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Christophe Cassou @cassouman40.bsky.social · Aug 21

Quelle insolence! Voila maintenant que l’atmosphère nous tire la langue après avoir rasé la moustache!
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Romain Bertrand @romainbertrand.bsky.social · Aug 10

Thank you to ONF and mayors for opening the doors of their forests.

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Romain Bertrand @romainbertrand.bsky.social · Aug 10

A lot of work done, and more to come until September!
And a lot of fun too with PhD student and interns.

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Romain Bertrand @romainbertrand.bsky.social · Aug 10

We are collecting leaves 🍃 for whole genome sequencing that we will confront to dendrochronological, dendrometric, edaphic and microclimate data.

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Romain Bertrand @romainbertrand.bsky.social · Aug 10

Since early July, my team and I are exploring the forests of the French Pyrenees🌳🌲. Why?

We are trying to understand whether beech are adapting to climate change at its elevational trailing and leading edges.

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Aug 4

OPINION
Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · Jul 24

Together w/ Fabien Spicher to install #TMS4 loggers to record microclimatic conditions across the 💯 permanent 🌳🌲 plots of the #RENECOFOR network spread across 🇨🇵

Paired w/ soundscape loggers 🦉🦇 installed by Kevin Darras

#PEPR #FORESTT PC #MONITOR Tasks 3.1 & 3.2 to feed models from Task 3.4 🛰🌳🌐🧪

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Christophe Cassou @cassouman40.bsky.social · Jun 30

Un jour de #VigilanceRouge en 🇫🇷! Belle ironie du calendrier!
M. @gabriel-attal.bsky.social , dans un TGV un soir revenant de Dijon, vous m'aviez promis de faire tout en tant que grpe minoritaire pour préserver le climat/biodiv.
Vs souvenez-vous?
Amère trahison! #Triste
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Loi Duplomb : députés et sénateurs s’entendent sur un compromis qui prévoit la réintroduction de l’acétamipride, un pesticide interdit dans l’agriculture depuis 2018

Un ultime vote sur le texte adopté en commission mixte paritaire est prévu mercredi au Sénat puis mardi 8 juillet à l’Assemblée nationale.

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Jun 12

Projected Increases in Climate Extremes Across Global Vertebrate Diversity Hotspots

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · Jun 19

Conserving the beauty of the world’s reef fish assemblages 💙

Check out our last paper @pnas.org

We mapped what makes reef fish assemblages beautiful worldwide! 🌍

MPAs boost aesthetic, and developing countries have a chance to align conservation with local benefits

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · Jun 17

À la suite des recommandations de son Comité d’éthique, le CNRS vient de publier un guide de l’expression publique à destination de ses personnels scientifiques. Véritable boîte à outils, ce document les accompagne dans leurs prises de parole médiatiques
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Un guide pour accompagner l’expression publique des scientifiques du CNRS

Afin d’aider les personnels scientifiques qui le souhaitent dans leurs prises de parole médiatiques, le CNRS leur propose un guide de l’expression publi

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Apr 15

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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · Apr 4

The Response of Carbon Uptake to Soil Moisture Stress: Adaptation to Climatic Aridity

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Ade Martin @ademartindc.bsky.social · Apr 6

Good morning people. Today in “One day, one paper”, one of the most popular strategies used to remove carbon dioxide from the air is planting trees. However, not all tree-planting strategies are equally beneficial 🌎🍁

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Resilient tree-planting strategies for carbon dioxide removal under compounding climate and economic uncertainties | PNAS

To meet decarbonization targets, nations around the globe have made ambitious commitments to expand forested land. Operationalizing these commitmen...

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Romain Bertrand @romainbertrand.bsky.social · Apr 4

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La diversité fantôme, ou « dark diversity », révèle l’impact mondial des activités humaines sur l’érosion de la biodiversité

Une étude publiée dans la revue Nature, menée par l’Université de Tartu (Es

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Stefan Pinkert @pro-pink.bsky.social · Mar 25

A major milestone of our >4-year effort to bring #butterfly diversity and its threat to global attention. We show most species and hotspots cluster in mountains, with #climatechange projected to erode up to 67% of the thermal niche supporting this diversity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global hotspots of butterfly diversity are threatened in a warming world - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Butterflies are a large, functionally important and charismatic invertebrate group. Here, the authors characterize global macroecological patterns of butterflies and project shifts in their bioclimati...

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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · Mar 23

🌴🌳 Tree species richness increases climate buffering 🌡️🥵

I am so happy to share our latest piece, now published in Ecology Letters!

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Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity

Making use of 6 years of microclimate measurements in a large-scale tree diversity experiment covering a species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species, we demonstrate that tree species ...

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · Mar 13

New #statistics #ecopubs @esajournals.bsky.social:

Predictive models are indeed useful for causal inference doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

Sounds like a response to 'Predictive models aren't for causal inference' doi.org/10.1111/ele....

The subject of investigating causation in ecology has been widely discussed in recent years, especially by advocates of a structural causal model (SCM) approach. Some of these advocates have criticized the use of predictive models and model selection for drawing inferences about causation. We argue that the comparison of model-based predictions with observations is a key step in hypothetico-deductive (H-D) science and remains a valid approach for assessing causation. We draw a distinction between two approaches to inference based on predictive modeling. The first approach is not guided by causal hypotheses and focuses on the relationship between a (typically) single response variable and a potentially large number of covariates. We agree that this approach does not yield useful inferences about causation and is primarily useful for hypothesis generation. The second approach follows a H-D framework and is guided by specific hypotheses about causal relationships. We believe that this has been, and continues to be, a useful approach to causal inference. Here, we first define different kinds of causation, arguing that a “probability-raisers-of-processes” definition is especially appropriate for many ecological systems. We outline different scientific “designs” for generating the observations used to investigate causation. We briefly outline some relevant components of the SCM and H-D approaches to investigating causation, emphasizing a H-D approach that focuses on modeling causal effects on vital rate (e.g., rates of survival, recruitment, local extinction, colonization) parameters underlying system dynamics. We consider criticisms of predictive modeling leveled by some SCM proponents and provide two example analyses of ecological systems that use predictive modeling and avoid these criticisms. We conclude that predictive models have been, and can continue to be, useful for providing inferences about causation.

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Mar 17

A global analysis of altered species compositions and climate change reveals the extent to which ecosystems, including in protected areas and biodiversity hotspots, are exposed to novel conditions due to anthropogenic forces rdcu.be/edTpA

Widespread ecological novelty across the terrestrial biosphere

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Even outside urban and agricultural areas, ecosystems are vastly transformed as a result of human activities. Here the authors map patterns in climate change,...

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Wing length canalisation and behaviour across birds: a phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance

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Romain Bertrand @romainbertrand.bsky.social · Mar 17

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Integrating evolutionary genomics of forest trees to inform future tree breeding amid rapid climate change

Forest trees play a crucial role in combating and mitigating the adverse effects of global climate change. This review highlights the importance of integrating evolutionary genomic approaches with cut...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Mar 13

What determines the height of a forest? A study finds that soil properties, topography, and regional climate explain 75% of the variation in tropical forest canopy height. Dry season length and elevation were among the key variables. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Distribution of canopy height derived from data from Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI), a space-borne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) instrument.

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Mar 13

Examining life-history differences among vertebrates and their mode of reproduction, Brooks et al. find that land vertebrate life histories are more constrained than aquatic ones, suggesting a wider diversity of reproductive strategies in aquatic habitats than in terrestrial ones

Fundamental constraints on vertebrate life history are shaped by aquatic–terrestrial transitions and reproductive mode

Nature Ecology & Evolution - The authors examine life-history differences between terrestrial versus aquatic vertebrates and their mode of reproduction. They find that land vertebrate life...

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · Mar 11

Why do we fear some animals more than others? 🕷️🐍🐊

Check out our study in @peopleandnature.bsky.social with @karlzlr.bsky.social on danger and fear in shaping human biophobia. Fear isn’t just danger—social & cultural factors matter!

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CNRS @cnrs.fr · Mar 6

#Communiqué 🗞️ Le CNRS exprime sa solidarité avec les scientifiques exerçant aux États-Unis, où la liberté académique est aujourd'hui mise à l’épreuve.

👉 www.cnrs.fr/fr/presse/le...

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