Better late than never 😅
Happy to share that the final paper of my PhD was out this February in @journalofecology.bsky.social ! We asked: what drives the functional recovery of seed rain as tropical forests regnerate after disturbances? 🫘🌿
@reassemblynet.bsky.social #restoration #forestecol
Anna R Landim
Together, these results show that both local and landscape scale matters for forest recovery, and considering both is key to bringing back ecosystem functioning in tropical forests!
You can find the paper here: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Delighted to hear that The Invisible Doctrine, the film by @peterhutchison.bsky.social and @lucas-sabean.bsky.social, is being offered free to view on YouTube for the holiday season. It's all yours! youtu.be/gR4eSEetKP0
Anna R Landim
A Christmas message.
🇪🇨🌳 ¿Puede un bosque recuperarse después de la deforestación? Un estudio reciente en el Chocó ecuatoriano demuestra que sí. Los hallazgos aquí. ⬇️ es.mongabay.com/2026/01/recu...
George Monbiot
Forest strucutre🌴: as forest become more complex, they support more diverse plant-frugivore interactions, increasing the functional diversity of the seed rain
Forest connectivity 🗾: enables late-successional seeds to arrivem from external sources, shaping the functional composition of the seed rain
The paper was featured in the journal cover 😁
(photo by Marco Tschapka, see below)
We studied seed dispersal interactions across a 40-year forest recovery chronosequence in the Ecuadorian Chocó and found two complementary pathways driving seed rain functional connectivity:
Local forest structure 🌴
and
Landscape-scale connectivity 🗾
Anna R Landim
Anna R Landim
Anna R Landim
🌳Climate-driven range shifts in alpine plants require recruitment beyond tree lines. For P. cembra, seed origin & maternal reproductive traits drive seedling establishment, potentially outweighing microclimate & maternal genetics @valgra.bsky.social @aaronkauffeldt.bsky.social 👉️ buff.ly/NyNPcJb
Mongabay Latam
Good news! #Biodiversity🦜🐜🐒🐸 in a tropical #rainforest 🌴🇪🇨can naturally recover quickly 📈 (if the conditions are suitable = enough surrounding forest). Our new study in #Nature
#forestecol #restoration @jocotoco.bsky.social
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
Local forest structure and landscape-scale connectivity shape distinct but complementary pathways of the functional recovery of seed rain in tropical forests. Structural complexity promotes functiona...
