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Tropical forests in our time - people, trees and climate. Posts by Oliver Phillips.

Oliver Lawrence Phillips is a British ecologist who specializes in tropical forests and is currently Professor of Tropical Ecology in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. He is noted for his work coordinating large-scale, collaborative research projects that study how humans have changed the world's tropical forests, and the implications for climate change. .. more

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · May 27

The time has come to value tropical fieldworkers as equal partners.

With billions spent on watching forests from space, the skills of foresters and botanists have never been more vital. In our #Nature correspondence we show why - and what needs to change.
#GEO-TREES
rdcu.be/enT5S

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EcoDebate @ecodebate.com.br · 2d

► Capitais brasileiras como Rio, Recife e Florianópolis estão entre as mais ameaçadas pela elevação do nível do mar ◄

Pesquisa mapeia edifícios em risco globalmente e revela vulnerabilidade do litoral brasileiro
www.ecodebate.com.br/2025/10/07/c...

Capitais brasileiras como Rio, Recife e Florianópolis estão entre as mais ameaçadas pela elevação do nível do mar

Pesquisa mapeia edifícios em risco globalmente e revela vulnerabilidade do litoral brasileiro, onde milhões de pessoas e infraestruturas essenciais podem ser impactadas

www.ecodebate.com.br

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 7d

Amazônia enfrenta escalada inédita de temperaturas extremas em áreas ainda preservadas
apublica.org/2025/10/temp...

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 7d

The "flying rivers" of the Amazon bring water across the continent. As their rainfall is depleted by deforestation, especially in the critical dry season, forest loss in Brazil threatens the stability of the unique Amazon and Andes forests in Peru & Bolivia.
www.maapprogram.org/amazon-flyin...

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Kerry Jaggers 🇦🇺 @kerryjaggers.bsky.social · 7d

"Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?"
Jane Goodall

What a legacy.

www.theguardian.com/science/gall...

Jane Goodall – a life in pictures

The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 8d

🌳 Amazon trees are getting bigger

A 30-year study across 188 forest plots shows that trees in the Amazon are increasing in size, with basal area growing by 3.3% per decade. Rising CO2 & nutrient availability may be driving this change.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Plants 🧪

Increasing tree size across Amazonia - Nature Plants

A global research network monitoring the Amazon for 30 years reports in this study that tree size increased by 3% each decade.

www.nature.com

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 9d

"¿Bom Futuro" para Bolivia? El gigante de la soya brasileña deja en vilo a INPA, una isla de bosque de 30.019 hectáreas en la Chiquita
revistanomadas.com/bom-futuro-e...

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 13d

Big trees in Amazon more climate-resistant than previously believed www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Big trees in Amazon more climate-resistant than previously believed

Forest is ‘remarkably resilient to climate change’, but remains under threat from fires and deforestation

www.theguardian.com

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Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, Carly Reddington

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 14d

Study shows big trees in Amazon more climate-resistant than previously believed

But while Amazon rainforest is a key ally in struggle to stabilise the climate, it remains under threat from fires and deforestation

www.theguardian.com

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to all our colleagues for the hard work of tree ID and measurement - again and again! And to Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert and Rebecca Banbury Morgan for your leadership with this.

#openaccess paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 14d

Average tree size across the Amazon has increased by 3.2% every decade, consistent with a response to rising carbon dioxide levels. Big trees, especially, have got bigger.

ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 14d

Big trees are on the rise.

30 years of Amazon forest measurements by RAINFOR partners show that, so far, any impact of #climatechange on forests and large trees have been more than mitigated by the positive effects of increased resources.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 19d

Last year, Latin America suffered 82% of the world's murders of environmental defenders. Andean and central American countries are the most dangerous for environmental defenders.

Colombia is, by far, the worst.
www.actualidadambiental.pe/peru-defenso...

ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 27d

Los datos del sitio GEO-TREES deben ser parte integral de la finalización del Proyecto. Los solicitantes no necesitan estar asociados a un sitio antes de presentar la solicitud; sin embargo, deben contar con la aprobación del investigador principal del sitio antes de presentar la propuesta.

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 27d

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...

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 28d

A great effort! Can't do this kind of thing without help from so many collaborators & support from @uclgeography.bsky.social @nceoscience.bsky.social, CEDA colleagues @forestplots.bsky.social among others.

Dr Cecilia Chavana-Bryant @cch-b.bsky.social · 28d

🚀Super proud of our ForestScan x ESA paper supporting BIOMASS cal/val! Huge dataset: TLS, UAV, ALS + tree census, on CEDA. Includes protocol recs & FBRMS site guidance. A benchmark for EO data sharing! 📡🌳 Preprint: essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... #UCLGeog #OpenScience #LiDAR #BIOMASS #ForestScan

ForestScan: a unique multiscale dataset of tropical forest structure across 3 continents including terrestrial, UAV and airborne LiDAR and in-situ forest census data

Abstract. The ForestScan project was conceived to evaluate new technologies for characterising forest structure and biomass at Forest Biomass Reference Measurement Sites (FBRMS). It is closely aligned...

essd.copernicus.org

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Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, Mathias Disney

Dr Cecilia Chavana-Bryant @cch-b.bsky.social · 28d

ForestScan: a unique multiscale dataset of tropical forest structure across 3 continents including terrestrial, UAV and airborne LiDAR and in-situ forest census data

essd.copernicus.org

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 29d

Descubriendo la sorprendente diversidad oculta de los helechos tropicales americanos: Danaea sigue diversificándose, con *dieciocho* nuevas especies.

Venni Keskiniva & Hanna Tuomisto:
bioone.org/journals/wil...

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Folha de S.Paulo @folha.com · 29d

Agricultura alerta sobre fim de moratória da soja

Ministério da Agricultura alerta que fim de moratória da soja pode afetar exportações

Coordenação internacional da pasta vê riscos à imagem do produtor e de possíveis sanções ao Brasil

www1.folha.uol.com.br

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Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, Ben Bond‐Lamberty

Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Sep 9

Analysis of eddy-covariance C and water fluxes during the Australian Tinderbox drought of 2017-2019 showed remarkable resilience and recovery in most Australian forest types. Great work from @clares-hydro.bsky.social and OzFlux community

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Response and Recovery of Carbon and Water Fluxes in Australian Ecosystems Exposed to Severe Drought

We examined flux data across a range of Australian ecosystems exposed to severe drought over two years (2018-19). The driest ecosystems experienced large productivity declines, but intermediate ecosy...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, Monica G. Turner, Ingolf Kühn , and 3 more Oliver L. Phillips, Monica G. Turner, Ingolf Kühn, Ana S. L. Rodrigues, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Jonathan Lenoir

Sandra M Durán @sandramduran.bsky.social · Sep 6

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...

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Sep 3

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....

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · Sep 3

www.nature.com/articles/s41... How climate change and deforestation interact in the transformation of the Amazon rainforest: “…Over the past 35 yrs, deforestation has accounted for approximately 74% of the ~ 21 mm dry season−1 decline and 16.5% of the 2°C rise in max surface air temp.”

How climate change and deforestation interact in the transformation of the Amazon rainforest - Nature Communications

In this study, the distinct impacts of deforestation and global climate change on the Brazilian Amazon are quantified for the period 1985-2020. Deforestation amplifies the temperature increase and dom...

www.nature.com

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Sep 2

Colecciones Tipos Procedentes de la Reserva de Biosfera Oxapampa Asháninka Yánesha (BIOAY), Pasco, Perú. doi.org/10.51343/rq....

ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Sep 2

Andean forests are one of the last great frontiers of botanical exploration.
This new analysis by Peruvian colleagues shows six new species have been collected each year since 1980 in the wet mountain forests of the Oxapampa Asháninka Yánesha Biosphere Reserve.
revistas.unsaac.edu.pe/index.php/RQ...

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congratulations to William Farfán Ríos and our RAINFOR + ABERG colleagues for the new work in PNAS "Amazonian and Andean tree communities are not tracking current climate warming".
With 66 plots and lots of time, we assessed floristic change in the face of Andean heating www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation have published their Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics, setting a great example for other academic societies. 🌏🧪🌐
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

ATBC Code of Conduct

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Rainforest @pitbullmtkerr.bsky.social · Sep 1

www.wri.org/insights/def....

Global Emissions and Local Deforestation Are Combining to Create Dangerous Levels of Heat Stress in the Tropics

It's not just climate change that's making the tropics hotter.

www.wri.org

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Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, John R. Hutchinson

Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · Aug 31

Misleading: BBC website users reading this headline would worry that the UK's native woods were under threat. In fact the Spruce Bark Beetle feeds on different kinds of Spruce, as the name suggests.

There are no native species of Spruce in the UK.

Headline should read UK's spruce plantations.

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Manuela Casasoli @manuelacasasoli.bsky.social · Aug 29

"The #Amazon is approaching an ecological collapse, driven by accelerating deforestation, widespread forest degradation, and the escalating impacts of #climate change."
The Belém Declaration goals for nature #conservation and human well-being need to be pursued.
#Ecology
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Image Source:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420198122

The Amazon faces widespread deforestation and the escalating impacts of climate change. At an August 2023 summit, the leaders of eight Amazonian countries came together and addressed these problems in the Belém Declaration. While well-intentioned, effectively implementing the declaration will be a big challenge.

Image credit: Shutterstock/Tarcisio Schnaider.

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Aug 14

Simone Reis & colleagues show why Amazon transitional forest is vulnerable to drought.
Typical savannas dominated by shrubs and small trees resist it, but adjacent ecosystems with bigger trees ("Cerradao") suffer large productivity losses, especially below-ground.
bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

Sensitivity of tropical woodland savannas to El Niño droughts

Abstract. The 2015–2016 El Niño event led to one of the hottest and most intense droughts for many tropical forests, profoundly impacting forest productivity. However, we know little about how this ev...

bg.copernicus.org

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