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Young Ecosystem Services Specialists
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Global network of 900+ early career ecosystem services specialists | supported by Ecosystem Service Partnership
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Our next webinar!

🌎 ESP 11 World Conference pre-event webinar:
ES mapping: state-of-the-art data, methods, and tools on various spatio-temporal scales.

📅 April 3, 15:00 CET

🔗https://registration.yess-network.org/mappingES

#academic #modeling #ecosystem #ESPConference #Research #mapping
March 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
IPBES Nature Futures Framework webinar on 3/21! Learn about NFF for scenarios & planning with our moderators - Nita Shashidharan, Sakshi Rana, & Dr. Thomas Schmitt. Details & registration: registration.yess-network.org/NatureFuture

#IPBES #NFF #Webinar
March 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🌎 ESP 11 World Conference pre-event webinar: Nature Future Framework (NFF) for scenario building.

📅 March 21, 10:00 CET.
🔗 Register: registration.yess-network.org/NatureFuture

#NFF #IPBES #ESPConference #Research
March 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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🚀 SELINA is joining new, bluer skies! 🦋

We are happy to share that our #ecosystemservices journey is now part of BlueSky! 🌱 We are excited to grow our community here ✨

Join us in our new path and share our experience by following us here 👉 @selinaproject.bsky.social

#SELINA #ExpandingNetwork
February 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🌍📢 Call for Abstracts!

From Interaction to Restoration. Explore how Cultural Ecosystem Services and Soil Organic Carbon can enhance nature-based solutions in restoration practices.

Share innovative ideas on integrating ecological, cultural, and community values in restoration. 🌱
#ESPConference
February 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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🌿Cities thrive when nature’s values align with citizens’ needs.

Our new #CitiesWithNature GUIDE helps you:
✅ Understand & measure nature’s diverse values
✅ Embed values for transformative change

Inspired by @IPBES, tailored for cities. Explore now: citieswithnature.org/tools-and-re...
February 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Join our Nature-Positive Movement
📅 Mar 1 – May 31, 2025

✅ Set commitments (we’ll guide you!)
✅ Take action & share your impact
✅ Celebrate your impact at the closing ceremony! 🎉

📲 Sign up: answer.moaform.com/answers/E6jn40
📩: resolutions4nature@gmail.com

#Resolutions4Nature #NaturePositive
February 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Call for Fellows! 🚨

@ipbes.net is seeking #EarlyCareer experts to join the #GlobalAssessment2. Contribute to assessing progress towards achieving the goals of sustainability! 🌍🧪

🗓 Apply by 28 March 2025

🔗 More info: www.ipbes.net/second-globa...
February 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Are you coming to the ESP World Conference this year? We invite early-career and experienced researchers to join our O3 session to inspire the next generation of scientists and build our community!
All sessions at ESP 11: www.espconference.org/esp11/sessio...

#ECRs #ESP #ecosytemservice #NBS #yess
February 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
#Job alert: PostDoc position on Spatio-temporal dynamics of social-ecological systems at the @tumuenchen.bsky.social (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Deadline: February 21 2025!

www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...
www.lss.ls.tum.de
January 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fair, open access publishing is becoming common. Many alternatives to the big publishers are arising, such as the Journal of the Bulgarian Geographic Society - where many (former) YESSERs can be found.

Take a look and consider for your next publication!

jbgs.arphahub.com
January 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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We are seeking a PhD student with a background in marine ecosystems management to join our multidisciplinary team. You will explore adaptation of marine social-ecological systems to climate change, with a strong emphasis on coastal communities adaptive capacities(1/3)
January 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If you are looking for inspiring scientists and a stellar Starter pack on Biodiversity and the Science-Policy Interface - this might be it!
ipbes.net IPBES @ipbes.net · Nov 24
“Experts and scientists are migrating to Bluesky in record numbers.” Welcome if you’re new (and if you’re not, please help by reposting) - here’s a starter pack for the #biodiversity science-policy community:

go.bsky.app/LjV86zg
January 15, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Another big and important journal making its move to the Blue - Welcome @esandpeople.bsky.social!
Please welcome Ecosystems and People (@esandpeople.bsky.social), the inter- and transdisciplinary journal on biodiversity, ecosystems & quality of life to Bluesky!

We will be leaving the X-sphere very soon, and solely share updates on Linkedin and here.
www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbs...
Ecosystems and People
Ecosystems and People addresses biodiversity, ecosystem services, their contributions to quality of life and the way people relate to nature.
www.tandfonline.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
To all scientists who work with Vegetation and Ecosystems in various parts of Africa - this special issue with @pensoft.net might be interesting for you to consider!
🆕 The “African #Vegetation Studies” collection in the #Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) #journal presents exemplary #classification studies.

🌍 #Data availability, data access, language barriers, low funding & political stability remain a challenge to #scientific work in the region.

ℹ️👇
New special collection in our journal enhances knowledge on African vegetation
The “African Vegetation Studies” collection in the Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) journal demonstrates that there are important classification studies ongoing in different part...
vcs.pensoft.net
January 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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🆕 The “African #Vegetation Studies” collection in the #Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) #journal presents exemplary #classification studies.

🌍 #Data availability, data access, language barriers, low funding & political stability remain a challenge to #scientific work in the region.

ℹ️👇
New special collection in our journal enhances knowledge on African vegetation
The “African Vegetation Studies” collection in the Vegetation Classification and Survey (VCS) journal demonstrates that there are important classification studies ongoing in different part...
vcs.pensoft.net
January 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM

Where are the young #ECR researchers on ecosystems and their services out there? Lets connect and thrive through a strong #Youth network.

Follow us for workshops, #PhD and PostDoc job opportunities and Info on Nature-based Solutions, Ecology, Environmental Sciences and more
go.bsky.app/4V13U6S
January 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The @ipbes.bsky.social call for fellows, #ECR and young scholars is still open - an excellent opportunity to contribute your knowledge while learning how IPBES works.

Apply now!

www.ipbes.net/spatial-plan...
Call for nominations for fellows for the methodological assessment of integrated biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning and ecological connectivity (6 Sep 2024 - 24 Jan 2025) | IPBES secretariat
Dear IPBES members, observers and other interested stakeholders,
www.ipbes.net
January 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are inspired and supported by nature, cost-effective, simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and build resilience[..]. NbS must benefit biodiversity and support the delivery of ecosystem services- European Commission

oppla.eu/product/27060
January 13, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The 11th global #ESP Conference in Darwin, Australia is coming up.

Session submission is still open.

www.espconference.org/esp11/homepage
January 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
PhD Position at the @leed-greifswald.bsky.social in Greifswald, Germany in rewetting effects on tree growth and peatlands - deadline Jan 15th
We are looking for a Ph.D. student to work on
"Spatio-temporal assessment of rewetting effects on tree growth on and beyond peatlands (Project C2)"

part-time position (65 %), beginning ~01 April 2025

Deadline for applications is 15 January 2025!

Find out more!
www.uni-greifswald.de/wetscapes2
WETSCAPES2.0 - Fakultät - Universität Greifswald
Universität Greifswald
www.uni-greifswald.de
January 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Happy New Year to all of you!

Take a look at our newsletter for the second half of 2024: news.yess-network.org/20242

We look forward to your continued participation and support for YESS activities in 2025.
On behalf of the YESS Executive Committee, we wish you a fantastic start to 2025!
YESSNewsletter-2-2024.pdf
news.yess-network.org
January 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The University of Reading in the UK gives out #stipends for funding #PhD programmes that span the food chain from farm to fork - deadline is 3 February 2025.

research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...
PhD Opportunities - FoodBioSystems
Four-year funded PhD projects are available in areas that span the food chain from farm to fork. Closing date: 3 February 2024 (10:00 GMT)
research.reading.ac.uk
January 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
How are biodiversity, water, food, health & climate linked?

This is explored by the latest @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment. The Summary for policy makers is out now, after endless work, numerous meetings and hundreds of scholars coming together.

Don't miss this important work!
ipbes.net IPBES @ipbes.net · Dec 17
🚨 OUT NOW 🚨

📚 The @ipbes.bsky.social #NexusAssessment Summary for Policymakers is now available!

➡️ Explore the most comprehensive assessment ever of the interconnections between biodiversity, water, food, health & climate.

🌏 Options for a just & sustainable future!
www.ipbes.net/node/85582
December 18, 2024 at 12:54 PM
A special issue coming up on tree regeneration for maintaining mountain forest ecosystem services with the @journalofecology.bsky.social

Deadline for manuscripts: 17th of Feb 2025!
📢 Call for proposals! Submit your manuscript proposal for our upcoming Special Feature:

The importance of #tree regeneration for maintaining mountain #forest #ecosystem services under global change

⏰ 17-Feb
🔗 Full details & how to submit: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
December 18, 2024 at 12:51 PM