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Julen Astigarraga
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Ecology, forests, global change, biogeography, rstats, data science | Ekosistemetan ematen diren aldaketak ulertzeko ahaleginean

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julenastigarraga.bsky.social
Julen Astigarraga @julenastigarraga.bsky.social · 3d
Thanks for the invitation Phil! It was great to learn about the cool research being conducted there and I look forward to future collaborations 😀

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

forestplots.bsky.social
ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 3d
#PhD investigating the Ecology and Evolution of tree size - integrating field ecology, molecular biology, and biogeography to answer how and why giant trees evolved and what are the consequences of gigantism.
www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/esquivel-mue...

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

philmartin.bsky.social
Phil Martin @philmartin.bsky.social · 4d
It was great to host @julenastigarraga.bsky.social at BC3 today. He gave a fantastic talk about improving predictions in ecology and the role of mechanistic models in predicting change in forests. Hoping we can keep the conversations going and collaborate in the near future!

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga, Benjamin Wildermuth

danimontoya.bsky.social
Daniel Montoya @danimontoya.bsky.social · 4d
I am pleased to announce a new postdoctoral position in Theoretical Ecology. More info here: info.bc3research.org/2025/11/06/p...
Postdoctoral position in agroecology for TRANSFORM Project
The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) is offering a full-time postdoctoral research position to support activities within a Horizon Europe project. The project focuses on developing innovative cr...
info.bc3research.org

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Joanna Bryson, Brian J. Enquist , and 11 more

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Joan Dudney , and 2 more

rupertseidl.bsky.social
Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 11d
Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Julen Astigarraga

ibartomeus.bsky.social
iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 13d
When publishing a paper about an R package, how do you ensure the source code is permanently stored? CRAN or GitHub does not grant long-term persistence. Is issuing a DOI via linking GitHub with Zenodo a good idea for R packages? Or are there better ways? Maybe @ropensci.org knows.

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Paul Caplat, Daniel Zuleta , and 1 more

davbauman.bsky.social
David Bauman @davbauman.bsky.social · 14d
🌲 Very happy to share our new study on where, when, and why trees die across the range of 3 major southern US pines: Pinus taeda, P. palustris, and P. elliottii (loblolly, longleaf, and slash pine).
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb.70141
@ird-fr.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social @ulbrecherche.bsky.social
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Mosaic of Size‐Dependent Mortality in Three Ecologically and Economically Important Pine Species Reveals Patterns Across Space and Time
Aim Global forests face increasing stresses from novel climate states, altered disturbance regimes and the spread of pests and pathogens. Understanding where and when mortality occurs across species...
doi.org

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Brian J. Enquist , and 4 more

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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 15d
How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

ibanz.bsky.social
Iban Zaldua @ibanz.bsky.social · 17d
El de hoy, Día de las Bibliotecas, puede ser adecuado para recuperar este texto que publiqué en el @ministerioctxt.bsky.social de @ctxt.es
ctxt.es/es/20210301/...
Manifiesto a favor de las bibliotecas (extended mix)
En unos tiempos en los que se apela a la utilidad inmediata para justificar el gasto público, resulta reconfortante seguir gastando dinero en instituciones cuyo único objetivo es ampliar nuestra capac...
ctxt.es

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

ssuvanto.bsky.social
Susanne Suvanto @ssuvanto.bsky.social · 18d
Open position for a methods-savvy PhD student to work on combining diverse data sources to understand forests! Great chance to work on an important topic with Mari Myllymäki and me + collaborators across Europe. Please apply (by 31st Oct) or share forward valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...
Research scientist, doctoral researcher, statistics/forest science - Natural Resources Institute Finland
Open job: Research scientist, doctoral researcher, statistics/forest science, Natural Resources Institute Finland - Find all jobs in Valtiolle.fi
valtiolle.fi

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hollykirk.bsky.social
Holly Kirk @hollykirk.bsky.social · 18d
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Everyone deserves to see this beautiful piece of science communication.
🌏🧪🪶
There are many things I love about this, but I think number one is that it features the story a little known, but amazing seabird species, the Desertas Petrel.
Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised
Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Juli G. Pausas, Julen Astigarraga

philmartin.bsky.social
Phil Martin @philmartin.bsky.social · 18d
Spain's fire-ridden summer 2025 sparked big debates about how forests are managed. Now new research in @jappliedecology.bsky.social shows that pine plantations in Spain can increase fire severity, that post-fire recovery is rare, & but that tree density management can help tinyurl.com/mf33xrt8
The legacy of pine plantations on fire severity
Our findings provide quantitative evidence that pine plantations can exacerbate fire severity under contemporary climate conditions, and that, once burned, these areas seldom recover. Effective spati....
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

nrennie.bsky.social
Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 19d
Just over a week to go until the #30DayMapChallenge kicks off!

If you're thinking about using #RStats for some or all of the challenge, you might find the section on visualizing spatial data in "The Art of Visualization with #ggplot2" helpful! 📊

Link: nrennie.rbind.io/art-of-viz/s...

#DataViz
Final styled plot showing a map of the world, with title inside a blue banner and a horizontal colorbar legend at the bottom right of the page. Points representing different time zone locations on a world map, with points colored by geographical region. Title and subtitle are shown in the bottom left, with an inset bar chart shown on the bottom right being used as a legend. Faceted area chart arranged in a grid shaped like the United States, showing percentage of votes per party over time. An enlarged version of the area chart for California is used as a legend on the left hand side.

Reposted by Akira Mori, Tommaso Jucker, Julen Astigarraga

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Christina Dollinger @christinadollinger.bsky.social · 19d
Yippie, my paper is now out in Global Ecology and Biogeography!

Basically, we tried to destroy (simulated!) forest landscapes

And despite increasing disturbances 100-fold and decreasing regeneration by 99% - we didn't manage to! (in most cases anyways)

Find out more at doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

frodsan.bsky.social
Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 20d
Still fascinated with #webR and its potential for teaching stats

Here students can play (even from their phones) and find out themselves how the p-value depends on sample size

pakillo.github.io/LM-GLM-GLMM-... #rstats
A screenshot of a statistics tutorial made with R, quarto and webR

Reposted by Antonio J. Pérez‐Luque, Julen Astigarraga

laurahmt.bsky.social
Laura Hernández Mateo @laurahmt.bsky.social · 21d
📢JUEVES 23 OCTUBRE en #CicloSeminarios #ICIFOR @csic.es
el gran @ajpelu.bsky.social
👉nos hablará sobre "Repoblaciones forestales🌲🌳, cambio
climático🌍 y su vulnerabilidad, naturalización y resiliencia en clima mediterráneo" 🔥🛰

¡No os lo perdáis!

#Evento online: conectaha.csic.es/b/lau-clk-56...

Reposted by Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Julen Astigarraga

valentinjourne.bsky.social
Valentin Journé @valentinjourne.bsky.social · 22d
Happy to share our last study published in @natcomms.nature.com

We asked

Can the weather tell trees when it’ is time to reproduce?

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Picture of Japanese pine

Reposted by Daniel Zuleta, Julen Astigarraga

davbauman.bsky.social
David Bauman @davbauman.bsky.social · 24d
🚨 New in @nature.com: Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source.
Led by Hannah Carle, with @umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @umdscience.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social @creaf.cat
👉 nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09497-8
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Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature
A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.
nature.com

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elena-tena.bsky.social
Elena Tena @elena-tena.bsky.social · 25d
🐦🦇 ¡Documentamos cómo el nóctulo grande captura y come aves migratorias en pleno vuelo!
Alucina, la persigue en caída libre por más de 1 km y se la come en el aire.

@laueast.bsky.social @theclickitclick.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social @bioacousticsau.bsky.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight
Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...
www.science.org

Reposted by Pablo García‐Díaz, Julen Astigarraga, Connor Morozumi

daxkellie.bsky.social
Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · 27d
Still want to make cleaning biodiversity data shrimp-ler? 🦐

Good news: We just updated our Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book, so you still can! We've updated data for 2025, added new content & fixed lots of silly typos 😀

Live the shrimp-le life:
cleaning-data-r.ala.org.au

#rstats #ecology 🧪🌏
The cover of the Cleaning Biodiversity Data in R book. It has an illustration of an Pacific Cleaner Shrimp in the middle of a navy background. The shrimp has a bright red-orange shell, pale-yellow body and white whiskers.

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

nature.com
Nature @nature.com · Oct 7
It is time to recognize research software as a valuable scientific contribution in itself, beyond a tool — and to support it

go.nature.com/438X8qS
Stop treating code like an afterthought: record, share and value it
Scientists, research institutions, funders, libraries and publishers must all improve software practices.
go.nature.com

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

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Fernando Valladares @fernadovalladares.bsky.social · Oct 2
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...

Tras una larga y fructífera vida se fue una inspiradora mujer
Muere la etóloga británica Jane Goodall a los 91 años
La primatóloga hizo importantes descubrimientos sobre los chimpancés salvajes que fascinaron al mundo a través de sus documentales para National Geographic
elpais.com

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga, Fernanda Alves

posit.co
Posit @posit.co · Sep 30
The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉

This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system.

Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

#RStats
ggplot2 hex with tada emoji. Text: Join the v4.0.0 release party with Teun van den Brand and the ggplot2 extenders, Oct 3 at 3pm Et, bit.ly/join-gg-extenders

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social
Ecosistemas AEET @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social · Sep 30
¡Aviso importante para editores, autores y revisores! 🚨

El próximo 2 de octubre migramos nuestros servicios de alojamiento a @pkp.sfu.ca (PKP) y actualizamos a la versión OJS 3. Ese día la web y la plataforma editorial de la revista no estará operativa. Os contamos más detalles en este hilo.

Reposted by Emilio Vilanova, Julen Astigarraga, Julie Peacock

forestplots.bsky.social
ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Sep 25
Big trees are on the rise.

30 years of Amazon forest measurements by RAINFOR partners show that, so far, any impact of #climatechange on forests and large trees have been more than mitigated by the positive effects of increased resources.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Jonathan Lenoir, Pieter A. Zuidema , and 2 more

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Timo Conradi @timoconradi.bsky.social · Sep 25
Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3
Shifts in vegetation activity of terrestrial ecosystems attributable to climate trends - Nature Geoscience
An analysis fusing satellite data with a process-based model of plant growth attributes changes in vegetation activity across terrestrial ecosystems to climatic changes.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Pieter A. Zuidema, Antonio J. Pérez‐Luque, Antoine Cabon , and 1 more

dendroecologist.bsky.social
Dario Martin-Benito @dendroecologist.bsky.social · Sep 23
Climate change is reshaping forest growth 🌳🌡️💧
Water and temperature control growth timing.
Warmer winters make some species start growing earlier.
Hot, dry summers may shorten growing seasons.

New paper out @globalchangebio.bsky.social led by a former PhD student @csic.es shorturl.at/5Gn8a
Long‐Term Cambial Phenology Reveals Diverging Growth Responses of Two Tree Species in a Mixed Forest Under Climate Change
We studied how climate change affects tree growth by monitoring wood formation in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) and Pyrenean oak (Quercus pyrenaica) over 11 years. We found that warmer winters lead t...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Hans Henrik Bruun, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Martin Jung , and 3 more

sabina-burrascano.bsky.social
Sabina Burrascano @sabina-burrascano.bsky.social · Sep 23
Just out in PNAS!

We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes.

Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sustainable forest planning: Assessing biodiversity effects of Triad zoning based on empirical data and virtual landscapes | PNAS
The Triad framework seeks to balance the economic and ecological functions in forested landscapes by combining intensively, extensively, and unmana...
www.pnas.org

Reposted by Francis Martin, Jonathan Lenoir, Tommaso Jucker , and 5 more

nanitundra.bsky.social
Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · Sep 22
🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲

Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization.

doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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Illustration of a branch of Betula glandulosa (Resin birch). Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social).