A paper in Scientific Data presents a novel global natural forest map for 2020 at 10 m resolution. This map can support forest monitoring or conservation efforts that require a comprehensive baseline for monitoring deforestation and degradation. go.nature.com/4remVIQ ⚒️ 🧪

Exciting #postdoc opportunity with #ForestGEO: forestgeo.si.edu/postdoctoral...

New #BIEN collaboration paper out in @pnas.org🍃 We show, using data for ~250,000 #plant species, that broader climatic niches consistently predict larger geographic ranges and higher dominance - a key insight for #biodiversity under #climatechange🌍🌱👉https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2517585122

I was in #Belem for Week 1 of the climate change #COP30, primarily to engage about rainforests and their future. Here are a few reflections on COP, the city of Belem, rainforests and the nature of hope naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/news/cop30-a... @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

🏞️ Wetlands are more than just ecosystems, they are sanctuaries of life. 🐟 They harbour countless species, many found nowhere else on Earth, and they serve humanity in profound ways. #WetlandsWednesday #CITESCoP20

New #OpenAccess work in #RESEcolEnt studied the #abiotic drivers of co-occurrence & #diversity patterns of #Calopterygidae species in Amazonian protected #freshwaters doi.org/10.1111/een.70036 @sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social Photos courtesy of article authors

Pavan 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭. (2024) look at mammalian diversity in the eastern Andean slopes, a biodiversity hotspot with high conservation priority, with high endemicity and new species of mammals revealed through DNA barcoding. Read the full study here: buff.ly/GLwWblD #Didelphimorphia #Peru #Rodentia #Yungas

Another new #Solanum #species ( #Potato family, #Solanaceae) from the #montane #forest understory in Central #Peru. #PlantHunters #NewSpecies

This is an education problem, not a tool problem; and we don't want people simply moving from thinking p-values are magic to thinking confidence intervals are.

Research from Brazil shows that tree species adapted to extreme heat may be key to reforesting areas affected by fires. The research focuses on plants native to the Cerrado savanna, a biome where fire is a natural mechanism for vegetation regeneration and seeds can germinate after the land burns.

Indonesia is using the COP30 climate summit to aggressively market its carbon credits, launching daily “Sellers Meet Buyers” sessions and seeking international commitments despite unresolved integrity issues in its carbon market. Experts warn Indonesia’s credits risk being “hot air.”

Carbon emissions are helping make older trees in the Amazon bigger. But “it doesn’t mean carbon dioxide is good for the forest," says Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert @camplantsci.bsky.social. "What we’re seeing is resilience, not relief.” eos.org/articles/as-...

A study of California grasslands found that connectivity did not prevent species decline. In the face of climate change, wildfires, grazing, and introduced species, dispersal of species among sites has a limited potential to restore lost species. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/USZE50XrLgN

🚨 Latest #ATDN #AmazonTreeDiversityNetwork paper now available in PNAS, including data from our plots in Peru: Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests #Trees #plot #inventory

🌿 Calling peatland folks! I’m compiling a global list of bog-specialist / indicator plant species (vascular plants + bryophytes) for my postdoc on bog niche modelling. I’m especially looking for knowledge from the Southern Hemisphere. If you are interested in collaborating, please DM or reply 🌱

Planning to attend #IAVS2026? Travel grants are available to support your participation #IAVS2026 #IAVS gijon2026.iavs-meetings.org/registration...

📣Join our free online workshop! Dr. Lina Mühlbauer talks about her team's development of a low-cost, high resolution sensor network to measure microclimate with hardware that is cheap, easy to purchase and that uses freely available software 💡🌿 Sign up here! 👇 buff.ly/v9Vc1JD 🌍🧪

#reptiles and #amphibians from #RioLasPiedras (Madre de Dios) in southeastern #Amazonian #Peru: 175 #species‼️

How to not be swamped by your microclimate data? The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries. A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social: 🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...

Cool #Traits stuff from #SeasonallyDryTropicalForests in Colombia 🧮

Are you as bromeli-MAD about bromeliads as us? Then you're in luck! Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇 buff.ly/zVh5ORp

Piper dispersed from South America first to Southern Africa, then on to South East Asia, where it spread across the Wallace & Lydekker's lines several times! Intrigued? The full paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1093/botl... (2/2) @linneansociety.bsky.social

🚨 #PlantHunters #NewSpecies #Andes #Cedrela #Meliaceae #Ecuador

📣 Join our free online talk – DIY sensors for high-resolution microclimate monitoring 📆 18 Nov, 2pm GMT Small-scale environmental conditions have a great influence on species responses to global change. Therefore, measuring microclimate is an important challenge, not only in ecology. 🌍🧪

What to with you analysis of ecological data when you are missing some data points? Check out this @ESAMonographs paper summarizing approaches and providing guidelines! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

So cool! Four #new #Gesneraciaceae species, found in a #Biosphere Reserve in central #Peru. #PlantHunters

Cuatro nuevas especies de Gesneriaceae de la Reserva de Biósfera Oxapampa-Asháninka-Yanesha, Perú. 2025. Revista Forestal del Perú revistas.lamolina.edu.pe/index.php/rf... Felicitaciones Rocio Rojas Gonzales, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza y colegas!

Great paper, but very unsettling: "Extreme warming of Amazon waters in a changing climate"

Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen @masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

🔥🌳🌴Check out this exhaustive overview of how #traits may mediate the impact of #fire on (tropical) #forests and vice versa, led by PhD student David Pacuk! An important start to better understand fire resilience of fire-unadapted forests!🔥🌳🌴

Seed dispersal as a backup system to resprouting & seeding during post-fire regeneration doi.org/10.1093/aob/... @annbot.bsky.social by @jmgncosta.bsky.social et al Great to see a paper that makes such strong use of the BROT DB (www.uv.es/jgpausas/bro...)! @ctavsanoglu.bsky.social 🧪🌍🔥🌿🪴 opendata

Next-generation specimen #digitization: capturing #reflectance spectra from the world's #herbaria for modeling plant biology across time, space, and taxa #TansleyReview by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #PlantScience

#Traits!

Forest measurements are more important than ever. “Dedicated teams working in the field to collect vital ground-truth data are essential to the success of our missions” - Simonetta Cheli #ESA Director of Earth Observation. Find out more in our latest newsletter. sway.cloud.microsoft/pdXbVpmWR2Io...

Congratulations @tsonkiri.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 Carlos Ponce del Prado Conservation Award in the Outstanding Young Conservationist category! This highlights Vania's commitment to #biodiversity #conservation & to the work we do at #BMAP_Peru to strengthen #research of Peru's ecosystems.

A new article in Biological Reviews by Islam et al. synthesizes current knowledge on C cycling and storage in desert ecosystems, highlighting the roles of precipitation patterns, vegetation dynamics & soil inorganic processes in regulating C sequestration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Do you study effect of disturbance on large scales? Use Belowground Persistence Types of plants! We hope that they will help us to understand better ecosystem resilience than only plant traits.

As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Save the date! www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/en/be20/

Submit your workshop and session proposals for the International Conservation Technology Conference! Share your ideas today and learn about key dates, conference tracks, session formats, and more here: ictc2026.com 🚨Submissions close on Friday 15 November 23:55 GMT

📢 Check out all the BHL presentations at #LivingData2025! On #Day1, our Communication Director @nicolekearney.bsky.social will provide a crucial update about BHL's Transition from the #Smithsonian to an autonomous & sustainable global consortium. www.livingdata2025.com/program.html... 🌱 📖 🌏

Are you headed to #LivingData next week? Stop by the following events to see the WILDLABS team:

Today we celebrate the journeys of #MigratoryBirds, tireless travelers who cross continents and face ever-growing challenges. Each arrival is a reminder of resilience and connectivity between ecosystems. Today we honor them, and the importance of conserving their migratory routes. #BMAP_Peru

🌱Curso Internacional de Posgrado 🌍#Plant Ecophysiology in Extreme Environments 📍Parque Katalapi, PuertoMontt, Chile 📅 21 al 27 de enero de 2026 @lohencavieres.bsky.social @iebchile.bsky.social @udeconcepcion.bsky.social

7/ Los mastodontes sudamericanos, conocidos como gonfoterios, desaparecieron de Chile hace más de 10 mil años. Un estudio revela que las consecuencias de su extinción aún afectan a los ecosistemas actuales. Hablamos con la investigadora Andrea Loayza sobre el tema. es.mongabay.com/2025/07/mast...

VCS is looking for new members of the Editorial Board vegsciblog.org/2025/07/13/v... @iavs5.bsky.social

✈️ Don't miss the keynote presentation Dr. Sabina Leonelli at #LivingData2025 📍 Learn about her session: The Future of Biodiversity Data Sharing: Data Absence, AI and Human-Powered Interoperability 🔗 www.livingdata2025.c...#LivingData2025 #DatosVivos2025 @tdwg.org @gbif.org @obis.org @geobon.org

A new #OpenAccess study in #RESInsectConsDiv finds that the intensity and colour of #ArtificialLight at night affect insect attraction in a taxon-dependent manner doi.org/10.1111/icad.12855 #NocturnalInsects #Phototaxis @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com