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Rémy Beugnon

@remybeugnon.bsky.social
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I am a field and theoretical ecologist studying the effects of vegetation diversity on microclimate and the consequences for ecosystem functioning: Biodiversity-Microclimate-Ecosystem Functioning nexus (B-M-EF). @iDiv (Leipzig) & @CEFE-CNRS (Montpellier)

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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🎉 Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for my BioMiCaD project, exploring how microclimate modulation can reconnect biodiversity and soil carbon dynamics. I’m incredibly grateful to all my colleagues, family & friends, this would not have been possible without you. ❤️
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Georg J. A. Hähn @georghaehn.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I'll be at P189 tomorrow—come say hi and chat about microclimate predictions from sampled forest vegetation! #IAVS2026 @iavs-young-sci.bsky.social @iavs5.bsky.social
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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🌳Tree species richness and mycorrhizal type shape the spatial & temporal dynamics of leaf litterfall, enhancing resource heterogeneity and potentially strengthening forest nutrient cycling @idiv-research.bsky.social @elisabethboenisch.bsky.social @remybeugnon.bsky.social 👉️ buff.ly/Rq4yOZQ
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Henriette Christel @henriettechristel.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Very happy to see my first PhD chapter being published 🤍 Take a look if you are interested in how tree species richness and mycorrhizal associations affect soil multifunctionality on a small scale 🌳🌳
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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Happy to share our new open-access article in SBB: Tree species richness effects on soil multifunctionality vary with proximity to target trees (doi.org/10.1016/j.so...). Congratulations to the team !
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Redirecting
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Julia Kemppinen @juliakemppinen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Registration open! Pack your talks, posters and sunhats for Montpellier, France 🌴🌞🏖️ This is the 3rd edition of the best conference on the planet - and of all time. And yes, I am completely biased as the organiser of the previous edition in Helsinki 😎 meb-network.com/meb-2026/
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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🎉 Registration is now open for MEB2026 – the 3rd Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography Conference! 📅 June 1–5, 2026 📍 Montpellier, France 🇫🇷 This edition highlights terrestrial and aquatic microclimates. 🔗 meb-network.com/meb-2026 #MEB2026 #Microclimate #Ecology #Biogeography #Conference
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Jack A Gilbert @gilbertjacka.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Microbes = climate allies. Our new editorial calls for a global alliance to put microbial science at the center of climate action. 🌱🌍 Because microbes cross every border—so should our solutions. 👉 doi.org/10.1093/sumb...
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Microbes without borders: uniting societies for climate action
Abstract. The climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges of our time, yet the role of microorganisms remains underrecognized in climate science and p
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Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
New for all microclimate enthusiasts! A step-by-step workflow to build your own sensor network - with awesome R code for site selection + tips on engagement, fieldwork & outreach. Led with @thenaturedave.bsky.social and @rebeccasenior.bsky.social 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/08/16/h...
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How to set up your own microclimate network
Back in 2021, we had an important thought: maybe we should start treating microclimate the same way we treat macroclimate. Weather and climate are monitored by national governments through organize…
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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Wait, WHAT?!
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CNRS en Occitanie Est @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🌳 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞́𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞́ 𝐝𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞́𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞̂𝐭𝐬 ? Une étude menée par 𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐝𝐮 𝐂𝐄𝐅𝐄 montre que la plantation de forêts riches en espèces d’arbres variées est un enjeu majeur face au changement climatique. Article 👉 www.inee.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...
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Entre réalité de gestion et optimisation écologique, comment diversifier nos forêts ?
Une équipe menée par des chercheurs du Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE) montre, dans une étude parue dans Natu
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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
⚖️↔️Resource inequality limits transfer of nutrients from soils to plants in experimental grassland vist.ly/3y5kj #EcosystemFunctioning #Ecotron #GiniCoefficient #Grassland #NutrientDynamics #ResourceInequality
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
INVITED OPINION A Framework for Modelling Thermal Load Sensitivity Across Life 🔗 buff.ly/B4hyNmX
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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🌳 One of my dearest projects—with brilliant friends and colleagues—is out in @NatureComms We show that how you plant tree species (not just which) can significantly boost forest functioning. 🔗 rdcu.be/evtXs 👇 A short thread
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🌳 Tree placement matters! A new study shows forests with diverse, non-clustered species boost biomass (+11%), nutrient cycling and decomposition. 🛠️ Line planting = sweet spot between ecology and management. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.idiv.de/the-right-mi...
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The right mix and planting pattern of trees enhance forest productivity and services
By modelling different planting design strategies and species mixtures, researchers offer insights for sustainable forest management, reforestation, and climate change mitigation in a new paper.
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
📄 @remybeugnon.bsky.social @bgauzens.bsky.social @georghaehn.bsky.social @benrosenbaum.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social + @uni-jena.de @unileipzig.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
🚨 To all #microclimate aficionados, this is a major update of the #SoilTemp initiative which has just metamorphosed into the beautiful #MEB network for #microclimate #ecology & #biogeography #network The #SoilTemp initiative 🐛 turns to #MEB network 🦋 ⬇️ Check it out ⬇️
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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Really important resource!
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Department of Geoecology @spacetimeeco.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
we prepared detail manual for working with #microclimate time-series and microclimatic maps in #Rstats covers a lot - from #TMS_loggers installation and calibration to advanced data analyses with #myClim originally in czech, but #AI translated to english: labgis.ibot.cas.cz/metodika-ppz...
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Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The word is out officially, now: SoilTemp has finished its transformation into 'The MEB-network' - a fully-fledged research network that goes far beyond just being a database. And boy, does that make me proud! Let me show you all the ways you can get involved here: the3dlab.org/2025/05/31/s...
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SoilTemp is now MEB!
Over the past six years, I’ve poured my heart into SoilTemp. What started as a vision for a global soil temperature database quickly grew into something much more: a living, breathing community of …
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress 📄 buff.ly/rzl7iTM @remybeugnon.bsky.social @msoil.bsky.social @stpdms.bsky.social @lisethouvenot.bsky.social @eisenhauerlab.bsky.social
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
🚨 Stat tips 🚨 Are you aware of the regression to the mean #RTM effect? This artefact is often overlooked in #ecology & especially in biodiversity resurveys 🌳🍄🦔🦅🦎🦋🐝🐞 It basically shows up each time you investigate changes between 2 time events: t2 vs t1 Let me unfold it for you 🧵
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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Call for workshops for the #MEB2026!
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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Single- vs mixed-species plantations: A systematic review on the effects on biodiversity 🌳🌲https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320725002198
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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
📣 New paper out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 📣 We are delighted to share our latest piece 🚜Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress ♨️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress
Soil microbes are crucial for healthy ecosystems, but climate change and intensive farming may reduce their functioning. We tested how heat stress affects microbial respiration in soils under differe....
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/02/2025
A few people have responded to this paper by saying "well people freaked out about calculators too". It's a funny comparison because people *are* using chatbots as calculators - and they suck. This tested the accuracy of an LLM to perform simple multiplication xcancel.com/yuntiandeng/...
a coloured coded table showing multiplication with both numbers having more than about 13 digits goes off the rails
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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Potential tree cover under current and future climate scenarios - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Potential tree cover under current and future climate scenarios
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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Climate mitigation potential for targeted forestation after considering climate change, fires, and albedo | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Climate mitigation potential for targeted forestation after considering climate change, fires, and albedo
Targeted forestation, considering climate dynamics and disturbances, could unlock significant carbon mitigation potential.
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Olivier Gimenez 🦦 @oaggimenez.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚨🎉 New paper "Ten quick tips to get you started with Bayesian statistics", hope you'll like it 😇🤗 ✍🏽 w/ Andy Royle, Marc Kéry and Chloé Nater 🔗 dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... @plos.org @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social
Graphical summary of 10 quick tips to get started with Bayesian statistics and how they fit into a larger view of an analytical workflow with Bayesian models.
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
REVIEW Monitoring Terrestrial Ecosystem Resilience Using Earth Observation Data: Identifying Consensus and Limitations Across Metrics 📄 buff.ly/PIfR7It
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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Delighted that our @oikosjournal.bsky.social Forum paper is the Editor's choice for the April issue! 🌳🌲 #TreeDivNet nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Jonathan von Oppen @jvonoppen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#Biodiversity has many facets - some might be less apparent, such as the absence of species in locations that would normally be suitable for them. Important reminder that human activity impacts the biosphere in many ways! Happy to have contributed to the 2nd northernmost dataset in this study :) 🌐🌿☘️
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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🚂 Next stop for #microclimate scientists #Montpellier (France)! 🌊⛰️Between sea and mountains, Montpellier will hold the next MEB conference "MEB2026: Bridging Land and Water Through Microclimate Science" Spread the word 📣 Follow the updates here: @mebconf.bsky.social
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Jeremy Borderieux @jeremborderieux.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
📢| Our latest preprint (and my last PhD chapter) is now peer-reviewed !! We studied how variations in understory temperature change community composition and diversity. Aspect and topographic position promoted cold-adapted species diversity ! 🌿⛰️ You can already read it with the link below
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Florian Schnabel @mixedforests.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Are you interested in #forest microclimate, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning? 🌲🌳🌡️ 🗞️In our new study we show: Tree diversity increases #forest temperature buffering🗞️ doi.org/10.1111/ele.... /w @remybeugnon.bsky.social, @uni-freiburg.de, @unileipzig.bsky.social, @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social
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Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity
Making use of 6 years of microclimate measurements in a large-scale tree diversity experiment covering a species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species, we demonstrate that tree species ....
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Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference @mebconf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We are very happy to announce that the next Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference will happen in Montpellier (FRANCE), 1 - 5 June 2026 ☀️ meb-network.com/meb-2026/ Microclimate scientists: save the date in your agenda!!
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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Setting forests aside doesn’t stir up more trouble—in fact, it calms the chaos 🌳 Happy to see my first PhD chapter out! 📝 Setting aside forests for biodiversity conservation does NOT amplify disturbances in temperate forests of Central Europe. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Setting aside areas for conservation does not increase disturbances in temperate forests
We found no evidence that setting aside forests for biodiversity conservation amplifies disturbances in temperate forests of Central Europe. Conversely, we found that strict forest reserves had lower...
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Florian Altermatt @florianaltermatt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5
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Rémy Beugnon @remybeugnon.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
🌴🌳 Tree species richness increases climate buffering 🌡️🥵 I am so happy to share our latest piece, now published in Ecology Letters! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity
Making use of 6 years of microclimate measurements in a large-scale tree diversity experiment covering a species richness gradient ranging from 1 to 24 tree species, we demonstrate that tree species ...
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Oksana Buzhdygan @oksanabuzh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Paper is out in Ecological Monographs @esajournals.bsky.social Plant diversity facets differentially affect energy dynamics in grasslands depending on trophic contexts doi.org/10.1002/ecm.... Research in @jena-experiment.bsky.social
Grouping of trophic compartments, their biomass stocks (shown by circles), and energy flows among them (shown by arrows) into trophic groups, ecosystem functions, trophic levels, and aboveground (AG) versus belowground (BG) subnetworks. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.70004
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R-Bloggers @r-bloggers.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Creating a Finder Smart Folder of your RStudio Project files to enable super fast project launching "Introduction When I’m switching projects I naturally star..." www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/creating…
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Creating a Finder Smart Folder of your RStudio Project files to enable super fast project launching | R-bloggers
Introduction When I’m switching projects I naturally start with Finder. I’m sure if I became a Terminal warrior there are faster ways of searching for files (e.g. the Television fuzzy finder TUI). And...
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
📖Published📖 In their new research article, Carpenter et al. provide a brief introduction to empirical dynamic modelling (EDM) and use this to develop multiview cross-mapping (MVCM), a novel and robust method for gap filling 🌎 🧪 Read the article here 👇 buff.ly/4i28emQ
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 21/02/2025
‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved. More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:
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Scoop: U.S. delegation pulled from key U.N. climate science meeting
The IPCC meeting in China is slated to determine the content in the group's next series of reports.
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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience let me remind you that we are NOWHERE NEAR parity. A few examples. 1. Women are credited less in science than men. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Women are credited less in science than men - Nature
The difference between the number of men and women listed as authors on scientific papers and inventors on patents is at least partly attributable to unacknowledged contributions by women scientists.
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Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Today, we launch MicroFracNet, a global network exploring how biodiversity varies across SCALES - big and small. 🌍 If you love vegetation and want to be part of something both larger - and smaller - than yourself, join us! Learn more & sign up: the3dlab.org/2025/02/10/m... 📢 Please share widely!
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Department of Geoecology @spacetimeeco.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
if you work with #microclimate and use our #myClim R package (doi.org/10.1111/2041...) you should try our #myClimGUI - a graphical user interface for #myClim, which allows you to quickly visualize, interact with, and edit microclimate data directly from #Rstats labgis.ibot.cas.cz/myclim/gui/a...
Picture from myClimGUI - a graphical user interface for myClim R package for processing microclimate data in R
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Franciska de Vries 🟥 @frantecol.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
What 🤯
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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Here’s what happens to regression 📈 when sample sizes are low… even with a strong underlying correlation, sampling error will erode everything! 🧪 ‼️ #rstats simulation viz via the switchboard package for R
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🔥 Just out 🔥 our paper featuring a method to account for disequilibrium dynamics & time lags in species distribution model #SDM is published in Ecology Letters ⬇️ It outperforms traditional SDMs for 95% of the 92 European forest 🦅 species we tested @etiennelalechere.bsky.social shorturl.at/CVYPw
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Check out our new blog post to find out more about the article 'Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems' by @pieterdefrenne.bsky.social and team! 🌎 🧪 Read the blog here 👉 buff.ly/4h32ybX
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