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tommaso-jucker.bsky.social
Head of Selva lab at the University of Bristol: https://www.selvalab.org Inordinate fondness for trees and lasers 🌳 🛰️
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Simplification of woody plant trait networks among communities along a climatic aridity gradient - Camila Medeiros, Santiago Trueba, Chris Henry, Leila Fletcher, Jim Lutz, Rodrigo Méndez Alonzo, Nathan Kraft, Lawren Sack - Journal of Ecology t.co/F6VWVLJ6xl @nathanjbkraft.bsky.social

🚨PhD opportunity: Biodiversity for woodland resilience: the long-term functional ecology of tree diversity 🌲🌳🌱 Advertised by colleagues at @ukceh.bsky.social & @buforestry.bsky.social How can we manage woodlands to deliver for biodiversity & climate-change mitigation? tinyurl.com/mr3w76yd

Multiple faculty positions available in our department at Trinity College Dublin, including plant conservation, biogeography and biodiversity genomics. #sciencejobs 🧪🌎🌾

What are you waiting for, apply to work with Emily!

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

Jessie’s new paper on the vertical variation in leaf carbon economy is a great example of modelers and observation people working together and making more sense of the world as a result (and also of the federally funded science which facilitates all that) nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

To be, or not to be, part-time in academia? This is a tricky question that has faced many of us and in @elife.bsky.social we discuss the benefits and challenges of being part-time. With @emiliapsantos.bsky.social and a fantastic, interdisciplinary team! elifesciences.org/articles/106...

I love how much the IAVS does to allow ERCs from underrepresented areas to participate in their Symposiums. It helped me when I was between positions with no funding. 🙌

Excellent away day with the ecology team from @bristolbiosci.bsky.social - talking grants and future research plans @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social @filipemfranca.bsky.social @drlucyalford.bsky.social @chrisleduck.bsky.social @harrysiviter.bsky.social

Are you, or do you know, a national of Gabon, Cameroon, Congo or DRC interested in studying the climate, ecology or economy of the Congo Basin? CBSI has 28 fully-funded scholarships across a wide range of projects, applications due February 28th. More info here: shorturl.at/5flYY Please share!

Our newest paper led by Julián Tijerín-Triviño finds that #climatechange is slowing the productivity of European #forests: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/geb.70011 A 🧵: We used 3 surveys over 15-30 years from >13,900 NFI plots in Mediterranean, temperate and boreal regions (1/5)

🚨Alert to #forest and #fire enthusiasts: W3 professorship for Fire Ecology at @uni-freiburg.de ! More information here: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... Its a great place to work and live at!

Job! 2-year postdoc position in EVElab, Bristol UK on nutrition and infections in pregnancy (FLF-funded) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r... Apply if you are enthusiastic about: - experiments on insects which get pregnant - relevance of evolution to public health - a vibrant city & research environment

Come join us at @rbgkew.bsky.social for a *paid* summer internship. You will be estimating the aboveground biomass 🌳🌳🌳 at the beautiful Wakehurst. careers.kew.org/vacancy/summ...

Elegant paper showing commodity imports in wealthy countries driving forest loss and species loss in tropical countries.

1/5 What happens when woodland is left to rewild? At Lady Park Wood this transformation has been monitored since 1945! @ect-uk.bsky.social have funded the 9th resurvey (first resurvey since 2010). Exciting and daunting to be part of the team taking on stewardship of this amazing study!

A sneak peek of our's Biomass satellite in the cleanroom at Airbus in Toulouse! 🌍 The satellite will soon leave for Europe's spaceport🚀 Biomass is the first satellite to measure the implications of deforestation and forest degradation on our climate. esa.int/Applications...

For #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience I want to put the spotlight on the amazing, talented, women in the Plant-Soil Ecology lab. 🧵

Six years in the making and finally published! Our viewpoint on how to improve tree mortality monitoring. With in-depth discussion on how to improve ground-based monitoring, integration of ground-based monitoring with remote sensing and modelling, and fair and collaborative science: lnkd.in/dJgSRQHt

Towards a global understanding of tree mortality. Important perspective led by the great @corneliussenf.bsky.social with contributions of 113 experts from around the world, facilitated through the Intl. Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌳 Call for proposals - 2025 ForestGEO Analytical Workshop, Nanyuki, Kenya The ATFS Tropical Forest Mortality Working Group will be one of the breakout groups Any project related to tropical tree mortality (regardless of the network) is eligible. Apply by 2/18: forestgeo.si.edu/training-and...

Job alert! We seek to appoint a new Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences, find out more at the link below! www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

"Towards a global understanding of tree mortality" in @newphyt.bsky.social It was fun and productive participating in this review by the International Tree Mortality Network nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

First casualty of our new dendrometer network ... Bear 1 - Dendrometer 0

🌿 Join us for a workshop at our unique VPDrought field site in Switzerland on Aug 21-22, 2025! The event will feature a field site tour & presentations from experts studying VPD impacts on forests worldwide. Don’t miss the chance to connect & collaborate! www.wsl.ch/en/events-an...

Two cool post-doc positions available at Umeå Uni to work on David Wardle's unique long-term experiments on lake islands in N-Sweden! One position focuses on microbial communities, the other on above-belowground linkages. Please, share! 🧬🦠🌲🍂 www.umu.se/en/work-with... www.umu.se/en/work-with...

🌳🌳🌳 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

Our new @pnas.org paper shows a previously unrecognized mechanism by which climate warming reduces beech growth: more frequent seed production depletes tree resources, causing a 28% decline in radial growth. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Funded by @ncngovpl.bsky.social

Mark your calendars for the next seminar of the Intl. Tree Mortality Network @treemortality.bsky.social: On Feb 18, the wonderful @dudney-joan.bsky.social will tackle the exiting topic of disturbance interactions under climate change. More info and registration here: www.tree-mortality.net/seminars/

With wonder for colleagues from Central Africa I’m co-leading the Congo Basin Science Initiative to drive investment into understanding the worlds second largest expanse of tropical forest. We have 30 PhD and MSc fully funded scholarships, details here: https://congobasinscience.net/scholarships/

Are you interested in how vegetation influences climate? We tried to summarise a bit what comes to our mind 😀. Great experience working with Diego Miralles, Jordi Vila, and Tim McVicar! 🌳 nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For all our #RemoteSensing and #Lidar friends here on BlueSky, be sure to follow us for all the info relating to SilviLaser 2025! 📅 Sep 29 - Oct 3, 2025 🚩 Quebec City, Canada 📃 Call for abstracts is now open! 🖥️ Be sure to sign up for our newsletter! www.silvilaser2025.com @ubcforestry.bsky.social

Bristol Geography are looking for a permanent lecturer or senior lecturer in Global Development and Environment. I have found the department a brilliant place to be since I joined. Lovely colleagues and city 💛. Happy to answer questions. @seanurban.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLL735/l...

How does landscape context influence recruitment dynamics in secondary forests? Find out in our new paper lead by Dr. van Breugel: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #AguaSalud

At what spatial resolution should we map forest carbon from space? [1/2] In our letter @science.org led by Laura Duncanson we reflect on whether a pursuit of ever-higher resolution maps is necessarily a good thing. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spatial resolution for forest carbon maps www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Stand density and local climate drive allocation of GPP to aboveground woody biomass

Got a devastating email from Trump’s acting NASA Administrator. Outreach & collaboration with underrepresented communities has been labeled “wasteful,” “shameful,” & “harmful.” Programs are being shut down. We’re even being told to report colleagues on DEIA issues—or face “adverse consequences” 💔

We are hiring! We're looking to fill a PostDoc position on social-ecological systems. Are you excited about the spatio-temporal dynamics of coupled human and natural mountain systems? Then come join us, and work in a wonderful & diverse team + beautiful environment! www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

#oneforjournalclub

Very excited this paper is now out in Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #causalsky

🐝 3-year Postdoc position 🐝 Join us @bristolbiosci.bsky.social to study the impacts of parasitic bees on tropical bee communities using eDNA, SNPs & field-based surveys. 📅 Deadline: 23 Feb 2025 💃Vibrant city 🌎 Collaboration with USP 🇧🇷 🐝 Details here: tinyurl.com/586u7vau @leverhulme.bsky.social

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