Trait-based ecology and evolution (Part 1)
Scientists who are advancing trait-based approaches in ecology and evolution. The functional trait-focused approach focuses on developing a more mechanistic Science capable of scaling the diversity of form and function in biology from cells to the biosphere.
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@bjenquist.bsky.social
@shubhamschhajed.bsky.social
Postdoc at Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, WSU 🌳 and Bushfire & Natural Hazards Research Centre 🔥 he/him @carpentries.carpentries.org instructor MQ uni & IISER-Pune alum #PlantEcology #FunctionalTraits #PlantHydraulics #Ecophysiology #Bushfire
@richardjtelford.bsky.social
@jonastrepel.bsky.social
Phd student at Aarhus University. Broadly interested in conservation biology, rewilding, megafauna ecology, novel ecosystems & biodiversity.
@alexelsy.bsky.social
Tropical forest ecologist interested in understanding the late stages of succession.
@jonwang.bsky.social
Queer, Asian-American ecologist interested in global change. Wildfires, carbon, and land cover with remote sensing and machine learning. Leads the Dynamic Carbon and Ecosystems lab (www.dycelab.net) at the University of Utah.
@kalebgoff.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, Sheth Evolutionary Ecology Lab, NC State University. Plant community ecology and evolution in a changing climate, with some bikes and birds mixed in!
@navarrosales.bsky.social
PhD student researching fire and drought ecology in tropical forests and savannas 🌿
@meganaceae.bsky.social
conservation scientist in tropical ecology dynamics 🌾🌱🌳 & disturbance 🪚🪵 with a passion for plant-animal interactions 🐘🍈 currently: HMEI Postdoc @Princeton alum: @Fulbright @Yale she/her https://meganksullivan.weebly.com/
@nicolebison.bsky.social
PhD candidate in the Michaletz Lab @UBCBotany Plant ecophysiology & spectral ecology 🌿🔬
@joshleecology.bsky.social
PhD student thinking about how we can improve conservation outcomes at different tropic levels using functional diversity and plant traits.
@s-eshelman.bsky.social
(she/her) PhD researcher at University of Edinburgh, RBGE, Kew Gardens & EastbioDTP. Studying global diversity of grasslands 🌾🌍 Finishing Spring 2025. 🔎 Open to postdoctoral & research associate opportunities. DM me to connect! 😊 linktr.ee/susan.eshelman
@siluwang.bsky.social
A passionate investigator of rainforest biodiversity I don't come here often, but here's our lab website: https://www.forestspeciation.online.
@jess-rickenback.bsky.social
Lecturer in Physical Geography @EdinburghUni and Research Associate @TheBotanics focusing on ecology and evolution of tropical savannas. https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/persons/jess-rickenback Email jess.rickenback@ed.ac.uk She/her. No longer on twitter/X
@thomasdussarrat.bsky.social
Postdoc at Bielefeld University - metabolomics, chemical ecology 🌱
@latincassia.bsky.social
evolutionary biogeographer #plants #Apocynaceae #outcrops #Amazon | NIF RS alumni | Research Fellow #KewScience
@cpcarmona.bsky.social
Trait-based ecology | Biodiversity Professor of functional ecology Department of Botany. University of Tartu
@gracoroza.bsky.social
I am an ecologist starting a research group at the Lammi Biological Station (University of Helsinki). In my free time, I enjoy playing music and going to the gym. I have 🐈 🐈⬛ and I’m proudly Brazilian—wholeheartedly!
@lilyleahy.bsky.social
Ecologist and global change biologist. Post-doc in the Insect Ecology Lab at La Trobe University, Naarm, Australia. Interested in ecophysiology and climate change, ecological stoichiometry, and trait-based ecology 🌳🐜🌞
@josephtobias.bsky.social
Birds, biodiversity, evolutionary biology, macroecology, conservation biology, ecosystem science, sustainable development, world birding, and other stuff. He/him More at http://www.tobiaslab.net
@joguillemot.bsky.social
Researcher in forest ecophysiology🌴🌳 @cirad.bsky.social Forest restoration, forest plantations and biodiversity-functioning relationships Work mostly in 🇪🇺 and 🇧🇷 More here: https://agents.cirad.fr/Joann%C3%A8s+Guillemot
@jonlen.bsky.social
Senior researcher @CNRS (EDYSAN) @UPJV, Amiens, France #PhD in #forest #sciences 🌳🌲🌴 I study #biodiversity #plant #species #redistribution #microclimate #ecology #biostatistics #climatechange #BioShifts I don't wear 👨🔬 & never used a 🧪, yet I'm a scientist
@global-ecology.bsky.social
Moderating and contributing to the Global Ecology feed https://bsky.app/profile/nmouquet.bsky.social/feed/global.ecology - DM to contribute to the feed - Crafted with love 💚 by @nmouquet.bsky.social
@vvandermeersch.bsky.social
Freshly minted PhD in forest ecology and modeling (CEFE, CNRS, Montpellier) Postdoc in Lizzie Wolkovich lab at UBC (Vancouver) #globalchangecology #forest #modeling #phenology https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wrIe_5EAAAAJ
@dornhaus.bsky.social
scientist, science communicator, mom, prof, desert dweller - not always in this order
@jezierskimt.bsky.social
Biogeographer 🌏 mostly working on evolution of island organisms 🏝️(and mostly birds 🦉). @leverhulme.bsky.social Early Career Fellow at @unibirmingham.bsky.social.
@sramellini.bsky.social
PhD student at ANU (Ecology and Evolution) studying social behaviour of superb fairy-wrens MSc in Biogeosciences, BSc in Natural Sciences @LaStatale, Milano #birds #animalbehaviour #sociality https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=jgsCs8kAAAAJ&hl=it
@jamyersecology.bsky.social
Ecologist exploring biodiversity from local to global scales | Professor at Washington University in St. Louis | 🌲🌴🌱🏔🦉🌎🔥🎶 🚲 ⚽️ ♟ 🌲 https://myersecologylab.com 📷 http://jonathanmyers.smugmug.com
@comecology.bsky.social
Concordia University & Canada Research Chair in Spatial Ecology & Biodiversity. Editor-in-Chief of Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social; Fellow of ESA; quantitative & community ecology (empirical and theoretical), drummer, cook & multilingual 🇧🇷🇨🇦
@ajayibenmi.bsky.social
PhD student @floridastate university. Population genomic, Fire ecology and Pollination Biology | @botsocamerica.bsky.social (BSA) students Rep 🌺🌸🌷🥀🌾
@markklwong.bsky.social
Ecologist & Entomologist. Forrest Fellow, University of Western Australia. Associate Editor, Insect Conservation and Diversity and Asian Myrmecology. Explorer, National Geographic Society. DPhil from University of Oxford. markklwong.weebly.com
@matbuoro.bsky.social
INRAE Research scientist Evolutionary ecology, Freshwater ecology, Salmonids, Individual based modeling, Bayesian modeling, climate change, conservation Saint Pee sur Nivelle France
@philippschuler.bsky.social
Postdoc at EPFL and WSL Interested in plant ecophys 🌱🌳🍀 climate response, whole plant carbon balance ☀️🌡️🌲 isotope fractionation ⚗️🧪🧫 🏳️🌈
@albaanadon.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at @ub.edu, member of @geovegub.bsky.social, #CREAF and @humboldt-foundation.de Plant ecology in alpine and Arctic ecosystems. #Shrubs and more
@jgpausas.bsky.social
CIDE-CSIC, ecology & evolution in fire-prone ecosystems🧪🌍🔥 Web: https://www.uv.es/jgpausas/index.htm Blog: http://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/
@kratina.bsky.social
Assoc Prof / Senior Lecturer in Ecology @Centre for Biodiversity and Sustainability, QMUL | #ecologicaltheory, #biodiversity, #climatewarming, #foodwebs, #globalchange, #freshwaters, #tropics. https://www.seresearch.qmul.ac.uk/cbs/people/pkratina/#research
@ctavsanoglu.bsky.social
Functional Ecology Lab., Hacettepe University. #fireecology #plantecology #traits #functionalecology #seeds
@oacevedocharry.bsky.social
🇨🇴 Biologist MSc 🇵🇷 Community Ecologist. Personal opinions! (He, Him; El, Sumercé). PhD candidate @UFSNRE @UFWildlife @FloridaMuseum #SomosBiodiversos
@jitkaklimesova.bsky.social
Ecologist, Institute of Botany Czech Academy of Science, functional morphology of plants, plant architecture & lino cut https://klimesovajitka.wordpress.com/jitka-klimesova/
@jsegrestin.bsky.social
Plant ecology researcher @plantecolcb.bsky.social 🌿🍀🌾 interested in #trait responses to environmental changes 🍂🌞🌧🐐 , #biodiversity 🌸🌻🏵, and #ecosystem functioning
@aurelien-boye.bsky.social
Benthic ecologist at @ifremer.bsky.social🐬 • Using numerical ecology to understand and predict marine coastal biodiversity, focusing on the role of foundation species like seagrass 🌱 and maerl 🪸 • Trait-based ecology, community trajectory, ML, Rstats, ☕
@paulcaplat.bsky.social
Ecologist at QUB, modelling species dynamics in novel habitats, particularly with trees around. Working for EDI. Long-distance migrant (FR, CAN, OZ, SWE, NI). Part time musician, house renovator, and van lifer. Ice hockey fan. Slave to two dogs. He/him
@lsantinieco.bsky.social
Associate Prof. in Sapienza University. Interests in Macroecology, Conservation Biogeography, Global Change Biology, Urban Ecology and Animal Ecology. EIC for Diversity & Distributions. www.ecaslab.com
@alvaroluna87.bsky.social
PhD in Biology 🐦🌍🦅 | Urban Ecology, Plastic Pollution & Wildlife Conservation | Head of the “Study and Conservation of Biodiversity” Research Group at the European University of Madrid
@etordoni.bsky.social
Ecologist, Fellow @unitartu Macroecology enthusiast #rstats user #biodiversity patterns #ecology #climatechange
@mschleuning.bsky.social
Biodiversity | Ecological Networks | Traits | Tropical forests | Birds, birds, birds... | Senckenberg BiK-F, Frankfurt (Germany) | He/him More at www.senckenberg.de/matthias-schleuning
@patrickweigelt.bsky.social
Plant Macroecologist and Island Biogeographer at @ribesresearch.bsky.social at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Interested in the distribution of all aspects of plant life on Earth. See https://www.ru.nl/en/people/weigelt-p
@cintiaoi.bsky.social
Biologist, Postdoc @UCL, Scientific associate @NHM, passionate about nature, science and especially wasps
@zhiganghu.bsky.social
A researcher in ecology @econovoau.bsky.social. A nature lover. Climate change; human impact; models; carbon cycle; remote sensing; machine learning.
@jena-experiment.bsky.social
One of the longest-running grassland biodiversity experiments worldwide (since 2002). Uncovering the mechanisms that drive biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships over time. https://the-jena-experiment.de Funding: @dfgpublic.bsky.social
@justinluong.com
Rangelands Asst Professor, Cal Poly Humboldt, Board Member at California Native Grassland Association, Restoration Ecology & Madroño CE/AE - 🏳️🌈 Restoration/EcoPhys PhD, Biodiversity, Rangelands, Climate Change, Science-Practice Gap - justinluong.com
@kheyduk.bsky.social
Assistant Prof UConn EEB | CAM photosynthesis keeps me up at night | made of cookies | She/her. Views my own.
@josephwilliamson.bsky.social
Researching biological responses to climate change using butterflies. Into inverts / traits / tropical forests / microclimate. Postdoc at University College London (CBER). He/Him. JoeWilliamsonDB on Twitter.
@pagomba.bsky.social
🌱 Seeds |🌿 Plants |📜Academic publishing Most limited of all specialists. Infamous bibliometrician. Amateur photographer of tiny things 📷🔬. 👨💻 Too much R. Proud father of #MDPIexploreR. 📈 Surfing the strain: https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327
@jhevolution.bsky.social
PhD student in evolutionary biology. Currently investigating the evolutionary adaptations of amphibians to climate change induced environmental change. Passionate about evolution regardless of taxa but particularly fond of amphibians and reptiles 🐸🧬
@danepavitt.bsky.social
Natural Sciences student, researcher & educator at The Open University & Potteries Museum Palaeontologist 🦕 Natural Historian 🦈 Museum worker 🏛 Science Communicator 🥼 Conservation & climate 🌍 Metal guitarist 🤘(He/him) Often speak in GIFs
@dranpingchen.bsky.social
plant and ecosystem ecologist @ Colorado State University, nature enthusiast. https://apchenecologylab.weebly.com
@ckrieg.bsky.social
Research Scientist | #FirstGen Plant Ecophysiology & Evolution | Dept of Botany, UW-Madison | #botany #plantecophys #evolution #ferns #cycads #polyploidy christopherkrieg.com
@robertgbjork.bsky.social
Arctic ecologist in APE@GU with focus on plant-soil interactions. Professor in Ecosystem Science at University of Gothenburg.
@cnmeynard.bsky.social
Macroecologist, mom of two, senior editor of Ecography, works at INRAE - France More on my work and lab here: https://sites.google.com/site/cnmeynard/home
@emmamarjakangas.bsky.social
MSCA Actions postdoc @econovoau.bsky.social / Member of SCB Europe Region board / Community ecology, global change, species interactions, functional traits / I 💚 nature. She/her Personal website: emmaliinamarjakangas.github.io
@drjonmillett.bsky.social
Reader in Plant Ecology. Carnivorous plants, sand dunes, peatlands, environmental change, community ecology, traits. Co-PI of Ainsdale Dune Slacks LTE (Est. 1974)
@pgraystock.bsky.social
Researcher of host-microbe interactions in animal systems with a focus on social insects & pollinators Imperial College London. #bees #wheat #holobiont #parasite #spillover #directed evolution
@jellers.bsky.social
Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Interested in why species lose traits, genome evolution, urban adaptation, global change ecology.
@cerezer.bsky.social
🇧🇷 Scientist decoding the forces shaping Earth’s biodiversity | 🌍 Macroecology & 🧬 Macroevolution enthusiast | 🏛️ Postdoc at @CharlesUniPRG & @czechacademy.bsky.social https://cerezer.github.io/
@nathanjbkraft.bsky.social
Professor at UCLA | Community ecology | Functional ecology | Serpentine grasslands | Tropical forests | Biogeography. Child wrangler, music lover, cyclist. Pro kindness. https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/eeb-kraft/ 🌱🧪🌿🌳📈🌐
@ilainematos.bsky.social
Plant ecophysiologist 🌳🍃🌸 Lecturer of Botany (University of Adelaide) Dinizia's mother 💚 https://sites.google.com/view/ilainematos/home
@mantodeology.bsky.social
Mantis lover, cat lover, Ph.D. Student at the American Museum of Natural History | he/him | Interested in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution
@mkaproth.bsky.social
Plant ecologist - studying populations out of control (too many or too few), the traits that drive species success, and environmental stress #Quercus #Prairies #Drought #Fire #Invasives #FunctionalTraits @MinnesotaStateUni =
@maitner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Global Change in the Integrative Biology Department at the University of South Florida - St. Petersburg. Views are my own (and are supported by evidence and reason).
@stoilovamarina.bsky.social
Cnerdarian studying evolution and development in all things squishy and stingy🪼| Cartwright Lab PhD Candidate & Self Graduate Fellow @ KU | Scientific SCUBA Diver | UCSB CCS Alum | she/her
@kaaze7.bsky.social
Ecologist, Scientist, Biogeochemistry of the Amazon rainforest, Roots, Soils, Phosphorus, Trait-based modelling; Assistant Professor, VU Amsterdam; AmazonFACE, Tropiroot
@thereremouse.bsky.social
Postdoc 🦇. Bats. Behavioural ecologist. #UrbanBatProject #TeamLaboul Mostly crepuscular. Floridian Brit. Expat. Cat mom. 🇬🇧 🇸🇪 🇭🇷 🇨🇿 More on @teamlaboul.bsky.social
@inesismartins.bsky.social
Ecologist. Royal Society University Research Fellow at @UniOfYork. Working on #Macroecology, #BiodiversityChange #CommunityEcology #TraitChange. Mariecurie_alum
@evoswami.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist, President @linneansociety.bluesky.social, practitioner of healthy coding-fieldwork balance, human and dog mom, she/her, On-juhlee, not On-jolly
@svalver.bsky.social
#ComplexSystems scientist. Institute of Evolutionary Biology @csic.es Barcelona, UTennessee Knoxville, ECLT Venice. Girl dad. He/him Lab: svalver.github.io #EvoBio #CultEvo #ExtendedBiology #hypergraphs
@trixiebb.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Ecology Professor at UQAM | Aquatic community ecology, traits and biodiversity | Ed in Chief Journal of Plankton Research | book lover & mom
@kalimiddleby.bsky.social
Postdoc at James Cook University and Ernst Mayr Research Fellow at STRI. Interested in forest ecology, plant physiology, heat stress, and rainforest conservation 🌿
@evoecoamy.bsky.social
evolutionary ecologist trying to understand flowers and my teenager | occasional fireweed spotter | 🇨🇦 / 🇸🇪 | enjoying sabbatical | I should be writing
@wengensheng.bsky.social
Ecologist & modeler at Columbia University and NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
@smartenwinter.bsky.social
Ecologist | Head of a research think tank/science funder -> iDiv's Synthesis Centre sDiv idiv.de/sdiv | Global Alien Plants glonaf.org | SciCom | TEDx tiny.cc/aliens | Indierock drummer for http://wal.band - pls check | avid hiker & nature lover
@economo.bsky.social
Biodiversity Scientist, Professor, Ant Radiologist @ U Maryland and @OIST https://arilab.unit.oist.jp/
@jeromeburkiewicz.bsky.social
Ph.D. student in Simon Joly lab working on the evolution of flower morphology in an urbanization context 🌸 🐝 🌳🏙️| Interested in flower evolution, pollination, plant reproduction, local adaptation and conservation.
@agarner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Integrative Animal Biology at Syracuse University; Functional morphology, biomechanics, and bio-inspiration of aquatic and terrestrial animal attachment; he/him/his 🏳️🌈
@vonschmalensee.bsky.social
Postdoc under @dbergerbiol.bsky.social working on insect thermal evolution and macroecology at @animecol-uu.bsky.social. Also interested in many other things, like which wines are good, how to predict stuff, and what's truly compressible in the world
@andrejpaleo.bsky.social
Professor of paleontology and Earth systems at Vilnius University. My interests are: theoretical paleontology, evolution, geology, stratigraphy, philosophy of biology and geology, climate at scales great and small. https://twitter.com/AndrejSpiridon4
@jngriffy.bsky.social
Associate Prof. in Coastal Ecology & Biodiversity @Swansea University. Topics: Biodiversity change; Ecosystem functions & services; Trait-based ecology. Systems: Rocky shores, Salt marshes, Coastal dunes.
@jdtonkin.bsky.social
Dad | Associate Professor & Rutherford Discovery Fellow @UCNZ | #ecology, #biodiversity, #forecasting, #freshwater, #climatechange | surf obsessed | AE @ESAFrontiers | https://tonkinlab.org | Subscribe for free to https://predirections.substack.com
@cmgustafsson.bsky.social
Academy Research Fellow @Tvärminne Zoological Station, Univ of Helsinki Macrophyte Biodiversity Research Group www.helsinki.fi/macrophyte-biodiversity CoastClim www.coastclim.org Marine biodiversity •ecosystem functions •seagrass & macrophyte ecology ❤️🌱
@huguesrenault.bsky.social
Plant biologist and Research Director @cnrs.fr | Evolutionary and adaptive biochemistry | www.ibmp.cnrs.fr
@erodriguezroman.bsky.social
Biologist and human(-ist). Virus-host systems. Origins. https://linktr.ee/erodriguezroman
@kristalerista.bsky.social
Researching why legless lizards and snakes don't have feet. (She/her) 😷 convergent evolution, paleontology, ADHD, disability rights, grants, whatever my hyperfixation is this week. kkoeller3115.wixsite.com/kristakoeller https://twitter.com/KristaLerista
@julianschrader.bsky.social
Ecology | Biodiversity | Biogeography | Conservation Lecturer at Macquarie U, Sydney, Australia youtube.com/@EcolClips https://julianschrader.wordpress.com https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=vkDBwQEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
@chriscatano.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside | Community Ecology | Biodiversity | Global Change Biology Working towards a predictive ecology to advance fundamental theory & applications https://chcatano.wixsite.com/ecology
@jclarkepaleo.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist & paleontologist. Website: http://bit.ly/JTCsite Macroevolution, phylogenetic comparative methods, diversification, phenotypic evolution of 🐠🌿🦋 Postdoc @iDiv in Leipzig
@jpschnitzlerlab.bsky.social
@Helmholtz-munich.de - Research Unit Environmental Simulation (EUS) | Prof @UniFreiburg | VOCs | fungi | plants & climate change | metabolomics | chemical ecology | privately here for democracy | views are my own https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9825-867X
@wagnermarkus.bsky.social
Plant ecologist. Restoration ecology; Grassland; Seed ecology; Agroecology; Regenerative agriculture; Biotic & soil interactions; Arable plants; Invasion ecology. Pers. acct. Oxfordshire, UK. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X_ovJR8AAAAJ&hl=en
@canopyinclouds.bsky.social
Biologist and Associate Dean for Research and Development @Chapman University. Landscape ecophysiology; ecohydrology; isotope biogeochemistry; tropics; evidence-based teaching practices
@djli.bsky.social
Ecologist. Assistant Professor at University of Arizona. Global change. Biodiversity, Phenology, Urban Ecology, Phylogeny. https://www.dlilab.com