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Jens-Christian Svenning
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Scientist: #biodiversity, #macroecology, #climatechange, #restoration & #rewilding, #novelecosystems, #plants & #vegetation, #megafauna, #human-#nature relations & #remotesensing. Director, https://econovo.au.dk/

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Jens-Christian Svenning is a Danish ecologist, biogeographer and academic. He is a professor at the Department of Biology at Aarhus University, Denmark where he also serves as the director of DNRF Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), established in 2023. .. more

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · Jan 1
The evidence for Homo sapiens playing the dominant role in the global #megafauna #extinctions constitutes one of the clearest, well-supported patterns in #ecology. See our 2024 review www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #paleobiology #archeology #hunting #ecosystem #Pleistocene #defaunation #rewilding
The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge Core
The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene - Volume 2
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Chris Martine | Plants are Cool, Too! @martinebotany.bsky.social · 1d
The phys.org treatment of our new paper describing Solanum nectarifolium and its cool extrafloral nectaries.

#ozplants
New species of bush tomato with visible nectar glands discovered in the Australian outback
A recent study led by Bucknell University Professor Chris Martine, biology, the David Burpee Professor of Plant Genetics and Research, has identified and described a new species of bush tomato with a ...
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TIBS Aarhus 2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social · 1d
Tomorrow #TIBS2026 is starting! 🌐 We can't wait for the first workshops to begin!

📌To register, please join us at our Welcome Reception: you will be able to follow guided tours to better navigate #TIBS2026 venue 🗺️ get the program booklet 📖 personalize your name badges and meet colleagues !

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Erle C. Ellis

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Jonny Gordon @jonathan-gdon.bsky.social · 1d
📣 Call for Abstracts | INQUA Congress 2027
📍 Lucknow, India | 🗓 Jan 28–Feb 3, 2027

Re-evaluating Long-Term Human–Biodiversity Relationships.

Case studies & syntheses highlighting positive human–nature relations from archaeology & across the palaeosciences

⏰Deadline: 15 Feb 2026

🌏🧪🌐

#INQUA2027

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 2d
Big thanks to @niming-eco.bsky.social for leading this work!

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 2d
The scientific paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🌐🐂🦌🐐
Native and Alien Ungulates in North America: Potential for Restoring Herbivore Diversity and Functions
Aim Large herbivores play key roles in ecosystems by promoting plant diversity, dispersing seeds, regulating nutrient cycling, and shaping vegetation structure. Since the Late Pleistocene, their dec...
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 2d
New @econovoau.bsky.social paper in Global #Ecology & #Biogeography - on #ungulates in North American ecosystems. Key point: alien ungulates can enhance herbivore diversity & partially restore lost #ecosystem functions 🦌🌿🐂 🐎Link in comment
#Rewilding #Megafauna #Macroecology #TIBS2026

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Ingolf Kühn

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Markus Wagner @wagnermarkus.bsky.social · 2d
Seed germination traits reveal naturalization potential: Global insights from temperate European herbaceous species besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Enjoyable collaboration led by Margherita Gioria, now out #openaccess in @journalofecology.bsky.social #seedecology #invasivespecies
Seed germination traits reveal naturalization potential: Global insights from temperate European herbaceous species
This study provides global-scale evidence that the naturalization of European herbaceous species is related to specific germination traits acquired in the native range. The findings indicate that tra...
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Reposted by Alejandro Ordóñez

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 3d
Next week we host the #TIBS2026 #biogeography conference @au.dk, welcoming ~400 biogeographers from around the world🌍Biogeography is vital for understanding the #biosphere & guiding planetary #stewardship. Looking forward to an inspiring week🌤️🌴https://conferences.au.dk/tibs-aarhus-2026 #biodiversity

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 4d
Evaluating inbreeding and assessing the risk of outbreeding depression in genetic rescue using whole-genome sequence data - the case of the marsh #fritillary 🦋🧬 Congratulations to @atengstedt.bsky.social & team! #inbreeding #geneticrescue

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Michael M. Hansen @michaelmhansen.bsky.social · 4d
Our new paper about using genomic data to predict the risk of outbreeding depression in genetic rescue, with @atengstedt.bsky.social in the leading role. Great work, Aja and all.

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 4d
@jimhorsfall.bsky.social @robyorke.bsky.social 🐂🌼

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 4d
Also check out this complementary study, led by @skjoldsoendergaard.bsky.social From Grasslands to Forblands: Year-round grazing as a driver of plant diversity besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #grazing #yearroundgrazing #helårsgræsning #plantdiversity #biodiversity

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Alejandro Ordóñez

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TIBS Aarhus 2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social · 4d
Are you coming to #TIBS2026? Let us introduce our Conversation Starter cards!
They are made to spark informal, curious, sometimes nerdy discussions: no right answers, only good stories.
Pick a card, ask a neighbour, and see where it leads 💬

One card is revealed below👀⬇️

Reposted by Ingolf Kühn, Maximilian Hanusch

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 5d
Some positive news for the New Year: Year‐Round Grazing Promotes Species‐Rich Grasslands in Natura 2000 Sites 🐂 🌼 🐎 🌸See our new study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#grazing #yearroundgrazing #helårsgræsning #plantdiversity #biodiversity
Reversing the Trend: Year‐Round Grazing Promotes Species‐Rich Grasslands in Natura 2000 Sites
Representative landscapes from the studied management areas illustrating a mosaic of habitat types. All areas were managed with year-round grazing cattle and/or horses. Photos illustrate the diversit...
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 5d
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 Jens‐Christian Svenning, Ondřej Mottl

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TIBS Aarhus 2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social · 8d
Looking for an easy way to start conversations at #TIBS2026?
Pick one or more colored stickers linked to your research topics when you collect your name badge at the registration desk! 🟡🟣🟢
The image below explains how it works ⬇️

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TIBS Aarhus 2026 @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social · 8d
🗺️ To help you navigate on Aarhus University campus during #TIBS2026, our organising team has created simple and consistent signs!
Here’s how to read the signs you will see around campus 👇

Reposted by Tim M. Blackburn, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Anthony Ricciardi

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 12d
A comprehensive review building on the IPBES #InvasiveAlienSpecies Assessment reveals that numbers of alien species are increasing for all taxonomic groups and regions, and that this trend is likely to continue.

Read more: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.70058
an image of a lionfish

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 13d
Yes! Just for starters: @ehiggs.bsky.social @7toucans.bsky.social @marcuscollier.bsky.social @mattkerr.bsky.social @jcsvenning.bsky.social
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14d
Anyone else have a coauthor who is so much fun to write with that you just find yourself grinning in some combination of satisfaction and pride as you edit a manuscript?

If not, get yourself one.

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 15d
Our work on the huge, and diverse impacts of Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, in the Ebro Delta just made 100 GS citations
Nice achievement for a wonderful collaboration with @nfranchv.bsky.social and some other clever colleagues
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Severe, rapid and widespread impacts of an Atlantic blue crab invasion
The Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) has rapidly invaded coastal environments in the western Mediterranean, but there is no consistent assessm…
www.sciencedirect.com

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Federico Riva, Juan Antonio Hernández‐Agüero

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Camille Magneville @cmlmagneville.bsky.social · 15d
Happy to see our paper out! 🎉
We assess the relative roles of past/present environmental & anthropogenic drivers shaping functional & phylogenetic diversity in Mediterranean forests, highlighting the key role of past climate stability 🌳
➡️https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70177

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Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Julie L. Lockwood, Irena Šímová

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 15d
Sad news … we lost a visionary scientist. His work and writing changed my understanding of the rules of ecological systems and evolutionary history
jgpausas.bsky.social juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · Dec 4
I'm very sad to say William Bond, of the University of Cape Town & Fellow of the Royal Society (@royalsociety.org ), has passed away. It is a great loss. He was an enthusiastic ecologist and a critical thinker. I learned a lot, and I still had a lot to learn from him. RIP. 😢

🧪🌎🔥🌿🌳🪴🌐 #PlantScience
Three books by W. Bond and collaborators: Fire and plants (1996), Fire in Mediterranean ecosystems (2012), and Open ecosystems (2019).

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 16d
Lion attack in Europe just 6000 years ago 🦁👣 #megafauna #carnivore #bigcats #Holocene
andrejpaleo.bsky.social Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 16d
Sometimes archeological and fossil records preserve incredible evidence of past interactions: human who lived in what is now Bulgaria, was attacked by the European lion, survived, and was cared for.
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🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #Archeology
Trauma on human paleoskull and the matching to the lion bite. Comparison of the mould of the human skull and left carnassial teeth of the lion and cross-sections.

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 16d
Sometimes archeological and fossil records preserve incredible evidence of past interactions: human who lived in what is now Bulgaria, was attacked by the European lion, survived, and was cared for.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio #Archeology
Trauma on human paleoskull and the matching to the lion bite. Comparison of the mould of the human skull and left carnassial teeth of the lion and cross-sections.

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Herbert Nickel @herbertnickel.bsky.social · 16d
A charming new paper from @jcsvenning.bsky.social 's department provides more strong evidence "that the closed-forest model commonly used in restoration does not match the evolutionary history or ecological preferences of most temperate forest plants" and "that dense
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Where traditional livestock grazing in forests hasn't been abandoned, like on this woodpasture in Georgia, forests likely still resemble their pre-human state shaped by large herbivores. In such forests high diversity of forest plants still can be found. Credit: Szymon Czyżewski

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Milan Chytrý @milanchytry.bsky.social · 17d
The website for the 68th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Vegetation Science has been launched:
2026gijon.iavs-meetings.org
Many thanks to Borja Jiménez-Alfaro and his colleagues for this invitation.
See you in June in Gijón, on the northern coast of Spain.

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · 17d
Wonderful collection of articles exploring what the concept of anthromes - human-modified biomes - means for our understanding of the global carbon cycle
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plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social Plants, People, Planet @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social · 18d
Editorial introducing the Special Collection: #Anthromes and terrestrial carbon – from the deep past to net-zero

Anthony P. Walker, et al.

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

@ultracricket.bsky.social @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social @ymalhi.bsky.social

#PlantScience
Aerial view of a terraced farming system.

Reposted by Catherine J. Frieman

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 18d
Elephants along with red deer, horses and wolves on the Spanish coast, not so long ago 🐘🦌🐎🐺🐾🇪🇸 #megafauna #lastinterglacial phys.org/news/2025-12...
Prehistoric elephant footprints documented for first time in Murcia's fossil dunes
An international team, involving researchers from the University of Seville, the Andalusian Institute of Earth Sciences in Granada and the University of Huelva, has identified the first fossilized ver...
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Mick Westbury @mick2474.bsky.social · 18d
🦙🧬Pleased to present our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧬🦙

Palaeogenomics of early camelid use in the Atacama Desert (Chile).

We used ancient DNA to revisit animals being hunted/herded >3,000 years ago.

Manuscript here: rdcu.be/eVwwl
#aDNA #popgen

Thread below🧵
Reposts appreciated :)

Reposted by Federico Riva

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Jens-Christian Svenning @jcsvenning.bsky.social · 18d
New #INTEGRADIV paper shows #paleoclimate stability is major driver of functional & phylogenetic diversity in animals & plants across Mediterranean #forests🌿❄️ Important implications for impacts of #climatechange ♨️Thx to @cmlmagneville.bsky.social for leading!
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Echoes of the Past: Long‐Term Climate Stability Shapes Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity in Euro‐Mediterranean Forests
Aim Understanding the relative influence of past and present environmental and anthropogenic drivers on biodiversity is crucial for predicting future biodiversity trends. We assessed how past climat...
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