🚨🚨🚨 Only a few days left to apply for this postdoc position. Extended deadline: 14 July ❗️❗️❗️

Two funded PhD scholarships for research on the governance of tree planting and forest restoration in #Madagascar 🇲🇬. Collaboration between Christian Kull (Uni Lausanne) and Bruno Ramamonjisoa (ESSA), positions based at the University of Antananarivo. drive.google.com/file/d/1Uw1OpT…

Important new preprint: Global meta-analysis reveals overall benefits of silvopastoral systems for biodiversity Great the study compares silvopastoral systems explicitly to treeless pastures AND forests, allowing for more nuanced conclusions. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

#gtoe2024 Opening and plenary speakers soctropecol-conference.eu/index.php?cat=… RT ATBC BES Tropical Ecology GfÖ

We are advertising two synthesis positions in the Plant Ecology group Universität Bern! 1) PostDoc: spatial synthesis in the Kilimanjaro SES project 2) PostDoc / Data scientist: biodiversity synthesis in the Biodiversity Exploratories Research project Deadline 15th October - Links below. Please share!

MAJOR UPDATE: All planetary boundaries are assessed, and six are crossed. For the first time ever, scientists have quantified all nine planetary boundaries. Six of them are already transgressed and we are increasing pressure on the others. Read more: buff.ly/45Ps1QG

Very excited to announce my new R package spAbundance for fitting single-species and multi-species spatially-explicit N-mixture models, distance sampling models, and GLMMs. Includes options for random intercepts/slopes and species correlations. #rstats jeffdoser.com/files/spabunda….

📢 Call for Papers for the European Conference of Tropical Ecology 2024 Lisbon #gtoe2024 : Tropical ecosystems in a fast-changing planet. Online Registration and Submission of Papers is live soctropecol-conference.eu/index.php?cat=…

Half-open woodland with lots of big animals. That is what temperate forest landscapes looked like before Homo sapiens arrived on the scene, according to a new study by Elena Pearce, Jens Svenning & co: science.org/doi/full/10.11… (🎨 Brennan Stokkermans)

New paper out: Documentation of commercial and subsistence hunting of Critically Endangered black-and-white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata) in northeastern Madagascar OA link: link.springer.com/article/10.100… Together with Jonah Henri Ratsimba

✅Are you travelling to Lisbon for #gtoe24? ✅And are you a student (BSc, MSc or PhD) and member of the gtoe society giving a talk or presenting a poster? ➡️If yes, you can apply for a travel grant (200 Euro) until the 22nd of December.