“Spain declared a national emergency, the first time the country has ever done so over a wildfire. France’s evacuations constituted “probably” the biggest peacetime evacuation the country has ever seen, its interior minister said.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

More than 250,000 people flee wildfires in France and Spain

Hundreds of firefighters battle blazes as strong winds drive fires towards Bordeaux and smoke prompts health warnings in Madrid

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Los BRIF de @miteco.gob.es de Iglesuela, Puerto el Pico Y Pinofranqueado están trabajando intensamente en Casavieja, Piedralaves y Navahondilla, defendiendo poblaciones frente al #IFBurgohondo en #Ávila. Mi reconocimiento a su profesionalidad y entrega, siempre en primera línea. Imágenes de AT BRIF

Con estas temperaturas y olas de calor que estamos viviendo actualmente, casi cualquier tipo de vegetación puede arder. El verano pasado vimos incendios incluso bosques de hayas (Fagus sylvatica): jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2026/06/30/f...

Eastern Old-Growth Forests Are More Than Old Trees I'll be talking about eastern US Old-Growth Forests in Greenwich, CT on Thursday, August 6th and leading a forest walk the next morning, Friday, August 7th. You can register here: greenwichtreeconservancy.org/upcoming-eve...

Fantastic postdoc fellowship opportunity: UCAR's Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is now seeking applications "from across the full breadth of disciplines contributing to Climate and Global Change Science." Find a US-based mentor and apply! cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc/annual-r...

NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship applications are now open! cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc/annual-r... I was one about 350 years ago, and cannot not speakly highly enough of this program. Applications due October 16, 2026

💻🌳 #OpenPosition! PhD in #Ecology or a related field? Strong skills in #Macroecology, #StatisticalEcology and #Coding with R/Python/GIT? Our Dynamic Macroecology group is offering a position for a scientist in ecological modelling and analysis: apply.refline.ch/273855/1878/... #ScienceJobs 💻🌳

We are currently recruiting an Independent Junior Research Group Leader in the field of biotic and/or abiotic stress biology in plants at the University of Göttingen (starting in January 2027). www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht... Best, Salma Balazadeh & Volker Lipka

On the relationship between root economics and plant hydraulic traits Sanaei et al. @anvarsanaei.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌊 ¿Qué nos revelan los ecosistemas marinos sobre el cambio global? 🌎 Acompáñanos en el próximo webinar de #ConcienciaEnLasAméricas! 🗓 15 julio 2026 | 12 PM ET 💬 Más info y Youtube link: forms.gle/nw82G1cF88Y8... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social #LatinasInSTEM

I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

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BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…

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PhD position available: Predicting impacts of extreme heat on Australian forests The world is heating up and forests are starting to show the effects. Like maths? Love trees? Apply your skills to help understand and adapt vegetation to heat extremes! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

Researchers compared “simulations of the Community Land Model (CLM) to a statistical model built on dendrometer observations, showing that CLM underestimates decreases to growth under elevated VPD by a factor of 2–3” agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Land Models Likely Underestimate the Impact of Future Atmospheric Dryness on European Tree Growth

The land absorbs one third of human CO2 emissions, making it critical to understand how tree growth will respond to climate change Drier air reduces photosynthesis and the processes of cell divis...

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New publication led by Postdoc Thomas Muratore on a long-term soil warming and N addition experiment @harvardforest.bsky.social together with an amazing group of collaborators and trainees (including @ncharisoil.bsky.social, Grady Welsh, Serita Frey, Benton Taylor and TWO REU students)

New Phytologist@newphyt.bsky.social · last mo.

How do trees change the carbon they release belowground as forests warm? Muratore et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JZIATM...

Yup. Without warning this morning Columbia University decided that no-cost adjuncts (like me and Ben) at LDEO weren’t wanted anymore.

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/6) Mechanisms and scales in modeling forest responses to changing disturbance regimes nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

Tomorrow marks the start of the major annual conference for tropical biologists and those of us based at Florida’s public universities can’t attend because doing so would violate state law. www.atbc2026.org

Unprecedented Amazonian rainforest damage during the 2023–2024 droughts ... "...these forests are approaching the limits of their preindustrial operating space." 🧪🌾🌐https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2514066123

Unprecedented Amazonian rainforests damage during the 2023–2024 droughts | PNAS

Between 2023 and 2024, Amazonian rainforests experienced two consecutive, record-breaking droughts—each more intense than any previously observed—y...

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@geovegub.bsky.social is at #IAVS2026 this week with four talks and a poster on mire, snowbed and tundra vegetation!🌱🌾🪻🏔️ (1/4)

🚀 Nueva app: temperaturas diarias en España 🇪🇸🌡️ Estoy encantado de compartir mi última app: 👉 bioclim-mbg.shinyapps.io/spain-daily-... Permite explorar de forma interactiva las temperaturas diarias en España. #dataviz #clima #oladecalor

New paper on sampling for vessel traits in wood anatomical studies! A short 🧵... Wood anatomical traits can provide great info on ecophysiology, ecology, and evolution but it takes a lot of painstaking work to quantify them! academic.oup.com/aob/advance-... @juliavtavares.bsky.social

How much cross-sectional area is needed to estimate vessel traits in tropical tree branches?

AbstractBackground and Aims. Wood anatomical traits provide key insights to plant physiology, ecology, and evolution but their quantification is time-consu

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📰Published📰Wood anatomical trait correlations with hydraulic efficiency and safety in an a seasonal wet tropical forest🌳 buff.ly/FF5YuqR 🧪🌍️

Wood anatomical trait correlations with hydraulic efficiency and safety in an a seasonal wet tropical forest

Julia Valentim Tavares, Samuel L. Farrar, Chris M. Smith-Martin, Silvia Bibbo, Kasia Ziemińska, Farah Brenda Solis Petz, María Uriarte, Jess K. Zimmerman, Robert Muscarella This is a plain language…

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Now in summer, we can confirm that a large part of the beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests that burned in low‑intensity understory fires have died. This constitutes a clear case of a low‑intensity, high‑severity fire (I had expected bsky.app/profile/jgpa...) 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🪴 wildfires Picos de Europa, N Spain

juli g pausas@jgpausas.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Another novel disturbance: fire affecting beech (Fagus sylvatica) forests. It burned at low intensity (surface fire), but it is likely to have high-severity effects. Barniedo fire 8/2025, Riaño, León, Spain 🧪🌍🔥🌳🍁🪴🌱 wildfire

I am hiring! My former postdocs have all gone on to great ongoing roles, so I am now looking for 2 new postdocs in dynamic vegetation modelling: Modelling vegetation-fire interactions in Australia Modelling Australian vegetation distributions Details linked below - please share!

No doubt these times have broadly, though not completely, sped up the ecology of ecosystem processes. A result like this, I suspect, if conducted in prior centuries, might be expected in a kind of pulsed or episodic dynamic. Global change, in a way, makes this somewhat moot, though if synced…🤯

Neil Pederson@yellowbuckeye.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Accelerated tree mortality after a half-century of stability in an old-growth forest: Insights from a 72-year study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are living in the Hellocene

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · last mo.

Dangerous and potentially historic extreme heat is forecast to impact parts of western Europe this week. We already know that these temperatures are made at least 5x more likely due to human-caused climate change. Stay safe! Explore the attribution data at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

We will soon be advertising a 3-year postdoctoral position at Bristol aimed at enhancing our modelling capacity to better characterise vegetation recovery & legacy effects following fire. Please keep us in mind if this is your speciality 😀 🔥🌳 🌱

Reading in journal club: Defining and protecting old-growth soils @frantecol.bsky.social writing in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...