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Rémi Duflot

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Researcher @koneensaatio.fi, @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social, and @JYU_WISDOM. Landscape ecology and planning, agro-ecology, forestry, biodiversity conservation. Eng/Fr WEB: www.remiduflot.com

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Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · 7d

The press release of a recent study I led is now online. It explains in an accessible, non-academic way what we did and what we found !

Jyväskylän yliopisto | University of Jyväskylä, JYU @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social · 8d

🌲An researchers has investigated the conservation of biodiversity in European forests using empirical data and virtual forest landscapes. Intensive harvesting does not threaten overal forest diversity if enough unmanaged forest is also present in the landscape. ➡️ r.jyu.fi/Gp5 @remiduflot.bsky.social

Unmanaged forests are needed to ensure biodiversity conservation in European forest landscapes

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen (Germany) and University of Jyväskylä (Finland) investigated how the Triad forest management framework can support biodiversity conser...

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · 14d

🙏This work would not have been possible without the contribution of many co-authors and the Bottoms-Up COST Action (www.bottoms-up.eu/en/) led by @sabina-burrascano.bsky.social

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · 14d

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- Extensively managed forests contributed little to support species richness of any of the studied taxonomic groups.

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · 14d

📈The main findings are:
- Unmanaged forests are the “backbone” of biodiversity conservation
- it is possible to maintain a certain proportion of forest area dedicated to timber production without compromising overall forest biodiversity

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · 14d

🛠️We mobilized multi-taxonomic biodiversity observations from the Bottoms-up database and develop a ‘‘virtual” landscape approach (i.e., data resampling). We created landscapes that vary in proportion of extensively, intensively, and unmanaged forests, and explored the whole range of possibilities.

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · 14d

🔔New paper out in PNAS !

We investigated how the Triad landscape zoning can support multi-taxonomic biodiversity in European beech forests.🌳🌳

🪵 We recommend increasing the area of unmanaged forests and improved extensive practices.

➡️https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2512683122

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · 15d

This is exactly what they taught me at the agricultural engineering school nearly 20y ago !!

This doesn't solve the greenhouse gas emission though...🤔

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · 15d

It was a pleasure to work with the Bottoms-up cost action consortium !

Thank you for having me and the great opportunity.

Joining forces and sharing biodiversity data is very important. It is the only way to make large powerful datasets allowing to test hypotheses at large scale. As we did here !

Sabina Burrascano @sabina-burrascano.bsky.social · 15d

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...

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · Aug 15

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FRB｜Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité @frbiodiv.bsky.social · Jul 22

🚜 Une agriculture pour demain : conjuguer production, préservation et santé

❗ Face à l'urgence environnementale, l'agriculture doit se réinventer.

Trois approches sont explorées et analysées à travers le prisme du rapport Nexus de l'@ipbes.net

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Jérémy Cours 🌳 @jeremycours.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚨New paper🚨

With @remiduflot.bsky.social, we reviewed the effects of landscape heterogeneity on bird communities in temperate, boreal, and montane forests. Published in @avianbiology.bsky.social !

🧪🍁🌍🦉🌐

doi.org/10.1002/jav....

Effects of landscape heterogeneity on bird communities in temperate, boreal, and montane forests – a review

Bird populations in Europe and North America have been strongly declining for the last 40 years. As mobile organisms, bird species are sensitive to landscape patterns; therefore, landscape effects on...

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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · Jul 4

revue21.fr/article/coll...

Pour 2 millions, le Collège de France perd le droit de critiquer Total

L’institution doit s’abstenir de tout propos susceptible de porter atteinte à l’image de la firme pétrolière, mécène de sa chaire Avenir Commun Durable.

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Guy Pe'er @guypeer.bsky.social · Jun 25

Webinar alert:
How can the CAP help biodiversity? And can #agroecology help address the global #nature crisis?
‘Roots of resilence – enhancing biodiversity through agroecology’ – Wednesday 9th July 10:00 – 12:00 CET, with Lizzie Finch (UFZ/iDiv).
Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/agroecolog...

Agroecology-TRANSECT Virtual Roadshow

Roots of Resilience – Enhancing Biodiversity through Agroecology

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · Jun 13

We used a new methodology to exploit multi-sourced biodiversity records and estimate total and endangered species richness, and beta diversity.

> Link to article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · Jun 13

Last year we published a paper on butterflies and moths biodiversity in Finnish municipality. 🦋

Which municipality do you think have the highest species richness?

@uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social publishes a short digest of the main findings here:
www.jyu.fi/en/news/kotk...

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FRB｜Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité @frbiodiv.bsky.social · Apr 24

[📃Policy briefs] Biodiversité, santé, paysages agricoles et forestiers : des recommandations scientifiques adressées aux décideurs politiques

🔎 À travers 3 notes politiques traduites par la FRB, @biodiversa.eu met en lumière les bénéfices d’une nature vivante, riche et diversifiée.

bit.ly/3Gk71JW

Biodiversité, santé, paysages agricoles et forestiers : des recommandations scientifiques adressées aux décideurs politiques - Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité

La diversité des paysages, rempart écologique et sanitaire L’homogénéisation des paysages agricoles et forestiers, conséquence directe de décennies d’intensification, mine les services écosystémique...

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Janne Kotiaho @jannekotiaho.bsky.social · Apr 19

Saikos pääsiäisenä toivoa? Ei se mitään toivon silti. Tässä ketjussa on kahdeksan luonnon tilaa turvaavaa toimenpidettä, jotka Suomen hallituksen tulisi panna toimeen mitä pikimmin. Tiedeperustaisia politiikkavaihtoehtoja riippumattomalta Suomen Luontopaneelilta olkaa hyvä. @luontopaneeli.fi 1/

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · Apr 2

Changes in abundance and distribution of European forest bird populations depend on biome, ecological specialisation and traits vist.ly/3mytx8e #Birds #HabitatDegradation #ClimateChange

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · Mar 24

Made it to Montpellier yesterday... What a trip !!🤘

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · Mar 23

Early morning again for the third day of the trip, in the impressive train station of Hambourg. Only three more trains to go and a metro connection in Paris. Uff!

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · Mar 22

Uptake!

After a (very) short night on the ferry, I am now in foggy Stockholm. Easy connection to train station (local bus + metro). Two long train trips for me today.

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · Mar 22

First step of my slow-travel trip from Jyväskylä (Central Finland) to Montpellier (Southern France): taking a local bus to the train station, heading to Turku.

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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · Mar 19

🚨 #job🚨: The Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, is hiring a full-tenure Professor in silviculture.

📅 Deadline: 29 April 2025
🗺️ Location: Umeå, Sweden

➡️https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/jobs-vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=12044&rmlang=UK

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Koneen Säätiö @koneensaatio.fi · Mar 17

The report assessed 16 leading forest industry companies. None of the companies were found to be largely or fully prepared to meet the EU's biodiversity targets. Certificates such as FSC and PEFC alone were found insufficient, as they shift responsibility to third parties.

Rémi Duflot @remiduflot.bsky.social · Mar 13

@jeremycours.bsky.social talks about how to measure functional landscape heterogeneity in forested landscapes 🌲🌳, and it's influence on bird 🐦 communities at #OIKOSFin2025

Innovative landscape metrics mixing land cover categories and continuous variables...

Stay tuned for more details results...