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Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · 57m

Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery.
Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action.

👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS

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Institut Botànic de Barcelona @ibb-botanic.bsky.social · Jun 25

🌍🌳 A new global study warns that many of the world’s tree species are under serious threat.

It also identifies potential climate refugia — areas where trees could persist if protected, and calls for urgent conservation efforts.

🔗 Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Jun 11

Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years!

The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es

Phenology changes for the Japanese cherry tree (Prunus jamasakura) in Kyoto. Left: Day of the year of the flowering peak for the period between 812 and 2024. Right: Relation between March mean air temperature (°C) in Kyoto and the day of the year of the Japanese cherry tree peak flowering for the period between 1890 and 2024.
https://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2025/06/11/134-years-of-climate-warming-effects/

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Institut Botànic de Barcelona @ibb-botanic.bsky.social · May 7

🦋🌿 Convidem a les famílies a venir a la propera Jornada “Plantes i petits animals”!

Ciència i art convergiran en tallers, jocs i activitats per a infants de 3 a 12 anys.✨

📍Institut Botànic de Barcelona
🗓️Dissabte 24 de maig, d’11h a 17h
👉Les places són limitades! Inscriu-te aquí: bit.ly/4k5rSz0

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Pep Serra-Diaz @serradiaz.bsky.social · Apr 30

Key results of community dynamics in one of the fastest warming biomes. @nanitundra.bsky.social show no homogenization, no simple borealization and shrubs playing a major role. More here ⬇️

Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · Apr 30

Despite plant species richness being greater at warmer lower latitudes, richness change was multi-directional, leading to no net change over time on average. However, species turnover was widespread, with species being gained and/or lost at 59% of plots and abundance changes at 99% of plots. (2/8)

Figure with six subplots showing that overall plant net richness change was not different from zero. Species richness increased with increasing forb cover and decreased with increased erect shrub cover.

A close-up shot from above of Papaver dahlianum (Arctic poppy) in Svalbard.

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Pep Serra-Diaz @serradiaz.bsky.social · Apr 24

Great afternoon back together w JC Gégout and @jeremborderieux.bsky.social in a forest to record a podcasts on forest understory community thermophilization and homogenization @agroparistech.fr. Science here ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚨 #job 🚨: The Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, is hiring a full-tenure Professor in silviculture with a focus on silvicultural systems, mainly in boreal forests.

🗺️ Umeå, Sweden
📅 Apply by: 29 April 2025

➡️ www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

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Pep Serra-Diaz @serradiaz.bsky.social · Apr 19

What sensors do you guys use ? Starting a new project and hesitating …

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Pep Serra-Diaz @serradiaz.bsky.social · Apr 18

Excited to start this experiment to understand #forest #tree community reorganization under pulse and press climate change. @laurachevaux.bsky.social is leading such an effort, and we spent all day planting seeds ! @agencerecherche.bsky.social @agroparistech.fr @ibb-botanic.bsky.social @csic.es

Experiments under controlled light, are and water to unveil pulse and press climate change effects

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Pep Serra-Diaz @serradiaz.bsky.social · Apr 18

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust

Evidence shows that science and scientists remain highly trusted. But genuine scientific voices are not shouting loud enough over the noise to hold sway.

www.nature.com

Pep Serra-Diaz @serradiaz.bsky.social · Apr 18

We sometimes do not feel prepared for being decisions influencers , yet we want science to be heard -> “Science’s big problem is not a loss of influence, not a loss of trust.” ⬇️

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Institut Botànic de Barcelona @ibb-botanic.bsky.social · Apr 11

Vols fer pràctiques remunerades a l'IBB?

Oferim una beca JAE-Intro (7 mesos, 600€/mes) per analitzar dades de biodiversitat amb ciència ciutadana

📅 Inici: setembre 2025
📝 Sol·licituds sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/pro...
ℹ️ Més informació: www.ibb.csic.es/ca/2025/04/o...
👤 @serradiaz.bsky.social

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Francois Keck @francoiskeck.bsky.social · Mar 26

Our study ‘The global human impact on biodiversity’ is out in Nature!

Through an unprecedented synthesis (2133 studies!) we show that humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Institut Botànic de Barcelona @ibb-botanic.bsky.social · Mar 27

📢 Buscamos candidato/a para beca JAE Intro

Conexión GENOMA-02 "Papel de los elementos transponibles en la diversificación del sistema nervioso"

Estudiantes de grado/máster
800 €/mes (20h)
Grupo: @gonzalezlabbcn.bsky.social

⏳ Deadline: 16 de abril

👉 bit.ly/3QPrBDW

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Feb 16

Disequilibrium in plant distributions: Challenges and approaches for species distribution models - check our new review in @journalofecology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🍃🌦️♨️🌿 #SDM #plants #speciesdistributions #ranges

Disequilibrium in plant distributions: Challenges and approaches for species distribution models

Plant distributions are often in disequilibrium with climate, not occupying all suitable habitat and present in conditions that no longer support long-term population persistence. This proves a chall...

doi.org

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Pep Serra-Diaz @serradiaz.bsky.social · Feb 14

Topoclimates matter ! Valley bottoms harbor 30% more cold adapted species ! #geodiversity @peercomjournal.bsky.social @jeremborderieux.bsky.social

Jeremy Borderieux @jeremborderieux.bsky.social · Jan 29

📯🌲| The last article from my thesis is now out in @peercomjournal.bsky.social !
We tackled how the different drivers of forest temperature determine plant communities. We found that shaded valley bottoms harbor 5 (30%) more cold-adapted species! doi.org/10.24072/pcj.... Will it lead to microrefugia?

Cool topoclimates promote cold-adapted plant diversity in temperate mountain forests

doi.org

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