ITMN Seminar #30 with Ruiling Lu

April 14, 2026 at 15:00 (CEST)

👉Rising tree mortality across Australian forests

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We are looking forward to ITMN seminar #30 with Ruiling Lu to learn about tree mortality in Australian forests 🌳 🌲 🌏

Come and join us!
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

The US Forest Service. This is madness. Illegal, obviously. But madness even if it weren’t. WTAF

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

A new paper for anyone interested in the role of forest conservation, forestry, and forest products as climate solutions.

Led by Didac Pascual and Anders Ahlstrom from Lund University.

theconversation.com/swedens-old-...

New paper just out deciphering the global species–area relationship for plants with @biogeokreft.bsky.social @patrickweigelt.bsky.social and others in @pnas.org

Across islands area alone explains 66% of variation in richness best described by a classic power-law model

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This was not an inevitability.

This is the result of decades of political choices that rig the system in favor of the wealthy and powerful while leaving workers behind.

It does not have to be this way.

Mechanisms of size-related crown dieback.

Prioritizing carbon reserve over growth: how aging trees mitigate carbon starvation risk
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#Commentary by Fang highlighting the recent work by Zhang et al.
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Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt.

Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2

Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

Global Carbon Budget 2025 Abstract. Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate is critical to bette...

Published today in Earth System Science Data: The Global Carbon Budget 2025
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Swedish Climate Symposium: Call for Abstracts open

SCS is a symposium for increased scientific understanding of climate change and its environmental and societal consequences. Explore the programme to see which sessions are accepting abstracts. Submit by 30 January: swedishclimatesymposium.com

Important paper showing the dearth of plant taxonomists in the tropical countries that need them most

www.cell.com/trends/plant...

Whether you’ve been with us for years or just joined, your perspective is valuable. Come help shape the future of the network! 🌐✨

🔍 What are the ITMN meetings about?

We’re taking a moment to reflect on our progress and set new priorities together. We kick
off with a quick recap, then open the floor for your ideas on:

– What matters most to you
– Where ITMN should focus next
– Opportunities to take a more active role

We’re opening the doors for community meetings. Your chance to influence our next steps & get more involved in the network.

Join one of our upcoming sessions:

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Flyer for EGU26 session: Present and future global vegetation dynamics and carbon stocks from observations and models Convener: Lucia Sophie LayritzECS | Co-conveners: Ana Bastos, Viola HeinrichECS, Thomas Pugh, Martin Thurner | Deadline January 15th 2026

Are you studying vegetation dynamics 🍃, tree mortality 🪵, or other aspects of the terrestrial carbon cycle? 🌍

Consider submitting to our #EGU26 session "Present & future global vegetation dynamics & carbon stocks from observations & models". We'd be delighted! ☺️

👉 www.egu26.eu/session/57391

ForestPaths disturbance maps now available on FISE With ForestPaths releasing the European Forest Disturbance Atlas - a dataset of annual forest disturbance maps across 38 European countries - it is also now featured on the Forest Information System f...

🌲 The European Forest Disturbance Atlas by ForestPaths is now on Forest Information Systems for Europe!

Using Landsat data (1985–2023), the maps track fires, storms, bark beetles & harvesting across 38 countries — open-source & updated annually.

🔗 Explore more: forestpaths.eu/news/forestp...

Nice piece! Even "just" the land model often makes my head explode...

Cool opportunity in a great team who inspire working to improve not just technical methodology but also collaboration methodology :-)

Exciting #postdoc opportunity with #ForestGEO: forestgeo.si.edu/postdoctoral...

@forestpaths.eu

@forestpaths.eu

Combining empirical and mechanistic understanding of spruce bark beetle outbreak dynamics in the LPJ-GUESS (v4.1, r13130) vegetation model Abstract. For exploring forest performance in the future, dynamic vegetation models are important tools. Tree mortality is a crucial process in these models, but explicit representations of major agen...

A new bark beetle damage model for European forests, now online as part of LPJ-GUESS. Conceptualised and brought to life by Fredrik Lagergren to bring virtual death to simulated spruce in the name of understanding forest vulnerability
gmd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

A massive thanks to Yongshuo Fu, Shouzhi Chen and Jia Zitong for the collaboration to make it possible and hosting!

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!

Climate modelling and the forest Climate modelling and the forest

How do forests shape the climate — and how does a changing climate reshape our forests? What can science reveal about the forests of tomorrow?

With the municipality of Lund we produced this mini documentary about climate modeling and the forest, as part of an exhibition at Skrylle outside of Lund

General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally | PNAS A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...

in "General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally", we provide key insights into species’ vulnerability to environmental change and the processes that structure biodiversity at global scales.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Diverse forests are more resistant to climate change

New study led by @lsachsenmaier.bsky.social @agwirthweigelt.bsky.social shows: forest stands made up of tree species with different water-use strategies (not just many species) grow better in drought years. #iDivResearch #Biodiversity
www.idiv.de/diverse-fore...

The banks financing fossil fuel exploitation in the Amazon
news.mongabay.com/2025/11/thes...