📅Next Tuesday, our online seminar speaker will be Lisa Buche @lili-buche.bsky.social (ETH Zürich), presenting:
⭐Moving beyond linear interactions in community ecology⭐
Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
Global times: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/f...
Free and open to all - we hope to see you there!
Woodpeckers in Ottawa's arboretum
Humans understand the world through two things:
principles and narratives.
Principles and formulas alone can’t get at the significance of things
and narratives alone can be deceptive.
-Hiroichi Yansae
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Holling 1992 in Ecol Mon is also really insightful. There's a whole conversation about a spatial continuum of scales vs. Emergent levels in ecosystems. It depends a bit on what you're specifically targeting, Gabby.
Ecologists what are your favorite papers about scale and choosing an appropriate scale in ecological studies and spatial resolution. 🌎🗺️
Levin 1992, Wiens 1989, Dungan et al. 2002. We have a recent paper in J Ecol on spatial resolution in SDMs, you might find that one interesting
Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
8.7 million species on Earth? 🌎🌐
How about 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Million or more⁉️🔥
🌳🌿🍄🦋🐞🐠🐘
Global biodiversity and the expanding Tree of Life @pnas.org
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
A short summary of our last paper on the first attempt at a global butterfly index of population trends theconversation.com/a-global-but...
I have finally added more documentation to my {vaultkeepr} R package. Specifically, a few articles which are showcasing the most common usage.
The package is mostly used to access data from #VegVault
ondrejmottl.github.io/vaultkeepr/i...
#Rstats
People debating fragmentation effects are **not** questioning the negative effects of habitat loss. The challenge is understanding when an area of habitat existing aggregated is significantly better of the same total area of habitat existing fragmented (e.g., a 100ha patch vs. four 25ha patches).
Towards a global butterfly index! 🦋🌍
Despite data gaps in many regions, butterflies are among the best candidates to build a global indicator for insects
Long-term monitoring —like CBMS— is key
👉📄 Check out the scientific article: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New data article out today in @consbiog.bsky.social presenting a set of new openly-available ecological units (or zoning) layers for Europe at 100 m spatial grain for a 18 year time series.
@naturaconnect.bsky.social #lamasus
doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
We’re missing a global indicator to track insects. By analyzing thousands of butterfly populations, we highlight both promising signals and key challenges—showing why these taxa are strong candidates for building a Global Index to support conservation. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Insect conservation in the Global Biodiversity Framework: achieving targets can generate positive impacts on insect populations, but we still lack indicators to measure progress.
Really cool. PIVOT!!
Really looking forward to reading this
You bet, and no pressure at all re: mentioning/referencing. There is a whole literature on this in terrestrial systems (sometimes controversial) and I'd be happy to share more references. Cheers!
Yes, this is something we have tried to point at also in our work onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10..... This his happening globally for forests.
A subdivision is approved in a flood zone. A wetland is drained because it’s in the wrong place. An environmental policy is weakened to help promote development. Another hectare of rainforest is flattened to produce more palm oil.
Congratulations - prof. Fortin's impact on our field has been outstanding.
Thanks Fabricio, this looks really interesting
That's just completely insane.
New #OpenAccess work in #RESInsectConsDiv reports on how the warmest #spring on record in the UK was used to evalute how a specialist spring-flying #butterfly may respond to future #ClimateChange
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70070
#Hamearis #Conservation
@manusaunders.bsky.social @wileyecology.bsky.social
If you’re interested in modelling community turnover and/or community uniqueness (i.e. LCBD: local contribution to beta diversity), make sure you check it out.
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Will do my best to be there
That's awesome!
Got it. Thank you, looking forward to reading this with a bit more time and peace
