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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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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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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

How do forest harvesting regimes really look across Europe? Working with forestry inventories from 11 countries @ssuvanto.bsky.social quantifies how probability and intensity of harvest events actually vary across the continent agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

And now a logo for the LPJ-GUESS demographic vegetation model. Same science, prettier branding 😄 LPJ-GUESS is maintained by a global collaboration headed by institutes in Lund, Garmisch, Sydney, Frankfurt and Munich and the code is freely available web.nateko.lu.se/lpj-guess/in...

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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The biomass carrying capacity of forests, as defined by the relation of stem number and tree biomass (self-thinning slope) varies greatly across biomes and by stand age and rainfall seasonality. A strong constraint on forest dynamics quantified globally. Led by Kailiang Yu doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The growth-longevity relationship in trees is much more complex than a simple trade-off and trees in higher latitudes live longer than those in the tropics on average. From Lalasia Biliac-Murphy @crowtherlab.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Harvest in northern temperate forests has reduced carbon turnover time by 32% compared to their natural state. Based on a new approach to estimate large scale natural disturbance regimes in the LPJ-GUESS model. With Cornelius Senf & @rupertseidl.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Drought explains the increasing trend in tree mortality in the Amazon over recent decades. Here diagnosed with a new representation of drought effects in the LPJ-GUESS demographic vegetation model. Led by Phillip Papastefanou & @anjarammig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1088/1748...

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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

There are also striking patterns in the shape and clustering of large disturbances across the world's forests, with signs that human activity is tending to homogenise these patterns across biomes (and ultimately therefore, the structure). Led by @n-acil.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s418...

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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Clear patterns emerge in the combinations of traits that govern how temperate forests respond to drought - and those patterns are more linked to temperature than they are to aridity. Led by @daijunliu.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Trees species in northern hemisphere forests are tending to do better on the cold and wet end of their ranges than the warm and dry end - climate change playing out over the last decades. But several are doing the opposite! Led by @julenastigarraga.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

How does the form of stand replacing disturbances vary across the world? @n-acil.bsky.social has mapped them out in this very nice paper from her PhD work www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Tom Pugh @tompugh.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Is London the most biodiverse place on Earth? (and what does this mean for how we should measure biodiversity?) Søren Faurby at The BECC annual meeting in Gothenburg - love it 😅

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