Jens‐Christian Svenning

Jens-Christian Svenning

@jcsvenning.bsky.social

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Scientist: #biodiversity, #macroecology, #climatechange, #restoration & #rewilding, #novelecosystems, #plants & #vegetation, #megafauna, #human-#nature relations & #remotesensing. Director, https://econovo.au.dk/

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Jens-Christian Svenning is a Danish ecologist, biogeographer and academic. He is a professor at the Department of Biology at Aarhus University, Denmark where he also serves as the director of DNRF Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), established in 2023. .. more

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Jan 1

The evidence for Homo sapiens playing the dominant role in the global #megafauna #extinctions constitutes one of the clearest, well-supported patterns in #ecology. See our 2024 review www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #paleobiology #archeology #hunting #ecosystem #Pleistocene #defaunation #rewilding

The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge Core

The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene - Volume 2

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Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Julie L. Lockwood, Stephen D. Murphy

Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · 12h

Our new paper in Ecology Letters, led by Jan Divíšek, shows that non-invasive alien plant species that successfully establish within local plant communities tend to resemble the resident native species. In contrast, invasive alien species usually differ from native plants.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Julie L. Lockwood

Pablo Garcia-Diaz @pablo-ecology.bsky.social · 19h

Observed and Dark Diversity of Alien Plants Across the World #bioinvasions 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Observed and Dark Diversity of Alien Plants Across the World

Aim Biological invasions are one of the major threats to ecosystems worldwide and are expected to increase further in the future. Prevention and swift responses are crucial to mitigate this threat. .....

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Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Stephen D. Murphy

ECONOVO - DNRF Center of Excellence @econovoau.bsky.social · 20h

#meetECONOVO - @jonastrepel.bsky.social is a PhD researcher working with Robert Buitenwerf, Elizabeth Le Roux and @jcsvenning.bsky.social. His research explores how large herbivores shape vegetation dynamics and plant diversity, including fieldwork in South Africa.

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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 5d

New at Tetrapod Zoology, a brief look at what's surely the world's best known extinct proboscidean: that Ice Age superstar the Woolly mammoth .... tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11... #mammoths #IceAge #Pleistocene #fossilmammals #elephants

A Woolly Mammoth Primer — Tetrapod Zoology

I’ve said before that proboscideans – the familiar group of placental mammals that includes living elephants and their many fossil relatives – have never been well served here at Tet Zoo…

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Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Benjamin I. Cook

Jeff Dukes @dukesjeff.bsky.social · 5d

Just published this new paper, with a bunch of fantastic colleagues, with many suggestions for "Improving the representation of plant water stress and water use in Earth System Models." Access is free online. We have some great figures, thanks to Victor Leshyk. 🧪🌐🌳🌎

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GBIF Morpho 🦋 @gbifmorpho.bsky.social · 5d

New paper by @jcsvenning.bsky.social in @newphyt.bsky.social using @gbif.org mediated data:

Integrating specimen and citizen science data reveals climatic niche expansion and shifts of naturalized plants in China 🇨🇳

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70680

Integrating specimen and citizen science data reveals climatic niche expansion and shifts of naturalized plants in China

This study examines the climatic niche dynamics of naturalized plants in China, emphasizing how incomplete species distribution data from digitized herbarium specimens and associated observation rec...

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 10d

Looking forward to hear your talk & meet 🌿

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Brian J. Enquist , and 4 more Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Brian J. Enquist, Peter M. Cox, Tommaso Jucker, Darío Martin‐Benito, Julen Astigarraga

Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 15d

How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 17d

Neandertalerne og jæger-samler-folket satte ild til: Mennesket formede Europas natur længe før landbruget: bio.au.dk/om-institutt...

Neandertalerne og jæger-samler-folket satte ild til: Mennesket formede Europas natur længe før landbruget

Ny forskning viser, at mennesker satte deres præg på landskabet gennem jagt og ild titusinder af år, før landbruget kom til. Det giver os et nyt billede af fortiden, siger en af forskerne bag det nye ...

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 17d

Fin artikel i Weekendavisen om vores nye studie om hvordan mennesker I Europa (jægersamlere af vores art og neandertalere) påvirkede økosystemerne via jagt og brug af ild 🦣🔥👣🌿 Man kan også læse mere i pressemeddelelsen fra Aarhus University - se link i kommentar💡 #økologi #arkæologi

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Arthur Argles

Peter Cox @coxypm.bsky.social · 18d

Just published, a land-mark paper by Annemarie Eckes-Shephard et al.! It assesses the performance of a new generation of Demography-enabled Dynamic Global Vegetation (D-DGVMs), that attempt to simulate the changing size and age structure of trees in forests.

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 19d

Illustration: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ho...

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 19d

🔥See our new paper led by @nikulinaav.bsky.social
People shaped Europe’s #ecosystems long before farming
🦣#Megafauna effects on #vegetation openness dropped from 77%→57% bt #Eemian & #Mesolithic
🧑‍🦱Mesolithic people shaped up to 47% of landscapes w Neanderthals affecting 6–14%
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Fernando T. Maestre, Meelis Pärtel , and 2 more Jens‐Christian Svenning, Fernando T. Maestre, Meelis Pärtel, Alicia Valdés, Alba Anadon‐Rosell

The International Association for Vegetation Science @iavs5.bsky.social · 20d

📢 68th #IAVS Symposium: Understanding #Ecosystems through #Vegetation | 22-26 June 2026, Spain

Join us to explore how vegetation shapes #biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide!

📅 Call for Special Session proposals is now open: 15 Oct – 15 Nov 2025
👉 Details: gijon2026.iavs-meetings.org
#IAVS2026

IAVS Symposium 2026, Thematic 'Understanding Ecosystems Through Vegetation'.

Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 20d

Cool - big congratulations!

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Kasper Green Larsen @kasperglarsen.bsky.social · 21d

CS at Aarhus University is hiring up to six professors of any rank and area! Come join my section and do cutting-edge research in TCS, database systems and/or ML/AI, both from a theory and applied side.

international.au.dk/about/profil...

The application deadline is January 5th, 2026.

Aarhus University is hiring Assistant, Associate and Full Professors for the Department of Computer Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Computer Science, Dept. of, Aarhus University

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Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis , and 19 more Jens‐Christian Svenning, Oliver L. Phillips, Simon L. Lewis, Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Mathias Disney, Pieter A. Zuidema, Patrick A. Jansen, Stephen D. Murphy, Tommaso Jucker, Markus P. Eichhorn, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Ferran Sayol, Darío Martin‐Benito, Shan Kothari, Joan Dudney, Joshua S. Lynn, Jonathan von Oppen, Karl Andraczek, Orlando Schwery, Jonas Trepel, Benjamin Wildermuth

Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 21d

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

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Phil Riris @thearchaeologist.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 "Investigating pre-Columbian floristic legacy effects using machine learning in the southern Atlantic Forest, Brazil"

We demonstrate that SDMs in this critically endangered biome are measurably improved by using archaeological data

www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

Frontiers | Investigating pre-Columbian floristic legacy effects using machine learning in the southern Atlantic Forest, Brazil

The scope and scale of past human impacts on both historic and current vegetation is of widespread interest in the historical sciences. In the Atlantic Fores...

www.frontiersin.org

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 21d

This is the oldest surviving spherical representation of Earth, created in 1492. It's so old that the entirety of the Americas are missing, and other parts of the world are pretty hazy.

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Anastasia Nikulina @nikulinaav.bsky.social · 21d

How did #Neanderthals use #fire to hunt?🔥
Our new conceptual agent-based #model simulates their fire-driven hunting strategies around the Neumark-Nord site in Germany. Available here 👉 www.comses.net/codebases/86...

HUMLAND FIRE-IN-THE-HOLE agent-based model

HUMLAND Fire-in-the-Hole is a conceptual agent-based model (ABM) designed to explore the ecological and behavioral consequences of fire-driven hunting strategies employed by hunter-gatherers, specific...

www.comses.net

Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 21d

Read more here: www.the-guild.eu/africa-europ...

Integrative Conservation Biology Research and Training - Africa-Europe CoRE

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 21d

Excited about the new Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence (CoRE) on Integrative #Conservation Biology w focus on the #savanna and #Afromontane region from Ethiopia to South Africa -great to have @econovoau.bsky.social @au.dk part of this🌍🌳🗻🦓♨️
#AfricaEuropeCoRE #climatechange #sustainability

The Guild @guildeu.bsky.social · 21d

🌍 The Guild and ARUA are delighted to announce the latest addition to the #AfricaEuropeCoRE with the launch of the CoRE on 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴

Learn more here ➡️ www.the-guild.eu/africa-europ...

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The Guild @guildeu.bsky.social · 21d

Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks for having me, Herbert!

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Herbert Nickel @herbertnickel.bsky.social · 22d

Prof. Jens-Christian Svenning's inspiring talk held 2 weeks ago for Naturnahe Weidelandschaften e.V. is online now. No one else can argue as clearly & precisely for integrating grazers into modern conservaton. Great thanks to you, Jens!
@jcsvenning.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHS...

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Fernando T. Maestre, James M. Bullock , and 2 more Jens‐Christian Svenning, Fernando T. Maestre, James M. Bullock, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Stephanie Schelfhout

SAOCousins @saocousins.bsky.social · 25d

New paper out 🥳
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@stockholm-uni.bsky.social