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Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)

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

🧵 1/5 New paper out at @jappliedecology.bsky.social We evaluate how #carbon allocation strategies determine the long-term carbon sink potential of large-scale pine reforestations under climate change. We combined #RemoteSensing and #dendrochronological plots doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🏆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

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Published!📖 This study shows that choosing the most effective restoration strategy for tropical forests at scale depends equally if not more on economic and logistical than ecological constraints. Read more:https://buff.ly/MTipuln

Working with dendrometers or curious about dendrometer research? 🌱🌐🍁🌳 🚨 Join the Global Dendrometer Network 🚨 We’re building a global community using dendrometers to study plant growth, stress, phenology & more. Sign up for updates on meetings, data calls & more 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🚨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....

🌱 Delve deeper into the ecology of soil with "The Ecology of Soil: From communities to ecosystems", a fascinating new book release from our Executive Editor Richard Bardgett! 🪱 Read more: buff.ly/6A4abeW

NEW: Mapping England's Landscape Recovery projects The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature So I had a go at mapping them myself 1/ whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...

In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands, Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414... Want to know more about it? 🧵

Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt. Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2

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...

🚨Join the International Dendrometer Network🚨 We're building a community of people using dendrometers to study tree growth, stress, resilience, phenology & more🌳🧪 Join our mailing list for updates, data calls & opportunities: forms.gle/SrdMLcg5BAN9... First meeting is Friday at 10:30CET - join us!

📣 #Dendrometer community! We’re building an International Dendrometer Network 🌍 Join our mailing list for updates on activities, data calls & collaboration opportunities: 👉 forms.gle/gcnhXBjpmgEb... First online meeting this Friday—join us! 🌲🌳 #TreeGrowth

Excited to see this out! In our new paper, @bjenquist.bsky.social and I investigate seed mass and fruit mass scaling using a global plant dataset, and test several hypotheses about the influence of seed dispersal mode and evolutionary history on these patterns. Read more below (open access).

Happy to share our review of Miyawaki forests, in which we show the lack of empirical evidence supporting this increasingly popular approach : besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jappliedecology.bsky.social

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/

#TansleyInsight: #Forest #canopy interactions with aerosols: important considerations in approaching future impacts and #ClimateManagement Durand, Lintunen & Ezhova 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

Great #rstats package for visualising uncertainty #dataviz

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...

“A downside to the use of metaphors is that it is easy to regard them as real aspects of nature. This occurs via a fallacy known as reification” I’ve always liked this paper on the unacknowledged use of metaphors in ecology: eg, niche, competition, tipping points, habitat doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

🎤Hi #dendrometer users! You are invited to join our new Dendrometer Network (catchy name still tbd 😜). Online meeting 10:30-12 CET Friday 12 Dec. Please share and let me know if you want to join and I will send the meeting link 🌴🎄🌳🌲

"Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast" -- wow what a comprehensive analysis by Yeung, @xiyang.bsky.social et al. 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest, led by the inimitable Chris Kay "Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes" in which we used gene duplications to test hypotheses of eukaryogenesis. TLDR? They're all wrong. With @tweethinking.bsky.social @anya1.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social Davide Pisani

Excited to be going on @thedailyshow.com tonight to discuss climate change, my new book, and the general state of the planet.

Long-term recovery of canopy 3D structural diversity following wildfires in the world’s largest temperate woodland #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecosystem #Conservation royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Where we collect seed for restoration matters. In a new paper led by Jayden Engert, we examined where nurseries source seed for rainforest plantings and discuss what that means for restoration success. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Near-ground and 3D microclimates slow down climate velocity and alter their direction with important implications for range shifting specise. Check out our work from my time in the Coomes lab at Cambridge: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

Land-use change undermines the stability of avian functional diversity - new #OA @nature.com paper with @patrickawalkden.bsky.social @josephtobias.bsky.social, combining #PredictsProject with #Avonet doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Congratulations to the ESA Gold Medal Award winner Dr Suzanne Prober 👏 #ESA2025

47th New Phytologist Symposium: Extreme Heat – extending the thermal limits of life 2–5 June 2026 University of Córdoba, Spain Travel grant and selected speaker application deadline: 2 February 2026 Poster abstract deadline: 2 March 2026 www.newphytologist.org/events/47-nps #PlantScience

Our new paper is out today in Journal of the Royal Society Interface (link below). All about eggshell roughness: "Scratching beyond the surface: examining macroecological patterns in avian eggshell texture". Congrats first author Marie Attard, and thank you @leverhulme.ac.uk for the funding.

🚨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/...

Another 48 plots laid out on our 2nd LERN site in Herefordshire (incl some ground prep treatments) 👍🏼 2 more sites still to go 🌳

We’re opening the doors for community meetings. Your chance to influence our next steps & get more involved in the network. Join one of our upcoming sessions: 🗓 Dec 4 — 06:00 UTC t1p.de/m3gty 🗓 Dec 4 — 18:00 UTC t1p.de/xaxsu 🗓 Dec 5 — 13:00 UTC t1p.de/c4icd Help guide where ITMN goes next! 🚀

Congrats Dr Arthur Yambayamba for passing his PhD with flying colours🍾 Arthur's thesis explores how climate & competition shape the structure of miombo woodlands. Check out some of the work here: 1) shorturl.at/aTVb7 2) shorturl.at/fD42Y Thanks to Casey Ryan & @mdekauwe.bsky.social for examining!

We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪 If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇 www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

🚨RA/PhD position available in evolutionary neurobiology 🚨 Working on a deep dive into circuit changes during mushroom body expansion in Heliconius butterflies @camzoology.bsky.social - employment benefits - 4 years funding - 1000% fun Deadline: 14/1/2026 Details: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Plant Ecology at Flinders Uni just advertised. Such a great place + city to live in. So nice to see an Adelaide wide cluster of grassy ecology expertise developing that would be v exciting to be part of! Apply!

Global change research in the observational era Leuzinger and Medlyn nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What a depressing figure www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Check out our new paper! @brodersenlab.bsky.social

Great looking PhD offer with @laurajanegraham.bsky.social assessing the importance of Miyawaki ‘Tiny forests’ for biodiversity. There's a paper due out soon in @jappliedecology.bsky.social that calls for more robust assessments of the Miyawaki method, so good to see projects aiming to fill this gap!

Great job opportunity in our team 🌿🌱⛰️ Join us at the University of Bristol!

The wonderful Rox Middleton and i have a #PhD project investigating how cuticles and extracuticular waxes protect #plants from environmental stress as they age. Developmental biology, genetics, environmental signalling and physics split between Bristol and Bath. Please get in touch for more details!

There is a PhD position available at @w-u-r.bsky.social on seed dispersal and succession! You will be based at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and conduct fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico on plant-animal interactions. Deadline to apply: 3rd of December shorturl.at/sLVOU

📢New Publication! @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social just published our review paper on virtual laser scanning of dynamic scenes (VLS-4D). @bernhardhofle.bsky.social #3DGeo Paper: doi.org/10.1111/2041... Blogpost: giscienceblog.uni-heidelberg.de/2025/11/13/n... Demo: 3dgeo-heidelberg.github.io/vls-4d/

POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY: Come join us at ForestGEO, based in the Smithsonian, to study tropical forest mortality!