Etienne Lalechère
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Etienne Lalechère
@etiennelalechere.bsky.social

PhD Ecology

Environmental science 65%
Geography 16%
New paper out today in Ecology Letters! In this synthesis we dive into the equilibrium assumption in ecology - why it's everywhere in ecological theory, the evidence for it in nature, when meeting the assumption is important, how to achieve it in empirical research, and more! tinyurl.com/yh6kyysm

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Our opinion paper on embracing #disequilibrium dynamics to model #biodiversity trends is now published in the latest issue of Trends in Ecology & Evolution

🌳🌲🌴🪻🦔🦉🐜🪱

A very important work led by Étienne Lalechère ⬇️

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This opinion piece introduce a new conceptual framework but also a methodology to capture the delayed effects of biodiversity drivers (take a look this is model-agnostic 😊, i.e. it does not depend on the modelling approach).
Very proud & glad to be part of this amazing work led by Étienne on the relevance of lagging dynamics in biotic responses to environmental conditions 🦉🦇🦔🦌🌱🌾🪻🍀🌳🌲

If you interested in modeling species ranges or biodiversity patters in space & time, our paradigm shift should be of interest to you 😉
Biodiversity doesn’t respond instantly to its driver, yet most assessments assume it does. 🚨

The paradigm shift we propose in considers multiple trajectories of long-term environmental changes and disturbance events that cumulate and push biodiversity into a quasi-permanent non-equilibrium state.
And another related position:

BirdFuture: Research Group Leader (f/m/x) for Developing Models of Bird Diversity and Policy-relevant Applications in Europe

https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/3260/Description/2

#ecologyjobs #ecoevojobs #xp
Bird Twin: Research Group Leader (f/m/x) for Developing Models of Bird Diversity and Policy-relevant Applications in Germany at UFZ, Germany

https://recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/3259/Description/2

#ecoevojobs #ecologyjobs #xp
As the mean rate of forest disturbance is increasing, so does its temporal variance. Proof that Taylor's law also applies to disturbance ecology, and a warning of more severe future extremes. Paper led by @corneliussenf.bsky.social w/ @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change - Nature Communications
Large pulses of disturbance have been observed globally in response to climate change. Using Taylor’s Law, the authors show that those pulses were not unpredictable but expected given a strong scaling...
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Vegetation might not be able to keep up with current rates of environmental change, given data from the pollen fossil record. Fun doing this work with David Fastovich in the lead, but sobering www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales
Climate and ecosystem dynamics vary across timescales, but research into climate-driven vegetation dynamics usually focuses on singular timescales. We developed a spectral analysis–based approach that...
www.science.org
BioTIME 2.0 - the largest biodiversity time-series database - now spans 12 million records from 553,000 locations, tracking ecosystem changes since 1874! 📊

www.idiv.de/major-update...

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Major update to BioTIME 2.0, world’s largest biodiversity time-series database
BioTIME 2.0 is the largest biodiversity time-series database on the planet and gives unprecedented insight into global biodiversity.
www.idiv.de

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Pleased to contribute some long(ish..) term data from Honduras as part of BioTIME 2.0: a terrific dataset ripe for all sorts of questions! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Also another wake up call as to the massive biological data gaps across equatorial Africa (and the tropics in general)..

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New study finds where birds are declining most. High trend resolution data reveals complexity of bird population changes. “This is the first time we’ve had fine-scale information on population changes across such broad spatial extents and across entire ranges of species,” said Dr. Amanda Rodewald.
Birds of the World - New study finds where birds are declining most; some locales with positive trends
“This is the first time we’ve had fine-scale information on population changes across such broad spatial extents and across entire ranges of species. And that provides us a better lens to understand t...
birdsoftheworld.org

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Reposted by Etienne Lalechère

📢New paper!! 📢using #BioTIME #timeseries we showed that faster rates of #turnover in community composition were associated with faster rates of #temperature #change across biomes, for both cooling & warming + microclimate availability & human impacts modulate these responses
go.nature.com/3WD7cWa
Disequilibrium in plant distributions: Challenges and approaches for species distribution models - check our new review in @journalofecology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365... 🍃🌦️♨️🌿 #SDM #plants #speciesdistributions #ranges
Disequilibrium in plant distributions: Challenges and approaches for species distribution models
Plant distributions are often in disequilibrium with climate, not occupying all suitable habitat and present in conditions that no longer support long-term population persistence. This proves a chall...
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Indeed, model validation comes from other analyses related to spatial autocorrelation and cross-validation (providing AUC, specificity and sensitivity).

Thanks for this comment, the wording is indeed confusing as looking for this distribution can provide information about potential unexpected patterns while there is no need for normality.
🔥 Just out 🔥 our paper featuring a method to account for disequilibrium dynamics & time lags in species distribution model #SDM is published in Ecology Letters ⬇️ It outperforms traditional SDMs for 95% of the 92 European forest 🦅 species we tested

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Interesting study in education science to understand the challenges of internship mentorship, considering students, supervisors and institutions: doi.org/10.1186/s405...
Creating better internships by understanding mentor challenges: findings from a series of focus groups - International Journal of STEM Education
Background Despite demands to make higher education more relevant beyond academia, and a growing body of work testifying to the benefits of work-relevance programs (e.g., work-placements, or internshi...
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