I’m honored and grateful to receive this year’s ESA Emerging Ecologist Award. This is only possible because of the support of my family and the mentors, collaborators, mentees, and friends I’ve been fortunate to learn from and work with

Ecological Society of America@ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🏆 ESA is proud to announce its 2026 award recipients, honoring outstanding contributions to ecology through research, teaching, mentorship, sustainability, and service Learn more about the award recipients in our full announcement: https://ow.ly/WYZX50YVyJI

💡We're still looking for proposals for our special feature with @jappliedecology.bsky.social and @funecology.bsky.social! 🪲This special feature will focus on how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions. Find out more 👉️ buff.ly/RtmeWgE

⏳ Two weeks left to apply to our Summer School, and benefit from the early-bird rate! Don’t miss this opportunity to join us for a week of inspiring lectures and discussions with an exceptional community of researchers - all set in the beautiful Pyrenees ⛰️ ☀️ We look forward to welcoming you! 🧪🌐

Institut Natura e Teoria ※ Pireneus (INTP)@intp-science.bsky.social · 6mo ago

☀️ 2026 Summer School in the Pyrenees - Unifying Mathematical Models of Biodiversity Applications are now open! This school offers a state-of-the-art overview for interdisciplinary theoreticians. 🗓️ July 5-11 🎯 PhD students to senior researchers ℹ️ intp.science/en/summer26.... 📭 contact@intp.science 🌐🧪

University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...

🌲 Very happy to share our new study on where, when, and why trees die across the range of 3 major southern US pines: Pinus taeda, P. palustris, and P. elliottii (loblolly, longleaf, and slash pine). 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb.70141 @ird-fr.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social @ulbrecherche.bsky.social 🧵1/9

Mosaic of Size‐Dependent Mortality in Three Ecologically and Economically Important Pine Species Reveals Patterns Across Space and Time

Aim Global forests face increasing stresses from novel climate states, altered disturbance regimes and the spread of pests and pathogens. Understanding where and when mortality occurs across species...

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Benchmarking nine vegetation demographic models: what works, what doesn’t, what’s next... @annemarie-es.bsky.social @george.hurtt.bsky.social ‪

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · 10mo ago

#Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by Eckes-Shephard et al. @WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience

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!!!

David Bauman@davbauman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 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 [1/5]

We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time 📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....

Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!

It turns out we shouldn't expect #eDNA to capture local diversity/composition of tropical trees but rather broad patterns across regions. Together with a fairly coarse taxonomic resolution, the utility of eDNA for biodiversity monitoring of tropical forest trees is probably limited.

Ever wonder about what spatial scale of biodiversity #eDNA 🧬 samples capture? We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity. (Please share with #eDNA folks!) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Our previous work in #AmacayacuFDP forest shows that small changes in topography drive 1️⃣ tree species distr. doi.org/10.1007/s111... 2️⃣ drought-related #treemortality doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... 3️⃣ and some (not all) branch, leaf & stomatal traits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... But...

Congratulations to Ecosystems HRA, Sandra Díaz, for winning the 2025 Tyler Prize! Sandra's research has changed the way we understand biodiversity, ecosystems, and the deep ties between humans and nature. Watch this short film on Sandra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKy... @naturerecovery.bsky.social

Sandra Díaz, winner of the Tyler Prize 2025

YouTube video by Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

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Only two weeks left to apply! The deadline is April 27 #tropical #forests #treemortality

Daniel Zuleta@danielfzuleta.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 Job Alert! 🌳 Looking for a 2-yr postdoc (ext. up to 3 yrs) to join me at U. of Gothenburg to study links between environmental drivers, tree conditions (e.g., #treedamage), and physiological processes leading to #tropical #treemortality. Apply by: April 17th Details below

Woody respiration is an important but unconstrained process in the forest carbon cycle. @mariabmills.bsky.social made real progress in Malaysian Borneo using lasers and climbing giants, so that you don't have to! She came away with great insights. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Investigating the accuracy of tropical woody stem CO2 efflux estimates: scaling methods, and vertical and diel variation

Stem CO2 efflux (EA) significantly contributes to autotrophic and ecosystem respiration in tropical forests, but field methodologies often introduce biases and uncertainty. This study evaluates thes...

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Insights Into Ecology, Evolution and Global Change Responses From Very Long-Term Studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌐🧪🌾

Insights Into Ecology, Evolution and Global Change Responses From Very Long‐Term Studies

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Just a few days left to apply for this #technician position in my group! Like #forests? #Data? #Python? Working outside? Come and help support our research using high resolution #remotesensing #lidar data to study #forests 👇 Please share!

Emily Lines @emilyrlines.bsky.social · last yr.

I am #hiring! Do you like #lidar #data and #forests? Enjoy both computational & field work? I am hiring a Computational and Field Senior Technician to join my UKRI FLF project team for 2 yrs, based in Cambridge, UK (not remote). More details here (closing April 7th) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50700/

@vetenskapsradet.bsky.social is opening a new grant to attract researchers from outside Europe to come to Sweden! The call opens in mid-April but some details are already online: www.vr.se/english/just...

Super useful video library to liven up your presentations …

IPBES@ipbes.net · last yr.

Looking for high quality free videos?🎥 Introducing: Open Planet! 🧪🌍 A rich free-to-use video library to help storytellers create impactful content for our planet. Find world-class footage to tell your stories about #biodiversity & nature ⤵️🌿 openplanet.org #ForNature

INPA procura candidato(a) para pós-doutorado no Projeto “Integrando a hidrologia do solo e características hidráulicas para entender os riscos de mortalidade às secas das árvores gigantes” com o projeto “GIGANTE” (www.caryinstitute.org/science/rese...). @treeco-db.bsky.social @evangora.bsky.social

📢 Job Alert! 🌳 Looking for a 2-yr postdoc (ext. up to 3 yrs) to join me at U. of Gothenburg to study links between environmental drivers, tree conditions (e.g., #treedamage), and physiological processes leading to #tropical #treemortality. Apply by: April 17th Details below

Had an amazing time visiting Uppsala @uu.se this week. Thanks to @bobmuscarella.bsky.social for the invitation—you have a fantastic group and are an inspiring supervisor!

Bob Muscarella@bobmuscarella.bsky.social · last yr.

Very happy to have @danielfzuleta.bsky.social visit in Uppsala! His seminar on tropical tree mortality highlighted tons of fascinating work with #ForestGEO, @ngeetropics.bsky.social, @forestplots.bsky.social and others. Great examples of how to work well with big teams on big questions in ecology!

Job announcement! Come work with us as Assoc Sr Lecturer in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Tenure track for someone with broad remote sensing & machine learning knowledge. Work with climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV... Deadline 10 May tinyurl.com/58ft38du

Almost there! We're 94% done with the 4th full census of the 25ha Amacayacu Forest Dynamics Plot (#AmacayacuFDP) in the Colombian Amazon! 🌳 Remeasuring 130K trees wouldn’t be possible without the incredible support of UNAL students, Sinchi & the Palmeras Indigenous community—THANK YOU! 🙌"

We quantify, map and analyse wood density across tropical South America. Our analysis led by Martin Sullivan refines the east-west Amazon gradient in wood density, improves it by revealing much finer variation, & extends predictions to Andean, Dry & Atlantic forests. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @forestplots.bsky.social

Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change

Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...

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Our new paper and software tool PointsToWood is out! Led by Harry Owen and Targeted at high performance for small branches, PointsToWood performs #deeplearning enabled leaf-wood semantic segmentation of high resolution #TLS point clouds. 🌿 🌲 🌳 👇performance on unseen tropical data

As someone long interested in latitudinal gradient in forest diversity and dynamics it’s been really gratifying to see this paper come together over time- looking forward to the new research on forest dynamics I think this will inspire!

Nature@nature.com · last yr.

Nature research paper: Latitudinal scaling of aggregation with abundance and coexistence in forests https://go.nature.com/3CUTWWg

To all PhD-, Master- and Bachelor students in ecological modeling: Consider applying for this year's Young Modellers in Ecology (#YoMos) workshop in Ilmenau, Germany and exchange with enthusiastic young modellers in ecology! Would be great to see you there!

If you want to understand what's happening in European forests in terms of harvests, take a look at this! I’m so glad to finally have out our results quantifying harvest events from forest inventory data across 11 European countries. doi.org/10.1029/2024...