Great article by Rishika Pardikar, reporting on our recent nature paper, where we show #tree mortality has markedly increased across species and sites in 🇦🇺moist tropical forests since the mid 80s. --> ca. doubling of mortality --> halving of life expectancy and C residence time.

"... forest science relies on the long-term data that scientists wring from forests over decades. Our chances of overcoming climate change are small, but they will diminish further if we forget the basics of monitoring our home planet." nature.com/articles/d4158…

Here are the big takeaways from the IPCC Synthesis Report released today. First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.

"Don’t get mad, get equal: putting an end to misogyny in science" Strong and moving read, on the strong double standard that women face in Academia. Also gives ideas of concrete actions and behaviours to fasttrack equity in the sciences. nature.com/articles/d4158…

🌳What an opportunity to be part of such a great and diverse community!🌴 I'm thrilled to mentor the #treemortality group with Daniel Zuleta , J. Needham, & G. Arellano, helping participants to model and better understand tree mortality in different tropical biomes and regions!

Brilliant crash course on causal inference in ecology by David Bauman today at the ForestGEO workshop! Lots to think…

Fascinating seminar by @GuillaumeDelha2 on the #ecology and distribution of ectomycorrhizal #fungi across Europe, at AMAP today 🍄🌳! Learnt much about the effects of #climate and N pollution on these 🍄 communities and associated #forests!

Lovely French article by IRD.fr covering our recent Blue-crowned Laughingthrush paper using local ecological knowledge ird.fr/les-savoirs-lo… AMAP David Bauman

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