Reynaldo Linares-Palomino
@rlinares.bsky.social
Tropical ecologist | restoration | vegetation science | biodiversity monitoring | forests & grasslands | Amazonia & Andean mountains #BMAP #Smithsonian #DRYFLOR. ENG/SPA posts are mine
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/about/staff/reynaldo-linares-palomino
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#Ciencia para el #BosqueSeco Interandino 🇵🇪
Conocemos poco de cómo cambian las comunidades de #plantas en los #valles secos, & los factores asociados. Esta información es crítica para informar el manejo y #conservación en el contexto actual de cambio climático.
📷: JL Marcelo
doi.org/10.1016/j.tf...
Conocemos poco de cómo cambian las comunidades de #plantas en los #valles secos, & los factores asociados. Esta información es crítica para informar el manejo y #conservación en el contexto actual de cambio climático.
📷: JL Marcelo
doi.org/10.1016/j.tf...
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📣Join our free online workshop!
Dr. Lina Mühlbauer talks about her team's development of a low-cost, high resolution sensor network to measure microclimate with hardware that is cheap, easy to purchase and that uses freely available software 💡🌿
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Dr. Lina Mühlbauer talks about her team's development of a low-cost, high resolution sensor network to measure microclimate with hardware that is cheap, easy to purchase and that uses freely available software 💡🌿
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AER Live - DIY sensors for high-resolution microclimate monitoring: Lessons learnt and future perspectives - British Ecological Society
This session discusses the development of a low-cost, high resolution sensor network to measure microclimate with hardware that is cheap, easy to purchase and that uses freely available software.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📣Join our free online workshop!
Dr. Lina Mühlbauer talks about her team's development of a low-cost, high resolution sensor network to measure microclimate with hardware that is cheap, easy to purchase and that uses freely available software 💡🌿
Sign up here! 👇
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Dr. Lina Mühlbauer talks about her team's development of a low-cost, high resolution sensor network to measure microclimate with hardware that is cheap, easy to purchase and that uses freely available software 💡🌿
Sign up here! 👇
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#reptiles and #amphibians from #RioLasPiedras (Madre de Dios) in southeastern #Amazonian #Peru: 175 #species‼️
A list of the reptile and amphibian species from the Las Piedras River in Peru, with new records from the basin's central area: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
#frogs #rainforests #biogeography
#frogs #rainforests #biogeography
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
#reptiles and #amphibians from #RioLasPiedras (Madre de Dios) in southeastern #Amazonian #Peru: 175 #species‼️
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How to not be swamped by your microclimate data?
The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.
A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...
The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.
A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...
How to not be swamped by your microclimate data
Microclimate data are finally finding their way more routineously into ecological models – and rightly so. Hooray for that! The growing availability of in-situ measurements is helping us brid…
the3dlab.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
How to not be swamped by your microclimate data?
The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.
A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...
The rise of microclimate data may have opened Pandora’s box. Gone are the days of simple bioclimatic variables — now heads spin trying to summarize these timeseries.
A much-needed paper by @krystofchytry.bsky.social:
🔗 the3dlab.org/2025/11/11/h...
Cool #Traits stuff from #SeasonallyDryTropicalForests in Colombia 🧮
Ontogenetic shifts in wood anatomy & leaf traits in Colombian tropical dry forests
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Williams et al.
@peterw-ecol.bsky.social @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience
📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
by Williams et al.
@peterw-ecol.bsky.social @WileyPlantSci #PlantScience
November 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Cool #Traits stuff from #SeasonallyDryTropicalForests in Colombia 🧮
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Are you as bromeli-MAD about bromeliads as us? Then you're in luck!
Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
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Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
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October 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Are you as bromeli-MAD about bromeliads as us? Then you're in luck!
Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
buff.ly/zVh5ORp
Following the success of our previous special issues, we're pleased to announce a new one on Bromeliaceae Evolution & Systematics! Keep an eye on our socials as we share papers over the next few weeks 🌍 🧪 👇
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Piper dispersed from South America first to Southern Africa, then on to South East Asia, where it spread across the Wallace & Lydekker's lines several times! Intrigued? The full paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1093/botl... (2/2) @linneansociety.bsky.social
Origin and biogeographical history of Palaeotropical Piper (Piperaceae): multiple long-distance dispersals from South America initiated during the Middle Eocene climatic optimum
Abstract. Piper is the largest genus of Piperaceae and second largest in the angiosperms, but the biogeography and timing of its global radiation has not y
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Piper dispersed from South America first to Southern Africa, then on to South East Asia, where it spread across the Wallace & Lydekker's lines several times! Intrigued? The full paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1093/botl... (2/2) @linneansociety.bsky.social
New Species Alert!
Two new species of the genus Cedrela from W Ecuador are described based on extensive comparative analysis, aiding in the classification of their conservation status! Both endangered by #Deforestation, this highlights the importance of continued research 👇
doi.org/10.1093/botl...
Two new species of the genus Cedrela from W Ecuador are described based on extensive comparative analysis, aiding in the classification of their conservation status! Both endangered by #Deforestation, this highlights the importance of continued research 👇
doi.org/10.1093/botl...
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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📣 Join our free online talk – DIY sensors for high-resolution microclimate monitoring
📆 18 Nov, 2pm GMT
Small-scale environmental conditions have a great influence on species responses to global change. Therefore, measuring microclimate is an important challenge, not only in ecology.
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📆 18 Nov, 2pm GMT
Small-scale environmental conditions have a great influence on species responses to global change. Therefore, measuring microclimate is an important challenge, not only in ecology.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
📣 Join our free online talk – DIY sensors for high-resolution microclimate monitoring
📆 18 Nov, 2pm GMT
Small-scale environmental conditions have a great influence on species responses to global change. Therefore, measuring microclimate is an important challenge, not only in ecology.
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📆 18 Nov, 2pm GMT
Small-scale environmental conditions have a great influence on species responses to global change. Therefore, measuring microclimate is an important challenge, not only in ecology.
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What to with you analysis of ecological data when you are missing some data points?
Check out this @ESAMonographs paper summarizing approaches and providing guidelines!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Check out this @ESAMonographs paper summarizing approaches and providing guidelines!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Missing data in ecology: Syntheses, clarifications, and considerations
In ecology and related sciences, missing data are common and occur in a variety of different contexts. When missing data are not handled properly, subsequent statistical estimates tend to be biased, ....
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
What to with you analysis of ecological data when you are missing some data points?
Check out this @ESAMonographs paper summarizing approaches and providing guidelines!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Check out this @ESAMonographs paper summarizing approaches and providing guidelines!
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
So cool! Four #new #Gesneraciaceae species, found in a #Biosphere Reserve in central #Peru. #PlantHunters
Cuatro nuevas especies de Gesneriaceae de la Reserva de Biósfera Oxapampa-Asháninka-Yanesha, Perú. 2025. Revista Forestal del Perú
revistas.lamolina.edu.pe/index.php/rf...
Felicitaciones Rocio Rojas Gonzales, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza y colegas!
revistas.lamolina.edu.pe/index.php/rf...
Felicitaciones Rocio Rojas Gonzales, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza y colegas!
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
So cool! Four #new #Gesneraciaceae species, found in a #Biosphere Reserve in central #Peru. #PlantHunters
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Cuatro nuevas especies de Gesneriaceae de la Reserva de Biósfera Oxapampa-Asháninka-Yanesha, Perú. 2025. Revista Forestal del Perú
revistas.lamolina.edu.pe/index.php/rf...
Felicitaciones Rocio Rojas Gonzales, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza y colegas!
revistas.lamolina.edu.pe/index.php/rf...
Felicitaciones Rocio Rojas Gonzales, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza y colegas!
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Cuatro nuevas especies de Gesneriaceae de la Reserva de Biósfera Oxapampa-Asháninka-Yanesha, Perú. 2025. Revista Forestal del Perú
revistas.lamolina.edu.pe/index.php/rf...
Felicitaciones Rocio Rojas Gonzales, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza y colegas!
revistas.lamolina.edu.pe/index.php/rf...
Felicitaciones Rocio Rojas Gonzales, Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Luis Valenzuela Gamarra, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza y colegas!
Great paper, but very unsettling: "Extreme warming of Amazon waters in a changing climate"
Extreme warming of Amazon waters in a changing climate
In 2023, an unprecedented drought and heat wave severely affected Amazon waters, leading to high mortality of fishes and river dolphins. Five of 10 lakes monitored had exceptionally high daytime water...
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Great paper, but very unsettling: "Extreme warming of Amazon waters in a changing climate"
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Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen
@masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
@masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen
@masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
@masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
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🔥🌳🌴Check out this exhaustive overview of how #traits may mediate the impact of #fire on (tropical) #forests and vice versa, led by PhD student David Pacuk! An important start to better understand fire resilience of fire-unadapted forests!🔥🌳🌴
🔥🌱 From the upcoming #AJB Special Issue: “Understanding novel #fire regimes using plant trait‐based approaches" 🌱🔥
Toward a functional understanding of novel fire regimes in tropical #forests
By David Pacuk, Peter van der Sleen, Frank Sterck & @masha-vandersande.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
Toward a functional understanding of novel fire regimes in tropical #forests
By David Pacuk, Peter van der Sleen, Frank Sterck & @masha-vandersande.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ajb2...
October 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reposted by Reynaldo Linares-Palomino
Seed dispersal as a backup system to resprouting & seeding during post-fire regeneration
doi.org/10.1093/aob/... @annbot.bsky.social
by @jmgncosta.bsky.social et al
Great to see a paper that makes such strong use of the BROT DB (www.uv.es/jgpausas/bro...)! @ctavsanoglu.bsky.social
🧪🌍🔥🌿🪴 opendata
doi.org/10.1093/aob/... @annbot.bsky.social
by @jmgncosta.bsky.social et al
Great to see a paper that makes such strong use of the BROT DB (www.uv.es/jgpausas/bro...)! @ctavsanoglu.bsky.social
🧪🌍🔥🌿🪴 opendata
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Seed dispersal as a backup system to resprouting & seeding during post-fire regeneration
doi.org/10.1093/aob/... @annbot.bsky.social
by @jmgncosta.bsky.social et al
Great to see a paper that makes such strong use of the BROT DB (www.uv.es/jgpausas/bro...)! @ctavsanoglu.bsky.social
🧪🌍🔥🌿🪴 opendata
doi.org/10.1093/aob/... @annbot.bsky.social
by @jmgncosta.bsky.social et al
Great to see a paper that makes such strong use of the BROT DB (www.uv.es/jgpausas/bro...)! @ctavsanoglu.bsky.social
🧪🌍🔥🌿🪴 opendata
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Next-generation specimen #digitization: capturing #reflectance spectra from the world's #herbaria for modeling plant biology across time, space, and taxa
#TansleyReview by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
#TansleyReview by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
November 3, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Next-generation specimen #digitization: capturing #reflectance spectra from the world's #herbaria for modeling plant biology across time, space, and taxa
#TansleyReview by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
#TansleyReview by Jeannine Cavender-Bares, et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#PlantScience
✨ Paper spotlight ✨
(🧵 1/6) The path towards a unified trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(🧵 1/6) The path towards a unified trait space: synthesizing plant functional diversity
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Yet another example of the importance of natural history collections. Here, helping to address two questions:
• Responses to climate change (here, temperature and precipitation mattered in different ways)
• What sets range limits
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• Responses to climate change (here, temperature and precipitation mattered in different ways)
• What sets range limits
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Herbarium specimens reveal shifts in species' elevational ranges
Zu et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/VB8MUG...
Zu et al.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/VB8MUG...
October 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Yet another example of the importance of natural history collections. Here, helping to address two questions:
• Responses to climate change (here, temperature and precipitation mattered in different ways)
• What sets range limits
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• Responses to climate change (here, temperature and precipitation mattered in different ways)
• What sets range limits
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Reposted by Reynaldo Linares-Palomino
Forest measurements are more important than ever.
“Dedicated teams working in the field to collect vital ground-truth data are essential to the success of our missions” - Simonetta Cheli #ESA Director of Earth Observation. Find out more in our latest newsletter.
sway.cloud.microsoft/pdXbVpmWR2Io...
“Dedicated teams working in the field to collect vital ground-truth data are essential to the success of our missions” - Simonetta Cheli #ESA Director of Earth Observation. Find out more in our latest newsletter.
sway.cloud.microsoft/pdXbVpmWR2Io...
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Forest measurements are more important than ever.
“Dedicated teams working in the field to collect vital ground-truth data are essential to the success of our missions” - Simonetta Cheli #ESA Director of Earth Observation. Find out more in our latest newsletter.
sway.cloud.microsoft/pdXbVpmWR2Io...
“Dedicated teams working in the field to collect vital ground-truth data are essential to the success of our missions” - Simonetta Cheli #ESA Director of Earth Observation. Find out more in our latest newsletter.
sway.cloud.microsoft/pdXbVpmWR2Io...
Congratulations @tsonkiri.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 Carlos Ponce del Prado Conservation Award in the Outstanding Young Conservationist category! This highlights Vania's commitment to #biodiversity #conservation & to the work we do at #BMAP_Peru to strengthen #research of Peru's ecosystems.
October 30, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Congratulations @tsonkiri.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 Carlos Ponce del Prado Conservation Award in the Outstanding Young Conservationist category! This highlights Vania's commitment to #biodiversity #conservation & to the work we do at #BMAP_Peru to strengthen #research of Peru's ecosystems.
Reposted by Reynaldo Linares-Palomino
A new article in Biological Reviews by Islam et al. synthesizes current knowledge on C cycling and storage in desert ecosystems, highlighting the roles of precipitation patterns, vegetation dynamics & soil inorganic processes in regulating C sequestration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
October 30, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A new article in Biological Reviews by Islam et al. synthesizes current knowledge on C cycling and storage in desert ecosystems, highlighting the roles of precipitation patterns, vegetation dynamics & soil inorganic processes in regulating C sequestration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Do you study effect of disturbance on large scales? Use Belowground Persistence Types of plants! We hope that they will help us to understand better ecosystem resilience than only plant traits.
🌱 New framework in plant ecology! Researchers propose 6 Belowground Persistence Types (BPTs) — classifying plants by woodiness, clonality, and resprouting ability. This whole-plant view reveals how species persist after disturbance and could reshape how we study resilience.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Do you study effect of disturbance on large scales? Use Belowground Persistence Types of plants! We hope that they will help us to understand better ecosystem resilience than only plant traits.
Reposted by Reynaldo Linares-Palomino
As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
As droughts become longer and more intense, their toll on ecosystems could be far greater than we thought. Our new paper in @science.org shows how prolonged & extreme droughts cause dramatic, cumulative losses in ecosystem productivity across the globe www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Reynaldo Linares-Palomino
Save the date! www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/en/be20/
October 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Save the date! www.biodiversity-exploratories.de/en/be20/