Rainfall intensity matters as much as how much rain falls. New in Nature: Corey Lesk and I show that daily-scale concentration of precipitation dries the land over the long-run, an effect as strong as total precipitation is climatological wetting. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature research paper: Higher-order interactions enhance the latitudinal tree diversity gradient go.nature.com/4mZSPag

For those with interests in #complexity theory and systems ecology, I enjoyed this recent and very nice & clear interdisciplinary introduction to tipping point concepts, published recently: doi.org/10.1038/s444... #thresholds #resilience #social-ecological 🌐🧪🦑

Official USFS publication dated 1977. I keep it framed and hung on my wall because it reminds me of how long people have worked and cared for the same things I do. All of us have an obligation to protect our public lands and continue this work. #usfs #ecology #conservation 🍁 🌎 @alt.usfs.info

The Amazon rainforest was hit with two severe droughts during 2023–2024. Models suggest that just over half the forest will not recover within seven years, which is the maximum time between droughts in recent decades. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/BKQ150YySOw

New paper out! Lead by @camilletruong.bsky.social & with @spun.earth #FungiFoundation in Biod Conserv: “Large-diameter trees disproportionately contribute to soil fungal diversity in a coniferous forest with one of oldest living trees on Earth”. @tobykiers.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s105...

New #causalinference paper just dropped! As an ecologist, I was trained to ask: "What do the data tell me?" This paper: there are only specific instances when this question is appropriate—when you lack domain knowledge, which we often have! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NEW PAPER🚨Ecological Feedbacks in the Earth System🌍We present an urgent call to the scientific community for the rapid development of understanding of ecological feedbacks and integrated ecosystem—Earth system research 🌐🧪 @imperiallifesci.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

In a new #ScienceAnalyticalReview, researchers discuss the scale-dependent mechanisms through which forests regulate climate, highlighting their contributions to global mitigation and local adaptation. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4aGldbI

New paper from our lab, led by Leah McTigue We reviewed 40+ years of research on drought affects on wildlife: 66% of single-species responses were negative, only 2% positive. As droughts intensify under climate change, wildlife are in trouble. 🌍🌐🧪 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🎉🆕📰🎉: Thermal behaviour of lipids in short-lived seeds of Australian rainforest species doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

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 🧪🌿🌎🌐🦉🦑🦊🐻‍❄️

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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

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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

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