Masha van der Sande
@masha-vandersande.bsky.social
Assist. prof. @Wageningen Uni, the Netherlands (@w-u-r.bsky.social). Interested in tropical forest functioning across time and space. 🔥Fire resilience. 🌳Secondary succession. 🪵Traits. Paleo- & Neo-ecology.
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📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
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#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
🔥Excited to introduce our #ERC #StG project ‘FiRes’, on past, present and future #fire #resilience of #Amazonian forests!🔥
In an era of increasing #fire occurrence globally, we cannot have enough research to understand its impact, especially in precious fire-‘unadapted’ ecosystems such as the Amazon
In an era of increasing #fire occurrence globally, we cannot have enough research to understand its impact, especially in precious fire-‘unadapted’ ecosystems such as the Amazon
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A 30,019-hectare forest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia may soon be sold to agribusiness giant Bom Futuro, which plans to clear it, documents show.
Conservationists warn the area is a key part of the Chiquitano dry forest, linking the Amazon, Gran Chaco & Cerrado.
Conservationists warn the area is a key part of the Chiquitano dry forest, linking the Amazon, Gran Chaco & Cerrado.
The land deal threatening a vital piece of Bolivia’s Chiquitano dry forest
A large forest in eastern Bolivia is on the verge of being sold to an international agriculture company, raising concerns that it might be razed to make room for new cropland. The 30,019-hectare…
news.mongabay.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
A 30,019-hectare forest in Santa Cruz, Bolivia may soon be sold to agribusiness giant Bom Futuro, which plans to clear it, documents show.
Conservationists warn the area is a key part of the Chiquitano dry forest, linking the Amazon, Gran Chaco & Cerrado.
Conservationists warn the area is a key part of the Chiquitano dry forest, linking the Amazon, Gran Chaco & Cerrado.
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📢 Vacancy alert! Now open: PhD position on tropical forest succession and acoustic monitoring of seed dispersers. 🌱 🎶
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of tropical ecology. Based at Wageningen University (NL) with fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico.
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of tropical ecology. Based at Wageningen University (NL) with fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico.
PhD position on 'Seed dispersal shapes tropical forest succession' (Seeds 4 Success)
www.wur.nl
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
📢 Vacancy alert! Now open: PhD position on tropical forest succession and acoustic monitoring of seed dispersers. 🌱 🎶
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of tropical ecology. Based at Wageningen University (NL) with fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico.
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
We are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of tropical ecology. Based at Wageningen University (NL) with fieldwork in tropical forests in Mexico.
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🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social
#conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment
Deadline 25 November!
Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...
#conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment
Deadline 25 November!
Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
🚨 Just one week left to apply for one of the THREE postdoc positions in the #GreenFrontier project hosted at @fnp-wur.bsky.social
#conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment
Deadline 25 November!
Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...
#conservation #EnvJustice #wilderness #rewilding #rural #underdevelopment #LandAbandonment
Deadline 25 November!
Full details 👉 www.wur.nl/en/research-...
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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/...
🔥🌳🌴 Two #PhD positions available on #fire resilience of Amazon forest! @w-u-r.bsky.social and embedded within my #ERC starting grant on past, present and future fire resilience of the Amazon. See link for info and how to apply:
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
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www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
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PhD positions: Fire resilience of Amazon forests
www.wur.nl
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🔥🌳🌴 Two #PhD positions available on #fire resilience of Amazon forest! @w-u-r.bsky.social and embedded within my #ERC starting grant on past, present and future fire resilience of the Amazon. See link for info and how to apply:
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
Please share!
www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...
Please share!
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Stemadvies van Loesje
October 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Stemadvies van Loesje
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Oportunidade de Pós-Doutorado / Post-doctoral Research Opportunity in our lab!
🔥 Postdoc: Biota-Cerrado on Fire (FAPESP)
3-yr position at LEVeg/Unesp (Brazil) on fire, open ecosystems & functional ecology.
Pós-Doc (3 anos) sobre fogo, ecossistemas abertos e ecologia funcional.
📅 Deadline/Prazo: 30/11/25
🔗 Apply/Inscreva-se: fapesp.br/oportunidade...
#Postdoc #FireEcology
3-yr position at LEVeg/Unesp (Brazil) on fire, open ecosystems & functional ecology.
Pós-Doc (3 anos) sobre fogo, ecossistemas abertos e ecologia funcional.
📅 Deadline/Prazo: 30/11/25
🔗 Apply/Inscreva-se: fapesp.br/oportunidade...
#Postdoc #FireEcology
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Oportunidade de Pós-Doutorado / Post-doctoral Research Opportunity in our lab!
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Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Please pass along, I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab @uofa-eeb.bsky.social We study phys ecology, macroecology, biodiversity - spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested🧪🌐🌾
🔥🌳🌴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
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🔥🌱 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 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🔥🌱 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...
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Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Offre de post-doctorat en écologie (H/F)
emploi.cnrs.fr
June 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Please pass along - postdoc position! with our working group on #FunctionalTraits and rarity. This is part of the FREE (Functional Rarity in Ecology and Evolution) working group led by Cyrille Violle in Montpellier France 🧪🌐🌾 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
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Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑🔬👩🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
September 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Three exciting #PostDoc 🧑🔬👩🔬🧕 positions on #Ecological #Synthesis at TU Darmstadt @tuda.bsky.social for Reassembly #rainforest 🇪🇨 🌱🌴🦜 & #Biodiversity Exploratories 🌲🐄🚜🪲🐝🥀@bexplo.bsky.social
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
Please spread widely ✉️♥️▶️ & apply quickly 🙃
www.reassembly.de/the-team/job...
🔥Excited to introduce our #ERC #StG project ‘FiRes’, on past, present and future #fire #resilience of #Amazonian forests!🔥
In an era of increasing #fire occurrence globally, we cannot have enough research to understand its impact, especially in precious fire-‘unadapted’ ecosystems such as the Amazon
In an era of increasing #fire occurrence globally, we cannot have enough research to understand its impact, especially in precious fire-‘unadapted’ ecosystems such as the Amazon
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
🔥Excited to introduce our #ERC #StG project ‘FiRes’, on past, present and future #fire #resilience of #Amazonian forests!🔥
In an era of increasing #fire occurrence globally, we cannot have enough research to understand its impact, especially in precious fire-‘unadapted’ ecosystems such as the Amazon
In an era of increasing #fire occurrence globally, we cannot have enough research to understand its impact, especially in precious fire-‘unadapted’ ecosystems such as the Amazon
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This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide
August 3, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This what Israel has done to Gaza. Forbidden pics by a Washington Post photographer whose Jordanian air crew didn't pass on Israel's order to only photograph aid being dropped. City, suburbs, schools, people: bombed to rubble. People being starved in makeshift camps on road roundabouts. #Genocide
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How do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org
Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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(1/4)
Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth
Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evalua...
doi.org
July 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
How do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org
Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
🌍🍁🌐
(1/4)
Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
🌍🍁🌐
(1/4)
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“Bolivia’s record-setting 2024 wildfire season makes clear that emergency responses to climate disasters are not enough and governments must address the root of the problem, a new report says.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/2607202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2607202...
Lessons From a Climate Disaster - Inside Climate News
Bolivia’s record-setting 2024 wildfire season makes clear that emergency responses to climate disasters are not enough and governments must address the root of the problem, a new report says.
insideclimatenews.org
July 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
“Bolivia’s record-setting 2024 wildfire season makes clear that emergency responses to climate disasters are not enough and governments must address the root of the problem, a new report says.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/2607202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2607202...
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PhD position in our Wildlife Ecology and Conservation group at @w-u-r.bsky.social on the effectiveness of freshwater wetlands as climate buffers for biodiversity gain and ecosystem services
Co-supervised by Liesbeth Bakker, Frank van Langevelde, and myself
Deadline: 4.8.
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Co-supervised by Liesbeth Bakker, Frank van Langevelde, and myself
Deadline: 4.8.
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
July 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
PhD position in our Wildlife Ecology and Conservation group at @w-u-r.bsky.social on the effectiveness of freshwater wetlands as climate buffers for biodiversity gain and ecosystem services
Co-supervised by Liesbeth Bakker, Frank van Langevelde, and myself
Deadline: 4.8.
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Co-supervised by Liesbeth Bakker, Frank van Langevelde, and myself
Deadline: 4.8.
www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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Postdoc position in the lab of @biogeokreft.bsky.social for developing your own line of research in macroecology, biogeography, and functional or tropical ecology:
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
Stellenanzeigen - Georg-August-University Göttingen
Website of the Georg-August-University Göttingen
www.uni-goettingen.de
June 19, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Postdoc position in the lab of @biogeokreft.bsky.social for developing your own line of research in macroecology, biogeography, and functional or tropical ecology:
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.ht...
This 👇🏼 confirms the tragedy we’ve witnessed in the Bolivian Amazon, with 2024 as record fire year.🔥 And it’s the reason we’re studying Amazon’s fire resilience in Madidi, Pilón and Chiquitanía.
Global Forest Watch’s analysis of #TreeCoverLoss data from UMD Global Land Analysis and Discovery team reveals the tropics saw an unprecedented level of fires in 2024.
We cannot afford to ignore the 2024 wake-up call 👉 go.wri.org/tree-cover-l...
We cannot afford to ignore the 2024 wake-up call 👉 go.wri.org/tree-cover-l...
June 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This 👇🏼 confirms the tragedy we’ve witnessed in the Bolivian Amazon, with 2024 as record fire year.🔥 And it’s the reason we’re studying Amazon’s fire resilience in Madidi, Pilón and Chiquitanía.
⚡Striking impacts on forests!⚡
Our perspective on how lightning impacts forest dynamics, through igniting fires in boreal forests and being a major cause of tree mortality in tropical forests.🔥🌳⚡ Led by Sander Veraverbeke @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Our perspective on how lightning impacts forest dynamics, through igniting fires in boreal forests and being a major cause of tree mortality in tropical forests.🔥🌳⚡ Led by Sander Veraverbeke @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Lightning Impacts on Global Forest and Carbon Dynamics: Current Understanding and Knowledge Gaps
Lightning is a fundamental Earth system process that influences the world's major forest biomes and their carbon storage through two primary pathways. Lightning is the major cause of boreal forest fi....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
⚡Striking impacts on forests!⚡
Our perspective on how lightning impacts forest dynamics, through igniting fires in boreal forests and being a major cause of tree mortality in tropical forests.🔥🌳⚡ Led by Sander Veraverbeke @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Our perspective on how lightning impacts forest dynamics, through igniting fires in boreal forests and being a major cause of tree mortality in tropical forests.🔥🌳⚡ Led by Sander Veraverbeke @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @globalchangebio.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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Hello all, I've just arrived (and left X)! I'm a researcher interested in anything related to fire ecology, tropical forests, Amazon, paleo & neo ecology, forest succession & restoration. Looking forward to connect!
November 28, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Hello all, I've just arrived (and left X)! I'm a researcher interested in anything related to fire ecology, tropical forests, Amazon, paleo & neo ecology, forest succession & restoration. Looking forward to connect!