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HoliSoils Project @holisoils.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Mixed #forests outperform spruce plantations in carbon fight!🌲 A 24-year field study, led by M. Bosela and peers at Technical University Zvolen, part of #HoliSoils, finds that Norway spruce plantations are more vulnerable than neighbouring mixed forests. Full story ➡️ holisoils.eu/mixed-forest...

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Mixed forests outperform spruce plantations in carbon fight - HoliSoils

A 24-year field experiment in Slovakia finds that Norway spruce plantations are more vulnerable to drought, pest outbreaks and soil carbon losses than

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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology

Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Terrestrial laser scanning can transform national forest inventories by adding new measurements and a 3D perspective. In our new paper we provide a pathway for implementing 3D forest surveys. 1/6 🧪🌎🌳🌲 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fig. 1 from Holvoet et al. (2025). TLS and MLS scan setup, point cloud segmentation, and pre-processing.

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

So excited to announce this newly funded project 🎉 🌲 We want to understand relationships between forest structural diversity (not just species diversity!), #drought #resilience and timber quality using cutting edge remote sensing #LiDAR) and tree cores to look back in time at tree growth!

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Absolutely delighted to have secured funding through the Centre for Forest Protection and be collaborating with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew @rbgkew.bsky.social on this exciting research!

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Jakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 16/07/2025

🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs. Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/ #rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover

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Matt Jones @mattwjones.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🌳 🔥 🌎 Our new paper: The extreme fire-prone #weather underpinning some of the worst #wildfire episodes this century has become more than twice as likely due to #climate change—a trend now evident across much of the world's tropical and mid-latitude #forests. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally - Nature Communications

The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings highlight the need for act...

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Nature Plants @natplants.nature.com · 08/07/2025

New Article: "Global evidence for a positive relationship between tree species richness and ecosystem photosynthesis" rdcu.be/evevg Forests with higher tree species richness show greater photosynthesis: essential role of biodiversity in enhancing carbon uptake.

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

📢 Fully funded PhD studentship for UK students is available in my lab @rhulbiology.bsky.social as part of new EU project Trees4Adapt 🌲🌳 Fieldwork in forest diversity experiments in Finland www.sataforestdiversity.org 📆 Apply by Sept 8th, start date - Jan 2026 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🍁🌍🧪

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Margaret Evans @mekevans.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

New in @sciencemagazine, a review on Scaling plant responses to heat (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Increased temperature along with acute heat waves threaten the ability of terrestrial vegetation to act as a carbon sink, but predicting how plants will respond to heat is challenging.

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Scaling plant responses to heat: From molecules to the biosphere

Predicting plant responses to rising temperatures, including acute heat waves and hot droughts of varying intensity and duration, is central to addressing the climate and biodiversity crises. However,...

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

🌊 Exciting research could help the UK better prepare for droughts...  It shows a link between North Atlantic ocean temperatures and UK summer droughts, with signs up to 18 months ahead ☀️ @amulyachevuturi.bsky.social explains more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... @canari-science.bsky.social 🧪

Infographic with maps showing how North Atlantic Ocean temperatures are linked to UK droughts many months later.

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EXCELLENTIA_HE @excellentia.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

🚨The new 🧪publication by Marian Schönauer, @borisrewald.bsky.social et al. demonstrates that #ERA5-Land data is equally well suited to modelling 🍁 #tree growth as weather station data. ERA5-Land opens up possibilities for modelling and overcomes issues of data accessibility. doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...

The main map shows colour-coded stands of four tree species included in the tree-ring width dataset (TRWall), details of Austria and Germany (TRWAWS) with automatic weather stations (AWS, black dots; top right), and an example overlay of ERA5-Land grid cells (blue lines), locations of AWS and sites (bottom right). The ACE2 (Altimeter Corrected Elevations, v.2) digital elevation model is used as the background.

Citation: Schönauer MJ, Pucher C, Altman J, Weißbacher J, Sprengel L, Rewald B (2025) Beyond meterological data: Modelling Tree Growth with ERA5-Land. Agr Forest Meteorol 372:110679. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110679

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Great opportunity to do some awesome science at @rbgkew.bsky.social and @forestresearchuk.bsky.social on our new project combining dendrochronology & genetics to find climate resilient genotypes in oak! 🍁 🌳🧬 🥼Job: PostDoc 💷 Salary: £43,751 🗓️ Closing date: 05/06/25 careers.kew.org/internal/vac...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 21/05/2025

Drought is a growing issue in tropical rainforests. A study in Nature Ecology & Evolution revisits a long-term rainfall manipulation experiment in the Amazon to show that tree mortality was followed by community-level adjustments to reduced precipitation. go.nature.com/4kbQbfu 🧪

This is figure 3, which provides a synthetic diagram showing a summary of the results, including individual physiology (hydraulics and growth) and forest carbon dynamics.

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

🎉🌲🌳🍁🛰️ NEW PROJECT! Delighted to announce that our NEW 3yr project “Enhancing forest resilience through stand structural complexity” has been funded through @forest-protection.bsky.social to look at relationships between forest structure & drought resilience! www.forestprotection.uk/2025/05/06/a...

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Defra Announces New Funding for the Centre for Forest Protection - Centre for Forest Protection

The Centre for Forest Protection has been awarded £4m to support 17 more projects in 2025-26.

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Julia Koricheva @juliakoricheva.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Single- vs mixed-species plantations: A systematic review on the effects on biodiversity 🌳🌲https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320725002198

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Only 1 day left to apply to come and work with us at Forest Research!!🔬 🌲🌳📊👇🍁 🌲🔬Role: Data analyst 📆 Closing date: 15th April 💷 Salary: £32,089 + a 28.97% pension ⏳Duration: Fixed term May 2025 - March 2026 with the possibility of extension Apply HERE: www.forestresearch.gov.uk/about-us/car...

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Careers - Forest Research

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Kirsten Krüger @kirstenkrueger.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Setting forests aside doesn’t stir up more trouble—in fact, it calms the chaos 🌳 Happy to see my first PhD chapter out! 📝 Setting aside forests for biodiversity conservation does NOT amplify disturbances in temperate forests of Central Europe. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Setting aside areas for conservation does not increase disturbances in temperate forests

We found no evidence that setting aside forests for biodiversity conservation amplifies disturbances in temperate forests of Central Europe. Conversely, we found that strict forest reserves had lower...

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Danni Thompson @scottishseabird.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

1/7 Variation between individuals is important as it determines how adaptable to change a population might be. Even generalist spp are often comprised of specialist individuals, but specialisation is often only studied across single traits which is limiting. #BOU2025 #ornithology #seabirds #ecology

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Job Alert! Interested in cutting edge forest science, fieldwork and data analysis? 🍁 x2 Roles: Data analyst/modeller Closing date for application: 15th April Salary: £32,089 Duration: Fixed term, May 2025 - March 2026 possibility of extension www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Making this film was a lot of fun! Many thanks to all the wonderful Scientists that hosted me in Argentina and Chile during this Short Scientific Visit in 2023, and to IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social for funding it! 🍁 #SciComm #Forest #Ecology #Resilience #ClimateChange #Climate #PlantScience

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Forest Research @forestresearchuk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

🌲 How can we make forests more resilient to #ClimateChange? To find out, Forest Research compared the early survival & growth rates of familiar tree species to lesser-known species from multiple provenances across a range of site conditions. Dr. Tom Ovenden MICFor breaks down the key findings ⤵

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Tom Fairman @itsnotfairman.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Excellent first PhD paper from @aaronheap.bsky.social using Wilson's Prom as a case study to examine the long term impacts of high severity short interval fire - Diverse forest types all converge on a homogenised structural form and this persists for decades. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

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Short-interval fires homogenise the structure of diverse temperate forests

Changing fire regimes can drive significant transformations in forest landscapes, including shifts to alternative stable states. However, these states…

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Love these starter packs, great way of rebuilding your ecological science community on BS 🙂Global Ecology Starter Pack Vol. 3: go.bsky.app/MkLHiKU

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The beautiful Anagach Pinewoods in the #Cairngorms, managed by the local community! A nice place to get lost for a bit 🙂

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Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

🚨PhD opportunity: Biodiversity for woodland resilience: the long-term functional ecology of tree diversity 🌲🌳🌱 Advertised by colleagues at @ukceh.bsky.social & @buforestry.bsky.social How can we manage woodlands to deliver for biodiversity & climate-change mitigation? tinyurl.com/mr3w76yd

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Biodiversity for woodland resilience: the long-term functional ecology of tree diversity

The benefits of biodiversity for forest resilience and delivery of many ecosystem services underpin “nature-based solutions”. However, there are major gaps in knowledge of the ecological mechanisms, l...

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Nicolas Mouquet @nmouquet.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Global Ecology 🌐 starter pack vol 1 & 2 are full and curated !! ✨💚 Please share so they will fly into the blue sky 🦋🌈 Vol1 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Vol2 👉 bsky.app/starter-pack... Will start a Vol. 3 soon, please reply if you want to be in ! 🌐🧪🌍🦤🍁🦑🪴🦉🐍🌾

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Interesting 3 year funded PhD -> Ecologically-based temperate rainforest restoration: effectiveness for biodiversity recovery, carbon sequestration and resilience at Bangor University on FindAPhD.com

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PhD Programmes, Research Projects & Studentships in the UK & Europe

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Marcus Lindner @marlind.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We published three policy briefs on enhancing forest resilience based on results of our Horizon2020 project RESONATE. Second: The Role of Biodiversity in Making Forests Resilient efi.int/sites/defaul...

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Forest Research @forestresearchuk.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We have an exceptional opportunity available to join Forest Research as our Chief Scientist. 🌍✨ If you are ready to make a lasting impact on the future of forest science, apply now: ow.ly/bMxR50UTly5 #ForestResearch #ScienceLeadership #ChiefScientist #JobVacancy

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Monica G. Turner @monicagturner.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

New in #PNAS, temp-driven increased seed production in European beech caused 28% reduction in annual tree ring increments since 2005. Important for European forests and good example using long-term data (43 yr) of how past does not predict future #forestdynamics. 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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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Delighted to have led this research and always great to see our science published! Check out this video, the paper and a data explorer we’ve built so that YOU can interactively explore the data and the results yourself! Thanks to the FR team and Forestry England for making this research possible🍁

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’ve heard of this before but never actually seen it myself until this week - an old stump of a previously felled Momi fir (Abies firma) healed over but is still alive many years later - I’m guessing from roots which have grafted to other living trees below ground! Pretty cool! #forest

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Bit late I know but couldn’t not share these amazing Northern Lights photos on New Years Day! That has to be a good omen for the year right!?!?

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Final 2 days of an awesome 4 day cycle trip doing the Morray Gravel Triangle which links up the Speyside, Moray and Dava ways! No option but to ride through #StormDarragh 😂 - fortunately less intense than expected but my lord was it wet!

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

2 days down, 2 days to go! Love a beautiful winter #bikepacking adventure in Scotland!

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Another beautiful winter night in a #Scottish bothy - never seen so many red deer!

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Tom Ovenden @woodecology.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Hi everyone! Making the move from #twitter so i'm new!  I'm a #Research #Scientist and #Forest #Ecologist working on #ClimateChange #Resilience.  I also have a passion for #Nature #Photography and #Adventure so mostly posting about exciting #Science and pretty pictures!   Here's one I made earlier!

Stars at night with a silhouette of trees in a forest

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