📢 Duas vagas de doutorado com bolsa em ecologia de florestas Amazonicas! Resiliência das árvores em plantações de espécies nativas diante das mudanças climáticas raw.githubusercontent.com/PlantForAdap... Regeneração em plantações de espécies nativas raw.githubusercontent.com/PlantForAdap...

📢 Duas vagas de doutorado com bolsa em ecologia de florestas tropicais! Ambos estarão matriculados na U de Brasília e realizarão pesquisas na Amazônia brasileira e Guiana Francesa.

Measuring Amazon tree leaf traits, 40 years on. From the same trees collected by Al Gentry in 1983, Riley Fortier and colleagues assess the impacts of climate change on individual-level traits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Longevity and ageing in a tropical butterfly. "Species in the Heliconius genus are among the longest-lived butterflies, thanks to a diet of pollen." 🧪 #Science #Biology #Ecology A long-lived butterfly’s secret to graceful ageing 1- www.nature.com/articles/d41... 2- www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I was interviewed by @science.org for this piece on giant trees and drought resilience. An impressive study, but it doesn't overturn previous work: drought responses depend on the forest, the type of drought, and tree traits www.science.org/content/arti...

6/ We've seen different drought responses between continents. In the 2015-16 El Niño larger trees in South America had higher mortality www.nature.com/articles/s41..., whereas in Africa smaller trees had suppressed growth www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @forestplots.bsky.social @simonlewis.bsky.social

I think we just passed oops.

Charles Darwin proclaimed in 1875 that the carnivorous Venus flytrap was one of the “most wonderful” #plants in the world. Now, scientists have revealed how it snaps shut so quickly on its prey. 🧪 #Science #Biology #Ecology 1- www.nature.com/articles/d41... 2- www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One billion more people face at least one day of extreme heat stress each year compared with the 1970s, says @natclimate.nature.com paper. Findings show global heat stress is intensifying across events during day, night, and during both day and night: spklr.io/63322E3AC8 #ClimateChange 🧪

Dynamics of tropical forest usually means forest area decline.For restoration it is important to study cases where forest regain areas of abandoned land.This is a process more complicated than it might seem, and it is studied in a new thesis from Uppsala Univ. by Laura Moro www.uu.se/kalendarium/...

Are you an early-career professional working in plant biodiversity or plant conservation looking for in-depth training? 🌿 Apply to a Garden international fellowship! Want to learn more? Visit the link here: buff.ly/2jCp2TR 📸 Nathan Kwarta #MOBOTGarden

Opinion: Synergistic efforts in specimen #digitisation, curation and cataloguing of Brazil's megadiverse #flora and #funga Ana Flávia Alves Versiane, et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Societal Impact Statement also available in Portuguese. #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Every stripe tells a story. Of changing seasons. Of rising temperatures. Of a warming world that is already affecting our landscapes, our food & our future. But this story isn't finished. The choices we make today will shape the world inherited by the next generations. #ShowYourStripes

"Fossil-fuel interests are [terrified] of extreme event attribution science. They are acutely aware this research could land them in court. And losing those cases would leave them legally liable for billions of dollars in climate damages" #climatecrisis

All the places where I've lived, including Northern California, Hong Kong, NYC, Miami, Honolulu, Paris, and London, have warmed substantially. But this is the coolest that those places will be in our lifetimes. Today is #ShowYourStripes day. Get yours here: www.ShowYourStripes.info

🌿 Two new endemic species of Gesneriaceae, Columnea puipuiense and C. valenzuelai, have been described and illustrated from the Bosque de Protección Pui Pui in central Peru. 🌸 Read more: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.275.187262

🌿 Ten new species of Selaginella - a genus of ancient spore-bearing plants - have been described from northern South America, primarily Venezuela, as part of a major floristic treatment. ➡️ Read more: doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.276.191365

Scientifically, 'Old World' and 'New World' are clearly anthropocentric terms but need not be Eurocentric.

The deep past has much to teach us all. This is humanity's 42,000-kilometer Stone Age odyssey during the, in one image. outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org

Fantastic map of forest cover world-wide

More species discovery in the Peruvian Andes! 🌿 Congratulations to Rodolfo Vasquez and Rocío Rojas-Gonzales on Saurauia vanderffii - a new Actinidaceae from the Central Rainforest Cloud Forests Biosphere Reserve. 🇵🇪🔬✨ www.lillo.org.ar/journals/ind...

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

🔥ADVANCE ACCESS🔥: Contrasting responses of pollen and fruit to whole-tree heating in two tropical savannah species doi.org/10.1093/aob/... #PlantScience

Check out the early view of my second PhD article! Focusing on woody productivity dynamics of Cerrado savanna trees, we analyse how NPP changes across different fire regimes, and explore how these responses are mediated by functional traits 🔥🌿 @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social @manumachadoeco.bsky.social

‘Contrasting responses of pollen and fruit to whole-tree heating in two tropical savannah species’ by Georgina Werkmeister & colleagues 👉 doi.org/q88n Unexpectedly pollen viability under hotter conditions🌡️suggesting pollen development in tropical woody plants may be more heat-resilient than thought

How will climate warming affect reproduction in wild tropical plants? 🌡️🌿This new study experimentally heated mature woody species in the Brazilian Cerrado, the world’s most biodiverse savannah, to test how rising temperatures impact plant reproduction. (2/10)

Happy World Ocean Day! The ocean is the heart of our life support system, without which we’d all be dead. It’s taken up >90% of the heat from global warming and 30% of our CO₂ emissions. In return, we give it 11 million tonnes of plastic annually, which animals ingest and also become entangled in.

🌳 Greater tree diversity lowers soil carbon Q₁₀ by enhancing carbon stabilization and shifting microbial strategies. Diverse forests help lock away carbon and reduce climate feedbacks 👉️ buff.ly/DcNVNNW

Liana cutting accelerates the structural recovery of once-logged tropical forests at a fraction of the cost of tree planting: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Is #Peru the most important nation on Earth for the future of tropical life? To escape increasing heat and drought, the Amazon needs big, protected ecosystem corridors. This new study shows where they need to be. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Kew Gardens broke its all-time June temperature record in May.

Could nature itself hold the solution to climate change?

We are a small #environmental #charity committed to preserving long-term #ecological experiments #LTEs, & ensuring that data from those experiments is at the heart of #policymaking, #sustainable land-use, & #education. More: bit.ly/EcolConT 🌍

New paper from Sruthi Krishna Moorthy and @ymalhi.bsky.social examines 60 years of tropical ecology research 🌍 The study highlights the growing dominance of tropical forest research and persistent global inequities in tropical ecology authorship. doi.org/10.1111/btp....

🍁 Forest Ecology feed ! The feed is open to any research related to forest ecology around the world, including landscape, conservation, social, policy, zoology, etc. 🌳 You can DM me to be added as contributor. Use the 🍁 or #forestecol in your posts to appear in the feed. bsky.app/profile/jere...

Today is International Academic Freedom Day 🔍 At the ERC, science is free to follow the evidence wherever it leads. Researchers choose the question. Excellence is the only criterion. 👉 t.co/jz5NFa9QUR #ProtectWhatMatters @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

More amazing botanical discoveries in Peru. Rocio Rojas and colleagues describe new endemic Columnea species (Gesneriaceae). Together with recent discoveries, the number of Columnea species known in Peru increases to 36, concentrated in vulnerable Andean cloud forests. 10.3897/phytokeys.275.187262

Aviation is Europe's fastest-growing source of emissions, and as this new analysis from @transportenvironment.org shows, most of it is going completely unpriced. 🧵 1/4

A new species of the rare and spectacular forest liana genus Marcgravia has been discovered in the Peruvian Amazon - based on a collection made by Rodolfo Vasquez on the Rio Nanay near Iquitos, 46 years ago. abm.ojs.inecol.mx/index.php/ab...

En Madre de Dios 🇵🇪. No hay control. Más de 500 hectáreas deforestadas por minería ilegal en la Reserva Nacional Tambopata. www.actualidadambiental.pe/madre-de-dio...

Science shows spending time in forests significantly reduces stress and anxiety. To save the forests is to save ourselves. Protect our green cathedrals. 🌲✨ #ClimateAction #MentalHealth

El Niño is emerging faster than expected, with a 2-in-3 chance of becoming a strong El Niño. The transition is expected to begin soon. www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/ana...

One frequently sees headlines that X is warming faster than the global average. That's true of nearly everywhere that humans live, but only because humans nearly all live on land. The process of global warming will generally warm land faster than the oceans.

🍃 The visible and invisible drivers of biocultural loss in the Amazon "The Amazon is a living pluriverse, a place home to multiple worldviews, knowledges and management systems where social and ecological vitality are inseparable and interconnected" 📖 buff.ly/YCk3KYJ

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Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing 🦜🦚🦉 #defaunation #birds

Why not publish your research with a Society Journal? 🧪🌍 The Linnean Society is committed to publishing high-quality and ground-breaking scientific research across the four themes of botany, zoology, biology and evolution, striving to make these accessible & engaging to a global audience. 🧵(1/4)

🌳🛰️ Discover GEO-TREES — an international research initiative uniting scientists to deliver ground reference data for satellite-based biomass mapping and carbon stock estimation. 👉 geo-trees.org #GEOTrees #ForestEcology #EarthObservation #Carbon #ClimateScience #RemoteSensing