Vincent Gauci
@gaucigauci.bsky.social
Exploring ecosystem interactions with the atmosphere and nature-based climate solutions. Forests, trees, peat, wetlands & all things methane. Art, gardening & #CFC enthusiast. My own opinions (may differ from yours).
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Vincent Gauci
@gaucigauci.bsky.social
· Jun 19
My perspective “Tree methane exchange in a changing world” is now out in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com rdcu.be/erF4j
Fantastic paper from Loft, @ymalhi.bsky.social and others. The ecological energetics approach offers a way to better integrate animals into Earth system modelling of major biogeochemical cycles, as well as yielding important insights on ecosystem function as laid out by Yadvinder, below.
Our new paper in Nature uses ecological energetics to track ten ecosystem functions of all birds and mammals in sub-Saharan Africa. It shows that the ecological power of African wildlife has declined by a third since pre-colonial times @natureportfolio.nature.com
🌍 New Oxford-led study in Nature finds Africa’s wildlife has lost a third of its natural “power” — the energy driving ecosystems and livelihoods.
Large animals once sustained this flow; their loss now reshapes life across the continent. @ymalhi.bsky.social
Large animals once sustained this flow; their loss now reshapes life across the continent. @ymalhi.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Fantastic paper from Loft, @ymalhi.bsky.social and others. The ecological energetics approach offers a way to better integrate animals into Earth system modelling of major biogeochemical cycles, as well as yielding important insights on ecosystem function as laid out by Yadvinder, below.
Reposted by Vincent Gauci
🧵 New preprint alert!
From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social
Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social
Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Environment and disease have tissue-specific effects on the tree microbiome
Trees are essential for ecosystem function, but due to their long lifespan, are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disease. Tree-associated microbiota are critical for tree health and r...
www.biorxiv.org
August 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
🧵 New preprint alert!
From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social
Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social
Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Vincent Gauci
Which #methanotrophs drive methane degradation in the #phyllosphere of #trees? This project involves Sinchan Banerjee at Warwick and Professors Yin Chen, James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social and Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social at University of Birmingham
www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...
www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...
Garden Grants GHGR — Homeworld Collective
Garden Grants: Funding to grow climate biotech
www.homeworld.bio
July 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Which #methanotrophs drive methane degradation in the #phyllosphere of #trees? This project involves Sinchan Banerjee at Warwick and Professors Yin Chen, James McDonald @jamesemcdonald.bsky.social and Vincent Gauci @gaucigauci.bsky.social at University of Birmingham
www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...
www.homeworld.bio/grants-green...
I was asked by @theconversation.com to provide an explainer/comment on the value of the @methanesat.bsky.social satellite following its power loss.
MethaneSat: The climate spy satellite that went quiet
MethaneSat was developed to spot emission hot spots of invisible methane pollution from space. Without it, accurate methane monitoring will be incredibly difficult.
theconversation.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I was asked by @theconversation.com to provide an explainer/comment on the value of the @methanesat.bsky.social satellite following its power loss.
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July 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Can we expand the narrative and definition of human development to include flourishing with nature? Our new paper in Nature explores such a vision, and outlines a metric - the Nature Relationship Index - to sit alongside the Human Development Index.
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
Can Nature & People Thrive Together?
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An Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures @nature.com.web.brid.gy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An Aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures @nature.com.web.brid.gy
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Can we expand the narrative and definition of human development to include flourishing with nature? Our new paper in Nature explores such a vision, and outlines a metric - the Nature Relationship Index - to sit alongside the Human Development Index.
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
Reposted by Vincent Gauci
New Paper out in Nature: 'An aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"We must rethink our relationship with the Earth, not as consumers, but as partners in healing and co-flourishing with the rest of the natural world".
youtube.com/shorts/pXHnW...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"We must rethink our relationship with the Earth, not as consumers, but as partners in healing and co-flourishing with the rest of the natural world".
youtube.com/shorts/pXHnW...
June 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
New Paper out in Nature: 'An aspirational Approach to Planetary Futures'
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"We must rethink our relationship with the Earth, not as consumers, but as partners in healing and co-flourishing with the rest of the natural world".
youtube.com/shorts/pXHnW...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"We must rethink our relationship with the Earth, not as consumers, but as partners in healing and co-flourishing with the rest of the natural world".
youtube.com/shorts/pXHnW...
My piece for The Conversation elaborates on my NatRevs perspective (below). It supports (w/ a new mechanism) @simonlewis.bsky.social & @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social‘s idea of the Columbian exchange having global effects. With CH4 the Anthropocene start is 1592 theconversation.com/new-start-date…
June 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My piece for The Conversation elaborates on my NatRevs perspective (below). It supports (w/ a new mechanism) @simonlewis.bsky.social & @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social‘s idea of the Columbian exchange having global effects. With CH4 the Anthropocene start is 1592 theconversation.com/new-start-date…
My perspective “Tree methane exchange in a changing world” is now out in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com rdcu.be/erF4j
June 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
My perspective “Tree methane exchange in a changing world” is now out in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com rdcu.be/erF4j
Reposted by Vincent Gauci
1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature
Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...
www.nature.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
1/5 Why do all non-Africans descended from a group that left Africa 50k ago? In @nature.com we model 120k years of human niche dynamics. From 70ka, a big expansion of the human niche in Africa likely equipped later OOA dispersals with a unique ecological flexibilty.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Vincent Gauci
No 6th Mass Extinction Anthropocene 🌎🌐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
No 6th Mass Extinction Anthropocene 🌎🌐 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We have a new 2-year post-doc position available in forest methane modelling as part of our NERC DefMet project. The team would appreciate it if suitable applicants were made aware of this opportunity. Thanks! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI250/r...
Research Fellow in Forest Methane Modelling at University of Birmingham
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Research Fellow in Forest Methane Modelling opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
www.jobs.ac.uk
June 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We have a new 2-year post-doc position available in forest methane modelling as part of our NERC DefMet project. The team would appreciate it if suitable applicants were made aware of this opportunity. Thanks! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI250/r...
Reposted by Vincent Gauci
So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com 🧪🌐
Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brief thread of what we found 🧵
Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brief thread of what we found 🧵
May 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
So excited to finally share our new paper charting the global spectrum of tree crown architecture, out today at @natcomms.nature.com 🧪🌐
Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brief thread of what we found 🧵
Paper link 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brief thread of what we found 🧵
The new global methane budget is now out! Seems to gloss over the measured 25-50Tg sink term in upland trees that was recently discovered (= or > to soil sink & prob more subject to change). Possibly because it’s not yet been included in models the authors use. Observations do matter though…
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The new Global Methane Budget is now published, open access.
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
The new Global Methane Budget is now published, open access.
essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
May 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The new global methane budget is now out! Seems to gloss over the measured 25-50Tg sink term in upland trees that was recently discovered (= or > to soil sink & prob more subject to change). Possibly because it’s not yet been included in models the authors use. Observations do matter though…
Reposted by Vincent Gauci
May 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Reposted by Vincent Gauci
Our paper on mapping the canopy traits and functions of global tropical forests was published online in Nature last month but is out in print today, and it made the cover 😊
Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this
@natureportfolio.nature.com
Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this
@natureportfolio.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Our paper on mapping the canopy traits and functions of global tropical forests was published online in Nature last month but is out in print today, and it made the cover 😊
Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this
@natureportfolio.nature.com
Congrats again to @jeaggu.bsky.social and the many, many co-authors who contributed to this
@natureportfolio.nature.com
Brilliant discovery. Well done @elliescerri.bsky.social , Huw and team! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
In @nature.com we report the presence of the Mesolithic on Malta - upending everything we knew about the seafaring capabilities of late European hunter-gatherers and pushing back Maltese prehistory by 1000 years. Watch the clip, link to open access paper is below. 1/5
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
April 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Brilliant discovery. Well done @elliescerri.bsky.social , Huw and team! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Reposted by Vincent Gauci
Hear more about devastating impacts of the Laki volcano eruption and on the regional DECREASE in natural methane emissions in this insightful Climate Chat with @gaucigauci.bsky.social
Link with timestamp:
www.youtube.com/live/Z6aRSBa...
Link with timestamp:
www.youtube.com/live/Z6aRSBa...
Reducing Air Pollution Increases Methane?! with Vincent Gauci
YouTube video by Climate Chat
www.youtube.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Hear more about devastating impacts of the Laki volcano eruption and on the regional DECREASE in natural methane emissions in this insightful Climate Chat with @gaucigauci.bsky.social
Link with timestamp:
www.youtube.com/live/Z6aRSBa...
Link with timestamp:
www.youtube.com/live/Z6aRSBa...
Accelerated carbon return to agricultural peatlands through biochar addition - suppresses methane emissions and kicks off net GHG removal (with increased water level and added SO4). Excited to see this work from Chris Evans’ team at CEH.
Greenhouse gas removal in agricultural peatland via raised water levels and soil amendment - Biochar
Peatlands are an important natural store of carbon (C). Drainage of lowland peatlands for agriculture and the subsequent loss of anaerobic conditions had turned these C stores into major emitters of g...
link.springer.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Accelerated carbon return to agricultural peatlands through biochar addition - suppresses methane emissions and kicks off net GHG removal (with increased water level and added SO4). Excited to see this work from Chris Evans’ team at CEH.
Published tonight in Science Adances by Lu Shen’s fantastic team (and me) “The large role of declining atmospheric sulfate deposition and rising CO2 concentrations in stimulating future wetland CH4 emissions”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The large role of declining atmospheric sulfate deposition and rising CO2 concentrations in stimulating future wetland CH4 emissions
About 8 to 15% more aggressive cuts to anthropogenic methane emissions are required to meet the 1.5° and 2°C warming goals.
www.science.org
February 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Published tonight in Science Adances by Lu Shen’s fantastic team (and me) “The large role of declining atmospheric sulfate deposition and rising CO2 concentrations in stimulating future wetland CH4 emissions”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Back from a fascinating Stanford workshop on Atmospheric Methane Removal (AMR). Of course we need to prioritise emissions reductions, but, increasingly, and from work we’re about to publish, emissions reductions under the Global Methane Pledge aren’t going to be enough to meet stated aims.
January 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Back from a fascinating Stanford workshop on Atmospheric Methane Removal (AMR). Of course we need to prioritise emissions reductions, but, increasingly, and from work we’re about to publish, emissions reductions under the Global Methane Pledge aren’t going to be enough to meet stated aims.
At a meeting in Stanford. Their clock tower = 87m. Our Uni of Birmingham clock tower (Old Joe) = 100m. Birmingham wins.
January 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
At a meeting in Stanford. Their clock tower = 87m. Our Uni of Birmingham clock tower (Old Joe) = 100m. Birmingham wins.
So much to learn from experiments like Tempest run by Pat Megonigal of SERC.
Firefighting planes are dumping ocean water on the Los Angeles fires − why using saltwater is typically a last resort theconversation.com/firefighting... by Pat Megonigal of SERC!
Firefighting planes are dumping ocean water on the Los Angeles fires − why using saltwater is typically a last resort
In emergencies, dumping ocean water on fires may be the best option. But seawater can have long-term effects on equipment and ecosystems, as a novel coastal experiment shows.
theconversation.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM
So much to learn from experiments like Tempest run by Pat Megonigal of SERC.
Hello to all my new followers 👋🏼 (how did that happen?!). Guess I should spend more time here, and I will.
January 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Hello to all my new followers 👋🏼 (how did that happen?!). Guess I should spend more time here, and I will.
