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Great work by #LauraPerez, with @javierlopatin.bsky.social and @josemiguelcerda.bsky.social in @ecography.bsky.social

Does plant diversity stabilize ecosystem functioning in mountain ecosystems? Maybe not - we show that spatial variation mediates both.
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Bridging trait ecology and remote sensing 🌿🛰️
New preprint by @josemiguelcerda.bsky.social synthesizes how plant functional diversity is assessed across scales, and what needs to improve for robust biodiversity monitoring. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @javierlopatin.bsky.social

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Congrats @annaroennfeldt.bsky.social and thanks to wonderful co-authors Valén Holle, @katschiff.bsky.social Laure Gallien, Tiffany Knight, @patrickweigelt.bsky.social @dylancraven.bsky.social @jsarmentocabral.bsky.social

wonderful collab lead by @zurelllab.bsky.social on the context dependency of climatic niche conservatism of non-native plants: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #UniversidadMayor #DataObservatory

We appreciate the scientific clarity from @markuseichhorn.bsky.social 🌳
Evidence matters when scaling forest restoration approaches, this review is a valuable contribution.
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Tiny forests, huge claims: The evidence gap behind the Miyawaki method for forest restoration To scale up restoration effectively, practitioners and policymakers should prioritize methods supported by robust empirical evidence rather than relying on untested claims. Our findings highlight the...

I often get asked about the Miyawaki method of forest restoration, usually by people who have heard extraordinary claims for it. Morales et al. (2025) have reviewed the evidence and found it to be weak or absent. 🌏🧪🌳🌲 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We included a fair amount of literature from the UK, but in general there is little scientific or even "grey" literature on the method's effectiveness compared to other methods.

Especially in small spaces. Tree density in mature temperate forests is ~ 300-500 trees per hectare, meaning about 3-5 per 100 m2, which is about the size of an average tiny forest. Adding layers (shrubs, herbs) over time, or emphasizing interactions (pollinators) could be more effect than +trees.

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A well-done summary of our recent review about Miyawaki or pocket forests: www.linkedin.com/posts/maeve-...

Fascinating example of when science meets folk practice. I know a lot of people who swear the Miyawaki method works, but few who have actually used it successfully to restore an ecosystem.

I’ve used a much modified version for riparian/lakeshore native naturalization planting with mixed results.

Happy 2026!

Tobias, @severinirl.bsky.social and I show that the overstory buffers the effects of temperature on diversity along an elevation gradient, and that the shape of this relationship shifts from linear to hump-shaped due to higher intensity land-use at lower elevations in a temperate forest in Chile.

Are diversity-elevation relationships consistent across forest strata, and how do they shift in response to land-use? @ecol-evol.bsky.social #CONAF #UniversidadMayor @daadworldwide.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social
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#NarkisMorales might be able to respond better regarding your questions about particular methods.

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Northern temperate forests are a bit out of my area of expertise, but you could try looking at restor.eco to find restoration projects in your area. Are you looking for species, or designs?

Tiny forests, huge claims: The evidence gap behind the Miyawaki method for forest restoration To scale up restoration effectively, practitioners and policymakers should prioritize methods supported by robust empirical evidence rather than relying on untested claims. Our findings highlight the...

Systematic review of evidence on Miyawaki forest restoration: Its at least 10,000 times more expensive than other techniques, yet has no well documented benefits besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

job here at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk on water vole ecology and genetics.

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collinear: Automated Multicollinearity Management Provides a comprehensive and automated workflow for managing multicollinearity in data frames with numeric and/or categorical variables. The package integrates five robust methods into a single functi...

{collinear} 3.0 is now on CRAN (yay! 🥳)

This #rstats package automates multicollinearity management to improve model robustness and interpretability.

You can learn more at blasbenito.github.io/collinear/, but here's a summary of the most exciting new features: 🧵 1/5

Maybe think about shrubs that produce a lot of fruits to facilitate dispersal.

And if the ecosystems where you work are spatially structured (ie in drier ecosystems), then use nuclei. There is some nice work now on how to do more than traditional row-by-row planting.

Many thanks!!!

I would suggest pairs or groups of species that promote positive interactions (i.e. species with and without mycorrhizal associations, species that do and don't fix Nitrogen), and that are shade intolerant. After 5-10 years , you can then mix in shade tolerant species.

Happy to share our review of Miyawaki forests, in which we show the lack of empirical evidence supporting this increasingly popular approach : besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jappliedecology.bsky.social

The Tumber-Dávila Lab and Michael Cox are looking for a postdoctoral Fellow to join the Environmental Studies Department at Dartmouth through the Society of Fellows Program
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