📢📢📢 The new 2023-2024 list is out! Please share widely! If you are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology & evolutionary biology check out this great community run resource: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

2023 has been a wonderfully busy & incredibly exciting year – recapped here in 2min. 📹 Thank you, everyone, for being with us and following along on our #science journey! 🌿 👉 youtu.be/YK7vhJJByRk

Broadleaved evergreen trees make up the most aboveground forest biomass but are not the most abundant on Earth 🌳 Comparing the distribution of leaf types with their biomass offers valuable insights into varying forests' carbon storage capacity: doi.org/10.1038/s41477…

Thank you all, and a special thanks to Constantin Zohner and Thomas Crowther for invaluable help and support throughout my PhD journey. I truly treasure these friendships and they will remain lifelong memories!

Large language models (LLMs) like #ChatGPT have been the talk of the town. In what ways could we use them for #science & #research? We share 10 rules – 5 safeguards & 5 usage suggestions – for working with LLMs as #scientists in PLOS : doi.org/10.1371/journa…

In the TipESM project we are trying to understand climate tipping points in the Earth system. For that purpose we are offering a 2 year PostDoc postions on in Tipping points in mountain ecosystems Apply here: apply.refline.ch/273855/1622/pu…

#PostDoc alert! The Dynamic #Macroecology group in the Land Change Science research unit offers a 2-year PostDoc on tipping points in #mountain #ecosystems: apply.refline.ch/273855/1622/pu… #tippingpoints #biodiversity #landchangescience

The 2nd #TreeMig Framework Workshop took successfully place WSL Umweltforschung, presenting background and applications of the forest landscape model TreeMig and introducing the users to the TreeMig R-package and GUI. treemig.wsl.ch/en/

Arthur Provost modelled #forestfire danger across canton #Bern and quantified variable influence to provide management guidelines. The map indicates how the predicted fire susceptibility is responding to human activities and environmental conditions across the landscape. #wsl

We are still looking for a postdoc that will woek with us on tipping points in global mountain ecosystems.

Nice to see our new paper out, an effort by several labs, and led by Nina van Tiel. Global analysis of forest compositional structure and climate change impacts on tree species.

Why are there many evergreen and deciduous forests, but few mixed ones? Yibiao Zou discovered an interesting mechanism behind it. Read the paper: nature.com/articles/s4146… Crowther Lab WSL Dynamic Macroecology

Why do some forests go evergreen while others lose their leaves in winter? We show evidence that these forest types present alternative stable states across temperate regions. Led by our brilliant PhD student Yibiao Zou. Thanks to all the coauthors for making this study possible!

Zou et al. combine forest biodiversity observations & simulations to show that leaf types across northern hemisphere temperate regions follow a bimodal distribution. Yibiao Zou Thomas Crowther Constantin Zohner Crowther Lab D-USYS@ETH nature.com/articles/s4146…

We are ready for the #WBF2024⛰️🌱🚀 DME has arrived in #Davos to participate in World Biodiversity Forum workshops on #CHELSA, Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment MountainBiodiversity, #AI & #SpeciesDistributionModels. Curious? Come talk to Niklaus E Zimmermann Dr. Dirk Karger Haozhi Ma Elham Ebrahimi

Today, Dr. Dirk Karger from WSL Dynamic Macroecology presented his research at #WBF2024 in #Davos on how biodiversity trends from Natures Futures scenarios differ in feedback to the climate system. Great talk!

Dami Ogundipe from WSL Dynamic Macroecology just gave a great talk at the #WBF2024 in Davos on how to flexibly combine three important aspects of successful #ConservationDesign: Complementarity, Connectivity and Area!

Stunning talk by Philipp Brun from WSL Dynamic Macroecology on #DeepLearning ensemble DNNs using #CitizenScience data to build spatial #AI based multispecies models for analyses and plant #SpeciesIdentification at #WBF24 in #Davos.

Great honor to be involved! Thanks, Nick!

Die NZZ Schweiz hat mir heute unterstellt, Umweltverbände zu kritisieren und die vom Schweizer Bauernverband finanzierte (Züger) Studie zu stützen. Beides ist falsch und polemisch. Ich habe dargelegt, Trendwende punkto Biodiversitätsrückgang ist noch nicht erreicht, zusätzliche Flächen sind nötig.