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 🌎
🌿 Botanist 🪷| Latina 💜| Firstgen 🎓 | PhD | LAC 🌎
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Honored to be one of the plenary speakers at the 68th IAVS Symposium #IAVS2026 in Gijón, Spain (22–26 June 2026)!
Looking forward to sharing about forest canopies, vascular #epiphyte #conservation & #TropicaEcology 🌿🪻🌴
📣 Abstract submissions & registration are now open!
Hope to see you there!
Looking forward to sharing about forest canopies, vascular #epiphyte #conservation & #TropicaEcology 🌿🪻🌴
📣 Abstract submissions & registration are now open!
Hope to see you there!
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
🌿 New paper out in New Phytologist!
📊 Our global dataset shows that when considering species dominance & long‑term richness, higher diversity can actually destabilize populations.
✨ Excited to share these insights from plant communities across the world! 🌐🌍
👇👇👇
📊 Our global dataset shows that when considering species dominance & long‑term richness, higher diversity can actually destabilize populations.
✨ Excited to share these insights from plant communities across the world! 🌐🌍
👇👇👇
Reconciling links between diversity and population stability across global plant communities
Pan et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Pan et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
January 19, 2026 at 4:11 PM
🌿 New paper out in New Phytologist!
📊 Our global dataset shows that when considering species dominance & long‑term richness, higher diversity can actually destabilize populations.
✨ Excited to share these insights from plant communities across the world! 🌐🌍
👇👇👇
📊 Our global dataset shows that when considering species dominance & long‑term richness, higher diversity can actually destabilize populations.
✨ Excited to share these insights from plant communities across the world! 🌐🌍
👇👇👇
Honored to be one of the plenary speakers at the 68th IAVS Symposium #IAVS2026 in Gijón, Spain (22–26 June 2026)!
Looking forward to sharing about forest canopies, vascular #epiphyte #conservation & #TropicaEcology 🌿🪻🌴
📣 Abstract submissions & registration are now open!
Hope to see you there!
Looking forward to sharing about forest canopies, vascular #epiphyte #conservation & #TropicaEcology 🌿🪻🌴
📣 Abstract submissions & registration are now open!
Hope to see you there!
January 17, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Honored to be one of the plenary speakers at the 68th IAVS Symposium #IAVS2026 in Gijón, Spain (22–26 June 2026)!
Looking forward to sharing about forest canopies, vascular #epiphyte #conservation & #TropicaEcology 🌿🪻🌴
📣 Abstract submissions & registration are now open!
Hope to see you there!
Looking forward to sharing about forest canopies, vascular #epiphyte #conservation & #TropicaEcology 🌿🪻🌴
📣 Abstract submissions & registration are now open!
Hope to see you there!
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
New paper in TREE: we propose a framework to think more clearly about the scale of climate exposure of organisms—and why mismatches between climate data and biology can mislead ecological inference.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
@ilyamaclean.bsky.social @ecophys.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
@ilyamaclean.bsky.social @ecophys.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social
Matching climate to biological scales
Recent advances in climate modeling and remote sensing have increased the expectation
that finer-grained climate data will improve biological relevance. However, the appropriate
scale for biology depe...
www.cell.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:43 PM
New paper in TREE: we propose a framework to think more clearly about the scale of climate exposure of organisms—and why mismatches between climate data and biology can mislead ecological inference.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
@ilyamaclean.bsky.social @ecophys.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
@ilyamaclean.bsky.social @ecophys.bsky.social @marthamunoz.bsky.social
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
Getting ready for the #IAVS2026 Symposium? Become an #IAVS member and make the most of it!
Discounts on registration + field excursions
Eligibility for awards & #travelgrants
👉Join the community shaping the future of #vegetationscience - www.iavs.org/page/JoinIAVS
#ecology #vegetationecology
Discounts on registration + field excursions
Eligibility for awards & #travelgrants
👉Join the community shaping the future of #vegetationscience - www.iavs.org/page/JoinIAVS
#ecology #vegetationecology
December 23, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Getting ready for the #IAVS2026 Symposium? Become an #IAVS member and make the most of it!
Discounts on registration + field excursions
Eligibility for awards & #travelgrants
👉Join the community shaping the future of #vegetationscience - www.iavs.org/page/JoinIAVS
#ecology #vegetationecology
Discounts on registration + field excursions
Eligibility for awards & #travelgrants
👉Join the community shaping the future of #vegetationscience - www.iavs.org/page/JoinIAVS
#ecology #vegetationecology
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
¿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
¡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
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
¿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
¡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
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
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
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!
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
📢 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
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
📢 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
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
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
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! 🌿
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
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
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! 🌿
Join us to discuss plants across taxonomic, spatial and temporal scales! 🌿
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
El viernes 26 estaremos en #Gijón en la #EuropeanResearchersNight con el stand "Las plantas viajeras" @universidadoviedo.bsky.social @imibasturias.bsky.social #science4all #MSCANight #NIGHTSpain
September 17, 2025 at 8:37 AM
El viernes 26 estaremos en #Gijón en la #EuropeanResearchersNight con el stand "Las plantas viajeras" @universidadoviedo.bsky.social @imibasturias.bsky.social #science4all #MSCANight #NIGHTSpain
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
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
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
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
Asistirás a #ATBC2025 en Oaxaca la próxima semana? Buscanos para conocer el trabajo del Centro para la Conservación & la Sostenibilidad del #Smithsonian en Peru
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
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
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
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
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 🌐
@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
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 🌐
@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 🌐
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
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
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
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
Join us for a fun and interesting applied seminar with @dylancraven.bsky.social!
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
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
Our webinar about TRY with Jens Kattge has just started. You can still join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Discovering the beauty of Asturias:
an idyllic "Hayedo" and a terrestrial orchid (Orchid mascula)... 🌳🌲🪻
So many species and habitats yet to see and learn.
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
Discovering the beauty of Asturias:
an idyllic "Hayedo" and a terrestrial orchid (Orchid mascula)... 🌳🌲🪻
So many species and habitats yet to see and learn.
an idyllic "Hayedo" and a terrestrial orchid (Orchid mascula)... 🌳🌲🪻
So many species and habitats yet to see and learn.
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
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
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
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
¿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
📅 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...
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March 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
¿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
📅 Regístrate aquí 👉 sites.google.com/view/elac202...
#EcologíaLatinoamericana #ColoquioEcología #CienciaLatAm
#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!
#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
#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!
#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!
Joi us! To our practical seminars.
@iavs5.bsky.social
@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!
📝Join for free at forms.gle/mrjs8gpEy6ih... only 100 places so don't miss your chance!
March 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Joi us! To our practical seminars.
@iavs5.bsky.social
@iavs5.bsky.social
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
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
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.
Reposted by Glenda Mendieta-Leiva
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
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).