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Tommaso Jucker
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Head of Selva lab at the University of Bristol: https://www.selvalab.org
Inordinate fondness for trees and lasers 🌳 🛰️

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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 Tommaso Jucker

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Billur Bektaş 🍃 @billurbektas.bsky.social · 8d
Such good news🥳🫶🏽
newphyt.bsky.social New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 8d
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 New Phytologist #TansleyMedal is @camilledelavaux.bsky.social!

Read the #Editorial by Slater & Dolan 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience @niooknaw.bsky.social

🧵1/2
Camille S. Delavaux

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Pieter Vantieghem, Tuomas Kankaanpää

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Rochelle Meah @rochellemeah.bsky.social · 8d
Multiple anthropogenic stressors can negatively impact species but can a single stressor also have multiple, concurrent impacts? Here we show that light pollution creates several simultaneous impacts to the nocturnal movement ecology of a moth and a spider: tinyurl.com/5eku5bff (1/5)

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Andrew Hacket‐Pain

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Amelia Hood @milliehood.bsky.social · 9d
Agroforestry can benefit the environment & production, so why isn't it more widely adopted?🌳🚜

Knowledge is a major barrier to uptake! We worked with 75 UK stakeholders to identify barriers & co-design solutions

doi.org/10.1002/pan3... Tnks
@uktreescapes.bsky.social @peopleandnature.bsky.social
Identifying knowledge barriers to agroforestry adoption and co‐designing solutions to them
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
doi.org

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Julia Koricheva, Garry Peterson , and 20 more

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Natalie Cooper @nhcooper123.bsky.social · 10d
Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!
Book cover for Reproducible Code guide. The cover has a red background with a large yellow-bodied black-headed stag beetle.

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Darío Martin‐Benito, Julen Astigarraga

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Antonio J. Pérez-Luque @ajpelu.bsky.social · 10d
🧵 1/5 New paper out at @jappliedecology.bsky.social

We evaluate how #carbon allocation strategies determine the long-term carbon sink potential of large-scale pine reforestations under climate change. We combined #RemoteSensing and #dendrochronological plots

doi.org/10.1111/1365...

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

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 13d
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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 Brian J. Enquist, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Tommaso Jucker , and 2 more

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Daniela Nemetschek (Krebber) @danielanemetschek.bsky.social · 13d
Working with dendrometers or curious about dendrometer research? 🌱🌐🍁🌳

🚨 Join the Global Dendrometer Network 🚨

We’re building a global community using dendrometers to study plant growth, stress, phenology & more.

Sign up for updates on meetings, data calls & more 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Reposted by Doerthe Tetzlaff, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Tommaso Jucker , and 5 more

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 15d
🌱 Delve deeper into the ecology of soil with "The Ecology of Soil: From communities to ecosystems", a fascinating new book release from our Executive Editor Richard Bardgett!

🪱 Read more: buff.ly/6A4abeW

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Carlos P. Carmona, Tommaso Jucker , and 5 more

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Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo @castretis.bsky.social · 15d
In trees, intraspecific and intraindividual leaf trait variability decrease along a gradient of tree species richness and are an important part of functional diversity in forest stands,
Our new paper is already out in @natcomms.nature.com

doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Want to know more about it? 🧵
Intraspecific and intraindividual trait variability decrease with tree richness in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment - Nature Communications
In forests, trait expression is influenced by tree-tree interactions. Castro Sánchez-Bermejo et al. show how phenotypic variability of tree species decreases with tree diversity and contributes import...
doi.org

Reposted by Ewan McGaughey, Tommaso Jucker

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 15d
NEW: Mapping England's Landscape Recovery projects

The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature

So I had a go at mapping them myself

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whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
Mapping England’s Landscape Recovery Projects
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Image: West Penwith, Cornwall – one of over 50 Landscape Recovery pilots. Since Brexit, the UK Government has been engaged in lengthy reforms of farm payments &…
whoownsengland.org

Reposted by Oliver L. Phillips, Tommaso Jucker, Pierre Mariotte

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Journal of Ecology @journalofecology.bsky.social · 15d
🏆We are pleased to announce that our Eminent Ecologist for 2025 is Angela Moles!

✨Angela has collected a few of her favourite Journal of Ecology papers together here: buff.ly/86uQ6v5

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Neil Pederson, Brian J. Harvey , and 9 more

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · 16d
Calling on all forest disturbance experts: Please consider contributing to our study on global forest disturbance change, and help resolve the nuances of changing forest disturbance regimes. More details and survey here: www.lss.ls.tum.de/edfm/disturb...

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 17d
🚨Join the International Dendrometer Network🚨

We're building a community of people using dendrometers to study tree growth, stress, resilience, phenology & more🌳🧪

Join our mailing list for updates, data calls & opportunities: forms.gle/SrdMLcg5BAN9...

First meeting is Friday at 10:30CET - join us!

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

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Danielle Creek @daniellecreek.bsky.social · 17d
📣 #Dendrometer community! We’re building an International Dendrometer Network 🌍

Join our mailing list for updates on activities, data calls & collaboration opportunities:
👉 forms.gle/gcnhXBjpmgEb...

First online meeting this Friday—join us! 🌲🌳

#TreeGrowth

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 Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Tommaso Jucker

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Dylan Craven @dylancraven.bsky.social · 18d
Happy to share our review of Miyawaki forests, in which we show the lack of empirical evidence supporting this increasingly popular approach : besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jappliedecology.bsky.social

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker, Andrew Hacket‐Pain

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Rachel Jade Kuzmich @thatracheljade.bsky.social · 19d
Psst, we're one week in on my advent series focusing on why remote sensing can be a great tool in ecology!

rachelkuzmich.github.io/blog/

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 19d
#TansleyInsight: #Forest #canopy interactions with aerosols: important considerations in approaching future impacts and #ClimateManagement

Durand, Lintunen & Ezhova 👇

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#LatestIssue #PlantScience
Fig. 1 Summary representation of interactions between aerosol particles and vegetation.

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Stephen D. Murphy, Tommaso Jucker , and 1 more

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Harriet Mason @harriet-mason.bsky.social · 20d
HEY! YOU! ggdibbler 0.6.1 is finally up on CRAN!

harriet-mason.github.io/ggdibbler/in...

You can now pass random variables to any aesthetic in any ggplot geom/stat. If you can express it as a distribution, ggdibbler can plot it. It also works with ggplot extensions, like gganimate. #rstats

Reposted by Julia Koricheva, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Richard J. Butler , and 8 more

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Andrew Hacket-Pain @andrewhacket-pain.bsky.social · 21d
University of Birmingham, UK, are advertising a permanant position (Assistant or Associate Professor) in *Forests under Global Change*. A wide net has been cast - ecology, physiology, modelling, remote sensing, functioning, biodiversity, management... 🌲🌱🌳🌳🦌🌳🛰️🐿️🌲🔬🌳
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPS459/a...
Seedling growing in the forest

Reposted by Dominik Wiedenhofer, Tommaso Jucker

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 21d
“A downside to the use of metaphors is that it is easy to regard them as real aspects of nature. This occurs via a fallacy known as reification”

I’ve always liked this paper on the unacknowledged use of metaphors in ecology:

eg, niche, competition, tipping points, habitat
doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Reposted by Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Tommaso Jucker, Yuwen Zhang

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Danielle Creek @daniellecreek.bsky.social · 22d
🎤Hi #dendrometer users! You are invited to join our new Dendrometer Network (catchy name still tbd 😜). Online meeting 10:30-12 CET Friday 12 Dec. Please share and let me know if you want to join and I will send the meeting link 🌴🎄🌳🌲

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

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Philip Donoghue @phil-donoghue.bsky.social · 23d
Our latest, led by the inimitable Chris Kay "Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes" in which we used gene duplications to test hypotheses of eukaryogenesis. TLDR? They're all wrong. With @tweethinking.bsky.social @anya1.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social Davide Pisani
Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes - Nature
Analysis of eukaryotic gene sequences using a relaxed molecular clock methodology indicate that eukaryotes emerged 3.0–2.25 billion years ago as a result of mitochondrial endosymbiosis with complex ar...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Stephen D. Murphy, Tommaso Jucker, Emilio Vilanova , and 1 more

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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 23d
"Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast" -- wow what a comprehensive analysis by Yeung, @xiyang.bsky.social et al. 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Overlooked and extensive ghost forest formation across the US Atlantic coast - Nature Sustainability
Large swathes of standing dead trees or ‘ghost forests’ can form owing to rising sea levels in coastal areas, but the extent to which this occurs is unclear. This study maps ghost forests at the indiv...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · 25d
Excited to be going on @thedailyshow.com tonight to discuss climate change, my new book, and the general state of the planet.

Reposted by Tommaso Jucker

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 26d
Allometry and phylogeny of within-diaspore biomass allocation: a global analysis royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... | #BiologyLetters #Ecology #Evolution #PlantScience

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Tommaso Jucker @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social · 28d
Good question! Yes, largest continuous/unfragmented woodland. It's climatically very different from temperate woodlands in the N hemisphere. Much drier (400mm/y) and more open. An eco/eco miracle you get trees 25m tall with so little rain!

Reposted by Mathias Disney, Tommaso Jucker

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 28d
Long-term recovery of canopy 3D structural diversity following wildfires in the world’s largest temperate woodland #ProcB #OpenAccess #Ecosystem #Conservation royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...