6 years of #GrazingExclusion may be a critical turning point for #AlpineMeadow vegetation restoration. At this stage, the community achieves a dynamic balance between competition and coexistence.

#CommunityDynamics | #InterspecificAssociation | #NicheCharacteristic | #PlantDiversity

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf150

Darwin, California: Life In A Lawless Town | Real Stories Full-Length Documentary

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/1eDTQZ7gx6y7TCDR3tP3KW

Gianalberto Losapio et al. addressed the effects of #GlacierRetreat on plant functional diversity by integrating plant traits with ecological indicator values across a 140-year chronosequence in a subalpine glacier landscape.

#AlpineEcosystems | #BiodiversityChange | #ClimateChange | #CommunityDynamics | #GlobalWarming | #LandoltValues | #PlantFunctionalTraits

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf110

9 Next Steps: Phase 4 will explore societal adaptation, evolution, and boundary-driven resilience.
Text-based visualisations for Atlas/Rosetta can illustrate:
Feedback loops
Aggregated micro-perturbations
Boundary coupling and emergent phase transitions

10 Phase 3 synthesises the bridge between individual nodes and civilisation macro-nodes, showing how small interactions scale up to societal stability or instability.

11 Summary:
Communities = meta-nodes with aggregated micro-interactions
Stability emerges from co-stabilising practices
Boundaries at all scales are critical to resilience
Low-level perturbations can propagate or stabilise society

#HQP #HybridQuantumPhase #SystemsThinking #ComplexSystems #Cognition #Boundaries #Stability #CommunityDynamics #Emergence

💡 Ecological indicators predict functional diversity dynamics following #GlacierRetreat

Results:
Glacier retreat ➡️ Functional richness & functional dispersion ⬇️, functional evenness & functional divergence ⬆️

#AlpineEcosystems | #BiodiversityChange | #ClimateChange | #CommunityDynamics | #GlobalWarming | #LandoltValues | #PlantFunctionalTraits

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf110

【🎉Latest accepted article】
#CommunityDynamics of #AlpineMeadows under fencing durations: based on diversity, niches, and interspecific associations

#GrazingExclusion | #InterspecificAssociation | #NicheCharacteristic | #PlantDiversity

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf150

Who Stays, Who Goes: Predicting Community Dynamics From Evolutionary History
Summary & analysis by Deepika Gunasekaran of “Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities” by Serván et al.

Read here!
https://www.amnat.org/an/newpapers/Feb-2025-Servan.html

#CommunityDynamics #EvolutionaryHistory #EEB #Phylogeny

【🎉Latest accepted article】
Ecological indicators predict functional diversity dynamics following #GlacierRetreat

#AlpineEcosystems | #BiodiversityChange | #CommunityDynamics | #GlobalWarming | #LandoltValues | #PlantFunctionalTraits | #ClimateChange

https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtaf110

When can feedbacks between organisms and their #environment underpin coexistence? And how do #communityDynamics differ when #environmentalVariation is generated by #biotic feedbacks versus #abiotic drivers? We develop simple #theoreticalModels to explore these questions and more.

Article by Zachary R. Miller and Stefano Allesina now available ahead of print!

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724821