@wennading.bsky.social
Postdoc at Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Biogeographer & paleobotanist & macroevolutionary biologist Science for working 🔭👩🏻💻Nature for loving🌿 🍂Mountains for exploring⛰️🌋🏕️Biodiversity for understanding🪐🌏☄️🦖❄️
Really happy to see chapter 2 of my PhD published today in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social. DeepDiveR is an R package to assist with deep learning inference of biodiversity change through time 🤿🦊 Thanks to @bethanyjallen.bsky.social & Daniele Silvestro for the collaboration
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
What a fantastic new paper out today in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... - and what a great resource, summarising the climatic niche of primates and tackling the hypothesis on whether primates evolved in warm tropical forests 😍
07.08.2025 08:18 — 👍 72 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0
Manuel Popp @manupopp.bsky.social
📱🌱 Plant identification apps are booming – but which one is the best? And how reliable are the results? 🤔 Our researchers collected over 5,000 photos of 560 Swiss plant species from 85 habitat types and tested the most popular apps.🔎 Here are the findings: shorturl.at/lD0Cl
29.07.2025 14:48 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🌿 Join Our Team as Postdoctoral Researcher in Regional Climate Downscaling at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Switzerland and lead the development of regional, highresolution climate scenarios for Armenia. @wslresearch.bsky.social @wsl-dme.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/273855/1747/...
08.07.2025 10:53 — 👍 9 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0@clechartre.bsky.social reimplemented #BIOME4 into a modular, high-performance #Julia version, enabling 1 km vegetation modeling 🌱 and integration of #CHELSA climate datasets. 🌦️ We can now simulate biome patterns across complex terrains ⛰️ and define biome boundaries with greater accuracy. 🎯
10.07.2025 19:32 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
A global analysis shows consistent energy–diversity relationships across birds, mammals, amphibians & reptiles, resolving decades of ecological debate. Paper now out in @science.org : www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌍🌐 #ecology #MetabolicTheory
04.07.2025 06:04 — 👍 32 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
In ectotherms, temperature-species richness relationships matched predictions of metabolic theory 🧪🌐 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
04.07.2025 08:16 — 👍 43 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0Go check out our event-based evaluation!
Beyond the global scale patterns of increasing multi-year droughts, there are over 10,000 identified events inventoried with explicit spatiotemporal coverage, from which one could easily extract events of their whatever interest across disciplines and uses.
🌿 What makes plants in tropical ecosystems so unique & remarkably adapted to their environment? 🌸✨
We explored this question during a visit to the Botanical Garden in Zurich, guided by our group member dirknkarger.bsky.social — a fantastic opportunity to observe tropical plant traits up close. 🔎🌱
Very happy to see this out today! Our review explores the transformative role of angiosperms in shaping terrestrial ecosystems from the Cretaceous to the Cenozoic, detailing five key phases of angiosperm evolution by integrating fossil and molecular evidence. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
30.05.2025 11:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bert Wuyts is sharing our latest work on modeling #tipping-points in mountain ecosystems ⛰️ at the #TipESM annual meeting. Do #mountain #ecosystems hit critical tipping points in a warming world — and if so, when? 🌍⚠️ A great chance to exchange ideas. @tipesm.bsky.social ial @wsl-dme.bsky.social
10.04.2025 09:44 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
In my latest interview for @botany.one, I present you the work of @renskeonstein.bsky.social, a researcher always looking for the "big picture" of plant evolution and biogeography #Botany #PlantScience #SciComm 🧪🌍
Renske's research is something you don't want to miss! botany.one/2025/03/rens...
The SCION Earth Evolution Model is turning 4 years old this spring. We have celebrated by extending the framework back to ~1 Ga before present
We find some agreement with broad environmental trends from the rock record, but there is still plenty to learn!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A certificate from GEB
That's fantastic news! 🎉 The #paleo community is embracing our recommendations for using #fossil #pollen data in #macroecology studies! 🌿
Check it out 🔗 bit.ly/FOSSILPOL
A joint first author with @suzetteflantua.bsky.social , V. Felde & K. Bhatta!
#GEB #global #ecology #biogeography #palaeoecology
Prof Dame Alison Etheridge: 'In spite of appearances, everyone is insecure and no-one will judge you for asking what feels like a stupid question. Most people in the room probably wanted to ask the same thing but were too embarrassed - asking will win you many friends!'
Prof Erin Saupe: I wish I would have realised sooner that it's OK to be wrong in science, and that admitting you were wrong is a strength, not a weakness. Science should be about testing your assumptions and re-thinking paradigms, not just 'getting things right'.
Prof Daniela Bortoletto: 'That it's okay to say no and set boundaries. You don't need to feel obligated to take on every task, especially those disproportionately assigned to women. Focus on roles that support your scientific and professional growth.'
Prof Tamsin Mather: 'A career is a marathon not a sprint and there will be times things feel better than others or where life has priority. Be patient when things feel tough. Taking time off is so important, not just because work isn't everything, but to stay creative. I've had my best ideas on my bike, kayak, or up a mountain!'
'No one will judge you for asking what feels like a stupid question.'
For #IDWGS2025, the Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences Division asked scientists from across the faculty about the advice they wish they had received at the beginning of their careers ⬇️
Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
06.03.2025 07:49 — 👍 147 🔁 63 💬 5 📌 3
In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
Friendly reminder: Our Summer School on Blue-Green Biodiversity has an early application track this year!
If you need a visa to Switzerland, apply by March 15. You'll be notified by early April, giving you more time for the visa application process.
biodiversitycenter.wsl.ch/en/events/de...
In this mountain biodiversity review, we emphasized roles of habitat creation, disruption, and oscillation in driving biodiversity. Additionally, we developed a set of geomorphic predictors that may influence biodiversity patterns, with the potential for application to other montane systems.
14.02.2025 12:21 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0New paper in @science.org !
Where and when did the #multiyear-droughts occur around the world? Have they become more prevailing? We identified over 10,000 such events and found that they have been increasingly occupying the terrestrial land. (1/6)
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado4245
The map shows 500 of those events that happend over the last 40 years.
🌍 Mega-droughts are becoming more frequent and intense globally. Our study in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... shows that multi-year droughts have significantly increased over the last 40 years with severe impacts @wslresearch.bsky.social @wsl-dme.bsky.social @extremeswsl.bsky.social (1/7) 🧵
17.01.2025 13:35 — 👍 72 🔁 33 💬 4 📌 1
Walter Jetz & @dirknkarger.bsky.social presented their work on “Mountain Thermal Belts in a Changing #Climate.”🤓 Using #CHELSA climate data on structuring the elevation belts of global #mountains by thermal belts anchored to the #alpine treeline has led to a new high-resolution (90m) dataset.⛰️🛰️💻
15.01.2025 14:21 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
A very comprehensive study on stick and leaf insects and so cool pictures! Lineages can independently colonize similar habitats, repeatedly evolving in parallel directions of similar body forms. #Adaptive #Evolution www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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