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Emilio Vilanova

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Venezuelan | 🌳 Forest ecologist /scientist. Senior Program Officer - Forest Carbon (ARR | IFM) @VERRA. Views and opinions are my own en English & Español.

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · Dec 8

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Más de 50 años de seguimiento a la ecología y dinámica de los bosques de Venezuela: un esfuerzo multinstitucional

A inicios de la década de los 1950s, bajo el liderazgo de los ingenieros forestales suizos Jean Pierre Veillon (1914-2002) y Hans Lamprecht (1919-2012), profesores del entonces Instituto de S…

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Verra - Standards for a Sustainable Future @verrastandards.bsky.social · 2d

Join Verra & Perennial for a webinar on the new DSM tool in the Verified Carbon Standard Program. Learn how it helps quantify greenhouse gas reductions in ALM projects. 📅 Oct 16, 11am ET. Register: bit.ly/4mRnftJ #ClimateAction #SoilCarbon verra.org/webinar-new-...

Webinar: New Digital Soil Mapping Tool

n Thursday, October 16, at 11:00 am ET, Verra and Perennial will be hosting a webinar to provide an overview of the new digital soil mapping (DSM) tool in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program.

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 6d

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Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires

Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

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Anna R Landim @annarl.bsky.social · 6d

Excited to share that the second paper of my PhD is out in @currentbiology.bsky.social 🍈🦜🍒🐒🍊🐿️

We show that the functional diversity of seed-dispersal interactions in tropical forests takes circa 20 years to recover after deforestation.

You can read it here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Delayed recovery of seed-dispersal interactions after deforestation

Landim et al. show that seed-dispersal interactions require about two decades to functionally recover in tropical forests in Ecuador, but the recovery time of seed-dispersal functions is delayed in pa...

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Nature @nature.com · 7d

Climate change is reshaping forests around the globe

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Trees of the Amazon are becoming even mightier

Forest giants are becoming bigger and more common than they once were.

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 7d

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AI reveals vast ‘ghost forests’ along U.S. coast

Machine learning method counts nearly 12 million dead trees, many likely killed by rising seas

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 7d

apnews.com/article/flyi... Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts

As Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts

Scientists warn that “flying rivers” — invisible streams of moisture that carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean westward across the Amazon — are weakening as deforestation and climate change advance.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 7d

The world has lost its most powerful advocate for nature and hope. Yet many remain who will continue her legacy and I know she will continue to inspire generations more.

A screenshot of a post by the Jane Goodall Institute on LinkedIn stating that they learned that Dr. Goodall passed away due to natural causes in California while on her speaking to her current speaking tour there.

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Natalia Pérez-Amaya @nataliaperez-a.bsky.social · 9d

💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 9d

Perhaps the first formal paper on tropical forests ecology I read in college was one from Arturo Gomez Pompa a long time ago 😞

Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 10d

An absolute GIANT in the study and conservation of tropical forests and one of the pillars of México’s ecological and ethnobotanical communities has passed on. Padrino to so many: Arturo Gómez Pompa news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Arturo Gómez-Pompa, biologist who revealed the human history in “virgin” forests, has died, aged 90

In the steaming lowlands of Veracruz and the Yucatán, where strangler figs knot the canopy and howler monkeys bellow at dawn, a man with a field notebook kept noticing what others overlooked. Arturo G...

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 12d

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

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 12d

Interesting analysis, thanks for sharing. Coincidentally I came across this paper for managed temperate forests where the effects of internal decay on above ground biomass estimation seemed insignificant besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Internal stem decay is not a major source of error for carbon stock estimates in managed temperate forests of Central Europe

Allometric biomass functions can be used for biomass and carbon stock estimates in managed temperate forests of Central Europe, even in stands with high shares of large old trees. It should be tested...

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 13d

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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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 14d

Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only!
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Sequoia sempervirens (Coast redwood) resprouting epicormically after a high-intensity fire

Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia) with a fire scar in the base from a surface fire

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CIFOR-ICRAF @cifor-icraf.org · 15d

The future of forests is being shaped in today’s classrooms. But are we teaching the right things?

A global study finds major gaps — from lack of Indigenous knowledge to gender bias.

Read why forest education must evolve:🔗 https://bit.ly/3EEghrZ

#Trees4Resilience

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 15d

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Can Global South Countries Break Free from the Deforestation Trap? | Blog | Nature | PBS

Tropical rainforests regulate the global climate and sustain the planet’s richest biodiversity. Yet, despite more than a decade of government and

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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 16d

A year-long experiment in a wet tropical #forest found that 4°C of warming boosted soil CO2 emissions by 42-204%. These high rates suggest tropical #soils may release more #carbon under future warming than #climate models predict.
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Warming induces unexpectedly high soil respiration in a wet tropical forest - Nature Communications

A year-long experiment in a wet tropical forest found that 4 oC of warming boosted soil CO2 emissions by 42-204%. These high rates suggest tropical soils may release more carbon under future warming t...

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 16d

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Cutting down the Amazon will bring extreme rain, wind and heat

We used to think that deforestation in the Amazon would dry out the local climate, but the effects may be even more extreme and varied

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 19d

NEW – Growing trees for shade has ‘enormous’ potential for cutting cocoa emissions | @yaninequiroz.bsky.social

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Growing trees for shade has ‘enormous’ potential for cutting cocoa emissions - Carbon Brief

Growing tall trees to provide shade for cocoa plantations in west Africa could sequester millions of tonnes of carbon, according to a new study.

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 20d

www.nature.com/articles/s41... "...Our analysis reveals a widespread decline in human-directed disturbances alongside a countervailing surge in less controllable, undirected ‘wild’ disturbances (fire, wind/geohazard and vegetation stress), which account for 24% of the total disturbed area..."

A shift from human-directed to undirected wild land disturbances in the USA - Nature Geoscience

Direct human impact on land disturbances in the USA is declining, while less controllable, undirected wild disturbances are increasing, according to a long-term record of high-resolution satellite ima...

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 21d

Across 97% of forest area from eight million sampled forested locations, the density of aboveground biomass is lower near forest edges than in forest interiors. This edge effect is estimated to be responsible for 9% reduction in forest aboveground biomass.🧪🌲🌴🌳

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A globally consistent negative effect of edge on aboveground forest biomass - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Across 97% of forest area from eight million sampled forested locations worldwide, the density of aboveground biomass is lower near forest edges than in forest interiors. Given widespread forest fragm...

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Emilio Vilanova @evilanova.bsky.social · 21d

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Brazil’s Bold Climate Finance Plan Could End Tropical Deforestation

The $125 billion Tropical Forest Forever Facility has the potential to end tropical deforestation. The business community has an essential role in making this happen.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 23d

Between 2002 and 2015, forest loss in Brazil’s southern Amazon reduced the amount of rainfall during the dry season by more than 5%, a recent study found.

Researchers found that a reduction in forest cover reduced evapotranspiration and disrupted regional atmospheric systems.

More deforestation leads to a drier dry season, Amazon study finds

In Brazil’s southern Amazonian region, where the notorious “arc of deforestation” has been expanding since the 1970s, forest loss is reshaping the region’s atmospheric water cycle. As the Amazon…

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Communications Earth & Environment @commsearth.nature.com · 26d

🌳🦟Indigenous territory extent in the Amazon biome can reduce the incidence of fire-related and zoonotic/vector-borne diseases in humans.

👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Indigenous Territories can safeguard human health depending on the landscape structure and legal status - Communications Earth & Environment

Indigenous territory extent in the Amazon biome can reduce the incidence of fire-related and zoonotic/vector-borne diseases, but only in certain contexts, according to an analysis of disease incidence...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Sep 9

Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪

This is figure 4, which shows the relative contributions of climate change and deforestation to the Amazonian climate.

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