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Jens Svenning

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Jens Svenning

@JCSvenning

Scientist: #macroecology, #biodiversity, #climatechange, #restoration & #rewilding, #human-#nature relations & #remotesensing. jcsvenning.bsky.social

Aarhus, Danmark

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Joined August 2014

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Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Nov 19, 2024
Proud to be 1 of 9 @aarhusuni scientists on the list of #HighlyCited2024 Researchers, again in the Cross-Field category. Big thx to collaborators+students+funders! webofscience.com/wos/author/rec…🌐🍃👣🐘🌴♨️🛰️🌍#macroecology #biodiversity #biosphere #sustainability #plants #fauna #people
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Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Jan 31, 2022
Happy to have contributed to a new estimate of the number of tree species on our planet, just out in @PNASNews. Our updated number is 73000 species, 14% more than currently known, w/ 9,200 species yet to be discovered 🌲🌳🌴🌍 pnas.org/content/119/6/… #trees #forests #macroecology
pnas.org
The number of tree species on Earth | PNAS
One of the most fundamental questions in ecology is how many species inhabit the Earth. However, due to massive logistical and financial challenges...
Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Nov 24, 2023
The Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene saw massive human-linked #extinctions among #megafauna - but what happened to survivors? Based on genomics data for 139 extant megafauna, we show they experienced severe parallel declines as well @NatureComms 🦬🐘🐫🦒🦁
Worldwide Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene population declines in extant megafauna are associa...
From nature.com
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Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Jul 16, 2022
Botanists are disappearing – just when the world needs them most theconversation.com/botanists-are-… @ConversationUK 🌳☘️🌴🍁🌿🎋🌼🪷#plants #plantblindness #natureawareness #iamabotanist
Botanists are disappearing – just when the world needs them most
From theconversation.com
Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Nov 20, 2023
The diversity & functioning of Europe's #mammal #fauna are strongly degraded relative to recent prehistoric baselines at similar climate - see our new @TERRANOVA4EU study @GEB_macro, led by @MarcoDavoli3 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge… 🐎🐘#defaunation #megafauna #Pleistocene #allometry
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Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Apr 29, 2024
Interested in the late-Quaternary #megafauna #extinctions 🦣🐪🐘🦣🐆- check our new review of the patterns, causes, consequences & #Anthropocene implications bit.ly/4aBR9fI 🌿🌐🦘🐎 #pleistocene #mammals #paleoclimate #homosapiens #rewilding #ecosystem #defaunation
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Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Nov 10, 2023
Time to re-think what is a natural forest: Check our new study in @ScienceAdvances: Substantial light #woodland & open vegetation characterized the temperate #forest #biome before Homo sapiens science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🌳🌿🐘🦬🍃🌼 #Pleistocene #vegetation #megafauna
science.org
Substantial light woodland and open vegetation characterized the temperate forest biome before Homo...
Landscape reconstruction using pollen data shows that European temperate forests were open and heterogeneous before modern humans.
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Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Oct 16, 2024
Curious about the massive #extinction of #megafauna - eg #mammoth, #mastodon, #sabercats & #sloths - in recent #prehistory, as we show in a new synthesis, the pattern is strongly coupled to Homo sapiens & w/out any consistent link to #climatechange cambridge.org/core/journals/… 🦣🐘🦣
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Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
May 15, 2024
What happened to #mammoths & #sabercats? Over the last ~50,000 years, #megafauna suffered severe #extinctions, e.g. only 11 of 57 #megaherbivores survived. Our review shows strong & increasing support for human causation + strong #ecosystem consequences rb.gy/17dlyx🦣
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Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Jan 5, 2023
We have 6 open 2-year postdoc positions in #megafauna #ecosystem ecology, #macroecology #vegetation dynamics, trophic #rewilding, #novelecosystems & #paleoecology - see later in this thread @EconovoAU @EcoinfAU @BiochangeAU - as promised in my keynote at #IEA2023 @irish_ecology
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Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Dec 26, 2023
#Megafauna diversity & functional declines in Europe from the Last Interglacial to the present -happy to see our study out in the new issue of @GEB_macro onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge… Congratulations to @MarcoDavoli3 for this important outcome of @TERRANOVA4EU ITN🙂 🦌🐂🐎🦏🦬🐘🐆🐺🐻
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Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Jan 13, 2022
Our new study showing that animal losses have severely reduced plants' capacity to track #climatechange worldwide is just out in @ScienceMagazine (& on the front page) 🐎🐾🌿🌴🌦️ Big thx @ecfricke for leading! #plants #dispersal #extinction #biodiversitycrisis #mammals #birds
Evan Fricke
@ecfricke
Jan 13, 2022
A key way plants adapt to climate change is through migration. But about half of plant species rely on animals for dispersal. Our (w @anordonez1 @haldre1 @JCSvenning) new paper asks how seed disperser losses impact plants' ability to track climate change. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Jun 7, 2022
Super excited to soon start a @GrundforskFond Center of Excellence on Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere (ECONOVO), w/ focus on how to maintain a liveable #biosphere for #biodiversity & #people despite massive #climatechange etc. 🌍🐎🌿👣 #IBSVancouver2022 #NordicOikos2022
Jens Svenning
@JCSvenning
Sep 7, 2023
I'm extremely honored by this wonderful recognition :) Warm thanks to @Carlsbergfondet & the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences & Letters @VSelskab's award selection committee!
Carlsbergfondet
@Carlsbergfondet
Sep 6, 2023
✨Prof @JCSvenning modtager #CFforskpris 2023 for sin internationalt anerkendte grundforskning i alt fra makroøkologiske processer til udvikling af metoder og ideer til genopretning af vild natur, der skal komme både Jordens klima og økosystemer til gavn #dkforsk @BiochangeAU
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