🥁New paper on microclimate vulnerability under changing climate 🌦️ & forest structure 🌳. Forest structure can buffer or amplify climate warming! Congrats to Joanna Lumbsden-Pinto @sunyesf.bsky.social, @brookhavenlab.bsky.social, @sunyofficial.bsky.social. 🌐🌍

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Attribution of vegetation change to climate change: here we compared vegetation time series to simulations from a process model forced with observed and counterfactual (detrended) climate data. Trends in climate necessary for the model to emulate vegetation trends www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3

We are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs

Thanks to you for participating so actively and for your insightful work!!!

Just out in PNAS!

We used multi-taxon data to model virtual forest landscapes.

Forest withdrawn from timber harvesting are needed in a much higher share than they currently are in Europe, and extensive forests contribute less than expected to multi-taxon diversity.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Linking grazing regimes to flower traits we found that extensive grazing enhances flower traits crucial for insect pollinators. 🐄🐑🌸🏵🐝🦋

An even local grazing pressure drives taxonomic and functional diversity and enhances the support to insect pollinators.

Article here: 👇👇👇

doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

Fire regimes in sub-Mediterranean areas negatively affect deciduous shrub and tree species while favouring Mediterranean herbs & low shrubs, blurring the differences between Mediterranean and sub-Mediterranean areas. See post by Sabina Burrascano: vegsciblog.org/2025/07/25/f... @iavs5.bsky.social

🔥Fire frequency and severity impacts the sub-Mediterranean pseudomaquis, favouring strictly Mediterranean species.

Read our article here

dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvs....

Changes in abundance and distribution of European forest bird populations depend on biome, ecological specialisation and traits vist.ly/3mytx8e #Birds #HabitatDegradation #ClimateChange

Soil property maps for Europe at 100 m resolution released by ISRIC - World Soil Information in the framework of the EU HoliSoils project to inform forest management and policies.
holisoils.eu/soil-propert...
🧪🌍👇🌲🌳
#soilscience #soilhealth #soilmapping #forestsoil

‼️ Are you into aquatic #EcosystemServices, Nature-Based Solutions, hydrology, or nutrient retention?

I'm hiring a #Postdoc to join our @Water4AllEU CREATE project!

🗓️ Apply by 27/03/2025
📢 Spread the word!

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🚨 #job🚨: The Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, is hiring a full-tenure Professor in silviculture.

📅 Deadline: 29 April 2025
🗺️ Location: Umeå, Sweden

➡️https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/jobs-vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=12044&rmlang=UK

Outcome of a #Cost #Bottoms-Up collaboration!

#MarcoBasile led a study demonstrating:
- hump-shaped relationship between non-native beetle and #plant species richness;
- the proportion of non-native #beetles is higher in managed than in unmanaged #forests.

Read it here:
doi.org/10.1111/1365...

🎄Last publication of the year for the COST Bottoms-Up (www.bottoms-up.eu/en/)

Critical evaluation of how much European countries are using a triad scheme by both sharing and sparing in forest management planning

Spoiler 😈: not much!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Tks #TomNagel for leading this

10 microclimate guidelines, a paper led by @pieterdefrenne.bsky.social to which I also contributed to, is just published!

It was a great experience as the most of the idea generating and also a lot of writing was done in a collaborative workshop.

Do #ForestEurope indicators work for #biodiversity?

We tested them against field-sampled multi-taxon data (a lot of them!) and ...

only some of them moderately relate to species richness!

Read the recent article led by #YoanPaillet

doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Time for a data-driven revision!

Can you please add me?

Could you qdd me please?

The @FORESTEUROPE proposed indicators for forest biodiversity show only weak correlations with site-level species richness across a few taxa.
Insights from @Cost_BottomspUp, led by #YoanPaillet

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