Hello Bluesky! AMAP est une unité de recherche qui s'intéresse à la botanique et la modélisation de l'architecture des plantes et des végétations. AMAP regroupe des mathématiciens et informaticiens aux côtés de botanistes, agronomes & écologues 🌱🌿🌳🔬🛰️💻
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📄 Link to study: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With @josbarlow.bsky.social , @fplmelo.bsky.social , @erikaberenguer.bsky.social , @ird-fr.bsky.social , Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, @ecioxford.bsky.social , Lancaster University, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, and several others.
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These findings show how #causality can be inferred from observational data in #Ecology. Habitat loss, fragmentation, edge effects, degradation, and the functional make-up of tree communities have interdependencies, and require a #CausalModel to disentangle #causation from spurious association!
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➡️ Highlights urgent need to conserve / restore #TropicalForests, prevent degradation, and implement measures to protect / boost populations of the large-bodied birds (e.g. toucans) and mammals (e.g. spider monkeys) that disperse the seeds of 'losing' slow-growing large-seeded tree species.
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These 'winner-loser replacements' along these gradients of increasing human disruption are also likely to impact wildlife species adapted to consuming / dispersing the large seeds of tree species being lost in human-modified landscapes.
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New paper out in @natureecoevo.bsky.social, led by Bruno Pinho, showing how human disruption is driving 'winner' and 'loser' #tree species shifts across tropical forests.
➡️ Fast-growing / small-seeded species dominating Brazilian forests were levels of deforestation and degradation are high.
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What a pleasure to be at #BES2024! Great presentations and people, but also lots of fun! I enjoyed presenting a poster on tropical #tree #demography and #ClimateChange, and discussing with colleagues, as well as people I met for the first time. My bowling 🎳, however, still needs a lot of work... 🙈

We've created an Ecosystems starter pack. Follow news directly from our associated researchers and centres easily.

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Foundations and future directions for causal inference in ecological research, forthcoming w/ @katherinesiegel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4mm57zzd.
We wrote it based on our experience teaching causal inference to ecologists w/ some stuff we wish other papers had reviewed to share w/ the students
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What a great first day of #BES2024! The turn out to our talks was incredible, thank you for your feedback and questions! We learnt so much from the other sessions and talks during the day. Day two, let's go! @ymalhi.bsky.social @jedsol.bsky.social @davbauman.bsky.social @navarrosales.bsky.social

I was thrilled to give a seminar at @kewgardens.bsky.social last Fri, to discuss #tree #demography as a lens into tropical forest responses to #ClimateChange. It was great to meet colleagues, and to enjoy the oh-so-beautiful greenhouses 🌳🌴🌸🌵!
🙏 to Guillaume Delhaye for the invitation/organisation!

I'll be presenting on this at the #BES2024 conference this Thu, for those of that will be there, and want to talk tropical #tree #demography 🌳, or the importance of causal inference in Ecology 😁
@britishecolsoc.bsky.social

Lovely and nostalgic time visiting friends and colleagues at the @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social lab. Had the pleasure to present new results on tropical #tree growth and its cause-effect relations to climate anomalies across tropical climates. Always such a friendly and stimulating environment! 🌳🌡️☀️

Great #CESAB #R package and didactical tutorial to create reproducible code and projects!