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Rescuing hidden 20th century forest data and related resources from all regions. Official Account of IUFRO Task Force 57 "Legacy Forest Data and Related Resources" www.iufro.org/task-forces/t57-legac…

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Erick Calderón @ecamo19.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A must read for neo-colonial scientists: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The ethical costs of remotely sensing tropical forest understories
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Spaceborne and airborne scanning technologies are revolutionizing the study of tropical forest understories. As these datasets rapidly expand, we argue for...
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Also in scope: policies on intellectual property rights & the return of digitized data to the countries where it was gathered. This is an initiative of IUFRO TF57 "Legacy Forest Data and Related Resources" @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social 📅 Submissions due 28 May 2027 link.springer.com/collections/...
A man walks uphill on a path through a rainforest in Fiji in the 1980s. Photo by Dieter Mueller-Dombois
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Submission deadline: 28 May 2027 We welcome contributions on the curation, digitization & use of historical #forestry / #forest #biodiversity archives for research on long-term forest dynamics. Includes AI-assisted retrieval of textual & numerical data from legacy sources.
A collection of historical photographs of tropical forests
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
📢 Call for Papers: 🌳Discover Forests @springernature.com Special Issue "Legacy Forest Data – Curation, Digitization, and Use for Long-Term Forest Research" Guest Editors: @hjboehmer.bsky.social & Sheila Ward | 🔗 link.springer.com/collections/... #AcademicSky #EcoEvo #ForestScience #OpenScience
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Osbert Sun @osbertsun.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New article in Forest Ecosystems - OA publication 📰Long-term monitoring reveals differential climate and disturbance responses in Japanese forest biome composition www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Measuring Amazon tree leaf traits, 40 years on. From the same trees collected by Al Gentry in 1983, Riley Fortier and colleagues assess the impacts of climate change on individual-level traits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Individual Trees Respond to 40 Years of Climate Change Through Leaf Functional Trait Acclimation
We measured leaf traits from historic and contemporary herbarium specimens collected from the same individual trees in the southern Peruvian Amazon and compared trait changes to local changes in clim...
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Formidable use of legacy #forest data: A series of permanent plots was established in 500-year-old forest in 1947. Plots were visited at 6-year intervals through 1983, after which intervals averaged 6 years. In 1991, measurements were expanded to include tracking of all big trees. A 72-year study ❗
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
#Forests of #Panama, 1973: distribution, formations, precipitation. In: Weltforstatlas / World forestry #atlas / Atlas des forêts du monde / Atlas forestal del mundo. Sheet 60. Publisher: Paul Parey; Languages: German, English, French, Spanish.
1973 map of the forests of Panama 1:200,000, including smaller maps on forest formations and precipitation; authors of this map: H. Klatte, F. Alabrune;
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
New in Arcadia: Karel Šima writes about how interwar nature conservation in Subcarpathian Ruthenia (then in Checkoslovakia) created conditions for the research of Albert Pilát, which came to shape modern mycology and forest awareness. #envhist #envhum #mycology #mushroom
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Forest Conservation and the Exploration of Carpathian Fungi: Albert Pilát’s Primeval Forest Awareness and the Emergence of Modern Mycology
Interwar nature conservation in Subcarpathian Ruthenia created conditions for Albert Pilát’s research, which shaped modern mycology and forest awareness.
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Oxford Ecosystems @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New paper from Sruthi Krishna Moorthy and @ymalhi.bsky.social examines 60 years of tropical ecology research 🌍 The study highlights the growing dominance of tropical forest research and persistent global inequities in tropical ecology authorship. doi.org/10.1111/btp....
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Shifting Trends in Tropical Ecology Research Over Six Decades
We analyzed over 170,000 tropical ecology publications (1960–2023) using a large language model to extract study location and biome information at scale. We show that research has grown across all bi....
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The International Association for Vegetation Science @iavs5.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
From the latest #IAVS Bulletin 🌿 Dr. Susan Wiser on the challenges of changing plant names — from genus shifts to bigger taxonomic shakeups. Read more 👉 shorturl.at/5e8lh #Ecology #Botany #Vegetation
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Botanist/plant ecologist E. Lucy Braun is one of the most influential ecologists in North American history. + First woman President, Ecological Society of America, 1950 + Helped establish plant ecology as a rigorous academic discipline She was born #OTD in 1889. #WomenInSTEM #conservation #ecosky
A black-and-white studio portrait photograph of Emma Lucy Braun, the pioneering American botanist and plant ecologist widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists in the study of eastern North American forests. Shown from the shoulders up against a soft, neutral gradient background, Braun appears in her later years with a calm, intelligent gaze directed straight at the viewer. Her white hair is neatly styled and swept back from her face, and she wears delicate round wire-rimmed glasses. A gentle, knowing half-smile softens her expression, conveying quiet authority, warmth, and scholarly poise. She is dressed in a light-colored, pleated blouse with a gathered neckline and a prominent dark floral brooch pinned at the center of her chest; the visible sleeve features subtle decorative patterning. The tight, centered composition focuses entirely on her face and upper torso, creating an intimate and dignified mood that emphasizes intellect and dignity over ornamentation.
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Botany One @botany.one · 01/04/2026
Herbarium Sheets Are Holding Secrets Their Makers Never Intended www.botany.one/herbarium-sh... When you mount a plant on a sheet, you capture more than botany. A new paper reveals the unexpected historical treasures hiding in herbaria, and why closing them is a mistake. #Botany #PlantScience
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Herbarium Sheets Are Holding Secrets Their Makers Never Intended
When you mount a plant on a sheet, you capture more than botany. A new paper reveals the unexpected historical treasures hiding in herbaria, and why closing them is a mistake.
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"Elders identified former settlements, sacred clearings and fishing sites remembered from oral histories."
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Hi @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social, BHL is in the final stages of transitioning from the Smithsonian. To learn more about the #BHLTransition, see the BHL blog: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/tag/transition. We'll be sharing more news there very soon.
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thanks a lot!
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thank you! Interesting platform, I just hope they can find a reliable partner after losing Smithsonian...
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Ok, many thanks for this! Please don´t throw it out! 🙂 We are currently trying to identify best practice for collecting and digitizing legacy data. I understand that you are working with UNEP? Is there a repository or archive for 20th century technical reports that might include legacy forest data?
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Fantastic. This is the stuff we are looking for! Do you have more of that?
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Hi Lera, This is Hans Juergen Boehmer, coordinator of the legacy data task force. Sounds interesting. What are these reports about? Best regards, Juergen
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Dieter #Mueller-Dombois would have turned 100 years old these days. He died in 2022, one week before his 97th birthday. His archive on the #vegetation of the tropical #Pacific islands consists of countless notes, documents and slides. Context: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Professor Dieter Mueller-Dombois (1925-2022), obituary
PDF | On Dec 15, 2022, Hans Juergen Boehmer published Professor Dieter Mueller-Dombois (1925-2022), obituary | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
The amount and quality of legacy data in the #Mueller-Dombois archive is overwhelming. This is a box with unpublished works for the #Smithsonian Institute from the period in #SriLanka (former Ceylon) 1967-69. Context: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2307/...
A box with dozens of unpublished works for the Smithsonian Institute from Dieter Mueller-Dombois´ research in Sri Lanka (former Ceylon) 1967-69. There, he studied effects of elephants on the woody vegetation in a major wild elephant refuge in the island´s southeastern dry zone.
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Dieter´s interdisciplinary research into the causes of large-scale #forest #dieback in forests on the islands of #Hawai´i throughout the 1970s and 80s had a global impact and can be seen as exemplary for modern multi-causal forest #decline #research. Context: muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/articl...
Early 1980s: Dieter Mueller-Dombois and Mallikarjuna Aradhya pulling a Metrosideros polymorpha sapling out of organic peat somewhere in Hawai´i´s rainforest. Courtesy of Annette Mueller-Dombois.
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Prof. Mueller-Dombois has been studying #forest #dieback in the Hawaiian #Islands since the late 1960s. This aerial photograph was taken during a reconnaisance flight over the dieback area in #Alaka´i Swamp, Kaua´i, in March 1972. Photo by D. M.-D.. Context: www.google.de/books/editio...
March 1972: Hawai´i, Island of Kaua´i, Alaka´i Swamp area. Aerial photograph of forest dieback. Dying and dead Metrosideros trees stand out in grey against the few remaining healthy, green trees. Note on slide: `Terminal dieback, Alaka´i, March 1972`. Photo by Dieter Mueller-Dombois. The Alakaʻi Swamp (Alakaʻi Wilderness Preserve) is a montane rainforest on the island of Kaua´i in Hawai´i, located on a plateau near Mount Waiʻaleʻale, one of the wettest places on Earth. Although it is called a swamp, it is actually a rainforest.
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Let's start with our header. August 1976, Hawaii, Big Island, Saddle Road area: Prof. Dieter Mueller-Dombois, University of Hawaii at Manoa, takes notes on the dieback of native Ohia trees (Metrosideros polymorpha). Photo by James D. Jacobi. Context: scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/c...
August 1976, Island of Hawaii (Big Island), Saddle Road area: Professor Dieter Mueller-Dombois, Botany Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, takes notes on the decline (dieback) of native ohia lehua trees (Metrosideros polymorpha). Photograph by James D. Jacobi.
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Legacy Forest Data @legacyforestinfo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
IUFRO Task Force 57 was established in 2025 to rescue old forest data from boreal🌲, temperate🌳, subtropical🌵 and tropical🌴 regions. We will focus on numerical data, but other ‘data’ such as old photos, maps, and "lost" reports are also important. We´ll present an interesting selection here...
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