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We’re spotlighting tools, case studies & community-led solutions—inclusive of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, scientists, managers & policymakers.

Let’s transform forest management—together.

🤝 WBF is a non-profit event by @UZH_news—all proceeds go to conference costs

Call for Abstracts Call for oral and poster abstracts for WBF2026 More than 90 sessions, in 10 thematic tracks will bring together international researchers, artists, practitioners, companies and policy makers from a va...

🌲 Calling all #ForestBiodiversity champions!🌿

Submit your abstract to our session “Effectively bridging science and practice for actionable biodiversity conservation in forest management” at #WBF2026, 14–19 June in Davos 🇨🇭.

🗓️ Deadline: Nov 18, 2025
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American colleagues I feel for you...!

What the...?

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Overcoming the disconnect between species interaction networks and biodiversity conservation | Request PDF Request PDF | On Jul 1, 2025, Gabriel Dansereau and others published Overcoming the disconnect between species interaction networks and biodiversity conservation | Find, read and cite all the research...

Can't access the paper? PM me, or ask for a copy on ResearchGate:
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Our plea to ecological interation network (EINs) researchers and managers/decision-makers to _explicitly_ integrate the science into practice! Yes, there's is a LOT of uncertainty, but we've come far in our knowledge about EINs and have far more data than before. The time is NOW
tinyurl.com/v3xehmkz

I made one for stats papers

NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels An international team of scientists using observations from NASA-German satellites found evidence that Earth's total amount of freshwater dropped abruptly starting in May 2014 and has remained low eve...

Uh oh

phys.org/news/2024-11...

Grant-funded labs are incentivized to admit students who already know how to do research to serve as cheap labor. That puts students who’ve had the most access and resources at a major advantage. This shapes admissions practices more than people are willing to admit but yelling about testing is easy

A Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor position is available in the Plant Biology Department at SLU, related to how plants grow, develop & interact with their environment. Come join us in a welcoming and dynamic department in Uppsala, Sweden! More info below:
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Is it me, or do I see many of my colleagues joining Bluesky post/during US elections?

Also, I feel for you US ecologists... Stay strong

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Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC) is looking for a Director of Resiliency & Partnerships Director of Resiliency & Partnerships - Remote - Indeed.com

Great opportunity.

Climate models predict abrupt intensification of northern wildfires due to permafrost thawing A study, published in the journal Nature Communications by an international team of climate scientists and permafrost experts shows that, according to new climate computer model simulations, global wa...

#Climate models predict abrupt intensification of northern #wildfires due to permafrost thawing phys.org/news/2024-09...

Guidelines for the effective and ethical sampling of herbaria - Nature Ecology & Evolution Greater availability of digital herbarium data is leading to more researchers seeking to sample physical herbarium collections. This Perspective provides recommendations for stewards and users of herb...

“a global heritage that should be permanently safeguarded for future reference. Here we provide a set of recommended best practices for the sustainable, equitable and ethical sampling of herbarium specimens” www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🌎🌾

Line graph time series of 2024's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. The decadal averages are shown with different colored lines with white for the 1980s, green for the 1990s, blue for the 2000s, and purple for the 2010s. Thin white lines are also shown for each year from 2002 to 2022. 2024 is shown with a thick gold line. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year shown on this graph between May and August by looking at the decadal average line positions.

#Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 4th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 340,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,190,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,030,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,770,000 km² below the 1980s mean

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Not that it's an insult by default, but commenting on strangers' sexual preferences is not the nicest thing to do.

Jeez. I wonder if I'd been able to prevent myself from pointing back and clearly saying "low IQ"

Oh I thought they literally supported magical creatures -- I'd have taken that as a massive compliment, big Harry Potter fan

We also demonstrated the importance of rapid and integrated validation to judge model quality. "More data" and "more complex calibration" were not ubiquitously best, and the more data-hungry model actually performed worse at predicting simple forest properties.

By integrating data sourcing, data prep., model calibration and prediction/forecasting, validation and visualisation, we were able to more easily transfer and adapt our modeling workflows to new contexts and new data.

Our paper provides demonstrations of how integrated modelling workflows can be developed in R with the aid of the SpaDES suite of R packages, which bring useful tools like caching and automated (spatial and aspatial) data downloading and munging to ecologists

I am so proud to announce that our 2023 MEE paper won ESA's Ecological Forecasting Outstanding Publication Award 2024. This is a huge honour for me and my co-authors, after many years dedicated to developing tools that help ecologists create integrated, repeatable and transparent modelling workflows

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6/6 It can also be used in a forecasting context to explore potential effects of enviromental change on network structure.

5/6 Our framework can help inform biodiversity hotspot analyses, but also where more sampling should be targeted to deal with network composition/structure uncertainty.