Abhishek Kumar

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

Was just sent this, author unknown. There's plenty to debate but they're right about evolutionary ecology. 🌏

SORTEE meet-ups at other conferences Other events by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

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Our new paper - manage to put @sortee.bsky.social in keywords

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Still some time to apply for this #trait-based #ecology #postdoc
✔️in supportive group within a lively faculty
✔️in beautiful Helsinki with forests🌲, shoreline and islands 🏕️

Postdoctoral Researcher on Drivers of Biodiversity Change Across Time at the Section for Biodiversity, Globe Institute Postdoctoral Researcher on Drivers of Biodiversity Change Across Time at the Section for Biodiversity, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen We are seeking

Postdoc opportunity: Drivers of biodiversity change across time 🌿 🦅 🌍
Come work with fabulous Naia Morueta-Holme (and a bit with me)
2-year position starting March 1, 2025
Naia's lab page: lnkd.in/drHQBGdU

Apply here (deadline 5 Jan 2025) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

There is still space left in the #biodiversity #redistribution starter pack ⬇️ If you are working on or interested in biodiversity responses, aka #species #range #shifts & #community #composition #changes, to global change drivers, I'd be happy to add you in the list 😀

go.bsky.app/6KqEpb9

Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modelling or Trait-based Ecology Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modelling or Trait-based Ecology

📢#WeAreHiring! I am looking for a #postdoc (2yr position) either in ecological modelling or experimental trait-based ecology to join us in Northern Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning group at @helsinkiuni.bsky.social

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jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Archived Data and #RStats codes are openly available from figshare doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Also, maintained at github.com/kumar-a/rich...

#OpenScience #ReproducibleResearch

Direct effects are stronger than the indirect effects

Indirect effects are strongly mediated by water-energy dynamics than energy availability

Overall, our study supported:
1️⃣Climate tolerance hypothesis > 2️⃣Water-energy dynamics > 3️⃣Species-energy hypothesis

Climate is more important than the topographic heterogeneity at broader scales

Richness is regulated by multiple mechanisms involving direct indirect and interaction effects of environmental variables

A Globally Consistent Richness‐Climate Relationship for Angiosperms | The American Naturalist: Vol 161, No 4 Abstract: Species richness, the simplest index of biodiversity, varies greatly over broad spatial scales. Richness‐climate relationships often account for >80% of the spatial variance in richness. How...

Model suggested by Francis and Currie (2003, doi.org/10.1086/368223) better represented climate-richness relationship.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Species richness seems to be regulated by 💦 liquid-water availability, i.e. interaction between temperature and water-deficit.

Determinants of plant species richness along elevational gradients: insights with climate, energy and water–energy dynamics - Ecological Processes Background Understanding the patterns and processes of species distributions has long remained a central focus of biogeographical and ecological research. While the evidence for elevational patterns i...

What determines the plant species richness along elevational gradients?

In this latest study, we explored the direct, indirect and interaction effects of environmental variables.🧵

#Biodiversity #ElevationalGradients #Himalayas #Macroecology #PlantEcology #SpeciesRichness

doi.org/10.1186/s137...

Profile pic of the Journal of Vegertation Science.

Profile pic of the journal Applied Vegetation Science.

The two @iavs5.bsky.social journals @applvegsci.bsky.social and @jvegsci.bsky.social have arrived here.

patial and taxonomic coverage of terrestrial plant occurrence data. Georeferenced plant observations, as illustrated by observation dates in Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF; the largest biodiversity informatics infrastructure), have increased exponentially over the past 200 years (panels a, b), though the number of species recorded in these databases is reaching saturation (panel c). By integrating additional data sources compiled by Botanical Information and Ecology Network (BIEN; i.e., non-GBIF sources comprising ~15 million records; panel d), the georeferenced plant observations in GBIF can be expanded by an additional ~4 million spatially unique records (panel e) and ~20,000 species (panel f). Still, the gaps in plant distributions warrant our attention: areas in Russia, central Asia, and northern Africa (red colour in panel g) are missing publicly available occurrences. The grey colour in panel (g) represents the presence of plant data, and the black colour represents ice-covered areas

The biodiversity data deluge is here - the equivalent of #MooresLaw but for biodiversity data? "we estimated that the total number of plant distribution records doubles every 17 years and the number of spatially unique records doubles every 21 years." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌎🧪🦋🦫

This year's contribution to Citizen Science 🌱👇

Code sharing in ecology and evolution increases citation rates but remains uncommon Biologists increasingly rely on computer code to collect and analyze their data, reinforcing the importance of published code for transparency, reproducibility, training, and a basis for further work...

I'd like to encourage folks to publish their code. Not only does it make studies more transparent and reproducible, but it also increases citation rates!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Here is a starter pack for scientists and others interested in trait-based ecology and evolution. Still trying to find everyone here. Please let me know if you would like to be added to the list! go.bsky.app/PThMXeX 🧪🌎🌾

Global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions - Nature An estimated area of 215 million hectares has the potential for natural forest regeneration across tropical forested countries and biomes, representing an above-ground carbon sequestration potential o...

Recent study estimates large global potential for natural regeneration in deforested tropical regions & substantial associated #climatechange #mitigation effects www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌳🌿🌴🍃 #reforestation #naturalprocesses #trees #tropics #forests

Data justice and biodiversity conservation Increases in data availability coupled with enhanced computational capacities are revolutionizing conservation. But in the excitement over the opportunities afforded by new data, there has been less ...

Critical paper for thinking about data use and justice in global #biodiversity #conservation, #macroecology, ecological data synthesis and analyses.

How are people and nature made visible, represented and treated as a result of digital data?

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics: A General Framework for Scaling Species Richness and Community Abundance along Environmental Gradients | The American Naturalist Abstract Large-scale temporal and spatial biodiversity patterns have traditionally been explained by multitudinous particular factors and a few theories. However, these theories lack sufficient genera...

The Equilibrium Theory of Biodiversity Dynamics: A General Framework for Scaling Species Richness and Community Abundance along Environmental Gradients #macroecology www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...