002/ecy.43…

Thanks to everyone who attended our workshop at BES in December and contributed to this piece on using LLMs for coding and to teach coding. TLDR: LLMs can be great tools, but we should still learn/teach coding skills! doi.org/10.1111/2041-2… Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Good summary of (some) state of the art in #biodiversity #monitoring👇 by the as always well informed Gregor Kalinkat @[email protected]

After nearly four years in Jonathan Chase group at iDiv, I will be returning to China today to start a professorship at the Institute of Botany, CAS. Many thanks to Jon and all people helped me! Thank you very much!