Why long-term science is needed in a short term world. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9

The global island species–area relationship for plants | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Our latest effort to understand ISARs for plants globally!

Brazil’s Santo Antônio dam on the Madeira River has cut fish populations by up to 90% in parts of Amazonas and Rondônia, a new community-led study finds. Species like pirarucu and tambaqui have largely vanished. “The Madeira River stopped flowing,” one fisher said.

The Yanomami, an Indigenous group from the Amazon, is confronting surges in #malaria amid increasing illegal gold mining in their territory. Read 'Investigating the Yanomami malaria outbreak: gold mining and malaria': doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #BiologyLetters

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

Increasing tree mortality over time in Australian forests www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amsterdam will ban fossil fuel and meat advertisements in public spaces and on public transport starting May 1st. 🥳

Payment‐based open access is biasing ecology against participation from the Global South nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The path teaches if you let it. #SlowDown #NatureAsTeacher #FindYourRhythm

🔥 Postdoctoral Opportunity | Fire, Seeds & the Cerrado 🌱 The Laboratory of Vegetation Ecology (UNESP, Brazil) is offering a postdoc position to study how fire regimes and climate warming shape seed traits and germination in Cerrado species. 👉 Learn more: tinyurl.com/hf9yd98f #Ecology #Traits

This mid-sized tropical nation has more land than 13 European countries put together. image: Hugo Xavier Pillco

The sheer size of the tropics is underestimated by many.

Climate change could lead to 123 million additional malaria cases and 532,000 deaths between 2024 and 2050. Extreme weather events are identified as the primary driver. The findings emphasize the need for climate-resilient malaria control strategies and robust emergency response systems.

Our deepest relationships with nature are not intellectual, but emotional and physical. The more we interact directly with nature, the happier we will be and the more deeply we will see it. Sensing Forests Directly: The Power of Permanent Plots t.co/i4Uuh8wgSG

#Ciencia para el #BosqueSeco Interandino 🇵🇪 Conocemos poco de cómo cambian las comunidades de #plantas en los #valles secos, & los factores asociados. Esta información es crítica para informar el manejo y #conservación en el contexto actual de cambio climático. 📷: JL Marcelo doi.org/10.1016/j.tf...

environment.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/news... Our new paper uses the Power of Plots to reveal how tropical forests are changing: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New deadline: February 4th Still time to apply! www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/expl...

On commence déjà à percevoir les effets de + 1,0 oC. Pas besoin d’attendre d’être à +1,5 oC en moyenne (dépassé en 2024) pour agir.

Very happy to share this new article on Andes-Amazon tree diversity change. We found that over the last 4 decades, tree richness changed differently across the Andes-Amazon regions. Thanks to the many researchers across the world who made this possible! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Keep reading!

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.

Forest biodiversity experiments test how species diversity affects forest ecosystem functioning. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity discusses key findings from these experiments and puts them into context with observational studies from forests. go.nature.com/4sEQkfZ 🔒

🌳 Tropical forests can recover twice as quickly after deforestation if they have adequate soil nitrogen, according to new research led by the Uni of Leeds and Priestley members climate.leeds.ac.uk/news/nitroge...

Forest Diversity, Biodemography and Global Change post-doc opportunity, ERC project led by Lalasia Bialic-Murphy apply.refline.ch/273855/1824/... Individuals with skills in demographic or species distribution modeling, large language models or functional trait interpolation are encouraged to apply.

🌐 Global Ecology feed Digest #44 Dec 15-19, 21 posts! ✨For the lazy (yes we are!) & friends who don't like social media but might benefit from this feed, here’s a DIGEST crafted with 💚 for you to share 👉 globalecologybs.github.io/feeddigest.g... DM if you want to receive the link weekly 🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾

Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right? Why do I not feel happy?

For once, some good news about the Amazon tropical forest 🌳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

President of the Royal Society Sir Paul Nurse has spoken out on the challenges currently facing science, criticising those who put ideology ahead of evidence and called for smarter funding of UK science: royalsociety.org/news/2025/12...

🏆We are pleased to announce that our Eminent Ecologist for 2025 is Angela Moles! ✨Angela has collected a few of her favourite Journal of Ecology papers together here: buff.ly/86uQ6v5

2025 has the been the third warmest on record - behind 2023 and 2024.

November 2025 Globally,according to JMA -Japanese Meteorological Agency- had a temperature anomaly of +0.50C vs 1991/2020 norm and was the 3rd warmest on record behind 2023 and 2024. Year-to-date 2025 is being reached these days by 2023 with the two years ending tied behind 2024

Our research with the SECO project to understand the trajectory of the dry tropics depends on a team of wonderful people across the world, working in Peru, Brazil and beyond, in fieldwork, data management and lab analysis. Here are some of their stories: www.leeds.ac.uk/directory-re...

A Subtle Return of La Niña science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

Improve soil health www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

GEO-TREES is pleased to announce the call for proposals for 2026 GEO-TREES Postdoctoral Fellowships. This is an opportunity for recent PhD graduates to conduct research at GEO-TREES sites in collaboration with site PIs and others. Closing date Jan 20 2026 Info -> geo-trees.org/downloads/GE...

The past and future of known biodiversity. Species discovery is taxonomist-limited (!) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Estado mais agrícola da região Norte, o Pará registra recordes de intoxicação por pesticidas; indígenas e trabalhadores rurais denunciam avanço da soja em áreas de moradia e contaminação de rios e igarapés

‘Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping’: the lawless rush for rare earth minerals in Venezuela www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

🚨Paper Alert: Pan-Amazon Technical Insight The new article “Are tropical forest science and policy disconnected?” examines how “timber species” are (mis-)understood by scientists, national forest administrations, and international organizations across Amazonia. Ximena Herrera-Alvarez et al.

Interesting new study on public support for 'degrowth' policies shows that reducing consumption might not be as unpopular as you think! Are we ready to confront the elephant in the room: our addiction to flying? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Important paper showing the dearth of plant taxonomists in the tropical countries that need them most www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Plant taxonomy is disappearing - and so is our ability to protect species 🍂 Nearly half of countries have fewer than 10 plant taxonomists. Kew is working to close the gap, but we need more experts fast. Read the study’s key findings and what we're doing about it 👇 https://ow.ly/XhJo50XyGAa

Save the date! 47th New Phytologist Symposium on 'Extreme Heat: extending the thermal limits of life'. Explore how extreme heat affects plants that underpin ecosystem productivity. 2-5 June 2026, Cordoba, Spain. @newphyt.bsky.social www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps

🚨Paper alert🚨 Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Here are two beautiful Lauraceae trees from the wet forest remnants of Colombia's Magdalena Medio. How many more species remain unknown to science in what remains of the Andean forests? abm.ojs.inecol.mx/index.php/ab...

RIP Jimmy

Cop30 shows we need real climate action, fast. Choosing not to fly is hard, but many travellers say slowing down gave them more, lower emissions and a bigger sense of purpose. Overland travel is better for the planet and the experience. #ClimateAction www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#COP30 was meant to deliver a stronger global push to protect forests. But in Belém, negotiations closed without a binding commitment to halt deforestation. CIFOR-ICRAF's Robert Nasi breaks down what this means for climate action Read the full piece:🔗 https://bit.ly/4pssdyE #Trees4Resilience