PANGAEA is rescuing numerous datasets scheduled for decommissioning in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to help safeguard these valuable resources. If you become aware of other endangered datasets, please contact them. Importantly, let others know where to find the data. www.pangaea.de

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My most recent PhD paper - big biodiversity databases can mostly recreate macroecological patterns when compared to field data, but with caveats based on cleaning and choice of diversity metric. Interestingly, the thumbnail shows the most consistent result - they consistently recreate bioregions.

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I submitted my first science policy paper today, looking at how evidence being generated for livestock management supports global, sectoral, and local ecosystem service priorities. (Spoiler: it's heavy on global priorities!) Hoping the reviewers like it 🤞

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On this I can agree: "Ecologists would benefit by instead determining which real distributions fit to which theoretical models and using the shape and scale parameters of those models to understand community structure" d197for5662m48.cloudfront.net/documents/pu... 🧪 #Paleobio #EvoBio #Macroecology

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