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Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
@gmendietal.bsky.social
Research fellow Uni Marburg. Epiphyte ecologist, leading the Epiphyte Inventory Network: using epiphytes to understand Neotropical diversity, check us out at https://www.epigdatabase.org/

🌿 Botanist 🪷| Latina 💜| Firstgen 🎓 | PhD | LAC 🌎
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🙋🏾‍♀️ 🔵🦋, 4 my 1st 📬, I will like to introduce my study system: vascular epiphytes & our working group: the Epiphyte Inventory Group (EpIG).

Check us out at:
www.epigdatabase.org

#Neotropics
#biogeography
#conservation
#diversity
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Excited to give a plenary talk at the @iavs5.bsky.social Symposium 2026 in beautiful Gijón, Spain! Looking forward to share our latest research about #dryland plant diversity and to reconnecting with the global vegetation science community gijon2026.iavs-meetings.org Don´t miss it!
October 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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📢 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
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Thrilled to be one of the plenary speakers for the @iavs5.bsky.social 68th #IAVS Symposium (Gijón, Spain, 22-26 June 2026) along legends like @jcsvenning.bsky.social @gmendietal.bsky.social @ftmaestre.bsky.social et al!

Join us to discuss plants across taxonomic, spatial and temporal scales! 🌿
📢 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
October 31, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Attending #ATBC2025 in Oaxaca next week? Look us up to learn about \Smithsonian's Center for Conservation & Sustainability work in #Peru!

Asistirás a #ATBC2025 en Oaxaca la próxima semana? Buscanos para conocer el trabajo del Centro para la Conservación & la Sostenibilidad del #Smithsonian en Peru
June 28, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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Looking forward to seeing the people on this starter pack at #ATBC2025 If you want to be added to this list, please let me know. 🧪 in 🇲🇽 go.bsky.app/FSQE1vP
June 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Interested in biodiversity, macroecology, spatial ecology, conservation?

@nmouquet.bsky.social put together a global ecology starter pack, two volumes are already full but you can DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the Vol_3.

Let’s keep the community growing 🌐
June 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Postdoc call in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling (up to 6 ya) at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We focus on modelling terrestrial plant communities, island biogeography, range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/CL1ny
Postdoc in Mechanistic Biodiversity Modelling with temporary civil servant status (“Akademische*r Rätin*Rat)
100%, A 13, Reference number: 2025/49
shorturl.at
May 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Join us for a fun and interesting applied seminar with @dylancraven.bsky.social!
📢 #CuttingvEdgeTools Friday, May the 30th, at 2 PM CEST, @dylancraven.bsky.social will close our cycle of webinars on databases with "Key questions in functional biogeography", leveraging regional trait databases and with examples from Rasgos-CL. Join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Our webinar about TRY with Jens Kattge has just started. You can still join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
May 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Discovering the beauty of Asturias:
an idyllic "Hayedo" and a terrestrial orchid (Orchid mascula)... 🌳🌲🪻
So many species and habitats yet to see and learn.
April 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Going back home after a few days in Halle, Germany, where we presented our work on habitat monitoring using remote sensing at the meeting of sPlot, the Global Vegetation database, followed by the annual meeting of our MOTIVATE project motivate-biodiversity.eu
April 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Meeting of sPlot, the Global Vegetation Database, has started in Halle, Germany. Gabriella Damasceno is presenting a remarkable extension of the database between versions 3.0 and 4.0.
March 31, 2025 at 9:45 AM
One of the fun things about living in Gijón!

An incredible talk on arqueobotany by Leonor Peña-Chocarro. A trip to the past through the remains of plants and their fruits! (And much more...)

🌿🌳🍑🌽🫘

Organized by the Atlantic Botanical Garden of Gijón and the University of Oviedo.
March 26, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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¿Te interesa formar parte de un espacio de encuentro para ecólogos latinoamericanos? Únete a la conversación sobre los retos y desafíos de la ecología en la región.

📅 Regístrate aquí 👉 sites.google.com/view/elac202...

#EcologíaLatinoamericana #ColoquioEcología #CienciaLatAm
ELAC2025
Te invitamos a ser parte de una experiencia única, un espacio dedicado a reflexionar sobre la historia, los retos actuales y los horizontes futuros de la Ecología en América Latina. El propósito de es...
sites.google.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
#Invasives as
#AccidentalEpiphytes

I spotted young #palms🌴 on the knotholes of 2 Platanus trees 🌳.

A few meters ahead... Trachycarpus fortunei: Introduced as ornamental across the 🌍.
In northwestern Spain is #naturalized, & north Switzerland is replacing local #vegetation, an invasive #neophyte!
March 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Joi us! To our practical seminars.
@iavs5.bsky.social
📢 Are you ready for the next cycle of Cutting vEdge Tools? The first webinar is in just a week, March 21st at 14:00 CET: Florian Jansen will show how to handle species concepts when dealing with databases!
📝Join for free at forms.gle/mrjs8gpEy6ih... only 100 places so don't miss your chance!
March 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Yesterday I attended a really nice talk about functional ecology and ecosystem servicies, given by the outstanding scientific Sandra Díaz, who earned the Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research in 2019.
March 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Today at @uniovi.bsky.social a very interesting meeting with Sandra Díaz, an internationlly recognized researcher focused on functional ecology and co-chair of the Global Biodiversity Assessment (IPBES).
March 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature
Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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🌟 An amazing study led by Rachel Turba and César Marín is now online!

🗺️ Non-native English speakers from the Global South spend much more time dealing with language issues, have limited access to funding sources and their publications have less visibility.

More here: zenodo.org/records/1490...
March 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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▶️ 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 𝐏𝐈𝐬◀️

❓𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 "𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡" 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐄𝐂𝐑 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐕𝐬 & 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬❓

I see material from applicants from well known labs & wonder if those skills are not taught there? I do!

The success of your ECR colleagues from your lab is also your success!!!!
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▶️❓𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧❓◀️

1️⃣ your stats skills - ❓Which methods, which packages are you able to use (at which level)❓
2️⃣ your data handling skills - ❓Which & how did you handled big, many etc data❓ Did you simulated data etc etc❓
March 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Fun visit to the Atlantic Botanical Garden of Gijón with @borjajimalf.bsky.social and a #botany class.

At least eight species of plants 🪴🏵️ growing as #accidental #epiphytes.

Quercus full of surprises! I wonder if this counts towards the value of centenary #Quercus for #biodiversity.
March 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Did you know that many "normal" plants grow accidentally as #epiphytes?

🪴🌿🪷🏵️

G. Zotz created this project www.inaturalist.org/projects/acc... to understand how often this happens? Under which conditions & in how many species occurs?

Here examples from #Asturias! You can also contribute!
February 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM