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Tim Baker @kofitim.bsky.social · 21d

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/

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Aug 14

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....

Graphical illustration of the four key stages of edge evolution following edge creation.

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Simon Lewis @simonlewis.bsky.social · Jul 30

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.

Bart Crezee @bartcrezee.bsky.social · Jul 30

Our new study, led by Greta Dargie and published yesterday in Environmental Research Letters, shows that the Congo Basin peatlands are twice as old as previously thought. www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n... @congopeat.bsky.social @simonlewis.bsky.social @iopp-environment.bsky.social

World’s largest tropical peatlands revealed to be more than 40,000 years old

A peatland complex in the Congo Basin which is known to be a globally important carbon store is twice as old as previously thought, according to a new scientific study.

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Ricardo Segovia @ricardosegovia.bsky.social · Jul 21

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

Un estudio revela los secretos de la evolución escondida de los imponentes árboles Weinmannia en Latinoamérica | ENTREVISTA

Un nuevo estudio reconstruyó la historia evolutiva de Weinmannia, un género con más de 90 especies de árboles emblemáticos.

es.mongabay.com

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Ricardo Segovia @ricardosegovia.bsky.social · Jun 30

¡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

Phylogeny of Weinmannia (Cunoniaceae) reveals the contribution of the southern extratropics to tropical Andean biodiversity

The Andes are a relatively young mountain range with impressive biodiversity, but the biogeographic processes underlying its hyperdiversity are still …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · Jun 27

📢 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...
🍁🌍🧪

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Tim Baker @kofitim.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

Martin Philippe-Lesaffre @mphilippelesaffre.bsky.social · Jun 25

🖨️ New preprint out !

We present the first global, high-resolution, spatiotemporal maps of hunting pressure across tropical forests 🦜🐒🌴.

This long-standing blind spot in biodiversity threat mapping is now filled 😎:

ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Hotspots, refuges, and rising risk: mapping tropical hunting pressure across space and time

ecoevorxiv.org

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Dr Jess Baker @jesstreebaker.bsky.social · Jun 23

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.

Tree ring oxygen isotope records from terra firme (blue line) and floodplain (red line) sites in the Amazon show diverging trends since approximately 1980. This is a proxy for a large-scale pattern of increasing rainfall in the wet season and drying in the dry season.

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Jun 23

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.

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Reynaldo Linares-Palomino @rlinares.bsky.social · Jun 16

🚨 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...

Redirecting

doi.org

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Jun 9

#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...

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Tim Baker @kofitim.bsky.social · May 23

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...

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Tim Baker @kofitim.bsky.social · May 23

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

New research develops drone technology for mapping and managing palm species in the Peruvian Amazon

Working with stakeholders to design technological solutions to support their specific needs can help to extend the reach of conservation in the tropics.

environment.leeds.ac.uk

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Tim Baker @kofitim.bsky.social · May 9

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

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · May 1

#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...

Doctoral scholarships

Find out what doctoral research scholarships are available at Manchester Met and sign up for vacancy alerts.

www.mmu.ac.uk

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Tim Baker @kofitim.bsky.social · Apr 26

Fascinating article describing the reality of the fieldwork to map peat across Colombian Amazonia

news.mongabay.com/2025/04/new-...

New research finds substantial peat deposits in Colombia’s conflicted Amazon

In the heart of the Colombian Amazon, the towering mountains of the Serranía del Chiribiquete harbor secrets including South America’s oldest rock art. The remote site was off-limits and poorly known ...

news.mongabay.com

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Tim Baker @kofitim.bsky.social · Apr 24

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

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Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social · Apr 24

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)

Scientific naming conventions should keep in step with contemporary science

A three-part Nature Podcast series explores the importance of scientific naming conventions — and talks to researchers looking at how to make them more inclusive.

www.nature.com

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Mark Smith @geomorphmark.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

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Tim Baker @kofitim.bsky.social · Apr 1

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

benkuhnhaeuser.bsky.social @benkuhnhaeuser.bsky.social · Mar 13

1️⃣ 🌍 Fresh out in #Science! The Asian tropics are among the most biodiverse places on Earth, but where does all that diversity come from? 🤔🔍 We used 🌴 phylogenomics and 🦴 new fossils to unravel the roles of different regions in generating and distributing species! 🌱 #Evolution

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · Mar 24

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...

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lucyhelenwells.bsky.social @lucyhelenwells.bsky.social · Mar 17

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...

Satellite remote sensing can operationalise the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology in the biome-diverse north-east of Brazil

Accurate biome delineation is difficult where biomes occupy the same climatic space, as is the case for tropical dry forest and savanna. The resulting confusion limits our ability to understand and ma...

biogeography.pensoft.net

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Tim Baker @kofitim.bsky.social · Mar 13

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...

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Tim Baker @kofitim.bsky.social · Mar 13

>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

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Jesús Aguirre Gutiérrez @jeaggu.bsky.social · Mar 6

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!

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change

Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

www.science.org

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