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Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
@borjajimalf.bsky.social
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Plant Ecology | Vegetation | Biogeography | Professor of Botany | University of Oviedo | Biodiversity Research Institute CSIC | Jardin Botánico Atlántico de Gijón | IAVS
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Borja Jiménez-Alfaro @borjajimalf.bsky.social · Jun 3
We offer a postdoc position for developing global analyses on seed germination data using SEEDARC. See the job alert on our website and contact us!
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VEGETATION & BIODIVERSITY LAB
Vegetation & Biodiversity Lab
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Borja Jiménez-Alfaro @borjajimalf.bsky.social · May 16
We just activated the field work campaign for habitat mapping in Vojvodina (Serbia) for the Twinning EU SONATA project. Great excursions visiting Pannonian grasslands and super-rich forests! Project info in sonata-nbs.com
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Apr 3
What a wonderful recogition from my plant-interested colleagues 🌴🌿🌸🍂🌳🌐🍃 #vegetationscience #IAVS #humboldt
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The International Association for Vegetation Science @iavs5.bsky.social · Apr 3
🏅 Congratulations to Jens-Christian Svenning from Aarhus University, Denmark, on receiving the Alexander von Humboldt Medal! 🎉

His achievement will be celebrated at the 68th IAVS Symposium in 2026 in Gijón, Spain.

Join us at the upcoming IAVS symposia to hear the awardees' inspiring lectures!
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Borja Jiménez-Alfaro @borjajimalf.bsky.social · Apr 3
And many congrats to Meelis and the DarkDivNet core group for leading this! It was a pleasure to be one of the sampling groups.
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Macroecology UT @macroecologyut.bsky.social · Apr 3
The first paper from #darkdivnet is out now! Huge thank you to all our >200 co-authors who helped to reveal dark diversity in different parts of the world! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Borja Jiménez-Alfaro @borjajimalf.bsky.social · Mar 26
Just published! A new approach to model invasive species combining SDMs and dispersal, a major output from the Juan de la Cierva project led by Adrián Lázaro-Lobo in our group
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Combining Hierarchical Distribution Models With Dispersal Simulations to Predict the Spread of Invasive Plant Species
Aim Predicting the future distribution of invasive species is a current challenge for biodiversity assessment. Species distribution models (SDMs) have long been the state-of-the-art to evaluate suit...
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BESLab @labbiodiversity.bsky.social · Mar 7
Junto con @borjajimalf.bsky.social desarrollamos el capítulo de los bosques templados caducifolios, donde tanto la renaturalización pasiva como la intervención directa son herramientas complementarias de restauración.
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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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