Blog post incoming! 🪸
Could you ever believe that a terrestrial forest could be displaced to the ocean?
Read Rosie's new blog all about how runoff originating from the Amazon is being churned up by Atlantic currents to create what is known as the phenomena, the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. 🐠
Check out our latest blog! 🎄
Dr. Sabrina Dookie’s latest blog, “Tree-mendous Traditions: Exploring the Role of Forests in the Holiday Celebrations”, dives into the diverse ways forests are woven into the fabric of Christmas and New Year’s festivities worldwide!
The wait is over: Our latest blog post has landed!
Coastal ecosystems rely on crabs but overharvesting and habitat destruction are taking a toll 🦀
Read now and share your thoughts!
#BES #CrabConservation #CoastalEcosystems #MarineLife #OceanSustainability
Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future
Exciting News! Check out our latest blog by Dr. Sabrina Dookie on the role of trees and forests in preserving food sustainability for World Food Day 2025.
Have a read below!
#forestecology #BES #WorldFoodDay2025 #forestry #foodsustainability
Unravel the tangled roots of mangrove ecology and perceptions!
Check out our latest blog by Dr. Sabrina Dookie, which dives into the common misconceptions about the fascinating world of mangrove forests and how we can overcome them for effective conservation success!
Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea) in Killiney Hill woodlands
Blog alert! Irish forests urgently need to be restored, but how can forest managers ensure that management actions benefit all the ecosystem services that Irish forests provide? Owen Small introduces ForES, a new forest decision support tool that addresses this challenge: shorturl.at/vAunO
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
Seven young people dressed in winter clothing pose of a photo.
🌳 Want to help protect the UK’s trees?
Six paid internships in #forestprotection + #treehealth now open via Kew & Forest Research. Undergrad or postgrad? Based in London or Scotland? This could be for you!
🧪 Apply by 22 July (Kew) / 24 July (Forest Research) www.forestprotection.uk/vacancies-cf...
Our 3 brilliant speakers for this event are:
🔹 Jens Wieting – Protecting old-growth forests amid political turmoil
🔹 Dr. Julee Boan – Canada’s silent crisis: industrial logging and forest degradation
🔹 Dr. Marta Maziarz – Researching the primeval Białowieża Forest: challenges & opportunities
🌍 How can we manage forests in times of political and societal upheaval? 🍁🍃
Join our webinar tomorrow (Tues 15 July, 3–4 pm BST) to hear from 3 experts on forest stewardship in uncertain times.
Register here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/look...
@britishecologicalsociety.org
📢 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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#job at The Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, SLU: Associate Senior Lecturer in conservation ecology, to improve the understanding of impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services resulting from alternative forest management strategies.
Closing 15 September 2025
www.slu.se/en/about-slu...
Thinking about contributing your time to the BES?
Here are the latest volunteering opportunities 👇
🌲 #PhD opportunity with Forest Research and
@HeriotWattUni to study the role of woodland restoration in landslide hazard reduction.
⏰ Apply by 20 June
📅 Starts in September 2025
🏔️ Research location: Rest and be thankful pass
🔗 Read more and apply: ow.ly/Il3n50W3YHl
🚀 New paper led by Dr Becks Spake!
We make the case for precision ecology—using big data & predictive tools to tailor conservation actions to local contexts.
Can ecology learn from medicine & marketing to boost impact? We think so.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eoaR4
#Conservation #Ecology #BigData
🌳 New paper out!
We present an integrated framework to monitor how deadwood influences soil moisture & carbon cycling in forests.
🔑 Key for climate-resilient forest management.
📖 J Plant Nutr Soil Sci
🔗 doi.org/10.1002/jpln...
#SoilScience #ForestEcology #CarbonCycle #ClimateChange #Deadwood
A new PostDoc position in our BioEO team url-shortener.me/1KHP @ecioxford.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk -> Quantifying interactions between climate change, forest functional diversity and fragmentation and vector borne diseases in the Amazon -> get in touch if interested ! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Size in the city: morphological differences between city and forest great tits have a genetic basis
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Barbara M Tomotani et al.
People and Nature is seeking proposals to the Special Feature 'Forests and Care'.
Submissions will be open until 22nd June - find all further information and the submission form here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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
🚨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...
Pastures to forests: what changes in soil carbon? 🌱🌳
In central Italy, natural succession boosts not just biomass but long-term soil carbon too.
💡 Dive into the @CZUvPraze team’s latest insights: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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#SoilCarbon#EcosystemChange #ForestryResearch @SapienzaRoma
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.
The #WoodlandTrust is releasing the next edition of the State of the UK's Woods & Trees. Join them for a live webinar THIS THURSDAY 12 June, 12.30-2pm (sign up here: woodlandtrust-org-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...).
Abandoned tanker in Bucha Municipal Park (Kyiv, Ukraine)
How can we protect forests during societal shocks and crises? Join the Forest Ecology SIG and speakers Marta Maziarz, Jens Wieting and Rachel Plotkin on 15th July (15:00 – 16:00 BST) for a webinar in which we'll answer this question.
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3hnp3th2
Photo: Mykhailo Volkov
The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL is part of the ETH Domain. Approximately 600 people work on the sustainable use and protection of the environment and on the handling of natural hazards. Due to retirement, WSL invites for applications for the position as Head of Research Unit Forest and Soil Ecology 90-100% (f/m/d) You will lead and inspire an internationally recognized Research Unit comprising seven well-established, strong Research Groups and approximately 100 collaborators from around 20 countries. As a distinguished ecologist, you will play an important role in national and international projects focusing on forest or soil science. In the unit, you will integrate diverse research fields, while facilitating and promoting the scientific and strategic development of the research groups. By your extensive experience you will align the unit with WSL’s vision of fostering research for people and the environment in a changing world. You will engage with key forest authorities and expert organizations, ensuring impactful collaborations, and optimizing the knowledge transfer. You are at an advanced stage of your scientific career, experienced in leading research teams and managing large projects. You possess a strong record as a Principal Investigator of significant initiatives, an outstanding publication portfolio, and a well-established international network. Deep expertise in forest ecology and/or soil processes and/or tree functions is assumed. You exemplify initiative, integration, and commitment, with proven skills in leadership, communication, and negotiation. Fluency in English and proficiency in at least one Swiss national language are required.
#Sciencejob Alert! Scientific career, experience in leading #research projects & international network? Strong expertise in #forest #ecology and/or #soil #processes and/or #tree functions? 🌳 We are looking for a new head of the forest and soil ecology research unit: apply.refline.ch/273855/1726/...
🔎👀 TropEco Lab is hiring, please share! 🚨
🌍🌴 Position: Senior Research Associate / Research Associate in Field and Molecular Ecology.
🪲🐝🦋 Task: You will use iDNA & eDNA to build bee-plant and dung beetle-mammal networks in the Brazilian Amazonia, Ghana, & Malaysia.
Further details -> bit.ly/4lurR9z
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...
