Antoine Champreux
@toinechampreux.bsky.social
PhD - Global Ecology, Paleoecology, Paleobotany, Biogeography & Prehistory | vegetation modelling and spatial analyses
Deep-time to modern vegetation distribution 🌱 Megafauna extinctions | Neotropics after the Ice Age 🌎
Deep-time to modern vegetation distribution 🌱 Megafauna extinctions | Neotropics after the Ice Age 🌎
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What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
Reposted by Antoine Champreux
First post on Bluesky! 🌿
Excited to share our new study in Ecography, led by Maxime Lenormand: combining naturalist inventories and satellite data to map plant biodiversity.
Here’s a bioregionalization of the flora of France!
🔗 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Excited to share our new study in Ecography, led by Maxime Lenormand: combining naturalist inventories and satellite data to map plant biodiversity.
Here’s a bioregionalization of the flora of France!
🔗 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
September 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
First post on Bluesky! 🌿
Excited to share our new study in Ecography, led by Maxime Lenormand: combining naturalist inventories and satellite data to map plant biodiversity.
Here’s a bioregionalization of the flora of France!
🔗 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Excited to share our new study in Ecography, led by Maxime Lenormand: combining naturalist inventories and satellite data to map plant biodiversity.
Here’s a bioregionalization of the flora of France!
🔗 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Antoine Champreux
[vegetation responded at timescales from hundreds to tens of thousands of years, but not at timescales shorter than about 150 years]
Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales | Science 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
July 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
[vegetation responded at timescales from hundreds to tens of thousands of years, but not at timescales shorter than about 150 years]
Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
Coupled, decoupled, and abrupt responses of vegetation to climate across timescales | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
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Also just out: Our new review in @ecography.bsky.social on how ecological models tend to incorporate land use.
Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use
Despite habitat loss and degradation are the primary drivers of biodiversity loss, different conclusions have been drawn about the importance of land-use or land-cover (LULC) change for biodiversity....
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Also just out: Our new review in @ecography.bsky.social on how ecological models tend to incorporate land use.
Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
Reviewing and benchmarking ecological modelling practices in the context of land use
doi.org/10.1002/ecog...
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New paper! led by Ruben Bernardo-Madrid "A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions" in NEE @natureportfolio.nature.com
Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Ecological assemblages may be spatially organized by both context dependency and general processes. Here the authors find general patterns in the organization of regional biodiversity in biogeographic...
doi.org
June 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
New paper! led by Ruben Bernardo-Madrid "A general rule on the organization of biodiversity in Earth’s biogeographical regions" in NEE @natureportfolio.nature.com
Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought ..."After elevated tree mortality during the first 15 years, ecosystem-level structural changes resulted in the remaining trees no longer experiencing drought stress." 🧪🌐🌾
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Drought is a growing issue in tropical rainforests. Here, the authors revisit a long-term rainfall manipulation experiment in the Amazon to show that tree mortality was followed by community-level adj...
www.nature.com
June 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought ..."After elevated tree mortality during the first 15 years, ecosystem-level structural changes resulted in the remaining trees no longer experiencing drought stress." 🧪🌐🌾
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌲🌳🌐 New study reminds us that forests act globally as a #carbon sink
Between 2001 and 2023, the world's #forests have absorbed 5.5 gigatonnes more #CO2 than they have emitted on average each year.
👉 Gibbs et al. dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd... 🧪
Between 2001 and 2023, the world's #forests have absorbed 5.5 gigatonnes more #CO2 than they have emitted on average each year.
👉 Gibbs et al. dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd... 🧪
March 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🌲🌳🌐 New study reminds us that forests act globally as a #carbon sink
Between 2001 and 2023, the world's #forests have absorbed 5.5 gigatonnes more #CO2 than they have emitted on average each year.
👉 Gibbs et al. dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd... 🧪
Between 2001 and 2023, the world's #forests have absorbed 5.5 gigatonnes more #CO2 than they have emitted on average each year.
👉 Gibbs et al. dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd... 🧪
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Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....
Paleorecords Reveal Biological Mechanisms Crucial for Reliable Species Range Shift Projections Amid Rapid Climate Change
Climate change has created an urgent need for reliable projections of species distributions. By hindcasting forest tree range shifts across Europe over the last 12,000 years, we show that process-exp...
doi.org
February 24, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Interesting work by van der Meersch et al. out in Ecology Letters, nicely illustrating that process-based models are more robust than correlative models for predicting species distributions under novel climatic conditions doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚
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February 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚
Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈
Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack...
Vol2 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack...
Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in !
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Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈
Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in !
🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾
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📝 How Amazon Trees Marched to the Atlantic Forest 🧵
https://doi.org/n3rb
Ancient rainforest trees found hidden highways through Brazil's drylands, making more than a dozen epic journeys from the Amazon to the Atlantic coast over twelve million years.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief
https://doi.org/n3rb
Ancient rainforest trees found hidden highways through Brazil's drylands, making more than a dozen epic journeys from the Amazon to the Atlantic coast over twelve million years.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief
January 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
📝 How Amazon Trees Marched to the Atlantic Forest 🧵
https://doi.org/n3rb
Ancient rainforest trees found hidden highways through Brazil's drylands, making more than a dozen epic journeys from the Amazon to the Atlantic coast over twelve million years.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief
https://doi.org/n3rb
Ancient rainforest trees found hidden highways through Brazil's drylands, making more than a dozen epic journeys from the Amazon to the Atlantic coast over twelve million years.
#Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief
A great starter pack to connect with people working on #ecology at a large scale 🌍🧪
Global Ecology Vol. 2 👉 go.bsky.app/L37W5uH
DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the pack, there’s still room for more ! 😊
Global Ecology Vol. 2 👉 go.bsky.app/L37W5uH
DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the pack, there’s still room for more ! 😊
January 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A great starter pack to connect with people working on #ecology at a large scale 🌍🧪
Global Ecology Vol. 2 👉 go.bsky.app/L37W5uH
DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the pack, there’s still room for more ! 😊
Global Ecology Vol. 2 👉 go.bsky.app/L37W5uH
DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the pack, there’s still room for more ! 😊
Reposted by Antoine Champreux
Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Super excited that our review on the ecology of the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is now out on how ecology changes across scales from organisms to communities to the world through time. Fab art @franzanth.bsky.social showing the build up of ecological complexity
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Antoine Champreux
How will biodiversity respond to efforts to mitigate C emissions? Smith et al. in @science.org document that vert. biodiv. benefits from (natural) reforestation. BUT, planting biocrops, while it reduces climate change, hurts most species bc they lose habitat. 🧪🌎
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
How will biodiversity respond to efforts to mitigate C emissions? Smith et al. in @science.org document that vert. biodiv. benefits from (natural) reforestation. BUT, planting biocrops, while it reduces climate change, hurts most species bc they lose habitat. 🧪🌎
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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geog.umd.edu/featured-con... Annual data from 2015 to 2023 provides detailed insights into tree canopy cover and height. 🍁🍁🌳 #forestecol
Woody Vegetation Dataset for Latin America Released
geog.umd.edu
January 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
geog.umd.edu/featured-con... Annual data from 2015 to 2023 provides detailed insights into tree canopy cover and height. 🍁🍁🌳 #forestecol
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My final PhD chapter published in FEE (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment): re-mapping Köppen-Geiger climate zones, but now using microclimate! Very excited to have this one out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
January 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My final PhD chapter published in FEE (Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment): re-mapping Köppen-Geiger climate zones, but now using microclimate! Very excited to have this one out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
January 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
January 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
Rapid rise in atmospheric #CO2 marked the end of the Late #Palaeozoic Ice Age
Jurikova et al. 👉 rdcu.be/d7fQJ
"About 294 million years ago, atmospheric CO2 rose abruptly (4-fold), releasing the Earth from its penultimate ice age and transforming the Early Permian into a warmer world."
Jurikova et al. 👉 rdcu.be/d7fQJ
"About 294 million years ago, atmospheric CO2 rose abruptly (4-fold), releasing the Earth from its penultimate ice age and transforming the Early Permian into a warmer world."
January 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Rapid rise in atmospheric #CO2 marked the end of the Late #Palaeozoic Ice Age
Jurikova et al. 👉 rdcu.be/d7fQJ
"About 294 million years ago, atmospheric CO2 rose abruptly (4-fold), releasing the Earth from its penultimate ice age and transforming the Early Permian into a warmer world."
Jurikova et al. 👉 rdcu.be/d7fQJ
"About 294 million years ago, atmospheric CO2 rose abruptly (4-fold), releasing the Earth from its penultimate ice age and transforming the Early Permian into a warmer world."
Reposted by Antoine Champreux
Our records of the world’s biodiversity are patchy—but that's not because lots of places are "unexplored." That story and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
January 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Our records of the world’s biodiversity are patchy—but that's not because lots of places are "unexplored." That story and more of the best in @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
CO2 fertilization can be a disturbance leading to worldwide #forest degradation 🌳🌲
"even the most remote forests in the world have been altered by human action via CO2 fertilization, and the responsibility for their integrity must be shared globally" 🌐
Lapola et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
"even the most remote forests in the world have been altered by human action via CO2 fertilization, and the responsibility for their integrity must be shared globally" 🌐
Lapola et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
Not just semantics: CO2 fertilization can be a disturbance leading to worldwide forest degradation
The physiological effects of increased atmospheric CO2 (CO2 fertilization) on intact forests are generally seen as a process that might buffer them against the impacts of climate change. However, CO2...
doi.org
January 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
CO2 fertilization can be a disturbance leading to worldwide #forest degradation 🌳🌲
"even the most remote forests in the world have been altered by human action via CO2 fertilization, and the responsibility for their integrity must be shared globally" 🌐
Lapola et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
"even the most remote forests in the world have been altered by human action via CO2 fertilization, and the responsibility for their integrity must be shared globally" 🌐
Lapola et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ppp3...
🌍 Projected future climatic forcing on the global distribution of #vegetation types 🌲🌳🌿🍃🌱
Allen et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
#Biogeography #ecology #biomes
Allen et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
#Biogeography #ecology #biomes
January 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
🌍 Projected future climatic forcing on the global distribution of #vegetation types 🌲🌳🌿🍃🌱
Allen et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
#Biogeography #ecology #biomes
Allen et al. 👉 doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
#Biogeography #ecology #biomes
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Post your most popular #art from Twitter🍁
I've never had anything actually go viral or get many likes, but this Ginkgoales leaf montage ended up being my most popular piece of art: so YAY for paleobotany!!! #paleoart #paleobotany #ginkgo
I've never had anything actually go viral or get many likes, but this Ginkgoales leaf montage ended up being my most popular piece of art: so YAY for paleobotany!!! #paleoart #paleobotany #ginkgo
October 21, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Post your most popular #art from Twitter🍁
I've never had anything actually go viral or get many likes, but this Ginkgoales leaf montage ended up being my most popular piece of art: so YAY for paleobotany!!! #paleoart #paleobotany #ginkgo
I've never had anything actually go viral or get many likes, but this Ginkgoales leaf montage ended up being my most popular piece of art: so YAY for paleobotany!!! #paleoart #paleobotany #ginkgo
Reposted by Antoine Champreux
An important review - The ecology of plant extinctions - "Recent warm-edge extirpations demonstrate the growing impact of anthropogenic climate change & show that predictions of massive climate-driven extinctions later this century are plausible" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌾🌎🧪🌐
December 7, 2024 at 11:59 AM
An important review - The ecology of plant extinctions - "Recent warm-edge extirpations demonstrate the growing impact of anthropogenic climate change & show that predictions of massive climate-driven extinctions later this century are plausible" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌾🌎🧪🌐
🌍 Crowd-sourced trait data can be used to delimit global #biomes 🌳🌲🌱🌿🍃
Scheiter et al. 👉 bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
#Biogeography #vegetation #FunctionalTraits #ecology 🌐
Scheiter et al. 👉 bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
#Biogeography #vegetation #FunctionalTraits #ecology 🌐
December 6, 2024 at 5:47 PM
🌍 Crowd-sourced trait data can be used to delimit global #biomes 🌳🌲🌱🌿🍃
Scheiter et al. 👉 bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
#Biogeography #vegetation #FunctionalTraits #ecology 🌐
Scheiter et al. 👉 bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
#Biogeography #vegetation #FunctionalTraits #ecology 🌐
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🌳 New findings 🌳
Phylogenetic diversity cannot be used as a proxy for functional diversity in vascular plant communities 🌲🌳🌴🌵🌱🍀🌾🌼 We used the #sPlot database & found a pronounced decoupling between phylogenetic & functional diversity ⬇️
🧪🌐🌏🍁
@natureecoevo.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Bf5IK
Phylogenetic diversity cannot be used as a proxy for functional diversity in vascular plant communities 🌲🌳🌴🌵🌱🍀🌾🌼 We used the #sPlot database & found a pronounced decoupling between phylogenetic & functional diversity ⬇️
🧪🌐🌏🍁
@natureecoevo.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Bf5IK
Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity are expected to be positively correlated. Here the authors show that the covariation between these metrics in vascular plant communities around the worl...
shorturl.at
December 3, 2024 at 8:55 PM
🌳 New findings 🌳
Phylogenetic diversity cannot be used as a proxy for functional diversity in vascular plant communities 🌲🌳🌴🌵🌱🍀🌾🌼 We used the #sPlot database & found a pronounced decoupling between phylogenetic & functional diversity ⬇️
🧪🌐🌏🍁
@natureecoevo.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Bf5IK
Phylogenetic diversity cannot be used as a proxy for functional diversity in vascular plant communities 🌲🌳🌴🌵🌱🍀🌾🌼 We used the #sPlot database & found a pronounced decoupling between phylogenetic & functional diversity ⬇️
🧪🌐🌏🍁
@natureecoevo.bsky.social
shorturl.at/Bf5IK
Reposted by Antoine Champreux
Congratulations to T. Durieux who just got his second lead author paper from his PhD project accepted. The paper describes a new species of woody tree that was growing about 360 million years ago in what is now Ireland 🌲⛏️ doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
#paleobotany #botany
#paleobotany #botany
December 3, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Congratulations to T. Durieux who just got his second lead author paper from his PhD project accepted. The paper describes a new species of woody tree that was growing about 360 million years ago in what is now Ireland 🌲⛏️ doi.org/10.1016/j.re...
#paleobotany #botany
#paleobotany #botany