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juliakoricheva.bsky.social
Professor of Ecology at Royal Holloway University of London | Forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning | Plant-herbivore interactions | Methods and applications of meta-analysis in ecology
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Forest temperature buffering in pure and mixed stands: A high-resolution temporal analysis with generalized additive models #TreeDivNet doi.org/10.1016/j.fo...

💥 🌳 New PhD project @bangoruniversity.bsky.social "Biodiversity for woodland resilience: the long-term functional ecology of tree diversity" 🌳 www.envision-dtp.org/2025/biodive...

The Unexpected Benefits of Herbivory Under Drought 🦌 Now in @botany.one 💧 https://botany.fyi/pk7fx1 Full paper: https://doi.org/n5qr #PlantScience

Interested in #forest restoration and #carbon sequestration? 🚨 In our new study in @globalchangebio.bsky.social we show that 🌳 Tree diversity 🌲 increases carbon stocks and fluxes in a tropical forest experiment. #TreeDivNet, @uni-freiburg.de onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I'm #hiring: PDRA to join my #ukriflf project to understand how forest structure, function and dynamics are linked in Europe, using high resolution remote sensing data (TLS, UAV-LS). Based in Cambridge. Please share! 🌳⚡🛰️🌲 Full details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50447/ #pdra #forests #lidar

Each year we celebrate remarkable ecologists in our BES awards🏆 Categories cover the breadth of experiences and career stages, so let us know which ecologists inspire you! Make your nominations by 7 April  https://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/bes-prizes/

What a difference a day makes! The same clump of winter aconites on Thursday and on Friday, after the snow melt. Wernigerode, Germany #wildflowerhour

Back to beautiful Wernigerode for @bexplo.bsky.social annual assembly #BEassembly2025. Lovely setting, good company, nice weather and great science

Alder (Alnus glutinosa) catkins seen along the Thames Path #wildflowerhour

▶️ Post on the blog of @journalofecology.bsky.social about our recently published paper about the tree packing effect on BEF-relationships in forests 🌲🌳 jecologyblog.com/2025/02/11/d... @joguillemot.bsky.social @riottelambert.bsky.social @cnrsoccitanieest.bsky.social

Now officially published with its 2025 publ date. Looking beyond Popper: How Philosophy can be relevant to ecology. @oikosjournal.bsky.social A fantastic collaborative effort between ecologists and philosophers of science. #philosophy #ecology nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Great @ceevol.bsky.social Darwin's birthday debate today at @nhm-london.bsky.social discussing ethics and equitability of overseas fieldwork and collections. Many thanks to the three fantastic speakers @hernanaburbano.bsky.social, @mauritiantales.bsky.social and Nataly Allasi Canales!

Colleagues at Bangor Uni are advertising a new PhD project on the restoration of UK temperate rainforests. Fieldwork in beautiful locations including running field experiments + working with external stakeholders. Looks brilliant! Full details here: tinyurl.com/rainforestphd

I have a new article published, with 300+ coauthors! There were dozens of researchers analysing the same two datasets + dozens of researchers reviewing the analyses. Lots of variability in the results. This was the first many-analysts study in ecology. bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Review in Nature Case et al. Fungal impacts on Earth’s ecosystems www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Save the Date! The 15th Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Showcase Event will be held at the University of Edinburgh, 3-4th September 2025 and will focus on the theme of 'collaboration'. enhancingfieldwork.org.uk/the-efl-show...

Our new paper led by @manusaunders.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... takes stock of the evidence-base for global insect declines 🦋🐝🪳🪰🦗 and how uncertainty is being leveraged by science denialists to undermine efforts to reverse biodiversity loss 🌍🧪.

Our new paper - manage to put @sortee.bsky.social in keywords link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Today is the last official day of the TreEPlaNat project within the Future of the UK Treedcapes programme. Some reflections on knowledge exchange within the project in this blog www.wren-project.com/tree-planat-...

🌳📢 New report out! Discover key principles & evidence on how woodland management & creation can boost biodiversity 🌿🐦 Read more! #Nature #Woodlands #Biodiversity www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/143260-...

Yayy 🌱🪲🐝🐌- A list of stellar ecologists and myself showed that (1) species interactions can be summarised at the guild level, except for a few critical species, (2) they occur along a continuum from positive-to-negative, and (3) they have relatively weak strength except between plants!

"We thought plants that are being munched on send warning signals to others, allowing them to boost defences. Turns out, plants are actually selfish jerks and their neighbours resort to chemical eavesdropping": a new @biology.ox.ac.uk paper by @stuwest.bsky.social 🧪🌱 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A interesting paper on preprints in Ecology and Evolution! 📄 "The Promise of Community-Driven Preprints in Ecology and Evolution" - If you're interested in the impact of preprints in our field, it's definitely worth checking out: 🔗 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Yamawo et al. Interspecific Variations in Interplant Communication and Ecological Characteristics in Trees onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Shaw et al. in Nature Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 we're looking for a blog associate editor to join our board! 📝 if you're interested, please email us at [email protected] 🐝 it's a great opportunity to build on your science communication skills, network with other researchers, and be part of the BES community

🌳🌳🌳 We have a new paper in @pnas.org showing climate warming leads to growth decline in beech because it drives trees to reproduce more frequently. Climate change can cause growth decline even when drought isn’t increasing by shifting where trees allocate resources doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2423181122

Signs of spring at @royalholloway.bsky.social campus

#BigGardenBirdWatch done. Mostly the usual suspects, but it was nice to see a goldcrest

The Rutgers eDNA lab developed a novel method to collect #eDNA from tree surfaces that we call the 'roller method'. A game-changer for monitoring terrestrial forest biodiversity (insects, vertebrates). Here is a short methods video if you want to try it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2306...

Good discussion at today's lab journal club of @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social paper by Masashi Soga and @kevinjgaston.bsky.social on potential causes and consequences of decrease in fieldwork experience among ecologists www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🤔Are you an active researcher with broad interests in animal ecology? 💡Apply to join us as a Senior Editor! 📝See here for more details about the role and for how to apply: buff.ly/3C8NVVr ⏰Closing date: 20th February 2025 🧪🌍

‘Publish or perish’ culture blamed for reproducibility crisis www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Do you have a project that exemplifies open science in ecology and evolution? If yes, nominate the project for a SORTEE Commendation Award: More details about the SORTEE Commendation Award:

We are delighted to announce that the Evidence Synthesis Hackathon will be taking place at UCL in London from 6th to 8th May 2025! We’re incredibly thankful to our partners at UCL and @eppicentre.bsky.social for supporting the event. Apply to join ESH2025 now! www.eshackathon.org/events/2025-...

Do you know a US-based researcher who wants to update their meta-analysis skills? #MATI2025 is accepting applications for our one-week training workshop in Chicago from July 28th – August 1st. Apply by March 2nd: www.meta-analysis-training-institute.com/application-...

New post out.  Priorities for ecological synthesis research to address pressing global issues. Accelerating environmental challenges requires a strategic vision for synthesis in ecology and environmental science. predirections.substack.com/p/priorities...

🌳🌲Using long-term tree diversity experiments to explore the mechanisms of temporal shifts in forest ecosystem functioning https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10872 @nordicoikos.bsky.social #biodiversity #ecosystemfunctioning #forests #ontogeny #succession

There's a job up in our #Conservation #Outcomes teamlet! If you're into #woodland conservation, restoration & management, and you've got #training & #facilitation skills, this could be for you! jobs.woodlandtrust.org.uk/vacancies/va...

Boreal forests have been experiencing both gains and losses in recent decades. Liu et al show that boreal forest resilience is more sensitive to forest cover losses than to gains, indicating that functional declines due to forest loss outpace improvements following forest recovery. rdcu.be/d6T8l

📝 Fungal Friends Help Young Trees Thrive in Mixed Forests 🧵 https://doi.org/n249 Young spruce trees grow better with pine neighbours thanks to underground helpers. #Botany #PlantScience 🧪 #InBrief

📣 Don't miss @ceevol.bsky.social Darwin's birthday debate @nhm-london.bsky.social! It will focus on ethics of field work & sample collection, use & attribution. Speakers: @hernanaburbano.bsky.social, Nataly Allasi Canales & @mauritiantales.bsky.social. Register 👉 cee-darwin-2025.eventbrite.co.uk

Just a few days left to submit your PhD applications to TREES. A big thanks to all who have already submitted. There is still time. The deadline? Monday January 20th at 5pm 🕔 UK time. If you have any questions, please send us an email: [email protected]

The Evidence Synthesis Hackathon (eshackathon.org) is on tour this year. In early May we will be in London at UCL (more details coming very soon) & in July we are "crossing the pond" to Madison, Wisconsin, prior to the SRSM Annual Meeting (www.srsm.org/Meetings.html). Join us!