Journal club - macroecology, biogeography, ecology, statistics, general issues of science

We meet every Thursday at 9:30 in Petr’s office (MCEV II, room D333) to talk about scientific papers. A paper for each week is picked by one of us, papers can be new or old, as long as we feel that they can be somehow related to the title topics, or to our work, or that they can be fun to talk about for other reasons.

Papers discussed in 2023

24-Aug-2023, Petr & Flo

• Hausharter et al. (2023) Niche breadth explains the range size of European butterflies, but dispersal ability does not. Global Ecology and Biogeography

3-Aug-2023, Petr

• Howard et al. (2023) Local colonizations and extinctions of European birds are poorly explained by changes in climate suitability. Nature Communications

29-Jun-2023, Petr

• Kitchel & Pinsky (2022) Regional species gains outpace losses across North American continental shelf regions. Global Ecology and Biogeography

22-Jun-2023, Flo

• Gonzales et al. (2023) A framework for the detection oand attribution of biodiversity change. Philosophical Transactions B

8-Jun-2023, Manuele

• Huber (2022) Nobel and novice: Author prominence affects peer review. PNAS

1-Jun-2023, Carmen

• Toomey (2023) Why facts don’t change minds: Insights from cognitive science for the improved communication of conservation research. Biological Conservation

15-Jun-2023, Francois

• Kuczynski et al. (2022) Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments. Nature Ecology and Evolution

25-May-2023, Petr

• Rigal et al. (2023) Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe. PNAS

18-May-2023, Michela

• Ginzburg & Jensen (2004) Rules of thumb for judging ecological theories. Trends in Ecology and Evolution

4-May-2023, Flo

• Marske et al. (2023) Integrating biogeography and behavioral ecology to rapidly address biodiversity loss. PNAS

27-Apr-2023, Manuele

• Spake et al. (2023) Understanding “it depends” in ecology: a guide to hypothesising, visualising and interpreting statistical interaction. Biological Reviews

20-Apr-2023, Francois

• Rosenberg et al. (2019) Decline of the North American avifauna. Science

13-Apr-2023, Carmen

• Soberon & Osorio-Olvera (2022) A dynamic theory of the area of distribution. Journal of Biogeography

30-Mar-2023, Michela

• Low-Decarie et al. (2014) Rising complexity and falling explanatory power in ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

23-Mar-2023, Petr

• Xu et al. (2023) Regional occupancy increases for widespread species but decreases for narrowly distributed species in metacommunity time series. Nature Communications