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Martin Ehbrecht
@martinehbrecht.bsky.social
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Forest ecology, forest dynamics, forest management. Temperate and tropical.

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Reposted by Graeme S. Cumming, Halley E. Froehlich, Tommaso Jucker , and 1 more

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 10d
Published!📖

This study shows that choosing the most effective restoration strategy for tropical forests at scale depends equally if not more on economic and logistical than ecological constraints.

Read more:https://buff.ly/MTipuln

Reposted by Martin Ehbrecht

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Claudiki @claudiki.bsky.social · 11d
Happy to share that our paper is out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social 😄

Experimentally increasing structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes (deadwood + canopy gaps) boosts taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of hoverflies 🪰🌳

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Experimental enhancement of structural heterogeneity in forest landscapes promotes multidimensional hoverfly diversity
Our results provide the first experimental evidence that enhancing structural heterogeneity at the landscape scale can restore multidimensional hoverfly diversity in temperate forests. They underscor...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, John A. Finn, Tommaso Jucker , and 2 more

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Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · 13d
🚨New paper!🚨 Models predict trees like beech will migrate north as climate warms, but rarely consider tree reproduction. Jessie shows these “refuges” are exactly where climate warming will disrupt seed production the most. They may not be such great climate refuges after all.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Reposted by Jens‐Christian Svenning, Yadvinder Malhi, Brian J. Enquist , and 7 more

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Andrew Abraham @andrewabraham.bsky.social · 17d
Earth's largest land animals are limited by salt.

Sodium availability constrains the density and distribution of elephants, giraffes and rhinos across Africa, and offers a new explanation for the so-called 'missing megaherbivores'.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Free access: rdcu.be/eTPY2

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Pieter A. Zuidema, Martin Ehbrecht , and 1 more

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 18d
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...
Global dependency of canopy height on vapour pressure deficit and its projections under climate change - Nature Ecology & Evolution
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...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Joseph A. Tobias, Patrick A. Jansen, Martin Ehbrecht , and 2 more

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Matthias Schleuning @mschleuning.bsky.social · 20d
Seed dispersal by 🦜🦇 underpins rainforest recovery. We want to understand more about its timing + traits driving recovery through obs, exp + genomic data. Ready to join the @reassemblynet.bsky.social team working in Ecuadorian Chocó? Pls apply to our 4-yr PhD position @sgn.one: tinyurl.com/2pkryc99
A recovering patch of rainforest in Ecuadorian Chocó, picture by Eike Lena Neuschulz

Reposted by Tobias Kuemmerle, Martin Ehbrecht

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Diversity and Distributions @consbiog.bsky.social · 21d
🌍 African #savanna science is heavily skewed: 46% of studies come from just 2% of #ProtectedAreas. Using the new ADSPA geodatabase, this work identifies five #bioclimatic groups and reveals major research gaps across underrepresented savannas. 🐘

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....

Reposted by Martin Ehbrecht, Maximilian Hanusch

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 22d
Limitations of p50 as a measure of seed longevity in comparative studies and the way forward

New in #AppsPlantSci by Klepka, Carta, Hay & @annabucharova.bsky.social

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #plantscience #seedviability #seedbank #genebank #plantconservation
Graphs Illustrating how p50 estimates depend on the initial viability of a seed lot.

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Martin Ehbrecht, Darío Martin‐Benito , and 1 more

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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · 22d
We found that when temps hit 30°C+, C3 plants start struggling - their carbon metabolism gets disrupted, they burn through sugar stores faster, and even their isotope signatures change.
Meanwhile C4 plants? They're basically chilling like "this is fine" 😎

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Hot and Hungry - High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbon dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprints - npj Science of Plants
npj Science of Plants - Hot and Hungry - High temperatures induce changes in leaf carbon dynamics and sugar isotope fingerprints
www.nature.com

Reposted by Martin Ehbrecht, Benjamin Wildermuth

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 22d
What is the effect of increasing disturbances in C European forests on insect diversity, and how does salvage logging modulate it? We found an overall positive response for both cleared and uncleared sites, with a stronger signal for taxonomic vs phylogenetic diversity doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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Martin Ehbrecht @martinehbrecht.bsky.social · 23d
We just started setting up a new #BIOCOMP site in Budongo Forest, Uganda. Thank you @shamikroy.bsky.social and @sebseibold.bsky.social for the possibility to contribute!

Reposted by Yadvinder Malhi, Martin Ehbrecht

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Oxford Ecosystems @oxfordecosystems.bsky.social · 24d
In an upcoming study from our research group, Bhavya Palugudi, Ecosystems MSc student, and @ymalhi.bsky.social show that higher species richness does not necessarily translate to higher ecosystem energetic flows for tropical forests.

Read more here www.oxfordecosystems.org/post/the-bio...
The Biogeography of Ecosystem Flows
Bhavya Palugudi shows that higher species richness does not necessarily translate to higher ecosystem energetic flows for tropical forests.
www.oxfordecosystems.org

Reposted by Mattias Hallquist, David Leclère, Martin Ehbrecht

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Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 26d
Africa’s forests have joined the Brazilian Amazon and Australian forests in becoming carbon sources rather than sinks. Around 2010 the previous storage of our carbon emissions flipped, mainly through deforestation and degradation.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#climatechange #deforestation #Africa
Loss of tropical moist broadleaf forest has turned Africa’s forests from a carbon sink into a source - Scientific Reports
Africa’s forests and woody savannas have historically acted as a carbon sink, removing atmospheric carbon and storing it as biomass. However, our novel analysis reveals a critical transition from a ca...
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Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Mathias Disney , and 1 more

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Nov 26
🚨Paper alert🚨

Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Pieter A. Zuidema, Tommaso Jucker , and 2 more

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · Nov 24
We're currently looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board! 🌎🧪

If you're interested in contributing to the publishing landscape, check out the link below 👇
www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

Reposted by Yadvinder Malhi, Stephen D. Murphy, Martin Ehbrecht , and 1 more

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · Nov 21
The Amazon Rainforest was shaped by people. Analysis of 262 trees species across 1,521 forest plots reveals that both pre-Columbian Indigenous peoples and European colonists enduringly influenced the forest’s relative abundance of trees. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/VAqY50XuP38
The Ecuadorian Amazon taken from a canopy tower at the top of a Ceiba pentandra tree. CREDIT: Mark Bush

Reposted by Cornelius Senf, Martin Ehbrecht, Tuomas Kankaanpää

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Sebastian Seibold @sebseibold.bsky.social · Nov 10
After several years of hard work two important papers from Berchtesgaden NP are finally out: 1) effects of microclimate on biodiversity change with macroclimate along elevation, but taxon specific - led by @lisageres.bsky.social doi: 10.1002/ecog.07984 with @rupertseidl.bsky.social and many more

Reposted by Neil Pederson, Pablo García‐Díaz, Martin Ehbrecht , and 1 more

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Keila Stark (she/her) @keila-stark.bsky.social · Nov 4
Most major theories in ecology assume some sort of equilibrium, but only ~half of empirical tests acknowledge it & even fewer observed it in their system. Does this matter? How did the idea become so pervasive in ecology anyway? Find out in our new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Equilibrium Conundrum
Although an assumption of equilibrium dynamics underlies most ecological theory, the evidence for this dynamic in nature and in empirical studies is scarce. This creates an unfortunate disconnect bet...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Reposted by Martin Ehbrecht

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Nov 4
Reassembly und 🌴Regenwald-Regeneration im Kontext der Klimakrise.
Sehenswerte Vorlesungsreihe an der Uni Mainz @zukunftjgu.bsky.social
Kurzbericht:
www.reassembly.de/news/reassem...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIzT...
Kann sich der Regenwald wieder regenerieren? | #voicesforclimate mit Prof. Dr. Nico Blüthgen
YouTube video by OKTV Mainz
www.youtube.com

Reposted by Aletta Bonn, Patrick A. Jansen, Moreno Di Marco , and 7 more

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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · Nov 3
Check out our new insect decline paper. By analysing 36 yrs of German ground beetle distribution data, we show:
- ~80% of species have declined, with significant declines for >50%.
- The decline was similar across species traits and threatened status.
doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... @consbiog.bsky.social

Reposted by Martin Ehbrecht, Hansraj Gautam

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Malte Jochum @maltejochum.bsky.social · Oct 28
Check this out: the global biomass of mammals since 1850
just out in @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🌐
The global biomass of mammals since 1850 - Nature Communications
Here, the authors estimate mammalian biomass from the 1850’s to today, tracking an increase of over five-fold in human and domesticated mammal biomass and a two-fold decrease in wild mammal biomass. R...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Garry Peterson, Julie L. Lockwood, Lauren B. Buckley , and 5 more

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Macroecology lab @unipotsdam @zurelllab.bsky.social · Oct 8
Without forward-looking models, biodiversity policy risks missing the road to recovery.
Our new PNAS article calls for predictive tools and a World Biodiversity Research Programme to guide global action.

👉 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#Biodiversity #Conservation #PredictiveModels #PNAS

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Tommaso Jucker, Martin Ehbrecht

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Mathias Disney @matdisney.bsky.social · Oct 6
Our new perspective on what TLS can (& can't) do in forest research www.nature.com/articles/s41... - led by Eduardo Maeda w lots of great colleagues including @kimcalders.bsky.social @emilyrlines.bsky.social @louiseterryn.bsky.social @benjaminbrede.bsky.social (apols for any I don;t have @ for)
Expanding forest research with terrestrial LiDAR technology - Nature Communications
This Review highlights how terrestrial laser scanning is transforming forest research by enabling highly detailed 3D measurements of trees, supporting applications in forest ecology, carbon monitoring, and biodiversity assessment.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, Martin Ehbrecht

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · Sep 30
Increasing tree size across Amazonia 🧪🌐 #allometry www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing tree size across Amazonia - Nature Plants
A global research network monitoring the Amazon for 30 years reports in this study that tree size increased by 3% each decade.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Marten Winter, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Tommaso Jucker , and 5 more

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Reassembly Research Unit @reassemblynet.bsky.social · Sep 20
Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑‍🔬👩‍🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Ecological synthesis including forest ecosystems, grassland, land use, climate change, time series, stability, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, species interaction networks

Reposted by Marcus Lindner, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Martin Ehbrecht , and 1 more

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Cornelius Senf @corneliussenf.bsky.social · Sep 18
New paper in Nature Climate Change! What are the costs of increasing disturbances? Find out in this amazing contribution by @johannesmohr.bsky.social! Great to see this out and congrats Johannes on such a nice first PhD paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rising cost of disturbances for forestry in Europe under climate change - Nature Climate Change
Climate change will raise the severity and frequency of forest disturbance, damaging the economic value of timber. Researchers show Europe’s timber-based forestry could lose up to €247 billion, yet in...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Martin Ehbrecht

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Arthur Gessler @arthurobuntspecht.bsky.social · Sep 10
Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature
Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature
Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.
www.nature.com

Reposted by Martin Ehbrecht

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Oliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · Sep 10
I forgot the link: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...
W3-Professorship in Functional Ecology (m/f/d, 100%)
uni-tuebingen.de

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Martin Ehbrecht

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · Sep 9
Arthur Yambayamba's first PhD chapter is out today @biotropica.bsky.social 🍾

Using NFI data from Zambia we explore how climate and competition shape the crown allometries of Miombo woodlands 🌳📐

📜 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reposted by Pieter De Frenne, Neil Pederson, Brian J. Harvey , and 4 more

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Sep 8
Climate change increasingly alters the interactions between forest disturbances. Here we present a framework for quantifying dist. interactions and compile evidence for their impacts. Led by @dudney-joan.bsky.social with @brian-j-harvey.bsky.social & @julieedtree.bsky.social doi.org/10.1146/annu...