Leland Werden
@lelandwerden.bsky.social
Lead Scientist @ ETH Zürich
https://lwerden.mystrikingly.com/
nature based solutions, restoration ecology, ecosystem ecology
Environmental science
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Geography
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🌱 Restoration & conservation practitioners - we want to hear from you! 🌱
As part of our work with @snappartnership.bsky.social we're inviting practitioners to complete an anonymous questionnaire about how they monitor their restoration and conservation work.
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As part of our work with @snappartnership.bsky.social we're inviting practitioners to complete an anonymous questionnaire about how they monitor their restoration and conservation work.
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Leland Werden
@lelandwerden.bsky.social
· Jul 29
Integrating belowground recovery into tropical forest restoration design and monitoring
Abstract. There is growing recognition that tropical forest restoration is key for sequestering carbon and enhancing ecosystem resilience. Soils, roots, an
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Now out in BioScience! Our group highlights the importance of monitoring belowground tropical
forest restoration outcomes doi.org/10.1093/bios...
We recommend and outline streamlined approaches to monitor six key dynamic soil physical,
chemical and biological properties to track project outcomes.
forest restoration outcomes doi.org/10.1093/bios...
We recommend and outline streamlined approaches to monitor six key dynamic soil physical,
chemical and biological properties to track project outcomes.
The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com
· Mar 14
Trump moves to close facility that helps track planet-warming pollution
The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.
www.washingtonpost.com
The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.
An open-source method for spatially and temporally explicit herbivory monitoring in semi-arid savannas
Effective management of protected areas is crucial for addressing the global biodiversity crisis. In water-limited savannas, altered herbivory regimes…
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Check out our new paper that introduces an open-source method to quantify herbivory pressure from camera trap images!
The project was led masterfully by @ethzurich.bsky.social student Manuel Weber (not on bluesky).
Desktop application: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Code: github.com/ManuelABWebe...
The project was led masterfully by @ethzurich.bsky.social student Manuel Weber (not on bluesky).
Desktop application: doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Code: github.com/ManuelABWebe...
Reposted by Leland K. Werden
Seeing the Savanna Through the Trees: Vegetation Structure, Composition and Function Along a Forest‐Savanna Boundary in Cambodia
In the seasonally dry landscapes of continental Southeast Asia, deciduous dipterocarp vegetation (DDF), which resembles savanna, and semi-evergreen forests (SEF) form patchy landscape mosaics, with a...
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Out today in @biotropica.bsky.social: We show that deciduous dipterocarp and semi-evergreen forests in Cambodia have distinct species, but similar soils across their abrupt boundaries. But we see differences in fire history and fire adapted functional traits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Leland Werden
@lelandwerden.bsky.social
· Dec 13
🧰 Our work emphasizes that we already have many of the tools necessary to propel the terrestrial restoration movement forward. It is time to implement and assess their efficacy at scale.
Leland Werden
@lelandwerden.bsky.social
· Dec 13
🌱 These approaches have the potential to scale up forest landscape restoration by reducing or offsetting costs and improving cost-benefit ratios, while increasing restoration persistence. However, we need more data on the context-dependent cost-benefit ratio and feasibility of applying them.
Leland Werden
@lelandwerden.bsky.social
· Dec 13
🌳 Of the innovations assessed, increasing species diversity and integrating economic species in restoration plantings most frequently improved outcomes. However, each innovation has its own benefits and trade-offs that can help overcome specific restoration challenges.
Leland Werden
@lelandwerden.bsky.social
· Dec 13
📊 We found that these innovations frequently outperformed business-as-usual approaches, such as monoculture plantations, in speeding vegetation recovery.
Leland Werden
@lelandwerden.bsky.social
· Dec 13
🔎 We worked with an incredible group of restoration practitioners and ecologists to identify seven innovative assisted forest restoration approaches with potential to rapidly regenerate the world’s forests once scaled up.
Reposted by Chris M. Smith‐Martin
Leland Werden
@lelandwerden.bsky.social
· Dec 13
Assessing innovations for upscaling forest landscape restoration
There is an increasing urgency to implement large-scale ecosystem restoration to mitigate the biodiversity and climate crises. These efforts must be s…
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Hello bluesky!
Are you interested in natural climate solutions and innovative approaches to scaling up assisted restoration efforts? Check out our new paper just published in One Earth: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Are you interested in natural climate solutions and innovative approaches to scaling up assisted restoration efforts? Check out our new paper just published in One Earth: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...