Gabriela H. Villani
@ghvillani.bsky.social
Environmental Engineer 👷🏻♀️
MSc Plant Biology 🌳
MSc Plant Biology 🌳
Very interesting research about gaps in tropical sciences to reflect about scientific bias in the tropics 💭🌳🌍
As a GIS enthusiast, I particularly loved the maps 🗺️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
As a GIS enthusiast, I particularly loved the maps 🗺️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gaps in tropical science from unrepresentative distribution of sampling and citation across natural terrestrial environments - Nature Communications
Research in the tropics is unevenly distributed across regions and biomes. Here, the authors find that moist broadleaf forests account for 73% of all tropical citations but cover 29% of the land area,...
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December 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Very interesting research about gaps in tropical sciences to reflect about scientific bias in the tropics 💭🌳🌍
As a GIS enthusiast, I particularly loved the maps 🗺️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
As a GIS enthusiast, I particularly loved the maps 🗺️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Gabriela H. Villani
Who runs the forest? Microbes. Our new paper shows soil microbiomes outweigh the effects of elevated CO2 on Scots pine growth, and differences in soil microbiomes influence how plants grow and respond to elevated CO2.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Soil microbial community differences drive variation in Pinus sylvestris physiology, productivity, and responses to elevated CO2 - Environmental Microbiome
Background Soil microbial communities can affect plant nutrient uptake, productivity, and may even confer resistance to global change. Elevated atmospheric CO2 is widely expected to stimulate plant pr...
link.springer.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Who runs the forest? Microbes. Our new paper shows soil microbiomes outweigh the effects of elevated CO2 on Scots pine growth, and differences in soil microbiomes influence how plants grow and respond to elevated CO2.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Reposted by Gabriela H. Villani
How do trees respond to #climatechange? The 16 glass chambers of the Model Ecosystem Facility (MODOEK) on the #WSL campus contain miniature ecosystems.
More information on this can be found in the current WSL magazine #DIAGONAL 2/25: www.dora.lib4ri.ch/wsl/islandor...
📷️ H. Liu, WSL
More information on this can be found in the current WSL magazine #DIAGONAL 2/25: www.dora.lib4ri.ch/wsl/islandor...
📷️ H. Liu, WSL
December 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
How do trees respond to #climatechange? The 16 glass chambers of the Model Ecosystem Facility (MODOEK) on the #WSL campus contain miniature ecosystems.
More information on this can be found in the current WSL magazine #DIAGONAL 2/25: www.dora.lib4ri.ch/wsl/islandor...
📷️ H. Liu, WSL
More information on this can be found in the current WSL magazine #DIAGONAL 2/25: www.dora.lib4ri.ch/wsl/islandor...
📷️ H. Liu, WSL
Reposted by Gabriela H. Villani
We’ve found a new species of fungus! 🍄
Rugososporomyces from the Windyfield Chert, a Scottish fossil site that preserves an ancient wetland ecosystem in extraordinary detail!
Find out all about this 400-million-year-old fungus 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Rugososporomyces from the Windyfield Chert, a Scottish fossil site that preserves an ancient wetland ecosystem in extraordinary detail!
Find out all about this 400-million-year-old fungus 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Ancient fossil reveals how plants and fungi first developed on land | Natural History Museum
A new fossil fungus discovered in Scotland shows evidence of plants and fungi sharing nutrients to survive on land.
www.nhm.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We’ve found a new species of fungus! 🍄
Rugososporomyces from the Windyfield Chert, a Scottish fossil site that preserves an ancient wetland ecosystem in extraordinary detail!
Find out all about this 400-million-year-old fungus 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Rugososporomyces from the Windyfield Chert, a Scottish fossil site that preserves an ancient wetland ecosystem in extraordinary detail!
Find out all about this 400-million-year-old fungus 👇
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...
Reposted by Gabriela H. Villani
I am the guest at BBC Climate Question this week. Check it out 👇
Why do we need the Amazon — and what happens if it disappears? 🌳
ECI researcher Dr @erikaberenguer.bsky.social joins the BBC’s Climate Question to discuss the future of the world’s largest rainforest.
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/4ZkE...
#AmazonRainforest #ClimateChange
ECI researcher Dr @erikaberenguer.bsky.social joins the BBC’s Climate Question to discuss the future of the world’s largest rainforest.
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/4ZkE...
#AmazonRainforest #ClimateChange
November 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I am the guest at BBC Climate Question this week. Check it out 👇
Reposted by Gabriela H. Villani
Brazil’s official data show deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the 12 months to July 2025, with independent monitoring by Imazon confirming a similar trend—evidence that policies under President Lula da Silva are reversing the sharp rise seen during Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.
Heading into COP, Brazil’s Amazon deforestation rate is falling. What about fires?
As the world’s attention turns toward COP30 in Belém next month, the story of Brazil’s Amazon is shifting—though not quite in a straightforward way. According to the government’s satellite-based...
news.mongabay.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Brazil’s official data show deforestation in the Amazon fell 11% in the 12 months to July 2025, with independent monitoring by Imazon confirming a similar trend—evidence that policies under President Lula da Silva are reversing the sharp rise seen during Jair Bolsonaro’s administration.
Reposted by Gabriela H. Villani
This is really something: using the longest available data (1971–2019) and disentangling causal influences, a tropical forest is shown to have flipped from a carbon sink to a carbon source due to increasingly extreme temperatures & cyclones!!!
🚨 New in @nature.com: Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source.
Led by Hannah Carle, with @umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @umdscience.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social @creaf.cat
👉 nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09497-8
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Led by Hannah Carle, with @umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @umdscience.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social @creaf.cat
👉 nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09497-8
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Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature
A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.
nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This is really something: using the longest available data (1971–2019) and disentangling causal influences, a tropical forest is shown to have flipped from a carbon sink to a carbon source due to increasingly extreme temperatures & cyclones!!!
Reposted by Gabriela H. Villani
Could fungi help us tackle plastic pollution, protect crops, and discover life-saving medicines? 🍄🧬
New Scientist has just spotlighted Kew’s cutting-edge fungal research - from unravelling DNA in our world-leading Fungarium to finding fungi that can digest plastic and fight disease 🧵👇
New Scientist has just spotlighted Kew’s cutting-edge fungal research - from unravelling DNA in our world-leading Fungarium to finding fungi that can digest plastic and fight disease 🧵👇
October 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Could fungi help us tackle plastic pollution, protect crops, and discover life-saving medicines? 🍄🧬
New Scientist has just spotlighted Kew’s cutting-edge fungal research - from unravelling DNA in our world-leading Fungarium to finding fungi that can digest plastic and fight disease 🧵👇
New Scientist has just spotlighted Kew’s cutting-edge fungal research - from unravelling DNA in our world-leading Fungarium to finding fungi that can digest plastic and fight disease 🧵👇
Reposted by Gabriela H. Villani
Nighttime Warming Enhances Tree Growth in Temperate Tree Species
Nighttime Warming Enhances Tree Growth in Temperate Tree Species
Moderate night warming (+2°C) enhances radial growth via faster cell expansion, but daytime(night +4°C) warming weakens benefits. Ring-porous, arbuscular mycorrhizal and isohydric species show heig...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Nighttime Warming Enhances Tree Growth in Temperate Tree Species
Reposted by Gabriela H. Villani
Reposted by Gabriela H. Villani
Air pollutants, biodiversity loss, and climate stress - the pressures on forests have changed. Long-term measurements are crucial for identifying impacts at an early stage. They are a basis for forest management and environmental policy. @waldwissen.bsky.social: www.waldwissen.net/en/technique...
Forest ecosystems in transition: the findings of 40 years of research
Air pollutants, biodiversity loss, climate stress - the pressures on forests have changed. Long-term measurements are essential to identify the effects at an early stage. The resulting data forms a ba...
www.waldwissen.net
September 17, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Air pollutants, biodiversity loss, and climate stress - the pressures on forests have changed. Long-term measurements are crucial for identifying impacts at an early stage. They are a basis for forest management and environmental policy. @waldwissen.bsky.social: www.waldwissen.net/en/technique...