Fantastic paper from Loft, @ymalhi.bsky.social and others. The ecological energetics approach offers a way to better integrate animals into Earth system modelling of major biogeochemical cycles, as well as yielding important insights on ecosystem function as laid out by Yadvinder, below.

🧵 New preprint alert! From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Which #methanotrophs drive methane degradation in the #phyllosphere of #trees? This project involves Sinchan Banerjee at Warwick and Professors Yin Chen, James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social and Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social at University of Birmingham www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...

I was asked by @theconversation.com to provide an explainer/comment on the value of the @methanesat.bsky.social satellite following its power loss.

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Can we expand the narrative and definition of human development to include flourishing with nature? Our new paper in Nature explores such a vision, and outlines a metric - the Nature Relationship Index - to sit alongside the Human Development Index. @naturerecovery.bsky.social

New Paper out in Nature: 'An aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures' www.nature.com/articles/s41... "We must rethink our relationship with the Earth, not as consumers, but as partners in healing and co-flourishing with the rest of the natural world". youtube.com/shorts/pXHnW...

My piece for The Conversation elaborates on my NatRevs perspective (below). It supports (w/ a new mechanism) @simonlewis.bsky.social & @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social‘s idea of the Columbian exchange having global effects. With CH4 the Anthropocene start is 1592 theconversation.com/new-start-date…

My perspective “Tree methane exchange in a changing world” is now out in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com rdcu.be/erF4j

1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No 6th Mass Extinction Anthropocene 🌎🌐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have a new 2-year post-doc position available in forest methane modelling as part of our NERC DefMet project. The team would appreciate it if suitable applicants were made aware of this opportunity. Thanks! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI250/r...

So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐 Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A brief thread of what we found 🧵

The new global methane budget is now out! Seems to gloss over the measured 25-50Tg sink term in upland trees that was recently discovered (= or > to soil sink & prob more subject to change). Possibly because it’s not yet been included in models the authors use. Observations do matter though…

Global Soil Methane Uptake Estimated by Scaling Up Local Measurements 📄 buff.ly/CvjoOE7

Our paper on mapping the canopy traits and functions of global tropical forests was published online in Nature last month but is out in print today, and it made the cover 😊 Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this @natureportfolio.nature.com

Brilliant discovery. Well done @elliescerri.bsky.social , Huw and team! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Hear more about devastating impacts of the Laki volcano eruption and on the regional DECREASE in natural methane emissions in this insightful Climate Chat with @gaucigauci.bsky.social Link with timestamp: www.youtube.com/live/Z6aRSBa...

Accelerated carbon return to agricultural peatlands through biochar addition - suppresses methane emissions and kicks off net GHG removal (with increased water level and added SO4). Excited to see this work from Chris Evans’ team at CEH.

Published tonight in Science Adances by Lu Shen’s fantastic team (and me) “The large role of declining atmospheric sulfate deposition and rising CO2 concentrations in stimulating future wetland CH4 emissions” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Back from a fascinating Stanford workshop on Atmospheric Methane Removal (AMR). Of course we need to prioritise emissions reductions, but, increasingly, and from work we’re about to publish, emissions reductions under the Global Methane Pledge aren’t going to be enough to meet stated aims.

At a meeting in Stanford. Their clock tower = 87m. Our Uni of Birmingham clock tower (Old Joe) = 100m. Birmingham wins.

So much to learn from experiments like Tempest run by Pat Megonigal of SERC.

Hello to all my new followers 👋🏼 (how did that happen?!). Guess I should spend more time here, and I will.

Some misty trees from Uley Bury hill fort #TreeClub

Going to re-up these two post doc opportunities as the deadline is fast approaching.

We seek 2 post docs to join our group working on atmospheric methane removal (AMR) in trees. These exciting projects (👇🏼) seek to build on our recent @nature discovery of global AMR by trees. These projects combine flux msrmnts, global modelling & microbial ecology. Pls RT 🙏🏼

A new paper: 'Tidal influence on #CarbonDioxide and #Methane fluxes from #TreeStems and soils in #Mangrove forests' in @eurogeosciences.bsky.social bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

Half a Century of Cultural Evolution ***New Special Feature in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/121...

This is a really important point by @queenofpeat.bsky.social . And where peatlands are being used for agriculture, raising the water table can be a serious climate win www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really good essay by @haddenturner.bsky.social that makes the point I’ve made before about how our human constructs have much to learn from functional redundancy in ecology if we want a resilient society.

Recent #Fieldwork rekkie scouting out forested #wetland sites for new #PhD student Scott Cramb to investigate #tree dwelling trace gas #microbial communities and fluxes

Hi. Since ‘new’ I should introduce myself. For work I explore the role of ecosystems in influencing Earth’s climate (past, present & future) through their regulation of GHG exchange, with methane a particular, but not exclusive interest. There’s more in my bio links. I’d welcome RTs! Thank you.