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Marco Patacca
@marcopath.bsky.social
120 followers 200 following 11 posts

Forest ecology & management in a changing world
PhD candidate at Wageningen University & Research
Books, records & pasta, better outside
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Environmental science 70%
Geography 18%
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Marco Patacca @marcopath.bsky.social · Aug 21
All climate projections do not show any mercy in predicting future wildfires seasons in Europe.

Forest management can play a major role in mitigating the large negative consequences of fires, but planning and prevention is crucial.

Reposted by Marco Patacca

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · Aug 21
The European Union is suffering its worst wildfire season on record, surpassing 1 million hectares burned today.
EU wildfires hit new record as flames scorch area larger than Cyprus
The area burned this year has exceeded the 1 million hectare mark for the first time since records started in 2006.
www.politico.eu

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Marco Patacca @marcopath.bsky.social · Jul 8
"This year, I think my family will survive the heat wave. Next year? The one after that?"

Very thoughtful reflection I completely feel myself aligned with

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Marco Patacca @marcopath.bsky.social · Jul 8
Feels good to know there's shared feelings and fears out there, thank you!

Reposted by Mark Petticrew, Jeroen Van Bouwel, Marco Patacca

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · Jul 8
Climate necropolitics: thoughts from the middle of the heatwave.
jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...
Climate necropolitics
I have been thinking of politics and death recently. In fact it’s all I can think about. I think you should too.
jksteinberger.medium.com

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Marco Patacca @marcopath.bsky.social · Jun 11
Cool paper by @marcochiminazzo.bsky.social, on the effect of novel wildfire regimes on vegetation functional filtering.🔥🌳This may have huge implication for ecosystem functioning, especially if not used to fires!
Also relevant for post-disturbance management!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com

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Marco Patacca @marcopath.bsky.social · Jun 11
@marcochiminazzo.bsky.social

Reposted by Marco Patacca

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · May 13
🌱New study reveals functional traits e.g. wood density & leaf mass fraction shape plant growth rates, with these relationships changing as plants mature. Growth isn't a fixed trait–it evolves with age! @lilydun.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social🧪🌍
🔍Article: buff.ly/f0vnEFV
🗞️Blog: buff.ly/nY1TorB
Do trait–growth relationships vary with plant age in fire-prone heathland shrubs?
buff.ly

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Marco Patacca @marcopath.bsky.social · Apr 8
I wonder how a sink increase of ~20Mt is possible in the year (2018) where the forests among the most stocked in the country (North-east alps) where hit by the biggest windstorms of the century (Vaia, ~10Mm3 of damaged wood if I recall correctly) ??

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Marco Patacca @marcopath.bsky.social · Apr 4
Publishers ask science to pay for their services, and then sell the very same work they didn’t pay anything for to AI companies for million of dollars ?!

I find this so wrong on so many levels.. and a real threat to science itself! Is it only me?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Publishers are selling papers to train AIs — and making millions of dollars
Generative-AI models require massive amounts of data — scholarly publishers are licensing their content to train them.
www.nature.com

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Marco Patacca @marcopath.bsky.social · Mar 6
I'm proud that the efforts is underpinning the largest dataset in Africa in this study!! (:

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Marco Patacca @marcopath.bsky.social · Mar 6
It was a really though job carrying around a huge metal sling to collect canopy leaves and measure their traits, among sweat, mud and ant bites! (pic for reference)

Reposted by Pieter A. Zuidema

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Marco Patacca @marcopath.bsky.social · Mar 6
6 year ago I spent 5 months sampling leaves in Ivory Coast.
That was my MSc thesis, I would have never though back then that this work would have ended up in Nature!

Greatly led by @jeaggu.bsky.social!!

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Marco Patacca @marcopath.bsky.social · Mar 6
Nature engraves and inspire knowledge since millennia
🌳📖
susiedent.com Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Mar 6
Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment.

Happy World Book Day.

Reposted by Marco Patacca

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Susie Dent @susiedent.com · Mar 6
Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment.

Happy World Book Day.

Reposted by Andy Purvis, Mathias Disney, Pieter A. Zuidema , and 6 more

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Yadvinder Malhi @ymalhi.bsky.social · Mar 6
Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature
Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Cornelius Senf, Marco Patacca

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Marcus Lindner @marlind.bsky.social · Feb 7
We published three policy briefs on enhancing forest resilience based on results of our Horizon2020 project RESONATE. Second: The Role of Biodiversity in Making Forests Resilient
efi.int/sites/defaul...

Reposted by Cornelius Senf, María Triviño, Marco Patacca

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Marcus Lindner @marlind.bsky.social · Feb 7
We published three policy briefs on enhancing forest resilience based on results of our Horizon2020 project RESONATE. First: Managing Forest Disturbances in a Changing Climate

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