Thibault Datry

Extreme weather is transforming the world’s rivers. We need new ways to protect them Rivers support billions of people but are among the least protected parts of nature. A major review shows what needs to be done as climate change accelerates.

A piece we wrote for The Conversation that associated with our recent paper "Extreme events and river biodiversity
under climate change" in Nature Reviews Biodiversity @jdtonkin.bsky.social @tdatry.bsky.social and others

Read-only link: rdcu.be/e4Dkv

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Press release: www.canterbury.ac.nz/news-and-eve...

Grateful for an excellent team of co-authors: @oldenfish.bsky.social, @tdatry.bsky.social, Tadeu Siqueira, Julian Merder, Julia Talbot-Jones, and LeRoy Poff.

Another heat-wave is hitting Europe and France ! Consider registering your favourite stream in #DRYRivERS to follow whether it is still flowing or it is drying! #dryingrivers #citizenscience
👉https://dryver.eu/app

We found some mixed results: no observed effect of the impoundments on leaf litter decomposition, a longitudinal effect on organic matter stocks, and a local effect of high diffusive CO2 and CH4 emissions downstream of one of the two impoundments.

We measured upstream and downstream of two small impoundments like this one, as well as at other reaches along the Tarentaine river network in France.

Small Water Impoundments Have Local and Longitudinal Impacts on Carbon Cycling Along a River Network Damming may be one of the most significant anthropogenic modifications fragmenting river networks. Damming alters the transport and processing of coarse particulate organic matter (OM), hence influen...

Our article about the local and longitudinal effects of small water impoundments on riverine carbon cycling is out now in River Research and Applications @tdatry.bsky.social @rsarremejane.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in #MolecularEcology, #IntermittentRivers, #MetacommunityTheory? We are looking for #MSCA applicants to analyse a unique dataset of hundreds of samples from www.dryver.eu. How metacommunities are organised in space/time in #DryingRiverNetworks ?
Interested? email me!

3/ CCL : connectivity counteracts the effects of drying in intermittent river communities. Drying further change the seasonal dynamic of communities.

Check out our research project : www.dryver.eu

@tdatry.bsky.social @rsarremejane.bsky.social remejane.bsky.social @cunilleramontcusi.bsky.social

Today was our final #DRYvER review meeting with our PO & reviewers. A cascade of entousiastic, rewarding and positive comments on the massive work achieved by the large & interdisciplinary team, which I am proud to conduct.

Stay tuned, as only half of our work is already published.

www.dryver.eu

Mediation sur les rivières intermittentes à l'école de St Denis en Bugey avec @CEN AIN et @tdatry.bsky.social

#macroinvertébrés #Albarine #rivièresintermittentes

❓ Quels sont les effets du changement climatique sur le fonctionnement écologique des réseaux hydrographiques soumis à l'assèchement ?

📅 RDV le 20/03/25 à 14h pour le webinaire final du projet européen DRYvER coordonné par @tdatry.bsky.social

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We are excited to invite you to our Final DRYvER #Webinar, 20 March, 14 CET
-Agenda below:
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Don't miss out the opportunity to find out more on how #ClimateChange is altering the eco-hydrology of #DryingRiverNetworks.

This year's superb keynotes are @tdatry.bsky.social and Prof. Angela Gurnell.

We welcome back friends @riversandpeople.bsky.social and, all the way from down under, @ryanmburrows.bsky.social.

Seven practitioner speakers hail from @theriverstrust.bsky.social, Env Ag, Wildfish and county councils.

@rstubbington.bsky.social

#DRYvER_H2020, @ecoflows.bsky.social ws.bsky.social, @inrae-france.bsky.social, @juliecrabot.bsky.social, @rsarremejane.bsky.social

River Drying Causes Local Losses and Regional Gains in Aquatic Invertebrate Metacommunity Diversity: A Cross‐Continental Comparison Drying rivers could be becoming more common with climate change, affecting the diversity of living in these ecosystems. This study compared how aquatic invertebrates respond to drying in river networ...

Natural river drying is reducing the local biodiversity of aquatic communities and promoting the regional biodiversity by generating multiple successional stage across river networks.

Excellent work by Daniel Escobar-Camacho et al.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌍 Join the #DRYvER Final #Webinar!
📅 20 March 2025 | 🕒 14:00 CET

Discover the key outcomes of the amazing work that was performed by DRYvER over the past 4 years.

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The final agenda will be shared soon. Stay tuned, and don’t miss out!

Ecosystem Services in Drying River Networks: A Meta‐Ecosystem Conceptual Model As the river runs dry, new groups of ecosystem services emerge while others gain or lose importance in comparison to the flowing phase. Drying diversifies ecosystem service provision, although their ...

Drying events generate a great diversity of services in rivers, but their anthropogenic increase is a major risk". Great opinion piece by Nacho Peres-Silo et al.
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#ClimateChange, #EcosystemServices, #DryingRiverNetworks, @inrae-france.bsky.social, IUHC

Waning snowfields have transformed into hotspots of greening within the alpine zone - Nature Climate Change The authors use multidecadal, high-resolution data to investigate the spatial variability of vegetation greening in European mountains. They show that changes in snow cover duration play a more signif...

"Waning snowfields have transformed into hotspots of greening within the alpine zone"

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Budget2025. " Nous refusons de tourner le dos aux étudiants et nous refusons de tourner le dos à notre recherche.
L’Université est un investissement pour l'avenir ".
Conférence de presse, en Sorbonne, des présidentes et présidents d'université 🇨🇵
#UniversitesEnDanger

Fantastic talk by #biancafterra
on the ecology and management of #DryRivers #DryingRiverNetworks in Nordeste, Brazil. So many exciting research paths ! Obrigado Bianca !🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

A starter pack for people studying biodiversity and ecosystem functioning at the mesoscale.

#metapopulations #metacommunities #metaecosystems

Reply to be added, and SHARE to spread !

I missed many people, please help me hunting the metacommunists on bluesky !

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Very proud to receive such a prestigious recognition !
Thanks 🙏to the powerful collective behind the exponential advancement of knowledge on intermittent rivers.
Thanks to the incredible work of PhDs & postdoctorants & the trust of my international colleagues!

www.inrae.fr/dossiers/lau...

Access to drinking water: a challenge for vulnerable
communities in Colombia
Interview with Manuel J. Rodriguez, full professor at ÉSAD, Université Laval
blue-community.net/b...

Heat is driving western U.S. droughts
Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change made an ordinary drought into an exceptional drought that parched the American West from 2020-2022, according to a new study by UCLA, NOAA and CIRES scientists.
blue-community.net/b...

These incredible ponds (4700 m asl) were permanent 10y ago (left). Now dry (right) most of the dry season. Due to climate change and with the current population increases, water scarcity is worsening in the #Cochabamba region.

#Tunari #ClimateChange #Wetlands #Bofedales #WaterScarcity

Thanks @AFC_cochabamba for the invitation & excellent discussions ! #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Bolivia #Cochabamba

@DRYvER_H2020 @EcoFlowS @INRAE_Lyon_Gre

Exploring #DryRiverbeds across the #Altiplano #Chuquisaca #Bolivia: fantastic landscapes, exciting on-going research and a stimulating conference too.

Thanks nt Dr. Nabor Moya, Ariel and all colleagues.

@DRYvER_H2020
@EcoFlowS
@USFXBolivia
@INRAE_Lyon_Gre

Thanks Jono, you can count on me too !

Very honoured to receive this price in such a beautiful place full of history & culture. Emotional ceremony. Collaborations with colleagues at USFX, Sucre, Bolivia, have a long way ahead !

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@DRYvER_H2020
@EcoFlowS
@INRAE_Lyon_Gre
@INRAE_Intl
@USFXBolivia