Irena Simova

Právě jsme zveřejnili program Biologických čtvrtků na nadcházející letní semestr.

🎓 Our amazing PhD students are organising one of the upcoming talks in our seminar series! Join us on 31 March (15:00) for Maria Dornelas (University of St Andrews) speaking on “Biodiversity Change in the Recent Past.”

📍 Zoology Lecture Hall, Viničná 7, Prague

#Ecology #Biodiversity #Seminar

Our colleague Radan Haluzík has just published a new book, large and colorful: Turbo-Countryside: Full Landscapes and Empty Houses (Not Only) in the Balkans (Academia, 2026). Congratulations! www.academiaknihy.cz/cs/upcoming_...

A globally consistent scaling relationship reveals stabilizing effects of dominant species in plant communities Despite extensive research, stabilizing mechanisms in ecosystems remain uncertain. Taylor's power law (TPL) is a pervasive ecological pattern that describes how variance scales with mean abundance (σ....

All coexisting species ☘️🌿🌾 follow a single power function 📈 linking their temporal variability to their mean abundance 🤯 — 💥Taylor’s power law💥. This exceptionally strong law in community #ecology shows how dominants play a key role in stabilizing ecosystems worldwide 🌍🌐

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Why long-term science is needed in a short term world.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I’m launching a blog series for @oikosjournal.bsky.social , “View from the Editor’s Desk” - the first post is now live.

These pieces reflect my personal perspectives on different aspects of the publication system and not official journal policy.

www.oikosjournal.org/blog/view-ed...

Micro-credential Anthropocene 2026: Registration Opened! Micro-credential Anthropocene 2026: Registration Opened!

Registration for this year's course "Anthropocene: contemporary world in transdisciplinary perspective" is now open. Don't hesitate and don't wait until the last minute. The number of participants is limited. www.anthropocene.cz/en/micro-cre...

🏆 Calling all early-career ecologists! The E4 Award from @ecography.bsky.social is OPEN for submissions!
Submit a proposal for a concise review and compete for €1,000 (+ €500 runner-up).
📅 Deadline: 31 March 2026
📝 Just a <300-word proposal to start!

more about Vladimir and his research: vladremes.github.io

📢 Postdoc opening in avian biogeography & macroecology (Olomouc, CZ)
Vladimír Remeš (excellent scientist and mentor) is hiring a postdoc to study bird diversity across biomes, linking species pools, traits, climate & history using big data, fieldwork, and modelling.
🔗 pracuj.upol.cz/nc/zprava/cl...

Arnost Sizling from @cts.cuni.cz has become a Subject Editor for @ecography.bsky.social journal! 👏

@jcsvenning.bsky.social is always a welcome listen (and even better to have some excellent food and beverages with)

Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction - Nature Plants This study finds that native tree extinctions and alien naturalizations are pushing forests towards fast-growing, resource-demanding species. This global shift could affect carbon storage and ecosyste...

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳
Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌿 Webinar for IAVS Young Scientists 🌿

🎤 Talk: Writing Scientific Papers in Vegetation Science
📣Prof. Milan Chytrý
📅 January 28th, 2026
⏰ 9:00 AM CET
💻 YS’ Zoom Room
✏️ Registration Form: tinyurl.com/youngscienti...

#VegSci #IAVS #YoungScientists

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage

Deadline extended! 🎉
You now have until 31 Jan to submit a Thematic Session proposal for NSO-GfÖ 2026 (14–17 Sept, Odense).
Got an ecological topic you think deserves the spotlight? We want to hear it. 💡🌿
Guidelines: vist.ly/4nbus
Submit: vist.ly/4nbuv

Just a reminder to follow and share our ECR Biogeography starter pack - and if you've already followed, double check you haven't missed any recent additions!

📢 Huge congrats to David Storch & colleagues! Their paper is featured on the cover of Trends Ecol. Evol. (@cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social), proposing a unifying theory of global biodiversity dynamics – and what it means for the future!

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🌍 #Biodiversity #Ecology #Evolution

The International Biogeography Society advertises the next installment of its monthly Funk Biogeography Seminar Series. The speaker is Dr. Pedro Peres-Neto, whose talk is titled "Ecology & Evolution in Spatial Structured Environment." The talk will occur on Wednesday, January 26, 2026, at 1:00PM UTC. For details and registration, go to www.biogeography.org.

The new year of biogeography is off to a strong start! Dr. Pedro Peres-Neto will present our next Funk lecture on January 28 at 1:00PM UTC. Learn more and register here: www.biogeography.org/news/news/ja...

Cool work, thanks, @ondrejmottl.bsky.social for leading this!

⏩️❓️‼️ If you have your biogeography research to be published, there is the perfect journal with an impact factor of 2.5 & being led & driven by a great society @biogeography.bsky.social🎉‼️⏪️

❤️FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY❤️

biogeography.pensoft.net

#tibs2026 #macroecology @tibsaarhus2026.bsky.social

Day One of #TIBS2026 ends with a big poster session!
Four poster rooms, loads of posters, buzzing discussions, and outstanding science — don’t miss one of the most interactive sessions of the conference.
#biogeography #macroecology

The dynamics of the diversity–energy relationship during the last 21,000 years Aim Spatial diversity patterns are linked to energy availability, but how the diversity–energy relationship changes in space and time is unclear. There are three possible scenarios: (a) equilibrium ...

The impressive @isimova.bsky.social expanding our previous exploration of #diversity #energy dynamics, highlighting the contrasting relationships between arboreal and non-arboreal environments. see our past work here ⏩ doi.org/10.1111/geb....

Expert vysvětluje, kde mají v Česku vzniknout národní parky - Seznam Zprávy Ze staré vlády na novou přešly i spory o ochranu přírody: Máme víc chránit Křivoklátsko a moravský Soutok? V rozhovoru odpovídá biolog David Storch. Nic lepšího než chráněná území lidstvo proti vymírá...

"Jestli chceme zachovat přírodní rozmanitost světa, nezbývá než mít nějaká území nějak chráněna. Vtip je v tom, že mohou být chráněna velmi různě," říká kolega David Storch v rozhovoru pro Seznam Zprávy. #mediacts www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domac...

Sad news … we lost a visionary scientist. His work and writing changed my understanding of the rules of ecological systems and evolutionary history

Developing a macroecology for human‐altered ecosystems Although anthropogenically-induced ecological disruptions are fundamentally important in defining ecosystem properties, they are largely overlooked by macroecological theory. Anthropogenic disruption...

I finally published my last dissertation chapter. In many ways, this was the most complicated one. I am very grateful to the team of scientists who went through the 10+ years of grant writing, data collection, analysis and writing with me. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nitrogen deposition reveals global patterns in plant and animal stoichiometry - Nature Communications Organisms vary in their nitrogen and phosphorus content, shaping ecological and evolutionary processes. This study shows that nitrogen deposition is a consistent global factor associated with plant an...

Thrilled to share our new #stoichiometry paper on the environmental correlates of plant and animal stoichiometry. This was a fantastic collaborative work supported by #idiv www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌿 Prof. Marten Scheffer on #InsideBiodiversity: protecting nature isn’t only about avoiding tipping points. It’s an ethical duty. 🎙️With iDiv, he discusses:

Precaution in complex systems
Lessons from past extinctions
Positive tipping points toward sustainability

🔗More: insidebiodiversity.podigee.io

Arnošt Šizling from @cts.cuni.cz and colleagues just published (online) a paper in Ecography showing that all pairwise community indices can be classified into only three meaningful families, and that the popular partitioning into nestedness and turnover makes no sense.
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