🌲🌳📰Forest acclimation to climate change is crucial for maintaining ecosystem resilience. Here, we propose a multi-proxy approach based on tree rings and tree-ring isotopes to assess the acclimation processes, essential for detecting ecosystem decline. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Thrilled to see our research featured in @knowablemag’s recent coverage on the ecological impacts of #peace in #Colombia (in short, sad news for the forests 😞). This highlights our review on the evol and distribution of Andean floras! 🌿🏔️ 🔗cell.com/trends/plant-s…

Maya and I have been traveling together by train for about two years now, and after much painful trial and error, we've figured out all that is involved in ensuring you can actually get on a train with your pet. Here's a little instructional zine with our wisdomous pearls + 1/3

From drones to DNA, ecologists today use tools that would be unrecognizable to scientists 100 yrs ago—and the same is true of their statistics! Announcing "100 Years of Statistical Ecology," a Collection of landmark Ecology papers Read the release: esa.org/blog/2024/05/1…

We mapped a half billion individual farmland trees in India, and tracked their fate over a decade. Many large trees have disappeared. The paper in Nature Sus.: doi.org/10.1038/s41893…, Viewer: rs-cph.projects.earthengine.app/view/tree. It's a new framework for temporal monitoring of single trees..

I'm done with my Thesis. That's the tweet.

NEW open access DNA research in nature explores the diversification of the famous baobab trees from the heart of Madagascar over >20 million years! 🌳🇲🇬 Their seeds have rode the oceans to Africa and Australia, and now today's baobabs need our care 🌊 👉nature.com/articles/s4158…

The fragmented grasslands of Nannaj, Maharashtra, are witnessing strong declines in specialist birds such as the great Indian bustard, red-necked falcon and great grey shrike. Story by Divya Kilikar. Akshay Bharadwaj Iravatee Majgaonkar Mihir Godbole india.mongabay.com/2024/05/where-…

Someone complained about my yard again and TWO bylaw officers showed up to investigate, front yard and back. They told me the yard and lot maintenance bylaw applies to grass and weeds over 8 inches. We had a good discussion in which I explained the updated bylaw, and they left.

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Please RT! We are looking for an Erasmus student for an exciting project on effect of territory quality on aggression in Tawny owls🦉funded by the GAJU grant Jihočeská univerzita Přf JU One season of fieldwork already completed in collaboration with Malavika Madhavan and Guillaume DILLENSEGER!

New #openaccess paper out in Ornithological Applications (American Ornithological Society)! Now some ways away from the peak frenzy of COVID-19, showing us the bigger picture, we explored how exactly the pandemic impacted eBirding in India. (⚠️ birders!) Nature Conservation Foundation doi.org/10.1093/ornith… 🧵below.

My colleague, N.D.Ferris, was part of an interesting research on vegetation sampling and biomass. Give the blog a read!

A blog post from my first (co)first-authored paper with Xiaobin Pan. Learn how we were able to write a cool paper with 30+ years of data from our great professor [email protected] and help from many others.

Last week, I spent 5 days at the NHM, London, IDing deep sea fish and generally gawping at ichthyological oddities. I must confess, though, that I had an ulterior motive. In this thread I'm going tell you the whole story and show you the single coolest fish I've ever found! 1/

It has been 2 years since I left full-time work & jumped into unchartered territories. I wanted to challenge myself & explore new horizons. It has been an amazing journey - I learnt a lot & did things I never thought I could & would. A small update on what I did & what's next.

Jihočeská univerzita offers up to three 2-yr #postdoc positions in natural sciences every year. Happy to support an application focused on #freshwater #ecosystems, #warming, #foodwebs, #experiments and/or #modelling. Deadline for apps (cv + only 1 page proposal) 20 Sep 2024. Please RT!

Yesterday, Šuspa received the Gregor Johann Mendel Medal of Honor for merits in the biological sciences. We believe, it is not only a well-deserved award but the ceremony was also a unique opportunity to see Šuspa in a suit. Congratulations! [email protected] Akademie věd ČR

In the first paper from my PhD, we describe the diet of the Little Owl in more detail than before, from nestbox cameras in three European countries and more than 40,000 prey items! A key finding was that invertebrates make up 95 percent of prey! 🦉🐣🪲🐛🪱 Jihočeská univerzita EOU 🐦

My 4th PhD paper is out in Journal of Ecology!! Thanks to coauthors, editors and reviewers! 💃✨ I wrote a small thread below with all of the main figures of the article (and a supplementary one) ⤵️