Mixed #forests outperform spruce plantations in carbon fight!🌲 A 24-year field study, led by M. Bosela and peers at Technical University Zvolen, part of #HoliSoils, finds that Norway spruce plantations are more vulnerable than neighbouring mixed forests. Full story ➡️ holisoils.eu/mixed-forest...

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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...

So excited to announce this newly funded project 🎉 🌲 We want to understand relationships between forest structural diversity (not just species diversity!), #drought #resilience and timber quality using cutting edge remote sensing #LiDAR) and tree cores to look back in time at tree growth!

Absolutely delighted to have secured funding through the Centre for Forest Protection and be collaborating with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew @rbgkew.bsky.social on this exciting research!

🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs. Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/ #rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover

🌳 🔥 🌎 Our new paper: The extreme fire-prone #weather underpinning some of the worst #wildfire episodes this century has become more than twice as likely due to #climate change—a trend now evident across much of the world's tropical and mid-latitude #forests. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New Article: "Global evidence for a positive relationship between tree species richness and ecosystem photosynthesis" rdcu.be/evevg Forests with higher tree species richness show greater photosynthesis: essential role of biodiversity in enhancing carbon uptake.

📢 Fully funded PhD studentship for UK students is available 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... 🍁🌍🧪

New in @sciencemagazine, a review on Scaling plant responses to heat (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Increased temperature along with acute heat waves threaten the ability of terrestrial vegetation to act as a carbon sink, but predicting how plants will respond to heat is challenging.

🌊 Exciting research could help the UK better prepare for droughts...  It shows a link between North Atlantic ocean temperatures and UK summer droughts, with signs up to 18 months ahead ☀️ @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social explains more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... @canari-science.bsky.social 🧪

🚨The new 🧪publication by Marian Schönauer, @borisrewald.bsky.social et al. demonstrates that #ERA5-Land data is equally well suited to modelling 🍁 #tree growth as weather station data. ERA5-Land opens up possibilities for modelling and overcomes issues of data accessibility. doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

Great opportunity to do some awesome science at @rbgkew.bsky.social and @forestresearchuk.bsky.social on our new project combining dendrochronology & genetics to find climate resilient genotypes in oak! 🍁 🌳🧬 🥼Job: PostDoc 💷 Salary: £43,751 🗓️ Closing date: 05/06/25 careers.kew.org/internal/vac...

Drought is a growing issue in tropical rainforests. A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution revisits a long-term rainfall manipulation experiment in the Amazon to show that tree mortality was followed by community-level adjustments to reduced precipitation. go.nature.com/4kbQbfu 🧪

🎉🌲🌳🍁🛰️ NEW PROJECT! Delighted to announce that our NEW 3yr project “Enhancing forest resilience through stand structural complexity” has been funded through @forest-protection.bsky.social to look at relationships between forest structure & drought resilience! www.forestprotection.uk/2025/05/06/a...

Single- vs mixed-species plantations: A systematic review on the effects on biodiversity 🌳🌲https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320725002198

Only 1 day left to apply to come and work with us at Forest Research!!🔬 🌲🌳📊👇🍁 🌲🔬Role: Data analyst 📆 Closing date: 15th April 💷 Salary: £32,089 + a 28.97% pension ⏳Duration: Fixed term May 2025 - March 2026 with the possibility of extension Apply HERE: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/about-us/car...

Good morning people. Today in “One day, one paper”, one of the most popular strategies used to remove carbon dioxide from the air is planting trees. However, not all tree-planting strategies are equally beneficial 🌎🍁 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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/...

1/7 Variation between individuals is important as it determines how adaptable to change a population might be. Even generalist spp are often comprised of specialist individuals, but specialisation is often only studied across single traits which is limiting. #BOU2025 #ornithology #seabirds #ecology

Job Alert! Interested in cutting edge forest science, fieldwork and data analysis? 🍁 x2 Roles: Data analyst/modeller Closing date for application: 15th April Salary: £32,089 Duration: Fixed term, May 2025 - March 2026 possibility of extension www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Making this film was a lot of fun! Many thanks to all the wonderful Scientists that hosted me in Argentina and Chile during this Short Scientific Visit in 2023, and to IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social for funding it! 🍁 #SciComm #Forest #Ecology #Resilience #ClimateChange #Climate #PlantScience

🌲 How can we make forests more resilient to #ClimateChange? To find out, Forest Research compared the early survival & growth rates of familiar tree species to lesser-known species from multiple provenances across a range of site conditions. Dr. Tom Ovenden MICFor breaks down the key findings ⤵

Excellent first PhD paper from @aaronheap.bsky.social using Wilson's Prom as a case study to examine the long term impacts of high severity short interval fire - Diverse forest types all converge on a homogenised structural form and this persists for decades. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Love these starter packs, great way of rebuilding your ecological science community on BS 🙂Global Ecology Starter Pack Vol. 3: go.bsky.app/MkLHiKU

The beautiful Anagach Pinewoods in the #Cairngorms, managed by the local community! A nice place to get lost for a bit 🙂

🚨PhD opportunity: Biodiversity for woodland resilience: the long-term functional ecology of tree diversity 🌲🌳🌱 Advertised by colleagues at @ukceh.bsky.social & @buforestry.bsky.social How can we manage woodlands to deliver for biodiversity & climate-change mitigation? tinyurl.com/mr3w76yd

Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚 Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈 Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Vol2 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in ! 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾

Interesting 3 year funded PhD -> Ecologically-based temperate rainforest restoration: effectiveness for biodiversity recovery, carbon sequestration and resilience at Bangor University on FindAPhD.com

We published three policy briefs on enhancing forest resilience based on results of our Horizon2020 project RESONATE. Second: The Role of Biodiversity in Making Forests Resilient efi.int/sites/defaul...

We have an exceptional opportunity available to join Forest Research as our Chief Scientist. 🌍✨ If you are ready to make a lasting impact on the future of forest science, apply now: ow.ly/bMxR50UTly5 #ForestResearch #ScienceLeadership #ChiefScientist #JobVacancy

New in #PNAS, temp-driven increased seed production in European beech caused 28% reduction in annual tree ring increments since 2005. Important for European forests and good example using long-term data (43 yr) of how past does not predict future #forestdynamics. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Delighted to have led this research and always great to see our science published! Check out this video, the paper and a data explorer we’ve built so that YOU can interactively explore the data and the results yourself! Thanks to the FR team and Forestry England for making this research possible🍁

I’ve heard of this before but never actually seen it myself until this week - an old stump of a previously felled Momi fir (Abies firma) healed over but is still alive many years later - I’m guessing from roots which have grafted to other living trees below ground! Pretty cool! #forest

Bit late I know but couldn’t not share these amazing Northern Lights photos on New Years Day! That has to be a good omen for the year right!?!?

Final 2 days of an awesome 4 day cycle trip doing the Morray Gravel Triangle which links up the Speyside, Moray and Dava ways! No option but to ride through #StormDarragh 😂 - fortunately less intense than expected but my lord was it wet!

2 days down, 2 days to go! Love a beautiful winter #bikepacking adventure in Scotland!

Another beautiful winter night in a #Scottish bothy - never seen so many red deer!

Nice blog post on Resilience and Vulnerability: Distinct Concepts to Address Global Change in Forests resilience-blog.com/2024/10/23/n...?

Hi everyone! Making the move from #twitter so i'm new! 
I'm a #Research #Scientist and #Forest #Ecologist working on #ClimateChange #Resilience. 
I also have a passion for #Nature #Photography and #Adventure so mostly posting about exciting #Science and pretty pictures! 
 Here's one I made earlier!