Abhishek Kumar

A massive collaborative effort looked at 1800+ @britishecologicalsociety.org papers to see how "Open" our science really is.

Check out the results and recommendations:
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#OpenCode #OpenScience #Ecology

Data- and code-archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: present status and recommendations for future improvements
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📢 New preprint out!

tl;dr: Publish your code, add clear README's!

138 participants assessed data & code archiving practices across 1861 papers published at 7 @britishecologicalsociety.org journals, identified gaps & offered recommendations for improvement

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✨ Welcoming 2026 ✨

Grateful for the lessons, challenges, and growth of the past year.

Looking forward to new ideas, collaborations, and opportunities ahead.

Wishing everyone a year of progress, clarity, and success.

#HappyNewYear #NewBeginnings

Add Hindi translations by jayhesselberth · Pull Request #2931 · r-lib/pkgdown After potools::po_create("hi") Prompt: You are an experienced translator. Create new a new translation for Hindi in po/R-hi.po. These are GNU gettext translations for pkgdown, a tool used...

Are there any Hindi speakers who could help proofread some LLM-generated translations for pkgdown? github.com/r-lib/pkgdow...

Thanks! That’s a great suggestion. This dataset could indeed work for #TidyTuesday biodiversity themes. 🌿

That's fantastic to hear! Delighted that the work might be useful in a teaching context.

Please feel free to use the paper! Let us know if you or your students have any questions when working through the methods.

7️⃣ Data and #RStats codes available from @github.com

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a copy is archived at @figshare.com

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#OpenData #OpenScience #ReproducibleResearch

6️⃣ Conservation Takeaway

🔑Mid-elevational zones for conservation priorities, where #SpeciesRichness is greatest.

🧭 Read the full #OpenAccess article for the detailed analyses:

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5️⃣ Influence of observed species?

As more species were added, elevational richness became more distinctly unimodal, converging toward the MDE predictions.

This effect also varies with extent and position of elevational gradients.

4️⃣ Is this just a random geometric effect?

We tested the Mid-Domain Effect (MDE) null model and found substantial deviations from its predictions.

This means plant distribution in the Himalayas is NOT a simple game of chance!

3️⃣ What did we find?

While species richness often showed complex non-linear unimodal (hump-shaped) patterns, simple linear decreasing pattern was also observed.

Patterns vary with extent and position of elevational gradients!

Map of study sites in the Western Himalayas

2️⃣ We compiled the elevational ranges of >1100 vascular plant species from three #ProtectedAreas — Morni Hills, Chail WLS, and Churdhar WLS. This contributes to knowledge gap for the #WesternHimalayas.

Graphical abstract showing varied elevational patterns of plant species richness across study sites with varying extent and position of elevational gradients.

🌿 Where are greatest number of #PlantSpecies in #Mountains? 🏔️

Our recent study in @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social explored elevational patterns of plant #SpeciesRichness. A quick thread 👇

#Biodiversity #Biogeography #Ecology #ElevationalGradients #Himalayas #ProtectedAreas

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#OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution

Join Join Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

🌍 Join SORTEE – A worldwide Open Science community for ecology and evolution! 🌱🧬

🌐 Join trainings, code clubs & our annual online conference
🚀 Help shape the future of Open Science

Membership is inclusive and flexible.
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#OpenScience #Ecology #Evolution

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

Was just sent this, author unknown. There's plenty to debate but they're right about evolutionary ecology. 🌏

SORTEE meet-ups at other conferences Other events by Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE)

Would you like to promote & support Open Science in Ecology & Evolution?

Become SORTEE's In-person Socials Manager to promote & support local open science meet-ups at conferences

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Interested? Email sortecoevo@gmail.com for more info

Our new paper - manage to put @sortee.bsky.social in keywords

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Still some time to apply for this #trait-based #ecology #postdoc
✔️in supportive group within a lively faculty
✔️in beautiful Helsinki with forests🌲, shoreline and islands 🏕️

Postdoctoral Researcher on Drivers of Biodiversity Change Across Time at the Section for Biodiversity, Globe Institute Postdoctoral Researcher on Drivers of Biodiversity Change Across Time at the Section for Biodiversity, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen We are seeking

Postdoc opportunity: Drivers of biodiversity change across time 🌿 🦅 🌍
Come work with fabulous Naia Morueta-Holme (and a bit with me)
2-year position starting March 1, 2025
Naia's lab page: lnkd.in/drHQBGdU

Apply here (deadline 5 Jan 2025) candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

There is still space left in the #biodiversity #redistribution starter pack ⬇️ If you are working on or interested in biodiversity responses, aka #species #range #shifts & #community #composition #changes, to global change drivers, I'd be happy to add you in the list 😀

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modelling or Trait-based Ecology Postdoctoral Researcher in Ecological Modelling or Trait-based Ecology

📢#WeAreHiring! I am looking for a #postdoc (2yr position) either in ecological modelling or experimental trait-based ecology to join us in Northern Biodiversity and Ecosystem functioning group at @helsinkiuni.bsky.social

Thanks for reposting!
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Archived Data and #RStats codes are openly available from figshare doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

Also, maintained at github.com/kumar-a/rich...

#OpenScience #ReproducibleResearch

Direct effects are stronger than the indirect effects

Indirect effects are strongly mediated by water-energy dynamics than energy availability

Overall, our study supported:
1️⃣Climate tolerance hypothesis > 2️⃣Water-energy dynamics > 3️⃣Species-energy hypothesis

Climate is more important than the topographic heterogeneity at broader scales

Richness is regulated by multiple mechanisms involving direct indirect and interaction effects of environmental variables

A Globally Consistent Richness‐Climate Relationship for Angiosperms | The American Naturalist: Vol 161, No 4 Abstract: Species richness, the simplest index of biodiversity, varies greatly over broad spatial scales. Richness‐climate relationships often account for >80% of the spatial variance in richness. How...

Model suggested by Francis and Currie (2003, doi.org/10.1086/368223) better represented climate-richness relationship.

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Species richness seems to be regulated by 💦 liquid-water availability, i.e. interaction between temperature and water-deficit.

Determinants of plant species richness along elevational gradients: insights with climate, energy and water–energy dynamics - Ecological Processes Background Understanding the patterns and processes of species distributions has long remained a central focus of biogeographical and ecological research. While the evidence for elevational patterns i...

What determines the plant species richness along elevational gradients?

In this latest study, we explored the direct, indirect and interaction effects of environmental variables.🧵

#Biodiversity #ElevationalGradients #Himalayas #Macroecology #PlantEcology #SpeciesRichness

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