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Dr. Billur Malcoci is a postdoctoral researcher in the Professorship for Plant Ecology at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. She is actively engaged in multiple research projects investigating plant responses to climate change across various spatial and temporal scales.
Dr. Malcoci's research focuses on understanding how climate change affects plants from individuals to entire communities. Her work examines:
- The timing and pace of plant responses to climate change
- Transient dynamics and context dependencies in ecological systems
- Unexpected lags in plant responses compared to the rate of climate change
- Community assembly processes and species range limits
She employs innovative methodologies including whole-community transplant experiments, vegetation surveys along elevational gradients, Joint Species Distribution Models, and AI-enhanced analysis of historical herbarium specimens. Her work bridges traditional ecological approaches with cutting-edge computational methods to improve biodiversity forecasts under climate change scenarios.
Dr. Malcoci has received research funding through the ETH Career Seed Award for her project 'Back to the future: Unlocking herbaria with AI and spectrometry to understand plant range shifts under climate change.' She actively contributes to the scientific community through her roles in the European Ecological Forecasting Initiative and the AI + Environment Summit.
Her scientific outreach includes an interview for Quanta Magazine's Climate Science special issue, where her research on plant responses to climate change was featured in the article 'The Ends of the Earth.'
