Oak apple galls caused by Biorhiza pallida and galls caused by oriental chestnut gall wasp Dryocosmus kuriphilus spotted in Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens today

Mixed Forestation Outperforms Pure Stands in Soil Carbon Sequestration and Stability

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Tree characteristics change in mixed forests, leading to more wood production than in single-species plantations Joel Jensen, Haben Blondeel, Chloe MacLaren, Iftekhar U. Ahmed, Laurent Augusto, Lander Baeten, Mark R. Bakker, Jürgen Bauhus, Christel Baum, Friderike Beyer, Pedro Brancalion, Elisabeth Bönisch, P…

Tree characteristics change in mixed forests, leading to more wood production than in single-species plantations🌳

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Diversity affects microclimate temperature and humidity: an overview of the evidence and major unanswered questions Climate change is increasing global temperatures, increasing atmospheric drying, and driving more severe and frequent drought. Plants can cool and humidify microclimates through sensible and latent h...

Diversity affects microclimate temperature and humidity: an overview of the evidence and major unanswered questions - Wright - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fascinating new insights on the forest volatilome! 🍁🧪
Led by Lena Carlson we identify deadwood as a main driver of VOC beta-diversity, linked to the diversity of beetles. 🪲

@betafor.bsky.social @ecoresearchzoo3.bsky.social

Judas tree, Antalya, Turkey

Infographic explaining species numbers that could be lost under high climate change and intensifying land use

New UKCEH-led study warns of closing 20-year window in which decisions on climate & land use will determine fate of 200+ species of native #birds, #butterflies & #plants across Britain.

But sustainable climate & land policies would save many of the species.

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A unique opportunity to join @rhulbiology.bsky.social as a Professor of Biological Sciences and Head of Department! Apply by 26 April 2026 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

🔊SAVE THE DATE for our 6th SORTEE conference: 13-14th Oct 2026!

Registration & content submission (unconferences, hackathons, workshops) will open soon.

Keep an👁️on sortee.org/upcoming/ #SORTEE2026

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Still time to join our #MetaAnalysis in R course with @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social & @shreyadimri.bsky.social (11–14 May, online)!

Learn systematic reviews, effect sizes, meta-analysis & meta-regression in R with hands-on exercises & real datasets.

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#RStats

Global literature review and survey of implementation constraints on natural climate solutions @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ecologists love response ratios for meta-analysis❤️

But… they can’t be converted into other effect sizes—making it impossible to have a unified dataset of all published effect sizes in ecology

I fix this with a conversion to Hedges’ d to help unify our data!

(Link to Ecology Letters paper below):

Managing European forests for biodiversity conservation and global change adaptation: An assessment of current management concepts Integrative forest management (IFM) aims at integrating biodiversity conservation and global change adaptation into forest management for the sustaina…

🌳 New paper out on Integrative Forest Management (IFM)🌲

How can we manage European forests to support biodiversity, global change adaptation, and ecosystem service provision?

We propose IFM as a unifying framework to tackle this challenge. #TRANSFORMIT

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Ecological predictors of plant responses to sequential herbivory: a meta‐analysis See also the Commentary on this article by Heinen, 250: 699–701.

Our meta-analysis on ecological predictors of plant responses to sequential herbivory is now published in April issue of @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

1st stakeholder workshop for the case study "Diversifying Finland's forests" within @trees4adapt.bsky.social project is done! Good discussions on risks to Finnish forests from climate change and biodiversity loss and feasibility of forest diversification as a tree-based solution to these risks

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🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲

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This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity!

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BES 2026 Nature-based solutions Event – York, 29-30 June Attend the BES symposium on Nature-based solutions and ecology in York. Who benefits, who decides, who pays? Register today and be part of the discussion

🔔Less than two weeks left to submit a presentation for our symposium in June

💭Nature-based Solutions: Who benefits, who decides, who pays?

Get your presentations in by ▶️ Weds 25 March

🧪 #ecology #policy #business #finance #nature #climatechange
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Climate change will increase forest disturbances in Europe throughout the 21st century Wildfires, insect outbreaks, and storms cause large pulses of tree mortality. Climate change amplifies these forest disturbances, yet their future magnitude and extent remain uncertain. Here, we simul...

Across Europe, climate-driven forest disturbances, such as wildfires and insect outbreaks, are expected to increase over the next century, according to a new large-scale modeling study in Science, substantially altering forested landscapes continent-wide. https://scim.ag/4uwZMmH

It was great to host Zoe Davies from @dice-kent.bsky.social at @rhulbiology.bsky.social today for the departmental seminar. Fantastic talk, lots of questions and good discussions afterwards

We have a growing collection of resources for women in ecology that support, celebrate and advocate for women's roles in research and practice. 

Check our collection of resources here 👇
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Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis), sweet violet (Viola odorata), stinking hellebore (Helleborus foetidus) and spurge laurel (Daphne laureola) are some of the #signsofspring I have spotted this week #wildflowerhour

🤝 we're recruiting an Associate Blog Editor!
📝 join us in identifying, commissioning, and editing blog posts for Animal Ecology in Focus
🐝 more information on the role and how to apply can be found here: buff.ly/I9Kf6Er

🪲Submit your proposals for our new Special Feature with @jappliedecology.bsky.social & @funecology.bsky.social!

This special feature will focus on how climate change affects plant–antagonist interactions, then click the link 👉️ buff.ly/SFdaRGu

Lovely sunny spring morning, perfect for walking @royalholloway.bsky.social living campus trail and enjoying daffodil display before the campus gets too busy. Nice to see bee orchid rosettes as well

Spent last few days attending the annual assembly of Biodiversity Exploratories (@bexplo.bsky.social) as an advisory board member. The quality of science produced by this long-term research programme is truly impressive. If you act quickly, you can still register for #BE20Conference to learn more

Biomedical and life science articles by female researchers spend longer under review Women are underrepresented in academia, especially in STEMM fields, at top institutions, and in senior positions. This study analyzes millions of biomedical and life science articles, revealing that f...

Median amount of time spent under review is 7.4–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles and the differences remain significant after controlling for several factors - analysis of >36.5 million articles in >36,000 journals
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Placements for PhD Students We welcome PhD placement students to learn from our experts and make real contributions to our work at Kew Gardens in London or Wakehurst in Sussex.

Are you a PhD student looking for a placement? I’m offering a 3-month project at @rbgkew.bsky.social to build on @forest-protection.bsky.social research on pest and pathogen risks to trees 🪲🪾🦠🪾 Apply by 13th March! www.kew.org/science/training-and-education/placements-for-phd-students

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A short guide for effective field data collection Post provided by Faith Jones, Helen Spence-Jones, and Caroline Greiser Fieldwork is the foundation of ecological science. From observational and monitoring studies, to experiments done in complex r…

New blog post!!🚨

Faith Jones, Helen Spence-Jones, and Caroline Greiser talk through their new guide for field data collection 📃 🌱

@faithamjones.bsky.social @linegreis.bsky.social 🌍 🧪

Read the blog post here 👉

Went last night to see the preview of @sofiaatsea.bsky.social show about oceans, and it was brilliant - honest, wity, moving, thought-provoking, with some unexpected twists and so cleverly put together. Congratulations, Sofia!