BIOCHANGE

🧵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

🌿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

📢 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/profile/… @JCSvenning @MegaFaunaMe @RobBuitenwerf @GrundforskFond

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/toc/rstb/2024/…

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

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-dyn…🌐🦜🌦️🦬🧑‍🤝‍🧑🌿#climatechange #ecology #ecosystems #rewilding #restoration

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/grrlscie…🦬🌿🦌🦘🐴🍀🌷🐄 #megafauna #ungulates #alienspecies #conservation

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/s4189…🌳🚛🐄🌿🌴@EconovoAU

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/sc…. Big thx to @ejlundyyy for leading! @EconovoAU 🦬🌿🐐☘️🫏🐃🪻🦌 #megafauna #herbivory #alienspecies

#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)

#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

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 👇

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

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/s4146…

#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

#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

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

🧵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

#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

#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