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👏👏👏 Félicitations aux nouvelles et nouveaux récipiendaires @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social #Unil #CHUV #Unisanté

🎉 35 projets de #recherche financés @snsf.ch
À découvrir ici 👉 www.unil.ch/news/fr/1759...

Subsides de recherche financés par le FNS: nouvelles et nouveaux récipiendaires UNIL-CHUV-Unisanté

Parmi les nouveaux subsides de recherche financés par le FNS, 35 projets de la FBM (UNIL-CHUV-Unisanté) ont été retenus.

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Jul 29

Just two weeks left to apply for this #PhD position!

Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Jul 7

Come join the Ecospat Lab! We are accepting applications for a PhD position that will focus on modeling distributions of newcomer species (species that will enter Switzerland and Europe under climate change).

Apply here: bit.ly/docFGSE Application deadline Aug 15!

Opportunités de carrière : Doctorant·e FNS en Modélisation des espèces (22365)

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Jul 7

Come join the Ecospat Lab! We are accepting applications for a PhD position that will focus on modeling distributions of newcomer species (species that will enter Switzerland and Europe under climate change).

Apply here: bit.ly/docFGSE Application deadline Aug 15!

Opportunités de carrière : Doctorant·e FNS en Modélisation des espèces (22365)

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Jun 19

👏 Congratulations to @antoineguisan.bsky.social for being awarded the Jürg Tschopp Basic Life Sciences Award for his outstanding local and international contributions to understanding and predicting species distributions and communities, and the global impact of climate change on biodiversity!

fbm-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social · Jun 19

👏 Félicitations aux récipiendaires des #FBM #Awards 2025 🏆
Découvrez-les 👉 www.unil.ch/news/1749042...

@dib-unil.bsky.social @dee-unil.bsky.social @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social #unil #chuv #unisanté

FBM Awards 2025: honneur à l'excellence

Le Décanat de la Faculté de biologie et de médecine (FBM) de l'UNIL a récompensé les talents de quelques personnalités de la Faculté avec la remise de 12 FBM Awards le mercredi 18 juin 2025 dans le ca...

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Jun 17

Check out the latest Grime Reviews series in the @journalofecology.bsky.social, all about SDMs! Two papers were published from lab members: Guisan et al. 2025 about niche truncation (doi.org/10.1111/1365...) and Riva et al. 2024 about effects of habitat patches in SDMs (doi.org/10.1111/1365...).

Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · Jun 17

🍃 Our Reviews Editor Jason Fridley has written a blog on the Grime Reviews series 4: How do species distribution models reflect and inform ecological processes? Read all about it here:

Grime Reviews, Series 4: How do species distribution models (SDMs) reflect and inform ecological processes?

In this post our Reviews Editor, Jason Fridley, highlights papers from the 4th Grime Reviews series, “How do species distribution models (SDMs) reflect and inform ecological processes?”. The six pa…

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Sean Pang @seh-pang.bsky.social · Jun 10

🚨New review out in @ecography.bsky.social!
🔥Mechanistic niche models (MNMs) are the future—but they’re not plug-and-play.
Our paper lays out how and when to use MNMs to predict invasive species distributions under climate change.
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Powerful yet challenging: mechanistic niche models for predicting invasive species potential distribution under climate change

Risk assessments of invasive species present one of the most challenging applications of species distribution models (SDMs) due to the fundamental issues of distributional disequilibrium, niche chang...

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · May 21

🆕 New paper: Spatially nested SDMs to overcome niche truncation, by Guisan et al.!

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Spatially nested species distribution models (N‐SDM): An effective tool to overcome niche truncation for more robust inference and projections

N-SDMs are key tools to develop untruncated regional climate change forecasts of species distributions at fine resolution over restricted extents. While several N-SDM approaches were proposed, there ...

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · May 6

🆕New paper: Predicting current and future spatial patterns of nature’s contributions to people from species distribution models, by Dr. Pierre-Louis Rey and colleagues (many who are current or former ECOSPAT lab members!) doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Apr 29

🆕New paper: A model of mountain social-ecological systems to catalyze multi-actor collaborations toward sustainability, by Dr. Cristofari and colleagues.

Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment @gmba-ipo.bsky.social · Apr 22

📢 fresh out of the press: A model of #mountain #social-ecological systems to catalyze multi-actor collaborations & facilitate pluralistic #knowledge #co‐production

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A Model of Mountain Social‐Ecological Systems to Catalyze Multi‐Actor Collaborations Toward Sustainability

Achieving sustainability in mountains requires actors with diverse representations of mountain social-ecological systems to collaborate A conceptual model of such systems can help achieve a share...

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Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement de l'UNIL @fgse-unil.bsky.social · Feb 18

Dès le 25 fév. 10 cours gratuits ouverts au public porteront sur le thème "Politique et environnement: entre information et désinformation". Rejoignez-nous pour comprendre les mécanismes d'information qui influencent les individus, les sociétés et les institutions. Infos👇
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Séminaire interfacultaire en environnement 2025 - Géosciences et environnement UNIL

Détail des formations universitaires proposées à la Faculté des géosciences et de l’environnement de l’Université de Lausanne.

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Feb 6

🆕New paper: "A nature tourism and citizen science alliance" by a current PhD student, Caroline Martin, and colleagues. Check it out at doi.org/10.1093/bios... #openaccess

A nature tourism and citizen science alliance

Biodiversity conservation relies on knowing where species are and thrive. Due to major knowledge gaps in the distribution of biodiversity across the globe,

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Feb 5

🆕 New paper: "Climate change threatens amphibians and species representation within protected areas in tropical wetlands" @jappliedecology.bsky.social by Matheus Neves et al. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Climate change threatens amphibians and species representation within protected areas in tropical wetlands

Our findings reveal the extensive impacts of climate change on a major semiaquatic group in the world's largest tropical wetland. Although the current PA network in the Pantanal and surroundings safe...

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Feb 4

Looking forward to the @biology25.bsky.social conference next week in Lausanne @unil.bsky.social! Find the updated schedule below, and note that we can still accept late registrations to attend. Contact sdm-ch[@]unil.ch for more information.

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Jan 8

Register here: wp.unil.ch/biology25/sa...

Satellite Events – Biology25

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Jan 8

Reminder that there is one week left to submit an abstract to present at the SDM-CH session at Biology25!

Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Dec 12

We are looking for more presenters for our SDM-CH satellite session at @biology25.bsky.social! There are opportunities for 15-minute presentations, 3-minute flash talks, and posters.

Please email sdm-ch[@]unil.ch to apply and include a 200-word abstract. Deadline for abstract submission is Jan 15!

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Dec 16

Check out some work from a former Marie-Curie fellow at Ecospat, Federico Riva, and his project "Protect butterflies across Europe through climate refugia": tinyurl.com/3jkukuvk 🦋

New high-resolution maps to predict changing butterfly distributions

Fundamental questions about Earth’s biodiversity like ‘how many species exist?’, ‘where are they found?’ and ‘why are they...

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Dec 12

We are looking for more presenters for our SDM-CH satellite session at @biology25.bsky.social! There are opportunities for 15-minute presentations, 3-minute flash talks, and posters.

Please email sdm-ch[@]unil.ch to apply and include a 200-word abstract. Deadline for abstract submission is Jan 15!

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Dec 9

And big thanks to the editing team: Sascha Nick, Antoine Guisan, Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez, Christophe Ballif, as well as the many co-authors.

Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Dec 9

Big thanks to our collaborators: SCNAT Swiss Biodiversity Forum; ENGAGE (Evidence-based dialogue on trade-offs in wicked societal problems: Eawag, EMPA, EPFL, ETHZ, WSL, Agroscope); Speed2Zero (Sustainable pathways towards net zero Switzerland: ETHZ,WSL, EPFL, Eawag, PSI, Empa, SDSC)

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Dec 9

ICYMI: "Accelerating renewable energy development while enhancing biodiversity protection in Switzerland" white paper (doi.org/10.5075/epfl...). Thanks to CLIMACT, the Center for Climate Impact and Action of UNIL & EPFL, for funding this work!

RE-BD AR2024. Accelerating renewable energy development while enhancing biodiversity protection in Switzerland

RE-BD AR2024, the 2024 Assessment Report on Renewable Energy and Biodiversity, addresses the critical balance between expanding renewable energy (RE) and better protecting biodiversity in Switzerland,...

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · Nov 30

I have just created a starter pack on #biodiversity 🦠🌳🌲🦋🐸🐠🦅🦔 #redistribution aka #species #range #shifts or species on the #move #SOTM and community composition changes in response to global change drivers 🌐🌍🌎🌏 Let me know if you are interested to join the list

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Dec 3

Hi, can we be added too? Thanks!

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Nov 25

ECOSPAT is proud to have been involved in a new paper in @ecography.bsky.social through two of its members, Olivier Broennimann and @antoineguisan.bsky.social, led by Jamie Kass. Listen to the podcast below to learn more. We hope this work will be useful to many !

Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · Nov 25

Listen to AI podcast on Kass et al. „Achieving higher standards in SDM“ earthskysea.org/ecocast-podc... by @earthskysea.bsky.social

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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · Nov 24

Work from some current and past Ecospat Lab members:

Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · Nov 17

Projecting climate change effects on species'
climate suitability: insights from an Alpine country. #biodiversity

We quantified relationship between baseline climate & spatial distribution of 7291 species & projected future climate suitability (RCP4.5 & 8.5)

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Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · Nov 24

Check out our new paper in @ecography.bsky.social
led by Jamie Kass! big team of #R pkg developers show how to improve analysis standards by combining different pkgs for species distribution models #SDM, provide a #shiny app to catalog & explore them, 3 extensive tutorials. doi.org/10.1111/ecog...

Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software

The increasing online availability of biodiversity data and advances in ecological modeling have led to a proliferation of open-source modeling tools. In particular, R packages for species distributi....

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