Huge thanks to @nbuchmann.bsky.social, @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social, Luca Belelli Marchesini, Michele Dalponte, Michele Scotton, Loris vescovo, and Damiano Gianelle —couldn't have done this without you!

Our analysis of 23 years of satellite data (2001-2023) 🛰️ across Europe's major mountain ranges 🏔️ reveals that global change🥵 is driving elevation-dependent phenological shifts 📈—but these changes don't translate straightforwardly into productivity gains☘️🍀.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

At higher elevations, some species had unusually green canopies in response to the heatwave suggesting they benefitted from warmer conditions.

🥵 The hot drought had its largest impact on Quercus ilex L. forests growing at low elevations: there was a clear decrease in canopy greenness from July onwards in 2022, but no residual impacts were observed the following years.

🥶 The effects of 2019 frost affected the canopy spectral response and phenology of Fagus sylvatica L. in areas around 1000 m a.s.l.. There, trees had developed buds and some juvenile leaves when frost occurred, resulting in the wilting or dropping of the earliest leaves but no lasting impacts.

Forest parcels dominated by ≥70% of a single species were classified using regional inventory data, enabling species-specific analysis at 10 m spatial resolution.

We analyzed NDVI time series (2018–2024) from Sentinel-2 imagery across 3000 km² of Alpine forests in Trentino, Italy, examining canopy responses of 16 tree species to two extreme climatic events: a late spring frost in May 2019 and a hot drought in July 2022.

Seven years of Sentinel-2 data reveal how Alpine forests respond to extreme events 🥵🥶. Late spring frost damaged mid-elevation beech, while hot drought stressed low-elevation oaks but benefited high-elevation species. Elevation matters for climate resilience🏔️. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

with Michele Dalponte, @janawicklein.bsky.social @francesco-pirotti.bsky.social, Harin Aiyanna Cheriyanda Raveendra

This was our first dive into correlative methods for species distribution modelling. I loved this research area, which nicely integrates species ecology with spatial data analysis and predictive modeling. Congrats to Damiano Oberosler!

Last year, our Forest Ecology group undertook the modeling of current and future distributions of forest tree species 🌲 🌳 in the Province of Trento at a management-relevant scale. Pending manuscript publication🤞, we released scripts, maps, and Damiano's MS thesis at UNIPD zenodo.org/records/17209032

The best set of conferences I have been lucky to attend in 2016 & 2019 but sadly missed 2023 😢

🌐🐋🐠🦑🪸🦇🦔🐸🦎🌳🌲🌎

I highly & warmly recommend it if you are into biodiversity redistribution & range dynamics in response to global change drivers

❤️SOTM❤️

Restoring Ecosystems Can't Stop Climate Change
🏭❌🌳🌎🌐
Limited carbon sequestration potential from global ecosystem restoration www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Could trees know when the summer solstice is?
#Environment #Plants #SummerSolstice #Trees #NatureScience #PlantBiology #ClimateAndPlants #Masting #ForestEcology #TreeReproduction #Photosynthesis #Phenology #BeechTrees #PlantIntelligence #EcologyFacts
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So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com ‬🧪🌐

Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A brief thread of what we found 🧵

🧪 Interested in an unusual greenhouse gas (COS) to study carbon dynamics in a Swiss forest? Check out this PhD position in my lab at ETH Zurich
jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

🧪Open Postdoc position (up to 2 yrs) on Integrating Flux Data and Remote Sensing to Quantify Environmental Footprints of Agroecosystems in my lab at ETH Zurich: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

🚨 Stat tips 🚨

Are you aware of the regression to the mean #RTM effect?

This artefact is often overlooked in #ecology & especially in biodiversity resurveys 🌳🍄🦔🦅🦎🦋🐝🐞 It basically shows up each time you investigate changes between 2 time events: t2 vs t1

Let me unfold it for you 🧵

Setting forests aside doesn’t stir up more trouble—in fact, it calms the chaos 🌳
Happy to see my first PhD chapter out! 📝
Setting aside forests for biodiversity conservation does NOT amplify disturbances in temperate forests of Central Europe.

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#PeppinoImpastato #47anni #mafia #mondo
Caro Peppino, guardaci.
Oggi per @mm-repubblica-bot.bsky.social

Preprint alert!🚨
If you are interested in people's perceptions of grassland aesthetics, check out our new preprint with @valentinecology.bsky.social @foxnat.bsky.social, Davide and Franziska
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#taxonomyanalysis #flickr #iNaturalist #questionnaires