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BIFoR #biforcon24 Session 2 - Key species within forest communities Dr Bruno Barcante Ladvocat Cintra #MEMBRA Project Uni of Birmingham UKTreescapes BIFoR Sharp decline in tree recruitment in old growth forests from Great Britain. #forestsascommunities #forestsincommunities

Lab poster BIFoR annual meeting: CENTA funded Zach presenting his simulation experiment on epiphyte restoration! Yes, epiphytes count for up to 50% of local floras and should also be restored!

Happy #SummerSolstice ☀️ It's the longest day of the year: our planet is tilted towards the sun to its greatest extent and the astronomical summer officially begins.  At this same moment we begin to tilt away from the sun and each day gets shorter and we move towards the dark 🌑

BIFoR #biforcon24 Session 4 - Forest communities under pressure w/ Dr Adriane Esquivel Muelbert @nanimuelbert of Uni of Birmingham discussing Forest communities under global change. #forestsascommunities #forestsincommunities

Some highlights from the camera trap photos I have been checking this week! MEMBRA_Trees BIFoR Uni of Birmingham

First site of the July Fieldwork finished with the MEMBRA_Trees ecology fieldwork team and some amazing undergraduates from College of Life and Environmental Sciences! A weekend of interesting lichens, beautiful trees and great company in Dartmore! Rodrigo Bergamin

Great work by the fieldwork team last weekend collecting leaf samples and resurveying the forest inventory plots in one of our Dartmor sites this weekend! Rodrigo Bergamin Rachel Mailes Next on to the MEMBRA conference in Exeter tomorrow!

Whilst we acknowledge the ‘uncomfortability’ of the truths of nature and climate chaos, we are also able to earth ourselves — to keep going, draw courage and agency from Earth 🌿 — from our opening ceromony performance at MEMBRA_Trees Valuing Treescapes conference starting today

You can join us online again at 2:40pm, where we’ll be introducing our work on the MEMBRA_Trees Tree Nursery project, connecting communities with local Tresscapes in Birmingham, and our Intentional Woodland 🌳 Register for free on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Our experts have discovered that trees in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest are migrating in search of more favourable temperatures with species in mountain forests moving uphill to escape rising heat caused by climate change birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/heat…

New paper out on nitrogen cycling at #biforface ! The role of rhizosphere in enhancing N availability in a mature temper... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New research led by Professor Vincent Gauci (Prof. Vincent Gauci) has uncovered that tree bark plays a crucial role in removing methane from the atmosphere. birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/tree…

Here's my The Conversation piece: We’ve discovered the world’s trees absorb methane – so forests are even more important in the climate fight than we thought theconversation.com/weve-discovere…

Our most successful Campus Butterfly Count so far. We also saw a skipper (pictured), but this isn't on the BBC list. Rachel Mailes #UoBBiodiversity bigbutterflycount.org/count/24706970

Please join us with PlymouthTreePeople for a free evening talk on the #Suffragette Arboretum, and how it has inspired the work connecting women, activism and forest networks through Walking Forest. 🌲 Monday 3rd Feb, 6pm 🌲 Cafe Momus, Plymouth plymouthtrees.org/news/evening-t…

Lichen surveys this week - great to be back out in the field after lots of data analysis work!

Brown Hairstreak butterfly egg search this weekend - our group found a total of 231 eggs! A record of 15 finds for me, including the triple photographed here!

With an estimated 24 million gardens in the UK, making little changes to how they are cared for can make a big difference to wildlife! Swapping fences for hedges gives refuge to birds and insects, and brilliant blooms provide nectar for pollinators! 👉 wtru.st/2LCKcT1

Sugar is pumped into young leaves to fuel growth, and the sugar is sometimes converted into the red pigment anthocyanin and stored in the leaves. Anthocyanins absorb blue, blue-green, and green light. Therefore the light reflected by young leaves gives a golden hue

Lichen Lab afternoon! Practicing making sections and squashes of Xanthoria parietina.