🌿A century of vegetation change in temperate mountain forests shows that shifts in plant diversity were driven mainly by the cessation of human management, not by recent climate changes🌲 #ForestEcology #GlobalChange 👉️ buff.ly/zB0SyRJ
A small window into PhD grind time. Loaded with coffee ☕️, tea 🍵 and interesting papers 📄
These moments, when you see 3 1/2 years of work finished on 133 pages 😁
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Yey, a landscape science xkcd! 🤩🌎
A super reasonable question and great answer
Journal of Ecology
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
The first paper from my PhD is now out in the world 🌲📖 Modelling forest dynamics using IPMs and repeat lidar doi.org/10.1002/rse2...
It is kinda refreshing to see that scientific discourse not just takes places at (sometimes exclusive) conferences and in (slow) paper publications, but also in other spheres of the internet:
treesinspace.com/2026/01/29/h...
Thank you @markuseichhorn.bsky.social for this fodder for thoughts!
New paper out today @currentbiology.bsky.social led by Toby Jackson and Lucy Beese shows the profound impact that liana cutting has on the structural recovery of logged tropical forests
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“we are trapping 21st-century minds inside 19th-century academic hierarchies.” This essay gets a lot right about problems with German science. I would add that the hierarchies and precarious contracts lead also to systemic abuse and scientific misconduct. open.substack.com/pub/realimag...
The E120 Biodiversity Experiment at Cedar Creek in Minnesota, from their website. It all began with the best of intentions. By the time the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was published in 2005, th…
