The advent calendar of our research group 'Frontiers in Evolutionary Zoology' at the Natural History Museum Oslo is halfway through, and has compiled a very interesting list of inspiring 2022 papers.
Today, the focus is on a PNAS paper by Ryabov et al. on measuring functional diversity. highly recommended reading.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.2118156119.

https://blog.annelida.de/2022/12/12/door-12-measuring-diversity/

#biodiversity #FunctionalDiversity #biomonitoring #ecosystems

Excited to share my new paper with Joe Tobias, Ben Blonder and Alex Pigot. We use traits for all the planet's #birds to show that species at higher risk of #extinction are also more morphologically + functionally unique.

#ecology #FunctionalDiversity #ecosystem #ThreatenedSpecies #biodiversity

The paper: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.14201

A summary of our findings: https://fesummaries.wordpress.com/2022/11/24/predicted-extinctions-target-the-planets-most-unique-bird-species/

📷 Agami Heron, Joe Tobias

And another very interesting #network poster! This one shows that higher horizontal #diversity of #autotrophs does not necessarily lead to higher #FunctionalDiversity!

Thanks @lawojcik, it was nice to chat with you!

@networkscience
#InteractionNetworks
#TheoreticalEcology
#EcologicalModeling
#EcologyMetz2022
#sfe2gfoe2022

Hi all! #Introduction time:

I'm an Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing and Vegetation Science at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile.

I'm interested in plant #invasions, #FunctionalDiversity, #traits, time series, and #DeepLearning.

Currently, I have a project focussing on plant adaptations (traits) to droughts, and land-atmosphere feedbacks in Mediterranean ecosystems.

#EOchat, #Biodiversity, #Chile, #GlobalSouth