ITMN Seminar #30 with Ruiling Lu April 14, 2026 at 15:00 (CEST) 👉Rising tree mortality across Australian forests Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Tom Pugh
@tompugh.bsky.social
Scientist working on ecosystem-climate interactions, forests and the carbon cycle at Lund University and the University of Birmingham, was @tompughlab on Twitter
We are looking forward to ITMN seminar #30 with Ruiling Lu to learn about tree mortality in Australian forests 🌳 🌲 🌏 Come and join us! 👇🏽
The International Tree Mortality Network@treemortality.bsky.social · 4mo agoITMN Seminar #30 with Ruiling Lu April 14, 2026 at 15:00 (CEST) 👉Rising tree mortality across Australian forests Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The US Forest Service. This is madness. Illegal, obviously. But madness even if it weren’t. WTAF morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
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A new paper for anyone interested in the role of forest conservation, forestry, and forest products as climate solutions. Led by Didac Pascual and Anders Ahlstrom from Lund University. theconversation.com/swedens-old-...
New paper just out deciphering the global species–area relationship for plants with @biogeokreft.bsky.social @patrickweigelt.bsky.social and others in @pnas.org Across islands area alone explains 66% of variation in richness best described by a classic power-law model www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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This was not an inevitability. This is the result of decades of political choices that rig the system in favor of the wealthy and powerful while leaving workers behind. It does not have to be this way.
Prioritizing carbon reserve over growth: how aging trees mitigate carbon starvation risk nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Commentary by Fang highlighting the recent work by Zhang et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YWNADQ...
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt. Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2
Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...
Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025 essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
Global Carbon Budget 2025
Abstract. Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to bette...
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Swedish Climate Symposium: Call for Abstracts open SCS is a symposium for increased scientific understanding of climate change and its environmental and societal consequences. Explore the programme to see which sessions are accepting abstracts. Submit by 30 January: swedishclimatesymposium.com
Important paper showing the dearth of plant taxonomists in the tropical countries that need them most www.cell.com/trends/plant...
Whether you’ve been with us for years or just joined, your perspective is valuable. Come help shape the future of the network! 🌐✨
🔍 What are the ITMN meetings about? We’re taking a moment to reflect on our progress and set new priorities together. We kick off with a quick recap, then open the floor for your ideas on: – What matters most to you – Where ITMN should focus next – Opportunities to take a more active role
We’re opening the doors for community meetings. Your chance to influence our next steps & get more involved in the network. Join one of our upcoming sessions: 🗓 Dec 4 — 06:00 UTC t1p.de/m3gty 🗓 Dec 4 — 18:00 UTC t1p.de/xaxsu 🗓 Dec 5 — 13:00 UTC t1p.de/c4icd Help guide where ITMN goes next! 🚀
Are you studying vegetation dynamics 🍃, tree mortality 🪵, or other aspects of the terrestrial carbon cycle? 🌍 Consider submitting to our #EGU26 session "Present & future global vegetation dynamics & carbon stocks from observations & models". We'd be delighted! ☺️ 👉 www.egu26.eu/session/57391
🌲 The European Forest Disturbance Atlas by ForestPaths is now on Forest Information Systems for Europe! Using Landsat data (1985–2023), the maps track fires, storms, bark beetles & harvesting across 38 countries — open-source & updated annually. 🔗 Explore more: forestpaths.eu/news/forestp...
ForestPaths disturbance maps now available on FISE
With ForestPaths releasing the European Forest Disturbance Atlas - a dataset of annual forest disturbance maps across 38 European countries - it is also now featured on the Forest Information System f...
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Cool opportunity in a great team who inspire working to improve not just technical methodology but also collaboration methodology :-)
Reynaldo Linares-Palomino@rlinares.bsky.social · 9mo agoExciting #postdoc opportunity with #ForestGEO: forestgeo.si.edu/postdoctoral...
A new bark beetle damage model for European forests, now online as part of LPJ-GUESS. Conceptualised and brought to life by Fredrik Lagergren to bring virtual death to simulated spruce in the name of understanding forest vulnerability gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
Combining empirical and mechanistic understanding of spruce bark beetle outbreak dynamics in the LPJ-GUESS (v4.1, r13130) vegetation model
Abstract. For exploring forest performance in the future, dynamic vegetation models are important tools. Tree mortality is a crucial process in these models, but explicit representations of major agen...
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A fun trip to Beijing for the 3rd edition of the LPJ-GUESS training school at Beijing Normal University with @lundjing.bsky.social, @haoming98.bsky.social and Stefan Olin. Many cool projects from the participants and interesting conversations. Learnt a lot!
How do forests shape the climate — and how does a changing climate reshape our forests? What can science reveal about the forests of tomorrow? With the municipality of Lund we produced this mini documentary about climate modeling and the forest, as part of an exhibition at Skrylle outside of Lund
Climate modelling and the forest
Climate modelling and the forest
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in "General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally", we provide key insights into species’ vulnerability to environmental change and the processes that structure biodiversity at global scales. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally | PNAS
A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...
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New study led by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social shows: forest stands made up of tree species with different water-use strategies (not just many species) grow better in drought years. #iDivResearch #Biodiversity www.idiv.de/diverse-fore...
Diverse forests are more resistant to climate change
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Very pleased to be part of this super cool new paper led by William Hagan Brown in @globalchangebio.bsky.social looking at the impact of elevated CO2 on canopy temperatures in an oak woodland at the BIFor-FACE experiment dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Elevated CO2 Increases the Canopy Temperature of Mature Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)
We investigated the impact of high atmospheric CO2, similar to that predicted for 2050, on tree canopy temperature dynamics of mature pedunculate oak using long-term, high-frequency thermal infrared ...
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How soil and climate interact to control biomass in #Brasil's #Caatinga, the largest dry tropical forest in the Americas. Congratulations to Alexandre Brunello, Tomas Domingues and colleagues for this tour-de-force. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Soil–climate interactions drive above-ground biomass in the Caatinga, the largest Neotropical seasonally dry tropical forest - Plant and Soil
Background and aims Soil properties are key drivers of vegetation structure, yet their influence on above-ground woody biomass (AGBW) in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) remains underexplored, ...
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Great new paper led by @knowlton.bsky.social with @ttkeller.bsky.social and @rupertseidl.bsky.social (and me!) Still so much to learn from #Yellowstone about #fire, #forests & #climatechange. #NSFfunded #JFSPfunded
ESA Journals@esajournals.bsky.social · 9mo ago🆕 in Ecosphere's "Vegetation Ecology" track: A hot & dry future may shake up Yellowstone forests—think fewer spruce, more fire-tolerant neighbors 📄Simulated postfire tree regeneration suggests reorganization of Greater Yellowstone forests during the 21st century doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
📣So happy to share the PhorEau model, combining models of forest dynamics, plant water relations, and process-based SDM = linking ecophysiology, ecology & biogeography 🌳📈💻 gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/... ➡️ from Tanguy Postic's PhD, with many perspectives to simulate forests under CC
PHOREAU v1.0: a new process-based model to predict forest functioning, from tree ecophysiology to forest dynamics and biogeography
Abstract. Climate change impacts forest functioning and dynamics, but large uncertainties remain regarding the interactions between species composition, demographic processes and environmental drivers...
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