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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Can we trust? Yes, we can trust estimates of species turnover, but estimates of changes in species richness are less reliable. Our new article in the Journal of Ecology: doi.org/10.1111/1365... @journalofecology.bsky.social @iavs5.bsky.social

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

PLEASE SHARE & DONATE! ❤️ In short, our NGO is raising money to buy a field for (biologically-informed) and community-based ecological restoration. donio.cz/zanechte-sto... A bit more of the context in a 🧵↓↓↓

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Zanechte stopu v pálavské krajině

Mezi Kočičí skálou a mandloňovým sadem leží 1,5 ha pole – bariéra pro lidi i přírodu. Chceme ho koupit a proměnit v živý krajinný koridor: sad, květnatou louku a bezpečnou pěší trasu, která propojí Pá...

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Stal jsem se občasným přispěvatelem Deníku N. Tento článek je o v České republice mizícím fenoménu štěrkonosných řek. Konkrétně teda o vzácné biotě, která je na ně vázaná, a pokud se něco nezmění, tak z české přírody zmizí spolu s ním. Odemčeno: denikn.cz/2011191/kdyz...

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Když řekám nedovolíme divočit, přispíváme k větším povodním i ke ztrátě nenahraditelných živých druhů

Přirozená dynamika některých řek, zejména horských, udržuje krajinu živou a povodně v přiměřeném rozsahu. Člověk do spontánního divočení řek často zasahuje tak, že škody jsou větší než užitek.

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Botanospol - Czech Botanical Society @botanospol.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

1/2 Tůně mohou překypovat životem. Ale také nemusí. Jejich budování může mít na rostlinná společenstva a ohrožené druhy rostlin neblahé následky. Více ve stanovisku ČBS, které nově naleznete na našich stránkách.

obr. 1: Nově vybudovaná tůň, která odvodnila kdysi vlhkou louku a začala zarůstat (foto: Kryštof Chytrý).

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Yesterday, I defended my PhD thesis at @univie.ac.at. Thanks @vvandvik.bsky.social and Bente Graae for reviewing it and Stefan Dullinger for supervising. I tasted quite a bit of science during my Master's by leading 5 papers and doing lots of field research. But this was different. Extraordinary.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

This paper was the most frustrating journey I've ever gone through... Nevertheless, after nearly two years, the paper is finally published.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Thanks @jlembrechts.bsky.social for this blog post about our new Oikos paper! Love your blog. :-)

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Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

How to not be swamped by your microclimate data? The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries. A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social: 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...

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How to not be swamped by your microclimate data

Microclimate data are finally finding their way more routineously into ecological models – and rightly so. Hooray for that! The growing availability of in-situ measurements is helping us brid…

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

This year we’re, in addition to the regular business, using our fine-scale temperature maps to explore isolated cold spots in lower elevations to see if nival species survive there. Quite dangerous sites these cold spots…

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Fieldwork in the Alps. 5th year on the same mountain. Even this calf wonders why are we still doing that.

Calf in the middle of alpine road. Foggy mountains behind.

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European Vegetation Survey @euroveg.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

John Rodwell became an Honorary Member of the European Vegetation Survey. John is one of the most prominent vegetation ecologists in Europe.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I suspect a badger. Someone was repeatedly pulling off our EMS water potential logger (whole buried) while leaving TMS-4 standing right next to it... So now the EMS WP's got a fancy 2-sided + top cage that enables readout from a side. Let's see if that works.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

In past, Daniel Kokotajlo made future projections on the development of AI that, over time, turned out as quite accurate. This is his vision of what might happen over the coming years. The projection are worrying, especially in the light of the recent disbalance of political order ai-2027.com/race

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AI 2027

A research-backed AI scenario forecast.

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Birds on the Move @birdsmove.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Every year, fewer #WhiteStorks cross the Straits of Gibraltar on their annual migratory journey. In this paper, we unveil the mechanisms driving the recent and rapid loss of their migratory behaviour. 👉https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.70035

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

When you're already out of wood for this heating season (yes, my case) but you need to heat the room a bit... 🫠

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Pavel Pipek @pavelpipek.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

@charlesuni.cuni.cz and several of its faculties moved from X/Twitter to @bsky.app recently.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hi R users, do you have experience with R functions that use non-native languages (specifically C++ and Fortran) in parallel processing (foreach with %dopar%)? To me, this produces error: "NULL value passed as symbol address" and I can't figure the way out. Thanks ❤️

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Until tomorrow noon (CET) there is a last chance to contribute to a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology. It takes a maximum of two minutes! Great thanks to all who contributed. 💚

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

And if you are interested which packages are most popular among young ecologists and which among professors, just stay tuned. 😅

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Hi there, my student is making a survey about the use of R packages in Ecology, could you please spend two mins on filling it 🥹 Very appreciated! And if you could spread it further (RT), that would be just awesome. ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Exploring R Package Usage in Academia

I am running a quick survey to find out which R packages academics use the most in their research and teaching. The goal is to see which tools are essential, spot any gaps, and maybe even discover som...

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Over the last few days, I've prepared an "initial distribution" of our target species for simulation models. I used 1 m2 resolution topography, interpolated microclimatic variables, soil properties and snow from permanent cameras. We also gathered multispectral data with a helicopter.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Shrubification, increases of nutrient demanding species and decrease of habitats specialists. But also overall increase of community level species richness. Klara Klinkovska from @milanchytry.bsky.social's lab analyzed the changes in species composition across habitats in the 🇨🇿.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Working with red wine is always so satisfying. Bottling a batch feels almost like getting a paper published after all the waiting and reviewing. Anyway, these still have a long way ahead. 2024 was very special vintage with an extreme drought shortly before harvest. Tricky for natural winemakers.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I don't usually do these games, but I also like bridges. -> If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery. Georgia, vegetation sampling in 2017. I'd been listening to the Goodbye Blu Sky by Pink Floyd while driving over. Remember this very well. 😅

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Dan Warren @danlwarren.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Niche modeling / distribution modeling / ecological biogeography people, check out this starter pack and let me know if you want to be added! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Paper alert. You might have heard about some trials of using hemi-parasitic plants to enhance biological restoration of grasslands. Yet it has been documented only from a few small experiment. However, a few years ago, Jakub Tesitel carried out an experiment to test this in different macroclimates.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Thanks @jvonoppen.bsky.social for initiating and leading this section! International Mountain Conference, this September 2025 in Innsbruck.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I'm a regular R user, but I don't like R Studio for various reasons. I'd been using PyCharm instead for a long time, but since mid-2024, the R plugin is no longer maintained. I'm therefore searching for an alternative. Is anyone using something else than R Studio for R coding? #R #rstats #RStudio

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

3️⃣1️⃣ The last day of 2024 and of our calendar. Juncus jacquinii grows only in the Alps and northern Apennines. It prefers rather moist grassy sites within the alpine, usually not above 3'000 m. Named after N. J. von Jacquin, a professor of botany and dir. of the botanical garden at @univie.ac.at

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Verča Kalníková @vercakalnikova.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

3️⃣0️⃣ Astragalus alopecurus. Occurs in W Alps, Corsica, Balkans, Caucasus, and Asia Minor to Central Asia, extending to Siberia. It grows in dry grasslands, steppes, shrubs, and open forests at 1000–1600 m a.s.l. This specimen grew on a river gravel bars among Hippophae rhamnoides shrubs.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

2️⃣9️⃣ Ranunculus alpestris. Restricted only to European mountains (Pyrenees, Alps & Carpathians). Not as tough as R. glacialis, usually not getting above 2.5k m (as far as I know at least). Slightly prefers calcareous bedrock and sites with long lying snow cover.

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 28/12/2024

It’s time for THE charger. Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU. It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need! #DigitalEU

A minimalist illustration showing a packaged charger box labeled "one Union one Charger." The box features an image of a blue charger with the European Union flag symbol and a USB-C cable. The scene is set within a holiday theme, with decorative Christmas trees, ornaments, and gift boxes surrounding the charger box. In the top right corner, there is a small EU flag symbol.

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Verča Kalníková @vercakalnikova.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

2️⃣8️⃣ Noccaea rotundifolia, also known as Thlaspi, is an Alpine endemic growing on carbonate screes up to 3000 m. The Alpine scree vegetation class Thlaspietea rotundifolii is named after it. As a “snow runner,” its fruits are blown by the wind across the snow in winter, dispersing its seeds.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

2️⃣7️⃣ Oxyria dygina. Similar to Persicaria vivipara covers nearly all arctic alpine habitats of northern Hemisphere. Rather specialized species, restricted to wet screes, making it common on gravelly bars and banks of alpine rivers or glacier forefields. In the Alps, usually above 2000 meters.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Home alone only with the dog: Day 1. The dinner is a traditional Slavic dish, ash potatoes.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The communist experience was terrible. It left us (very) few good things, though. For instance, freedom to roam guaranteed by law. Will never forget how, at a workshop in Switzerland, along with my Estonian friend, we wanted to cross a meadow, and the Swiss shouted at us as if we'd killed somebody.

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Verča Kalníková @vercakalnikova.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

2️⃣6️⃣ Trifolium alpinum. Grows in mountains of southern and central Europe (Pyrenees, Alps, Apennines, Southern Carpathians) on silicate substrates, from montane to alpine zones, up to 3100 m. A perennial species intolerant to frequent mowing, it thrives in moderately dry mountain meadows and pastures.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

2️⃣5️⃣ Bistorta vivipara. I'd say (one of) the most common arcto-alpine species distributed over the northern hemisphere. It's a generalist (but nice one) growing on various bedrocks and throughout elevations. Probably not too surprising that it's also a common target plant of various research projects.

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Verča Kalníková @vercakalnikova.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

2️⃣4️⃣ Leontopodium alpinum. Edelweiß, Planika... but most Christmas-like vibes come from Italian Stella alpina and French Étoile des Alpes - star of the Alps. This symbol of alpinism can be found in mount. of Central and S Europe, on alpine meadows, in rocky crevices, scree, up to 3000 m. Merry Xmas!

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

🧵⏬ Ever wondered what's happening below snow in high mountains? Well, it's not at all bad down there. This is average February soil T (coldest month). Note that apart from elevation, it's mostly controlled by curvature, thereby snow depth and related insulation. Whites are temperatures above 0°C.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

This is a really fascinating debate. Shall we introduce a non-native species if the whole ecosystem would benefit from it? I think that when it comes to plants (and probably also insects), there is still agreement on a huge NO. With animals, this is much more nuanced and interesting discussion.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

As I grow older, I like Christmas less and less which made me to make some practical measures. Since quite some time, our Christmas at home are just a peaceful walk in nature and that's it. We see the rest of the family some time before and after and it's better for everyone like this.

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

With @gianmariabonari.bsky.social, we often get papers we work on togethr published around Christmas.🎄 This time, only with very little contribution from my side, it's a local study about diversity of maritime pine dominated vegetation in Tuscany and Liguria. vcs.pensoft.net/article/1180...

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Christmas tomorrow! 2️⃣3️⃣ Leucanthemopsis alpina. Looks like an innocent lowland daisy, but easily makes it above 3000 m! Often on rocky and scree substrates and in proximity to glaciers. Pyrenees, Alps, Carpathians and even Corsica!

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

📖Published📖 Our latest review article presents 10 practical guidelines for ground-based research of terrestrial microclimates, covering methods and best practices from initial conceptualisation of the study to data analyses 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/41BKn8o

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I'm very honoured to be included among so many authors I deeply admire in this Nature Writing starter pack: the best writing about the planet we share. Please share widely. go.bsky.app/Qrw2zj9

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Kryštof Chytrý @krystofchytry.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Simple late art on a good speciality coffee flat is a rare joy.

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Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

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Verča Kalníková @vercakalnikova.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

2️⃣2️⃣ Saxifraga stellaris. Arcto-Alpine species found from NE Canada to N Scandinavia. In S European regions inhabits mountain areas of Pyrenees, Massif Central, Alps, N Apennines, Corsica, and S Carpathians. Grows by springs, streams, snowbeds, moist rocks, montane to alpine zones, up to 3100 m.

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