Rebecca Lovell
@rebeccalovell.bsky.social
Quantitative evolutionary ecologist 👩💻🐦🦋🌿 Currently a Postdoc at the University of Aberdeen (she/her)
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Rebecca Lovell
@rebeccalovell.bsky.social
· Feb 28
Testing space‐for‐time transferability of climate effects on occupancy and abundance
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🦋 New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social! 🦋
Using the Orange-tip butterfly in the UK🦋, we test a key assumption of many species’ distribution models (SDMs): that climate effects on species’ distributions are equivalent over space🌍 versus time⏰
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70005
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Using the Orange-tip butterfly in the UK🦋, we test a key assumption of many species’ distribution models (SDMs): that climate effects on species’ distributions are equivalent over space🌍 versus time⏰
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70005
🧵👇
Reposted by Rebecca Lovell
Are you involved in ecological forecasting or prediction in Europe?
We’re mapping forecasting applications across the continent — from SDMs to observatories with predictive potential.
Submit here 👉 euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/forecasting-...
#EcologicalForecasting #EEFI #OpenScience
We’re mapping forecasting applications across the continent — from SDMs to observatories with predictive potential.
Submit here 👉 euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/forecasting-...
#EcologicalForecasting #EEFI #OpenScience
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Are you involved in ecological forecasting or prediction in Europe?
We’re mapping forecasting applications across the continent — from SDMs to observatories with predictive potential.
Submit here 👉 euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/forecasting-...
#EcologicalForecasting #EEFI #OpenScience
We’re mapping forecasting applications across the continent — from SDMs to observatories with predictive potential.
Submit here 👉 euro-ecoforecast.wordpress.com/forecasting-...
#EcologicalForecasting #EEFI #OpenScience
Reposted by Rebecca Lovell
New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change
Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...
www.nature.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:04 AM
New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Rebecca Lovell
Our common garden experiment with urban and forest great tits is out early view in Evolution! doi.org/10.1093/evol... @denisreale.bsky.social @annecharmantier.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Our common garden experiment with urban and forest great tits is out early view in Evolution! doi.org/10.1093/evol... @denisreale.bsky.social @annecharmantier.bsky.social
🦋 New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social! 🦋
Using the Orange-tip butterfly in the UK🦋, we test a key assumption of many species’ distribution models (SDMs): that climate effects on species’ distributions are equivalent over space🌍 versus time⏰
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70005
🧵👇
Using the Orange-tip butterfly in the UK🦋, we test a key assumption of many species’ distribution models (SDMs): that climate effects on species’ distributions are equivalent over space🌍 versus time⏰
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70005
🧵👇
Testing space‐for‐time transferability of climate effects on occupancy and abundance
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
🦋 New paper out in @funecology.bsky.social! 🦋
Using the Orange-tip butterfly in the UK🦋, we test a key assumption of many species’ distribution models (SDMs): that climate effects on species’ distributions are equivalent over space🌍 versus time⏰
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70005
🧵👇
Using the Orange-tip butterfly in the UK🦋, we test a key assumption of many species’ distribution models (SDMs): that climate effects on species’ distributions are equivalent over space🌍 versus time⏰
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70005
🧵👇
Very excited to say that earlier this month I passed my PhD viva! 🦋👩💻
Thanks to @lancasterlt.bsky.social and Jarrod Hadfield for a really interesting discussion, and of course to @allyphillimore.bsky.social for being the most wonderful supervisor! #PhDone
Thanks to @lancasterlt.bsky.social and Jarrod Hadfield for a really interesting discussion, and of course to @allyphillimore.bsky.social for being the most wonderful supervisor! #PhDone
February 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Very excited to say that earlier this month I passed my PhD viva! 🦋👩💻
Thanks to @lancasterlt.bsky.social and Jarrod Hadfield for a really interesting discussion, and of course to @allyphillimore.bsky.social for being the most wonderful supervisor! #PhDone
Thanks to @lancasterlt.bsky.social and Jarrod Hadfield for a really interesting discussion, and of course to @allyphillimore.bsky.social for being the most wonderful supervisor! #PhDone
Fantastic talks from my lab mates @ilarialonero.bsky.social and Megan Stamp 🐦🐛 #BES2024
December 11, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Fantastic talks from my lab mates @ilarialonero.bsky.social and Megan Stamp 🐦🐛 #BES2024
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Excited to present my PhD research at #BES2024 today! 🌾Join me at 16:00 in Auditorium 1C as I dive into how species turnover and intraspecific trait plasticity shape grass community responses to grazing. See you there!
Grazing is reshaping grasslands in the Scottish Uplands—but how? 🌾 Are species shifting, or are traits like plant height changing within species? 🤔 Find out next Wednesday at #BES2024 (Auditorium 1C) when I present my PhD research on Scottish grass communities
December 11, 2024 at 9:05 AM
Excited to present my PhD research at #BES2024 today! 🌾Join me at 16:00 in Auditorium 1C as I dive into how species turnover and intraspecific trait plasticity shape grass community responses to grazing. See you there!