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Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳
@ondrejmottl.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at the Department of Botany🌿 , Charles University.
Head of Laboratory of Quantitative Ecology (bit.ly/CUNI_QuantitativeEcology)
with a main focus on #communityecology 🏞️, #palaeoecology 🕰️, and interest in #datascience 💻.
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Let's goooo! The very first in-person meeting of my newly founded Laboratory of Quantitative Ecology!
Small step for humankind, huge step for me🤯
LR: Natalie Hanusova, Bryan Novio, me
(neither of the PhD students have BluSky to tag them😅)
#LoQE #proud #PhD #supervisor
September 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I’m heading to #IAVS2025, Colorado, USA, to present #VegVault! 🌿🔒🏛️

🌍A global database linking paleo- & neo-vegetation data with functional traits & abiotic drivers
🚀 A powerful tool for studying biodiversity dynamics across time & space!
🙋‍♂️ Who else is coming?

🔗 Website: bit.ly/VegVault
July 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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I agree...
visualisation of {target} pipeline
June 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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🎉 Big congratulations to Markéta Tumová — my very first student at the Dept. of #Botany — who just successfully defended her bachelor thesis today! 👏
What a journey!
#ProudSupervisor #Ecology
selfie of Ondřej Mottl and Markéta Tumová
June 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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This month marks the launch of my new 4-year project Functional Vegetation Paleoecology (#FVP), funded by the #PRIMUS programme at @charlesuni.cuni.cz

ondrejmottl.github.io/projects/Fun...

#Paleoecology #Functional #Ecology #Science
June 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Many folks ask why I prefer @vscode.dev over #RStudio by @posit.co🤔?

This is why 👇
🪟 Multiple panels for different scripts
🧠 Parallel R sessions for multitasking
🔧 But honestly? It's the superior #git integration for me! 😎

#Rstats #ReproducibleScience
Screenshot of Visual Studio Code with multiple panels open. Each panel shows several R scripts, and two separate R sessions are running, titled "run pipe" and "run test". A rendered Markdown TODO list is visible in one panel.
May 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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1/4🧵 Are you a Master's or #PhD student in #ecology based in #Europe? 🌍 Join us at the Science School of Quantitative Ecology 2025 (SSoQE2025)! 🧑‍💻🌿📈
📝 Registration is open until 6 May—don’t miss your chance!
🔗 bit.ly/SSoQE
#SSoQE #SSoQE2025 #Science #School
Logo of Science School of Quantitative Ecology
April 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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That's fantastic news! 🎉 The #paleo community is embracing our recommendations for using #fossil #pollen data in #macroecology studies! 🌿
Check it out 🔗 bit.ly/FOSSILPOL
A joint first author with @suzetteflantua.bsky.social , V. Felde & K. Bhatta!
#GEB #global #ecology #biogeography #palaeoecology
A certificate from GEB
March 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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7/🧵 Want to see VegVault in action? 🔬

Both the website & preprint include:
📌 Example projects using the database
📌 Code snippets to extract & analyse data
Visualisation of example data usage of VegVault using vaultkeepr package. See preprint (https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.31.635213) for code used to extract such data from VegVault and for details about the aim of each data compilation. A: Data for “Spatio-temporal patterns of the Picea genus across North America since the Last Glacial Maximum” example. The individual points represent vegetation data (Samples for fossil pollen or contemporary vegetation plot) within each age time slice. B: Data for “Joined species Distribution Model for vegetation within Czech Republic” example. Each point represents one contemporary vegetation plot. The colour represents the Mean Annual Temperature (MAT) associated with that plot. C: Data for “Patterns of community weightedmean of plant height for South and Central America between 6-12 ka cal yrBP”. The left figure represents temporal length of fossil pollen Datasets, which are available for Central and South America between 6 and 12 ka BP (thousand years before present). The middle figure represent the distribution various genera present in this data assembly. The right figure represents distribution of average Plant height Trait per each genus present in the data assembly.
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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6/🧵 Preprint alert! 🚨

📜 Our new preprint "VegVault database: linking global paleo-, and neo-vegetation data with functional traits and abiotic drivers" is now online!

📖 Read here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#Preprint #OpenScience
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.31.635213
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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5/🧵 Meet {vaultkeepr} – your key to VegVault 🔑

📦 An R package designed for seamless database access:
✅ No SQL required – just load & go!
✅ Filter by taxa, traits, time & space
✅ Directly usable in R for analysis
🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/vaultkeepr
#vaultkeepr #Rstats ##DataIntegration
vaultkeepr logo
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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3/🧵 What’s inside? 📂

📌 110 GB of data
📌 480,000+ datasets
📌 13M+ samples
📌 110,000+ taxa
📌 11M+ trait values
📌 8 abiotic variables

All stored in an interconnected SQLite database with 29 tables & 87 variables.

🔗 Access: bit.ly/VegVault
#Global #Palaeobiology
Spatio-temporal distribution of vegetation Samples (for both vegetation plots and fossil pollen archives). Note that this is overview of current state of VegVault (v1.0.0.). A: Spatial distribution with each point representing one plot. B: Temporal distribution of individual Samples.
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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2/🧵 What is VegVault? 🤔

VegVault is an interdisciplinary SQLite database integrating:
🌱 Modern vegetation (BIEN, sPlotOpen)
🌿 Paleoecological records (Neotoma, FOSSILPOL)
🌍 Climate & soil data (CHELSA, WoSIS)
🌾 Functional traits (TRY)

All ready for analysis! 📊🔬
#SQLite #Reproducibility
Schematic workflow process of accessing and processing all primary data sources into VegVault v1.0.0 database. 1) Neotoma Paleoecological Database; 2) sPlotOpen ; 3) Botanical Information and Ecology Network; 4)TRY Plant Trait Database; 5) CHELSA and CHELSATRACE2; 6) World Soil Information Service; 7) FOSSILPOL: Workflow for processing and standardizing global paleoecological pollen data. A project-specific version with all the settings used for VegVault is stored as GitHub repository VegVault-FOSSILPOL (can be access as DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14745060); 8) A GitHub repository VegVault-Vegetation_data used to processes data for contemporary vegetation plots (can be accessed as DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14745273); 9) A GitHub repository VegVault-Trait_data used to processes data for plant vegetation traits (can be accessed as DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14745086); 10) A GitHub repository VegVault-abiotic_data used to process climate and soil abiotic data (can be access as DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14745293); 11) A GitHub repository VegVault used to integrate all data together and migrate them into SQLite database (can be accessed as DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14777448). Additional steps such as the creation of gridpoints, grouping of Traits into Trait Domains, and classification of taxa are also present; 12) VegVault - SQLite database (v1.0.0; DOI: 10.48700/datst.m7ky4-4de51);
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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1/🧵Introducing VegVault🌿🔒🏛️
A global database linking paleo- & neo-vegetation data with functional traits & abiotic drivers!
🚀A powerful tool for researchers exploring biodiversity dynamics across time & space

🔗 Website: bit.ly/VegVault
#VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits
VegVault logo
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🌍 How can #Palaeoecology help define #PlanetaryBoundaries under #GlobalChange? Our latest work in @globalchangebio.bsky.social explores the long-term perspective needed to guide sustainability. 🌱

This is an output of the PB WG from @pages-ipo.bsky.social!📢

🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Figure 1. The 2023 update to the planetary boundaries. Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre, based on analysis in Richardson et al. (2023). Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.
January 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Finally, Brian Novio🇵🇭, the first #PhD candidate under my mentorship, have arrived to Prague to work on #HoloceneDiversityTrends project at the dpt. Botany, @sciencecharles.bsky.social Looking forward to a long collaboration🚀
🔗https://ondrejmottl.github.io/projects/HoloceneDiversityTrends/
November 28, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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Exciting opportunity! 🌱Join our Lab of Quantitative Ecology at Charles University, Prague! 🇨🇿
Fully funded PhD in Functional Vegetation Paleoecology.

📅Start October 2025 - Apply by January 15

Details: bit.ly/PhD_Function...
November 16, 2024 at 7:44 AM