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Billur Bektaş 🍃

@billurbektas.bsky.social
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Ecologist (PhD) | experimental ecology | ecological forecasting | alpine plants | SC member @ euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com | Subject editor @ecography.bsky.social | Associate editor @journalofecology.bsky.social billurbektas.github.io

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SCNAT @scnat.ch · 01/10/2026
🏔️ Nearly 20% in five years. That's how much #glacier ice #Switzerland has lost since 2021 - with more than 5% disappearing in 2026 alone, according to @matthias-huss.bsky.social (GLAMOS & @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social) and @scnat.ch. Learn more here 👉 scnat.ch/en/id/Y6p3L #ClimateChange
Extent of ice loss at Konkordiaplatz on the Great Aletsch Glacier (VS) between 2022 and 2026. Photos: M. Huss / A. Linsbauer
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Alejandro Ordonez @anordonez1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"🌿 We're hiring at @econovoau.bsky.social! Postdoc position forecasting how land-use change, climate shifts & rewilding will reshape European plant diversity. Biodiversa+ REDESIGN project, Aarhus Uni. 2 years. Closes 1 Nov 2026. 🔗 www.au.dk/om/stillinge... #ecology #postdoc
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Postdoctoral researcher in biodiversity forecasting, vegetation dynamics and rewilding - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet
Ledig stilling ved Institut for Biologi - Økoinformatik og biodiversitet, Aarhus Universitet
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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🍂 This work elucidates when litter promotes—or inhibits—pathogen spread, underscores the consequences of different host biomass growth patterns for plant–pathogen dynamics 👉️ buff.ly/dYWIlKW
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Ecological Forecasting Initiative @ecoforecast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Join us on Oct 14 for the European EFI Chapter webinar! @emilygsimmonds.bsky.social and @vlboult.bsky.social will share a framework for evaluating the quality and success of ecological forecasts developed by EEFI's first working group. Details at: euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾
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Systems Ecology @systems-ecology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🌱 Systems Ecology is now live! A new independent, researcher-run, diamond OA journal for ecological research through systems science. Free to read. Free to publish. No APCs. We are now open for submissions: systems-ecology.org Please help spread the word!
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Systems Ecology
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Maria Paniw @paniw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🧪🌎 I had a great time at #NSOGfÖ2026! But best of all was reuniting with the forecast-challenge crew for our workshop! If you like 🌳🐰🪲 or want to try your model on a new system, submit a forecast to our challenge! There is ⏰ - we'll announce winners in Oct/Nov: donanadt.lifewatch.dev/app/donana-f...
Cara Gallagher, Sanne Ever, Maria Paniw, and Billur Bektas from the Ecological Forecasting Initiative at the NSO-GFÖ 2026 meeting.
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Emma Luck @emmaluck22.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hello friends! I recently completed my Alaska Sea Grant State Fellowship and am looking for my next role. I am interested in positions involving endangered & protected species management/conservation, fisheries policy/management, but am open to other opportunities in marine science & conservation!
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
…such distinctions add urgency to conservation efforts. “Once three species become five species, each population is reduced,” he says. “Therefore conservation efforts must increase, perhaps urgently, depending on estimated population sizes.” www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What an amazing start! #NSOGFO2026
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On my way to #NSOGfÖ2026 🍂 If you arrive later but want to join our forecasting challenge, let’s chat!
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Research Centre For Ecological Change @rececochange.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Long-term community data help us separate short-term variation from directional change and reveal lags spanning years to decades. They also provide rare windows into eco-evolutionary changes such as phenological and trait shifts. Our article explores how crucial long-term community data really are👇
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Long-Term Community Data Reveal Ecological and Evolutionary Phenomena
Resolving the ecological and evolutionary processes affecting biodiversity requires long-term community data. By separating short-term variability from directional change and by revealing lags spannin...
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Since my bachelor thesis, I am dreaming of doing a project at the intersection of archeology and ecology in Anatolia 🌅 Soon🤞
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Ezgi Altınışık @ezgimou.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Following suggestions from reviewers, I have updated the C-Turkey radiocarbon dataset. It now contains 3390 records. Specifically, it includes dates from Turkey that were previously limited in the Turkish literature. Publication is coming soon. Links are below 👇 🧪🏺 #archaeology #anthropology
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
How did Nolan miss this occasion?!
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Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm hiring a new PDRA for my group in Cambridge. Do you like trees, lasers and ecology? Interested in helping us to use 3D data to better understand the relationship between forest structure and tree species diversity across biomes? 🌳🛰️⚡🌳 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/56666/
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Research Assistant / Research Associate in three dimensional forest ecology (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Research Assistant / Research Associate in three dimensional forest ecology (Fixed Term) in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
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Ecospat Group @ecospat-ch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🆕 New paper: Bart Steen et al. show that bioclimate outweighs microtopography when predicting plant species’ sensitivity to climate change in proglacial ecosystems. An important step toward identifying vulnerable alpine plants. Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00035-026-00366-2
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Bioclimate overrules microtopography to inform on plant species’ sensitivity to climate change in proglacial ecosystems - Alpine Botany
Mountain proglacial landscapes are characterized by pronounced topographic heterogeneity that generates sharp environmental gradients and microreliefs over short distances, shaping the distribution of...
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Very important discovery! Gobeklitepe rewrote history a couple decades ago and I wonder if this discovery rewrites it over.. www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/new-...
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New discovery at Gobeklitepe sheds light on where people may have lived - Türkiye Today
New rectangular buildings uncovered at Gobeklitepe may have served as homes, offering fresh evidence of residential life at the ancient settlement
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Scariest page to look at 🥹
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Anonymous Potato @anonymouspotato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
EcoEvoJobs 2026-27 just opened for business and we've already got 79 faculty / permanent jobs listed. Please repost! ecoevojobs.net
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ecoevojobs.net 2026-27
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 11/08/2026
Are you a researcher with an interest in ecosystems, climate science and biodiversity conservation? Register now to join our upcoming scientific meeting in London on the topic of forecasting ecological dynamics. royalsociety.org/science-even...
Promotional banner for "Forecasting ecological dynamics" (2–3 November 2026) by the Royal Society, paired with a photo of a grey heron standing on a mangrove branch above clear turquoise water that reveals coral and submerged roots.
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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Pro tip for writers: A very bad first draft is not a failure - it’s a great start, Congratulations! You can’t revise a blank page, but you can shape a bad one into something really great
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Masterpiece 💙 music.youtube.com/watch?v=WCxx...
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Odysseus
YouTube video by Ludwig Göransson - Topic
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sectigimiz liyakatli liderleri koruyamamanin caresizligi.
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Flor Yannelli *typo queen* 👽🌱🪁(she/her/ella) @floryannelli.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Another way of academic extraction is inviting collabs from the Global South to build databases then leave them off the papers that use them. I once attended a talk where this was compared to the colonial practice of extracting artifacts to fill museums in imperial capitals. Same logic of extraction
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Timeline cleanse: Mount Rainier alpine meadows in full bloom.
A raucous mix of alpine wildflowers with the glaciated face of Mount Rainier looming in the distance under a clear blue sky.
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Liyakata dair umutlarımızın yeşerdiği yerin tam ortasından ateşe veriyorsunuz. Kadınların 21. Yüzyılda hala verdiği bu savaşta, liyakat sahibi bir kadının ülkesine hizmet etme şansını elinden alarak bizlerin umutlarını bertaraf ediyorsunuz. Hayal ettiğimiz gelecekleri kül ediyorsunuz. #sinemdedetas
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Amazing. A-MA-ZING!
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Sean Pang @seh-pang.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Yesterday we shared the paper. Today I want to share the story behind it. We thought it was all about climate change. Then the models failed. That failure eventually led us to disturbances, and to a very different view of Europe’s flora. Read it @ communities.springernature.com/posts/europe...
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Europe’s flora is living in a landscape out of Equilibrium
99% of plant distributions in Europe show signs of disequilibrium. The surprise? Climate change was only part of the story. Disturbance emerged as an even more pervasive force shaping where species oc...
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Andy Murdock @andymurdock.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Botany friends: cool job alert. We're searching for a new Director for the UC & Jepson Herbaria here at UC Berkeley. Share with nice people. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05405 🌿🌺🌵
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Associate/Full Professor- Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics- Integrative Biology, and Director- University of California Berkeley Herbaria
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Klara Mrak @mrakklara.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Who wants to count bugs in dead spruce forests for their thesis? With @bmwildermuth.bsky.social at @idiv-research.bsky.social in collab. with PoToMa Project; www.idiv.de/education/ba... www.chemgeo.uni-jena.de/en/44572/pot...
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Bachelor's and Master's Theses | iDiv
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
📢 We’re hiring at Aarhus University! Tenure-track or permanent on vertebrate-driven #ecosystem processes, especially large #mammals w/in @econovoau.bsky.social's strong interdisciplinary environment spanning #ecology, paleoecology, biodiversity science & global change biology 🦬🌿🌍 ➡️More info below
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Maria Paniw @paniw.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for a PhD student to join our DEMOCAST team (globalchangeeco.com/jobs). The general project is about ecological forecasting, but there is lots of flexibility to develop the thesis. We are at @eccb26leiden.bsky.social this week if anyone is interested and wants to chat.
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Wolfgang Huber @wkhuber.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
EMBL's new AI unit is recruiting. We are seeking a machine learning scientist to establish their independent research group bridging innovations in machine learning/AI with modern biology. embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
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Chloé Haberkorn @chloehbk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
New paper out in Evolution 🧫🧬 doi.org/10.1093/evol... with a pretty big crew & @stelkens.bsky.social ! Story started over 20 years ago, fun to jump in late and help wrap it up :)
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Adaptive Benefits of Hybridization in Saccharomyces Yeast are Constrained by Genomic Background and Depend on Temperature
Abstract. Climate change urges us to better understand and predict evolutionary responses to temperature shifts. Hybridization, by increasing genetic varia
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Join us for a workshop at the Joint NSO-GfÖ Conference 2026 on ecological forecasting challenges! --> Using and Participating in Ecological Forecasting Challenges for Interdisciplinary Biodiversity Forecasts. @nordicoikos.bsky.social nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/joint-...
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Workshops ⇽ Joint NSO–GfÖ Conference 2026 | Nordic Society Oikos
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Journal of Ecology holds a special place for me. It's where I published my very first paper and I still remember that process well. The reviews were rigorous but genuinely supportive, and my paper came out substantially stronger for it. @journalofecology.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
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Takuji Usui | 薄井拓路 @usuitakuji.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I am incredibly thrilled to announce that I will be starting as an Assistant Prof at Yale EEB in January 2027!! 🎉🎊 Stay tuned for student and postdoc openings, and please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested in eco-evo, range dynamics, species interactions, and global change! 🌐🌱🦠🧬
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🆕 Our #LatestIssue is online now! A Joint Special Collection with @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social: Harnessing the benefits of specimen digitisation 📚 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698137... Highlights include: 🌱 Next-generation specimen #digitisation 🌱 #Herbarium specimen images and #AI
On the cover of New Phytologist volume 251, issue 2: A synthetic fractal image generated from a randomly selected set of Iterated Function Systems (IFS) variables. Such fractal images teach artificial neural networks to recognize repeated visual patterns like those commonly observed in plant images.
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EcosystemModelF @ecosystemmodelf.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Ecological Trajectory Analysis (ETA) is a framework developed by EMF to analyse dynamics of ecological entities defined as trajectories on a chosen multivariate space. ETA is implemented in package [`ecotraj`](emf-creaf.github.io/ecotraj/) which has been recently updated to version 1.2.2 in CRAN.
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Ecological Trajectory Analysis
Analysis of temporal changes (i.e. dynamics) of ecological entities, defined as trajectories on a chosen multivariate space, by providing a set of trajectory metrics and visual representations [De Cac...
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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Jenn Sunday @jennsunday.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Want to think about ecology differently this summer? Still some spots at the 2026 Unifying Ecology Across Scales GRC. www.grc.org/unifying-eco...
Unifying Ecology Across Scales Gordon Research Conference, July 12-17, 2026. Image depicting the themes and ideas at this years' conference. List of topics explored in 2026: 
Scaling temperature-performance from organisms to ecosystems, Counting humans in a unified ecology
Do microbes make or break the rules in ecology?
Applying network concepts to predict ecological change
Principles for understanding scaling of time in ecology
Observational vs. theoretical frameworks for ecological prediction
Evaluating whether species traits advance predictive ecology
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LifeWatch ERIC @lifewatcheric.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
🌊 Live from #Iceland 🇮🇸 Happy Fishermen's Day! Marine SABRES in Fairs is now underway in #Hafnarfjörður, hosted by @mfri.bsky.social. 🎮 @marinesabres.bsky.social interactive experiences 🐟 #Marine ecosystem insights 🚢 Research in action 🌍 #Biodiversity & ocean sustainability ℹ️ Info: bit.ly/4ejCE4F
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Paul Caplat 🌲🌳🐦🦋 @paulcaplat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
You know how to model biodiversity change in response to climate and land-use change? You dream of working with top climate scientists? Come work with me, @ybuckley.bsky.social and @scaldararu.bsky.social, hosted by @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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Maria Paniw @paniw.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
What do you do if THE top researchers in your field ask if they can use your published code to "stress test" your model results? 😨 You say: Go ahead! But you think: Nothing I can do about it, it's all out there now 😅 Anyway, this turned out to be a fun collaboration 🧪: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
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Challenging and diagnosing structured population models by testing predictions from stochastic demography
Structured population models are parameterized to accurately project expected population sizes, stage/state distributions and population growth rates, but they also predict the variation in outcom...
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Camille Delavaux @camilledelavaux.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Excited to announce a 4-year PhD position at @niooknaw.bsky.social investigating the island biogeography of plant-associated fungi in the giant daisy radiation on the Galapagos. Please apply, share, and reach out with any questions! vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Wagening...
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PhD: Biogeography of plant-associated fungi on the Galapagos islands - NIOO-KNAW - Wageningen
PhD: Biogeography of plant-associated fungi on the Galapagos islands - NIOO-KNAW - Wageningen
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Nora Salland @noramare.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Happy to announce our ❗recent OA publication❗ in Ecography, selected as Editor’s Choice! We revisited 34 kelp forest sites to assess climate-driven shifts in kelp structure and distribution. Overall, warm-temperate kelps are increasing, while some cold-temperate species are in decline. vist.ly/55kj2
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