🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲 Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization. doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧵 (1/6) 🌐🧪🌱🌍

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃 www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... "...Our analysis reveals a widespread decline in human-directed disturbances alongside a countervailing surge in less controllable, undirected ‘wild’ disturbances (fire, wind/geohazard and vegetation stress), which account for 24% of the total disturbed area..."

What is the cost of wildfire, windthrow and bark beetles for Europe’s forestry? We estimate that disturbances reduce Europe’s forest value by €115 bn, more than doubling to €247 bn under severe climate change. Led by @johannesmohr.bsky.social, out in @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

I'll be speaking at the upcoming RAINFORESTS FUTURES event in Exeter on 2nd Oct, an evening of talks about the future of temperate rainforests in the Westcountry. Other speakers from the Woodland Trust, Natural England & Thousand Year Trust Tickets here: www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on/rai...

📢 new publiction led by @francescocerini.bsky.social in Ecology We look at how press vs. pulse disturbances effect population collapse and how predictable that collapse is 🧪🔬 @duncanobrien.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Calling all ecological citizens! Forest of Imagination is a creative ecosystem of meaningful action in response to the ecological emergency. Join us! Please help if you can. Pls share! 💚🌿🌳🦉🐝🦫🍀🦋 @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social localgiving.org/fundraising/...

Convocatoria GEOTREES geo-trees.org Ofrece oportunidades de trabajo en los sitios GEOTREES para estudiantes e investigadores en sus inicios de carrera. Más información aquí. geo-trees.org/downloads/GE...

Super awesome new paper in #MEE describing #causal #detection of shifts in #biodiversity! So many great insights here—a must read for those interested in #causalinference And love Fig 3! Congrats team! @lsantinieco.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Arthur Yambayamba's first PhD chapter is out today @biotropica.bsky.social 🍾 Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐 📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

New research just dropped! Revisiting Paradigms Related to Root Hydraulic Limitation Under Drought is now available—challenging classic hydraulic-fuse models and outdated assumptions about root embolism, xylem safety-efficiency trade-offs, and ABA signalling. doi.org/10.1007/124_...

📢🌿Available #traits #FunctionalTraits PhD position in my group @westsyduhie.bsky.social, closes 30th Oct. Topics: “Climate adaptations in Australian native grasses”; OR “Plant resource economics”. Apply via WSU Online Portal. Eligibility and other key info here: wrightlab.wordpress.com/news/

Fascinating paper by Laura Williams, @bmedlyn.bsky.social and colleagues - nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New paper (first work from Bristol!) 'Sulfoxaflor impairs bumblebee memory across moderate and extreme temperatures' @bristolbiosci.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Looking for a #postdoct for a NSF project integrating ecosystem productivity, hyperspectral remote sensing and airborne LiDAR to test prominent hypothesis of the effect of #biodiversity on #forest #productivity @fluxnetecn.bsky.social @ngaps.bsky.social Apply at: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

We keep growing! Are you excited about remote sensing and mountain forests? Then consider applying to this PhD position, supported by the TUM Center for Forest Management in the Alps! More details at: portal.mytum.de/jobs/wissens...

The first chapter of my dissertation is out in Ecology Letters! We pooled data from forest sites across the globe to understand how forests differ in their carbon investment in reproduction (flowers, fruits, seeds). #ForestEcology #GlobalEcology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A very cool story! Expelled by Antarctic Ice: Evolutionary History of the Cunonieae Tribe (Cunoniaceae). How an extraordinary group of trees emerging in Antarctica went on to tropical success, now dominating many high Andean forests in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. doi.org/10.1111/jse....

I like big trees and I cannot lie. Great bit of work by @kimcalders.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social and colleagues using innovative climbing and scanning approach. Stunning illustration of tree structural and biodiversity complexity zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🎓 Please join us for a PhD in Remote Sensing of Vegetation Structure at Aarhus University. It's a great place to live and work, and an inspiring university to do research 😊 phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...

Some plant fossils, like this piece of Triassic wood, retain some organic matter of their cell walls 🌿⛏️ With a little bit of chemistry we can remove minerals & transfer the organic matter on a piece of cellulose acetate that can be observed under the microscope 🧪Happy #FossilFriday! #paleobotany

🌿 Trees in valleys grew faster & died more. 🌿 Some valley species thrived “at home,” but community-level support was mixed. 🌿 Even 22 m elevation differences = meaningful demographic shifts. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #proudPI

Our previous work in #AmacayacuFDP forest shows that small changes in topography drive 1️⃣ tree species distr. doi.org/10.1007/s111... 2️⃣ drought-related #treemortality doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 3️⃣ and some (not all) branch, leaf & stomatal traits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... But...

We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻 DL 14 September jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

🌳Plants adjust #hydraulics under #drought, but not enough. 📰New paper out in @natecoevo.nature.com led by @ramirezval.bsky.social "Limited plastic responses in safety traits support greater hydraulic risk under drier conditions" 🔗👉http://t.ly/K-vdy @irnase.bsky.social

(Plz share) We're hiring! 5-year PhD student to join our new lab at Rutgers University. Broadly, exploring how climate change impacts terrestrial species, ecosystems and biodiversity – compute, field, or lab! See here: ecoclimateglobal.org/join/ (hiring a 2-yr postdoc too, more news on that soon)

NEW PAPER 📣 Estimating 3D individual tree crown growth using multi-temporal LiDAR doi.org/10.1080/2150... 📖: Remote Sensing Letters ✍️: McGlade (jamesmcglade.bsky.social‬) & Coops @forestry.ubc.ca #remotesensingn#ubcforestryr#irsslaba#LiDARA#ALSL#randomforests#alphashapepe

🌎This study highlights the importance of considering cyclone disturbances when predicting liana-tree interactions and their impacts on forest dynamics and carbon storage in tropical forests 🌀🌴 👉 buff.ly/n0bXk2z

New PhD position in Plant Ecophysiology🌳 Study how atmospheric & soil drought shape tree carbon & water relations at the VPDrought experiment in Switzerland. Start Jan 2026. Apply here: m.refline.ch/273855/1759/... @wslresearch.bsky.social

Some trees thrive in heat. Our #WesternGhats #Tropical #forest #India study shows evergreen trees 🌳🌳 on hill slopes increase #photosynthesis in the dry, hot season, not the wet - indicating heat preference 🌡️🌡️ doi.org/10.1111/ppl.... @pplplantarum.bsky.social @bobmuscarella.bsky.social

🚨 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...

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📰Published📰 The capacity to withstand drought can be approached by climate-evolved wood density and the capacity for growth🌳 buff.ly/N8ODMCb 🧪🌍

Applications for the 2026 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal for excellence in #PlantScience are now open! It's a global competition for early career researchers with 3-5 years' experience post-PhD. Deadline: 1 November 2025. 👉 newphytologist.org/tansleymedal #ESA2025

🌳🔥Out now: Our review on compound droughts and forest responses - from leaf to ecosystem. Featuring a stunning 20-yr map of canopy temperatures variation across European forests. @chriswernerlab.bsky.social @simonhaber.bsky.social @vallicrosah.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time 📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

🌱 In our new article led by Luigi Cao Pinna, we show that alien plants in the Mediterranean often shift their niches, i.e. either do not fill or expand their occupied climatic space compared to the native range, partly depending on their traits. 🔗 fulltext: doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Hearing more & more from university colleagues about massive redundancies across the sector Why is this not in the news? Is the undermining of UK education & research not an important issue? I can only find this link for up to date news on what is happening qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Great to have this one finally out-- our open-access workflow for optimized deployment of microclimate networks! Collab b/w ecologists, data scientists and computational engineers. Check out the GitHub repo for the R software (soon to be a package): github.com/dklinges9/Mi...

The joys of having colleagues that work on bees 🤤 @chrisleduck.bsky.social

So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social

New article out today in Nature - intensified El Niño events under climate change appear to be chipping away at tropical forest arthropod diversity. This is already leading to substantial losses in arthropod function in primary forests across the tropics. rdcu.be/ezAxP

Terrestrial laser scanning can transform national forest inventories by adding new measurements and a 3D perspective. In our new paper we provide a pathway for implementing 3D forest surveys. 1/6 🧪🌎🌳🌲 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If you know researchers with expertise in forestry/agro forestry please share this permanent lectureship @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. The quality of life in north wales is fabulous: great colleagues & a stunning location. jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

#EcoNet2025 Plenary speaker: Jane Memmott @bristoluni.bsky.social 'People & pollinators in a network context' Register now: www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/news/eve... 3-5 September 2025, Newcastle University