New paper out in Ecological Solutions and Evidence on the use of lasers in tropical forest restoration
Thanks to the Wild Country Environmental Fund and Rainforest Rescue for supporting the work
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Reminder: open call for Associate Editors for @britishecologicalsociety.org journals closes 23 Feb. Come join us at @jappliedecology.bsky.social or choose your favourite BES journal to apply for. Please share!
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Application Process Image Woman behind a podium presenting. Jessie Golding, BBCS postdoc, presenting at ICCB 2025. Apply to become a Lovejoy Fellow by submitting your resume, cover letter, and contact information for three references through the University of Arizona Talent Portal (link upcoming) by the first review date of January 30, 2026. Your cover letter should: Identify 1-2 Lovejoy BBCS faculty you would be interested in working with and explain the primary research directions you would want to pursue in collaboration with this faculty member. You are strongly encouraged to reach out to faculty before submitting your application. Describe your experience with or interest in inter- or transdisciplinary research. Explain how this experience will positively impact your career trajectory.
New postdoctoral fellowship opportunity! Please pass along. Excited to announce the launch of the Tom Lovejoy Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona for innovative research to protect species, sustain ecosystems, and promote a thriving planet lovejoycenter.arizona.edu/lovejoy-fell... 🧪🌐🌾
🪵 Diameter drives short-term biomass gains, but long-term carbon storage hinges on wood density, especially in humid forests. To improve accuracy, biomass models should account for radial wood density variation and climate ☁️
🔎 Find out more: buff.ly/kZFoh9B
Postdoctoral researcher in Aotearoa New Zealand - remote sensing and fuel moisture modelling.
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We are looking for a new postdoc to join a collaborative team at Indiana University. We are working to reduce bias in estimates of forest carbon uptake at local to global scales. Deadline for best consideration is November 15, 2025. More details below!
indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30636
On Oct 24 @ 7pm ET, Cary scientist Amy Zanne, in conversation with Cary President Josh Ginsberg, will bring guests into the rich and often unseen world of dead trees. For more information + to register: caryinstitute.org/events
A screenshot of a webpage making a call for papers announcement for a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology, focussed on soil and litter invertebrates. The page has a banner image photograph of a globular springtail facing towards the camera, with its head down, feeding on fungi on a decaying log.
Are you researching the conservation, ecology or taxonomy of soil & litter invertebrates?
Submit your paper to this Special Issue of NZ Journal of Zoology, edited by me, @carlosbarreto.bsky.social & @barnesecodiv.bsky.social!
More info: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/nzjz-so...
#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
After several years studying grasses and forbs in Yellowstone National Park in the US, researchers have formally documented the power of bison as nature’s own fertilizing agents. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
Great PhD Opportunity based at UNSW Sydney to do work in Australia's beautiful aridlands. Studying all things from bugs to mammals that live out there. Opportunity to learn transferable skills such as remote sensing and DNA metabarcoding.
Contact Mike Letnic: m.letnic@unsw.edu.au if interested.
🌎 My first paper is out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social ! We propose the Interaction Opportunists Hypothesis: changes in biotic interactions may drive species downhill, equatorward, or to shallower waters under #ClimateChange. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #RangeShifts #Ecology
A long-term experiment highlights the potency of top-down forcing in African savannas, suggesting impressive robustness to drought, and underscoring the value of multi-decadal experiments for disentangling interactions among multiple drivers of ecosystem dynamics. 🌍 buff.ly/7dVuVQS
Thrilled to announce our webinar series:
🌱📈 Quantifying Ecology 📈🌱
We are collaborating with our SIG friends to bring you quantitative methods in different ecological contexts.
Kicking off with Dr @jamesaorr.bsky.social and @bes-aquaticgroup.bsky.social on 5th August. More details to come!
Come join us here at Monash. Supportive research and teaching environment. Fantastic colleagues. Inclusive. A great place to work. And Melbourne, Australia, is a wonderful place to live…
Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar:
"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"
Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!
Sign up to our mailing list to receive the zoom link forms.gle/24Y557Cjeu6w...
Termites and dinosaurs once roamed together, now only termites are left! Amazing little creatures which have been around forever
Don't know what you are looking for? 🔍 We made something ✨ #Shiny ✨ using biodiversity data from {galah} to create location taxon lists for naturalists 🦉🦋🍄🐌🌳
@thebeachcomber.bsky.social @willcornwell.bsky.social @hsauquet.bsky.social
Rainforest with buttressed trees, palms and a strangler fig in a shaded understory.
Congratulations to @jradford-smith.bsky.social for making the cover of @ecography.bsky.social with his stunning photo of subtropical #rainforest at Mt Glorious, less than an hour from Brisbane in beautiful Queensland (1 of 2).
The biggest "meta-analysis" ever? - 17 million effect sizes - elifesciences.org/articles/95857
With wonderful @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social and Will Cornwell
We question the abundance-occupancy relationships using ebird data - we find ~ zero correlation
🌱New study reveals functional traits e.g. wood density & leaf mass fraction shape plant growth rates, with these relationships changing as plants mature. Growth isn't a fixed trait–it evolves with age! @lilydun.bsky.social @ianjwright.bsky.social🧪🌍
🔍Article: buff.ly/f0vnEFV
🗞️Blog: buff.ly/nY1TorB
New paper out! After the 2019-2020 #fires in Australia our team undertook #IUCN Red List assessments of fire affected #plant species, to handle the volume we undertook paired rapid and full assessments and compared their accuracy 1/4
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Check out our new study looking at the recovery of termites' and fungis' role as deadwood decomposers! We found that termites did not recover their full decomposer roles after 12 years of rainforest recovery. Should we transplant termite mounds into regenerating rainforests?? doi.org/10.1111/1365...
Hey y'all! I have a few ecology honours projects available in Sydney starting either in Spring 2025 or Autumn 2026.
Project details available at: zoexiro.com/research/
Please share widely 🌼
I’m thrilled to finally share our new dataset paper-years in the making! This has been an incredible rewarding project, and it was a true pleasure to work with such an amazing team of researchers. Huge thanks to supported by @idiv for the support www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Glad my rusty iPad can be of service for the greater good!
I’m back in the beautiful Bunya Mountains, this time with @lilydun.bsky.social on the lookout for amazing #trees to capture with #lidar. The stylish ☂️ keeps your 2010 iPad dry @bapswijas.bsky.social 😭😭😭
The idea for this seminar series is the product of a conversation at the @ecolsocaus.bsky.social conference. We were inspired by great online seminars like the @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social and @theobiophysics.bsky.social but wanted to have something in our time zone. Now the idea has come to life 🤩
New research shows how important ecosystem engineers (termites!) are affected by fire management 🔥 🧪
By changing vegetation structure, fire influences habitat resources available to termites, & in turn, termite abundance & activity in the landscape 🐜 🌏
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A close up of two mites on a bee larva inside the cell of a brood comb. A caption reads: "Implications of varroa mite establishment for Australian plants and their persistence. Read the open access article in Australian Journal of Botany. Photo: xiSerge from pixabay".
'Implications of varroa mite establishment for Australian plants and their persistence' by @tomlebreton.bsky.social, Amy-Marie Gilpin, @saltandbrine.bsky.social & @markooiecol.bsky.social
Published #OpenAccess in @ausjbotany.bsky.social:
www.publish.csiro.au/BT/BT24020
#AusJBotany
The next exciting instalment from @jradford-smith.bsky.social on how climate filters rainforest tree strategies in the Australian subtropics. Now available in early view at @ecography.bsky.social
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