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Matthew Kling

@matthewkling.bsky.social
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Computational ecologist, global change biologist, data scientist

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 02/09/2026
New study quantifies the impact of climate change on North American forest insect & pathogen burden and forecasts potential trends under climate change @zihuiwang.bsky.social @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social @ubcbotany.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatially explicit forecasts of tree insect and disease incidence across North American forests under future climate scenarios - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Synergies between climate change and natural enemy pressure threaten forests. Here the authors quantify the impact of climate change on North American forest insect and pathogen burden and map potenti...
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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Very excited to see our new paper in @Nature! Conifers introduced to the Southern Hemisphere grew up to 4× faster than in their native ranges and were also more resistant and resilient to drought. I’m honored to have been part of this fantastic international team.
pines grow faster in the southern hemisphere
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Gina Reynolds, Human-Data Interaction 📊🛠 @ginareynolds.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Really looking forward to a conversation with @matthewkling.bsky.social about the new #ggplot2->3D extension, ggcube. 📦🙂 A week from today, Wed 19th, 12 noon ET. 📊
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Europe's forests are hitting a tipping point. 6.5 Pg of aboveground biomass lost since 1985, with annual losses surging 46% since 2018. Climate-driven disturbances are accelerating carbon losses and weakening one of Europe's most important natural carbon sinks. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
RESEARCH ARTICLE Prioritizing Conservation of Trailing‐Edge Populations for Future Climate‐Resilient Forests 🔗 buff.ly/40D8kO4
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Really interesting take on the future of ecology in an AI world. The take home: experiments and long-term studies will have increasing value. @jdrakephd.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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AI, Comparative Advantage, and the Next Decade of Ecological Research
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Excited to share our new paper in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social on data and code archiving at @britishecologicalsociety.org journals. TL;DR: Data archiving rates are high, code archiving rates are low, documentation needs to be improved! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.....
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Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements
Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...
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Matthew Kling @matthewkling.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Announcing #RStats package ggcube, now on CRAN -- make 3D #ggplot2 figures using `coord_3d()` matthewkling.github.io/ggcube/
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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Spatial+: a relatively easy way to address spatial confounding doi.org/10.1111/biom... Comparison with other methods: doi.org/10.1007/s131... #statistics #rspatial
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Spatial+: A Novel Approach to Spatial Confounding
Abstract. In spatial regression models, collinearity between covariates and spatial effects can lead to significant bias in effect estimates. This problem,
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Benjamin Freeman @benjaminfreeman.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I think a lot about how mountain species are responding to warming temperatures so it was great to team up with @suzetteflantua.bsky.social @kjfeeley.bsky.social Christi McCain & Jenny McGuire to write a review of sp responses to both modern AND Quaternary warming www.nature.com/articles/doi...
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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....
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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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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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
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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...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Our paper on "Hydroclimate volatility on a Warming Earth" is out in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. We assess existing scientific literature & conduct new analysis--concluding that "#HydroclimateWhiplash" is increasing due to #ClimateChange. [Thread] www.nature.com/artic...
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Hydroclimate volatility on a warming Earth
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Rapid transitions between extreme wet and extreme dry conditions — ‘hydroclimate whiplash’ — have marked environmental and societal...
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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Cool new paper br Katherine Nigro and colleagues. 🧪🌎 Key finding: The climatic differences between adults and seedlings are the result of widespread regeneration failures in the hottest portions of species’ ranges #Forests #ClimateChange
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Trailing edge contractions common in interior western US trees under varying disturbances - Nature Climate Change
Climate change and disturbances are changing forest tree composition, but it is not clear if disturbances assist trees in tracking their climate ranges. This study shows that the impact of disturbance...
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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
This is so cool - this study used Chinese poetry to reconstruct 1400 years of range change for the Yangtze finless porpoise, and showed that most of the range loss happened in the last century papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Maps and graphs of range contraction over different dynasties
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Florian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Looking for a simple way to do #deeplearning in #Rstats? Check out cito, available on #CRAN via cran.r-project.org/web/packages... and presented in this recent Ecography paper nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Cito is an interface to torch for R and supports building and training
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
An important review - The ecology of plant extinctions - "Recent warm-edge extirpations demonstrate the growing impact of anthropogenic climate change & show that predictions of massive climate-driven extinctions later this century are plausible" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌾🌎🧪🌐
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The fossil record suggests that climate change was the major driver of plant extinctions and regional extirpations from the Pliocene until recently, when anthropogenic habitat loss became dominant.
Known recent plant extinctions are disproportionately few in comparison with well-studied animal taxa, but many more species are probably committed to inevitable extinction unless given targeted support.
Recent warm-edge extirpations demonstrate the growing impact of anthropogenic climate change and show that predictions of massive climate-driven extinctions later this century are plausible.
The proximate causes for population extirpations are still rarely known but are likely to be highly varied and both species and location specific."
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