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!

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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

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

>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

West-east gradient across Amazonia in fast-slow life history strategies of forests beautifully illustrated by new ATDN paper; forests are 'fast' in the west and 'slow' in the northeast of Amazonia doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Our new paper at rdcu.be/d84EE shows that wherever you are in the tropics, a 'live fast, die young' strategy drives higher species richness amongst the tree flora, made possible by the wonderful community carefully measuring trees across the tropics, underpinned by ForestPlots.net and CTFS-ForestGeo