Our paper on intraspecific variation of hydraulic traits in Puerto Rican 🇵🇷 trees, led by @smithmartin.bsky.social, is out @nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Also check out this very nice 'News & Views' by @profchoat.bsky.social & Erick Calderón-Morales: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Species intraspecific variation drives tropical forest drought resistance - Nature

Substantial intraspecific variation, together with species turnover, drives coordinated shifts in drought resistance such as increased embolism resistance and wider stomatal safety margins in drier fo...

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New paper! My current favourite: "Water Limits Radial Tree Growth More Than Light in an Everwet Subtropical Forest" -> with 3500 mm of rain and no distinct dry season, trees in Puerto Rico still grew more under wet conditions. @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What drives tree growth after a hurricane? 🌀🌳 Hot off the press in @pnas.org today! We tracked 1,082 trees in Puerto Rico and found that pre-disturbance growth outperformed crown biomass loss and competitive release as a predictor of post-storm growth. The paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Tree growth after a major hurricane reflects predisturbance vigor rather than canopy damage | PNAS

Tree crown damage from disturbance events strongly influences forest demography, yet its effect on stem growth remains poorly quantified, with both...

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Thrilled to share our new paper on restoring tree diversity in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest!🌳 Our findings are encouraging: restoration shows high diversity, though old-growth-like composition needs more time. Amazing team effort from the Newfor team @ USP & @w-u-r.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

All Reforestation Methods Can Support Tropical Tree Diversity Recovery, but Drivers and Species Composition Vary

We assessed tree diversity recovery across five reforestation methods (white background) and compared them to three reference systems (grey background). In the rainforest, none of the restoration met...

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New #timber #tracing paper on power of combined methods. Study led by @lauraboeschoten.bsky.social & Barbara RV Meyer-Sand for African timber shows combining methods boosts reliability of tracing. With 3 methods: 95% of samples traced back to <100 km of origin. 🌎🌐🍁 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Combined genetic and chemical methods boost the precision of tracing illegal timber in Central Africa - Communications Earth & Environment

The origin of timber was correctly identified for 94% of samples in Central Africa, a high-risk region with low tracing accuracy to date, according to an analysis that combined genetic, stable isotope...

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Super excited to share our new tracing paper!! This is the result of two PhDs and many amazing collaborators. Combining genetics, stable isotopes and multi-element analysis improves tracing results.

Communications Earth & Environment@commsearth.nature.com · 12mo ago

🪵Combined methods boost the precision of tracing illegal timber The origin of timber was correctly identified for 94% of samples in Central Africa, a high-risk region with low tracing accuracy to date. @lauraboeschoten.bsky.social @pieterzuidema.bsky.social 👉Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Excited to continue working on climate change effects on forests for the next two years!

Belgian Climate Centre@climatecentrebe.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Thrilled to welcome Dr Laura Boeschoten to the CLOVER project at UGent & the BCC. Her work explores how a climate overshoot could affect forests & the carbon cycle, helping to shape science-based resilience strategies. @lauraboeschoten.bsky.social www.climatecentre.be/projects/syn...

#ATBC2025 was about (re)connecting and diving into tree growth, drought and heat! Great to see so many friends and colleagues from all over the world together in Oaxaca.

Looking ahead: meeting our working group members for the first time! Excited to kick off this collaboration as part of my new postdoc at Gent University, which will start in October.

Belgian Climate Centre@climatecentrebe.bsky.social · last yr.

What are the risks of a climate "overshoot"? 🤔 Our new #CLOVER working group is tackling this, synthesising data & models to understand ecosystem impacts & inform policy. Discover: www.climatecentre.be/projects/syn... #ClimateScience #Overshoot |‪ lauraboeschoten.bsky.social (project coordin.)

Building a drought experiment in a tropical rainforest? Call 0800-LUQTEE for all tips & tricks! Building "only" took us a year. Now we celebrate & see data coming in to study tree responses to drought! With @smithmartin.bsky.social @jesterkz.bsky.social @tanawood.bsky.social & many more not on bsky

Wrapping up our US train adventure, returning to NYC from visiting friends in Grand Junction, CO. The Rockies were breathtaking! Wish the US had high-speed trains—4 nights in 10 days on a train is a bit much. Still, so worth it! With my fav travel partner. :)

I'll be presenting my work on tree growth in an everwet forest in Puerto Rico at the ForestGEO seminar next week! Mar 19, 2025 09:00 AM, EST time. Register here for the link: smithsonian.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Early mornings this week to measure predawn water potential in our tropical drought experiment! #LUQ-TEE Super pumped this is coming together as we're aiming to understand how these trees will cope with future droughts.

Last week to apply!

Laura Boeschoten@lauraboeschoten.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are looking for women/non binary scientists based in NYC across all disciplines of STEMM. Applications open to PhD students and above, or researchers in industry👩‍🔬👩‍🎓🧕🗽This was so much fun last year! Scan the QR or use the 🔗http://soapboxscience.org/apply-to-speak-at-soapbox-science-2025/ to APPLY‼️

We are looking for women/non binary scientists based in NYC across all disciplines of STEMM. Applications open to PhD students and above, or researchers in industry👩‍🔬👩‍🎓🧕🗽This was so much fun last year! Scan the QR or use the 🔗http://soapboxscience.org/apply-to-speak-at-soapbox-science-2025/ to APPLY‼️

I'll be presenting at #AGU next week! Come join us on Thursday Dec 12, 2.20-2.30pm. I'll share my PD work on the importance of #water for #treegrowth in Puerto Rico! Also happy to connect to other folks - excited for my 1st AGU! #AGU2025 agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

1st post! Great to highlight my PD project: LUQTEE, the Luquillo Throughfall Exclusion Experiment! We study how trees cope under drought, with 3 experimental 20x20m drought plots in Puerto Rico. Point dendrometers, sapflow sensors, water potentials. And more! Pics from last week helping building.