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Fernando T. Maestre @ftmaestre.bsky.social · 1d

In #drylands, plants don’t grow randomly — they self-organize into disordered hyperuniform patterns that help them use water wisely & endure extreme aridity. A beautiful hidden logic of nature, revealed in a new @pnas.org study doi.org/10.1073/pnas... including #Maestrelab alumni

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · 2d

Our new perspective on what TLS can (& can't) do in forest research www.nature.com/articles/s41... - led by Eduardo Maeda w lots of great colleagues including @kimcalders.bsky.social @emilyrlines.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social @benjaminbrede.bsky.social (apols for any I don;t have @ for)

Expanding forest research with terrestrial LiDAR technology - Nature Communications

This Review highlights how terrestrial laser scanning is transforming forest research by enabling highly detailed 3D measurements of trees, supporting applications in forest ecology, carbon monitoring, and biodiversity assessment.

www.nature.com

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 2d

New paper led by @davide-andreatta.bsky.social reveals complex patterns in how plant phenology is changing across Europe's mountain ranges and what this means for ecosystem productivity 🌐🧪🍁

davide-andreatta.bsky.social @davide-andreatta.bsky.social · 2d

Our analysis of 23 years of satellite data (2001-2023) 🛰️ across Europe's major mountain ranges 🏔️ reveals that global change🥵 is driving elevation-dependent phenological shifts 📈—but these changes don't translate straightforwardly into productivity gains☘️🍀.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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davide-andreatta.bsky.social @davide-andreatta.bsky.social · 2d

Our analysis of 23 years of satellite data (2001-2023) 🛰️ across Europe's major mountain ranges 🏔️ reveals that global change🥵 is driving elevation-dependent phenological shifts 📈—but these changes don't translate straightforwardly into productivity gains☘️🍀.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Anna R Landim @annarl.bsky.social · 7d

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...

www.cell.com

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 8d

🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting 1/1/26

Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈

👉 tinyurl.com/2w2we5z8

#Ecology #Jobs #Biodiversity #RStats

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Drew Peltier @peltierdrew.bsky.social · 8d

1st pub from Phd student Alicia Formanack synthesizing tree ring widths in drought-killed trees to show that, nope, there are no universal patterns. We present a framework combining previously described syndromes: flashy, decoupled, or declining?🌏🌐
doi.org/10.1111/nph....
@newphyt.bsky.social

Flashy, decoupled, or declining? Single theories fail to explain the diversity of drought mortality signals in tree rings

Growth patterns recorded in tree rings may predict drought ‘winners’ and ‘losers’. Past studies of drought-killed trees have produced conflicting evidence. Some show killed trees were highly respons...

doi.org

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Alice Gauthey @a-gthy.bsky.social · 8d

New PhD position in tree ecophysiology at BiFoR-FACE (Uni of Birmingham) 🌳 Looking at tree carbon and water dynamics under elevated CO2 and warming 🌡️
Start Jan 2026. See more info here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/376950

Doctoral Research Fellow - FutureForests - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - 106218 - Grade 7

Position Details School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK Fixed salary of £49,747 additional allowances may be applicable depe...

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 9d

Meet Lucy Rowland, featured in our latest #profile article

👤 buff.ly/lYx8IFx

#drought #rainforests #savannas #woodyplants

Lucy Rowland, University of Exeter (UK)

nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Sabina Burrascano @sabina-burrascano.bsky.social · 16d

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/...

Sustainable forest planning: Assessing biodiversity effects of Triad zoning based on empirical data and virtual landscapes | PNAS

The Triad framework seeks to balance the economic and ecological functions in forested landscapes by combining intensively, extensively, and unmana...

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Sally Aitken 🇨🇦 @sallyaitken.bsky.social · 13d

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

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Dr. Mariana García Criado @nanitundra.bsky.social · 17d

🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲

Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization.

doi.org/10.1111/ele....

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Illustration of a branch of Betula glandulosa (Resin birch). Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social).

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · 19d

Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...

Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks

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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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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 21d

#oneforjournalclub

Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 21d

What is the cost of wildfire, windthrow and bark beetles for Europe’s forestry? We estimate that disturbances reduce Europe’s forest value by €115 bn, more than doubling to €247 bn under severe climate change. Led by @johannesmohr.bsky.social, out in @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 21d

What is the cost of wildfire, windthrow and bark beetles for Europe’s forestry? We estimate that disturbances reduce Europe’s forest value by €115 bn, more than doubling to €247 bn under severe climate change. Led by @johannesmohr.bsky.social, out in @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 23d

I'll be speaking at the upcoming RAINFORESTS FUTURES event in Exeter on 2nd Oct, an evening of talks about the future of temperate rainforests in the Westcountry. Other speakers from the Woodland Trust, Natural England & Thousand Year Trust

Tickets here: www.exetercornexchange.co.uk/whats-on/rai...

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Dr Chris Clements @expecocons.bsky.social · 23d

📢 new publiction led by @francescocerini.bsky.social in Ecology

We look at how press vs. pulse disturbances effect population collapse and how predictable that collapse is 🧪🔬

@duncanobrien.bsky.social @dzchilds.bsky.social

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Multivariate signals of population collapse in a high‐throughput ecological experiment

Anticipating population declines is a crucial goal of conservation ecology. Recent conceptual work suggests that populations facing growing stressors should exhibit sequential shifts in behavior, mor....

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social · 25d

Calling all ecological citizens! Forest of Imagination is a creative ecosystem of meaningful action in response to the ecological emergency. Join us! Please help if you can. Pls share!
💚🌿🌳🦉🐝🦫🍀🦋 @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social
localgiving.org/fundraising/...

Frances Gynn
Public Erasure
Forest of Imagination: Inviting the public to erase pencil drawings of hedgehogs to elicit ecological empathy ❤️🦔

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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 27d

Convocatoria GEOTREES geo-trees.org
Ofrece oportunidades de trabajo en los sitios GEOTREES para estudiantes e investigadores en sus inicios de carrera. Más información aquí.
geo-trees.org/downloads/GE...

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 28d

Super awesome new paper in #MEE describing #causal #detection of shifts in #biodiversity! So many great insights here—a must read for those interested in #causalinference

And love Fig 3! Congrats team! @lsantinieco.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/2041...

DAGs showing confounding, mediator and collider variables

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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · Sep 9

Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Forest Monitoring

Company Description: Western Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led institution at the heart of Australia’s fastest-growing and most economically significant region. With 11 cam...

jobs.smartrecruiters.com

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Sep 9

Arthur Yambayamba's first PhD chapter is out today @biotropica.bsky.social 🍾

Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐

📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · Sep 8

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

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Peter Petrík @peterpetrik94.bsky.social · Sep 9

New research just dropped! Revisiting Paradigms Related to Root Hydraulic Limitation Under Drought is now available—challenging classic hydraulic-fuse models and outdated assumptions about root embolism, xylem safety-efficiency trade-offs, and ABA signalling. doi.org/10.1007/124_...

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