@abkumar_

Project Associate @INBPGR | 🎓 PhD @OfficialPU | Member @sortecoevo | 📊#RStats | 🌳Botany | ⛰️Macroecology | 🌱PlantEcology | 🍂LitterDecomposition

 Panjab University, Chandigarh
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Our study on data- and code-archiving practices across @BritishEcolSoc journals is now published in @MethodsEcolEvol 👇 doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70… We analyzed 1,800+ papers: 📊 Data archiving: ~97% 💻 Code archiving: ~35% #OpenScience #OpenCode #Ecology
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Interested in learning about the #CitizenScience landscape in biodiversity and ecological science? Register as an attendee for the #CitSciIndia Conference! 🌿 There is no registration fee to participate in this annual online conference.
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Be part of the CitSci India Conference, 13th–14th November 2026, and join the conversation shaping the future of citizen science. Scan the QR code to register or click forms.gle/V1hZUZCyYrsY4EcG8 #CitSciIndia #CitizenScience #ScienceCommunication #Biodiversity #CitizenScienceIndia
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The Data Management Better Science Guide has been updated! 🚨 A big thank you to Natalie Cooper and Robert Barber for editing the guide, and everyone who contributed to the writing! (1/3)
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Missed our last MEE live? You can now find it on our Youtube! In this this webinar, Antica Culina introduces the concept of Risk of Bias (RoB), and discusses why RoB assessment matters for producing reliable systematic reviews and meta-analyses. buff.ly/B2GOVNe

MEE live! Risk of Bias in ecology and evolution: Why does it matter,...

Risk of Bias (RoB) assessment is an essential part of evidence synt...

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Jahnavi Joshi@Jahnavijoshi2Oct 5
Will be talking about our speciation research from Asian tropical forests tomorrow at 12.30 IST @Speciation_net Details of the event and how to attend it: speciation-network.pages.ist…
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📖 Published📖 This perspective argues that reframing persistent challenges as interconnected problems of implementation, rather than aspiration, will help in overcoming a century of inertia in quantitative ecology education 📚️ 📈 🎒 🔎 buff.ly/EdhVNrV

A century of inertia in quantitative ecology education

Ecology has undergone a profound methodological transformation through the rapid growth in new technologies, data volume, statistical innovation and analytical sophistication. These developments c...

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IAVS Young Scientists@IavsYoungSep 25
𝐈𝐀𝐕𝐒 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 #𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 Excited to host 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐙𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐲́ for "Community-weighted mean approach in trait vegetation ecology"! 📅 Oct 7, 9:00 CET | Zoom Don't miss it — register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1SiF…
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Jahnavi Joshi@Jahnavijoshi2Sep 22
Replying to @vishuguttal
Here is one for biogeography, 'Biogeography Research', a Diamond Open Access journal of the Free Association of Biogeographers biog.journals.sup.org/index.…
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I am happy to be on the founding editorial board of a new ecology journal: Systems Ecology The journal is free to read and free to publish, with NO article processing charges. systems-ecology.org/index.ph… The journal has a wonderful editorial board: systems-ecology.org/index.ph…
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📖 Published📖 This work underscores the synergy of human expertise and LLM capabilities, offering a robust, transparent pipeline for efficient, large-scale literature mining in ecology and conservation 📃 🖥️ 🌏️ 🔎 buff.ly/1tOvEVE
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Don't forget to register for our next MEE live! Antica Čulina will introduce the concept of Risk of Bias (RoB), and discusses why RoB assessment matters for producing reliable systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Find out more and register👇 buff.ly/8Hj79o9
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New blog post!🚨 Antica Čulina tells the story of how a something that bugged them 15 years ago was finally formalised in a paper on a Risk of Bias assessment in ecological and evolutionary meta-analysis 🌍 Read the blog here 👇 methodsblog.com/2026/08/13/i…

Its never too late – Risk of Bias in ecology and evolutionary biology

Post provided by Antica Čulina Hi, I am Antica. I work as a senior researcher at the Ruđer Bošković Institute in Croatia. This is a story about how something that bugged me 15 years ago was finally…

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We're hiring Code Integrity and Accessibility editors at MEE! Ideal for people experienced in testing and validating code, and confidence working with at least one language - open to all career stages. Read the role description and apply👇 buff.ly/6zFYKZj
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Henrique Pereira@hmlfpereiraAug 26
So I made some more progress on my theoretical ecology book and the first 3 chapters are now partially completed and #openaccess. It includes an incursion into using #R for symbolic math! Link in the reply.
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Sign up for our new MEE live! In this free webinar, Antica Čulina willintroduce the concept of Risk of Bias (RoB), and discusses why RoB assessment matters for producing reliable systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Find out more and register👇 buff.ly/0zFxUZ8
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Congratulations to Vivek Jadhav -- the newest minted PhD from our lab! Vivek is a recipient of the Schmidt Fellowship and will join Jeff Gore's lab at MIT for his postdoc (as soon as his visa is ready). All the best for Vivek's future endeavours! teelabiisc.wordpress.com/202…
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Roozbeh Valavi@ValaviRoozbehAug 22
blockCV 4.0 is now on CRAN. Highlights: new cv_knndm and cv_group, improved fold balancing, and spatially constrained environmental clustering in cv_cluster(). #rstats More info: github.com/rvalavi/blockCV
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Our study reveals that non-native plants succeed through different fungal strategies. Grasslands → more non-mycorrhizal invaders Forests → mycorrhizal species thrive Disturbance → shifts the balance Ecological context matters for invasion success! nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
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📖 Published📖 Forecasting ecological trajectories from ecological dynamic regimes to improve resilience analysis🌲 🌥️ 📈 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…

Forecasting ecological trajectories from ecological dynamic regimes to improve resilience analysis

The ecological dynamic regime (EDR) framework was recently proposed as an alternative to equilibrium-based approaches for assessing ecological resilience in empirical systems, explicitly incorpora...

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📖 Published📖 This study compiles a list of ten simple rules to help team members engage and excel throughout the entire process as they embark on ecological synthesis journeys🧑‍🤝‍🧑 📈 🧪 buff.ly/aCC4mCE

Ten simple rules for team synthesis in ecological research

Team-based synthesis is a collaborative, data-intensive, often interdisciplinary approach to conducting science that capitalizes on existing data to answer novel questions. In ecology, synthesis h...

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IAVS@IAVS5Aug 11
Meet our Vice President Irena Axmanová! 🌿 #IAVS #Vegetation #CommunityEcology #SpeciesDiversity
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