How big must it be? The SLOSS debate (large vs. many small reserves for biodiversity protection) is ongoing, and Anne Huber’s first (fantastic!) PhD paper sheds new light. Spoiler: many small reserves work well in Central European temperate forests 📝https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111403

We keep growing! Are you excited about remote sensing and mountain forests? Then consider applying to this PhD position, supported by the TUM Center for Forest Management in the Alps! More details at: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

GfÖ 2025 is over and it was a blast! Strong @edfm-tum.bsky.social representation + friends! I go home with some great ideas and insights 💡 - special thanks to the organizing team for the great food, communication and program #gfoe2025

Fantastic and insightful talk from Isabell Lanzrein from the chair of Forest and Agroforest Systems (TUM) at #gfoe2025 about beech neighborhood species mixture on drought susceptibility 🪾☀️ She dropped my favorite cartoon of the week 🌲💚 🌳

Extremly interesting paper by the fantastic @lucialayr.bsky.social , who disentangeled the future effects and contributions of climate change and distrubances on boreal forest features! Spoiler, it seems they have the potential to offset each other 🔥🪲↔️🌡️ 👉 doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...

We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time 📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Aspiration of the week: Doing good science 💻 xkcd.com/3101/

Important statement paper! We should see trees and forests for what they are: diverse ecosystems with a range of services they provide - not simply as carbon storage hubs and sinks.

The Wood microbiom: I tend to look at trees from the outside 🌳🛰️, happy that others do it from the inside! 🪵🔎 Fascinating study! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interested in working with a fun and inspiring team? We are looking for a new PhD (mountain forest management) and PostDoc (forest adaptive capacity, w/ @juditlecinadiaz.bsky.social) Comes along with: 🧗🏻‍♀️ mountain/ sport buddies 🙃 good + bad jokes ☕️👬amazing social time 💭 great ideas and conversations

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 🧵

Evening coding session in a 33 degree hot office - special measures need to be taken ☕️🧊

The fantastic first image released by @esa.int Biomass satellite. In glorious false colour to represent its P-band radar imaging, capable of penetrating even the highest biomass forests in the Amazon and Congo.

So proud of Beibei Zhang for leading this paper in @newphyt.bsky.social showing how soils & topography shape variation in canopy dynamics across tropical forest landscapes 🌳🔃🌐 Link to 📃: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A short 🧵

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

Die geheime Poesie des Nachrichtenflusses #Klimakrise

You are a scientist and think about your role in society? You are not alone! Thank you @anastritih.bsky.social & Co-Authors for this perspective of scientists on public engagement, scientific advocacy, ecological grief, and perceived political empowerment.

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

‪ As much as I am a fan of forests & Humboldt, he formed a "[...] Eurocentric perception of forests as the ideal natural state [...] at the expense of grasslands and other open ecosystems." Important article on bias in nature conservation policies towards forests: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I can highly recommend the group! If you are into 🛰️ and 🌳, this is a good place for you 😃

Regression to the mean - it is a thing, don’t ignore it! Thank you @jonlen.bsky.social for laying out the artefact of this phenomenon so clearly!

🚀🔊 Turn up the volume! Watch our favourite view of last week's Biomass liftoff. Biomass satellite was launched on a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The rocket lifted off on 29 April 2025 at 10/15 BST/11:15 CEST (06:15 local time).

🌳🛰️ Our groundbreaking Biomass satellite lifted off on Vega-C #VV26 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 10:15 BST/11:15 CEST on 29 April. The satellite is designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle.

@kirstenkrueger.bsky.social final Bristol seminar in a 1679 building...European forest dynamics

Factors behind the rise and collapse of bark beetle populations are still not fully understood. This study found interesting differences between colonisation density and reproductive success in the two outbreak phases www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

PhD announcement! Want to figure out how shrubs and trees survive the extremes of winter, and to model how this affects vegetation across the Arctic-Boreal region? Come join our amazing team at the University of Oslo @uio.no. Deadline Monday May 5th. Apply here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

That’s what I call a well organized university - while the whole floor is a carpet, they have the „caution - wet floor sign“ for the 3 sqm which are not 😂

We are hiring! forestinvasion.cz/en Three postdoc positions in the field of biological invasions are open at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, funded through Horizon Europe: forestinvasion.cz/en/r-20693-n... forestinvasion.cz/en/r-20693-n... forestinvasion.cz/en/r-20693-n...

Hello Bristol, here we go: Thank you @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social & group for the warm welcome 🌳 Looking forward to mingle at the Uni Bristol for the next weeks - if you are interested in talking forests, disturbances, recovery, lidar &/ remote sensing let me know where to go with my coffee ☕️

Setting forests aside doesn’t stir up more trouble—in fact, it calms the chaos 🌳 Happy to see my first PhD chapter out! 📝 Setting aside forests for biodiversity conservation does NOT amplify disturbances in temperate forests of Central Europe. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Old but gold: something for the heart in those times 🇪🇺 💚 youtu.be/Ag-W1x2sjA4

Job Alert - Come work with us at @qforestlab.bsky.social! I'm hiring a postdoctoral fellow in vegetation remote sensing and radiative transfer to work on my @erc.europa.eu SPACETWIN project (spacetwin.ugent.be). More info ➡️ www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... Deadline: March 7

Hot chocolate and late coding sessions - welcome to the third year of the PhD 😅😎☕️💻

Surprise: Nach unten treten ist nicht die Lösung für Haushaltslücken. Da ist nix zu holen und die Menschen haben bereits viel zu wenig. Wir müssen Steuerfahnder ausbilden, progressive Steuermodelle einführen, die Schuldenbremse lockern und damit Reiche und Konzerne in die Verantwortung nehmen!

I'm happy to share that I will soon be starting a new position as junior professor of Modelling of Social-Ecological Systems at the @uni-freiburg.de I'm excited to start some new research on the interactions between forests and people, and will be hiring two PhD students...

Two exciting PhD positions at @anastritih.bsky.social newly founded Chair of Modelling of Social-Ecological Systems at @uni-freiburg.de : simulation modelling of forest management 💻: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... pathways of forest social-ecological systems 📝: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Earth Observation is a reliable, open and transparent tool for monitoring forest 🛰️🌳🌲 - it should be given full consideration in the context of EU Forest Monitoring Law --> Open letter from the forest remote sensing community: earthmonitor.org/open-letter-...

In one of Europe‘s largest forest disturbance patches 🌲

Live: Best way to kick off our @edfm-tum.bsky.social PhD Writing Retreat with an online Seminar by Leonore Fahrig on writing scientific papers ✍️

🎥 Our postdoc Alba Viana-Soto @albavianasoto.bsky.social talked about the development of innovative Earth observation tools for monitoring forest disturbances as part of the ForestPaths project @forestpaths.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGKN...

Six years in the making and finally published! Our viewpoint on how to improve tree mortality monitoring. With in-depth discussion on how to improve ground-based monitoring, integration of ground-based monitoring with remote sensing and modelling, and fair and collaborative science: lnkd.in/dJgSRQHt

Towards a global understanding of tree mortality. Important perspective led by the great @corneliussenf.bsky.social with contributions of 113 experts from around the world, facilitated through the Intl. Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Wie wäre es mit einem Minimalkonsens Bundestag ?

This sentence sticks with me - scientifically and personally. From the Introduction of Ursula Le Guin to „The left hand of darkness“

Mark your calendars for the next seminar of the Intl. Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social: On Feb 18, the wonderful @dudney-joan.bsky.social will tackle the exiting topic of disturbance interactions under climate change. More info and registration here: www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/

A pretty good reminder list:

💼Job Alert: I am hiring a PostDoc/PhD (100%, 3yrs) to develop and orchestrate cloud-based workflows within a project that will create a forest information system 🌳 for Germany based on #sentinel2 🛰️ and #als ✈️. tinyurl.com/4hw426vw #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation @unitrier.bsky.social @thuenen.de

At what spatial resolution should we map forest carbon from space? [1/2] In our letter @science.org led by Laura Duncanson we reflect on whether a pursuit of ever-higher resolution maps is necessarily a good thing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Werde Teil unseres Teams! Die Amadeu Antonio Stiftung sucht engagierte Menschen, die gemeinsam mit uns für Demokratie, Menschenrechte und gegen Rechtsextremismus eintreten wollen. Wir haben aktuell mehrere spannende Stellen zu besetzen:

The International Tree Mortality Network is now also on Bluesky! Follow bsky.app/profile/tree... for information on exciting upcoming online seminars and other news related to tree mortality.