Stem girdling does not allow mimicking changes in Norway spruce tree physiology during Eurasian spruce bark beetle infestation | Journal of Forestry Research | Springer Nature Link
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Image description: Seagulls flying over a rocky coastline with a glacier in the background. Text reads: "EGU26 General Assembly" and "How are you travelling to #EGU26?" "Wait before you answer, we have something for you!"
What if we told you that this year, we have something special for train travellers 👀?
#EGU is pleased to offer up to 25% discounts for #EGU26 participants, encouraging the use of sustainable transportation options to, from, and within #Vienna.
👉: egu.eu/4QW6A6
📸:Siobhan McDonald on #imaggeo
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"Recent Advances in Remote Sensing for Early Detection, Risk Prediction, and Post-disturbance Assessment of Bark Beetle Attacks in Temperate and Boreal Forests"
- Early detection remains limited
- Gaps persist in risk mapping and post-disturbance assessment
doi.org/10.1007/s407...
"Spatial and temporal dynamics of a bark beetle outbreak in the Eastern European Alps"
-Shift from large clusters to smaller, frequent events
-Dispersal becomes shorter-range and density-driven
-~4% of regional AGB lost in 4 years, impacting carbon stocks
doi.org/10.1002/ecs2...
Global CO₂ concentrations derived from four locations, with CO₂ recorded since 2016 at Barrow in blue, Mauna Loa in red, American Samoa in green and South Pole in yellow. From the post 'We missed the target of limiting the temperature rise to 2C' at: arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-m...
Happy International #ForestDay! 🌳🌲 The ICOS network of greenhouse gas measurement stations currently includes 42 forest stations. Almost all of our 16 member countries have at least one forest station, helping us understand how different forest types across Europe absorb and store carbon. 🌎
Science at Risk: The Urgent Need for Institutional Support of Long-Term Ecological and Evolutionary Research in an Era of Data Manipulation and Disinformation url: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
A reminder: the Call for Abstracts closes 6th March 2026, 15:00 CET. #ICOS Science Conference
www.icos-cp.eu/news-and-eve...
48th New Phytologist Symposium:
Explore plant interactions in forest environments at all levels from micro- to macro-scales and across the whole spectrum of plant biology.
13 October 2026 - 16 October 2026
Leysin, Switzerland
www.newphytologist.org/events/48-np...
Alpine areas are heating up faster than the rest of the planet: all the cities that staged the #WinterGames since 1950 have heated up in the years since by an average of 2.7C, according to scientists. That’s well above 1.4C, the warming average for the entire planet www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
📢 PhD Position (65%) – Combining field observations & remote sensing in plant phenology research
📍 Jena, Germany
🗓 Start: 1. Apr 2026, 4 years
‼️ Deadline: 3. Jan 2026
Fieldwork + #AI + Multi-source data analysis 🧐
🔗 jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/7...
@uni-jena.de @carlzeissstiftung.bsky.social
New paper! 🌳 iWUE in a beech forest shows no big differences across silvicultural treatments, but rises ~20% by 2050 under climate change. At this site, climate—not management—drives future iWUE. doi.org/10.1007/s116...
Bark beetle predisposition assessed via EO 🛰️ in the eastern Alps.
- NDWI was the most consistent predictor; downslope index and canopy structure (GEDI) added value.
- Models transferred well across South Tyrol, supporting regional risk mapping.
doi.org/10.1093/fore...
Five years after VAIA:
– Norway spruce dominates regeneration (67%), but only 26% of plots meet targets.
– Browsing affects 25% of seedlings, especially Rowan, Willow, and Silver fir.
Management should promote species diversity and control browsing.
doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...
The first-ever eLTER Science Conference offered an inter- and transdisciplinary scientific program with a holistic approach, including:
* Keynote talks
* Oral and poster presentations
* Workshops, both scientific and artistic
#eLTERcommunity 🌍 #eLTER2025SC
Field excursion "From Tree to Plank". Master Course in Environmental Management of Mountain Areas #EMMA. 4th edition. #Latemar @unibz.bsky.social
im Mai 2025 hat die Co2-Konzentration in unserer Atmosphäre einen Anteil von 430ppm (Parts per million) erreicht - das ist der höchste Wert seid mindestens 1 Million Jahre.
The project ForMicroClim kicked-off with the support of pangeos.eu @professorshawn.bsky.social
🚨 few days left to apply 🚨
#Robot zoomorfi, #droni, #intelligenzaartificiale e mappe #3D, tutto insieme per il #monitoraggio #sostenibile delle #foreste. Questi gli ingredienti di un complesso di progetti avveniristici in collaborazione con altri atenei europei. #AltoAdige Leggi di più: www.unibzmagazine.it/en/magazine/...
Uno studio effettuato dai ricercatori di #unibz mostra come l’analisi degli isotopi di #carbonio e #ossigeno apra un varco nel passato, permettendo di valutare come le piante da frutto abbiano risposto ai #cambiamenticlimatici. Leggi di più: www.unibzmagazine.it/en/magazine/... #altoadige
Open call for a 3-year junior university researcher (full time, RTDa) at unibz on biodiversity and remote sensing (deadline 03.04.2025): tinyurl.com/4495as8u
Last field campaign before winter? UAS tree crowns sampling in Renon-Selvaverde 🌲🌲🌲 #IT-Ren @icos-ri.eu #ICOS-Italy #Agritech
Improper data practices erode the quality of global ecological databases and impede the progress of ecological research The scientific community has entered an era of big data. However, with big data comes big responsibilities, and best practices for how data are contributed to databases have not kept pace with the collection, aggregation, and analysis of big data. Here, we rigorously assess the quantity of data for specific leaf area (SLA) available within the largest and most frequently used global plant trait database, the TRY Plant Trait Database, exploring how much of the data were applicable (i.e., original, representative, logical, and comparable) and traceable (i.e., published, cited, and consistent). Over three-quarters of the SLA data in TRY either lacked applicability or traceability, leaving only 22.9% of the original data usable compared with the 64.9% typically deemed usable by standard data cleaning protocols. The remaining usable data differed markedly from the original for many species, which led to altered interpretation of ecological analyses. Though the data we consider here make up only 4.5% of SLA data within TRY, similar issues of applicability and traceability likely apply to SLA data for other species as well as other commonly measured, uploaded, and downloaded plant traits. We end with suggested steps forward for global ecological databases, including suggestions for both uploaders to and curators of databases with the hope that, through addressing the issues raised here, we can increase data quality and integrity within the ecological community.
1/ Important read for anyone using, contributing, or building large databases by aggregating data sources. Discusses issues with data quality, duplication, credit attribution, etc, and includes recommendations for improvement
doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ecopubs
