Hotter, drier and more seasonal forests in the eastern and southern Amazon are losing species, while Northern Andean forests are accumulating species, acting as a refuge for those that are climate-displaced 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fast-growing trees are set to dominate the #forests of the #future — but at a cost🌳 Our Nature Plants (@natplants.nature.com) study shows a global shift toward "sprinter" tree species, while slow-growing, functionally critical #trees face elevated #extinction risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Mediterranean seafloors are heating fast 🌊🔥. Our new study shows bottom marine #heatwaves will intensify, last longer, and threaten benthic species—often year-round by 2100. A growing #ClimateRisk for benthic #biodiversity. #ClimateChange 🌍🌐🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

⚠️ New paper out in Nature Ecology & Evolution 🌱 #Grasslands #SoilCarbon @natecoevo.nature.com

Species shift their ranges in response to climate change, but many can't keep up. The resulting "community-climate disequilibrium" can impair ecosystem function and cause counterintuitive dynamics, like short-term gain but long-term loss onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Meta-analysis is ubiquitous in ecology, but it is poor at determining which conservation interventions work in which contexts That’s why we’ve developed Precision Ecology, using methods developed in, eg, medicine to inform precise, data-informed conservation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Plant traits matter in fire ecology! "On average, deciduous forests lose less than half as much carbon to wildfire combustion as conifer forests per unit burned area" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very comprehensive, insightful study on the DSR—diversity is not stabilizing when using abundance-weighted metrics and total species richness. An important reminder that our outcome metrics really matter!

Really interesting and confounding trend reported in Dynamic Ecology - ecology citations peaked in 2021 and have been declining since. Continued impact from the pandemic? 🧪🌐🌾 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/s...

In Nature Communications, our paper led by Viktoriia Radchuk shows that phenological change mediates global vertebrate responses to temperature. The study compiles 213 time series of phenotypes and population sizes, including data from Bylot. Read: urls.fr/w7ZKp9 @natcomms.nature.com 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦉🦑🦊🐻‍❄️

Good morning everyone. Today in “one day, one paper “, forest loss intensifies meteorological drought across over half of global climate zones, with boreal regions most affected as reduced precipitation and altered surface energy amplify water deficits and extend drought impacts 🌎🍁

Come work with us in beautiful Santa Barbara!

1/🧵 Paper out! 🎉🌿🔒 VegVault is now published in Nature Scientific Data: a global database linking palaeo + modern vegetation with traits + climate/soil drivers. 🌐website: bit.ly/VegVault 📜paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415... #VegVault #Ecology #Paleoecology #Vegetation #FunctionalTraits

wonderful collab lead by @zurelllab.bsky.social on the context dependency of climatic niche conservatism of non-native plants: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #UniversidadMayor #DataObservatory

New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures rdcu.be/eXSa7

Hemos empezado el año con un artículo nuevo, y este es muy bonito authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... "Summer aridity modulates tree growth response to thinning in Mediterranean pines" Vamos con el primer hilo del año (1/13) @csicdivulga.bsky.social #SoyForestal

Just before the Xmas break🎉 In @journalofecology.bsky.social and led by Anvar Sanaei, we provide insight into #trait coordination across 90 common and future European #tree species👇 doi.org/10.1111/1365... @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @uni-freiburg.de

Studying 800 balsam firs, researchers found how trees stop growing in fall affects future forests, aiding in predicting carbon storage under changing climates.🌲 #climate #forest #carbon @forestecosyst.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Methods for identifying topkill in conifers using airborne lidar to monitor structural diversity and disturbance | Journal of Forestry Research link.springer.com/article/10.1... @forestryjfr.bsky.social

Ecological insights from three decades of forest biodiversity experiments @natrevbiodiv.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Severe fire has impacted populations of the California spotted owl more than fuels management or drought-related tree mortality | Forest Ecology and Management | doi.org/10.1016/j.fo... | #ecology #bioacoustics #ornithology 🔊🪶

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Really happy to see our new paper published in @natcomms.nature.com @science.org also wrote some text about it which provides a decent summary scienmag.com/amazon-droug...

Final version published in Gold OA journal Forest Ecosystems 📰Forest structures are shaped by elevation and precipitation in the Central Himalaya www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Come join us in tackling pressing questions about forest ecosystem change! 🌲🌻🌱🌏

The last of my dissertation work is in Ecosystems! Please reach out if I can share a PDF (or a story about trying to do field work during the two biggest California fire years on record 🥲)

Restoring white pines in Idaho forests not only aids their recovery but also enhances understory plant diversity, improving ecosystem health and resilience.👇 #pine #forest #ecosystem @forestecosyst.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 What if evolution is the ”law”… and networks are the machines that do the work? In this paper (just published) I try to formalize how living systems are non-equilibrium, information-processing, adaptive matter. With a great biological flavor! 🧪🌐🌍🧬🦠 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... 🧵 1/

Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐 Applications due Feb 5 Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1

A super useful and comprehensive summary! #ReproducibleCode

Land-use change is the main cause of deforestation in the Amazon, but the risk of abrupt forest decline, along with its potentially devastating consequences, increases as the planet warms, with a strong nonlinear trend beyond 2.3° C of warming. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/6Prr50XKAN1

🌲 Tree growth is getting more unpredictable A JFR study shows Picea purpurea radial growth variability increased from 1960–2020, driven mainly by July moisture and rising vapor pressure deficit. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s116... #JFR #ForestryResearch #TreeGrowth #ClimateChange🍁🌺🌱🌿

Turns out that reviving oaks is not too difficult ...🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌰 #OakHealth #FireMimicry #SuddenOakLife

Do you study #ForestDisturbances? Fill out this survey run by global experts! 🍁🌱

Please contribute! We neex broad input, different forest types, and an array of natural disturbances to see how disturbance regimes are changing.

Biogeography and evolutionary patterns of temperate deciduous forests in the Northern Hemisphere vist.ly/4i9h2 #Flora #Phylogeny #SpeciesRichness

Working with dendrometers or curious about dendrometer research? 🌱🌐🍁🌳 🚨 Join the Global Dendrometer Network 🚨 We’re building a global community using dendrometers to study plant growth, stress, phenology & more. Sign up for updates on meetings, data calls & more 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📣 Our team at @nhm.org is #hiring a Program Manager to support our community science programs and integrated social-ecological research. Full time temporary (on grant $) for 4 months, then part-time permanent. Application review begins Jan 5 - apply and/or share widely! tinyurl.com/NHMCS2025 🧪🌎

Fascinated to learn that we are still discovering new species at the highest rate ever. Mapping Earth's biodiversity is far from over, and while we learn more and more about it, let's protect what we do know as well as we can! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Old-growth forests 🌲store lots of carbon and support biodiversity. Recent study of 3,503 tree rings across Europe shows that older forests, especially those with large trees, are crucial for long-term carbon storage, highlighting the need to protect them.👍 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Published!📖 Forest structural and functional diversity can attenuate forest productivity losses after harvesting and fires. In undisturbed forests, dominance boosts productivity via selection effects, but not after harvesting🌳🌲🌍 Read here:https://buff.ly/Gw5Hq6X

Global analysis shows that atmospheric dryness explains geographical patterns of tree canopy height and is projected to become more important in the coming decades: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice preprint for eco evo folk to check out from @sfwalmsley.bsky.social and colleagues - Towards a causal understanding of bidirectional effects in ecology and evolution - ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... #causalinference 🌍

Why is Southwest Virginia a hotspot for tick-borne diseases? And what are people doing about it? My latest in the @pulitzercenter.org -funded climate/health series for @wvtf.bsky.social in partnership with @climatecentral.org. www.wvtf.org/news/2025-12... 🧪🌎 #publichealth #climatechange

Sorry @nytimes.com , for those of us in the sciences, this is not a "quiet policy change". 🧪🦠💊🌍 It is however a disaster for society. The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Divergent Trends in Insect Disturbance Across Europe's Temperate and Boreal Forests 🔗 buff.ly/APK3ybC

Watched S5 E1 ("The Crawl") of #StrangerThings last night & was thrilled to see gorgeous examples of drill holes made by a yellow-bellied sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius) in the trunk of what's likely a loblolly pine (Pinus taeda); Will Byers (Noah Schnapps) for scale. 🧪🌲🪵🐦🕳️

Good morning everyone. Today in “One day, one paper”, mixed forests in China’s Loess Plateau show deeper water uptake and stricter stomatal regulation, enhancing resilience under drought and offering key insights for sustainable afforestation 🌎

Check out our latest publication from the #FREE group at #CESAB taking a functional and trait perspective on classic metapopulation ecology led by @nmouquet.bsky.social 🧪🌐