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Matthew Kling
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Computational ecologist at UVM studying biodiversity responses to global change

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Feb 24
Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change
Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...
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Reposted by Pieter De Frenne, Matthew M. Kling, Etienne Lalechère , and 1 more

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Feb 16
Disequilibrium in plant distributions: Challenges and approaches for species distribution models - check our new review in @journalofecology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🍃🌦️♨️🌿 #SDM #plants #speciesdistributions #ranges
Disequilibrium in plant distributions: Challenges and approaches for species distribution models
Plant distributions are often in disequilibrium with climate, not occupying all suitable habitat and present in conditions that no longer support long-term population persistence. This proves a chall...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Jan 11
Our paper on "Hydroclimate volatility on a Warming Earth" is out in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. We assess existing scientific literature & conduct new analysis--concluding that "#HydroclimateWhiplash" is increasing due to #ClimateChange. [Thread] www.nature.com/artic...
Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Rapid transitions between extreme wet and extreme dry conditions — ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ — have marked environmental and societal...
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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · Jan 10
Cool new paper br Katherine Nigro and colleagues. 🧪🌎

Key finding: The climatic differences between adults and seedlings are the result of widespread regeneration failures in the hottest portions of species’ ranges

#Forests #ClimateChange
Trailing edge contractions common in interior western US trees under varying disturbances - Nature Climate Change
Climate change and disturbances are changing forest tree composition, but it is not clear if disturbances assist trees in tracking their climate ranges. This study shows that the impact of disturbance...
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · Jan 9
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Dec 27
This is so cool - this study used Chinese poetry to reconstruct 1400 years of range change for the Yangtze finless porpoise, and showed that most of the range loss happened in the last century
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Maps and graphs of range contraction over different dynasties

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Dec 7
An important review - The ecology of plant extinctions - "Recent warm-edge extirpations demonstrate the growing impact of anthropogenic climate change & show that predictions of massive climate-driven extinctions later this century are plausible" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌾🌎🧪🌐
Image of the first page and abstract of the paper "The ecology of plant extinctions Author links open overlay panel Richard T. Corlett 1 2 Show more Add to Mendeley Share Cite https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.11.007 Get rights and content Highlights The fossil record suggests that climate change was the major driver of plant extinctions and regional extirpations from the Pliocene until recently, when anthropogenic habitat loss became dominant. Known recent plant extinctions are disproportionately few in comparison with well-studied animal taxa, but many more species are probably committed to inevitable extinction unless given targeted support. Recent warm-edge extirpations demonstrate the growing impact of anthropogenic climate change and show that predictions of massive climate-driven extinctions later this century are plausible. The proximate causes for population extirpations are still rarely known but are likely to be highly varied and both species and location specific."

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Florian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social · Dec 6
Looking for a simple way to do #deeplearning in #Rstats? Check out cito, available on #CRAN via cran.r-project.org/web/packages... and presented in this recent Ecography paper nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Cito is an interface to torch for R and supports building and training