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Eleanor Warren-Thomas

@ewt.bsky.social
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NERC-IIASA Research Fellow/Lecturer at Bangor University, Wales and IIASA, Austria. Thinking about biodiversity 🦎🦋🐦🌳 climate + economics. Especially tropical forests + rubber.

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Eleanor Warren-Thomas @ewt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Delightful story about a meadow (un)managed by someone who taught me during my MSc studies! 21 years after oil seed rape removed from the land, an annual hay cut is all the management needed for 150 plant species to grow www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘I love it. It’s hope’: the mysterious self-willed wildflower meadow that seeded itself
Farmer Derek Sayer let a boggy field run wild and just one annual hay-cut has led to remarkable biodiversity
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Eleanor Warren-Thomas @ewt.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
A very cool job opportunity at UEA! I did my PhD here - a wonderful crowd. Though of course, if North Wales is more your thing, we also have a vacancy here at Bangor 😉 jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
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Eleanor Warren-Thomas @ewt.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Congratulations Rachel!!!
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Eleanor Warren-Thomas @ewt.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
A fantastic new piece by Fred Pearce for Yale360 highlights yet another potential driver for increased natural rubber use, and therefore deforestation: electric vehicles wear through tyres quicker... e360.yale.edu/features/rub...
e360.yale.edu
How Mounting Demand for Rubber Is Driving Tropical Forest Loss
The growing market for rubber is a major, but largely overlooked, cause of tropical deforestation, new analysis shows. Most of the rubber goes to produce tires, more than 2 billion a year, and experts...
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Eleanor Warren-Thomas @ewt.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
I can highly recommend it! Mountains, coast, birds, temperate rainforests, surf - need I go on? Never mind the fabulous and friendly colleagues 😀
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Eleanor Warren-Thomas @ewt.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
📢 cool job alert!! 📢 Closing date 2 Jan 2024!! 📢 Come and work with us here as a Lecturer in Conservation Science at Bangor University! Check out bangor.ac.uk/sns/conserva... to find out about us, and the job advert is here jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....
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Eleanor Warren-Thomas @ewt.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
A new piece on our recent rubber and land use change papers: theconversation.com/tropical-for...
theconversation.com
Tropical forest loss from growing rubber trade is more substantial than previously thought – new r...
Rubber plantations are replacing forests, particularly in tropical regions.
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