Ceres Barros
Ecological modelling; ecosystem resilience and stability to global change; international rep @ BESMacroecology SIG; AE @ Ecological Solutions & Evidence; Research Scientist @ Canadian Forest Service
Views and opinions are my own
- #ResponseDiversityNetwork Seminar starting in 10min! Happy to host Prof Dominique Gravel today! If you didn't get an email about the seminar, join our mailing list:
- 🚨The #ResponseDiversityNetwork (RDN)'s first publication is out! Response diversity still sails in muddy waters, with researchers disagreeing on definitions, applicable scales and how it relates to ecological stability. These and other findings will guide #RDN innitiatives and work. Stay tuned!
- If you want to learn more about the #RDN, check out our website: responsediversitynetwork.github.io/RDN-website/
- There's still time to join the BES Macroecology SIG Steering Committee! Come over to the Macro-side! Click this 👇 to find out more! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/macr...
- 🌲 Calling all #ForestBiodiversity champions!🌿 Submit your abstract to our session “Effectively bridging science and practice for actionable biodiversity conservation in forest management” at #WBF2026, 14–19 June in Davos 🇨🇭. 🗓️ Deadline: Nov 18, 2025 🔗 worldbiodiversityforum.org/call-for-abs...
- What the...?
- American colleagues I feel for you...!
- Our plea to ecological interation network (EINs) researchers and managers/decision-makers to _explicitly_ integrate the science into practice! Yes, there's is a LOT of uncertainty, but we've come far in our knowledge about EINs and have far more data than before. The time is NOW tinyurl.com/v3xehmkz
- Uh oh phys.org/news/2024-11...
- Is it me, or do I see many of my colleagues joining Bluesky post/during US elections? Also, I feel for you US ecologists... Stay strong
- I am so proud to announce that our 2023 MEE paper won ESA's Ecological Forecasting Outstanding Publication Award 2024. This is a huge honour for me and my co-authors, after many years dedicated to developing tools that help ecologists create integrated, repeatable and transparent modelling workflows
- By integrating data sourcing, data prep., model calibration and prediction/forecasting, validation and visualisation, we were able to more easily transfer and adapt our modeling workflows to new contexts and new data.
- We also demonstrated the importance of rapid and integrated validation to judge model quality. "More data" and "more complex calibration" were not ubiquitously best, and the more data-hungry model actually performed worse at predicting simple forest properties.
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- We published a dataset of canopy tree maps for 100 million trees in the National Ecological Observatory Network with info on location, species identify, & size 🧪🌍 Paper: doi.org/10.1371/jour... Interactive DataVis: visualize.idtrees.org Data: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Blog: doi.org/10.59350/zb2...
- 1/6 Our new paper on "Spatially explicit predictions of food web structure from regional-level data" is finally out! Congrats to @gabdans.bsky.social for his great work on leading this piece :) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0166
- 2/6 We show how uncertainty and spatial variability in network structure can be explicitly accounted for when infering trophic networks across large spatial scales.
- 3/6 Our probabilistic framework builds potential trophic networks based on a probabilistic metaweb of interactions and the probability of species' presences in each given location.
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- Okay, you missed the in-person registration for BES Macro Cardiff... Don't cry... you can still attend online! Register 28th June 2024, 17:00 BST 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk...
- 📣📣📣 You're in luck! Deadline to register for BES Macro Cardiff conference *in-person* has been extended for another week! Register until June 7th! 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk...
- 🚨🚨🚨 Deadline to register for BES Macro Cardiff conference *in-person* ends tomorrow! Don't miss the opportunity to attend a friendly and vibrant networking opportunity! 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk...
- Online registration deadline is later: 28th June 2024, 17:00 BST
- 🚨🚨🚨 There is still time to submit your abstract to the BES Macro Cardiff conference! 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bes-macro-...
- Trophic interactions did it again ;) Why ignoring them is a bad idea for conservation @ctrlalttim.bsky.social
- Friday was my last day at the Ministry of Forests! It was a real pleasure to work at the Forest Carbon and Climate Services Branch in the OCF. Special thanks to @colinmahony.bsky.social for the kindness, support and superb mentoring! Looking forward to keep collaborating with the FFEC team and MoF!
- I'd expand to librarians, libraries and library contents! We're seeing a decrease in book accessibility more and more and it is worrying! Have we learnt nothing from history books? Oh wait, some of those are "inappropriate" too...
- Very interesting and timely read on the importance of primary forests for carbon storage and uptake worldwide: www.iucn.org/sites/defaul...
