Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development nature.com/articles/s4155… (or rdcu.be/c6uMN if you don't subscribe to NEE)

Training session in the framework of the EMODnet Biology Phase IV on the feasibility study for recognition of specific ecological traits and sampling devices/methodologies in text emodnet.ec.europa.eu/node/49556

New versions of COMPADRE and COMADRE now available with hundreds of new MPMs for dozens of new studies. Read more about it here compadre-db.org/AboutUs/Blog SalGo Team Oxford Biology Sam Gascoigne @jonesor 8th EvoDemoSoc Annual Meeting Aldo Compagnoni Tiffany Knight @bjenquist OpenTraits

Stealing from the (data) rich and giving to the poor: a Robin Hood approach to predict traits for all fishes worldwide! Led by Jim Thorson NOAA Fisheries with @Aurore_Maureaud and others. Now out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/…

Looking for Open Source information related to sustainability (including biodiversity and natural resources, amongst many others)? Check out github.com/protontypes/op…

Forest canopies can #thermoregulate! Our pnas letter shows most layers exhibit #limitedHomethermy, with only the canopy-top exhibiting #megathermy. Canopy-top thermal imaging data are widely reported, but do not accurately quantify canopy-scale behavior. shorturl.at/cqrN9

New paper alert 🕷️🐟🐜🦍🦎🦀🐦 Bringing light onto the Raunkiæran shortfall: A comprehensive review of traits used in functional animal ecology #OpenAccess Half of the authors are graduate students, which makes me very happy! Read the full thread🧶 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

We are excited to announce a new trait database for ecologists: MOSAIC traits, leveraging the full power of ComadreDB, COM(P)ADRE, and PADRINO IPM Database. Read about us in Nature Scientific Data: nature.com/articles/s4159… Scientific Data University of Oxford Oxford Biology

Check out the bilingual blog of our latest publication, led by @biodemography: the MOSAIC Database, out now in Scientific Data salgo.ox.ac.uk/article/unleas… Spread the love (and data/functionality) please OpenTraits @bjenquist @jonesor Oxford Biology @tommaso_jucker @ZurellLab

A global assessment of the Raunkiæran shortfall in #plants: geographic biases in our knowledge of plant #traits - check our new analysis New Phytologist, led by Dr. Brian S. Maitner w/ Wolf L. Eiserhardt & great team doi.org/10.1111/nph.18… ☘️🌿🌲🪻🍀🌵🌍🌎🌏 #macroecology #ecology

How can we collect large datasets of plant functional traits? Here’s a time lapse of taking one plant through the @BtwnTheFjords and Plant Functional Traits Courses trait wheel, an efficient system that can be scaled to process thousands of leaves. #IAmABotanist #ecophysiology

Our new paper showing that bootstrapping outperforms community-weighted approaches when estimating trait distributions is out at Methods in Ecology and Evolution ! By embracing variation, we get closer to the true community distribution and metrics. doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

Thrilled to share Rasgos-CL, an open trait database with data for 662 woody species in Chile: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge… @AnidInforma Data Observatory GEB Journal OpenTraits OpenTraitsLatino BES Macroecology GfÖ AK Macroecology Club Eco-Evo Latinoamérica 1/n

Looking for animal trait data? The new ZooTraits shiny app helps you find datasets that might be of interest! The app is available here: ecofun.shinyapps.io/zootraits/ And the publication is available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec… #OpenScience #FunctionalTraits OpenTraitsLatino

What a nice and useful platform to look for #traits datasets!📏😮 ⬇️

Bad data is a problem, especially when it informs decisions & is seen as reliable and standardised. We decided that we would look into what informs the IUCN assessments, given that they are the main species indicator for the global biodiversity framework. doi.org/10.32942/X2KK7D

Excited to share some #MichaletzLab talks at the #ESA2024 annual meeting in #TheLBC! We hope you can attend and hear about our current work! Milos Simovic UBCBiodiversity UBC Botany UBC Zoology UBC Biology UBC Science Ecological Society @ESA_Phys ESAhistory (ecology) ESA Vegetation Section

New in Ecology Letters: Acclimation unifies the scaling of carbon assimilation across climate gradients and levels of organisation (shorturl.at/fhsVs) - Exciting work by #MichaletzLab PhD graduate #JosefGaren UBC Botany UBCBiodiversity UBC Zoology UBC Biology UBC Science

A new #OpenScience #plant #seed #trait dataset for the flora of #China is now available! The paper was led by Hao-Yu Wang and is available at: doi.org/10.1111/nph.70…

CactEcoDB: Trait, spatial, environmental, phylogenetic and diversification data for the cactus family biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_evobio