📢 The #CESAB FRB recruts an admin support manager

Come and join a team dedicated to biodiversity synthesis research. International atmosphere in the heart of beautiful Montpellier 🌈

No need to be French, just to speak French :)

DL August 31th

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Le #PNDB et le #CESAB FRB avec le soutien de DevLOG vous invite aux journées #EcoinfoFAIR

⁉️ #ateliers #formations #hackathon en #écoinformatique #FAIR . Cette année un focus données #ADN
📅24-25-26 oct. à Montpellier
📝inscriptions en sept.
➡️ecoinfofair2023.sciencesconf.org

ACOUCENE group gather at #CESAB this week, they study anthropogenic impacts on soundscapes using birds 🐦 as ecological indicators over the 30 last years ! PI Jean-Yves Barnagaud ▶️ Towards a silent spring ?

#AcousticEcology

FRB Ministères Écologie Énergie Territoires Office français de la biodiversité

The costs of being a non-native English speaker (NNES) in science by Tatsuya Amano et al. in PLOS Biology
50% of NNES ofen decide to not give oral presentations, they got higher rejections, etc. It's time to really work this out with concret actions !
doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Out now in Global Change Biology by Charlotte Rault et al. We show that trait-environment associations diverge between native and alien breeding bird assemblages on the world's oceanic islands. 3170 native and 169 naturalized alien species on 4660 islands !

doi.org/10.1111/geb.13…

Great paper by Noémie Coulon et al in GEB Journal from 3 #CESAB groups ! FREE, MAESTRO & FISHGLOB

38% of fishes at risk of extinction in NE Atlantic are playing unique roles in ecosystems !! We need conservation plans that prioritize traits !

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

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#CESAB Newsletters #9 it out today 📢. Let's get back on a bustling semester, with a word from our loved deputy director Claire Salomon, groups hosted 🤝, training weeks 🧙‍♂️, calls 🌈, publications 📰 and a nice spotlight on Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲❤️

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Hosting the #CESAB group PARSEC this week working to build new tools for Data Sharing and re-use through investigation of the socioeconomic impacts of protected areas. Large consortium funded by Belmont Forum ecosystem. Dedication to #FAIR and #CARE !

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Hosting the virtual kick-off meeting of the PHENOFISH #CESAB group aiming at gathering data on the morphology, behaviour and physiology for 35,000 fishes ! PIs Nicolas Loiseau and S. Brosse Évolution & Diversité Biologique. This is our second DataShare ! more will come : bit.ly/3KClXTb

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What’s the relationship between people’s perception of beauty and animals’ conservation needs? 🐬 🦈 🌊

A machine-learning study by Nicolas Mouquet and Reef Futures colleagues provides the aesthetic value of 2,417 reef fish species 🐠

Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3Jkcr68

SynTreeSys, gather at #CESAB this week, unites 7 network contributors to compile 8,000 plots spanning all major Neotropical biomes ! This unpreceded data set will enable analyses of biodiversity trends and risk globaly ! Pis Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Jérôme Chave Évolution & Diversité Biologique

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Really nice video by Nuit Européenne des Chercheurs on our Teddy bear exp. 🐻🥰 they do a great job at showing how participatory science is fun and serious ! youtu.be/_d9qlmceFHY in french, but you just have to ask ytube to subtitle it

Tedybearology on the move !! 🐻🌈✊

Dr Thierry Brassac

This week we also hosted the joint #CESAB #sDiv UNICOP group which aim at shaping new eco-evolutionary theory of coexistence. Their tool? Deductive inference and Price equations. Their goal? Bridging theory gaps. Stay tuned!

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Happy to host the ISLETS #CESAB group this week. PIs Dr. Kasey E. Barton & Claire Fortunel. They build a global database of plant resource use functional traits on islands. This is our first DataShare! more will come as our 2023 call is still open : bit.ly/3KClXTb

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Ecological restoration in the age of apocalypse, by Svejcar et al. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16… out in Global Change Biology ... what about Doomsday and restoration or The Noah's Ark Problem (ouch this one already exist doi.org/10.2307/2999617). We need no fear, just actions! 🌏🌍🌎✊🌈

📢 Le #CESAB FRB recrute un(e) gestionnaire en appui admin à Montpellier.

Venez rejoindre une équipe dédiée au soutien de la recherche sur la biodiversité. Ambiance internationale au cœur de Montpellier !

Candidatures avant le 19 juillet 2023

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🌍 Calling coral enthusiasts! Incredible response from 🇫🇷 to our coral reef survey, but we need more international voices! Help diversify our data, take our 5-min survey ! biodiful.org/#/beautifulcor…
Please RT! 🙏🌎✨
Gita Alisa Tim Lamont ReeFish Lancaster Environment Centre Marbec

The Ecological Causes of Functional Distinctiveness in Communities out in Ecology Letters bit.ly/3XeFcaq
We explore the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that underpin functionally distinct species. Great collaborative work of the #FREE #CESAB group ! 🌈

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