Part of the Elite Network of Bavaria, the M.Sc. integrates ecology, statistical modelling, deep learning & AI, remote sensing, and decision science — training graduates to forecast ecological change and communicate it to managers and policy-makers.
The new Master's programme in Ecological Forecasting at UBT and JMU Würzburg is looking to employ six lecturers and a program coordinator!
For more information, please contact Prof. Steven Higgins (www.pfloek.uni-bayreuth.de/en/team/higg...).
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We’re hiring in Plant Ecology and Biodiversity at Leibniz University Hannover:
• Senior Researcher (permanent, full-time)
www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8379/
• PhD on long-term coastal vegetation change (North & Baltic Seas)
www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8435
Nettes Feature unserer Forschung zu Klimawandelanpassungen im Naturschutz in der Bayerischen Staatszeitung:
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We’re hiring! 🌿
Permanent E13 (100%) position in Plant Ecology & Biodiversity Research at Leibniz University Hannover.
Focus: vegetation ecology, field research, quantitative skills, teaching (BSc, German required).
Deadline: 15 April 2026
Details: www.uni-hannover.de/jobs/id/8379/
Without this evidence we do not know if we are observing true AES or a human-maintained ecosystem. 4/4
If humans force the fire regime (and other disturbances), then a study of AES needs to show evidence that stopping the human forcing of the disturbance regime would not cause a state shift. 3/4
Where open and closed ecosystem can exist, one needs to demonstrate that the fire regime is solely the outcome of the internal dynamics of the system. 2/4
What do you mean, ‘fire-driven alternative vegetation states’? royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Fire in open ecosystems is not evidence for Alternative Ecosystem States. 1/4
Come work with us! 🧪🌐🧑💻🌿🐸❄️
I am hireing a #postdoc in Climate Change Ecology to work on Ecological Synthesis and support the upcoming #IPCC report as a Chapter Scientist (CH14: terrestrial, freshwater and cryopspheric biodiversity, ecosystems, and services. #IPCC #AR7
@ipcc.bsky.social
Dear colleagues, we are searching for candidates to fill a Full W3 Professorship for Plant #Ecology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. For details, see www.nature.com/naturecareer... 🌐 🌎 #AcademicJobs
Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"Ecological Forecasting" - the new Master of Science study program at the University of Bayreuth www.uni-bayreuth.de/en/master/ec...
Congratulations, Jonathan! That's well-deserved!
Global change research in the observational era
Leuzinger and Medlyn
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🥳 ...and again, splendid national and international rankings for ecology, environmental and earth sciences @unibayreuth.bsky.social.
Well done, all colleagues @bayceer.bsky.social 👍🌍
🌿 Calling peatland folks!
I’m compiling a global list of bog-specialist / indicator plant species (vascular plants + bryophytes) for my postdoc on bog niche modelling. I’m especially looking for knowledge from the Southern Hemisphere. If you are interested in collaborating, please DM or reply 🌱
#Postdoc in #landscape ecology with me
How does plant species traits influence communities responce to environmental change? An unique re-survey data set from the UK will be used to explore & test hypotheses about dispersal and persistence 🧪🌍
Apply 30th of November
su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Sounds like a really cool project 👇
Our new IAVS Bulletin is out! 🌿
Featuring:
• 33rd European Vegetation Survey highlights
• 🌟 Laudatio for Prof. John Rodwell, first honorary EVS member
• 🕊️ In memoriam: Sandro Pignatti (1930–2025)
• 🗺️ EVA-MAP: New tool to explore Vegetation data
Read the full bulletin here👉 tinyurl.com/3jz3cnse
the two vignettes are hidden in the tar.gz that you can download from CRAN. Then go to TTR.PGM/inst/doc 3/3
if you are interested in using the process model for attribution or species distribution modelling, check out our R package: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 2/3
Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
Want to do vegetation ecology in Taiwan? I am still searching for postdocs, so if interested, check the ad below and apply!
We focus on ecological drivers of cloud & monsoon forests in mountains and how to explain them using plant functional traits.
davidzeleny.net/veglab/
If you are interested in process-based species distribution and plant growth modelling, check out this new R package and paper! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny
Congratulations Jens! Truly deserved!
another very useful finding of this study imo is that process models parametrized inversely from species distribution data performed better than forward-parametrized process models, at least in this set of species with reasonable distribution data.
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