@BiochangeAU

BIOCHANGE - Center for Biodiversity Dynamics in a Changing World @AarhusUni, Denmark. Stopped Dec 2023. Research updates from the team continues on @EconovoAU

 Aarhus, Denmark
biochange.au.dk
Joined June 2017
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🧵1/1: Dear Followers @BiochangeAU & its underlying project funded by a 6-year (2017-2023) VILLUM Investigator grant from @VILLUMscience to @JCSvenning ended on Dec 31, 2023. As such this account will post less updates in the future. We continue our important research @EconovoAU
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🌿Ecological Novelty and Planetary Stewardship: Biodiversity Dynamics in a Transforming Biosphere📷 💡Special issue edited by @JCSvenning, Melodie A. McGeoch, @SigneNormand, @anordonez1 & @ARCHAEOfelix.💡 Link to introductory article: lnkd.in/d3GEDsSz @GrundforskFond
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📢 Come work with us! 💡2-yr fully funded #postdoc @ @AarhusUni_int Denmark on #Vegetation-#climate interactions under rising #biosphere novelty 🌳☀️🌧️🌲🌱🌍 🔔Deadline to apply is Sept 1, 2024 📌international.au.dk/about/pr… @JCSvenning @MegaFaunaMe @RobBuitenwerf @GrundforskFond

2-yr postdoc on Vegetation-climate interactions under rising biosphere novelty - Vacancy at Aarhus...

Vacancy at Department of Biology - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University

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Published in the special issue on 'Ecological novelty and planetary stewardship: biodiversity dynamics in a transforming biosphere' in @RSocPublishing. Led by @JCSvenning and team. @BiochangeAU @EconovoAU Do check out a series of amazing papers here: royalsocietypublishing.org/t…
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Congrats to Reece Thornley @RTConservation on an excellent presentation & successful + convincing defense of his PhD thesis on 'African #megafauna & savanna protected areas in the #Anthropocene' - part of the @BiochangeAU @VILLUMscience project with @JCSvenning & @RobBuitenwerf
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Interested in the ongoing global ecological transformation & what to do about it? Consider coming to @AarhusUni for our conference Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere @EconovoAU conferences.au.dk/ecological…🌐🦜🌦️🦬🧑‍🤝‍🧑🌿#climatechange #ecology #ecosystems #rewilding #restoration
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Nice feature in @Forbes @GrrlScientist on our analysis on #plant effects of native vs alien #herbivores (@ScienceMagazine): Killing Large Non-Native Herbivores May Be A Conservation Mistake forbes.com/sites/grrlscienti…🦬🌿🦌🦘🐴🍀🌷🐄 #megafauna #ungulates #alienspecies #conservation
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Anthropogenic #forest #degradation affects many areas that are formally protected or perceived to be intact - see our global @GEDI_Knights #remotesensing-based analysis @naturesustainab nature.com/articles/s41893-0…🌳🚛🐄🌿🌴@EconovoAU
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Happy to see our new study out @ScienceMagazine: Functional traits—not nativeness—shape the effects of large mammalian #herbivores on #plant communities science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…. Big thx to @ejlundyyy for leading! @EconovoAU 🦬🌿🐐☘️🫏🐃🪻🦌 #megafauna #herbivory #alienspecies

Functional traits—not nativeness—shape the effects of large mammalian herbivores on plant communi...

Large herbivores’ effects on plants depend more on their size and breadth of diet than whether they were introduced or native.

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#meetECONOVO -Niels Mogensen is a PhD student with @RobBuitenwerf & @JCSvenning in collaboration with his employer @MaraPredator in Kenya, where Niels is Senior Program Scientist. His PhD focuses on how anthropogenic activities affect lion density, distribution & space use (1/2)
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#meetECONOVO - @szymo_czyzewski joined us Aug 2023 for a #PhD with @JCSvenning to study the effects of large #herbivores on #vegetation & #biodiversity in the temperate forest biome. Szymon’s interests include trophic #rewilding, #botany, #orthoptera, & #ecosystemfunctioning
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1/x 🧵 @EconovoAU is well-represented at this year's @Biogeography #ibsprague2024 conference. Today we have many of our ECRs on the program in several of the concurrent sessions: @szymo_czyzewski @ 11.15 in the Macroecology session @ninad_mungi @ 11.00 in Invasion biogeography 👇
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Our center director @JCSvenning giving a talk about #urban #greenspaces to benefit people and #biodiversity in a biogeographic-macroecological perspective at @Biogeography #ibsprague2024 📸@DennisP_Aarhus @GrundforskFond
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Boonman et al. find that more than 17000 tree species are exposed to increasing anthropogenic threats, including many species classified as data-deficient in the IUCN Red List. @JCSvenning @BiochangeAU @EconovoAU @AarhusUni_int nature.com/articles/s41467-0…

More than 17,000 tree species are at risk from rapid global change

Nature Communications - Tree species may be vulnerable to multiple global change factors. Here, the authors find that more than 17 thousand tree species are exposed to increasing anthropogenic...

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#meetECONOVO - @WanbenWU joined us Aug 2023 for a 2-year postdoc on @HorizonEU-funded @wildE_Europe project with @JCSvenning & @RobBuitenwerf. Wanben is passionate about understanding how ecosystems respond to various #naturalclimatesolutions & #rewilding for #climatemitigation
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#meetECONOVO - @SEH_Pang joined us in 2023 as a postdoc on @HorizonEU-funded @wildE_Europe project w/@JCSvenning & @RobBuitenwerf. Sean's work is on projecting Pan-European plant biodiversity outcomes across future #ClimateChange #LandUse #LandCover change & #rewilding scenarios
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2/2: Please consider following us @EconovoAU - a @GrundforskFond Center of Excellence - to continue getting updates on our research progress on #biodiversitydynamics, #restoration & #rewilding, #resilience, & #biospherefunctioning in relation to the emergence of #novelecosystems
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#meetECONOVO - @EmmaMarjakangas has joined us as a @MSCActions fellow to study #ecologicalnetworks under #globalchange predicting the network structure & rewiring under varying future scenarios. Emma is broadly interested in species' interactions #functionaltraits & #macroecology
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#meetECONOVO - Andrew (Roo) Abraham aka @EcologyRoo joined us earlier this year as a @MSCActions fellow to work on #zoogeochemistry with @MegafaunaMe. Roo’s research examines how different #wildlifemanagement strategies impact nutrient recycling and redistribution by #megafauna
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