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pieterzuidema.bsky.social
Tropical forest ecologist | Professor | Wageningen University 🇳🇱 | Climate change impacts on trees & forests | Tropical 🌳 rings | Dendrochronology | Timber tracing | Model-data integration
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🚨 #job🚨: The Department of Forest Ecology and Management at the Faculty of Forest Sciences, SLU, is hiring a full-tenure Professor in silviculture. 📅 Deadline: 29 April 2025 🗺️ Location: Umeå, Sweden ➡️https://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/work-at-slu/jobs-vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=12044&rmlang=UK

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Are tropical #forests keeping up with climate change? Not quite, it turns out. In study led by @jeaggu.bsky.social in @science.org, we used a massive plot dataset from across Americas to check whether tree characteristics are tracking #climatechange. They hardly do. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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We quantify, map and analyse wood density across tropical South America. Our analysis led by Martin Sullivan refines the east-west Amazon gradient in wood density, improves it by revealing much finer variation, & extends predictions to Andean, Dry & Atlantic forests. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I am very happy to announce that the Dendrolabs of @wslresearch.bsky.social and @biologiaub.bsky.social will be co-organizing the 35th European Dendroecological Fieldweek in the Pyrenees! It's the perfect opportunity to learn about dendrochronology and have fun in a beautiful landscape! Details 👇

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6 year ago I spent 5 months sampling leaves in Ivory Coast. That was my MSc thesis, I would have never though back then that this work would have ended up in Nature! Greatly led by @jeaggu.bsky.social!!

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Amazonian deforestation is making wet seasons wetter and dry seasons dryer, according to research in Nature. The analysis highlights the local and regional effects of removing trees from the tropical region. https://go.nature.com/41jCClO 🧪

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How many tropical tree species form annual growth rings? Around 500. How many #tree-ring chronologies exist there? Also 500. These data are important in #globalchange research. That s our message in review led by Peter Groenendijk. #dendrochronology #forest www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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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

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A century of rising CO₂ has increased photosynthesis of mature trees in tropical forests. This is our conclusion in study led by Sophie Zwartsenberg in @newphyt.bsky.social. We did novel isotope analyses in tree rings from Australia, Thailand & Bangladesh. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Just returned from the #caatinga dry #forest in Ceara, Brazil where we study how trees deal with #drought. PhD candidates Natali Caro & Gabriela Ushida equipped 🌳 with sensors & took wood samples for #dendrochronology. Impressive research infrastructure to understand & predict drought impacts.

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We're hiring a 2-year postdoc to study the diversity of the vertebrate communities in the canopy of the Guianan rainforest. If you want to candidate to join us in this fantastic adventure, follow the link. recrutement.mnhn.fr/front-jobs-d...

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We have a *permanent* position open at @ciceroclimate.bsky.social , working on calibration and general awesome-ification of the CLM-FATES model, across a fun set of projects www.finn.no/job/fulltime... Flexible wrt career stage and the balance of science/technical work. Tell all your friends!

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

New online! Refining past climate records with wood anatomy

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Can we still enjoy #chocolate by 2050? Our new study on climate change effects on #cooa yield concludes: “likely we can”. In a simulation study led by Paulina Asante we found that cocoa yield in W Africa may increase due to CO2 rise & wetter dry seasons. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Looking for an interesting PhD position on water vapor fluxes? Join our team at ETH Zurich gl.ethz.ch/group/jobs.h...

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Also fascinated by how trees🌳 respond to climatic changes 🌦️? And by climate info stored in tree rings? Please submit abstract to our #Tree-Ring Session #EGU25 🗓️ Deadline Jan 15 📍 EGU Vienna Apr 27 May 2 More info 👉 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio... #dendrochronology #forest

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment