Agroforestry can benefit the environment & production, so why isn't it more widely adopted?🌳🚜 Knowledge is a major barrier to uptake! We worked with 75 UK stakeholders to identify barriers & co-design solutions doi.org/10.1002/pan3... Tnks @uktreescapes.bsky.social @peopleandnature.bsky.social

🌲🌳🌰 Masting synchrony extends over vast areas. But perhaps distracted by the drama of bumper seed crops, we hadn’t noticed until now that synchrony is dominated by the failure years. Cool result for us, super-relevant for the animals who eat those seeds… 🐿️🐦🐛 doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518918122

We're looking for a new colleague at Asssoc Prof level! Come join us in the Zoology Department at Stockholm University. A teaching profile in ecology, faunistics and/or physiology is beneficial. Find the full job advertisemnt here: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

🚨New paper!🚨 Models predict trees like beech will migrate north as climate warms, but rarely consider tree reproduction. Jessie shows these “refuges” are exactly where climate warming will disrupt seed production the most. They may not be such great climate refuges after all. doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

Psst, we're one week in on my advent series focusing on why remote sensing can be a great tool in ecology! rachelkuzmich.github.io/blog/

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

🌎 Experiments are central to understanding community dynamics, yet their use is declining. We're trying to understand why. If you work in community ecology, we'd really appreciate your input in a quick survey (<5 mins). 👉🏼 link.webropolsurveys.com/S/2022629791... Reposts welcome!

Explore how soil food webs withstand droughts and heatwaves, and what this means for tree regeneration in Swedish forests! 🌲🪱🌳🍄Become a PhD student in the WIFORCE Research School and work with us at SLU-Uppsala @mycopat.bsky.social #climate #forest #microbes #nematodes www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Ever fancied growing your own native trees from seed or helping supply a nursery? We have just the publication to show how it's done. 📖 Check it out this #NationalTreeWeek View or download a pdf of the handbook here👉 buff.ly/NxEkKPJ

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

Excited to have a ground beetle project @carabidaeuk.bsky.social open for applications in @crocus-dla.bsky.social. Nice mix of analysing long-term data, fieldwork and time at @forestresearchuk.bsky.social, assessing trends in woodland carabids. Please share! blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...

🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄 I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:

🌎 Funded PhD Opportunity | @acce-dla.bsky.social **The carbon drain: quantifying carbon removal from peatlands and forests by rivers in the Peruvian Amazon**

Interested in peatlands and biogeochemistry? Like fieldwork? Then come and do a PhD at @livunigeog.bsky.social supervised by me, @rchiverrell.bsky.social, Jenny Williamson (@ukceh.bsky.social eh.bsky.social) + Dewi Davies (@nationaltrust.org.uk ltrust.org.uk) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

a century of glaciers melting 🧪🌐

🚨 Funded PhD 🚨 How does the reproduction of trees respond to drought? How does this shape forest resilience to drought? Join us in Liverpool & Kew Gardens @rbgkew.bsky.social to answer this question! Details & application info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline: 7th January 🌳🌰🌲🌱🌤️🌡️

Mortality from fire & wind is increasing in Europe's forests, but what about biotic disturbances? A new, massive dataset compiled by @thlasny.bsky.social and many local experts shows a mixed picture: While wood borers increase strongly, defoliator activity generally decreases doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

🚨PhD opportunity🚨Come and work with us & Stirling Uni to understand the role of woodland creation 🌳in nature recovery 🌺🦋 iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

Can you help restore Scotland's precious temperate rainforest by 🥬Raising the profile of ancient woodland? 🥬Managing partner relationships & projects? 🥬Providing advice to landowners & managers? This really is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference. Apply 👉 buff.ly/VyWT9BL

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I highly recommend this fellowship! This is what brought me to Boulder over 7 years ago, and I’m still here… ❄️ 🛰️ 🧪

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🧪🌐🌾

Happy to share our last study published in @natcomms.nature.com We asked Can the weather tell trees when it’ is time to reproduce? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out 🥳 Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @stockholm-uni.bsky.social

Why are there so many acorns in the UK this year? Oaks everywhere seem to have been laden with acorns. Nice to quoted when the BBC investigated! There are lots of chestnuts too, and beech seeds in some places but not others. Happy squirrels and jays this year! 🐿🌰🌳 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#LadyParkWood which borders #England & #Wales is the #LTESiteOfTheWeek. @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social from @liverpooluni.bsky.social, & John Healey from @bangoruniversity.bsky.social are looking at #woodland development bit.ly/LadyParkWood 🌏

Another recent paper in #BirdStudy showed autumn densities of Pheasant & Red-Legged Partridge in southern England can be an astonishing 2,500 birds per km2 on land near releases. After winter, there were still up to 700 birds/km2. That's huge numbers. Paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology

Come work with us! Fully funded #PhD position in global change ecology - working in a cross-disciplinary cohort of 8 PhD students studying mountains in transition. 🧪🌐🏔️ @btwnthefjords-uib.bsky.social @cesam-uib.bsky.social www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

#job at The Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU: Associate Senior Lecturer in conservation ecology, to improve the understanding of impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services resulting from alternative forest management strategies. Closing 15 September 2025 www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

🚨 Postdoc opening 🚨 Join us at Forest Biology Center (Poznań, Poland) to study forest ecology under climate change. 2-year contract (extendable), start Jan 2026 (flexible). Apply by Sept 30, 2025. 🔗 forestbiologycenter.amu.edu.pl/our-team/joi...

We have a new #blog: @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social wrote a blog on the handover of Lady Park Wood (Wales/ England) from George Peterken to a new academic team at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social & @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Read it here: bit.ly/4eoChUS #Woodland #LongTermExperiment #LTE 🌎

Happy #solstice! Today, beech trees start to decide whether to produce bumper seed crops next year, or to skip reproduction next year. It is a marker for growth and phenology processes. @micbog.bsky.social talked to The Guardian about how it works: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Leg 2/8 of slow travel from NW England to Poznan, Poland. 36 hours with time to read papers and enjoy the views. And a stopover in Köln, with a visit to the Cathedral. All on time so far...

By 3,000 BC everywhere in England that trees could grow was covered, sometimes called the ‘wildwood’ As Nature intended The introduction of agriculture about 3,000 BC started the steady reduction until 1900 AD it was 5% Currently the figure has increased to 10% 1 of 3

And AGAIN! 3xpostdocs + Project Officer 17 months) in @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social ExCASES team, doing applied research on biodiversity renewal. Based at @researchnt.bsky.social working with fab @sarahcrowley.bsky.social. #envsocialscience #scipol #sustainability #sts #conservation folk do apply!

Tomorrow is the #SummerSolstice, which is a special day for beech trees too! We are installing experiments to test how the #solstice helps synchronise masting. Colleagues up ladders in trees across Europe doing this! Science explained in @uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/could-trees-...

My perspective “Tree methane exchange in a changing world” is now out in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com rdcu.be/erF4j

1 more week until application reviews start for this postdoc position. Please share!

UK woodlands are facing growing threats from climate change, deer grazing, disease and land management changes 🌳🦌🍃. New UKCEH-led research shows that #woodland ecosystems respond in complex ways—and not always predictably—to these combined pressures. www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 1/ 🧪

Realistic models of the potential for global reforestation suggest that it could absorb roughly 5% of human CO2 emissions. This is still worthwhile but nowhere near a solution on its own. New paper just published 🧪🌏🌐

A really wonderful start to my day, thanks to two final-year @livunigeog.bsky.social students. Such kind words are really appreciated. Plus an excellent addition to my office plant collection!

Amazing paper, w/ stunning 1st figure + journal cover, on historical legacies of land management on temperate woodland biodiversity 🪲🦅🦔🍀 #historical #ecology at its best 🤩😍 ➡️ #ancient #woodlands 🌳🌳🌳🌳 in 🌾🌾🌾🌾 matter for #biodiversity & the provision of #ecosystem #services shorturl.at/Ssir1

Interested in Temperate Rainforests Globally 🌧️🌳- come to this webinar www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/thi...

No advert out yet, but I will recruiting a 2yr postdoc, start date autumn 2025, at @livunigeog.bsky.social soon. Lowland and upland peatlands, GHGs, DOM and water chemistry. Plenty of fieldwork. Feel free to drop me a DM or email if you might be interested, and please spread the word.

A new study from @joshfdean.bsky.social & @gemmacoxon.bsky.social has revealed for the first time that ancient carbon, stored in landscapes for thousands of years or more, can find its way back to the atmosphere as CO₂ released from the surfaces of rivers. Read more -> bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2...

📢 @wslresearch.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc in dendroecology & ecophysiology! Study how trees respond to #climatechange in the Alps, Pyrenees & Carpathians. Field + lab work, based near Zurich. Start Sept 2025. Read more here & apply: https://loom.ly/b1NMXRU

You may have seen the study going around about trees talking to each other before a solar eclipse. Well I’m here to pour some cold, weird water on to that idea. 🌎🧪 open.substack.com/pub/benlockw...

This is the amazing #LadyParkWood. Could this be one of the “wildest” wood in the UK? Governed only by natural dynamics for >100 years. But where is the regeneration? Absent even in gaps. Ground flora too. Deer the main culprit, but grey squirrel too. #rewilding?