Our new #BIEN biodiversity data workflow paper is out! BIEN is an ecosystem of modular, open-source BIEN tools for collecting, harmonizing, and validating biodiversity data -- and an integrated global database (BIEN db) of plant occurrences, traits & geographic ranges. doi.org/10.1111/2041... 🧪🌐🌾🌵

Very excited to announce that we are hiring for three faculty positions at @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social: A/Prof Plant Science, A/Prof Animal Biology and Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management. Please do get in touch to chat. Links below:

These are great courses, apply if you can; going to Kibale was my first step to a career in ecology and conservation

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...

Distinguishing the signal of the vegetation from the water is not straightforward, but L-band SAR shows promise for monitoring the water level in Amazonian peatlands. Wonderfully led by Antje Uhde using precious field data from IIAP @congopeat.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗 @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

Fabaceae emerge as amongst the most embolism-resistant tree families in Amazonia. Forests in the Brazilian and Guiana Shield regions, where Fabaceae abundance is high, are expected to have greater drought resistance than Western Amazon forests.

Applications open for a 3-year Post Doc position in Leeds (UK) on the #UKRI funded Still Waters project. We are looking for #hydrology #geomorphology modelling skills to embed surface hydrology into #malaria models with fieldwork in Zambia. Pls contact me for more details: tinyurl.com/3356rt44

🚨3 Lectureships in Biology 🚨 Come join us in Bristol @bristolbiosci.bsky.social! We are looking for new collegues working across a broad spectum of topics in biology, including ecology & environmental change. Get in touch if you have Qs! Apply here by 8 March: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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...

Piper dispersed from South America first to Southern Africa, then on to South East Asia, where it spread across the Wallace & Lydekker's lines several times! Intrigued? The full paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1093/botl... (2/2) @linneansociety.bsky.social

Many congratulations to Adriane Esquivel, Rebecca Morgan and to all our colleagues supporting Amazon forest monitoring with RAINFOR and ForestPlots.net! Our analysis of 30 years of Amazon forest change is highlighted on the cover of @natplants.nature.com. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really great to see our colleagues and friends at IIAP, Peru recognised by FAO for their long-term work on the ecology and management of Amazonian peatlands. www.facebook.com/100000023934...

Jose Luis Marcello (U Jaén, Peru) está liderando los estudios de la dinámica y el impacto del cambio climático en los bosques secos en el Peru - un trabajo muy importante, y con coordinación con ForestPlots.net Descubre mas aqui: fb.watch/CjP0DvNbL0/

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....

Huge new work in the central Congo peatlands, showing that the peatlands began forming 42,000 years ago. Culmination of around 15 major expeditions over the past decade, and a huge effort by many people.

Nueva entrevista en MongaBay a propósito de nuestro nuevo paper sobre la boogeografía del género Weinmannia.

¡Recién publicado! 🌿 Descubrimos que Weinmannia, un género emblemático de los Andes, se originó fuera de los trópicos y migró hacia los Andes tropicales, donde se diversificó. A pesar de expandirse en altura y latitud, conserva su nicho ambiental. #Evolución #Andes #Biogeografía

📢 Fully funded PhD studentship for UK students is available in my lab @rhulbiology.bsky.social as part of new EU project Trees4Adapt 🌲🌳 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland www.sataforestdiversity.org 📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🍁🌍🧪

Very important, fascinating patterns, and be cool to link with current trajectories of the structure and composition of apparently 'intact' tropical forests @forestplots.bsky.social

New study led by Bruno Cintra @unibirmingham.bsky.social brings together work from both our PhD theses! Oxygen isotopes recorded in tree rings provide independent evidence that the Amazon water cycle has intensified, with increasing wet season rainfall and decreasing dry season rainfall since 1980.

The fantastic first image released by @esa.int Biomass satellite. In glorious false colour to represent its P-band radar imaging, capable of penetrating even the highest biomass forests in the Amazon and Congo.

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Documenting the seasonally #dry #plant #community dynamics in the #Marañon valley, in northern #Andean #Peru. Valley is a trove of #endemism, severely threatened, little studied. JL Marcelo and team provide a first glimpse at temporal #vegetation changes. doi.org/10.1016/j.tf...

#pdra #postdoc Research Fellow in Tropical American Forest Dynamics. We are looking for a scientist with strong quantitative skills interested in forests and ecological change. You will work with a team of tropical ecologists including RAINFOR PPBio + other networks. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

New lecturer position available with us at Leeds Geography: its a very supportive school with a vibrant and varied group of ecology and global change scientists, and it's a good place to live, with six national parks in easy reach. Do apply! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Read about our work using drones to support sustainable palm fruit harvesting in the swamps of the Peruvian Amazon environment.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/news... @envleeds.bsky.social

Great day studying the impact of excluding sheep on the soils, vegetation, birds and butterflies of limestone pavement in the Yorkshire Dales with our first year undergrads

#PhD How do tropical forest soundscapes alter with land use change? Ecoacoustic monitoring in Amazon and African forests, working with partners and gradients of tropical forest modification. Apply by 19 May: Manchester Met Uni, w/ [email protected] & colleagues! www.mmu.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Fascinating article describing the reality of the fieldwork to map peat across Colombian Amazonia news.mongabay.com/2025/04/new-...

Stakeholders + tech + long-term collaboration = more sustainable management: our pipeline using drones and AI makes counting palms cheap and fast in the swamps of the Peruvian Amazon, so more management plans can be produced with communities. Led by Ximena Tagle (IIAP/Wageningen) rdcu.be/ejbKd

Great @nature.com editorial and @naturepodcast.bsky.social series referencing ongoing coverage in @natureecoevo.bsky.social of the taxonomic furore regarding eponyms www.nature.com/articles/d41... (Check out rdcu.be/eja4P for the most recent NEE piece following last year's IBC votes)

On this years’ Portugal trip, while wandering over the student field sites we found some naked men. Thankfully, the Naked Man orchid (also generously known as the Italian man orchid). Good spot @kofitim.bsky.social - you have a good eye for these things! Nice hat too

Really interesting paper untangling the role of dispersal and speciation in the SE Asian tropics.

The botanist Al Gentry changed tropical ecology and helped create the global science of today. This new article celebrates Gentry's unique innovations, achievements and lasting influence, more than 30 years after his untimely death. rainfor.org/wp-content/u... annals.mobot.org/index.php/an...

I'm excited to share my new paper on classifying dry tropical ecosystems in NE Brazil, using remote sensing. Our method aligns with the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology and suggests a new Ecosystem Functional Group: non-pyric shrubland. Find the paper: biogeography.pensoft.net/article/1454...

Over two decades, harvesting aguaje palm fruits by climbing rather than tree felling in palm swamp forests in Peru, leads to a higher density of fruit-bearing female trees and increases incomes: a win/win for the forest and people. Great new paper led by Euridice Honorio doi.org/10.1002/pan3...

>20 years ago banging in aluminium nails, I realised its much easier to tag genera of trees common in forests close to the Andes, than genera that are common in Brazil, where the nails bend. Now Martin Sullivan has produced a beautiful map of wood density to illustrate this trend! rdcu.be/ecTlK

Are tropical forests in the Americas changing as adaptation to ongoing climate change? Yes, they are! Are these changes enough to track their suitable climate? Not quite! Check out our paper in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... to see more of what our network has been working on!

Great study showing that tropical American forests are predicted to have 40% greater functional richness than tropical African and Asian forests. Awesome work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

West-east gradient across Amazonia in fast-slow life history strategies of forests beautifully illustrated by new ATDN paper; forests are 'fast' in the west and 'slow' in the northeast of Amazonia doi.org/10.1038/s420...

This looks like an exciting PhD project on temperate rainforest restoration: great supervisors and great location too www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

When working with traits, imputed values can be very useful, but they are not new information. We provide a practical way to test whether imputation is friend or foe, dependending on data and aim 👇 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @naturerecovery.bsky.social

Our new paper at rdcu.be/d84EE shows that wherever you are in the tropics, a 'live fast, die young' strategy drives higher species richness amongst the tree flora, made possible by the wonderful community carefully measuring trees across the tropics, underpinned by ForestPlots.net and CTFS-ForestGeo