Chia Hsieh

rOpenSci Champions Second Cohort: Projects Wrap-Up | R-bloggers As we welcome the third cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program, our second cohort has now completed the second phase of the program. In this article, we share each Champion’s project, their achievem...

BBS Taiwan is listed! Check out handy R packages that can boost your research.

#Ecology #OpenScience

Join at 🌏 Species on the Move in Taiwan! A global forum where researchers, practitioners & policymakers share insights, innovations, and strategies shaping the future of biodiversity.

#Ecology #ClimateChange #RangeShift #Biodiversity #Conservation

Global variability in LGM cooling amongst paleoclimate datasets affects biome reconstructions in mountains Downscaled paleoclimate datasets are widely used in biogeographical research, aiding our understanding of past environmental shifts and species’ responses to climate change. Numerous datasets exist, v...

Which paleoclimate dataset do you use for your research?

In my latest research, I compared temperature estimates from five well-known paleoclimate datasets to proxy data and found that inter-dataset variability can strongly affect temperature-delimited reconstructions. 🧵

➡️ doi.org/10.21425/fob...

Some butterfly species have declined in the Midwest; none has increased, MSU study finds In the last three decades of data from butterfly counts in the Midwest, none of the butterfly species increased in population. More than 40% declined in number.

Lab’s publication came out!

Bye-bye butterflies? Insects are in 'precipitous decline' in Midwest.

#ZipkinLab #Ecology #QuantitativeEcology #Conservation

First postdoc paper just dropped! Using 50 years of Breeding Bird Survey data, we found that the unexpected functional shifts of bird communities in North America do not track species-level expectations, and these unexpected shifts can be explained by just 5% of “hyper-dominant” species.

Quantifying functionally equivalent species and ecological network dissimilarity with optimal transport distances Quantifying the structure and dynamics of species interactions in ecological communities is fundamental to studying ecology and evolution. While there are numerous approaches to analysing ecologic...

Quantifying similarity among ecological network is getting feasible to understand assembly processes from communities to species interactions. Upcoming publication using this for African mammal food webs is under revision now. Stay tuned!

#Ecology #EcologicalNetwork #Macroecology #Biogeography