Climate warming is generally making trees grow faster, but the greater effect is that tree growth is becoming more unpredictable, creating a threat to the stability of forests. New paper by Li & He (2026). 🧪🌏🌐🌲🌳

Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes. Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.

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

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...

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting early 2026 Please 🔁! Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈 👉 tinyurl.com/2mafwru3 #Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity

We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪 If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

Extra CO2 stimulates #photosynthesis of trees and reduces water losses through transpiration. But does that stimulate growth of #tree stems? Our paper today in NatClimateChange led by Quan Zhang uses theory & data to show that strong growth stimulation is unlikely.🌎🌐🍁 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are hiring: 4 PhD Positions in Ecology / Data Science and one Ecological Data Scientist. For more information, see www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet...

🚨Calling all #TreeRing lovers!🚨 Join us at #EGU26 for session CL1.2.1 Interdisciplinary Tree-Ring Research Abstracts exploring tree rings from all perspectives and disciplines are welcome! Submit here: tinyurl.com/475xjjfu K. Treydte, J. Jevšenak, A. Eckes-Shephard, @pieterzuidema.bsky.social

Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾

#Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Eckes-Shephard et al. @WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience

🎉Congratulations 🎓 Dr Sophie Zwartsenberg who defended her PhD thesis @w-u-r.bsky.social about climate & CO2 effects on trees in #tropicalforest Sophie found that 100y of CO2 rise stimulated tree #photosynthesis, that #treerings are narower during hot & dry years, and more so in drier regions. 🌎🍁

According to this paper, there could be c. 55.5 million tall trees (> 60 m height) across the Brazilian Amazon, with the highest density in the northeast portion. These trees have a disproportionate contribution to the carbon stored in these forests! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🪵 Diameter drives short-term biomass gains, but long-term carbon storage hinges on wood density, especially in humid forests. To improve accuracy, biomass models should account for radial wood density variation and climate ☁️ 🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/kZFoh9B

New #timber #tracing paper on power of combined methods. Study led by @lauraboeschoten.bsky.social & Barbara RV Meyer-Sand for African timber shows combining methods boosts reliability of tracing. With 3 methods: 95% of samples traced back to <100 km of origin. 🌎🌐🍁 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

🪵Combined methods boost the precision of tracing illegal timber The origin of timber was correctly identified for 94% of samples in Central Africa, a high-risk region with low tracing accuracy to date. @lauraboeschoten.bsky.social @pieterzuidema.bsky.social 👉Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Climate change is reshaping forest growth 🌳🌡️💧 Water and temperature control growth timing. Warmer winters make some species start growing earlier. Hot, dry summers may shorten growing seasons. New paper out @globalchangebio.bsky.social led by a former PhD student @csic.es shorturl.at/5Gn8a

A must-read special issue: “Bending the curve towards nature recovery: building on Georgina Mace’s legacy” royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... I: Determinants of diversity & resilience. II: Measuring the state of biodiversity III: Biodiversity & natural capital IV: Future scenarios for nature

Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

Yesterday, Bo Zhou successfully defended his PhD thesis at @w-u-r.bsky.social on carbon & water dynamics in a montane forest in subtropical China. Bo studied tree growth rythms & transpiration fluxes. 🎉Congrats 🎓 Dr Bo! ▶️ Defense: wur.yuja.com/V/Watch?v=93... 📙Thesis: research.wur.nl/en/publicati...

Plant species–habitat networks in a mosaic landscape of restored and fragmented tropical forests 🌲🌏 Highlights the role of species interactions and their correlated traits such as dispersal syndromes in promoting landscape-scale connectivity 📊🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Good news for a change: Background mortality in unmanaged forests of Europe has not increased over past decades. Great work from the European Forest Reserve Initiative EuFoRIa, out in @journalofecology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🌱 Study in the tropical–subtropical zone shows slope and species diversity shape carbon sequestration! Leaf nutrients + soil N and P = key drivers of soil organic carbon. Random Forest and SEM offer restoration insights. 🔗https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11676-025-01895-y 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿🦤

FINAL VERSION PUBLISHED @forestecosyst.bsky.social 📰Tree competition in West African tropical forests mediated by the functional attributes of species and variation in soil moisture www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Tree stems accumulate biomass by adding volume of certain density. Which factor is more important? Using tropical #treering data we found: diameter increment explains biomass growth at short term; wood density at long term.🌎🌐🍁 #dendrochronology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

⛰️🌳New study examines wood density variation across an elevational gradient from the Andean tree line to the Amazon basin, finding a decline from low to middle elevations, followed by an increase near the tree line. Species composition and disturbances influenced this pattern. 👉 buff.ly/ujConkt

🌳🔥Out now: Our review on compound droughts and forest responses - from leaf to ecosystem. Featuring a stunning 20-yr map of canopy temperatures variation across European forests. @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @simonhaber.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A big congratulations to William Farhan-Rios on this paper in @pnas.org, featuring a study of tropical-forest change over four decades along the Amazon-to-Andes elevational gradient in Bolivia and Peru 🌴 ⛰️ 🌐 @mobotgarden.bsky.social @livingearthcollab.bsky.social 1/3 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🌳 Forests of the future are growing fast! By 2100, Quercus mongolica stands could see +145% volume and +80% productivity under RCP8.5. 3-PG + Bayesian calibration = sharper growth predictions. 👉 Explore the findings: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Forestry #ClimateChange #TreeGrowth 🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿🦤

#NatMicroPicks Hidden microbial world in trees🌳 Living wood hosts trillions of bacteria making trees a complex ecosystems with major roles in forest health and function. #PlantMicro #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Few weeks left to apply for a fully funded PhD studentship in my lab @rhulbiology.bsky.social as part of new EU project Trees4Adapt 🌲🌳 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland www.sataforestdiversity.org 📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🍁🌍🧪

🌲 How does thinning influence the #carbon balance in upland vs peatland forests? Thanks to @holisoils.bsky.social for shedding light on how #ForestManagement affects different soil types. #ForestryResearch #ClimateAction #SoilScience #JFR 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿🦤

Terrestrial laser scanning can transform national forest inventories by adding new measurements and a 3D perspective. In our new paper we provide a pathway for implementing 3D forest surveys. 1/6 🧪🌎🌳🌲 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌴Researchers compared 2749 tree species using 497 Atlantic Forest surveys varying in successional stage to classify them into four disturbance-sensitivity group and found that turnover applies to a small fraction of species, and reassembly varies across time and space🌍🧪 buff.ly/Uv4aQ8d

Hey #ESA2025 #Baltimore! I'm seeking a #PhDstudent interested in #ForestEcology to join my lab, fall 2026. More here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/join-us DM me if you'd like to chat in person. Would love to connect and learn about your interests. Non-traditional backgrounds welcome! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿🔥

The results of a study in Nature Communications show that climate change is raising the odds of extreme fire years and the number of large forest fires, necessitating proactive measures to mitigate risks and adapt to extreme fire years. go.nature.com/4m8fTSA 🧪

Job opening: lecturership (research & teaching) in forestry or agroforestry at Bangor University. This is probably the best forestry programme in the UK and a great place to work. Deadline 1 Sep. More here: 🌳🌲🌏

How do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions. doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🌍🍁🌐 (1/4)

We're seeking a new Senior Editor! ⏰ Are you... 👉intrigued by the interface between ecology & biological resource management? 🌎 👉a clear communicator who enjoys working as part of a team? 💬 👉committed to maintaining high editorial standards? 🧪 More info 👇 bit.ly/4lPzaIx

Happy to virtually present a keynote on #treerings in the tropics tomorrow at the WorldDendro conference. Main message: now that potential & applications of tropical #dendrochronology have been amply shown, it s time to synthesize & scale up to pantropical studies sites.google.com/view/african...

What tree rings tell us about large-scale air movements. 14C records from Cameroonian trees (growing on the Northern Hemisphere) reveal that CO2 they absorb originates from other side of equator. Study lead Guaciara Santos; tree rings @petergroen.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Two open postdoc positions to work on synergies/trade-offs of cocoa & coffee agroforestry for people, biodiversity and carbon. The Nature Conservancy Brazil: careers.tnc.org/us/en/job/JR... Smithsonian Institute US: trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...

New paper on tropical #timber #tracing! We tested the use of wood oxygen stable isotopes (δ18O ) for tracing. We produced #isoscapes for 5 major tropical timbers. These isoscapes alone had limited utility. Combinations with other techniques may help. #timtrace www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please RT: 2 PhD position @uni-freiburg.de investigating #reccurent #drought in #forest using in-situ #stableisotopes in #ecohydrology

Can genetic characteristics reveal the provenance of tropical timber? In a study on #Azobe timber led by Barbara Rocha Venancio Meyer-Sand we concluded: yes that s possible. Yet, the spatial resolution varies across regions. #eudr #timtrace #tracing bmcplantbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Just a few days left to apply for this #technician position in my group! Like #forests? #Data? #Python? Working outside? Come and help support our research using high resolution #remotesensing #lidar data to study #forests 👇 Please share!

please share: I am recruiting for a PhD student to join my lab for fall 2025. I am interested in finding someone who is passionate about applying models to study plant ecology. Potential study systems include urban environments, sagebrush steppe, and tropical forest. caughlinlab.com/join-the-lab/

What trees to plant in #forest #restoration? New research in @nature.com sheds unexpected light. 'Fast growers' underperform in forest experiments. Madelon Lohbeck and I discuss this & argue for adding social, climate & biodiversity selection criteria (rdcu.be/eed9W). www.nature.com/articles/d41...