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Tom Pugh

@tompugh.bsky.social
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Scientist working on ecosystem-climate interactions, forests and the carbon cycle at Lund University and the University of Birmingham, was @tompughlab on Twitter

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The International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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...
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The International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
We are looking forward to ITMN seminar #30 with Ruiling Lu to learn about tree mortality in Australian forests 🌳 🌲 🌏 Come and join us! 👇🏽
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Emilio M Bruna @brunalab.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The US Forest Service. This is madness. Illegal, obviously. But madness even if it weren’t. WTAF morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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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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Pep Canadell @pepcanadell.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
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-...
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Julian Schrader @julianschrader.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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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PNAS
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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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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.
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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...
Mechanisms of size-related crown dieback.
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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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!
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.
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Andrew Abraham @andrewabraham.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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...
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Pierre Friedlingstein @pfriedling.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025 essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
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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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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Climate - BECC @beccsweden.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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
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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Important paper showing the dearth of plant taxonomists in the tropical countries that need them most www.cell.com/trends/plant...
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The International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Whether you’ve been with us for years or just joined, your perspective is valuable. Come help shape the future of the network! 🌐✨
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The International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🔍 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
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The International Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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! 🚀
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Lucia S. Layritz @lucialayr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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
Flyer for EGU26 session:  Present and future global vegetation dynamics and carbon stocks from observations and models
Convener: Lucia Sophie LayritzECS | Co-conveners: Ana Bastos, Viola HeinrichECS, Thomas Pugh, Martin Thurner | Deadline January 15th 2026
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ForestPaths Project @forestpaths.eu · 10/11/2025
🌲 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...
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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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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Cool opportunity in a great team who inspire working to improve not just technical methodology but also collaboration methodology :-)
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Reynaldo Linares-Palomino @rlinares.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Exciting #postdoc opportunity with #ForestGEO: forestgeo.si.edu/postdoctoral...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Forest Mortality
The position will be based at the ForestGEO headquarters at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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/...
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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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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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!
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ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system - MERGE @mergesweden.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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
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Climate modelling and the forest
Climate modelling and the forest
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Gabriel M. Moulatlet @gabrielmoulatlet.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
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/...
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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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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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...
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Diverse forests are more resistant to climate change
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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The banks financing fossil fuel exploitation in the Amazon news.mongabay.com/2025/11/thes...
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Dr Scott J. Davidson @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com · 05/11/2025
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....
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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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ForestPlots @forestplots.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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...
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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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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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
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Xavier Morin @xaviermorin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
📣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
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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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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Peter Cox @coxypm.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Just published, a land-mark paper by Annemarie Eckes-Shephard et al.! It assesses the performance of a new generation of Demography-enabled Dynamic Global Vegetation (D-DGVMs), that attempt to simulate the changing size and age structure of trees in forests.
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Arthur Argles @aargles.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Our paper is now published! A inter-model evaluation at a variety of forest biomes of nine "state of the art" demographic vegetation models. Well done @annemarie-es.bsky.social and @tompugh.bsky.social for leading this endeavour! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests
Vegetation demographic models (VDMs) are advanced tools for simulating forest responses to climate and land-use changes, and are essential for projecting carbon cycling and large-scale forest manage.....
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Belinda Medlyn @bmedlyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Postdoctoral position in Forest Monitoring available. Know your way around spatial datasets? Join us to help monitor changes in Australia's precious forest estate! @westsyduhie.bsky.social jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Forest Monitoring
Company Description: Western Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led institution at the heart of Australia’s fastest-growing and most economically significant region. With 11 cam...
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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this! The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems 📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
Global distribution of forest landscapes covered by airborne LiDAR
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Prof. Sonia I Seneviratne @soniaseneviratne.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
New starter pack with @ipcc.bsky.social #AR7 scientists (bureau, authors, REs)! Full list: apps.ipcc.ch/report/autho... For SR cities scientists see separate starter pack! @dianaurge.bsky.social @sherilee.bsky.social @siir-kilkis.bsky.social @janfuglestvedt.bsky.social go.bsky.app/2FuXb3Y
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Kali Middleby @kalimiddleby.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Check out our piece in @theconversation.com explaining how intraspecific trait coordination across climatic gradients helps to avoid heat stress in some (but not all) tropical tree species theconversation.com/some-tropica...
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Some tropical trees cool their leaves to survive the heat — but not all species have ways to cope
In full sun, tropical leaves can become much hotter than the surrounding air. Their ability to cope can be a matter of life or death.
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Robert G. Björk @robertgbjork.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🌍 Join us at University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪! We're hiring an Associate Senior Lecturer (tenure-track) in greenhouse gas dynamics in soil–plant systems. 🔬 Focus: peatlands, carbon & nitrogen cycles, land use. 🔗 bit.ly/47hQKRc #AcademicJobs #ClimateScience #Peatlands @beccsweden.bsky.social
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Associate Senior Lecturer in Ecosystem Science
At the Department of Earth Sciences, we have ca 75 employees who work in the
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
„Such censorship of scientists has been attempted by failed governments of the past such as Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and early communist China, always with disastrous consequences for their citizens.“ Watching MAGA-US sleepwalking into disaster. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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The Executive Order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is Dangerous for America
This EO is an unconstitutional attempt to censor and punish U.S. scientists for publishing science that doesn't fit a political agenda This misleading and false misrepresentation of U.S. scientif...
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Protected areas safeguard old-growth forests against human land use, but not against the impacts of anthropogenic climate change. Here we show that a climate-mediated increase in disturbances could cause a decline in old-growth forests in a national park in C Europe. doi.org/10.1088/1748...
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Andreas Christen @envmet.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Years of drought turn forest into source of CO₂ - Press release on our research with @simonhaber.bsky.social and @chriswernerlab.bsky.social at @icos-ri.eu site DE-Har, showing tree mortality following droughts has fundamentally shifted forest structure & functioning uni-freiburg.de/en/years-of-...
Aerial view of the experimental forest near Hartheim with the 30-metre-high crown access tower in September 2023. Dead Scots pines and gaps in the canopy are visible throughout the forest. Photo: Fabio Scarpa
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William Hammond @wmhammond.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Wondering where to submit your abstract for #AGU25 @agu.org annual meeting? Consider our cross-scale "Forest Physiological and Ecological Processes from Molecules to Ecosystems" organized session (#246685)! #EcoPhys
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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Good practices for data archiving www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Need to update your data? Follow these five tips
Researchers engaged in long-term projects often need to update their data sets over time. Here’s how to do it while maintaining reproducibility.
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Global evidence for a positive relationship between tree species richness and ecosystem photosynthesis - Nature Plants
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Global evidence for a positive relationship between tree species richness and ecosystem photosynthesis - Nature Plants
Forests with higher tree species richness show greater photosynthesis by capturing more sunlight, highlighting the essential role of biodiversity in enhancing carbon uptake and supporting the global carbon sink.
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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
As the mean rate of forest disturbance is increasing, so does its temporal variance. Proof that Taylor's law also applies to disturbance ecology, and a warning of more severe future extremes. Paper led by @corneliussenf.bsky.social w/ @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change - Nature Communications
Large pulses of disturbance have been observed globally in response to climate change. Using Taylor’s Law, the authors show that those pulses were not unpredictable but expected given a strong scaling...
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Paul J. Morris @peatbloke.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our new paper in ERL, led by Dr. Greta Dargie, shows peatlands of central Congo Basin are twice as old as previously believed. The oldest peat initiated at least 42,000 years ago and persisted through the Last Glacial Maximum dry phase. Open access and free to all iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Timing of peat initiation across the central Congo Basin. - IOPscience
Timing of peat initiation across the central Congo Basin., Dargie, Greta, Gulliver, Pauline, Lawson, Ian T, Morris, Paul J, Crezee, Bart, Bola, Pierre, Emba Botuli, Ovide, Girkin, Nicholas, Kanyama, Joseph, Biddulph, George, Hawthorne, Donna, Boukono, Déo R. V., Louvouandou, Lisa F., Milandou Matoko, Jodrhy P., Milongo, Brice, Kibongui, Gloire J., Schefuß, Enno, Garcin, Yannick, Bocko, Yannick, Young, Dylan M, Baird, Andy J, Boom, Arnoud, Ewango, Corneille E. N., Averti Ifo, Suspense, Kiahtipes, Chris, Mitchard, Edward T.A., Page, Susan, Sjoegersten, Sofie, Schneider, Ralph R., Tshimanga, Raphael, Trigg, Mark A, Lewis, Simon
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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
#Phenology #models: leaf emergence models are robust and stable; senescence models still need more refinement: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Stability and transferability of broadly trained phenology models in a changing climate
A variety of phenology process-based models have been developed to simulate environmental influences on the timing of spring and autumn phenophases. S…
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Neil Pederson @yellowbuckeye.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Does climate play a role in tree longevity? A paleo study in Georgia suggests that might be a possibility: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Study authors Katharine Napora, Ph.D., and Craig Jacobs, stand on the base on an ancient Bald Cypress tree hauled up from the Altamaha Wildlife Management Area on the Georgia coast. Credit: Florida Atlantic University
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Tobias Kuemmerle @tkuemmerle.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...
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New PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe | Conservation Biogeography Lab
We are excited to invite applications for a new PhD position on large mammals and land-use change in Europe. Join us at the Conservation and Biogeography Lab at Humboldt University Berlin!
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Daijun Liu @daijunliu.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
New paper published New Phytologist. We quantified globl shrubland sensitivity to climate change and nitrogen addition. @globalecounit.bsky.social @tompugh.bsky.social @n-acil.bsky.social @xdomene.bsky.social @franzessl1.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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World‐wide impacts of climate change and nitrogen deposition on vegetation structure, composition, and functioning of shrublands
Environmental changes and their effects are among the most pressing topics of today's ecological research. Shrublands, although widespread across the globe, remain understudied in this respect. We co...
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