Some more good news for the Sentinel-2 mission! Sentinel-2A, which recently retired, has been given a temporary extension, where it will support S2B and S2C to provide additional data. Lots of hard work behind the scenes to make this happen. Glad to see it! sentinels.copernicus.eu/web/sentinel...

Sentinel-2A: Exceptional temporary extension campaign starting in March 2025 - Sentinel Online

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It's warming so quickly that high alpine forests which emerged during the Holocene Thermal Maximum thousands of years ago are being uncovered by glaciers that developed in the years thereafter when temperatures plummeted (and the Deniers are very confused about this)🧵

📢New paper alert 📢 Larch forests are expanding in the southern French Alps🌲. Expansion began over 100 years ago, but accelerated in the 1990s ↗️. This paper shows that climate change🌡️, rather than a change in land use 🐑, has caused this acceleration. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Climate, not land-use, drives a recent acceleration of larch expansion at the forest-grassland ecotone in the southern French alps

In recent decades significant forest expansion into treeless alpine zones has been observed across global mountain ranges, including the Alps, driven …

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When I started my PhD, I thought we were the only crazy ecologists out there. Why? Because we transplanted 1m² alpine communities downslope to study climate change effects. Imagine thousands of plants and tons of soil flying over the French Alps 😅

Billur Bektaş 🍃@billurbektas.bsky.social · 2y ago

What can 44 whole-community transplant experiments from 22 mountain ranges tell us about mountain plant biodiversity? 🌿🏔️ Our first paper from the TransPlant Network is published today in @ecography.bsky.social ! nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🎉New paper alert 🎉 Have you ever wondered how the advance of the forest translates into radiometric signals and greening? 🤔 Probably not, but if you're wondering now, read our new paper in RSEC! ✅ zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Alpine greening deciphered by forest stand and structure dynamics in advancing treelines of the southwestern European Alps

Multidecadal satellite observations, like those from Landsat, enable the study of vegetation greenness trends at extensive spatial and temporal scales. Alpine ecosystems show significant increases in....

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Satellite remote sensing has enabled ecologists to get out of their gardens, so perhaps it's time to get back in? 🤔 A nice article to read while walking along the pixels! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Pixel walking along the boreal forest–Arctic tundra ecotone: Large scale ground‐truthing of satellite‐derived greenness (NDVI)

Using ~640 km of vegetation transects and ~24,000 Landsat pixels across Alaska's central Brooks Range, we demonstrate novel methods and analyses for improving ecological interpretation of satellite-o...

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