IBFRA 2026 Conference 📅 August 24–28, 2026 📍 Centre des congrès de Québec, Québec City, Canada 🌐 www.ibfra2026.org LAST Call for abstracts – Deadline: Feb 15, 2026; 11:59pm PST Conference Themes and Plenary Topics Abstracts are welcome across all areas of boreal forest research

📢 Job opening! We’re excited to announce six open Researcher positions. 🪲🦋 4 PhD and 2 Postdoc positions in forest biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research! Interested in forest ecology? Get in touch! 🌲🌳 www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei... #forestecology #researchposition #conservationbiology

Award issue: @jeremycours.bsky.social and @remiduflot.bsky.social review the effects of landscape heterogeneity on bird communities in forest habitats The review adds to what is known about landscape effects on agricultural bird communities ➡️ vist.ly/4q7ye #ornithology #birds #diversity 🪶

📣 PhD position at Leuphana University (Germany) 🌳🍃🪴 Join the DIVERSA project on climate change effects on forest ecosystems. Fieldwork, laser scanning, experiments & data analysis in an international ecology team. Apply by 20 Feb 2026 👉https://tinyurl.com/3ac4fewx #Ecology #Biodiversity #Traits

🔍 We’re hiring! Our chair is looking for a motivated Researcher to join our team! 🌳 The aim of the project is to analyse insect communities and their responses to different forest structural conditions. 🪲🦋 We’re looking forward to your application. 🌲📩 www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei...

We are happy to announce that we will continue investigating interesting topics around forest management and biodiversity! If you like to work in an interdisciplinary team and are interested in forest ecology, please have a look at our exciting new opportunities: www.greenjobs.de/stellenanzei...

🌳 PhD Position in Forest Genetics @uni-freiburg.de Join the BeGenDiv project to study genetic diversity of ~30 tree & shrub species across Germany’s Biodiversity Exploratories. 🧬 Fieldwork, lab work, bioinformatics & interdisciplinary collaboration More info: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

Wildfires raging across central and southern Chile on Sunday left at least 18 people dead, scorched thousands of acres of forest and destroyed hundreds of homes, authorities said, as the South American country swelters under a heat wave. https://to.pbs.org/4jMJ7WV

I’m #hiring - Our company is looking for a Remote Sensing Data Engineer! If you're interested innovative remote sensing analytics and developing systems to scale-up reforestation projects, we’d love to hear from you. Our j.d. and links to apply are here: lnkd.in/gvzb_3ck Reach out to learn more 🧪🌳🌐🍁

#luontokuvaus aiheuttamasta haitasta luontokohteille keskustellaan säännöllisesti. Suomessa etenkin pöllöjen kuvaus on usein uutisissa. Intiassa harvinaisen sammakon populaatio tuhoutui valokuvaajien aiheuttaman häiriön takia. Havainnoi huomaavaisesti! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

*In Defense of Severe Fires* academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... My review of Hutto's book, BioScience @aibsbiology.bsky.social Severely burned forests are “magical places that seem to harbor plant & animal species & visual experiences found under no other forest conditions" PDF: DM 🧪🌎🔥🌳🍁🌱 wildfire

I'm recruiting a #PhDstudent ! Deadline Feb 10th! Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Please contribute! We neex broad input, different forest types, and an array of natural disturbances to see how disturbance regimes are changing.

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...

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...

Seed dispersal by 🦜🦇 underpins rainforest recovery. We want to understand more about its timing + traits driving recovery through obs, exp + genomic data. Ready to join the @reassemblynet.bsky.social team working in Ecuadorian Chocó? Pls apply to our 4-yr PhD position @sgn.one: tinyurl.com/2pkryc99

New in gdalraster 2.2.0 🎉 You can now run GDAL CLI algorithms (e.g., gdal raster calc) directly from R -- thanks to the new GDAL 3.11 unified CLI. Docs: usdaforestservice.github.io/gdalraster/a... #RStats #RSpatial #GDAL #OSGeo

Congratulations to Dr. Juliette Hunault-Fontbonne on a successful defense of her thesis entitled "In Search of Lost Connectivity: How can biodiversity and habitat networks be better integrated into boreal forest planning?”

#PostDoc Alert! PhD in #Biology or #EnvironmentalSciences? Strong background in #ForestEcology, DNA-based biodiversity assessments, #Bioinformatics, and experimental planning? Our #ForestEntomology Group offers a 2-year #PostDoc position 🌳🧬💻: apply.refline.ch/273855/1798/... #ScienceJobs #eDNA

From forest decline to salvage logging: cascading impacts on saproxylic beetle diversity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.28.690817v1

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...

"There is little evidence that removing dead trees en masse is an effective strategy to contain fast fires. In fact, a substantial body of evidence shows that such large-scale tree removals will have cumulative and mostly negative ecosystem and climate consequences." 🌎

QUESTION: @evilanova.bsky.social and I were discussing resources for finding root:shoot ratios (belowground biomass, root biomass, etc) for global forests / ecoregions And really doesn't feel like there has been much progress in this Any suggestions for where to look!?? 🧪🌎🌳🍁

🚨Job opportunity🚨 We are hiring a 3yr research technician. If you love fieldwork, are passionate about forests & mountains, and want to up-skill in remote sensing, sensor networks and running field experiments this could be the dream job for you! 🧪🌳⛰️🛰️🌡️🍄 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

The findings of a study in Nature Climate Change show that artificial light at night disrupts the fundamental energetic constraints on ecosystem metabolism, warranting the inclusion of light pollution in global change and carbon–climate feedback assessments. go.nature.com/44cCKWm 🧪

⚠️ The spread of the pinewood nematode is a development of great concern to the future of European forests. 🤝 We stand by our fellow #HorizonEurope project @purpest-eu.bsky.social as we pursue complementary innovations in the management of such outbreaks. #Forests #Pests #PlantHealth

🌎 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!

Do you like forests and computer models? 🌳🧑‍💻 Within the Future Forests excellence cluster, we are hiring two modellers for 7 year (!) positions here in Freiburg. A scientific coordinator role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... And and a scientific programmer role: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

🌲 The European Forest Disturbance Atlas by ForestPaths is now on Forest Information Systems for Europe! Using Landsat data (1985–2023), the maps track fires, storms, bark beetles & harvesting across 38 countries — open-source & updated annually. 🔗 Explore more: forestpaths.eu/news/forestp...

📢 WE'RE HIRING 📢 --- 📢 4 VACANT POSITIONS 📢 💡 🌲 SmartForest at @uninmbu.bsky.social and NIBIO is announcing a #Postdoc position and 3 #PhD_scholarships dedicated to advancing #AI in #forestry 📍 Full-time, 3-year positions based in Ås, Norway apply here 👉 smartforest.no/2025/10/30/4...

We're hiring for two full-time, permanent positions: a Senior Scientist (to lead our eddy flux work) and a Director of Administration and Finance. Unfortunately we can't host international visas for these positions. More info here! harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/about/employ...

🚨Application deadline has been extended to 1 December 2025! 🔗 www.slu.se/en/about-slu... #ForestScience #ForestResearch #entomology

Check out our new preprint. In this review we show the comparative decline of experimental approaches in community ecology and discuss some alternatives to push the field forward

Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu ) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!

Open position for a methods-savvy PhD student to work on combining diverse data sources to understand forests! Great chance to work on an important topic with Mari Myllymäki and me + collaborators across Europe. Please apply (by 31st Oct) or share forward valtiolle.fi/en/jobs/rese...

Hello! I’m recruiting three graduate students (MS or PhD) to start in summer or fall 2026 . Projects are broadly focused on the ecology, restoration, and management of rangelands, deserts, and forests. Please share! Lab website: functionalrestoration.nmsu.edu

#Talvilintulaskennat alkavat marraskuun alussa. Perusta uusi reitti tai elvytä vanha reitti henkiin. Vuosittainen kirje talvilintulaskennoista kiinnostuneille löytyy linkistä 👇 tietopankki.luomus.fi/linnustonseu... Tervetuloa mukaan! @birdlifesuomi.bsky.social @helsinki.fi @nathist.bsky.social

📢 PhD opportunity! 📢 Join me, @ejduncan.bsky.social, Tom Sloan + the wider #GairWood team to investigate climate-resilient woodlands in the UK 🌳 with @yes-dtn.bsky.social @earthandenvleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social

PhD applications are now open @treesdla.bsky.social for 2026 intake. Have a look at a project on effects of forest diversity on floral reward production for pollinators that we advertise with @philstevenson.bsky.social. Do apply/get in touch if you are interested! www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/eff...

The ghosts of Wolves, Elks, Crested Tits, Willow Tits, Aurochs and Lynxes emerging at low tide in long-lost Holocene forest...

Last chance to apply for this exciting job opportunity in our International Conservation Science team Applications close Monday 20th Oct 🌍🧪

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

📢 Our partners from @wslresearch.bsky.social are offering a new #PostDoc position for 1.5 years as part of the FORSAID project! 🪲 Specialists in invasion biology, spectroscopy and chemical ecology are invited to apply here: apply.refline.ch/273855/1772/... #Forests #Pests #PlantHealth

Our latest research shows that harvesting in Finland also takes place in forests of high biodiversity value, which highlights the need to integrate biodiversity conservation more closely into forest management practices. More details in English here: ➡️https://r.jyu.fi/Gql

Registration for the Fall Webinar is now open! I especially recommend joining the sessions organized by the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice committee where we have six interesting talks about how to make conservation more inclusive!

Great PhD opportunity with an excellent supervisor: Quantify traits of tree species across the western US to determine how tree populations and forest communities will respond to drought and fire. plant-traits.net/lab-openings/

Le suivi de ~4 000 doctorants issus de 107 pays différent montre les sujets d'inquiétudes de ces jeunes scientifiques Les préoccupations financières viennent en 1er (les ♂️ plus que les ♀️) Puis vient la santé mentale & le syndrome de l'imposteur (les ♀️ plus que les ♂️) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🌱 ♻️ #JobAlert! PhD in #EnvironmentalSciences and in-depth knowledge of #SoilScience and biogeochemical cycles? Strong skills in analysing large datasets? Our Research Unit Forest and #SoilEcology offers a #TenureTrack position in #NutrientCycling: apply.refline.ch/273855/1778/... #ScienceJobs

Yesterday, the conservation community bid a sad goodbye to the iconic Dame Jane Goodall. 💚🐒 Goodall's pioneering work with primates and their habitats has inspired generations of researchers, and we honor her extraordinary contributions to environmental conservation. 🦤🌎🍁 #ThankYouJane

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs