Petr Keil
@R_you_cereal
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Researcher at Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. Double dad, synthesizer nerd, runner. 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🇪🇺
Prague, Czech Republic
Joined May 2013
Can 19th-century land use still influence today’s grasslands? Our research suggests it can—though the effects are subtle! Led by Gabri Midolo, our new article in Landscape Ecology explores how historical land use shapes the plant composition of current grasslands. We studied
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To all reviewers playing the classic "the English should be checked by a native speaker" card: (1) Are you really sure it wasn't? (2) English in scientific papers needs to be understandable and just "good enough", not 100% correct.
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Combining multiple lines of evidence in cutting-edge probabilistic models, we found alarming declines of local occupancy and range size in several species of charismatic Neotropical carnivores, some of them not considered threatened by IUCN. Check out Flo's new paper!
🚨 New paper out! Our work on the range dynamics of five Neotropical carnivores over two decades reveals significant declines in the area of occupancy for most species. ⌛️🌎🐈⬛🦦 Read it here: https://t.co/SaLO86MKct
#GlobalEcologyAndConservation @R_you_cereal @kpv_fzp @CZUvPraze
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Still time to apply for a postdoc with us! We've extended the application deadline to 30th of July. Details here:
Job offer! We are looking for a *postdoc* in biodiversity science, macroecology, ecol. modelling, stats. In Prague, Czech Republic, @fzpczu, 2 years (with possible extension), ERC-funded, 66,000 CZK/m gross. More info and application instructions:
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Is fragmentation bad or good for biodiversity? Yes! We use a classical competition-colonization metacommunity model to show that fragmentation can increase or decrease diversity depending on the total amount of habitat in the landscape. @idiv @UniHalle
https://t.co/6xIB1IFZKz
nature.com
Nature Ecology & Evolution - How biodiversity responds to habitat fragmentation per se is debated. Here the authors combine metacommunity simulations with reanalysis of empirical...
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Living Planet Index "suffers from several mathematical and statistical issues, leading to a bias towards an apparent decrease even for balanced populations. The claim that vertebrate populations declined by 70% since 1970 is thus unsubstantiated". Source:
communities.springernature.com
A widely used index characterizing the average change in population sizes suffers from several mathematical and statistical issues, leading to a bias towards an apparent decrease even for balanced...
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Job offer! We are looking for a *postdoc* in biodiversity science, macroecology, ecol. modelling, stats. In Prague, Czech Republic, @fzpczu, 2 years (with possible extension), ERC-funded, 66,000 CZK/m gross. More info and application instructions:
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Value quality over quantity: The state of academic publishing in 3 graphs, 6 trends, and 4 thoughts https://t.co/cviM61AE67 prostřednictvím @DynamicEcology
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Press release on our study of the changes in Czech flora since 1960: https://t.co/BgO3oeWB3g…Czech version: https://t.co/PAkalHP0kN
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Our Report article on ReSurveyEurope, a new and the largest European database of vegetation data from permanent plots and resurvey studies, has just been published in the Journal of Vegetation Science https://t.co/hpf8B1MxqY…
@jvegsci @IAVS5 @vegsciblog #vegetation #biodiversity
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On the blog🔎 If #biodiversity begets stability, will more diverse #grasslands be better at resisting & recovering from the effects of drought? @MBazzichetto
https://t.co/BblgzrCEHi
jecologyblog.com
Manuele Bazzichetto discusses his article: ‘Biodiversity promotes resistance but dominant species shape recovery of grasslands under extreme drought.’ Background A hot idea in ecology is that biodi…
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New preprint: Our attempt to link local individual-level ecological processes (Allee effect, Janzen-Connell hypothesis) with different rates of species loss at different spatial scales (thnx to @adam_t_clark, @FrsLry, @vojta_bartak): https://t.co/yCTS69BtBI
biorxiv.org
Assessment of the rate of species loss, which we also label extinction, is an urgent task. However, the rate depends on spatial grain (average area A ) over which it is assessed—local species loss...
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New preprint: Big analysis of recruitment and loss, and their derivatives, in US birds by @FrsLry and @majarzyna. Species which are doing well may still undergo decline of recruitment. Preventing loss may not be enough, we also need to enhance recruitment.
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🚨 Commentary @PNASNews 🚨 Birds of North America are shifting poleward at fast speed west of the 100th meridian west but not east of it! The continental divide in range shifting birds of North America ⬇️ Fantastic study by Martins et al. 🏔 matter https://t.co/oKrXGFILdd
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First paper related to my project #COCOS out in @JEcology! We used time-series of plant biomass from the @BExplo_research to assess how biodiversity🌱relates to grassland resistance and recovery under extreme drought🔥 @MSCActions @kpv_fzp
https://t.co/3Rs0Ya9uRL More info👇
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Plant community functional and taxonomic components determine grasslands resistance and recovery under moderate-to-extreme drought. This points to the importance of designing landscapes with both...
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I used multi-response phylogenetic mixed models to quantify the link between plant functional traits and range size/shape in European trees. The OA article is available here: https://t.co/PUcztuxnkl Thanks to @GEB_macro editors & reviewers!
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Hledáme technika pro zpracování dat, na poloviční úvazek @fzpczu. Pružná pracovní doba, mezinárodní kolektiv. Nutná Angličtina, zájem o přírodní vědy, schopnost práce s daty Excelu. Výhoda je GIS, R, Python. Detaily a instukce k přihlášení:
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We are looking for new PhD students and postdocs! We are opening positions in: Fungal biogeography: https://t.co/2t2vIZe9UW Mycorrhizal fungal biogeography: https://t.co/2Cq11c0JyZ Post-fire microbial ecology: https://t.co/rdJcRgxFJg Join us in Prague!
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Fancy doing PhD in vegetation science in Vienna with @FranzEssl1 + Stefan Dullinger (with us as external collaborators)? 👇
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The lack of evidence for declining local diversity through time must be because everything is homogenizing, leading to larger-scale losses. Right?! Nope, says our analysis of 500+ meta-communities through time published @ScienceAdvances @idiv
https://t.co/7mBgATU8SY
science.org
Homogenization is most common at large temporal and spatial scales but is balanced by differentiation at smaller scales.
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