NECLIME Newsletter 2025

This year's newsletter provides a brief overview of the main activities and achievements of NECLIME over the past year for your information. We also invite you to take a look at the job announcements and share this information with colleagues who may be interested.
The past year has been busy for the NECLIME community. We had an outstanding annual meeting in Croatia, and we hope anyone who attended enjoyed it. The next annual conference will take place in Xishuangbanna, China, and we are looking forward to seeing you there and enjoying stimulating scientific exchanges.
You can find the newsletter here.

⇒ If you are aware of any relevant events, open positions or funding opportunities for NECLIME, please contact the coordination team so we can share this via our mailing list.

New Special Issue - NECLIME contributions to cenozoic plant diversity in Eurasia

Guest Editors: Manu Casas Gallego, Marianna Kovacova, Martina Stebich, and Torsten Utescher
The initiative for a new special issue to present some of our current and recent research in the Elsevier journal Earth History and Biodiversity (HISBIO) is ongoing, with two manuscripts already published.
The aims and scope of the journal widely overlap with the NECLIME scientific topics, which makes it a perfect option to publish NECLIME related content. During an initial phase, the journal will be sponsored by Elsevier and all successful submissions before end of 2026 will be published free of charge.
--> If you are interested in submitting a manuscript and have not done so, please contact Manu Casas Gallego.

We encourage the NECLIME community to consider submission of their respective research to HISBIO, also beyond this special issue.

Editor-in-chief Tao Su, Associate Editors José Carrion and Angela Bruch

New member in the NECLIME coordination team

This year Prof. Shufeng Li from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) joined us as a new member of our coordination team. Many of you already know him as an outstanding scientist and active member of our community. We are grateful that he is ready to support our community with his experience and energy!

Job opportunities

Visiting Fellowship
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG), Chinese Academy of Sciences, is looking for postdoctoral researchers in paleobotany, paleoclimate, and vegetation modeling as well as visiting scholars and graduate students (MS/PhD) in the fields of "Cenozoic evolution of plant diversity, vegetation, and climate changes" and "Numeric climate modeling, vegetation and plant diversity modeling". See details at the newsletter or directly contact Prof. Shufeng Li.

PhD Position

The new German Cluster of Excellence TERRA: Terrestrial Geo-Biosphere Interactions in a Changing World at Tuebingen University announces 15 new PhD positions. One of them is a PhD position in palynology (starting 1.4. 2026 until 31.9.2029) to study long- and short-term biostability and plant diversity of the Late Miocene fossil site Hammerschmiede in southern Germany. We are looking for a person experienced in Neogene (preferably European) pollen and NPP analysis. Please contact Madelaine Böhme for more information.

 

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China
(Location of the NECLIME annual conference 2026)