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Tropical forests in our time - people, trees and climate. Posts by Oliver Phillips.

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Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 2w ago

2026 is on track to be the warmest (~35% chance) or second warmest (~63%) year on record, while 2027 is very likely (92% chance) to be the warmest on record on the back of a growing super El Niño event. For more, check out my new Carbon Brief State of the Climate Q2 update: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Iago Ferreiro@iagoferreiro.bsky.social · 3w ago

🗺️🌎🏹 We also map species richness and % of hunted mammal & bird species at 1km resolution, alongside the mean defaunation index of mammalian and avian communities pantropically, revealing where both taxa overlap in high defaunation, and where patterns diverge.

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The USA Singers@theusasingers.bsky.social · 3w ago

We’re never going to live on Mars. We’re never going to live on the Moon. There is no Planet B. We need to take care of our magical mystical miraculous planet like it’s the only home we will ever have. Because it is.

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · last mo.

Human-caused climate change is increasing the risk of hotter temperatures, including these dangerous heat waves. Watch the entire distribution shift to the right. I'm afraid these headlines about record heat are only going to become more common. 🌡️ Visualization by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5613/

ForestPlots@forestplots.bsky.social · 4w ago

Measuring Amazon tree leaf traits, 40 years on. From the same trees collected by Al Gentry in 1983, Riley Fortier and colleagues assess the impacts of climate change on individual-level traits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Individual Trees Respond to 40 Years of Climate Change Through Leaf Functional Trait Acclimation

We measured leaf traits from historic and contemporary herbarium specimens collected from the same individual trees in the southern Peruvian Amazon and compared trait changes to local changes in clim...

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Amy Bennett@amybenno.bsky.social · last mo.

I was interviewed by @science.org for this piece on giant trees and drought resilience. An impressive study, but it doesn't overturn previous work: drought responses depend on the forest, the type of drought, and tree traits www.science.org/content/arti...

Being a taller tree doesn’t doom you to drought after all

New study challenges idea that tall trees’ hydraulics make them more vulnerable to dry conditions

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Science Magazine@science.org · last mo.

New research on Southeast Asian dipterocarps, the tallest tropical trees, shows that they adjust their hydraulic system as they grow tall, suggesting resilience to drought. Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4eOcwhy

The tallest 1% of trees store more than half the carbon in the world’s forests. It is widely assumed that height limits canopy hydration of tall trees; however, direct evidence that this happens for tall trees such as the Koompassia excelsa, shown here, is lacking. Research on Southeast Asian dipterocarps, the tallest tropical trees, shows that they adjust their hydraulic system as they grow tall, suggesting resilience to drought. Photo: Nick Garbutt/Minden
Springer Nature@springernature.com · last mo.

One billion more people face at least one day of extreme heat stress each year compared with the 1970s, says @natclimate.nature.com paper. Findings show global heat stress is intensifying across events during day, night, and during both day and night: spklr.io/63322E3AC8 #ClimateChange 🧪

Global heat stress intensification and its expanding footprint on the human population - Nature Climate Change

The authors assess global changes in heat stress since 1950, considering daytime extremes, nocturnal heat and compound day–night events. They show multidimensional intensification, with an increased frequency of extremes and expanded spatial and temporal footprints of heat stress on humans.

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Swedish Phytogeographical Society@svs-plant-geog.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dynamics of tropical forest usually means forest area decline.For restoration it is important to study cases where forest regain areas of abandoned land.This is a process more complicated than it might seem, and it is studied in a new thesis from Uppsala Univ. by Laura Moro www.uu.se/kalendarium/...

Laura Moro: Caribbean forests in a changing landscape: Effects of land-use change on habitat availability, abundance, and genetic diversity of tropical trees – Uppsala universitet

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Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 2mo ago

Every stripe tells a story. Of changing seasons. Of rising temperatures. Of a warming world that is already affecting our landscapes, our food & our future. But this story isn't finished. The choices we make today will shape the world inherited by the next generations. #ShowYourStripes