Thrilled to share my first main #paper from my #EMBO #postdoc fellowship that is out today in #FunctionalEcology: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.14739

Read on to learn about the #evolution of #torpor among #mammals and #birds!

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"The potential of undersown species identity vs. diversity to manage disease in crops" out now in #FunctionalEcology. Good news: single species can be used to suppress early season disease of barley, if these species are at sufficient abundance! 1st results from #TwinWin Experiment! With L. Domeignoz Horta, S. Gerin, J. Heinosalo, A. Lohila, K. Raveala, B. Schmid, R. Shrestha, M. Tiusanen , P. Thitz and A.-L. Laine

https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14592

#Nature Doesn’t Care Where a Species Is From .A new study finds that large herbivores have the same impact on plant diversity whether they’re native or introduced. #ecology #FunctionalEcology
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/02/invasive-species-large-herbivores-plants/677325/

PhD position @KIT_Karlsruhe Join us to study the ecophysiology & morphology of urban trees under drought stress using an irrigation experiment, laboratory analysis, remote sensing and more. Apply by 15/03/24! https://www.ifgg.kit.edu/downloads/sonstiges/IFGG_Urboretum.pdf #FunctionalEcology #UrbanTrees

Evidence that mandatory #double-blind #review improves #fairness during #peer #review processes: it reduces geographic and language #biases!
Well done! @Callomac et al.

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ftr/10.1111/1365-2435.14259 #FunctionalEcology

#peerreviewed #bias #ResearchIntegrity
#HDI: Human Development Index

#JobOffer for a Biodiversa-funded project, don't miss it!

RT: @AgatheLeriche@twitter.com

We have at
@imbe_marseille@twitter.com a 10 months position for a data manager/data scientist in #biodiversity #conservation #forestecology #phylogeny #functionalecology as part of the INTEGRADIV @BiodiversaPlus project, starting at the end of March.

Want to be part of the amazing INTEGRADIV consortium? Apply on the CNRS portal https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7263-KHEBOU-014/Default.aspx?lang=EN

Now included in an issue:

Our new @FunEcology paper, in which we show that environmental conditions at different spatial scales determine the composition of #deadwood #beetle assemblages

Just a quick intro:
Hi! I'm Amandine, a French-Costarican biologist living in Mexico. I did a postdoc on functional diversity of trees and climate change effects on Mexican forests. I'm interested in plants, insects, GIS, statistics mainly with R and writing. I plan to tooth mainly in English but occasionally also in Spanish or French #introductions #rstats #gis #biodiversity #FunctionalEcology #plants #insects #EcosistemServices #mexico #CostaRica

New lab paper alert:

Trait-based ecology is not yet predictive because the proliferation of new metrics muddied the waters.

Where others zig, we zag.

We propose testing old theories with new data.

We advocate for the ubiquitous power law and argue environmental variability in space and time fundamentally shapes trait variation.

Keep an eye out for Umaña led paper where we provide an empirical test.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.13620

Bird extinctions threaten to cause disproportionate reductions of functional diversity and uniqueness.

A new comprehensive study of 9943 (>99%) living bird species by Ali (https://twitter.com/notazookeeper) et al. https://rb.gy/n2eh91 published in Functional Ecology shows that bird species with a unique combination of traits face the highest risk of extinction which could undermine the functioning and resilience of ecosystems.
#FunctionalEcology

British Ecological Society https://rb.gy/smewr0