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Dylan Craven
@dylancraven.bsky.social
ecologist | plants | open data | Universidad Mayor (Chile) | Rasgos-CL (www.rasgos.cl) | he/him/él | #BlackLivesMatter | www.dylancraven.com
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Acabo de crear un starter-pack para ecologós en América Latina - !!! favor de sugerir más gente !!!!
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The Tumber-Dávila Lab and Michael Cox are looking for a postdoctoral Fellow to join the Environmental Studies Department at Dartmouth through the Society of Fellows Program
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November 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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🔥🌳🌴Check out this exhaustive overview of how #traits may mediate the impact of #fire on (tropical) #forests and vice versa, led by PhD student David Pacuk! An important start to better understand fire resilience of fire-unadapted forests!🔥🌳🌴
🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥

Toward a functional understanding of novel fire regimes in tropical #forests
By David Pacuk, Peter van der Sleen, Frank Sterck & @masha-vandersande.bsky.social

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October 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Felíz de compartir www.rasgos.cl en Datos Vivos 2025!
October 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Inspired by an event I attended this week: the number one issue for adoption of data sharing practices is that part of the open science community is unable to conceptualize that incentives won't ever fix the fact that some people just don't want to share.
October 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
How does island biogeography influence diversity - stability relationships? Find out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Island Biogeography and Life‐History Traits Stabilize Island Bird Communities
This study proposed a framework that integrated the Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography with a functional perspective to explore island biodiversity–stability relationships. By analyzing a 13-y...
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October 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Integrantes de Ecología y Biogeografía Funcional - Daniela Ramírez y yo - presentamos sobre la diversidad urbana de aves y resiliencia de ecosistemas semi-aridos @rae2025.bsky.social #mendoza #rae2025
October 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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How do plants stave off greedy pollinators? Read our new paper on pollen dosing in buzz pollinated flowers just out in @funecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Gradual pollen release in a buzz‐pollinated plant: Investigating pollen presentation theory under bee visitation
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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October 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Y #rae2025 partió en Mendoza! Un tremendo privilegio compartir con colegas de Chile, Uruguay y la Argentina @rae2025.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Happy to be in Mendoza with @josemiguelcerda.bsky.social for #RAE2025
October 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Got 40 mentors & 47 students signed up so far.
Need more of both, but particularly students.

Typical year, we get ~125 mentors & 250+ students. I know this year will not be typical.
September 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Wonderful talk by @saltyecoevo.bsky.social about his exciting work on chemical ecology and urban biodiversity patterns across the Americas #DataObservatory #UMayor
September 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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How reliable are model-based blacklists of invasive plant species if occurrence & environmental data are limited & under different model choices? New paper by PhD researcher Valén Holle @jappliedecology.bsky.social #SDM #invasive #plants #Pacific besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Uncertainty in blacklisting potential Pacific plant invaders using species distribution models
SDMs can provide valuable support for planning the preventive management of alien species. However, our findings show that blacklist outcomes are highly sensitive to modelling decisions. While ensemb....
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September 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Check out the pretty version of our paper exploring intraspecific trait variation across the range of an endemic tree species in central Chile #UndergraduatePower #OrgulloDeSupervisor
Shifts in trait diversity across the range of an endemic treeline species in central Chile
AbstractBackground and Aims. Climate change is altering biodiversity by shifting species ranges. Yet, the mechanisms underlying these shifts are not well u
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August 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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By far my favorite paper this year.
A collaboration between Mapuche elders—including Machi Patricia—and ecologists, reflecting on building trust and shared understanding in the face of environmental crisis.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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August 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Rasgos-CL made the national news in Chile:
www.instagram.com/stories/data...
August 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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🌿 PhD Opportunity in Biodiversity Sciences 🌿

Join our lab to explore the processes shaping biodiversity across space and time. Competitive stipend, flexible project design, and membership in the vibrant @qcbs.ca network.

Montreal | Concordia | MSc/PhD

Details: bit.ly/3UCmDMB
July 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Great talk about alpine diversity in W. North América by #HannahMarx #Botany2025
July 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Insightful talk by @saltyecoevo.bsky.social on the ecological stoichiometry of mistletoe #Botany2025
July 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Looking forward to Botany 2025 in Palm Springs! Reach out if you will be around
July 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Meet the men and women who have thrown themselves into the battle against forest degradation. Seeds of Hope: Forest Guardians of Madagascar is a mini documentary about a life-changing forest restoration success story.

It just dropped on Youtube, and you can watch it below ⬇️.

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July 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Help!
I’m doing background research on the history of science funding in the US. Does anyone have specific info on how early biologists in the late 1800s and early 1900s US funded their research? I have the general picture but looking for citeable sources & details about individuals.
May 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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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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📢 #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 22, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The best way to teach the intricacies of estimating biodiversity!
May 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM