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Dave Klinges

@thenaturedave.bsky.social
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Asst Prof Rutgers University...climate change ecology, catching frogs in trees, microclimate, ecophysiology, tropical ecology, Madagascar, things in-between. He/him. ecoclimateglobal.org

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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Neat dataset, we need more benchmarks like this!
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Thrilled that our Review in TREE is now the cover article-- featuring one of my favorite species from Madagascar, the neon day gecko! Gorgeous lil guys. And we hope this review will be useful for the community: lessons learned on matching climate to biological scales www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
As someone trained as both a field ecologist and quantitative scientist, this tension runs deep for me. Some of my group are entrenched in the field whereas others work with models for a living. ‘I rarely get outside’: scientists ditch fieldwork in the age of AI www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/4
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
New paper in TREE: we propose a framework to think more clearly about the scale of climate exposure of organisms—and why mismatches between climate data and biology can mislead ecological inference. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... @ilyamaclean.bsky.social @ecophys.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social
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Matching climate to biological scales
Recent advances in climate modeling and remote sensing have increased the expectation that finer-grained climate data will improve biological relevance. However, the appropriate scale for biology depe...
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This is how scientific discourse should operate. A respectful + insightful comment by Tomas Uxa on the limits of ML from @jlembrechts.bsky.social's high-impact paper, yet still celebrating it. In return, Jonas applauds Tomas for his detective work. Well done, Tomas and Jonas! A model for us all.
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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Early 🎄🎁: TWO interdisciplinary, funded PhDs! One w me as lead - ecosystem & human health outcomes of Biodiversity Net Gain w @northwildlife.bsky.social & Dr Auriba Raza @glasgow.ac.uk. Other led by Dr Katrin Prager @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social looking at nature markets for small-scale organic growers
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Our review outlining how we can better use climate data for understanding ecology and evolution— now published in TREE! I’ll give it a rundown after the holidays.
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A really important & fascinating contribution led by @lysoifer.bsky.social-- the concept of "climate velocities" has been around for 15 years, but for the first time she shows how different velocities are when 1) you consider microclimate and 2) consider 3D structure of vegetation. Check it out!
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
(Plz share) We're hiring! 5-year PhD student to join our new lab at Rutgers University. Broadly, exploring how climate change impacts terrestrial species, ecosystems and biodiversity – compute, field, or lab! See here: ecoclimateglobal.org/join/ (hiring a 2-yr postdoc too, more news on that soon)
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Join the Lab
Current Opportunities Please see below for current and upcoming opportunities to join the group. We always welcome inquiries from motivated potential members with research interests that fit our group...
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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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Erin Sauer @sauerscientist.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Excited to share the news that I have accepted a TT assistant professor position at @rutgersuniversity.bsky.social in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources! I will be recruiting a postdoc and grad students soon for my wildlife disease ecology lab, so check back in here!
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Great to have this one finally out-- our open-access workflow for optimized deployment of microclimate networks! Collab b/w ecologists, data scientists and computational engineers. Check out the GitHub repo for the R software (soon to be a package): github.com/dklinges9/Mi...
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GitHub - dklinges9/Microclimate-Sensor-Networks: A program for selecting sites for microclimate sensors (or other types of environmental sensors) across a landscape.
A program for selecting sites for microclimate sensors (or other types of environmental sensors) across a landscape. - dklinges9/Microclimate-Sensor-Networks
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Thrilled to have accepted a TT faculty position in the Dept of Ecology, Evolution & Natural Resources at Rutgers ‪@rutgersuniversity.bsky.social‬! Keen on climate change ecology, Madagascar, amphibians, range shifts? Visit our lab website & watch for upcoming PhD + postdoc ads! ecoclimateglobal.org
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The capstone paper from our community-based wildlife monitoring project in Madagascar, led by @lysoifer.bsky.social : employing local communities is more cost effective than hiring just scientists, even when you put a high premium on quality biodiversity data BioCon paper: tinyurl.com/53h6vx84 (1/4)
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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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Rebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
I FOUND IT. I once read a great line about how weather station data are only useful for things living on the weather station. I wanted to cite it but could never remember the damn paper! By sheer luck, it found me. From @mikekaspari.bsky.social in @globalchangebio.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2jyd4z72
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Karen R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
In response to climate change #CC, #species #shift in many dimensions, moving in space along many climatic clines, including #microclimatic ones (horizontally & vertically) & adjusting their #phenology & #behaviour in time 🧪🌐🌍🍁🌳🌲🌴🦔🦅🦎🐝🦐🦑🐠🦈🐋 @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social shorturl.at/W9fGd
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF: Dear members: The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I wish I could say I can’t believe this. But I guess I could.
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Ethan White @ethanwhite.weecology.org · 14/04/2025
"Under the agreement being pursued by the University of Florida, participating officers would have the authority to interrogate “any alien or person believed to be an alien” about their right to remain in the country, as well as the power to make arrests without a warrant in some cases."
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UF, other Florida universities to deputize campus police for immigration enforcement
The police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus.
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Worth a visit at the Yale Peabody for those in the New Haven area!
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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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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Trying to confirm. This is terrible for so many reasons
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Need some excitement for research these days? Look no further than our most recent (open-access) paper in PeerJ: the exhilarating study of marsh snail grazing behaviors! But, these are RAVE snails....see the video supplement: 1/7 peerj.com/articles/190...
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Interrupting our doom-scrolling with a ray of ☀️ that was Orlando's @oacevedocharry.bsky.social wonderful seminar (to a packed room!) on his PhD work, from fusing standardized surveys + citizen science for improved population viability analysis, to global island biogeography. Check out his work!
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Of course many federal workers can just “find another job”. But the point is that the jobs we do are done for the *public good*. There are no private sector corollaries. We do things that are largely not profitable and that is on purpose. We do work that benefits everyone, if sometimes indirectly.
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 06/02/2025
I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?
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Scott Goetz @sjgoetz.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
🧪🌍🦤🦑🌐 🐋 Consider submitting your coolest / best / latest research, especially on large / global / macroscale ecology, to nonprofit IOP Publishing’s Environmental Research Ecology. publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/journals/env...
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About Environmental Research: Ecology - IOPscience - Publishing Support
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If you haven’t yet, considering following the Global Ecology Starter Pack! bsky.app/starter-pack... And if you do ecology at scale, simply DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Very pleased to see that #microclimates are finally making their way & infusing into #biogeography 😍 If you want to learn more on microclimate processes, then you will be in very good hands 😉 w/ ⬇️ @thenaturedave.bsky.social
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
My final PhD chapter published in FEE (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment): re-mapping Köppen-Geiger climate zones, but now using microclimate! Very excited to have this one out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Michael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The late Eric Pianka made thousands of observations of desert lizard body temperature and activity. We used them to test biophysical models of their cost of living and projected the models to past and future climates in Africa and Australia #unimelb #ARC @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Climate change and the cost-of-living squeeze in desert lizards
Climate warming can induce a cost-of-living “squeeze” in ectotherms by increasing energetic expenditures while reducing foraging gains. We used biophysical models (validated by 2685 field observations...
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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025
NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.
Ridgeline chart showing the distribution of global daily air temperature differences from the pre-industrial reference period (1850-1900), for every year between 1940 and 2024. Each individual year resembles a hill, shaded in a darker shade of red and further to the right for warmer years. The trend is clearly towards warmer years, with 2024 standing out as first year above 1.5C.
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Great work from UF colleagues: the potential for invasion from the exotic pet trade in the USA (cover photo article in FEE!) CRAZY amount of work visiting pet stores and expos across the nation, to ID what species might escape & establish. Check out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Invasion risk posed by the pet trade
The legal trade in exotic pets is linked to the establishment of nonnative species and climate change compounds the risk of invasion, overwhelming management efforts. We characterized the world's lar...
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Speaking about #proximal #microclimate conditions & what it means in terms of #spatiotemporal scales relevant for your study organism, I strongly recommend Dave's amazing paper ⬇️ @thenaturedave.bsky.social shorturl.at/aj2Dt
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Proximal microclimate: Moving beyond spatiotemporal resolution improves ecological predictions
Aim The scale of environmental data is often defined by their extent (spatial area, temporal duration) and resolution (grain size, temporal interval). Although describing climate data scale via thes...
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Thrilled this one's out, can be of use to all ecologists. The future of 'microclimate ecology' is just 'ecology', as we should all consider microclimates! Truly collaborative effort w/ strong leadership @pieterdefrenne.bsky.social , @kvanmeerbeek.bsky.social , @jlembrechts.bsky.social & core team!
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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Species #response #curves to 🌡 to derive #thermal #performances are usually fitted against T°C data from #weather #stations, right? Yet, how many #forest species live next to a weather station? None! Lets derive affinity to forests' microclimates ⬇️ @journalofecology.bsky.social shorturl.at/rEMVU
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The affinity of vascular plants and bryophytes to forest microclimate buffering
Understorey plants have a species-specific affinity to the forest microclimate, which we quantify for the first time. The investigation of species response curves to microclimate processes—buffering ...
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The 2nd paper (open-access!) from our community-based wildlife monitoring project in collab with Madagascar National Parks: how effective are local villagers at detecting & identifying birds, mammals, reptiles & frogs across 6 parks, relative to Malagasy taxonomic experts? 1/3 tinyurl.com/4p9nc398
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Community-sourced knowledge improves biodiversity monitoring in Madagascar’s National Parks - Discover Conservation
Local community members can contribute to biodiversity conservation, especially for rural yet critically biodiverse locations such as in Southern Madagascar. While collaborations with local communitie...
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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 26/11/2024
You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
And now, my photo was chosen for the cover of the recent issue of Proc B! A beautiful Scaphiophryne spinosa, perhaps my all-time favorite frog who could not love this lil mossy dude fun fact: some Scaphiophryne sp. are both arboreal and fossorial. crazy royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rspb/cur...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 291, No 2035
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Interested in microclimate ecology? Hop over to our Microclimate Ecology starter pack. DM me and I'll add you in!
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
New paper! Published open access today in Proceedings B. Proud to say that this one merges several of my key research specialties: microclimate modeling, thermal ecology/physiological theory, Madagascar, and climbing rainforest trees to catch frogs 🐸 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Seems an appropriate Hello World is to link back to my profile hosted on The Website Formerly Known as Twitter: x.com/thenaturedave
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