Baptiste Wijas
@bapswijas.bsky.social
PostDoc @caryinstitute.bsky.social. Ecologist, Birder, Termite enthusiast: trying to understand how animals influence carbon cycling from regional to global scales.
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Baptiste Wijas
@bapswijas.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Want to know more about the current state of the science on Role of Deadwood in the Carbon Cycle: check out our Annual Reviews! doi.org/10.1146/annu...
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🪵 Diameter drives short-term biomass gains, but long-term carbon storage hinges on wood density, especially in humid forests. To improve accuracy, biomass models should account for radial wood density variation and climate ☁️
🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/kZFoh9B
🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/kZFoh9B
October 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🪵 Diameter drives short-term biomass gains, but long-term carbon storage hinges on wood density, especially in humid forests. To improve accuracy, biomass models should account for radial wood density variation and climate ☁️
🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/kZFoh9B
🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/kZFoh9B
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Postdoctoral researcher in Aotearoa New Zealand - remote sensing and fuel moisture modelling.
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Postdoctoral – Remote Sensing & Fuel Moisture Modelling - Scion - Careers at Science New Zealand
careers.sciencenewzealand.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Postdoctoral researcher in Aotearoa New Zealand - remote sensing and fuel moisture modelling.
careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a...
careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a...
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We are looking for a new postdoc to join a collaborative team at Indiana University. We are working to reduce bias in estimates of forest carbon uptake at local to global scales. Deadline for best consideration is November 15, 2025. More details below!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30636
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30636
Postdoctoral Research Scholar - Forest Carbon
We are seeking a highly-motivated postdoctoral fellow to conduct research focused on reducing bias and uncertainty in the measurement and monitoring of forest carbon uptake from local to global scales...
indiana.peopleadmin.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We are looking for a new postdoc to join a collaborative team at Indiana University. We are working to reduce bias in estimates of forest carbon uptake at local to global scales. Deadline for best consideration is November 15, 2025. More details below!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30636
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30636
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On Oct 24 @ 7pm ET, Cary scientist Amy Zanne, in conversation with Cary President Josh Ginsberg, will bring guests into the rich and often unseen world of dead trees. For more information + to register: caryinstitute.org/events
October 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
On Oct 24 @ 7pm ET, Cary scientist Amy Zanne, in conversation with Cary President Josh Ginsberg, will bring guests into the rich and often unseen world of dead trees. For more information + to register: caryinstitute.org/events
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Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates?
Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social!
More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...
#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social!
More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...
#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
September 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates?
Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social!
More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...
#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social!
More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...
#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
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After several years studying grasses and forbs in Yellowstone National Park in the US, researchers have formally documented the power of bison as nature’s own fertilizing agents. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
How bison boost the nitrogen cycle—and create healthier plants
The large herbivores stimulate plant growth by cycling carbon and nitrogen in the soils of Yellowstone National Park, showing benefits of free-roaming wildlife
cen.acs.org
September 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
After several years studying grasses and forbs in Yellowstone National Park in the US, researchers have formally documented the power of bison as nature’s own fertilizing agents. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
Great PhD Opportunity based at UNSW Sydney to do work in Australia's beautiful aridlands. Studying all things from bugs to mammals that live out there. Opportunity to learn transferable skills such as remote sensing and DNA metabarcoding.
Contact Mike Letnic: m.letnic@unsw.edu.au if interested.
Contact Mike Letnic: m.letnic@unsw.edu.au if interested.
August 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Great PhD Opportunity based at UNSW Sydney to do work in Australia's beautiful aridlands. Studying all things from bugs to mammals that live out there. Opportunity to learn transferable skills such as remote sensing and DNA metabarcoding.
Contact Mike Letnic: m.letnic@unsw.edu.au if interested.
Contact Mike Letnic: m.letnic@unsw.edu.au if interested.
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🌎 My first paper is out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! We propose the Interaction Opportunists Hypothesis: changes in biotic interactions may drive species downhill, equatorward, or to shallower waters under #ClimateChange. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #RangeShifts #Ecology
Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions
Climate change is expected to drive species uphill, poleward or into deeper waters. Yet many are shifting in toward the equator, downhill or to shallower waters, which is opposite to the expected dir...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
🌎 My first paper is out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! We propose the Interaction Opportunists Hypothesis: changes in biotic interactions may drive species downhill, equatorward, or to shallower waters under #ClimateChange. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #RangeShifts #Ecology
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A long-term experiment highlights the potency of top-down forcing in African savannas, suggesting impressive robustness to drought, and underscoring the value of multi-decadal experiments for disentangling interactions among multiple drivers of ecosystem dynamics. 🌍 buff.ly/7dVuVQS
July 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
A long-term experiment highlights the potency of top-down forcing in African savannas, suggesting impressive robustness to drought, and underscoring the value of multi-decadal experiments for disentangling interactions among multiple drivers of ecosystem dynamics. 🌍 buff.ly/7dVuVQS
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Thrilled to announce our webinar series:
🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱
We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts.
Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!
🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱
We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts.
Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!
June 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Thrilled to announce our webinar series:
🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱
We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts.
Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!
🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱
We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts.
Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!
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Come join us here at Monash. Supportive research and teaching environment. Fantastic colleagues. Inclusive. A great place to work. And Melbourne, Australia, is a wonderful place to live…
In about a week we (Biological Sciences @ Monash Uni in Melbourne, Australia) will be opening a search for 3 (!!!) permanent academic positions (40% research, 40% teaching, 20% service) at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer. 1 Genomics, 2 Ecology. Please share, email me, DM, follow, send carrier pigeons…
June 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Come join us here at Monash. Supportive research and teaching environment. Fantastic colleagues. Inclusive. A great place to work. And Melbourne, Australia, is a wonderful place to live…
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Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar:
"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"
Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...
"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"
Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...
June 20, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar:
"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"
Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...
"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"
Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...
Termites and dinosaurs once roamed together, now only termites are left! Amazing little creatures which have been around forever
One fossilised log from southern Australia has spilled the dirt on termites’ very cold and very ancient past.
Ancient termite poo reveals 120 million-year-old secrets of Australia’s polar forests
theconversation.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Termites and dinosaurs once roamed together, now only termites are left! Amazing little creatures which have been around forever
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Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳
@thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social
@thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social
infinitylists: A Shiny application & R package for rapid generation of place-based species checklists
In #AppsPlantSci by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social & @willcornwell.bsky.social
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @unswbees.bsky.social
In #AppsPlantSci by @thebeachcomber.bsky.social @fontikar.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social & @willcornwell.bsky.social
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @unswbees.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳
@thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social
@thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social
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Congratulations to @jradford-smith.bsky.social for making the cover of @ecography.bsky.social with his stunning photo of subtropical #rainforest at Mt Glorious, less than an hour from Brisbane in beautiful Queensland (1 of 2).
June 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Congratulations to @jradford-smith.bsky.social for making the cover of @ecography.bsky.social with his stunning photo of subtropical #rainforest at Mt Glorious, less than an hour from Brisbane in beautiful Queensland (1 of 2).
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The biggest "meta-analysis" ever? - 17 million effect sizes - elifesciences.org/articles/95857
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
May 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The biggest "meta-analysis" ever? - 17 million effect sizes - elifesciences.org/articles/95857
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
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🌱New study reveals functional traits e.g. wood density & leaf mass fraction shape plant growth rates, with these relationships changing as plants mature. Growth isn't a fixed trait–it evolves with age! @lilydun.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social🧪🌍
🔍Article: buff.ly/f0vnEFV
🗞️Blog: buff.ly/nY1TorB
🔍Article: buff.ly/f0vnEFV
🗞️Blog: buff.ly/nY1TorB
Do trait–growth relationships vary with plant age in fire-prone heathland shrubs?
buff.ly
May 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🌱New study reveals functional traits e.g. wood density & leaf mass fraction shape plant growth rates, with these relationships changing as plants mature. Growth isn't a fixed trait–it evolves with age! @lilydun.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social🧪🌍
🔍Article: buff.ly/f0vnEFV
🗞️Blog: buff.ly/nY1TorB
🔍Article: buff.ly/f0vnEFV
🗞️Blog: buff.ly/nY1TorB
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New paper out! After the 2019-2020 #fires in Australia our team undertook #IUCN Red List assessments of fire affected #plant species, to handle the volume we undertook paired rapid and full assessments and compared their accuracy 1/4
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
May 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
New paper out! After the 2019-2020 #fires in Australia our team undertook #IUCN Red List assessments of fire affected #plant species, to handle the volume we undertook paired rapid and full assessments and compared their accuracy 1/4
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Check out our new study looking at the recovery of termites' and fungis' role as deadwood decomposers! We found that termites did not recover their full decomposer roles after 12 years of rainforest recovery. Should we transplant termite mounds into regenerating rainforests?? doi.org/10.1111/1365...
May 6, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Check out our new study looking at the recovery of termites' and fungis' role as deadwood decomposers! We found that termites did not recover their full decomposer roles after 12 years of rainforest recovery. Should we transplant termite mounds into regenerating rainforests?? doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Hey y'all! I have a few ecology honours projects available in Sydney starting either in Spring 2025 or Autumn 2026.
Project details available at: zoexiro.com/research/
Please share widely 🌼
Project details available at: zoexiro.com/research/
Please share widely 🌼
Research
Available Honours Projects Exploring the reproductive ecology and cross-compatibility of two colour variants of Lantana camara Supervisor/s: Dr Zoe Xirocostas & Dr Yvonne Davila Lantana camara,…
zoexiro.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Hey y'all! I have a few ecology honours projects available in Sydney starting either in Spring 2025 or Autumn 2026.
Project details available at: zoexiro.com/research/
Please share widely 🌼
Project details available at: zoexiro.com/research/
Please share widely 🌼
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I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support www.nature.com/articles/s41...
StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - StoichLife: A Global Dataset of Plant and Animal Elemental Content
www.nature.com
April 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I’m back in the beautiful Bunya Mountains, this time with @lilydun.bsky.social on the lookout for amazing #trees to capture with #lidar. The stylish ☂️ keeps your 2010 iPad dry @bapswijas.bsky.social 😭😭😭
March 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I’m back in the beautiful Bunya Mountains, this time with @lilydun.bsky.social on the lookout for amazing #trees to capture with #lidar. The stylish ☂️ keeps your 2010 iPad dry @bapswijas.bsky.social 😭😭😭
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The idea for this seminar series is the product of a conversation at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference. We were inspired by great online seminars like the @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social and @theobiophysics.bsky.social but wanted to have something in our time zone. Now the idea has come to life 🤩
Join us for our first seminar on Friday: Ryan Chisholm will present:
A unified theory of niche assembly and dispersal assembly in community ecology
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For those in Australia note that 1pm AEST will be 2pm in Melbourne.
A unified theory of niche assembly and dispersal assembly in community ecology
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For those in Australia note that 1pm AEST will be 2pm in Melbourne.
March 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The idea for this seminar series is the product of a conversation at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference. We were inspired by great online seminars like the @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social and @theobiophysics.bsky.social but wanted to have something in our time zone. Now the idea has come to life 🤩
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New research shows how important ecosystem engineers (termites!) are affected by fire management 🔥 🧪
By changing vegetation structure, fire influences habitat resources available to termites, & in turn, termite abundance & activity in the landscape 🐜 🌏
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By changing vegetation structure, fire influences habitat resources available to termites, & in turn, termite abundance & activity in the landscape 🐜 🌏
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doi.org
March 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New research shows how important ecosystem engineers (termites!) are affected by fire management 🔥 🧪
By changing vegetation structure, fire influences habitat resources available to termites, & in turn, termite abundance & activity in the landscape 🐜 🌏
🔗
By changing vegetation structure, fire influences habitat resources available to termites, & in turn, termite abundance & activity in the landscape 🐜 🌏
🔗
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'Implications of varroa mite establishment for Australian plants and their persistence' by @tomlebreton.bsky.social, Amy-Marie Gilpin, @saltandbrine.bsky.social & @markooiecol.bsky.social
Published #OpenAccess in @ausjbotany.bsky.social:
www.publish.csiro.au/BT/BT24020
#AusJBotany
Published #OpenAccess in @ausjbotany.bsky.social:
www.publish.csiro.au/BT/BT24020
#AusJBotany
March 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
'Implications of varroa mite establishment for Australian plants and their persistence' by @tomlebreton.bsky.social, Amy-Marie Gilpin, @saltandbrine.bsky.social & @markooiecol.bsky.social
Published #OpenAccess in @ausjbotany.bsky.social:
www.publish.csiro.au/BT/BT24020
#AusJBotany
Published #OpenAccess in @ausjbotany.bsky.social:
www.publish.csiro.au/BT/BT24020
#AusJBotany