The Ecosystems Lab is now on YouTube!
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In honour of journalist Dom Philips and indigenista Bruno Pereira, a gathering of Indigenous leaders, human rights and environmental defenders, researchers and practitioners came together on Earth Day to celebrate their lives and build hope for: How to Save the Amazon 🌎
Grateful to everyone involved. This paper reveals how Amazon forests have been shifting towards more drought-adaptive functional strategies over the last four decades. @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social @cnpq.bsky.social
From tropical rainforests to savannas, and closer to home in Oxford, we explore how ecosystems shape our planet.
On this channel, the Oxford Ecosystems Lab shares insights from field research around ...
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New paper from Sruthi Krishna Moorthy and @ymalhi.bsky.social examines 60 years of tropical ecology research 🌍
The study highlights the growing dominance of tropical forest research and persistent global inequities in tropical ecology authorship.
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Here's a conversation with restoration pioneer Bernado Streassburg and me on the remarkable story of urban forest restoration in Rio de Janeiro, from the 19th century to the 21st, recording in gorgeous Tijuca National Park
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We analyzed over 170,000 tropical ecology publications (1960–2023) using a large language model to extract study location and biome information at scale. We show that research has grown across all bi....
In a recent presentation to the Ecosystems Lab, @tanayanair.bsky.social shared early insights from fieldwork across India and Ghana, exploring nutrient cycling in tropical forests and savannas through a collaborative, multi-site research project.
Read more: www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/studyin...
On Monday we joined the Biodiversity Research Cluster on a lovely and informative trip to the New Forest 🌿
We spent the day walking through heath and woodland, talking ecology, and enjoying the sunshine. Thanks to everyone who joined!
What happens when a musical composer joins an ecology lab?🎶
Zack Di Lello collaborates with the Ecoacoustics project, led by @ellabrowning.bsky.social, transforming ecological data into music and inviting new ways to listen to environmental change.
www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/where-m...
This week, the Ecosystems Lab welcomed back @ioliverasmenor.bsky.social. During her visit, she shared updates from her research on experimental fire reintroduction and reflected on years of collaborative work in the Brazilian Cerrado. Read more here: www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/collabo...
Last week, @skjoldsoendergaard.bsky.social presented his work on vegetation ecology to the Ecosystems Lab, drawing on research from Denmark and across temperate Europe.
Read more about it here: www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/deep-ti...
Research by Tanaya Nair explores how nutrients move through plants and soils across tropical ecosystems in India and Ghana.
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What happens when experimental music enters an ecology lab? DPhil composer Zack Di Lello is using data sonification and sound art to translate ecological research into listening experiences that deepe...
