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We are looking for new PhD students and postdocs! We are opening positions in: Fungal biogeography: kohoutlab.com/wp-content/upl… Mycorrhizal fungal biogeography: kohoutlab.com/wp-content/upl… Post-fire microbial ecology: kohoutlab.com/wp-content/upl… Join us in Prague!

The lack of evidence for declining local diversity through time must be because everything is homogenizing, leading to larger-scale losses. Right?! Nope, says our analysis of 500+ meta-communities through time published Science Advances iDiv Biodiversity Research science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Fancy doing PhD in vegetation science in Vienna with Franz Essl + Stefan Dullinger (with us as external collaborators)? 👇

Hledáme technika pro zpracování dat, na poloviční úvazek FŽP ČZU v Praze. Pružná pracovní doba, mezinárodní kolektiv. Nutná Angličtina, zájem o přírodní vědy, schopnost práce s daty Excelu. Výhoda je GIS, R, Python. Detaily a instukce k přihlášení: petrkeil.github.io/news/2024/03/0…

I used multi-response phylogenetic mixed models to quantify the link between plant functional traits and range size/shape in European trees. The OA article is available here: doi.org/10.1111/geb.13… Thanks to GEB Journal editors & reviewers!

First paper related to my project #COCOS out in Journal of Ecology! We used time-series of plant biomass from the Biodiversity Exploratories Research to assess how biodiversity🌱relates to grassland resistance and recovery under extreme drought🔥 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Department of Spatial Sciences doi.org/10.1111/1365-2… More info👇

🚨 Commentary PNASNews 🚨 Birds of North America are shifting poleward at fast speed west of the 100th meridian west but not east of it! The continental divide in range shifting birds of North America ⬇️ Fantastic study by Martins et al. 🏔 matter shorturl.at/etzZ0

New preprint: Big analysis of recruitment and loss, and their derivatives, in US birds by François Leroy and @majarzyna. Species which are doing well may still undergo decline of recruitment. Preventing loss may not be enough, we also need to enhance recruitment. ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vie…

New preprint: Our attempt to link local individual-level ecological processes (Allee effect, Janzen-Connell hypothesis) with different rates of species loss at different spatial scales (thnx to Adam Clark, François Leroy, Vojtěch Barták): biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

On the blog🔎 If #biodiversity begets stability, will more diverse #grasslands be better at resisting & recovering from the effects of drought? ManueleBazzichetto jecologyblog.com/2024/04/15/bio…

Our Report article on ReSurveyEurope, a new and the largest European database of vegetation data from permanent plots and resurvey studies, has just been published in the Journal of Vegetation Science doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13…… @jvegsci IAVS Vegetation Science Blog #vegetation #biodiversity

Press release on our study of the changes in Czech flora since 1960: sci.muni.cz/en/current-new……Czech version: muni.cz/pro-media/tisk…

Value quality over quantity: The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/the… prostřednictvím Dynamic Ecology

Job offer! We are looking for a *postdoc* in biodiversity science, macroecology, ecol. modelling, stats. In Prague, Czech Republic, FŽP ČZU v Praze, 2 years (with possible extension), ERC-funded, 66,000 CZK/m gross. More info and application instructions: petrkeil.github.io/news/2024/06/1…

Living Planet Index "suffers from several mathematical and statistical issues, leading to a bias towards an apparent decrease even for balanced populations. The claim that vertebrate populations declined by 70% since 1970 is thus unsubstantiated". Source: communities.springernature.com/posts/the-livi…

Is fragmentation bad or good for biodiversity? Yes! We use a classical competition-colonization metacommunity model to show that fragmentation can increase or decrease diversity depending on the total amount of habitat in the landscape. iDiv Biodiversity Research Universität Halle (inaktiv) nature.com/articles/s4155…

Still time to apply for a postdoc with us! We've extended the application deadline to 30th of July. Details here: petrkeil.github.io/news/2024/06/1…

Combining multiple lines of evidence in cutting-edge probabilistic models, we found alarming declines of local occupancy and range size in several species of charismatic Neotropical carnivores, some of them not considered threatened by IUCN. Check out Flo's new paper!

To all reviewers playing the classic "the English should be checked by a native speaker" card: (1) Are you really sure it wasn't? (2) English in scientific papers needs to be understandable and just "good enough", not 100% correct.

Can 19th-century land use still influence today’s grasslands? Our research suggests it can—though the effects are subtle! Led by Gabri Midolo, our new article in Landscape Ecology explores how historical land use shapes the plant composition of current grasslands. We studied