New fully funded PhD or MPhil position in my lab at the University of Adelaide! Please share widely! Thanks

Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

🚨 📣 Happy to share this new paper on World Seagrass Day 🌱🌊🌱🌊

Community trajectory analyses sheds light on regional and local dynamics of 2️⃣ seagrass species along the 🇫🇷 coast
#MarineEcology 🧪

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Change in the cluster composition of the Beware Reef. This site shiffted into an urchin barren in 2013 as show by the disaperence of large canopy algae (dark blue line).

🌍 Understanding habitat states & transitions is key for conservation!

🏝️ Helps track ecosystem shifts from climate change

🛑 Detects early warning signs of degradation (e.g., kelp loss → urchin barrens).

Description of the identified clusters along with photoquadrats examples. Arrows indicate transitions between clusters.

🌍 With our data-driven standardized way to classify & monitor marine habitats, what did we find?

🏝️ 17 distinct habitat states, including kelp forests, coral reefs & transitional zones

📉 Our pipeline captures fine-scale ecological changes over time

Map of the number of RLS transect sampled per ecoregion.

This study wouldn’t be possible without citizen scientists! 🌍🌊

👩‍🔬 Reef Life Survey divers collected 6554 transects worldwide
📸 Standardized photoquadrat sampling ensured consistency
📊 It enabled us to track habitat transitions over time

Using SHAP to Interpreting this cluster as a Foliose brown algae cluster.

Machine learning models like UMAP & HDBSCAN are powerful, but they’re often hard to interpret.

So, we used SHAP to:
📌 Identify which features drive cluster formation
📌 Uncover non-linear interactions in benthic ecosystems
📌 Improve ecological interpretability of results

UMAP ordination of the benthic cover data. Each point is coloured accordingly to its cluster. Black points represent unclustered data.

We used better methods: UMAP (for dimension reduction) & HDBSCAN (for clustering).

✅ Captures complex ecological structures
✅ Finds clusters of varying shapes & sizes
✅ Filters noise instead of forcing data into clusters

HDBSCAN, Fast Density Based Clustering, the How and the Why - John Healy YouTube video by PyData

Clustering is widely used in ecology to define community types, habitat states & biodiversity patterns. But common methods used in ecology have major drawbacks. (See this excellent video of @JohnDataHealy
youtu.be/dGsxd67IFiU?...)

🚀 New paper alert! We used a UMAP-HDBSCAN pipeline to classify & track benthic habitat states at a global scale using citizen science data from Reef Life Survey ! 🌍🏝️

🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

#MarineScience #Ecology #CitizenScience #MachineLearning

Check this out ! It's all about seagrass, trajectory analysis and trait variability ! Well done Elise and co 🌱
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Well done Elise! 🙌 🧪 🌱🇫🇷 a great #broadscale seagrass study & happy memories of lockdown winter 🤿 diving in the Morbihan gulf for sample collecting. Under the snow in 5 degree 💦 🥶 @aurelien-boye.bsky.social @ifremer.bsky.social #CTAanalysis

### NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ###

Global Joint Synthesis Call

"𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲"

Funding of:

➡️ Working groups
➡️ Postdocs
@several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍

PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX!

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I am looking for a PhD student to start in fall of 2025 at MSU. Potential topics include trait-based approaches to plankton community resilience, temperature effects on communities, harmful algal blooms and many others. Please get in touch if interested. More info: www.kl-lab.group.

A starter pack for people studying biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at the mesoscale.

#metapopulations #metacommunities #metaecosystems

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I missed many people, please help me hunting the metacommunists on bluesky !

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Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences Faculty of Science is recruiting Assistant Professors in Biodiversity - Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences

The Faculty of Science at Stockholm University is recruiting up to three Assistant Professors in Biodiversity to tackle the critical global issue of biodiversity loss caused by human-driven factors such as climate change, habitat alteration and pollution.

www.su.se/department-o...

UCL Earth Sciences Ph.D. scholarship Applications are open to the UCL Earth Sciences Ph.D. scholarship. The scholarship is meant to support underrepresented groups at the Ph.D. level. The deadline for applications is on January 23rd 2025

📢Fully-funded PhD scholarship available for underrepresented ethnic groups within UCL Earth Sciences.

Please get in touch if you are interested in:
- Corals🪸
- Marine biodiversity📈
- Macroecology 🌏
- Conservation Palaeobiology🐚
More info (inc. eligibility):
www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-scienc...

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Aurélien Boyé ‪Ifremer‬ - ‪‪Cité(e) 407 fois‬‬ - ‪community ecology‬ - ‪bio-statistics‬ - ‪numerical ecology‬ - ‪benthic ecosystems‬ - ‪foundation species‬

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🧪 🧪 We are hiring a new limnology professor at UQAM! Come join us in the GRIL in Montreal. Posting is below / Nous embauchons un nouveau prof en limnologie à l'UQAM! Rejoignez-vous à nous dans le GRIL 🧪 🧪 --> bio.uqam.ca/wp-content/u...
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MOPGA 2025: Visiting Fellowship Program for early career researchers | Campus France

If you are looking for a post doc fellowship in France, holding PhD less than 5 yrs, and interested in climate change, ecology, you should apply campusfrance.org/en/mopga-2025

Registration is now OPEN! #ITRS2025 here we go! 🐌🪼🐟🦀🦑🐙🌱🌱🐚💦🌊🌊🌍 #MarineLife #RockyShores

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