
Thomas Crowther
@twcrowther
Ecologist @ETH_en and co-chair of the board for UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Lover of nature, sport and D&D. @unep @restor_eco @crowtherlab
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Let forests grow old to store huge volume of carbon๐ณ๐ฐ๐ - happy to have been part of this important study just out in nature, led by LidongMo, Constantin Zohner & Thomas Crowther plus many others theguardian.com/environment/20โฆ #trees #forest #carbon #restoration

This New Phytologist paper led by Zhaofei Wu shows through a large-scale experiment what crucial driver determines the spatial variation in spring phenological responsiveness of ginko trees: doi.org/10.1111/nph.19โฆ yongshuo Thomas Crowther Constantin Zohner Josep Penuelas #phenology



Total megafauna abundance, biomass, and energy turnover decreased by 92โ95% over the past 50,000 years, implying major human-driven ecosystem restructuring at a global scale! Thatโs a striking finding by Juraj Bergman, Jens Svenning and team nature.com/articles/s4146โฆ

We are excited about the new research coming from Crowther Lab ! The study suggests that biodiversity accounts for about 50% of forest productivity. Plus, conservation/restoration initiatives that protect #biodiversity & prioritise IPLCs have the greatest Carbon impacts!




Tree Equity Score ๐ฌ๐ง is live! BBC News (UK)โฉ captures the human impact for health equity & climate justice in UKโs most deprived neighbourhoods, which have less than half the ๐ณ cover, 20% more air pollution. and are 1 degrees C hotter than UK average. ๐งต๐ bbc.com/news/science-eโฆ


Hi from #COP28! ๐ Thomas Crowther just spoke at NatureFinance's event, discussing how #biodiversity credits can contribute to #climate & #nature equitably. A highlight was meeting SEBRAE, stewards of a massive region of Brazilian rainforest & exploring @Restor_Eco with them!


Public Policies and Global Forest Conservation authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09โฆ by ๐ณ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (Land Economics @ Uni Bonn), Thomas Crowther (Crowther Lab), Thomas Lauber (Crowther Lab), Devin Routh (University of Zurich), Solen Le CLec'h (Wageningen U&R), @rach_garr (Cambridge University), and Jan Bรถrner (ZEF Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitรคt Bonn)



New Nature Geoscience art in the BioFunLab Relative increases in CH4 and CO2 emissions from wetlands under global warming dependent on soil carbon substrates nature.com/articles/s4156โฆ Led by Han Hu & Yuting Liang w/Thomas Crowther and more! @csic IRNAS Sevilla CSICAndalExtrem


Massive new Nature Geoscience paper led by Han Hu & Yuting Liang We know that warming is increasing carbon emissions from global wetlands. But it is also shifting those emissions to a greater proportion of CH4 nature.com/articles/s4156โฆ Great collaboration ManuDelgadoBaquerizo and many others





Ecologists at ETH's Crowther Lab, explain the vast interconnectivity of Earth's ecosystems and the importance of restoration for biodiversity in the recently released Netflix's Our Living World narrated by British actress, Cate Blanchet. ๐ฌ Crowther Lab brnw.ch/21wJ7I3

Iโm so proud to work with the incredible Yibiao Zou on the his global analysis on alternative stable states in forest types. Generating a more mechanistic understanding of forest trait distributions. nature.com/articles/s4146โฆ