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It's time to value tropical fieldworkers as equal partners. With billions spent on watching forests from space, foresters and botanists have never been more vital. In our @Nature correspondence we show why, and what needs to change. rdcu.be/enT5S

The number of assessed species on the IUCN Red List is now 172,620, with over 48,000 threatened with #extinction. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is a critical indicator of the health of the world’s #biodiversity. iucnredlist.org

REMINDER 🚨 Applications for the 2025 ForestGEO Research Awards are due TOMORROW 12/10 at 5pm ET! Instructions are outlined here: forestgeo.si.edu/training-and-f…

Taxonomists busy at work.

Final version published @Forestecosyst @ForestPlots @RelayJFR @ecology_forest 📰Non-native shrub overrides understory assembly rules through ecosystem engineering sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Important new paper showing the dearth of plant taxonomists in the tropical countries that need them most. go.bsky.app/redirect?u=htt…

Congratulations on a new article by Dr. Yuxue Zhang @RelayJFR @ecology_forest @ForestPlots 📰Partitioning soil carbon emissions in a temperate oak forest: insights from metabolic theory and the role of fine roots and microbial biomass doi.org/10.1007/s11676…

🚨Paper Alert: Pan-Amazon Technical Insight The new article “Are tropical forest science and policy disconnected?” examines how the concept of “timber species” is understood by scientists, national forest administrations, and international organizations across the Amazon region

🌿Liana diversity, abundance and basal area were influenced mainly by tree species richness, precipitation and soil nutrients. Liana diversity and density were positively associated with precipitation 👇 🔍Article: buff.ly/6N7Vhq6 📰Blog: buff.ly/TKRw6UU

Amazonía: la mayor selva tropical del mundo. Ningún otro bosque tiene un impacto similar. bbc.com/mundo/articles…

Siglos de Influencia Humana Acumulativa en los Bosques Amazónicos. La distribución de especies arbóreas útiles en 1500 parcelas sugiere una amplia huella ecológica de los pueblos indígenas precolombinos y colonizadores en la composición forestal actual. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Centuries of compounding human influence on Amazonian forests. The abundances of useful tree species across 1500 plots suggests widespread ecological imprint of pre-Columbian indigenous and post-contact colonist people on forest composition. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

🚨Pasco: descubren cuatro nuevas especies de plantas en el Parque Nacional Yanachaga Chemillén. ▪️El descubrimiento de estas plantas, que no existen en ningún otro lugar del planeta, resalta el valor de esta área natural protegida. bit.ly/4oxFtBR

𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑚 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑦𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑚, a new simple-leaved species of the Pteroidea clade, is described and illustrated from Peru. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phytok…

🦋 Descubren cuatro nuevas especies y una subespecie de polillas en la Amazonía y los Andes del Perú. ▪️Dos especies fueron encontradas en tres áreas naturales protegidas. bit.ly/4r6u7GX

Cómo recuerda Armero a Omaira Sánchez, la niña colombiana símbolo de la tragedia en la que hace 40 años murieron 25.000 personas bbc.in/3JsYIxu

gracias a Jorge González y Rafael Herrera Fernández

Todos tenemos raíces profundas. Este fascinante artículo repasa el trabajo de RAINFOR en Venezuela y conecta 200 años de historia de exploradores del río Negro y el Amazonas, entre ellos von Humboldt, Bonpland, Spruce, Wallace, Medina, y Rafael Herrera. meer.com/es/95997-richa…

Extreme warming of Amazon waters in a changing climate Our new article in Science | @ScienceMagazine highlights the widespread warming of Amazon lakes in last decades. Lake heatwaves in 2023 and 2024 led to major social-ecological impacts in the region. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

The price of gold: In Venezuela, mining threatens Indigenous Pemón With COP30 underway in Brazil, it's a good time to highlight the impacts of gold mining in neighbouring Venezuela. news.mongabay.com/2025/11/the-pr… @SOSOrinoco @MongabayOrg @MongabayLatam

Los gráficos, mapas y fotos que muestran la lenta muerte de la Amazonía y por qué el mundo debería preocuparse bbc.in/3XlcFk3