Honored to have one of my photos on the cover of @nature.com
And thrilled to be part of this #ForestGEO study led by Yuanzhi Li and Chengjin Chu 🌴 🌳 🌐
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Photo caption: Sunrise over a tropical forest near Danum Valley Field Centre, Sabah, Malaysia
"The most uncomfortable part for me is that I no longer think that scientific research will resolve the crises that we face."
"I keep doing research not because I think it will save us, but because it would be a form of surrender to stop seeking understanding."
I created a small R package, tidyTRY, to help clean TRY plant trait data and pull European expert indicator values (FlorVeg) directly into R.
It grew out of repeatedly rewriting the same scripts over the years.
Repo:
github.com/billurbektas...
Robust projections of risks to the Amazon rainforest
Amazonian deforestation is altering atmospheric moisture transport; as a result, even low levels of global warming could trigger dieback of most of the remaining forest. 🌐🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01158-8 🌐🧪
And for those interested in more nuanced considerations of natural capital, see our paper
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mathilde L. Tissier
Billur Bektaş 🍃
Contribute to billurbektas/tidyTRY development by creating an account on GitHub.
Pollinating insects, which are essential to biodiversity, plant reproduction, and crop production, are in decline (1, 2). In Europe, pollinator populations have declined markedly over recent decades (...
le gouvernement veut mettre en place une politique faisant payer plus cher les étudiants venant en dehors de l'union européenne.
Une pétition contre cette loi
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/...
Spring time!
Hey soil carbon lovers,
Check out our new paper from the global #biodesert survey in @natcomms.nature.com
Happy to be part of the team!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazonian deforestation is altering atmospheric moisture transport; as a result, even low levels of global warming could trigger dieback of most of the remaining forest.
Why do I continue to conduct research when it seems to me that it is likely to decline in the coming decades and therefore will not enable us to resolve the major crisis of the Anthropocene?
rdcu.be/e15sq
James Bullock
Brian J. Enquist
Nicolas Gross
Nicolas Gross
La stratégie Bienvenue en France prétend renforcer l'attractivité internationale de la France en multipliant par 15 les frais d’inscription à l’université des étudiant·es non européen·nes. Si les exon...
Radiocarbon analyses show that dryland soils store organic carbon with a mean age of ~2100 years and release carbon averaging ~520 years old, suggesting that long-stored carbon in drylands is vulnerab...
The natural capital concept need not be about putting a value on nature, but about recognising the key role of nature in our economies
People get mixed up about this, much like representing ecosystem services as monetisation rather than the benefits we get from nature
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
James Bullock
www.nature.com
Global risks are too great for markets alone to curb. Political considerations must come before economic ones.
