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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️ @mattcscience.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Paper out in Nature Sustainability today: Minimizing climate change adaptation trade-offs in African rangelands. See the open access article here: rdcu.be/uxjXoRTWqeAa Along with an accompanying press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️ @mattcscience.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Really fun to go on ABC News Australia to talk about @tom-pienkowski.bsky.social, @morenamills.bsky.social, and my new paper (along with several coauthors not on bluesky). See more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... @catalyzconserv.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au @ic-cep.bsky.social

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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️ @mattcscience.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

2) What people do with their animals further affects the environment. While tons of research focuses on the direct effects of climate and climate change on rangelands, we forget that climate also affects people's behavior. These secondary effects can be massive, but also predictable.

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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️ @mattcscience.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This is important for two reasons: 1) Poorer communities are more likely to sell cows during droughts to pay for food for the rest of the herd. This is disadvantageous. They're worth less when they're skinny and the market gets flooded with people doing the same. This is a sort of poverty trap.

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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️ @mattcscience.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

New super cool paper out last week that you should definitely check out! 🚨😎🐮🌧️ We show that across space and time, economic wellbeing determines how communities respond to precipitation variability in South Africa: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️ @mattcscience.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Really amazed by the turnout for our launch of 'Mangroves of Pemba' in Stonetown this past weekend, including the head of the heads of Zanzibar's of the Ministry Natural Resources and Dept. of Forests See: shorturl.at/zwMYN @ic-cep.bsky.social @imperiallifesci.bsky.social @imperialsci.bsky.social

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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️ @mattcscience.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Zanzibar-based people. Come by Emerson Spice in Stonetown this Saturday if you like free food and books about mangroves. Event in collaboration with the Zanzibar Dept of Forests and Mkuki na Nyota Publishers.

Photo of ‘Mangroves of Pemba’ book with details of a book launch event

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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️ @mattcscience.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Super cool to see this up in the @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social entrance today for the Faculty of Natural Sciences Research Image Competition. This comes from ongoing work with @martin-brandt.bsky.social, @conservationorg.bsky.social,and others. @tom-pienkowski.bsky.social @morenamills.bsky.social

A map of forest cover estimates in Nepal at very high resolution, shown on a large screen in the entrance of Imperial College London.

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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️ @mattcscience.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Some nice drone photos of seaweed farms in Pemba, Tanzania from this week. The seaweed 🌿 grown here goes all over the world, ending up in your toothpaste 🦷 and ice cream 🍦

Shallow water seaweed farm in the tidal plains of Pemba, Tanzania

Shallow water seaweed farm in the tidal plains of Pemba, Tanzania. Photo shows men and women laying seaweed out in long rows on a long rise in the sand.

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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️ @mattcscience.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

When I started studying mangroves in Pemba, I was surprised to find out that no one knew exactly how many species were on the island. So, my coauthors and I rode a motorcycle around to every coastal community to see which species were there and ask people about local names and uses.

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Matt Clark 🌳🌄🏖️ @mattcscience.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

First blusky post to share that I just received the first author-copies from my mangrove guidebook pet project from my phd. Super exciting! Will be available to purchase at: tinyurl.com/2brr9v9j in the coming months with all proceeds going to mangrove conservation in Pemba.

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