Tropical forest ecologist | Professor | Wageningen University 🇳🇱 | Climate change impacts on trees & forests | Tropical 🌳 rings | Dendrochronology | Timber tracing | Model-data integration
Pieter Zuidema
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Where does our #timber come from?
In new study led by Jakub Truszkowski, we show timber #tracing gets more accurate if wood chemical data from different tree species are combined. Data gaps of 1 species are filled by the others. 🍁🌐🌍
#Timtrace #forest #woodtrade
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pieter Zuidema
Extra CO2 stimulates #photosynthesis of trees and reduces water losses through transpiration. But does that stimulate growth of #tree stems? Our paper today in NatClimateChange led by Quan Zhang uses theory & data to show that strong growth stimulation is unlikely.🌎🌐🍁
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tree diversity is changing in the Amazon and Andes.
Belen Fadrique leads our analysis in @natecoevo.nature.com w/ 400 plots + 40 years of RAINFOR records.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hot, drier, more fragmented forests are losing species. Many in the Andes + western Amazon are gaining them.
Climate warming is generally making trees grow faster, but the greater effect is that tree growth is becoming more unpredictable, creating a threat to the stability of forests. New paper by Li & He (2026). 🧪🌏🌐🌲🌳
Land-use change is the main cause of deforestation in the Amazon, but the risk of abrupt forest decline, along with its potentially devastating consequences, increases as the planet warms, with a strong nonlinear trend beyond 2.3° C of warming. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/6Prr50XKAN1
Published!📖
Forest structural and functional diversity can attenuate forest productivity losses after harvesting and fires. In undisturbed forests, dominance boosts productivity via selection effects, but not after harvesting🌳🌲🌍
Read here:https://buff.ly/Gw5Hq6X
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Pieter Zuidema
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Markus Eichhorn
🌿 We are hiring a new 2-yr postdoc in @econovoau.bsky.social at @aarhusuniint.bsky.social, on large-#herbivore ecology, trophic #rewilding & novel ecosystems- asking when alien & feral #ungulates enhance biodiversity & when they contribute to degradation🐪🐎🦓
Deadline: 28 June 2026. Details below 👇
🌍📢 Postdoc alert | 3-yr starting early 2026
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Understand how ecosystem stability is changing across space and through time using niche modelling, pinpoint at-risk species/regions, and build tools that drive conservation action🌿🧭📈
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Global analysis shows that atmospheric dryness explains geographical patterns of tree canopy height and is projected to become more important in the coming decades:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In recent decades, considerable research has focused on the long-term trend of tree growth rates under global warming, yet little attention has been paid to trends in high-frequency tree growth varia...
The authors theoretically delineate the maximal increases in tree growth that can be expected from increases in plant intrinsic water-use efficiency, which increases with rising CO2. They highlight en...
Rising atmospheric aridity may be an important driver of tree growth. Here the authors present analyse the global relationship between tree canopy height and vapour pressure deficit, and its potential...
