#anthropocene interdisciplinary course by @cts.cuni.cz at Charles University, Prague

Congratulations to the author team from @cts.cuni.cz on winning the Magnesia Litera Award for Best Non-fiction Book!

📖 Hinterland (eds. Petr Pokorný & Petr Šída)

Nice and important work! Congratulations @cerezer.bsky.social @smyckaj.bsky.social @inirubio.bsky.social @mquetin.bsky.social

Diversity patterns in terrestrial tetrapod clades are governed by equilibrium dynamics Why do some groups contain far more species than others? By testing competing explanations across terrestrial vertebrates, this study shows that biodiversity patterns are most often shaped by long-ter...

New PLoS Biol paper led by @cerezer.bsky.social & David Storch (CTS): across tetrapods, species richness patterns are mainly shaped by equilibrium dynamics modulated by environmental productivity, rather than by speciation rates or time for species accumulation.
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Our new article in Science Advances, led by Gabriele Midolo, identifies the main factors driving changes in the species composition of plant communities across Europe: eutrophication, denser, more productive vegetation, and drying of wetlands. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Check out the new blog post on our latest #BIEN paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social BIEN 4.2: A Reproducible Standard for Global Plant Biodiversity Data 🧪🌐🌾

Happy to see our antifragility paper published! With @jonaswickman.bsky.social and @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social.

Congratulations ‪@bjenquist.bsky.social‬ for leading the amazing BIEN.
Biodiversity science is immensely richer, more reliable and more integrated thanks to BIEN. This new paper shows how and why.

BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data The rapid expansion of biodiversity data presents new opportunities to understand and forecast biosphere dynamics. However, disparate and dispersed data, taxonomic and geographic inconsistencies, ...

Our new #BIEN biodiversity data workflow paper is out! BIEN is an ecosystem of modular, open-source BIEN tools for collecting, harmonizing, and validating biodiversity data -- and an integrated global database (BIEN db) of plant occurrences, traits & geographic ranges. doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪🌐🌾🌵

Turbo-venkov: Plné krajiny prázdných domů

📚 Dnes! Zveme na křest nové knihy našeho kolegy Radana Haluzíka
Turbo-venkov: plné krajiny a prázdné domy (nejen) na Balkáně (Academia)

📍 CAMP, Vyšehradská 57
🕖 19:00

Součástí bude i krátká přednáška s obrázky.
🔗 praha.camp/program/deta...

European #forests, #grasslands, and #alpine plant communities are reflecting climate warming differently

See our new study in @nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#forestREplot #GLORIAnetwork #thermophilization #forestecol

Ecosystem integrity is a central concept in #conservation & #restoration. I argue for shifting from pattern-focused views to ecological processes & evolutionary lineages. Happy to see it accepted in @restorationecology.bsky.social🌿It'll become available at DOI: 10.1111/rec.70390 #ecosystemintegrity

Věda na Hradě - Milan Chytrý: Lidská stopa v krajině (SPH, ÚOCHB, UK 4.3.2026) YouTube video by LLionTV

Záznam mé přednášky z Pražského hradu byl zveřejněn na YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLjX...

The E4 Award | Ecography The E4 Award | Ecography

Call for proposals for the 2026 E4 award: vist.ly/4vak7
Winner will receive 1000 Euros and runner-up 500 Euros. Only two weeks left until deadline #ECR #EarlyCareerGrants #Review #Award

Mr Nobody Against Putin - Official Trailer YouTube video by Madman Films

Oscar-winning documentary

youtu.be/9150MCMSrgc?...

Biologické čtvrtky ve Viničné; D. Storch: Kolébky a muzea, rovnováhy a nerovnováhy; přednáška YouTube video by Jan Toman

David Storch přednášel na Čtvrtcích ve Viničné na téma "Kolébky a muzea, rovnováhy a nerovnováhy" (v češtině). Záznam jeho přednášky je zde: www.youtube.com/watch?v=77m_...

Právě jsme zveřejnili program Biologických čtvrtků na nadcházející letní semestr.

🎓 Our amazing PhD students are organising one of the upcoming talks in our seminar series! Join us on 31 March (15:00) for Maria Dornelas (University of St Andrews) speaking on “Biodiversity Change in the Recent Past.”

📍 Zoology Lecture Hall, Viničná 7, Prague

#Ecology #Biodiversity #Seminar

Our colleague Radan Haluzík has just published a new book, large and colorful: Turbo-Countryside: Full Landscapes and Empty Houses (Not Only) in the Balkans (Academia, 2026). Congratulations! www.academiaknihy.cz/cs/upcoming_...

A globally consistent scaling relationship reveals stabilizing effects of dominant species in plant communities Despite extensive research, stabilizing mechanisms in ecosystems remain uncertain. Taylor's power law (TPL) is a pervasive ecological pattern that describes how variance scales with mean abundance (σ....

All coexisting species ☘️🌿🌾 follow a single power function 📈 linking their temporal variability to their mean abundance 🤯 — 💥Taylor’s power law💥. This exceptionally strong law in community #ecology shows how dominants play a key role in stabilizing ecosystems worldwide 🌍🌐

🔗🔓 doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Why long-term science is needed in a short term world.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I’m launching a blog series for @oikosjournal.bsky.social , “View from the Editor’s Desk” - the first post is now live.

These pieces reflect my personal perspectives on different aspects of the publication system and not official journal policy.

www.oikosjournal.org/blog/view-ed...

Micro-credential Anthropocene 2026: Registration Opened! Micro-credential Anthropocene 2026: Registration Opened!

Registration for this year's course "Anthropocene: contemporary world in transdisciplinary perspective" is now open. Don't hesitate and don't wait until the last minute. The number of participants is limited. www.anthropocene.cz/en/micro-cre...

🏆 Calling all early-career ecologists! The E4 Award from @ecography.bsky.social is OPEN for submissions!
Submit a proposal for a concise review and compete for €1,000 (+ €500 runner-up).
📅 Deadline: 31 March 2026
📝 Just a <300-word proposal to start!

more about Vladimir and his research: vladremes.github.io

📢 Postdoc opening in avian biogeography & macroecology (Olomouc, CZ)
Vladimír Remeš (excellent scientist and mentor) is hiring a postdoc to study bird diversity across biomes, linking species pools, traits, climate & history using big data, fieldwork, and modelling.
🔗 pracuj.upol.cz/nc/zprava/cl...

Arnost Sizling from @cts.cuni.cz has become a Subject Editor for @ecography.bsky.social journal! 👏

@jcsvenning.bsky.social is always a welcome listen (and even better to have some excellent food and beverages with)

Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction - Nature Plants This study finds that native tree extinctions and alien naturalizations are pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species. This global shift could affect carbon storage and ecosyste...

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳
Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...