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guillaume-papuga.bsky.social @guillaume-papuga.bsky.social · Sep 8

First post on Bluesky! 🌿
Excited to share our new study in Ecography, led by Maxime Lenormand: combining naturalist inventories and satellite data to map plant biodiversity.
Here’s a bioregionalization of the flora of France!
🔗 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Javi Ibarrondo @jibarrondo.bsky.social · Jul 3

[vegetation responded at timescales from hundreds to tens of thousands of years, but not at timescales shorter than about 150 years]

Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales

Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that...

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Martin Jung @martinjung.eu · Jul 1

Also just out: Our new review in @ecography.bsky.social on how ecological models tend to incorporate land use.

Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...

Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use

Despite habitat loss and degradation are the primary drivers of biodiversity loss, different conclusions have been drawn about the importance of land-use or land-cover (LULC) change for biodiversity....

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Manuela Gonzalez Suarez @mgs-cielo-azul.bsky.social · Jun 4

New paper! led by Ruben Bernardo-Madrid "A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions" in NEE @natureportfolio.nature.com

Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Ecological assemblages may be spatially organized by both context dependency and general processes. Here the authors find general patterns in the organization of regional biodiversity in biogeographic...

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Jun 2

Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought ..."After elevated tree mortality during the first 15 years, ecosystem-level structural changes resulted in the remaining trees no longer experiencing drought stress." 🧪🌐🌾
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Drought is a growing issue in tropical rainforests. Here, the authors revisit a long-term rainfall manipulation experiment in the Amazon to show that tree mortality was followed by community-level adj...

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Antoine Champreux @toinechampreux.bsky.social · Mar 28

🌲🌳🌐 New study reminds us that forests act globally as a #carbon sink

Between 2001 and 2023, the world's #forests have absorbed 5.5 gigatonnes more #CO2 than they have emitted on average each year.

👉 Gibbs et al. dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd... 🧪

Figure 3 from the paper of Gibbs et al (2025) showing three maps respectively representing the amounts of greenhouse gas emmisions, removal, and net flux.

Caption from the paper: Forest-related GHG fluxes (annual average, 2001–2023). (a) Gross GHG emissions. (b) Gross CO2 removals. (c) Net GHG flux. Fluxes are aggregated to 0.04×0.04° (approximately 4×4 km) cells for display purposes. Publisher's remark: please note that the above figure contains disputed territories.

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Feb 24

Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change

Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · Feb 12

Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚

Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈

Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack...

Vol2 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack...

Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in !

🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾

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Botany One @botany.one · Jan 27

📝 How Amazon Trees Marched to the Atlantic Forest 🧵
https://doi.org/n3rb

Ancient rainforest trees found hidden highways through Brazil's drylands, making more than a dozen epic journeys from the Amazon to the Atlantic coast over twelve million years.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief

The Atlantic Forest in Brazil. A lush almost mossy looking canopy of trees covers pointy hills in close proximity. It's the kind of landscape that a geographer would get goosebumps looking at.

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Antoine Champreux @toinechampreux.bsky.social · Jan 31

A great starter pack to connect with people working on #ecology at a large scale 🌍🧪

Global Ecology Vol. 2 👉 go.bsky.app/L37W5uH

DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the pack, there’s still room for more ! 😊

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Emily Mitchell @egmitchell.bsky.social · Jan 22

Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Jeff Corbin @jeffcorbin.bsky.social · Jan 28

How will biodiversity respond to efforts to mitigate C emissions? Smith et al. in @science.org document that vert. biodiv. benefits from (natural) reforestation. BUT, planting biocrops, while it reduces climate change, hurts most species bc they lose habitat. 🧪🌎
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · Jan 28

geog.umd.edu/featured-con... Annual data from 2015 to 2023 provides detailed insights into tree canopy cover and height. 🍁🍁🌳 #forestecol

Woody Vegetation Dataset for Latin America Released

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · Jan 21

My final PhD chapter published in FEE (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment): re-mapping Köppen-Geiger climate zones, but now using microclimate! Very excited to have this one out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Antoine Champreux @toinechampreux.bsky.social · Jan 24

What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱

How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐

Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits

Figure 1 from the study by Champreux et al. (published in Ecological Monographs) showing four global biome maps using different biome-delimitation criteria resulting in various geographic divisions, biome names, and number of biomes.

Caption from the study: Global biome maps compared in this study. (a) Compilation biome map of World Wildlife Fund Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World (Olson et al., 2001). (b) Simulated biome map from Holdridge's (1967) life zones (Leemans, 1990a, 1990b) and two functional biome maps: (c) MODIS-IGBP land-cover-type product (Friedl et al., 2010; Loveland & Belward, 1997) and (d) dominant biome distribution over 31 years from global functional biome scheme from Higgins et al. (2016, 2017). Biome names are derived from three letters (1) tall versus short, (2) low, medium, and high vegetation productivity index, and (3) cold, dry, both cold and dry, nonseasonal for growth limitation index.

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Antoine Champreux @toinechampreux.bsky.social · Jan 24

What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱

How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐

Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits

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Antoine Champreux @toinechampreux.bsky.social · Jan 24

Thank you!

Antoine Champreux @toinechampreux.bsky.social · Jan 24

I would love to be added! I am an ecologist mainly focusing on deep-time to modern vegetation distribution.

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Antoine Champreux

‪Flinders University‬ - ‪‪Cité(e) 66 fois‬‬ - ‪paleobotany‬ - ‪paleoecology‬ - ‪vegetation modelling‬ - ‪biogeography‬ - ‪global ecology‬

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Antoine Champreux @toinechampreux.bsky.social · Jan 23

Rapid rise in atmospheric #CO2 marked the end of the Late #Palaeozoic Ice Age

Jurikova et al. 👉 rdcu.be/d7fQJ

"About 294 million years ago, atmospheric CO2 rose abruptly (4-fold), releasing the Earth from its penultimate ice age and transforming the Early Permian into a warmer world."

Figure 5 from the recent paper from Jurikova et al. (2025), a paleo-artistic representation of the Carboniferous-Permian transition showing luxuriant Carboniferous forests on the left and more arid Permian environments on the right with associated fauna, separated by a river.

Caption from the paper: A relatively rapid rise in atmospheric CO2 approximately 294 Ma released the Earth from its penultimate icehouse (left) and transitioned the world to a warmer and drier climate of the Early Permian (right). Palaeo-artistic rendering based on findings of this study and previously published literature

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Christie Wilcox @nerdychristie.bsky.social · Jan 21

Our records of the world’s biodiversity are patchy—but that's not because lots of places are "unexplored." That story and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

World map showing biodiversity collection hotspots (red) and blindspots (blue). BALL ET AL./PEERJ (2025)

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Antoine Champreux @toinechampreux.bsky.social · Jan 20

Thank you!

Antoine Champreux @toinechampreux.bsky.social · Jan 17

CO2 fertilization can be a disturbance leading to worldwide #forest degradation 🌳🌲

"even the most remote forests in the world have been altered by human action via CO2 fertilization, and the responsibility for their integrity must be shared globally" 🌐

Lapola et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...

Not just semantics: CO2 fertilization can be a disturbance leading to worldwide forest degradation

The physiological effects of increased atmospheric CO2 (CO2 fertilization) on intact forests are generally seen as a process that might buffer them against the impacts of climate change. However, CO2...

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Antoine Champreux @toinechampreux.bsky.social · Jan 17

Hi Graciela, I'd be happy to be added 😊

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Antoine Champreux @toinechampreux.bsky.social · Jan 3

🌍 Projected future climatic forcing on the global distribution of #vegetation types 🌲🌳🌿🍃🌱

Allen et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

#Biogeography #ecology #biomes

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · Oct 21

Post your most popular #art from Twitter🍁

I've never had anything actually go viral or get many likes, but this Ginkgoales leaf montage ended up being my most popular piece of art: so YAY for paleobotany!!! #paleoart #paleobotany #ginkgo

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