INVITED COMMENTARY
Capturing Forest Ecosystem Dynamics After Disturbances: From Individual Trees to Landscapes

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#Climatechange #Disturbanceregimes #Treedemography #Forestdynamics #Ecosystemresilience

We organize a conference about the role of fire 🔥 in the landscape and ecosystems. It will be held in Decin, 6-8 October 2025, near the Bohemian Switzerland NP which experienced a huge fire in 2022. We welcome a wide range of contributions. Register by 8th July.

firece.bc.cas.cz

I really liked this idea of using a histogram as a legend in a choropleth map (since land isn't unemployed; people are), so I made a little guide to doing it with #rstats, {ggplot2}, and {patchwork}

www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2025/02...

Excited to share new preprint by PhD candidate Anna Rönnfeldt „Climatic niche conservatism in non-native plants depends on introduction history and biogeographic context“ highlighting context dependency in climate niche shifts of species introduced in multiple world regions doi.org/10.1101/2025...

This work is wrapping up an amazing 6-year collaboration with great people, who are mostly not yet on Blue Sky, including: Rob Guralnick, Allen Hurlbert, Leslies Ries, John Withey, their labs, plus Institute for Bird Populations, particularly Jim Saracco and Rodney Siegel