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Julen Astigarraga
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Ecology, forests, global change, biogeography, rstats, data science | Ekosistemetan ematen diren aldaketak ulertzeko ahaleginean

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Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Martin Ehbrecht, Julen Astigarraga , and 2 more

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 1d
Central Europe has seen unprecedented forest disturbances recently, but how are forests recovering? We surveyed disturbance hotspots in 10 countries 3-5 years after disturbance, finding ample tree regeneration and no signs of forest loss (median 4750 stems/ha), but... 1/2 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 7d
🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update.

On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R

📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K...

#RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪
What's new in the world of Generalized Additive Models
YouTube video by Bottom of the Heap
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Reposted by Cornelius Senf, Martin Ehbrecht, Julen Astigarraga , and 1 more

eoem-tum.bsky.social
Earth Observation for Ecosystem Management at TUM @eoem-tum.bsky.social · 8d
New paper by @albavianasoto.bsky.social and @corneliussenf.bsky.social on forest reburns in southern Europe, published in Glob. Ecol. and Biogeography🌲🔥
Highlight: 30.1% of burned forest area experiencing multiple fire events since 1985.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Tobias Kuemmerle, Hans Henrik Bruun , and 8 more

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 12d
Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳
Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction - Nature Plants
This study finds that native tree extinctions and alien naturalizations are pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species. This global shift could affect carbon storage and ecosyste...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Neil Pederson, Peter Brown , and 2 more

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Steve Voelker @thetreecorener.bsky.social · 14d
Led by Roel Brienen, our paper in @natcomms.nature.com "Contrasting pathways to tree longevity in gymnosperms and angiosperms" is finally out and formatted.

Other bluesky folks contributing to the paper were @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social and @rmtrr.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Contrasting pathways to tree longevity in gymnosperms and angiosperms - Nature Communications
Tree longevity is thought to increase in harsh environments, but global evidence of drivers is lacking. Here, the authors find two different pathways for tree longevity: slow growth in resource limite...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 17d
Carbon dioxide fertilization drives about 45% of US forest carbon uptake, 66 teragrams of carbon per year, while changes in tree age composition contribute 89 teragrams per year, according to plot-level data from 14 forests. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/P0Tz50Y1Mgh
Aerial view of Douglas fir in Oregon. Stock photo.

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Mathias Disney, Pieter A. Zuidema , and 7 more

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 18d
Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes.

Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

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The R Data Scientist @rstats.blaze.email · 18d
futurize: Parallelize Common Functions via a "Magic" Touch 🪄

https://www.jottr.org/2026/01/22/futurize-0.1.0/

#rstats #datascience
futurize: Parallelize Common Functions via a "Magic" Touch 🪄
Summary: Futurize unifies parallel execution in R, enabling common functions like lapply, map, and foreach to run concurrently via a single interface.
www.jottr.org

Reposted by Simon J. Greenhill, Ingo Rohlfing, Julen Astigarraga

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Sebastian Karcher @adam42smith.bsky.social · 19d
Zotero 8 is out in stable: www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-8/
A bunch of new stuff -- the new citation dialog especially is a huge (and long overdue) improvement; massively speeds up anything I do in Word/GDocs with Zotero
Zotero Blog » Blog Archive » Zotero 8
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
www.zotero.org

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Antonio J. Pérez‐Luque, Darío Martin‐Benito , and 2 more

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Nadine Ruehr @nadineruehr.bsky.social · 19d
We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher!🌲 🌳 🌍

📍Interested in boreal and temperate forest productivity and respiration?
💻 Like to work with large datasets, remote sensing and models?
🏔️ Love an alpine setting in a small town?

Come and join us at KIT!

Application details: t1p.de/qctj7

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Jonathan Lenoir , and 8 more

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 24d
Massive update to the Global Wood Density Database out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer. What an amazing community resource!
🧪🍁🌐

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reposted by Sylvain Genevois, Julen Astigarraga

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Dr Anna Lombardi @annalombardi.bsky.social · 27d
In the @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social Global Climate Highlights 2025 report we used #dataviz to present its key messages and bring them to a wider audience. This first example shows daily temperature anomalies from 1940 to 2025 and it was inspired by the work of @erwanrivault.com (BBC)

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

forestplots.bsky.social
ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 29d
Forest Diversity, Biodemography and Global Change post-doc opportunity, ERC project led by Lalasia Bialic-Murphy apply.refline.ch/273855/1824/...
Individuals with skills in demographic or species distribution modeling, large language models or functional trait interpolation are encouraged to apply.
apply.refline.ch

Reposted by Antonio J. Pérez‐Luque, Julen Astigarraga, Cristina Ronquillo

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Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · 29d
Esperamos que hayáis comenzado el año con fuerza porque se viene la vuelta de los 'Seminarios de Ecoinformática' 😍

¡Apunten en su agenda que nos vemos el próximo 22 de enero! ⬇️

🟢Miguel Sevilla IPE-CSIC
OpenStreetMap: cartografía libre de acceso, uso y contribución
Link: shorturl.at/G9efC
#Science

Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Mathias Disney, Stephen D. Murphy , and 3 more

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Jan 7
In C Europe, there is a push to align forest management more closely with natural processes, but is this "closer-to-nature" management able to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services? Great synthesis led by @anastritih.bsky.social with input from many leading experts! doi.org/10.1007/s407...

Reposted by Joan Dudney, Julen Astigarraga

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Daniel Moreno Fernández @foresrock.bsky.social · Jan 7
Hemos empezado el año con un artículo nuevo, y este es muy bonito

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

"Summer aridity modulates tree growth response to thinning in Mediterranean pines"

Vamos con el primer hilo del año (1/13)
@csicdivulga.bsky.social
#SoyForestal

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Richard Betts , and 7 more

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Jan 6
New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures
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Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent
Nature Plants - Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as...
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Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Francis Martin, Julen Astigarraga , and 1 more

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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · Jan 2
New online! Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments
Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 02 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00112-2Experiments manipulating tree species diversity and measuring effects on ecosystem function have been important tools for assessing how biodiverse forests can accumulate biomass, store carbon and help to meet climate goals. This Review summarizes key findings from global tree biodiversity experiments.
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Reposted by Christine N. Meynard, Julen Astigarraga, Xavier Serra‐Maluquer

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · Dec 31
Living on the edge – physiological tolerance to frost and drought explains range limits of 35 European tree species vist.ly/4k79q #LT50 #P50 #SDM

Reposted by Pol Capdevila, Julen Astigarraga

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Julia G. de Aledo @juliagdealedo.bsky.social · Dec 22
🎉 labeleR-paper has been published in @ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social!
👪 Together with @iramosgutierrez.bsky.social @jimenamateomartin.bsky.social & @frodsan.bsky.social!
📃 We briefly explain how to use it, its advantages and possibilities... Take a look! revistaecosistemas.net/index.php/ec...

Reposted by Antonio J. Pérez‐Luque, Julen Astigarraga, Cristina Ronquillo

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Ecoinformática AEET @ecoinf-aeet.bsky.social · Dec 22
¿No te ha tocado la lotería?

¡Pues no te preocupes porque desde el grupo de Ecoinformática hemos estado preparando algo especial!🎄

🎁 Sabemos que os habéis portado genial este año, así que qué mejor que comenzar el 2026 apuntándote al taller de elaboración de paquetes de R 🚀
shorturl.at/N6J3V
https://shorturl.at/N6J3V

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

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Marion Campbell @marionkcampbell.bsky.social · Dec 22
It’s the run up to the holidays so there can only be one #MethodologyMonday topic - the scientific way to cut your Christmas cake. Published c1906 in Nature by the statistician Francis Galton 🎂🎄🔪😊 Enjoy!
galton.org/essays/1900-...

Reposted by Paolo Crosetto, Ondřej Mottl, Julen Astigarraga

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Jem Arnold @jemarnold.bsky.social · Dec 16
{ggview} can print plots to Viewer (Rstudio or Positron) with true scaling. Adjust plot settings and see the final proportions immediately.

Save the plot once 👌

e.g.:
ggplot(...) +
ggview::canvas(width = 220, height = 220*2/3, units = "mm", dpi = 300)

per @nrennie.bsky.social #datavis #rstats

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Julia Koricheva, Garry Peterson , and 21 more

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · Dec 16
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Darío Martin‐Benito, Julen Astigarraga

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Antonio J. Pérez-Luque @ajpelu.bsky.social · Dec 16
🧵 1/5 New paper out at @jappliedecology.bsky.social

We evaluate how #carbon allocation strategies determine the long-term carbon sink potential of large-scale pine reforestations under climate change. We combined #RemoteSensing and #dendrochronological plots

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Reposted by Julen Astigarraga

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BayesAna(Anabel Forte) @bayesana.bsky.social · Dec 15
¿Te apetece venirte a trabajar conmigo en Valencia? Tengo una oferta para ti
🚀 Postdoc júnior en la UV (metodología bayesiana: selección/ponderación de modelos).
🗓️ Solicitudes: 9–22 dic 2025.
👉 Info/solicitud: www.uv.es/uvweb/servei...
CPI-25-768
www.uv.es

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Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · Dec 13
🚨New paper!🚨 Models predict trees like beech will migrate north as climate warms, but rarely consider tree reproduction. Jessie shows these “refuges” are exactly where climate warming will disrupt seed production the most. They may not be such great climate refuges after all.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Reposted by Emilio Vilanova, Pablo García‐Díaz, Alicia Valdés , and 1 more

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · Dec 11
Comment article: Matthew Fagan, Naomi Schwartz and Ruth DeFries offer three considerations on uncertainties and potential misapplications of global datasets to ensure responsible use of remote-sensing datasets in ecology and environmental science.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The responsible use of global remote-sensing datasets - Nature Ecology & Evolution
In this age of abundant remote-sensing data, global datasets are increasingly relied upon to analyse the planet at unprecedented scale and resolution. We offer three considerations on uncertainties an...
www.nature.com

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Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez @frodsan.bsky.social · Dec 9
7ª ed. del curso 'Optimizando #Rstats para el análisis de datos en Ecología'

4-8 mayo 2026, Jaca, Huesca

www.aeet.org/events/2026/...
Contenidos del curso

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Harriet Mason @harriet-mason.bsky.social · Dec 6
HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN!

harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in...

You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats