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Glenda Mendieta-Leiva

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Research fellow Uni Marburg. Epiphyte ecologist, leading the Epiphyte Inventory Network: using epiphytes to understand Neotropical diversity, check us out at https://www.epigdatabase.org/ 🌿 Botanist 🪷| Latina 💜| Firstgen 🎓 | PhD | LAC 🌎

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Glenda Mendieta-Leiva @gmendietal.bsky.social · Dec 2

🙋🏾‍♀️ 🔵🦋, 4 my 1st 📬, I will like to introduce my study system: vascular epiphytes & our working group: the Epiphyte Inventory Group (EpIG).

Check us out at:
www.epigdatabase.org

#Neotropics
#biogeography
#conservation
#diversity

Parque Nacional Yanachaga Chemillén, Perú

Orchidaceae, Epidendrum sp. [Possibly endemic, possibly threatened according to Peruvian legislation]. PNYCh, Peru.

Orchidaceae, Maxillaria sp. Understory epiphyte. PNYCh, Peru.

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Alicia Valdés @aliciavaldesr.bsky.social · 24d

El viernes 26 estaremos en #Gijón en la #EuropeanResearchersNight con el stand "Las plantas viajeras" @universidadoviedo.bsky.social @imibasturias.bsky.social #science4all #MSCANight #NIGHTSpain

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Reynaldo Linares-Palomino @rlinares.bsky.social · Jun 28

Attending #ATBC2025 in Oaxaca next week? Look us up to learn about \Smithsonian's Center for Conservation & Sustainability work in #Peru!

Asistirás a #ATBC2025 en Oaxaca la próxima semana? Buscanos para conocer el trabajo del Centro para la Conservación & la Sostenibilidad del #Smithsonian en Peru

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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · Jun 27

Looking forward to seeing the people on this starter pack at #ATBC2025 If you want to be added to this list, please let me know. 🧪 in 🇲🇽 go.bsky.app/FSQE1vP

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Helmut Hillebrand @hillebr1.bsky.social · Jun 25

Interested in biodiversity, macroecology, spatial ecology, conservation?

@nmouquet.bsky.social put together a global ecology starter pack, two volumes are already full but you can DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the Vol_3.

Let’s keep the community growing 🌐

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Juliano Sarmento Cabral @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social · May 29

Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny

Postdoc in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling with temporary civil servant status (“Akademische*r Rätin*Rat)

100%, A 13, Reference number: 2025/49

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Glenda Mendieta-Leiva @gmendietal.bsky.social · May 26

Join us for a fun and interesting applied seminar with @dylancraven.bsky.social!

Ecoinformatics IAVS @iavs-ecoinfo.bsky.social · May 22

📢 #CuttingvEdgeTools Friday, May the 30th, at 2 PM CEST, @dylancraven.bsky.social will close our cycle of webinars on databases with "Key questions in functional biogeography", leveraging regional trait databases and with examples from Rasgos-CL. Join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Ecoinformatics IAVS @iavs-ecoinfo.bsky.social · May 9

Our webinar about TRY with Jens Kattge has just started. You can still join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Glenda Mendieta-Leiva @gmendietal.bsky.social · Apr 17

Discovering the beauty of Asturias:
an idyllic "Hayedo" and a terrestrial orchid (Orchid mascula)... 🌳🌲🪻
So many species and habitats yet to see and learn.

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Alicia Valdés @aliciavaldesr.bsky.social · Apr 5

Going back home after a few days in Halle, Germany, where we presented our work on habitat monitoring using remote sensing at the meeting of sPlot, the Global Vegetation database, followed by the annual meeting of our MOTIVATE project motivate-biodiversity.eu

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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · Mar 31

Meeting of sPlot, the Global Vegetation Database, has started in Halle, Germany. Gabriella Damasceno is presenting a remarkable extension of the database between versions 3.0 and 4.0.

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Glenda Mendieta-Leiva @gmendietal.bsky.social · Mar 26

One of the fun things about living in Gijón!

An incredible talk on arqueobotany by Leonor Peña-Chocarro. A trip to the past through the remains of plants and their fruits! (And much more...)

🌿🌳🍑🌽🫘

Organized by the Atlantic Botanical Garden of Gijón and the University of Oviedo.

Using taxonomy to identify remains of seeds/plants (in this case for cereal species)

Bog bodies (conservation techniques of current remains in wet/humid conditions).

The most unexpected to me, a sample of half a coke can (150 ml) contained more than 21 000 seeds!

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Club Eco-Evo Latinoamérica @ecoevolatam.bsky.social · Mar 24

¿Te interesa formar parte de un espacio de encuentro para ecólogos latinoamericanos? Únete a la conversación sobre los retos y desafíos de la ecología en la región.

📅 Regístrate aquí 👉 sites.google.com/view/elac202...

#EcologíaLatinoamericana #ColoquioEcología #CienciaLatAm

ELAC2025

Te invitamos a ser parte de una experiencia única, un espacio dedicado a reflexionar sobre la historia, los retos actuales y los horizontes futuros de la Ecología en América Latina. El propósito de es...

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Glenda Mendieta-Leiva @gmendietal.bsky.social · Mar 21

#Invasives as
#AccidentalEpiphytes

I spotted young #palms🌴 on the knotholes of 2 Platanus trees 🌳.

A few meters ahead... Trachycarpus fortunei: Introduced as ornamental across the 🌍.
In northwestern Spain is #naturalized, & north Switzerland is replacing local #vegetation, an invasive #neophyte!

Young 🌱 individual of a palm tree (Trachycarpus fortunei) growing inside the knothole of the main branch from a Platanus sp. tree. It shows three leaves and it was growing at about 5.6 meters high (of the tree).

Two adult individuals of the palm tree 🌴 Trachycarpus fortunei growing in a park, with fruits. In the background, the two individuals of Platanus trees where some individuals of this invasive palm were found growing on.

A relatively large individual (approximately 1.3 meters) of Trachycarpus fortunei, growing in the middle crown of a Platanus sp. tree (also established within a knothole). In the base there was also an unidentified dicot and Hedera sp.

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Glenda Mendieta-Leiva @gmendietal.bsky.social · Mar 14

Joi us! To our practical seminars.
@iavs5.bsky.social

Ecoinformatics IAVS @iavs-ecoinfo.bsky.social · Mar 14

📢 Are you ready for the next cycle of Cutting vEdge Tools? The first webinar is in just a week, March 21st at 14:00 CET: Florian Jansen will show how to handle species concepts when dealing with databases!
📝Join for free at forms.gle/mrjs8gpEy6ih... only 100 places so don't miss your chance!

A flyer with the next webinars: species concepts in vegetation databases March 21st 14 CET. TRY - a global trait database May 9th 14 CET. Key questions in functional biogeography May 30th 14 CET.

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Víctor González-García @gonzalezgvictor.bsky.social · Mar 14

Yesterday I attended a really nice talk about functional ecology and ecosystem servicies, given by the outstanding scientific Sandra Díaz, who earned the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research in 2019.

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Clara Espinosa del Alba @claraesdal.bsky.social · Mar 13

Today at @uniovi.bsky.social a very interesting meeting with Sandra Díaz, an internationlly recognized researcher focused on functional ecology and co-chair of the Global Biodiversity Assessment (IPBES).

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · Mar 6

Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature

Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...

www.nature.com

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Dr. Elina Takola🦎🦌🪲🐦‍⬛🌿 @elinatakola.bsky.social · Mar 4

🌟 An amazing study led by Rachel Turba and César Marín is now online!

🗺️ Non-native English speakers from the Global South spend much more time dealing with language issues, have limited access to funding sources and their publications have less visibility.

More here: zenodo.org/records/1490...

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Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Mar 4

▶️ 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 𝐏𝐈𝐬◀️

❓𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 "𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡" 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐂𝐑 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐕𝐬 & 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬❓

I see material from applicants from well known labs & wonder if those skills are not taught there? I do!

The success of your ECR colleagues from your lab is also your success!!!!

Marten Winter @smartenwinter.bsky.social · Feb 28

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▶️❓𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧❓◀️

1️⃣ your stats skills - ❓Which methods, which packages are you able to use (at which level)❓
2️⃣ your data handling skills - ❓Which & how did you handled big, many etc data❓ Did you simulated data etc etc❓

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Glenda Mendieta-Leiva @gmendietal.bsky.social · Mar 2

Fun visit to the Atlantic Botanical Garden of Gijón with @borjajimalf.bsky.social and a #botany class.

At least eight species of plants 🪴🏵️ growing as #accidental #epiphytes.

Quercus full of surprises! I wonder if this counts towards the value of centenary #Quercus for #biodiversity.

Front entrance of the "Jardín Botánico Atlántico" de Gijón, below, an group of students observing the organization of the botanical garden (looking into a map).

Mature individuals of Polypodium cf. cambricum (one of the most common species of Polypodium in the botanical garden) growing along a branch of a centennial Quercus tree. The branch is covered in moss in its upper side.

Individuals of four species growing on the lower trunk of a Populus. There are moss patches and the back site is some sort of crevice. Three maple (Acer sp.) seedlings were observed, but the individuals of the other species (Polypodium cf. cambricum, Cymbalaria muralis and perhaps a Viola) do not seem to be juveniles.

A healthy individual of the tree Prunus laurocerasus (cherry laurel) growing on the main crotch of a Quercus ruber.

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Glenda Mendieta-Leiva @gmendietal.bsky.social · Feb 24

Did you know that many "normal" plants grow accidentally as #epiphytes?

🪴🌿🪷🏵️

G. Zotz created this project www.inaturalist.org/projects/acc... to understand how often this happens? Under which conditions & in how many species occurs?

Here examples from #Asturias! You can also contribute!

Cellphone screenshot of an iNaturalist entry in the project accidental epiphytes. The photo shows a southern polypodium (cf Polypodium cambricum) growing on mossess covering the bark of a Magnolia tree. The individuals are distributed along the trunk from 3 to 6 meters high. The photo shows adult and young individuals, and the tree was found in an urban park near the coast of Gijón, Asturias.

Screenshot of the project "accidental epiphytes" on a web browser, showing the number of observations (2928), species (770) and people (825) participating. It shows the occurrences/observations across de Globe.

Polypodium cf. cambricum grows on a bent trunk of a Sambucus, also covered by mosses. The tree occurred in a creek close by a beach on the way to Cantabria. The photo shows a single mature individual with four fronds.

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Glenda Mendieta-Leiva @gmendietal.bsky.social · Jan 2

Hi Paulina, thanks!

Glenda Mendieta-Leiva @gmendietal.bsky.social · Jan 2

Hello, is there still space for one more? 👋🏽

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Bianca De Sanctis @bdesan.bsky.social · Jan 2

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