Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Neat dataset, we need more benchmarks like this! 031
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Thrilled 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... 052
Reposted by Dave KlingesRobert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 11/01/2026As 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... 1/4nature.comClient Challenge 1209
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 08/01/2026New 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.socialcell.comMatching climate to biological scalesRecent 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... 13318
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 24/12/2025This 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. 0134
Reposted by Dave KlingesRebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Early 🎄🎁: 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 131
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Our 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. 0137
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 27/11/2025A 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! 031
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)ecoclimateglobal.orgJoin the LabCurrent 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... 11010
Reposted by Dave KlingesJonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · 16/08/2025New 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...the3dlab.orgHow to set up your own microclimate networkBack 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… 22512
Reposted by Dave KlingesErin Sauer @sauerscientist.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Excited 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! 5283
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Great 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...github.comGitHub - 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 053
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Thrilled 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 5343
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 02/07/2025The 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) 100
Reposted by Dave KlingesJonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · 31/05/2025The 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...the3dlab.orgSoilTemp 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 … 14117
Reposted by Dave KlingesRebecca Senior @rebeccasenior.bsky.social · 11/05/2025I 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 1294
Reposted by Dave KlingesKaren R. Lips @karenrlips.bsky.social · 10/05/2025www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgNSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuringSmaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff 001
Reposted by Dave KlingesJonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 09/05/2025In 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 13013
Reposted by Dave KlingesDaniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Thread 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. 4182159
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/04/2025I wish I could say I can’t believe this. But I guess I could. 000
Reposted by Dave KlingesEthan 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."wuft.orgUF, other Florida universities to deputize campus police for immigration enforcementThe police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus. 278
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Worth a visit at the Yale Peabody for those in the New Haven area! 020
Reposted by Dave KlingesMicroclimate Ecology & Biogeography (MEB) conference @mebconf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025We 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!! 23427
Reposted by Dave KlingesEmilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Trying to confirm. This is terrible for so many reasons 1145
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Need 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... 221
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Interrupting 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! 0112
Reposted by Dave Klingesgavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Of 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. 331984
Reposted by Dave KlingesHannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 06/02/2025I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others? 20891206
Reposted by Dave KlingesScott 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...publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.orgAbout Environmental Research: Ecology - IOPscience - Publishing Support 044
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 31/01/2025If 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 020
Reposted by Dave KlingesJonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Very 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 1103
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 21/01/2025My 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... 37426
Reposted by Dave KlingesMichael Kearney @ecophys.bsky.social · 16/01/2025The 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/...science.orgClimate change and the cost-of-living squeeze in desert lizardsClimate 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... 14213
Reposted by Dave KlingesErwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/01/2025NEW: 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. 20958802764
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Great 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...onlinelibrary.wiley.comInvasion risk posed by the pet tradeThe 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... 032
Reposted by Dave KlingesJonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Speaking 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/aj2Dtshorturl.atProximal microclimate: Moving beyond spatiotemporal resolution improves ecological predictionsAim 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... 1152
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Thrilled 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! 191
Reposted by Dave KlingesJonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Species #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/rEMVUshorturl.atThe affinity of vascular plants and bryophytes to forest microclimate bufferingUnderstorey 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 ... 49125
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 27/11/2024The 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/4p9nc398tinyurl.comCommunity-sourced knowledge improves biodiversity monitoring in Madagascar’s National Parks - Discover ConservationLocal community members can contribute to biodiversity conservation, especially for rural yet critically biodiverse locations such as in Southern Madagascar. While collaborations with local communitie... 291
Reposted by Dave KlingesRose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 26/11/2024You 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 🦋 20939501290
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 20/11/2024And 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...royalsocietypublishing.orgProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 291, No 2035 0132
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Interested in microclimate ecology? Hop over to our Microclimate Ecology starter pack. DM me and I'll add you in! 1062
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 13/11/2024New 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/... 2234
Dave Klinges @thenaturedave.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Seems an appropriate Hello World is to link back to my profile hosted on The Website Formerly Known as Twitter: x.com/thenaturedavex.comx.com 030