Alain Ngute

Our recent study just made it to @MongabayOrg! We show how forest #disturbance, #climate & #topography drive a #global increase in the competitive #success of #lianas vs #trees. These have implications for #forest #recovery, #biodiversity & #carbon sink news.mongabay.com/2024/03/confli…

Compositional Acclimation Can Lessen Tropical Forest Change in Response to Increasing Lightning Frequency: Insights From Simulation Modeling 🔗 buff.ly/oOOzoPH

🌿A great review integrates existing studies in new ways to promote discussion & offer new ideas & directions in plant ecology 🌷 📰Read more about our reviews in our latest blog post 👇 buff.ly/cgUBfSp

🌳 There is a weak growth-survival trade-off among temperate tree species. Late developmental stands showed a strong positive association between species’ growth and survival🌍 📖 Read more: buff.ly/qmUA3oJ

The call for proposals for the 2025 ForestGEO Research Awards Program is now open! 🚨 Students & postdocs encouraged to apply 🌿 For full award details and how to apply, click here: forestgeo.si.edu/training-and-f…

Big trees are on the rise. 30 years of Amazon forest measurements by RAINFOR partners show that, so far, any impact of #climatechange on forests and large trees have been more than mitigated by the positive effects of increased resources. nature.com/articles/s4147…

🌱🦠 Soil biodiversity is important as plant biodiversity in determining multifunctionality and its stability with increasing number of global change factors. 👉 buff.ly/PS2Gers

🦌Tree diversity boosts tree growth, but why? This study shows: foliar chemical diversity influences tree enemies- more diverse forests have more diverse chemicals which attracts more caterpillars but better resists pathogens & deer, driving better growth buff.ly/2Vw8uO0

Tropical forests are heating up. Can they cope? | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

#pdra #postdoc Research Fellow in Tropical American Forest Dynamics. We are looking for a scientist with strong quantitative skills focused on forests to lead ecological change analyses with a global team including RAINFOR, PPBio + other networks. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

Between savannahs and swamp forests populated by fragile #species, the Lake Tele #Community Reserve embodies a rare ecological balance that is now threatened by the effects of #climatechange. Le Courrier de la Nature highlights the Reserve (French only): bit.ly/4dIbeDP

AI bots threaten online scientific infrastructure nature.com/articles/d4158…

📢#CuttingvEdgeTools Friday, May the 30th, at 2 PM CEST, @DylanJCraven will close our cycle of webinars on databases with "Key questions in functional biogeography", leveraging regional trait databases and with examples from Rasgos-CL. Join for free at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

🪿Goose grazing in an Arctic wetland alters the chemical root traits of a dominant sedge species. These changes to root chemistry lead to greater carbon emissions during decomposition👇#wetland #grazing buff.ly/BiGHa5f

gfr.wri.org/latest-analysi… Fires Drove Record-breaking Tropical Forest Loss in 2024

Lightning-caused disturbance frequency and severity varies with topography in an Afromontane forest biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_ecology

#PhD How do tropical forest soundscapes alter with land use? Acoustic monitoring in Amazon and African forests, working with partners and gradients of forest modification. Apply by 19 May: Manchester Met Uni, w/ Martin.Sullivan@mmu.ac.uk & colleagues! #ai-127005-0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mmu.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

🌱Plant distributions are frequently in disequilibrium with their environment, which can bias species distribution models. This latest review looks at methods used to reduce bias👇#plantecology #speciesdistribution buff.ly/u9WXOs7

PERSPECTIVE Lightning Impacts on Global Forest and Carbon Dynamics: Current Understanding and Knowledge Gaps 📄 buff.ly/fGnoG6Y

New @JEcology paper by @ArielleBiro, @SABatterman, + Jane Lucas finds S African #trees grow better with native soil #microbes than in sterile soil. But trees + microbes both suffered in drought conditions, w implications for #savanna carbon sinks. @Yale besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

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