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Great article in Harvard Business Review on the emergence of 'AI-generated workslop'. Marking student work, reviewing grants, papers etc now takes much longer as I can no longer assume that cited references a) exist or b) are relevant to a potentially spurious case study
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September 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Should Ecology be more proactive & vocal on one of the key issues of our times? What systemic & institutional changes are needed for the ecological community to be at the forefront of the response? If these are questions that speak to you, this new paper may be of interest lnkd.in/eXfXG4xM
June 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Our correspondence piece led by @pettorelli.bsky.social
argues that ecologists need to consider six actions for transformative change - figure below by @fplmelo.bsky.social 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Atenção galera da física, do sensoriamento, da metereologia e afins: vaga de pós-doc focando na flamabilidade de florestas amazônicas, trabalhando com o @josbarlow.bsky.social, a Joice Ferreira e eu. Por favor, ajudem a divulgar 👇🔥
May 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Vaga de pós doutorado com o @josbarlow.bsky.social, a Joice Ferreira e eu focando na recuperação de florestas amazônicas após distúrbios antrópicos (o fogo tá incluído aí). Por favor repassem pra quem tá terminando o doc e outros pós-docs da ecologia 👇
May 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Our new paper led by Liana Rossi documents loss and turnover of fruit-frugivore interactions in variably-degraded Amazonian forests, with important implications for ecosystem service delivery #Ornithology #Ecology 🌎🧪
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April 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Reposted by Jos Barlow
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...
March 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Reposted by Jos Barlow
As florestas tropicais não estão mudando rápido o suficiente pra acompanhar as mudanças climáticas - novo estudo na @science.org liderado por @jeaggu.bsky.social mostra que <22% das árvores recrutando nessas florestas têm atributos que permitem uma melhor adaptação ao novo clima.
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 4:39 PM
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Tropical forests are not all the same: they show many shades of geographical variation. Our new paper in Nature led by @jeaggu.bsky.social combines field and satellite data to make a first map the canopy functional traits of the world’s tropical forests: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Canopy functional trait variation across Earth’s tropical forests - Nature
Data from a variety of sources—including satellite, climate and soil data, as well as field-collected information on plant traits—are pooled and analysed to map the functional diversity of tropical fo...
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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O OC recebe com consternação a notícia da morte do ecólogo Christopher Uhl, fundador do Imazon. Sob sua supervisão, o instituto realizou os primeiros experimentos de manejo sustentável de madeira na Amazônia. Uhl deixou um legado profundo, formando gerações de cientistas brasileiros.
Morre Chris Uhl, que deu método à ciência amazônida - OC | Observatório do Clima
Ecólogo americano fundou o Imazon, uma das principais ONGs de pesquisa do mundo tropical
oc.eco.br
February 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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The numbers are staggering:

$8.349 billion was spent on APCs between 2019 and 2023.
Adjusting for inflation, annual spending nearly tripled from $910.3M (2019) to $2.538B (2023). 💸
Open Access isn't cheap. But there's more...
January 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Subordinate tree species diversity explains carbon stock better than dominant tree diversity after decades of forest rewilding 🌲

Suggests preserving rarer subordinate species is key for policymakers to promote climate change mitigating ecosystem services 🌏 🧪
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January 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Thanks you so much @Wiley for this certificate❤️

I specially thank you for replacing the ñ, not for the classic n, but for the more interesting ± symbol.

I see this ± as a deep recognition of the nature of the sometimes difficult job of accepting or rejecting articles

Dr. Nu plus/minus ez
December 16, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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Our research group has a !NEW PAPER! out on soil ecoacoustics - The efficacy of acoustic indices for monitoring abundance and diversity in soil soundscapes in Ecological Indicators. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... A 🧵 on soil ecoacoustics...
#science #ecology #ecoacoustics #bioacoustics
December 13, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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Accounting for interspecies and intraspecies variation in swimming performance for fish passage solutions 🐟

This study highlights the importance of evidence-based designs for successful fish passage solutions to account for the ability of all fish 📊 🌏 🧪

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December 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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In this paper, we elucidate the mechanism of “winner-loser replacement” that occurs in tropical landscapes when they become fragmented and subjected to other human-caused disturbances and disentangle the effects of landscape structure and local degradation.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Winner–loser plant trait replacements in human-modified tropical forests - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Tropical forest landscapes are increasingly being modified by human activities. Here the authors apply a causal inference approach to Neotropical forest data to disentangle the role of landscape-level...
www.nature.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Take a look at our new editorial to celebrate the 60th anniversary of @jappliedecology.bsky.social !!

60 years of real world impact 👏👏👏
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Sixty years of ecology with impact
Journal of Applied Ecology celebrates its 60th birthday in 2024. In this Editorial, we explore how the journal's role has changed since its launch and investigate whether the articles we publish are ...
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December 5, 2024 at 1:06 PM
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Our September issue is out now! 🏠

Discussing topics such as:
👉Ecology under ageing & declining human populations
👉Sustainable harvest models to inform policy
👉The role of forests in landslide occurence

Read more👇
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September 4, 2024 at 1:04 PM