Daniel Zuleta
@danielfzuleta.bsky.social
Papá | Assistant Professor in Plant Ecology & Biodiversity University of Gothenburg @beccsweden.bsky.social #TreeMortality #TreeDamage #ForestDiversity #GlobalChange | PI #AmacayacuFDP
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🌲 Very happy to share our new study on where, when, and why trees die across the range of 3 major southern US pines: Pinus taeda, P. palustris, and P. elliottii (loblolly, longleaf, and slash pine).
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb.70141
@ird-fr.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social @ulbrecherche.bsky.social
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🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb.70141
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Mosaic of Size‐Dependent Mortality in Three Ecologically and Economically Important Pine Species Reveals Patterns Across Space and Time
Aim Global forests face increasing stresses from novel climate states, altered disturbance regimes and the spread of pests and pathogens. Understanding where and when mortality occurs across species...
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
🌲 Very happy to share our new study on where, when, and why trees die across the range of 3 major southern US pines: Pinus taeda, P. palustris, and P. elliottii (loblolly, longleaf, and slash pine).
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb.70141
@ird-fr.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social @ulbrecherche.bsky.social
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🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geb.70141
@ird-fr.bsky.social @umramap.bsky.social @ulbrecherche.bsky.social
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Benchmarking nine vegetation demographic models: what works, what doesn’t, what’s next...
@annemarie-es.bsky.social
@george.hurtt.bsky.social
@annemarie-es.bsky.social
@george.hurtt.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Benchmarking nine vegetation demographic models: what works, what doesn’t, what’s next...
@annemarie-es.bsky.social
@george.hurtt.bsky.social
@annemarie-es.bsky.social
@george.hurtt.bsky.social
This is really something: using the longest available data (1971–2019) and disentangling causal influences, a tropical forest is shown to have flipped from a carbon sink to a carbon source due to increasingly extreme temperatures & cyclones!!!
🚨 New in @nature.com: Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source.
Led by Hannah Carle, with @umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @umdscience.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social @creaf.cat
👉 nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09497-8
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Led by Hannah Carle, with @umramap.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @umdscience.bsky.social @westsyduhie.bsky.social @creaf.cat
👉 nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09497-8
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Aboveground biomass in Australian tropical forests now a net carbon source - Nature
A transition from carbon sink to source for the aboveground woody biomass of moist tropical Australian forests has occurred, driven by increasingly extreme climate anomalies.
nature.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This is really something: using the longest available data (1971–2019) and disentangling causal influences, a tropical forest is shown to have flipped from a carbon sink to a carbon source due to increasingly extreme temperatures & cyclones!!!
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We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time
📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
August 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
We have a #Tansley review out today @newphyt.bsky.social led by Becky Banbury Morgan in which we put forward a new framework that aims to explain how and why edge effects on forest structure vary across ecosystems and through time
📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
📜 doi.org/10.1111/nph....
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Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
September 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Only a pre-print for now, but after 4 years of hard work I couldn't resist sharing this!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
The Global Canopy Atlas: analysis-ready maps of 3D structure for the world's woody ecosystems
📜: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Huge team effort led by the brilliant Fabian Fischer!
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It turns out we shouldn't expect #eDNA to capture local diversity/composition of tropical trees but rather broad patterns across regions. Together with a fairly coarse taxonomic resolution, the utility of eDNA for biodiversity monitoring of tropical forest trees is probably limited.
August 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It turns out we shouldn't expect #eDNA to capture local diversity/composition of tropical trees but rather broad patterns across regions. Together with a fairly coarse taxonomic resolution, the utility of eDNA for biodiversity monitoring of tropical forest trees is probably limited.
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Ever wonder about what spatial scale of biodiversity #eDNA 🧬 samples capture?
We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity.
(Please share with #eDNA folks!)
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity.
(Please share with #eDNA folks!)
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Ever wonder about what spatial scale of biodiversity #eDNA 🧬 samples capture?
We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity.
(Please share with #eDNA folks!)
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
We did. So we used data from the 16-ha Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot 🇵🇷 to investigate the spatial scale of soil eDNA samples for tree🌴🌳 diversity.
(Please share with #eDNA folks!)
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Our previous work in #AmacayacuFDP forest shows that small changes in topography drive
1️⃣ tree species distr. doi.org/10.1007/s111...
2️⃣ drought-related #treemortality doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
3️⃣ and some (not all) branch, leaf & stomatal traits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
But...
1️⃣ tree species distr. doi.org/10.1007/s111...
2️⃣ drought-related #treemortality doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
3️⃣ and some (not all) branch, leaf & stomatal traits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
But...
August 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Our previous work in #AmacayacuFDP forest shows that small changes in topography drive
1️⃣ tree species distr. doi.org/10.1007/s111...
2️⃣ drought-related #treemortality doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
3️⃣ and some (not all) branch, leaf & stomatal traits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
But...
1️⃣ tree species distr. doi.org/10.1007/s111...
2️⃣ drought-related #treemortality doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
3️⃣ and some (not all) branch, leaf & stomatal traits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
But...
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Congratulations to Ecosystems HRA, Sandra Díaz, for winning the 2025 Tyler Prize! Sandra's research has changed the way we understand biodiversity, ecosystems, and the deep ties between humans and nature. Watch this short film on Sandra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKy...
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
Sandra Díaz, winner of the Tyler Prize 2025
YouTube video by Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement
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April 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Congratulations to Ecosystems HRA, Sandra Díaz, for winning the 2025 Tyler Prize! Sandra's research has changed the way we understand biodiversity, ecosystems, and the deep ties between humans and nature. Watch this short film on Sandra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPKy...
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
📢 Job Alert! 🌳
Looking for a 2-yr postdoc (ext. up to 3 yrs) to join me at U. of Gothenburg to study links between environmental drivers, tree conditions (e.g., #treedamage), and physiological processes leading to #tropical #treemortality.
Apply by: April 17th
Details below
Looking for a 2-yr postdoc (ext. up to 3 yrs) to join me at U. of Gothenburg to study links between environmental drivers, tree conditions (e.g., #treedamage), and physiological processes leading to #tropical #treemortality.
Apply by: April 17th
Details below
April 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Woody respiration is an important but unconstrained process in the forest carbon cycle. @mariabmills.bsky.social made real progress in Malaysian Borneo using lasers and climbing giants, so that you don't have to! She came away with great insights.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Investigating the accuracy of tropical woody stem CO2 efflux estimates: scaling methods, and vertical and diel variation
Stem CO2 efflux (EA) significantly contributes to autotrophic and ecosystem respiration in tropical forests, but field methodologies often introduce biases and uncertainty. This study evaluates thes...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Woody respiration is an important but unconstrained process in the forest carbon cycle. @mariabmills.bsky.social made real progress in Malaysian Borneo using lasers and climbing giants, so that you don't have to! She came away with great insights.
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Insights Into Ecology, Evolution and Global Change Responses From Very Long-Term Studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌐🧪🌾
Insights Into Ecology, Evolution and Global Change Responses From Very Long‐Term Studies
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Insights Into Ecology, Evolution and Global Change Responses From Very Long-Term Studies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🌐🧪🌾
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Just a few days left to apply for this #technician position in my group! Like #forests? #Data? #Python? Working outside?
Come and help support our research using high resolution #remotesensing #lidar data to study #forests 👇
Please share!
Come and help support our research using high resolution #remotesensing #lidar data to study #forests 👇
Please share!
I am #hiring! Do you like #lidar #data and #forests? Enjoy both computational & field work?
I am hiring a Computational and Field Senior Technician to join my UKRI FLF project team for 2 yrs, based in Cambridge, UK (not remote). More details here (closing April 7th) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50700/
I am hiring a Computational and Field Senior Technician to join my UKRI FLF project team for 2 yrs, based in Cambridge, UK (not remote). More details here (closing April 7th) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50700/
Computational & Field Senior Technician (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Computational & Field Senior Technician (Fixed Term) in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk
April 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Just a few days left to apply for this #technician position in my group! Like #forests? #Data? #Python? Working outside?
Come and help support our research using high resolution #remotesensing #lidar data to study #forests 👇
Please share!
Come and help support our research using high resolution #remotesensing #lidar data to study #forests 👇
Please share!
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@vetenskapsradet.bsky.social is opening a new grant to attract researchers from outside Europe to come to Sweden! The call opens in mid-April but some details are already online: www.vr.se/english/just...
April 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
@vetenskapsradet.bsky.social is opening a new grant to attract researchers from outside Europe to come to Sweden! The call opens in mid-April but some details are already online: www.vr.se/english/just...
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Super useful video library to liven up your presentations …
Looking for high quality free videos?🎥 Introducing: Open Planet! 🧪🌍
A rich free-to-use video library to help storytellers create impactful content for our planet.
Find world-class footage to tell your stories about #biodiversity & nature ⤵️🌿
openplanet.org #ForNature
A rich free-to-use video library to help storytellers create impactful content for our planet.
Find world-class footage to tell your stories about #biodiversity & nature ⤵️🌿
openplanet.org #ForNature
Discover world-class footage of our changing planet.
Open Planet is a global library of high-quality climate and nature footage. It is free to use for educational, environmental and impact storytelling.
openplanet.org
April 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Super useful video library to liven up your presentations …
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INPA procura candidato(a) para pós-doutorado no Projeto “Integrando a hidrologia do solo e características hidráulicas para entender os riscos de mortalidade às secas das árvores gigantes” com o projeto “GIGANTE” (www.caryinstitute.org/science/rese...).
@treeco-db.bsky.social @evangora.bsky.social
@treeco-db.bsky.social @evangora.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
INPA procura candidato(a) para pós-doutorado no Projeto “Integrando a hidrologia do solo e características hidráulicas para entender os riscos de mortalidade às secas das árvores gigantes” com o projeto “GIGANTE” (www.caryinstitute.org/science/rese...).
@treeco-db.bsky.social @evangora.bsky.social
@treeco-db.bsky.social @evangora.bsky.social
📢 Job Alert! 🌳
Looking for a 2-yr postdoc (ext. up to 3 yrs) to join me at U. of Gothenburg to study links between environmental drivers, tree conditions (e.g., #treedamage), and physiological processes leading to #tropical #treemortality.
Apply by: April 17th
Details below
Looking for a 2-yr postdoc (ext. up to 3 yrs) to join me at U. of Gothenburg to study links between environmental drivers, tree conditions (e.g., #treedamage), and physiological processes leading to #tropical #treemortality.
Apply by: April 17th
Details below
March 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
📢 Job Alert! 🌳
Looking for a 2-yr postdoc (ext. up to 3 yrs) to join me at U. of Gothenburg to study links between environmental drivers, tree conditions (e.g., #treedamage), and physiological processes leading to #tropical #treemortality.
Apply by: April 17th
Details below
Looking for a 2-yr postdoc (ext. up to 3 yrs) to join me at U. of Gothenburg to study links between environmental drivers, tree conditions (e.g., #treedamage), and physiological processes leading to #tropical #treemortality.
Apply by: April 17th
Details below
Had an amazing time visiting Uppsala @uu.se this week.
Thanks to @bobmuscarella.bsky.social for the invitation—you have a fantastic group and are an inspiring supervisor!
Thanks to @bobmuscarella.bsky.social for the invitation—you have a fantastic group and are an inspiring supervisor!
Very happy to have @danielfzuleta.bsky.social visit in Uppsala! His seminar on tropical tree mortality highlighted tons of fascinating work with #ForestGEO, @ngeetropics.bsky.social, @forestplots.bsky.social and others. Great examples of how to work well with big teams on big questions in ecology!
March 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Had an amazing time visiting Uppsala @uu.se this week.
Thanks to @bobmuscarella.bsky.social for the invitation—you have a fantastic group and are an inspiring supervisor!
Thanks to @bobmuscarella.bsky.social for the invitation—you have a fantastic group and are an inspiring supervisor!
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Job announcement! Come work with us as Assoc Sr Lecturer in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Tenure track for someone with broad remote sensing & machine learning knowledge. Work with climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV... Deadline 10 May tinyurl.com/58ft38du
Associate Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Data Science
Associate Senior Lecturer in Earth and Environmental Data Science
At the Department of Earth Sciences, we
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March 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Job announcement! Come work with us as Assoc Sr Lecturer in Earth and Env Data Science at U of Gothenburg, Sweden. Tenure track for someone with broad remote sensing & machine learning knowledge. Work with climate change, Earth systems, biodiversity, #EO, #UAV... Deadline 10 May tinyurl.com/58ft38du
Almost there! We're 94% done with the 4th full census of the 25ha Amacayacu Forest Dynamics Plot (#AmacayacuFDP) in the Colombian Amazon! 🌳
Remeasuring 130K trees wouldn’t be possible without the incredible support of UNAL students, Sinchi & the Palmeras Indigenous community—THANK YOU! 🙌"
Remeasuring 130K trees wouldn’t be possible without the incredible support of UNAL students, Sinchi & the Palmeras Indigenous community—THANK YOU! 🙌"
March 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Almost there! We're 94% done with the 4th full census of the 25ha Amacayacu Forest Dynamics Plot (#AmacayacuFDP) in the Colombian Amazon! 🌳
Remeasuring 130K trees wouldn’t be possible without the incredible support of UNAL students, Sinchi & the Palmeras Indigenous community—THANK YOU! 🙌"
Remeasuring 130K trees wouldn’t be possible without the incredible support of UNAL students, Sinchi & the Palmeras Indigenous community—THANK YOU! 🙌"
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We quantify, map and analyse wood density across tropical South America.
Our analysis led by Martin Sullivan refines the east-west Amazon gradient in wood density, improves it by revealing much finer variation, & extends predictions to Andean, Dry & Atlantic forests.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our analysis led by Martin Sullivan refines the east-west Amazon gradient in wood density, improves it by revealing much finer variation, & extends predictions to Andean, Dry & Atlantic forests.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
We quantify, map and analyse wood density across tropical South America.
Our analysis led by Martin Sullivan refines the east-west Amazon gradient in wood density, improves it by revealing much finer variation, & extends predictions to Andean, Dry & Atlantic forests.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our analysis led by Martin Sullivan refines the east-west Amazon gradient in wood density, improves it by revealing much finer variation, & extends predictions to Andean, Dry & Atlantic forests.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
Tropical forests in the Americas are changing too slowly to track climate change
Understanding the capacity of forests to adapt to climate change is of pivotal importance for conservation science, yet this is still widely unknown. This knowledge gap is particularly acute in high-b...
www.science.org
March 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
In our new paper in @science.org, we show that tropical forests are changing over time, but too slowly to track climate change. Our article, led by @jeaggu.bsky.social just out:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oxfordgeography.bsky.social
@naturerecovery.bsky.social
@forestplots.bsky.social
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Our new paper and software tool PointsToWood is out! Led by Harry Owen and Targeted at high performance for small branches, PointsToWood performs #deeplearning enabled leaf-wood semantic segmentation of high resolution #TLS point clouds. 🌿 🌲 🌳
👇performance on unseen tropical data
👇performance on unseen tropical data
March 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Our new paper and software tool PointsToWood is out! Led by Harry Owen and Targeted at high performance for small branches, PointsToWood performs #deeplearning enabled leaf-wood semantic segmentation of high resolution #TLS point clouds. 🌿 🌲 🌳
👇performance on unseen tropical data
👇performance on unseen tropical data
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As someone long interested in latitudinal gradient in forest diversity and dynamics it’s been really gratifying to see this paper come together over time- looking forward to the new research on forest dynamics I think this will inspire!
Nature research paper: Latitudinal scaling of aggregation with abundance and coexistence in forests
https://go.nature.com/3CUTWWg
https://go.nature.com/3CUTWWg
Latitudinal scaling of aggregation with abundance and coexistence in forests - Nature
A unified framework is presented that integrates observed spatial patterns of individual trees in forests with ecological processes into a novel coexistence theory.
go.nature.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
As someone long interested in latitudinal gradient in forest diversity and dynamics it’s been really gratifying to see this paper come together over time- looking forward to the new research on forest dynamics I think this will inspire!
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To all PhD-, Master- and Bachelor students in ecological modeling:
Consider applying for this year's Young Modellers in Ecology (#YoMos) workshop in Ilmenau, Germany and exchange with enthusiastic young modellers in ecology!
Would be great to see you there!
Consider applying for this year's Young Modellers in Ecology (#YoMos) workshop in Ilmenau, Germany and exchange with enthusiastic young modellers in ecology!
Would be great to see you there!
February 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
To all PhD-, Master- and Bachelor students in ecological modeling:
Consider applying for this year's Young Modellers in Ecology (#YoMos) workshop in Ilmenau, Germany and exchange with enthusiastic young modellers in ecology!
Would be great to see you there!
Consider applying for this year's Young Modellers in Ecology (#YoMos) workshop in Ilmenau, Germany and exchange with enthusiastic young modellers in ecology!
Would be great to see you there!