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selenebaez.bsky.social
@selenebaez.bsky.social
Tropical forest ecologist
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Evidence-based #restoration #indicators for #Amazonian forests. I wonder how many restoration projects are actually monitoring trajectories beyong the initial 3-5 years..., let alone 20!

www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Simple ecological indicators benchmark regeneration success of Amazonian forests - Communications Earth & Environment
Optimal regeneration success in Amazonian forests is mapped by simple ecological indicators, providing reference values for measuring restoration success across successional stages based on a large co...
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December 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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📰Published📰Night shift: how nocturnal mammals quietly shape forest networks🌙

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Night shift: how nocturnal mammals quietly shape forest networks
Wande Li, Ingo Grass, Chen Zhu, Thomas Hiller, Yao Shen, Ping Ding, Xingfeng Si This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology research article which can be found here. Have you ever wond…
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December 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Extra CO2 stimulates #photosynthesis of trees and reduces water losses through transpiration. But does that stimulate growth of #tree stems? Our paper today in NatClimateChange led by Quan Zhang uses theory & data to show that strong growth stimulation is unlikely.🌎🌐🍁
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increased efficiency of water use does not stimulate tree productivity - Nature Climate Change
The authors theoretically delineate the maximal increases in tree growth that can be expected from increases in plant intrinsic water-use efficiency, which increases with rising CO2. They highlight en...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Descubren cuatro nuevas especies de plantas en el Parque Nacional Yanachaga Chemillén 🇵🇪
El descubrimiento de estas plantas, que no existen en ningún otro lugar del planeta, resalta el valor de los últimos refugios biológicos en los Andes.

www.actualidadambiental.pe/pasco-descub...
Pasco: descubren cuatro nuevas especies de plantas en el Parque Nacional Yanachaga Chemillén
En los bosques montanos húmedos de la Reserva de Biósfera [...]
www.actualidadambiental.pe
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Todos tenemos raíces profundas.

Este fascinante artículo repasa el trabajo de RAINFOR en Venezuela y conecta 200 años de historia de exploradores del río Negro y el Amazonas, entre ellos von Humboldt, Bonpland, Spruce, Wallace, Medina y Rafael Herrera Fernández.
www.meer.com/es/95997-ric...
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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in "General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally", we provide key insights into species’ vulnerability to environmental change and the processes that structure biodiversity at global scales.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally | PNAS
A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Another new species discovered in Peru, in Parque Nacional Yanachaga-Chemillén. The type specimen of 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑚 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑚 was collected by Marco Cueva, Abel Monteagudo, Antonio Peña and colleagues working in the Yanachaga RAINFOR montane forest plots.
doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM