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Michael (Misha) Stemkovski

@mishastemkovski.bsky.social
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Climate change, pollination, community ecology. Postdoc at Utah State University. www.stemkovski.com

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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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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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Michael (Misha) Stemkovski @mishastemkovski.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I'm very honored for our paper to be selected for the Haldane Prize! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... And this is actually one of two foundational papers in the "Ecological Acclimation" framework; check out another recent publication here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 16/04/2026
Well done to Michael (Misha) Stemkovski, @mishastemkovski.bsky.social for winning the 2025 Haldane Prize in @funecology.bsky.social. Misha's paper presents ecological acclimation as a framework that synthesises various ways ecosystems adjust to climate change. doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Michael (Misha) Stemkovski @mishastemkovski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Linking Community‐Climate Disequilibrium to Ecosystem Function
When turnover in species composition lags behind the pace of climate change, community-climate disequilibrium increases. We, for the first time, explicitly link this disequilibrium to ecosystem funct...
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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change
Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...
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Michael (Misha) Stemkovski @mishastemkovski.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Space-for-time substitution is most problematic when forecasting near-term ecological responses that lag behind climate change. It assumes equilibrium (rapid ecological responses) and strong climate causality (ignoring confounders). www.nature.com/articles/s41... @mekevans.bsky.social
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Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change
Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...
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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A synthetic paper about fast vs. slow responses of ecological systems to changing climate, explaining how and why those responses can shift (even in sign) over time. Examples across scales and subdiscplines (population genetics, ecosystem ecology). besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Michael (Misha) Stemkovski @mishastemkovski.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
I’m very excited to share a paper from an incredible team of evolutionary biologists, community ecologists, paleoecologists, social scientists, and biogeochemists. “Ecological acclimation” unites processes that take minutes to centuries: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Melissa Pastore @lispastore.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
New paper led by @mishastemkovski.bsky.social Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ecological acclimation: A framework to integrate fast and slow responses to climate change
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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Tyson Wepprich @tysonwepprich.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
New paper with Erica Henry & @nickhaddad.bsky.social Q: What happens when butterflies, responding to climate warming, attempt an extra generation as summers get longer? A: Long-term monitoring shows overwinter population growth increases! 🧪🦋🐛https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.70018
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Voltinism Shifts in Response to Climate Warming Generally Benefit Populations of Multivoltine Butterflies
Insects may respond to climate warming by advancing phenology and increasing the number of generations each year (voltinism). However, one concern is that earlier phenology changes cue-response relat...
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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
New paper led by superstar grad student Katherine Hulting, from the SRS Fragmentation Experiment Across 5 species & 1000s of plants, habitat edges decrease plant reproductive output by suppressing flowering, but not by changing pollination rates besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Habitat edges decrease plant reproductive output in fragmented landscapes
The authors demonstrate that plant reproductive output (seed production) is decreased by habitat fragmentation through edge effects on flowering. This work provides evidence that an important contrib....
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