So inspired by the Interacting Disturbances workshop that ran this weekend @ Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden. What even IS a disturbance?! Had a great time trying to figure it all out (&name it) with some of the coolest scientists around :) thx @sallyarchibald.bsky.social #botany #ecology

Dazzled by a tour of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanic Garden! What a treat! #XTBG #China #plants

@thebotanics.bsky.social well represented at this year’s Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation meeting! Great to have so many stimulating discussions across biomes, borders, and biota. #botany #ecology #ATBC2026

Ecologists keen to incorporate plant bioacoustics into their research and outreach had a coffee chat at the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 2026 meeting. None of us have used this as a technique but we all want to in the future! #bioacoustics #botany #plantacoustics

Such a privilege to host these inspiring speakers for our symposium at #ATBC on Distinguishing & characterising South&Southeast Asian savannas.Chau Pham, Tshering Dorji, Maliwan Namkhan, Ashish Nerlekar, Kevin Robertson, Aksha Chowdhary, Naomi Schwartz, Watchara Arthan,& Kyle Tomlinson were amazing!

It’s imperative, when at a symposium on South and Southeast Asian savannas, to dress as similarly as possible. Here’s @naomibschwartz.bsky.social and me modelling our matching styles! #ATBC2026 #savanna

ATBC 2026 is here! I’ll be chairing the symposium on ‘Distinguishing and characterising South and Southeast Asian savannas to improve their resilience to global change’ tomorrow (Monday 29th June) in Plenary C from 13:15. Come and hear an array of incredible and inspiring speakers! #atbc2026 🌏🌐

Some non-book-related chat at last! There's a cute write up about some work done by my amazing colleagues and me in the savannas of Thailand and Cambodia over at csfl.ed.ac.uk/surveying-in... #floristics #fieldwork #SouthEastAsia #savanna #csfl

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Lecturer and RBGE research associate Dr Jess Rickenback publishes new research on grass communities in Southeast Asia’s savannas.

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Join me and the other authors of the Atlas of Botany at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on June 11th for some fascinating stories of ancient evolution, innovative adaptation, and how plants shape the world around us today. Plus a signing! rbgeshop.org/products/atl... 🌎🌐 #botany #biogeography

Atlas of Botany Discussion & Book Signing

Join the authors of the beautiful new Atlas of Botany for an in-conversation panel event in the Lecture Theatre at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Written by experts from RBGE and the University of Ed...

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It exists! And it’s unbelievably lovely! Very excited for the actual publication day (May 7th) and possible upcoming events linked to the launch 👀 @thebotanics.bsky.social #AtlasOfBotany #Biogeography #PopularScience #plants

I’m immeasurably chuffed to have been able to contribute a chapter to this beautiful book, the Atlas of Botany, a collaboration between @thebotanics.bsky.social and DK. Available for pre-order now! rbgeshop.org/products/pre... #botany #popularscience 🌐🌏

Thanks everyone that came to chat to me about my poster on grass communities in savannas in Thailand & Cambodia yesterday at the @britishecologicalsociety.org annual meeting in Edinburgh. So many grass and savanna fans out there! And such a great conference. #grass #ecology #diversity #savanna 🌏🌐

It was an amazing week hosting the inaugural Tropical East Asian Savanna workshop. The week was full of inspiring chats, burgeoning collaborations, & exciting project planning. Thanks to everyone for coming & @royalsoced.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social Edinburgh Uni for supporting us! 🌏🌐

Two different benches, same herbarium. Attendees at the Tropical East Asian Savanna workshop funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social had an intro to the @thebotanics.bsky.social herbarium followed by a crash course in grass ID with Krich. I think we can all spot a spikelet now! 🌏🌐 #grass #botany

It was great to hear Chau Pham, @naomibschwartz.bsky.social , Manichanh Satdichanh, and Johan Setiawan presenting at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium on engaging topics which spanned fire ecology, and placing people into the savanna context. #savanna 🌏🌐

A selection of amazing talks from the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium last week @thebotanics.bsky.social and funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social feat. Kyle Tomlinson, Maliwan Namkhan, Martin van de Bult,& Watchara Arthan. #savanna #asia 🌏🌐

Brilliant day this week on the Tropical East Asian Savanna Network workshop- out on Salisbury Crags with the Global Grassy Group practicing ground layer data collection and loving the #grasses! @s-eshelman.bsky.social @wieczor.bsky.social @naomibschwartz.bsky.social @royalsoced.bsky.social

The Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium is today! Join us in person or online to hear from some truly fantastic speakers. Online via teams Meeting ID: 374 127 860 994 5 Passcode: Yq3je9Jo or in person at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 9:30-4:30 @royalsoced.bsky.social 🌐🌏 #ecology #savanna

Thrilled to have Dr Naomi Schwartz @naomibschwartz.bsky.social, University of British Columbia, at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium! Naomi will present 'Seeing the savanna through the trees: fire ecology at forest-savanna boundaries in Southeast Asia'. Join us in person/online June 24th 🌐🌏

More exciting speakers at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium! Dr Manichanh Satdichanh will be presenting on 'Farmer, fire and forest succession: A story of social-ecological system from Southeast Asia'. Join us on 24th June in person or online, for free! #savanna #conference #ecology 🌐🌏

We are very excited to be hosting Johan Setiawan, Manager of Baluran National Park, Indonesia, at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium. Johan will present on the challenges of managing invasive species in the Park. Join us for free in person or online on June 24th! #savanna #ecology 🌐🌏

Our next speaker is Dr Martin van de Bult who will present at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium on 'Melaleuca dominated savanna in Cambodia: floristic composition and ecological characteristics'. Join us in #Edinburgh on June 24th for free in person or online! #savanna #botany #ecology 🌐🌏

It's an honour to host Prof Kyle Tomlinson from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences at the Tropical East Asian Savanna symposium. Kyle will present 'Three lines of analysis for C4 grassy biomes across Southeast Asia'. Don't miss out! Join us on 24 June! 🌐🌏#savanna

Our next speaker at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium is Chau Pham, a PhD student from the University of Minnesota, who will talk to use about 'Understanding the past to manage for the future: historical fire regimes of a deciduous dipterocarp savanna'. Join us in person / online June 24 🌐🌏

Dr Kevin Robertson, a fire ecologist from Tall Timbers Research Station, Florida, USA, will be joining us at the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium on 24th June! We're very excited to hear his presentation 'Pine Savannas of Vietnam and the Southeastern U.S. - A Comparison'. Attendance is free! 🌐🌏

The Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium is proud to present Dr Watchara Arthan speaking on 'Andropogoneae a key but overlooked lineage of savannas– A case study from Heteropogon and Themeda'. Join in person @thebotanics.bsky.social or online June 24th! 🌐🌏 #savanna #ecology #grass #biogeography

Introducing our speakers for the Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium! We are delighted to present work from Maliwan Namkhan who will speak on 'Defining the extent of Deciduous Dipterocarp Forest and Threat under Deforestation Hotspots in the Indo-Burma region'. Join us in person or online! 🌐🌏

Tickets (free!) for the first Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium are available: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tropical-e... 200 word abstracts still welcome for talks (15/30min), deadline 30 May. Email for info / abstract submissions. See you 24 June @thebotanics.bsky.social ! #ecology #savanna 🌐🌏

Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium

Get ready to dive deep into the vibrant savanna ecosystems of Tropical East Asia at our free symposium!

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The first Tropical East Asian Savanna Symposium, funded by @royalsoced.bsky.social, will be 24 June @thebotanics.bsky.social. Free! Come along, or apply to present! 200 word abstracts welcome for talks (15/30min), deadline 30 May. Email for info / abstract submissions. @edinburghuni.bsky.social 🌐🌏

Congrats to Ethan, who will be my first PhD student! Very excited to be part of his future journey exploring the drivers of and differences between plant growth forms in the tropics @thebotanics.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social #botany #ecology #biogeography 🌐🌎🌱

Ethan Mitchell-Innes@ethanmi.bsky.social · last yr.

I am so excited to share that in September I will be starting a PhD at the The University of Edinburgh/Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh through the E5 DTP. The work will focus on the traits, ecology and evolution of geoxyles across continents and will be supervised by @jess-rickenback.bsky.social!