How long should we measure forest baselines to get carbon credits right? 🌳📏 Our new study in Environmental Research Letters (@IOPPublishing) has the answer. A 10-12 year look-back is the "sweet spot" for accuracy. 📊🧵 (1/5) 🔗 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Optimal durations of reference and crediting periods for estimating emission reductions from forests

Optimal durations of reference and crediting periods for estimating emission reductions from forests, Gamarra, Javier G P, Yanai, Ruth D, Neeff, Till

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The paper that framed my whole PhD with @ricardsole.bsky.social !! 50 years!!

Brian J. Enquist@bjenquist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fifty years since a simple equation described the chaos of biology 🧪🌐 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Probability distributions > point estimates. 🎲 In forest carbon, "average" doesn't cut it. Learning Monte Carlo via the @fao.org x #SilvaCarbon x @sig-gis.bsky.social course to quantify uncertainty—key for robust NFMS. 🌳📈 elearning.fao.org/course/view.... #ForestMonitoring #ClimateAction

Uncertainty in estimating forest emissions: Introduction to Monte Carlo

Deforestation makes a significant contribution to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and in order to achieve goals such as the 2015 Paris Agreement, programmes such as the REDD+ framework aim to p...

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Biologist and environmentalist Paul Ehrlich has died

The longtime Stanford professor, a giant in his field of evolutionary and population biology, also led the effort to establish Jasper Ridge Biological Pres

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What causes tipping points in complex microbial ecosystems? Check this @pnas.org paper by @thilogross.bsky.social showing that cross-feeding networks create strong interdependencies & small structural changes can trigger abrupt collapses. @akhilesh-nandan.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Why does life explore so few of the forms it could possibly take? Using fractal descriptors, this #scienceadvances paper shows that Earth’s biosphere clusters around simple shapes, reflecting deep evolutionary constraints. @artemyte.bsky.social @manlius.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Acabo de ver esta ilustración del dibujante #Corvo para #NortedeCastilla y solo he podido escojonarme...

Nothing to read in Christmas? Check out our @fao.org publication with @rubenvalpue.bsky.social but with the mega work of the #GEDI team at @umaryland.edu with Laura Duncanson, @jeaggu.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk and Ghana's #FORIG team of Stephen Adu-Bredu! openknowledge.fao.org/bitstreams/e...

Mountains host most of the world’s species of amphibians, birds & mammals. Plants, animals, insects, microbes & their environment... #Biodiversity is vital to global food production & essential for human well-being. #MountainsMatter

There you are. Irrefutable proof I am king of the hill 😀! Am I allowed now to send you an expletive?

Swearing Is Actually a Sign of More Intelligence - Not Less - Say Scientists

The use of obscene or taboo language - or swearing, as it’s more commonly known - is often seen as a sign that the speaker lacks vocabulary, cannot express themselves in a less offensive way, or even ...

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Our team @fao.org keeps improving its tools for the benefit of forest stakeholders across!

@openforis.bsky.social · last yr.

🚀 Discover the revamped Open Foris website! Your gateway to #opensource solutions that bring together communities, researchers, and practitioners to make #forest and #land #monitoring more accessible, transparent, and collaborative. Explore, connect, and contribute ➡️ openforis.net

Interesting thread of articles to follow up www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The big emitters: which countries are holding back climate action and why?

Ahead of Cop30, the Guardian will profile each of the top 10 emitters and their plans – good or bad – to tackle emissions

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In case you have not seen it yet, how does climate affect traits of tree species all across the world? very professional work, as usual, by @iris-hordijk.bsky.social and @TWCrowther! rdcu.be/etQ1x

Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests

Nature Communications - Species’ traits and environmental conditions determine the abundance of tree species across the globe. Here, the authors find that dominant tree species are taller and...

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I will be presenting tomorrow Tuesday 🚀at @esa's Living Planet Symposium #LPS25. With Frank Martin Seifert and Daniela Requena Suarez and others, tomorrow's session: 'Tropical Forest Monitoring' from 11:30-13:00 at Hall L1/L2 📷 t.co/2Owg4WK4rk @esa.int @fao.org

"Atmospheric Warming & Planetary Wave Amplification" | I discuss our (@xuekeli.bsky.social et al) new article in @pnas.org demonstrating for the first time, an increase in incidence of the stuck & wavy jet stream patterns behind persistent summer weather extremes. michaelmann.net/atmospheric-...

Atmospheric Warming and Planetary Wave Amplification | Michael E. Mann

Here’s the press tip from PNAS on our new article demonstrating an increase over the past 70+ years in the occurrence of quasi-resonant amplification (“QRA”) of […]

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@fao.org has released a new global administrative units (GAUL) dataset for the year 2024. 👉🏼 Spatial data can be downloaded at data.apps.fao.org/catalog/iso/... (level 1) & data.apps.fao.org/catalog/iso/... (level 2) 👉🏼 Technical documentation is available at openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.50...

Nature finance breakthrough: Nations agree on landmark $200bn by 2030 pledge ->edie | #Finance #Nature | More info from EcoSearch

Nature finance breakthrough: Nations agree on landmark $200bn by 2030 pledge

The talks this week followed failure at the 2024 meeting in Cali, Colombia, where disagreements over public and private funding contributions stalled negotiations. The key issue was deciding which countries should contribute or receive funding. This led to further discussions...

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Un árbol por cada vivienda entregada!! No hagáis tanto esfuerzo, @aedashomes.bsky.social, no se os vaya a saltar una yugular.... www.europapress.es/epsocial/res...

El Bosque de Aedas Homes supera ya los 10.600 árboles repartidos por toda España

La promotora de viviendas Aedas Homes plantó a finales del mes de enero y principios de febrero otros...

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After two days of intense Working Group sessions, #IPCC-62 delegates are back in plenary this morning, with a key focus on the outline of the much-anticipated #carbon dioxide removal methodology report. The report is expected to be completed by 2027. @ipcc.bsky.social #CDR #IPCC #carboncapture

Americans seem unaware of the double meaning of "Golfo" in Spanish. The less known meaning applies to a person as "rogue" or "scoundrel". Hence, Golfo de America is basically the definition of that orange dude...naming the body of water after himself, not his country.

▶️ Post on the blog of @journalofecology.bsky.social about our recently published paper about the tree packing effect on BEF-relationships in forests 🌲🌳 jecologyblog.com/2025/02/11/d... @joguillemot.bsky.social @riottelambert.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social

Diversity enhances forest productivity through its effect on the number of trees within forests.

Xavier Morin, CEFE, CNRS, University of Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France, discusses his article: More species, more trees: The role of tree packing in promoting forest productivity The e…

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There you are. Never too late to suck some orange ass.

The Rude Pundit@rudepundit.bsky.social · last yr.

Seriously, go fuck yourselves, Google.

Very interesting piece, linking across scales in #LaserScanning in #forests

IRSS at UBC@irssubc.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper! 📣 Advances in #LaserScanning to Assess Carbon in #Forests: From Ground-Based to Space-Based Sensors 👉 see thread for more! #OpenAccess🔓: doi.org/10.1007/s407... ✍️ Coops, Irwin, Seely & Hardy 🙏 #NSERC @forestry.ubc.ca #RemoteSensing #ForestCarbon #Lidar #Drones #Salitte #Aircraft

Protecting saplings terminal buds from #deer herbivory is a crucial management decision, particularly when confronted to herbivore overpopulations. #Kaernten

enjoying the bits of time available to exercise outdoors doing some useful #holzhacken @kaernten.bsky.social

Hundreds of Mexican firefighters have arrived in Southern California to help combat the wildfires. Thank you, Mexico🇺🇸🇲🇽

Having now imported all my ✖️ posts, this is my self-welcoming message to #Bluesky! Slowly transitioning out from the 💩hole the other one has become. Happy to be here, particularly since the event below

elon musk is the greatest entrepreneur according to a tesla shareholders have spoken

ALT: elon musk is the greatest entrepreneur according to a tesla shareholders have spoken

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Ongoing regional workshop on #Montecarlo analysis for emission reductions in Bangkok, with #Lao PDR, #Viet Nam, #Cambodia , #Nepal, #Thailand, and #Philippines. @FAOForestry, @SilvaCarbon_, @sig_gis facilitating!

Next week in Rome. Register now to the Technical Exchange on Forest Monitoring for Measurement, Reporting and Verification! https://www.fao.org/forest-monitoring/news-and-events/events/events-detail/technical-exchange-on-forest-monitoring-for-measurement--reporting-and-verification/en

Technical Exchange on Forest Monitoring for Measurement, Reporting and Verification

This knowledge exchange will bring together participants to advance joint learning and knowledge exchange on technical aspects of National Forest Monitoring ...

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