A kauri tree looking towards the canopy.
PhD opportunity- fully funded with stipend, fees and project costs covered. Explore the role of phosphite in treating kauri dieback disease. Applications due 8th May. Please spread the word!
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✅📄Now Free Access: A dwarf conifer tree from the Triassic of Antarctica: the first fossil evidence of suppressed growth in a favourable climate?
Get the Paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
#PlantScience
📢Oportunidad de investigación con mariposas🦋
Se buscan estudiantes voluntarios para trabajo de campo y de laboratorio en distintos bosques de #PuertoRico, comenzando en agosto 2026.
✉️ Comunícate con la Dra. Osmary Medina (osmary.medina2@gmail.com) para más información.
#CienciaPR #CienciaBoricua
We are hiring! Interested in doing a PhD and excited about forest management, ecosystem services, simulation modeling and beta diversity? Come work with us @edfm-tum.bsky.social at @tum.de, full job ad here: cloud.edfm.ls.tum.de/index.php/s/...
Pipeline for integrating lidar data with structured demographic models for ecological inference. (a) Forest populations are surveyed at appropriate time intervals with a lidar scanner to produce high-resolution 3D point clouds. Point clouds are processed into canopy height models (CHMs) and digital terrain models (DTMs). (b) Individual tree segmentation is performed using a CHM-based algorithm (e.g. Dalponte & Coomes, 2016). (c) Relevant environmental variables are derived. For example, TWI is an indicator of soil moisture accumulation (Kopecký et al., 2021) and is calculated from the DTM. Local competition is inferred from the canopy density surrounding each tree, using the CHM. (d) Trees are matched across time points using a crown-matching algorithm (Battison et al., 2024; Olsoy et al., 2024), before measuring changes in size and classifying mortalities. (e) Continuous traits (e.g. height and crown area) are evaluated for their ability to predict survival and growth across the life cycle. (f) Selected traits and environmental parameters are used to model the vital rates using regressions. (g) The integral projection model (IPM) is constructed based on the selected vital rate models and key life history traits (e.g. mean life expectancy, longevity, generation time) are calculated. (h) Finally, IPM outputs are analysed to test ecological hypotheses.
The first paper from my PhD is now out in the world 🌲📖 Modelling forest dynamics using IPMs and repeat lidar doi.org/10.1002/rse2...
New Pub: Identifying hurricane and sea-level rise signatures in coastal oak forests of the Northeastern United States using a multi-parameter approach
Led by Dr. Nicole Davi:
doi.org/10.1016/j.gl...
Exciting new work from Taylor et al in J of Clim. showing tree-ring PDSI reconstructions can identify compound drought-heatwave events in regions with strong land-atmosphere coupling. Clever disentangling of temp and ppt in PDSI recons!
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Exciting climate news from UEA @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social:
Vacancy: Professor of Climate & Environment.
UEA joins the Met Office Academic Partnership
Andy Jordan (Tyndall) appointed to UK Climate Change Committee
Bill Collins (Berkeley) is moving to UEA as Professor of AI for Climate Science
There is a new spiffier interface for xDateR. Since I'm teaching shiny apps this quarter I used it as an excuse to learn new UI and UX stuff. And I'm doing some more work on more graceful error handling that will come soon.
viz.datascience.arizona.edu/xDateR/
2 postdoc positions available in our lab to work on
C allocation : recrutement.cirad.fr/job/job-rese...
WUE : recrutement.cirad.fr/job/job-ecop...
with a focus on tropical ecosystems.
Part of FairC program
Application deadline: 13th of April 2026
Start date: 1rst of June 2026
Duration : 18 months
Some cork oaks (Quercus suber; probably the original forest) survived the pine plantation & the fire! Now resprouting epicormically. Cork oak is much more resilient than those plantations! Serra da Estrela fire 2025, Portugal
🧪🌍🔥🌳🪴🌾🌿🔥🍁 #PlantBiology wildfire
#ScienceOutreach
🌳Hoy llevamos la ciencia de los bosques que hacemos en el #ICIFOR-INIA @csic.es
a los alumn@s de la Serranica de Aspe (Alicante)
Con @carmenromeralo.bsky.social @isaullo.bsky.social
#seguimientobosques
#biomasa
#biodiversidad
#adaptación
#amenazas #plaga #incendios
🔥🐗🛰️📐🌳🌱🪰🍄🟫
📃✍️Payment-based open access is biasing scientific participation from the Global South in ecology
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#GlobalBias #OpenScience #ResearchEquity #ScientificInclusion #SocioPoliticalDisparities
Great to see out a study started during one of the young researcher scientific missions of the @costprogramme.bsky.social Bottoms-Up, just in our lab at #Sapienza.
Congrats to Julian for these relevant results!
Tropical Alder (Alnus acuminata) tree rings.
The 2026 study cited in Zach's article is a tour de force by my former tree-ring friends/colleagues at Oregon State. They produced 36 fire history chronologies across the OR Cascades to unequivocally document the fire history of that region.
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Important forest carbon perspective from @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social 🌍
Refining estimates of carbon storage across forest types strengthens science-based climate policy.
Discover more in the Journal of Forestry Research: link.springer.com/journal/11676
#CarbonStorage #ForestScience #JFR 🌿🌐
I always say that it’s good to be in nature (surrounded by flowers and insects)…
but to be in Nature (the scientific journal) is not bad either 😊
The push for open access (which turned out to be 'Gold'), first from the grassroots and then top down from governments, has created a situation where big publishers now feel they can (and do) charge outlandish APCs. That $ could more than pay for a graduate student stipend for an entire summer. 1/
We are looking for a postdoc (up to five years) interested in climate-driven plant extinctions! Working with @manuelsteinbauer.bsky.social and me and a large team on various aspects of Earth system sciences.
More information here: fau-earth-system-science.github.io
Last week we received an OSCARR (Open Scholarship Commitment Award for Reproducible Research) for our research together with collaborators at @harvardforest.bsky.social on New England hurricanes and forest carbon stocks
New paper where we assess how reliable estimates of aboveground biomass from tree rings are compared to permanent monitoring plots in forests where management interventions affect dynamics and growth #ForestEcology #ForestManagement #Management doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
Sampling tree decline for #MorTeDen project:
Combining dendrochronology, proximal remote sensing & satellite data to understand forest mortality. (Funded by
@ecosistemas-aeet.bsky.social 🍁
#TreeDecline #Dendrochronology #RemoteSensing #ForestEcology
#Aleppopine
All Reforestation Methods Can Support Tropical Tree Diversity Recovery, but Drivers and Species Composition Vary
🔗 buff.ly/VB4ptsy
Old-growth Forest Research Assistants
We are seeking old-growth forest research technicians to study and document old-growth forests in Spring & Summer 2026 Virgina.
See the attached images for the job description and how to apply.
Tessa Mandra microcoring the more southerly species, Shagbark Hickory
Yiping Zhang, Junliang Xu, and Tessa Mandra microcoring the more northerly species, Red Spruce
Neil Pederson coring the more southerly species, White Oak
Tessa Mandra microcoring the more northerly species, Paper Birch
An abbreviated microcore study of 6 contrasting tree species in the middle of a regional ecotone indicated that spring temps seem to control radial growth onset & southern tree species grew more than northern tree species
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Job opportunity: Join ETH Zurich as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Sustainable Plant Nutrition.
Application deadline: 28th February 2026.
Explore more details at the link. #PlantSciJobs
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
You won't want to miss this! Keep your calendars free and hopefully see you in Switzerland in October 🌳🍁🌐🧪
We're hiring a full-time technician to support radiocarbon analyses. If you have some experience with analytical instruments and background in chemistry, earth sciences, archaeology, and/or ecology, this could be the job for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Come join the Tumber-Dávila Lab as our next Lab manager!
We have been fortunate to have Grady Welsh for the last two years, but he will soon be off to bigger and better things pursuing a PhD. While we could never replace Grady, we are eager to hire someone new to help support our ever-growing lab!