Jamie M. Kass

Historical biogeography and climatic niche dynamics in spiny lizards of the genus Sceloporus (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) Abstract. Although we now have extensive biogeographical datasets for tetrapods, unravelling the drivers of species’ distributions remains challenging, esp

Interested in the biogeography of lizards?🦎

We studied the historical biogeography of Sceloporus lizards and the link between their dispersal and climatic niches 🌎🌦️ @fabrovillalobos.bsky.social @ndimhypervol.bsky.social @biojlinnsoc.bsky.social

Learn more here 👇:
academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Uncertainty in Ecological Models Estimating long-term trends in ecological communities requires that we have some model of how organisms relate to changes in environmental factors such as temperature, precipitation, and land use. Exp...

So happy for this one to finally come out: I wrote a book chapter on uncertainty in ecological models with Alke Voskamp, Lukas Baumbach, and Jamie Kass (@ndimhypervol.bsky.social) for a massive new open access book on uncertainty in climate change research.

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

We are thrill to have @ndimhypervol.bsky.social be this month's Funk lecture speaker! To learn more and to register, please visit our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ju...

Really great work. This is a great open canvas for the next gen of shiny modeling apps.

@ecography.bsky.social Linking this to Ecography's bsky account~

link:

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.27312903

@EcographyJourna The tutorials cover common SDM tasks: climate change range shift predictions, estimating invasion risk for alien species, and modeling ranges of rare species with low data. The files are available in the suppl. info in the paper, but also from this...

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@EcographyJourna We go through a SDM workflow and explain all the tools we can use from various pkgs for each step, highlighting how they can work well in unison. We also use sdmverse to show the main functional groups for SDM pkgs, and give suggestions on where pkg dev should go...

#RStats

https://github.com/sylvainschmitt/sdmverse

@EcographyJourna The sdmverse meta pkg provides documentation on SDM pkg attributes, plotting tools to visualize pkg relationships, and a shiny app. It is built to grow with community contributions and uses volunteer reviews to verify additions. #openscience...

tutorials.

https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.07346

Check out our new paper in @EcographyJourna! A big team of #R pkg developers, we show how to improve analysis standards by using different pkgs for species distribution models together, a new pkg to catalog and explore them, and 3 extensive...

https://www.naturepositive-hub.jp/en/
https://www.nies.go.jp/biology/snapshot_japan/en/

Just back from Minamisanriku on the NE coast where my lab and collabs installed wildlife cameras, microclimate sensors, and sound recorders to monitor biodiversity in beautiful mountain forests. We are all happy, but <exhausted>....

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https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?id=D124071200&ln=1

REMINDER: The Macroecology Lab @TohokuUniPR is hiring a postdoc. Applicants should be proficient in species distribution modeling, GIS, and R. If interested, please DM or email (if making the deadline is difficult, please reach out). Details in link...

リマインド：東北大のマクロ生態分野はポスドクを募集しています。種分布モデルや、GIS、Rなどの経験・能力を求めます。ご興味があれば私にDMかメールしてください。詳細は以下のリンクです。 どうぞよろしくお願いします。
（お盆休みなので締切が難しければDMしてください）
https://dir.lat/hwghcF

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https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?id=D124071200&ln=1

The Macroecology Lab is hiring a postdoc. Applicants should be proficient in species distribution modeling, GIS, and R. Those who want to do research in an international env. are esp. welcome. If interested, please DM or email me. Details in link...

東北大のマクロ生態分野はポスドクを募集しています。種分布モデルや、GIS、Rなどの経験・能力を求めます。日本語・英語の国際的な環境で研究したい人は大歓迎です。ご興味があれば私にDMかメールしてください。詳細は以下のリンクにあります。 どうぞよろしくお願いします。

https://dir.lat/rscI9V

このオンライン署名に賛同をお願いします！「日本の未来のために、 科学研究費助成事業（科研費）の増額を求めましょう！」 https://chng.it/t2MQ4jTphp via @change_jp

Easily the most creative #biogeography study I've seen in a while. Question: how do the geographic distributions of trickster animals in folklore compare to those of the real reference species? @royalsociety

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231577

https://twitter.com/ndimhypervol/status/1724611646210085073

Our paper about using SDMs and other biodiv models to predict and map ecosystem services is now published in an issue at @Trends_Ecol_Evo!
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.10.011
Also, just secured a JSPS grant (基盤C) to implement these ideas! More to come soon......

Last week we had a great kickoff meeting for a grant to build a new marine science research center at @TohokuUniPR with @JAMSTEC_PR~
My lab will be participating in <biodiversity modeling>!
I joined the panel disc. about long-term monitoring, stability, and societal impacts.

Visited @OISTedu to work with @SamRPJRoss and colleagues on our SHINKA grant research on response diversity of lake plankton communities. Hardly felt like I'd been gone a while, let alone nearly a whole year... Hope to come again soon!

View from the new Lab 5 building~

https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/cuttingedge_biodiversity_models_help_assess_natures_vital_contribution_to_people.html
Grad School of #LifeSciences: https://www.lifesci.tohoku.ac.jp/en/date/detail---id-51687.html

Press release w/ brief summary of our paper on biodiversity models for predicting nature's contributions to people, out in @Trends_Ecol_Evo.
With K. Fukaya, @Wil_Thuiller, & @AkiraSMori

@TohokuUniPR:...

Hey #R friends, in my pkg I'm trying to call an S4 method for predict() specified in another pkg, but unless I load this pkg it doesn't work. This method isn't exported by its pkg. How do I specify this method in NAMESPACE? Is there some other way? Thanks!
@rstatstweet #ecology