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 Owen Jones 8th EvoDemoSoc Annual Meeting Aldo Compagnoni Tiffany Knight Brian J Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social 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/…

Thrilled to start this week as Associate Professor at Tohoku University in the 東北大学大学院生命科学研究科 dept~ Great environment with very accomplished and warm colleagues. I run the new Macroecology Lab. lifesci.tohoku.ac.jp/en/research/te… Looking forward to recruiting students and postdocs soon!

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 Connor Bernard: the MOSAIC Database, out now in Scientific Data salgo.ox.ac.uk/article/unleas… Spread the love (and data/functionality) please OpenTraits Brian J Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social Owen Jones Oxford Biology Tommaso Jucker Macroecology lab @unipotsdam

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

Today we release version 3 of GIFT which is accessible via a brand-new R-package. Get regional plant checklists and traits from floras for more than 3400 regions worldwide. Preprint describing the new GIFT version and R package: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… BioGeo Göttingen Holger Kreft

The GIFT R-package developed by Pierre Denelle and me is on CRAN ( CRAN.R-project.org/package=GIFT ) and comprehensive tutorials are available at biogeomacro.github.io/GIFT/. Please let us know if you encounter problems.

How can we collect large datasets of plant functional traits? Here’s a time lapse of taking one plant through the BetweenTheFjords Lab 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

💥New paper alert! Thanks to Benjamin Dechant for leading this effort comparing upscaling approaches to map plant traits globally ASCEND Dr. Jeannine Cavender-Bares OpenTraits

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