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Ecoclimatology 🌿~ tree-rings 🌳💍
@lamont.columbia.edu
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social
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Neil Pederson
3 days ago
Researchers compared “simulations of the Community Land Model (CLM) to a statistical model built on dendrometer observations, showing that CLM underestimates decreases to growth under elevated VPD by a factor of 2–3”
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Land Models Likely Underestimate the Impact of Future Atmospheric Dryness on European Tree Growth
The land absorbs one third of human CO2 emissions, making it critical to understand how tree growth will respond to climate change Drier air reduces photosynthesis and the processes of cell divis...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2026GL122759
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
19 days ago
Even as trees photosynthesize late into the year, their growth stops by mid-summer, which impacts their carbon uptake, finds a new study of oak trees led by
@lamont.columbia.edu
ecoclimatologist
@mukund24rao.bsky.social
. ➡️ Learn more:
https://bit.ly/4fRTE3v
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
3 months ago
Join LDEO scientists at Brooklyn's
@pioneerwork.bsky.social
: * Apr 9 Do Forests Feel with
@mukund24rao.bsky.social
& Cari Leland of LDEO Tree Ring Lab:
https://bit.ly/3NkuVZN
* Apr 12 2nd Sundays with Rao & Leland + climate scientist Marco Tedesco on Greenland's melting ice:
https://bit.ly/47kybep
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Dr. Hilary Rose Dawson
4 months ago
Graminoids had the best heat tolerance, but plant growth form did not predict response to active warming in a
#heatwave
experiment led by
@scienceanu.bsky.social
PhD student Tom Hanley using
@tern-aus.bsky.social
AMRF infrastructure.
doi.org/10.1111/jvs.70109
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#ecology
#ecophysiology
#wildOz
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Kevin Anchukaitis
5 months ago
A new paper by
@anaigmendez.bsky.social
vin Geophysical Research Letters shows that the oxygen isotope ratio of the annual rings of tropical conifers in Central America records rainfall amount and tracks large-scale tropical atmosphere ocean dynamics!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Oxygen Isotopes in Tree Rings Track Neotropical Climate Dynamics
Tree-ring δ18O from Abies guatemalensis in Central America captures interannual variations in boreal summer rainfall Lighter δ18O years are associated with a weakening of the Caribbean Low-Level ...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL120744
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ESA Latin America & the Caribbean Chapter
5 months ago
📢 A new publication from our team is now out in the
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
BULLETIN! 👉
doi.org/10.1002/bes2...
It shows how community, collaboration, & multilingual science are not extras—they are essential for equity in ecology. 🌎 📢Please share to amplify Latin American voices!
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Danielle Creek
7 months ago
The first International
#Dendrometer
Network meeting brought together 50+ researchers from around the world! 🎉 🌍 Stay connected — join our mailing list for updates & opportunities: 👉
forms.gle/FAi5iyoucaAY...
#TreeGrowth
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Arthur Gessler
7 months ago
We found that when temps hit 30°C+, C3 plants start struggling - their carbon metabolism gets disrupted, they burn through sugar stores faster, and even their isotope signatures change. Meanwhile C4 plants? They're basically chilling like "this is fine" 😎
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Hot and Hungry - High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbon dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprints - npj Science of Plants
npj Science of Plants - Hot and Hungry - High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbon dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprints
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44383-025-00012-6
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Danielle Creek
7 months ago
🎤Hi
#dendrometer
users! You are invited to join our new Dendrometer Network (catchy name still tbd 😜). Online meeting 10:30-12 CET Friday 12 Dec. Please share and let me know if you want to join and I will send the meeting link 🌴🎄🌳🌲
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Ben Bond-Lamberty
7 months ago
"Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast" -- wow what a comprehensive analysis by Yeung,
@xiyang.bsky.social
et al. 🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast - Nature Sustainability
Large swathes of standing dead trees or ‘ghost forests’ can form owing to rising sea levels in coastal areas, but the extent to which this occurs is unclear. This study maps ghost forests at the indiv...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-025-01691-w
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biometlab
8 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Fun collaboration with
@jingfengxiao.bsky.social
Papale, Ichii
@fluxnet.bsky.social
and others. Hope you all enjoy
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Insights into terrestrial carbon and water cycling from the global eddy covariance network - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Long-term monitoring is essential to characterizing the responses of carbon and water fluxes to global environmental change drivers. This Review synthesizes the insights gained into these changes from...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-025-00743-1
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Encantado de participar en este seminario sobre bosques y el cambio global el próximo martes 18 de noviembre. Se puede inscribir aqui
forms.gle/UDTPBN9rQLcL...
. Organizado por
@esalatamcarib.bsky.social
(gracias!).
@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
@lamont.columbia.edu
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8 months ago
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Dario Martin-Benito
8 months ago
deadtrees.earth
— An open-access and interactive database for centimeter-scale aerial imagery to uncover global tree mortality dynamics.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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@cmosig.bsky.social
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
9 months ago
Extreme weather events are linked to climate change, and while the "overall picture" has been wetter in recent years, "the rainfall comes more in extreme events, and then you can go for very long periods without rain," says
@lamont.columbia.edu
expert
@mukund24rao.bsky.social
. Via
@nytimes.com
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Drought Mutes Northeast Leaf-Peeping Season
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/climate/fall-foliage-drought-new-england.html
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Johannes Edvardsson
9 months ago
Dendrometer workshop in Ås, Norway. 🇳🇴🌳
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Rachel Jade Kuzmich
9 months ago
The second session is all about assessing and detecting stress effects. We are about halfway through with a great talk by
@yuwenzhang6666.bsky.social
#DendroNet
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Please reach out if you are looking for a postdoc fellowship and are interested in ecosystem-climate interactions!
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9 months ago
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Some thoughts from me and others on how the ongoing drought in the Northeastern US may impact autumn foliage this year.
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Mukund Palat Rao
Columbia University
9 months ago
🌳 🪓 When the chopping begins, history ends. At Columbia's Tree Ring Lab, every piece of timber tells a story.
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Rings of Time: Seeking Clues to the Future in Urban Timber
Lamont scientists are working with lumber salvage companies to preserve old timbers from demolished structures that offer rich clues to climate data and human history.
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/09/09/rings-of-time-preserving-the-past-and-seeking-clues-to-the-future-in-urban-timber/
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Troy Magney
over 1 year ago
New Tansley review paper from Zoe Pierrat & friends in
@newphyt.bsky.social
linking proximal remote sensing with ecosystem fluxes! Synergies and best practices for hyperspectral reflectance, SIF, thermal, microwave and lidar 🌈🌲🗼🛰️🧪
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Troy Magney
over 1 year ago
Future
#climate
projections of tree cover suggest the boreal forest is headed for an open state (⬇️🌲in south & ⬆️🌲in north) But, how will boreal tree cover dynamics influence—and be influenced by—climate feedbacks? We discuss this in a new commentary
@pnas.org
. 🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Troy Magney
over 1 year ago
Why does hyperspectral reflectance work for tracking plant physiological dynamics? I recently wrote a commentary for
@newphyt.bsky.social
about that, targeted for a broad audience of plant scientists 🍃🌈🧪
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Hyperspectral reflectance integrates key traits for predicting leaf metabolism
Click on the article title to read more.
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.20345
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