🚨 Out now! The final two papers of Hermine Houdas’s PhD are out under the #PROWARM project, unraveling how the pine processionary moth reshapes forest carbon–water dynamics. 🌲🦋 👇 (1/3)

And we have our results! 💥 We have dated a cedar that is 1,544 years old, and two others exceed 1,500 years. All three are older than the previously oldest one (1,481 years). In total, we have already identified eight cedars over 1,000 years old. 🌲👴👵 @FundacionEndesa @pnteide @CabildoTenerife

Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda@gabrisanguesa.bsky.social · 2y ago

#Millennial cedars campaign in Teide National Park. Samples are in the lab and ready for analysis. We'll know their ages soon! @FundacionEndesa @pnteide @CabildoTenerife

Climate warming is not a recent phenomenon; it has had detectable impacts on plants for at least 134 years! The onset of phenological plant response to climate warming @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪🌎🌿🌐🌳 🍁 #PlantBiology @cideinvestiga.bsky.social @csic.es

Communal deciduous oak dehesas, once vital agrosilvopastoral systems, are biodiversity hotspots for old-growth species. Now largely unprotected and abandoned, they urgently need recognition to meet EU biodiversity goals. 🧪🍁🌱🌏🌐🌿 New paper out: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

The peer review system is in serious crisis. Finding reviewers is harder than ever. Many colleagues refuse to "work for free", yet they continue to submit their own research for publication. We either need to properly recognize peer review in evaluations or rethink the entire model 🧪🌍🍁

New insights into the extreme potential age of the genus #Juniperus. The common juniper (Juniperus communis) can live for over 1,500 years in Northern Europe, making it the oldest known tree species on the continent. 🍁🌱🌿🌍🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Common juniper, the oldest nonclonal woody species across the tundra biome and the European continent

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Trees might profit from the reduced foliage area, allowing them to stabilize their #water relations in a #drying #climate: Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population - Scientific Reports

Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Losing half the crown hardly affects the stem growth of a xeric southern beech population

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A day full of motivation with the students of the #BIE, the Bachelor of Research and Excellence at @iespolisoria, and @Ingenierias_SO, in the medication manufacturing workshop at @caixaforum Zaragoza

A truly fascinating and still largely unexplored ecosystem! We investigated #tree growth in cloud forests across the entire #Macaronesian region and found that local environmental conditions play a greater role in shaping tree growth than species-specific traits. # LAUREL project 🍁

Biodiversos URJC@biodiversosurjc.bsky.social · 2y ago

ENHORABUENA a las #biodiversas A.García-Cervigón y V.Calvo-Donate, coautoras en el artículo e "Cloud Forest Tree Growth Responses to Climateand Drought Vary by Island and Species in the Macaronesian Region". @gabrisanguesa.bsky.social Link al artículo⏬⏬⏬⏬⏬: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PostDoc Alert! Our #Land #Change #Science Unit is looking for three #Social #Scientists in #Digital #Spatial #Planning. 3/3 focus on #data and #algorithms. More info: apply.refline.ch/273855/1703/... #ScienceJobs

📢 Calling all tree-ring researchers! 🌳💍 The Association for Tree-Ring Research (ATR) annually awards prizes for the best Ph.D. & Master’s theses in tree-ring science! 🗓️ Deadline: Feb 15, 2025 📄 Details: tinyurl.com/ATRaward Nominate your students! ✨

Thesis awards

To honor exceptional and original contributions by early-stage researchers, the Association for Tree-Ring Research (ATR) annually awards prizes for the best Ph.D. and Master’s theses within the fie…

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🌳 Job Opportunity in Dendrochronology! 🌳 Our colleague @AnaGCervigon is looking for a candidate to join a 5-month position within the project: "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Forest Restorations: A Large-Scale Spatial and Temporal Analysis" (BioFoRest).👇

The Botany 2025 symposia & colloquia have been announced & workshop submissions are reopened until Feb 1. Check out the latest details: mailchi.mp/botany.org/botany2025. We look forward to seeing you this summer in Palm Springs, CA, July 26-30, 2025! #Botany2025 #IamaBotanist #ItIsaDryHeat

New equipment! We just got the CaptuRING system to take core images. Shout out to Danny King of Dendro Engine Studios for building the rig. The blueprint is detailed in this excellent paper by Garcia-Hidalgo et al. (2022): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 🧪

We are kicking off a major project funded by @FundacionEndesa in collaboration with @pnteide. Over the next few days, we will be collecting samples to explore the ages of the #millennial #cedars (Juniperus cedrus) in Teide National Park 👇🍁

The problems with citation-based evaluations and the h-Index ‘Precocious’ early-career scientists with high citation counts proliferate www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Precocious’ early-career scientists with high citation counts proliferate

Researchers have questions about how so many authors have racked up a large number of citations so quickly, although some of those authors are honest overachievers.

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New year and new paper out! Irrigation may not always be the best solution for urban trees under climate change 🌍👇

AI in general, and Machine Learning specifically, are changing the way we process big data in ecology. Recently, we reconstructed 450 years of management (pollarding) in Mediterranean oaks using tree rings—1,588 pollarding events at the tree level! doi.org/10.3390/f151...

Reconstructing 450 Years of Pollarding Events in Spanish Deciduous Oak Woodlands Using Machine Learning

Pollarding, the practice of pruning tree branches at a specific height, has been crucial for managing open forests in Europe. This practice has supported the persistence of highly biodiverse open wood...

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Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda@gabrisanguesa.bsky.social · 2y ago

Mediterranean deciduous oaks can live for hundreds of years and create important microhabitats for biodiversity #GIANTS project 🌾🪴🍁

Mediterranean deciduous oaks can live for hundreds of years and create important microhabitats for biodiversity #GIANTS project 🌾🪴🍁

It's almost a new year and I'm starting a new account on bsky. I hope to regularly write about #science, #defoliating insects and #trees in the Mediterranean.

🌲 Trees have long memories! Our study shows Scots pine trees remember past water abundance even 7 years after irrigation stops! bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....