Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Scientist: #macroecology #biodiversity #biomes #plantscience #climatechange #plants #remotesensing #conservation #vegetation
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- Reposted by Niklaus E. Zimmermann⏩️❓️‼️ 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
- Reposted by Niklaus E. ZimmermannInteresting talk by @nezimmermann.bsky.social from our DME lab today at #TIBS2026 on a new conceptual framework on #BiomeBiogeography. This concept is at the core of our #biome project, in which several lab members are involved.
- Reposted by Niklaus E. ZimmermannOur DME member @dirknkarger.bsky.social gave a great talk on adapting land use to climate change and how this can mitigate global biodiversity decline.
- Reposted by Niklaus E. ZimmermannDamiano Righetti from our DME lab just presented his cool research at #TIBS2026 on trophic species distribution modelling of tuna and its pray.
- Reposted by Niklaus E. Zimmermann@wennading.bsky.social from the DME lab presented her great work at #TIBS2026 on the origin of mountain floras in response to biotic assembly, orogeny and climate change. If you are interested, her is the latest paper on the topic: www.science.org/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Niklaus E. Zimmermann🗾The poster sessions at #TIBS2026 are a great opportunity to exchange results and ideas, and to meet new people. We enjoy the interaction and atmosphere. And we will leave with a rich set of new ideas and connections.🚀 #Biogeography #Macroecology #Biodiversity #CHELSA @wslresearch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Niklaus E. ZimmermannElena Plekhanova from @wsl-dme.bsky.social just gave a very interesting talk on how to use #AI in combination with #RemoteSensing to map global #biomes. #Macroecology #Biodiversity #Mapping @wslresearch.bsky.social
- Reposted by Niklaus E. ZimmermannGreat talk by @vboussange.bsky.social from @wsl-dme.bsky.social on "Multiscale species richness modelling". Victor developed a cool method to map species richness in a way that allows spatial scaling and to retrieve scale-relevant information.
- Reposted by Niklaus E. ZimmermannThe @wsl-dme.bsky.social lab members arrived at #TIBS2026 in Aarhus. We are excited to enjoy great talks, posters, workshops, discussions with colleagues and friends, and we look forward to contribute as well, with 7 oral and 5 poster contributions. #Biogeography #Macroecology #Biodiversity
- Reposted by Niklaus E. ZimmermannHow have mountain building and climate change shaped alpine biodiversity over millions of years? Check out our new study in Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- 🌴Since my undergraduate time, I wanted to see the tropical alpine biome with its "giant rosette" species. On our #biome project fieldtrip in #Ecuador, I finally met #Espeletia picnophylla spp. angelensis, in El Angel. So happy! Magic!
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- 🌧️ If your team members are patiently waiting for 1h in the rain in a tropical #cloudforest, chatting, playing, laughing and happily continue fieldwork with rain-sensitive instruments as soon as the rain stops & finish the day with a “high five”: Now you know, you have a fantastic team! 🫶
- Reposted by Niklaus E. ZimmermannExploring the tropical cloud forests of #Guacamayos. 🔎 Foggy, rain-soaked and mild temperatures: #cloudforests are some of the most species- and endemism-rich biomes on Earth. Despite covering only 0.4% of global land, they host 3,700 #species of birds, mammals, amphibians and tree ferns. 🌧️🌳🌿
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- Reposted by Niklaus E. Zimmermann🌳 Towering trees (often >50 m), massive buttress roots and woody lianas are typical plant traits of tropical rainforests. 🌧
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- Reposted by Niklaus E. Zimmermann🌿Fieldwork in the #Yasuni National Park, #Ecuador.🦜 Our researchers are studying the structural and functional properties of #rainforests to better understand and define #biomes.🌳🔎
- What a wonderful sunrise at Paso Papallacta (4063 m a.s.l.) before dropping down from the Andes into the Amazon rainforest. We are ready to start working. More soon!
- A breathtaking sunrise with a view of the #Antisana volcano on the road from Quito to Yasuní National Park.☀️🌋
- Reposted by Niklaus E. ZimmermannThe BIOME team explored the high-altitude city of #Quito (2,850 m) before heading deep into the Amazon rainforest for fieldwork. 🌳🌿
- Reposted by Niklaus E. Zimmermann🌎 Our BIOME project team has just begun a 3.5-week research expedition in Ecuador! 🇪🇨 They’ll be conducting fieldwork across diverse landscapes to study how biomes have evolved and how to define them. 🔎🌿🏔️ Stay tuned for field updates! ✨ 👉BIOME project: shorturl.at/RLQPw
- Reposted by Niklaus E. Zimmermann🔊 New paper: first integration of population genetics🧬 and dynamic species distribution modeling🌐 using #KISSMig to reconstruct postglacial dynamics of wild black pepper, endemic to India’s Western Ghats. #macroecology #popgen #phylogeography #biogeography 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Reposted by Niklaus E. Zimmermann@clechartre.bsky.social reimplemented #BIOME4 into a modular, high-performance #Julia version, enabling 1 km vegetation modeling 🌱 and integration of #CHELSA climate datasets. 🌦️ We can now simulate biome patterns across complex terrains ⛰️ and define biome boundaries with greater accuracy. 🎯
- Reposted by Niklaus E. Zimmermann🌿 Join Our Team as Postdoctoral Researcher in Regional Climate Downscaling at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Switzerland and lead the development of regional, highresolution climate scenarios for Armenia. @wslresearch.bsky.social @wsl-dme.bsky.social apply.refline.ch/273855/1747/...
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- 🍁🌷🌼Interessiert an Tipps zur KI-basierten Pflanzenbestimmung mit FlorApp/FlorID der neuen Bestimmungstool für die #Flora der #Schweiz?🥀🌳 👉Dann melde dich an am "Festival der Natur"! shorturl.at/1fEEv festivaldernatur.ch #Natur #Biodiversität #FestivalderNatur #PflanzenBestimmen
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- Reposted by Niklaus E. Zimmermann🔉Version 2.0 of our #KISSMig #Rstats package for #SpeciesMigration modeling is now live on #CRAN. 🎉 Together with Dominik Landolt we boosted performance by implementing parallel computing—making this simple dynamic #SDM faster than ever. Learn more about KISSMig here 👉 purl.oclc.org/wsl/kissmig
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- Reposted by Niklaus E. ZimmermannMountain species are at risk of extinction as global temperatures rise—but how these risks will manifest remains unclear. 🌱🏔️ Bert Wuyts's research sheds light on this by exploring how habitats become fragmented & isolated as populations shift to higher elevations. He presented his results at #EGU25.
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- Great opportunity, cool topic. Apply, if interested!
- At WSL @wslresearch.bsky.social we are hiring a "Postdoc in Regional Climate Downscaling" for a forest/climate project in Armenia funded by the Swiss Development Cooperation (DEZA). 📍 Switzerland | 🕐 1.5 yrs | 📅 Start: Spring 2025 Details: apply.refline.ch/273855/1727/... Please share widely.
- Very honored to have contributed a keynote to the 25th Swiss Global Change Day #SGDC25, and very happy to have attended excellent talks and discussions, and having met many interesting persons from many different fields. A great anniversary! @scnat.ch @wsl-dme.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Niklaus E. Zimmermann1/ How often does a major droughts hit the Alps? A deep dive into the data. 🌍 Having free and accessible drought data makes it easy to check how climate change has already impacted a region. Using our global drought dataset envidat.ch#/metadata/gl..., I took a closer look at the Alps. 🧵👇
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- Reposted by Niklaus E. ZimmermannNew paper in @science.org ! Where and when did the #multiyear-droughts occur around the world? Have they become more prevailing? We identified over 10,000 such events and found that they have been increasingly occupying the terrestrial land. (1/6) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado4245
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- Samuel Schlaefli vomhat mich zum Thema #Biodiversitätsinitiative in der Schweiz und zu den aktuellen Diskussionen dazu interviewt🌳. Dabei haben wir auch die vielen Parallelen zur langjährigen Klimadebatte besprochen. shorturl.at/BLxMD Treibhauspodcast.ch
- Exzellent recherchiert und geschrieben: Fakten werden verdreht, relativiert, die Folgen geleugnet. Dabei ist der schlechte Zustand der Biodiversität wissenschaftlich breit belegt und notwendige Massnahmen zur Verbesserung sind klar! republik.ch/2024/09/05/akt…
- Happy to share my impressions from this year’s summer school of the @ExtremesWsl program and @SwissForestLab on «Forests & Extremes – crisis or transition?» in Davos. I was teaching how difficult it is to forecast the impact of #ClimateChangerelated extremes on #biodiversity.
- Die @NZZSchweiz hat mir heute unterstellt, Umweltverbände zu kritisieren und die vom @sbv finanzierte (Züger) Studie zu stützen. Beides ist falsch und polemisch. Ich habe dargelegt, Trendwende punkto Biodiversitätsrückgang ist noch nicht erreicht, zusätzliche Flächen sind nötig.
- I'm thrilled to announce that the project team of my SNSF Advanced Grant Project on “BIOME EVOLUTION & CLIMATE CHANGE” is complete and the members started their research @WSL_DME, @WSL_research!🚀 More information about the project here: shorturl.at/TtakH
- Stunning talk by Philipp Brun from @WSL_DME on #DeepLearning ensemble DNNs using #CitizenScience data to build spatial #AI based multispecies models for analyses and plant #SpeciesIdentification at #WBF24 in #Davos.
- Dami Ogundipe from @WSL_DME just gave a great talk at the #WBF2024 in Davos on how to flexibly combine three important aspects of successful #ConservationDesign: Complementarity, Connectivity and Area!
- Today, @DirkNKarger from @WSL_DME presented his research at #WBF2024 in #Davos on how biodiversity trends from Natures Futures scenarios differ in feedback to the climate system. Great talk!
- This TUE, I participated in a first panel discussion as a member of the advisory group for the framework strategy for adaptation to #climatechange in @kanton_bern. We identified the most important challenges and worked on an effective and impactful #climatestrategy. @WSL_DME
- How will #climatechange affect our #forests in Switzerland? What kind of extreme events are expected? Which #treespecies will disappear in the future? Last Monday, I answered these questions for the society of natural sciences of the cantons #Obwalden and #Nidwalden (NAGON).
- Very honored to be listed 2023 and annually since 2014 in @Clarivate #HighlyCited2023 list and even more thankful to all team members and collaborators @WSL_research and colleagues @usys_ethzh etc. It’s a team effort and the results of great collaboration! clarivate.com/highly-cited-r…
- Happy to inform that I received an ERC-type AdvGrant to study global #biomes. Three positions (2 PDoc, 1 PhD) are open. If interested, please apply or spread: --- apply.refline.ch/273855/1540/pu… apply.refline.ch/273855/1541/pu… apply.refline.ch/273855/1543/pu…
- Very honored to be listed again in @ClarivateAG #HighlyCited2021 list and even more thankful to all team members and collaborators @WSL_research and colleagues @usys_ethzh etc. It’s clearly a team effort and the results of wonderful collaborations! recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-…
- Nice to see our paper out on phylogenetic plant turnover among neighboring regions in Europe and effects from glacial history; by @BiancaSaladin and with @loic_pellissier, @nicsalamin et al.; great collaboration! rdcu.be/b7hdV
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- Very honored to be listed by #Clarivate again and since 2014 as #HighlyCited2024 (tinyurl.com/yeym3tn7) in the Cross-Field category. Thanks to all team members, students, collaborators, colleagues! ⛰️🌳🌵🌴🔥💦🛰️ #macroecology #biomes #plants #biodiversity #climatechange #conservation
