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Luciana Alves
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Plant ecologist. I can see the forest for the trees
Associate Researcher @ UCLA
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in "General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally", we provide key insights into species’ vulnerability to environmental change and the processes that structure biodiversity at global scales.

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General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally | PNAS
A longstanding question in ecology asks whether or not species that achieve large geographic ranges also have large climatic niche breadths. Using ...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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The banks financing fossil fuel exploitation in the Amazon
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November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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New paper led by @bposch.bsky.social out in @newphyt.bsky.social . We reviewed evidence, mechanisms, and consequences of high temperature acclimation of leaf heat tolerance: nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
High‐temperature acclimation of photosystem II in land plants
The effect of high temperature on plant performance and survival is a topic of great interest given the ongoing rise in global heatwave frequency, duration, and intensity. The temperature at which ph....
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November 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting

I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
YES!!! 🙌 #DodgersWin ⚾️ 🧢 #WorldSeries
BACK. TO. BACK.

The Dodgers are the first team to repeat as World Series champions since the 1998 to 2000 New York Yankees.
November 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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JUST IN: The U.S. Senate has voted 52–48 to overturn Trump’s 50% tariffs on Brazil. Five Republicans joined Democrats: Susan Collins (ME), Mitch McConnell (KY), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Rand Paul (KY), and Thom Tillis (NC).

The measure is DOA in the House.
October 28, 2025 at 11:30 PM
FREDDIE FREEMAN!

WALK-OFF HOME RUN IN THE 18TH INNING.

DODGERS WIN!
October 28, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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How can we explore the future of the world's forests? Understanding the demography of their trees is key. In We took the new gen of global demographic vegetation models and held their roots to the observations. Thanks @annemarie-es.bsky.social for leading! nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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#Demography, dynamics and data: building confidence for simulating changes in the world's forests

📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Eckes-Shephard et al.

@WIleyPlantSci #PlantScience
October 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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🌳 New paper out in Ecology Letters! 🌱
Our latest study, led by Lukas Magee, shows that the “legacies” of trees continue to shape forests long after they die.

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#Ecology #Forests #Biodiversity
@umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social
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Memories of Trees Past: Coexistence Implications of Legacy Conspecific Density Dependence
Negative density dependence persisted for up to 5 years after tree death, but with interspecific variation. Although stabilising niche differences were large, fitness differences–at the seedling life...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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My department is hiring an assistant professor of forest regeneration. The University of Minnesota department of forest resources is a great place to work, I really really like it here, and hope we end up hiring someone I can collaborate with. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
Careers
The Department of Forest Resources at the University of Minnesota seeks outstanding applicants for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position focused on forest regeneration dynamics. This may include focus areas of early stand dynamics, forest genetics, climate-adaptive seed/tree selection, nursery systems, or environmental stress physiology, which may fall within broader disciplines such as silviculture, restoration ecology, or forest operations. This is a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position with research (50%) and teaching (50%) responsibilities. The successful candidate will have access to office and laboratory space in the department. The position is available beginning August 2026, with review of applications beginning December 8, 2025.ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities include but are not limited to:
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October 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Living in Shohei Ohtani’s world 🦄

#GoDodgers 🧢
October 18, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The Dodgers take Game 1 of the NLCS 🔥
October 17, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Breaking Plant Blindness, One Taylor Swift Song at a Time

🌸 Now in @botany.one 🌱
botany.fyi/dbmzro

Full paper: doi.org/10.1093/aob/...
October 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.

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Economics Nobel prize won by researchers who showed how science boosts growth
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Pewter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development.
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October 13, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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The Quarterly Review of Biology turns 100! We are celebrating our anniversary with free-to-read articles from the archives, through 2026. Learn more: ow.ly/xXli50X7Z5B
The Quarterly Review of Biology: QRB 100th Anniversary
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October 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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In temperate trees, growth–survival trade-offs are surpisingly weak and restricted to late-successional stages.
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Congratulations to Kauane Bordin for leading the analysis, and US FIA colleagues for an amazing data set: 12,035 (!) long-term plots
October 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
🧢 Dodgers WIN 💙
October 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Wiley had over $1.8 billion in revenue last year, but their new CEO decided to replace editorial assistants with AI. Our editor and reviewer profiles didn't even get transferred over from the old system; we've been assigned AI-generated keywords that editors need to "fix" to "improve" the algorithm.
October 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
😢 RIP Jane Goodall
Breaking News: Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most revered conservationists, died at 91. Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.” nyti.ms/42kpGxt
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Judge orders Trump administration to restore $500 million in grant funding to UCLA
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $500 million in federal grant funding that it froze at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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How a severe population bottleneck brought human ancestors close to extinction

Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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September 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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New Tansley Insight in New Phytologist: The path toward a unified plant trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity.

Why a common trait space matters, how to build it, and what it enables.

With @e-beccari.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/nph....

#PlantTraits #FunctionalDiversity
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September 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM