iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Michael Nobis

BEAGLE officially kicks off today! 🎉 Over the next four years, we will work together towards improving how biodiversity is monitored across terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems.

111

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🍀🌵🌿 Now in the latest #NatComms volume: Across >3,100 plant species on 5 continents, we show the growth–longevity trade-off extends far beyond trees. Warmer climates may favor faster growth and shorter lifespans—with implications for resilience & carbon storage. 🌐 🌍🌡️ #Ecology #ClimateChange

nature.com

Slow growth as a strategy for plant longevity - Nature Communications

Plant longevity shapes ecosystem functioning and carbon storage, but evidence for its relationship with growth beyond trees has been limited. The authors show that slow growth consistently predicts gr...

152

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Invasive alien plants #IAS – or when North America meets Southern Africa on a Swiss motorway … 🌍🌐🌿 Our 2nd 2026 road survey captured 📸 non-native #Cuscuta #campestris (NAm) parasitizing invasive Senecio inaequidens (SA)! Following 2019 & 2021 ⬇️, #AI mapping will monitor both along 🇨🇭 national roads.

Cuscuta campestris, native to North America. Image: photographed by Kristian Peters, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2762006

Cuscuta campestris parasitizing Senecio inaequidens, native to Southern Africa; image from 2019 in Nobis et al. 2020 - https://myvss.mobilityplatform.ch//vss/account/publication/2897/download/pdf; only presumed as C. campestris at the time, while driving by at c. 90 km/h, the species has since been observed multiple times parasitizing S. inaequidens.

Cuscuta campestris parasitizing Senecio inaequidens, 2026 Swiss road survey, CC BY-SA 3.0; nationwide AI mapping will be compared with 2021 baseline imagery - https://www.astra.admin.ch/dam/de/sd-web/jTyOL6e7ytDe/astra_88022_invasive_neophyten_an_nationalstrassen.pdf

0103

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

🔥🥵 This weekend we finished mowing semi-dry grasslands near Freiburg, Germany — work we’ve done every year since the late 1980s. Back then, many sites faced scrub encroachment. Today, conservation management & protected-area status have improved conditions. 📈 #Conservation #Grasslands #Biodiversity

due to this year’s severe drought, there was much less biomass to remove

one of the grasslands earlier this year in May

Late Spider Orchid (Ophrys holosericea) is one of 12 orchid species found on our managed grasslands

Slender Broomrape (Orobanche gracilis) is a very rare plant species in Southwest Germany (Baden-Württemberg). For decades, these managed grasslands were the only known site.

080

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A few days ago, we completed the first 2026 camera survey, building on our 2021 baseline, to track distribution dynamics of native and non-native plant species along Swiss national roads using AI. Stay tuned! #Biodiversity #Monitoring #InvasiveSpecies #AI GPS tracks from first 2026 camera survey👇

1164

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

After a great time at #TIBS2026 in Aarhus - where I gave a talk on our genetically-informed dynamic SDM and after many exciting discussions - today was the perfect day to visit #ARoS with colleagues from Amsterdam.

063

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

🌴 #MigratingPalm is a young Chinese windmill palm transported from Ticino to the Rhone Glacier by the architecture collective dorsa just before a ban by the Swiss Federal Council. Inspiring 📽️ #clip and architects' perspective on #invasivespecies and #regulations. 👉 vimeo.com/1007969700/a...

Arrival of the young Chinese windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) at the Rhone Glacier (Image source, www.dorsa.cc).

041

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🔉Version 2.0-1 of our #KISSMig #Rstats package for #SpeciesMigration modeling is now live on #CRAN. This #bugfix addresses overprediction in version 2.0-0 that may arise when using time series of binary suitability maps. More Information about #KISSMig → www.wsl.ch/en/services-...

053

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🔊 New paper: first integration of population genetics🧬 and dynamic species distribution modeling🌐 using #KISSMig to reconstruct postglacial dynamics of wild black pepper, endemic to India’s Western Ghats. #macroecology #popgen #phylogeography #biogeography 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

0238

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

How does the eastern distribution limit of #plants in the European #Alps look like? The #Schneeberg 🏔️ (2076 m) in #Austria near #Vienna is a great place to find out! The often isolated occurrences must have been better connected to the other populations in the past. #biogeography #flowers #hiking

View towards the east where first elements of the completely different flora of the Pannonian region occur.

Potentilla clusiana, an eastern alpine species that looks very similar to Potentilla nitida from the Dolomites.

Campanula alpina, also a species with an eastern alpine distribution.

Dianthus alpinus, another eastern alpine species.

071

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🔉Happy to share our new publication and global data compilation #GenDivRange covering population genetic diversity of 19,173 geo-referenced populations and 1,109 species. A big thank to Katalin Csilléry, who initiated and led this project, and to all colleagues. (1/2) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.com

GenDivRange: A global dataset of geo-referenced population genetic diversity across species ranges - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - GenDivRange: A global dataset of geo-referenced population genetic diversity across species ranges

1188

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

#Pulsatilla #vernalis, lady of the snows❄️, last weekend in the 🇨🇭Alps above treeline at c. 2250m🏔️. Early flowering in alpine spring with overwintering leaves next to Crocus albiflorus and #Ranunculus #kuepferi, and phenologically variable from early flowering to #postfloral #elongation.

Pulsatilla vernalis, postfloral elongation

010

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

80 years after #WW2 I stumbled across #Parietaria #pensylvanica in #Berlin. Thought to be escaped from botanical garden after bombings (or brought by 🇺🇸🪖?) it’s now well established on this #urbanbiodiversity #island 🏝️ but hasn't spread much further! #bioinvasions floraweb.de/php/artenhom...

Parietaria pensylvanica, Berlin Neukölln, May 2025

Distribution of Parietaria pensylvanica in Germany; https://floraweb.de/php/artenhome.php?name-use-id=4123

030

Michael Nobis @michaelnobis.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🔉Version 2.0 of our #KISSMig #Rstats package for #SpeciesMigration modeling is now live on #CRAN. 🎉 Together with Dominik Landolt we boosted performance by implementing parallel computing—making this simple dynamic #SDM faster than ever. Learn more about KISSMig here 👉 purl.oclc.org/wsl/kissmig

0227